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Southwestern Journal of Theology 2022 Book of the Year Award
(Honorable Mention, Theological Studies) This introduction traces
the origins, development, and divergent streams of atonement
theology throughout the Christian tradition and proposes key
criteria by which we can assess their value. The authors introduce
essential biblical terms, texts, and concepts of atonement;
identify significant historical figures, texts, and topics; and
show how various atonement paradigms are expressed in their
respective church traditions. The book also surveys current "hot
topics" in evangelical atonement theology and evaluates strengths
and weaknesses of competing understandings of atonement.
This volume contains the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study
Institute on "Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) in
Medicine" held in Evian, France, October 14- 26, 1990. The program
committee of the institute consisted of H.K. Huang (Director),
Osman Ratib, Albert Bakker, and Gerd Witte. This institute brought
together approximately 90 participants from 15 countries. These
proceedings are the accumulation of eight years of research and
development results in PACS by various dedicated groups throughout
the world. The purpose of this institute was to review the most
recent technology available for PACS and some clinical results. The
readers should notice the remarkable advances in this field by
comparing the contents in these proceedings with those in a
previous institute on "Pictorial Information Systems in Medicine"
held August 27 - September 7, 1984 in Braunlage/Harz, Federal
Republic of Germany, and published as Vol. 19 in this series. The
institute was organized according to four categories: PACS
components and system integration, PACS and related research in
various countries and manufacturing companies, clinical experience
and research support, and participants' scientific communications.
In PACS components, we included image acquisition, workstations,
data storage and networking. In system integration, topics on
interfaces between Hospital Information System (HIS), Radiology
Information System (RIS) and PACS, clinical reports, the ACR/NEMA
standard, databases, reliability, and system integration were
discussed. This lecture series emphasized the technical detail and
"how to" aspects.
How do we take stock of the state and direction of the world’s
environment, and what can we learn from the experience? Among the
myriad detailed narratives about the condition of the planet, the
Global Environment Outlook (GEO) reports—issued by the United
Nations Environment Programme—stand out as the most ambitious.
For nearly three decades the GEO project has not only delivered
iconic global assessment reports, but through its multitude of
contributors has inspired hundreds of similar processes worldwide
from the regional to the local level. This book provides an inside
account of the evolution of the GEO project from its earliest days.
Building on meticulous research, including interviews with former
heads of the United Nations Environment Programme, diplomats,
leading contributing scientists, and senior leaders of
collaborating organizations, the story is told from the perspective
of five GEO veterans who all played a pivotal role in shaping the
periodic assessments. The GEO’s history provides striking
insights and will save valuable time to those who commission,
design and conduct, as well as critique and improve, assessments of
environmental development in the next decade.
The gradual secularization of European society and culture is
often said to characterize the development of the modern world, and
the early Italian humanists played a pioneering role in this
process. Here Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt, with Elizabeth
B. Welles, have edited and translated seven primary texts that shed
important light on the subject of "civic humanism" in the
Renaissance.Included is a treatise of Francesco Petrarca on
government, two representative letters from Coluccio Salutati,
Leonardo Bruni's panegyric to Florence, Francesco Barbaro's letter
on "wifely" duty, Poggio Bracciolini's dialogue on avarice, and
Angelo Poliziano's vivid history of the Pazzi conspiracy. Each
translation is prefaced by an essay on the author and a short
bibliography. The substantial introductory essay offers a concise,
balanced summary of the historiographcal issues connected with the
period.
On the World and Religious Life "(c. 1381) is the first surviving
treatise of Coluccio Salutati (1332-1406), chancellor of the
Florentine Republic (1375-1406) and the leader of the humanist
movement in Italy in the generation after Petrarch and Boccaccio.
The work was written for a lawyer who had left secular life to
enter the Camaldulensian monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli,
located in the heart of Florence. The new monk prevailed on
Salutati to write a treatise encouraging him to persevere in the
religious life. His request led to this wide-ranging reflection on
humanity's misuse of God's creation and the need to orient human
life in accordance with a proper hierarchy of values. This work is
here translated into English for the first time.
The pastoral office is one of the most critical in Christianity.
Historically, however, Christians have not been able to agree on
the precise nature and limits of that office. A specific area of
contention has been the role of women in pastoral leadership. In
recent decades, three broad types of arguments have been raised
against women's ordination: nontheological (primarily cultural or
political), Protestant, and Catholic. Reflecting their divergent
understandings of the purpose of ordination, Protestant opponents
of women's ordination tend to focus on issues of pastoral
authority, while Catholic opponents highlight sacramental
integrity. These positions are new developments and new theological
stances, and thus no one in the current discussion can claim to be
defending the church's historic position. Icons of Christ addresses
these voices of opposition, making a biblical and theological case
for the ordination of women to the ministerial office of Word and
Sacrament. William Witt argues that not only those in favor of, but
also those opposed to, women's ordination embrace new theological
positions in response to cultural changes of the modern era. Witt
mounts a positive ecumenical argument for the ordination of women
that touches on issues such as theological hermeneutics,
relationships between men and women, Christology and discipleship,
and the role of ordained clergy in leading the church in worship,
among others. Uniquely, Icons of Christ treats both Protestant and
Catholic theological concerns at length, undertaking a robust
engagement with biblical exegesis and biblical, historical,
systematic, and liturgical theology. The book's theological
approach is critically orthodox, evangelical, and catholic. Witt
offers the church an ecumenical vision of ordination to the
presbyterate as an office of Word and Sacrament that justifiably is
open to both men and women. Most critically Witt reminds us that,
as all Christians are baptized into the image of the crucified and
risen Christ, and bear witness to Christ through lives of cruciform
discipleship, so men and women both are called to serve as icons of
Christ in service of the gospel.
