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Originally published in 1909, this book contains a careful
dissection and analysis of european travellers in India's
narratives; the author has striven throughout to regard the various
characters who flit across the following pages in the light as much
of adventures and pioneers as of collectors of social and political
facts - in other words, the author has tried to preserve in their
narrative as much as they could of the large amount of humna
interest which naturally invests the subject, and animates the
writings, of these early wanderers in India.
First published in 1908, Farley pioneering essay on the subject of
Anglo Indian literature, by this point had never been attempted to
be explored in such detail at the time of winning the coveted
Cambridge University Le Bas Prize Essay, 1907. Focusing on
prominent Anglo English writers , such as Rudyard Kipling , Farley
Oaten and examining the plethora of their work in the context of
the British Raj.
Originally published in 1909, this book contains a careful
dissection and analysis of european travellers in India's
narratives; the author has striven throughout to regard the various
characters who flit across the following pages in the light as much
of adventures and pioneers as of collectors of social and political
facts - in other words, the author has tried to preserve in their
narrative as much as they could of the large amount of humna
interest which naturally invests the subject, and animates the
writings, of these early wanderers in India.
First published in 1908, Farley pioneering essay on the subject of
Anglo Indian literature, by this point had never been attempted to
be explored in such detail at the time of winning the coveted
Cambridge University Le Bas Prize Essay, 1907. Focusing on
prominent Anglo English writers , such as Rudyard Kipling , Farley
Oaten and examining the plethora of their work in the context of
the British Raj.
'Aesthetics' and 'theological aesthetics' usually imply a focus on
questions about the arts and how faith or religion relates to the
arts; only the final pages of this work take up that problem. The
central theme of this book is that of beauty. Farley employs a new
typology of western texts on beauty and a theological analysis of
the image of God and redemption to counter the centuries-long
tendency to ignore or marginalize beauty and the aesthetic as part
of the life of faith. Studying the interpretation of beauty in
ancient Greece, eighteenth-century England, the work of Jonathan
Edwards, and nineteenth and twentieth-century philosophies of human
self-transcendence, the author explores whether Christian
existence, the life of faith, and the ethical exclude or require an
aesthetic dimension in the sense of beauty. The work will be of
particular interest to those interested in Christian theology,
ethics, and religion and the arts.
On September 1, 1939, the day World War II broke out in Europe,
Gen. George Marshall was sworn in as chief of staff of the U.S.
Army. Ten months later, Roosevelt appointed Henry Stimson secretary
of war. For the next five years, from adjoining offices in the
Pentagon, Marshall and Stimson headed the army machine that ground
down the Axis. Theirs was one of the most consequential
collaborations of the twentieth century. A dual biography of these
two remarkable Americans, The Partnership tells the story of how
they worked together to win World War II and reshape not only the
United States, but the world. The general and the secretary
traveled very different paths to power. Educated at Yale, where he
was Skull and Bones, and at Harvard Law, Henry Stimson joined the
Wall Street law firm of Elihu Root, future secretary of war and
state himself, and married the descendant of a Founding Father. He
went on to serve as secretary of war under Taft, governor-general
of the Philippines, and secretary of state under Hoover. An
internationalist Republican with a track record, Stimson ticked the
boxes for FDR, who was in the middle of a reelection campaign at
the time. Thirteen years younger, George Marshall graduated in the
middle of his class from the Virginia Military Institute (not West
Point), then began the standard, and very slow, climb up the army
ranks. During World War I he performed brilliant staff work for
General Pershing. After a string of postings, Marshall ended up in
Washington in the 1930s and impressed FDR with his honesty,
securing his appointment as chief of staff. Marshall and Stimson
were two very different men who combined with a dazzling synergy to
lead the American military effort in World War II, in roles that
blended politics, diplomacy, and bureaucracy in addition to
warfighting. They transformed an outdated, poorly equipped army
into a modern fighting force of millions of men capable of fighting
around the globe. They, and Marshall in particular, identified the
soldiers, from Patton and Eisenhower to Bradley and McNair, best
suited for high command. They helped develop worldwide strategy and
logistics for battles like D-Day and the Bulge. They collaborated
with Allies like Winston Churchill. They worked well with their
cagey commander-in-chief. They planned for the postwar world. They
made decisions, from the atomic bombs to the division of Europe,
that would echo for decades. There were mistakes and disagreements,
but the partnership of Marshall and Stimson was, all in all, a
bravura performance, a master class in leadership and teamwork. In
the tradition of group biographies like the classic The Wise Men,
The Partnership shines a spotlight on two giants, telling the
fascinating stories of each man, the dramatic story of their
collaboration, and the epic story of the United States in World War
II.
An outstanding group of authors address the structure of
theological education using different avenues of approach. Each
writer describes and frames a theological response to a major
feature of the contemporary scene. The contributors look at events
and movements that shape the organization of theological studies,
including a review of black religion, feminism, practical theology,
and liberation movements. They explore interrelating issues such as
social ethics, seminary and university education, and historical
consciousness.
Description: This memoir records the story of the author's personal
journey toward a life of university teaching and probes that story
in reflective essays on a variety of subjects. One group of essays
has to do with the characteristic activities and institutional
setting of a professor. Other essays explore ways of experiencing
the world as mysterious, beautiful, and tragic. One piece offers a
rather somber account of current ways in which the American
experiment in democracy is in peril. Scraps of what looks like an
intellectual autobiography are scattered over the pages of the
narrative, recalling the puzzles that gave rise to a number of
writing projects. In a way this is a book of paradoxes and
antitheses. Janus-like, it faces toward the past and the future. It
offers generalized convictions and specific observations, treats
both the ordinary themes of life experience and tangled esoterica,
and presents both the experiences of an individual and an analysis
of educational institutions. As a whole, the book invites readers
to join the author in ""thinking about things.""
"Practicing Gospel" is a collection of four new and eight
previously published essays on the subjects of practical theology,
homiletics and worship, Christian education, and pastoral care.
Edward Farley offers a more faithful approach to the tasks of
ministry for seminarians and pastors too often tempted to equate
pastoral care with popular psychology, good preaching with snappy
public speaking, or Christian education with flashy curriculum. By
holding theology and practice in an inescapable partnership, Farley
rightly re-focuses the church's life on its proper object and
subject--a mysterious transforming God.
How do particular world situations impact preaching? How does a
preacher use the gospel and Scripture to speak to those situations?
This volume, in honor of homiletician David Buttrick, explores the
complex and important relationships between world, gospel, and
Scripture and their relevance for preaching theology.This book is
for those seeking thoughtful and challenging new ways to approach
the preaching task now and into the twenty-first century.
'Aesthetics' and 'theological aesthetics' usually imply a focus on
questions about the arts and how faith or religion relates to the
arts; only the final pages of this work take up that problem. The
central theme of this book is that of beauty. Farley employs a new
typology of western texts on beauty and a theological analysis of
the image of God and redemption to counter the centuries-long
tendency to ignore or marginalize beauty and the aesthetic as part
of the life of faith. Studying the interpretation of beauty in
ancient Greece, eighteenth-century England, the work of Jonathan
Edwards, and nineteenth and twentieth-century philosophies of human
self-transcendence, the author explores whether Christian
existence, the life of faith, and the ethical exclude or require an
aesthetic dimension in the sense of beauty. The work will be of
particular interest to those interested in Christian theology,
ethics, and religion and the arts.
A major work from one of today's leading theologians, Divine
Empathy attempts to "think the unthinkable," how God comes forth
actively and redemptively to meet the human situation. Apologetic
but not polemical, Farley's work sympathetically engages yet moves
beyond both the classical tradition as well as contemporary
anti-theisms in formulating a concept of God that is strikingly
original, intellectually honest, and comprehensive. Farley's
treatise employs the "facticity of redemption," the actual
experience of freedom and empowerment, as the primordial source for
our thinking about God (Part 1), God-symbols (Part 2), and God's
activity (Part 3), including the figure of Jesus. Farley's astute
analysis leads inexorably to a view of divine creativity and
empathy that is one of the more profound religious visions of our
time.
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