The pastoral office is one of the most critical in Christianity.
Historically, however, Christians have not been able to agree on
the precise nature and limits of that office. A specific area of
contention has been the role of women in pastoral leadership. In
recent decades, three broad types of arguments have been raised
against women's ordination: nontheological (primarily cultural or
political), Protestant, and Catholic. Reflecting their divergent
understandings of the purpose of ordination, Protestant opponents
of women's ordination tend to focus on issues of pastoral
authority, while Catholic opponents highlight sacramental
integrity. These positions are new developments and new theological
stances, and thus no one in the current discussion can claim to be
defending the church's historic position. Icons of Christ addresses
these voices of opposition, making a biblical and theological case
for the ordination of women to the ministerial office of Word and
Sacrament. William Witt argues that not only those in favor of, but
also those opposed to, women's ordination embrace new theological
positions in response to cultural changes of the modern era. Witt
mounts a positive ecumenical argument for the ordination of women
that touches on issues such as theological hermeneutics,
relationships between men and women, Christology and discipleship,
and the role of ordained clergy in leading the church in worship,
among others. Uniquely, Icons of Christ treats both Protestant and
Catholic theological concerns at length, undertaking a robust
engagement with biblical exegesis and biblical, historical,
systematic, and liturgical theology. The book's theological
approach is critically orthodox, evangelical, and catholic. Witt
offers the church an ecumenical vision of ordination to the
presbyterate as an office of Word and Sacrament that justifiably is
open to both men and women. Most critically Witt reminds us that,
as all Christians are baptized into the image of the crucified and
risen Christ, and bear witness to Christ through lives of cruciform
discipleship, so men and women both are called to serve as icons of
Christ in service of the gospel.
AT SOME POINT in January or early February of 1347, Petrarch
briefly visited the remote Carthusian monastery of Montrieux,
where, four years before, his beloved brother, Gherardo, had
pledged himself to live in perpetuity as a renditus, one who took
the same vows as a monk but who was not cloistered. In the day and
night he spent at Montrieux, Petrarch spoke privately with
Gherardo, had lively discussions with other residents, and attended
religious services celebrated by the brothers with "angelic
singing." Unwilling to disturb the rigid discipline of the
monastery longer, he reluctantly departed the next morning
accompanied by the prior and the brothers to the limits of their
property and he imagined them continuing to watch him until he
disappeared from view. Returning to the Vaucluse, still "mindful of
that whole blessed sweetness which I drank in with you," and
troubled that in the course of the hasty visit he had not been able
to say many things that he would like to have said, he decided "to
express in writing what I was not able to do in person." The body
of the work that was to become the De otio religioso was composed
sometime during Lent or between February 11 and March 29 of that
year. Not untypically, however, Petrarch continued to add to the
text as late as 1356, and the finished treatise was probably not
dispatched to Gherardo until 1357. This first English translation
by Susan S. Schearer faithfully and elegantly presents Petrarch's
exordium to the life of contemplation and offers the reader a fresh
view into the spiritual world of fourteenth-century humanism.
Ronald G. Witt's introduction places the work into its historical
and intellectual context, discusses its structure and development,
and examines Petrarch's characteristic synthesis of Christian and
classical sources. First English translation. Introduction, Notes,
Bibliography, Index of Citations, General Index.
This book traces the intellectual life of the Kingdom of Italy, the
area in which humanism began in the mid-thirteenth century, a
century or more before exerting its influence on the rest of
Europe. Covering a period of over four and a half centuries, this
study offers the first integrated analysis of Latin writings
produced in the area, examining not only religious, literary, and
legal texts. Ronald G. Witt characterizes the changes reflected in
these Latin writings as products of the interaction of thought with
economic, political, and religious tendencies in Italian society as
well as with intellectual influences coming from abroad. His
research ultimately traces the early emergence of humanism in
northern Italy in the mid-thirteenth century to the precocious
development of a lay intelligentsia in the region, whose
participation in the culture of Latin writing fostered the
beginnings of the intellectual movement which would eventually
revolutionize all of Europe.
These essays are concerned with the nature of early renaissance
political thought and the relationship between humanism and
medieval rhetoric. One group traces the influence of medieval
political thought on the rise of the modern conception of
republicanism; others focus on the medieval art of letter writing
and its place in the medieval cultural context; while still others
analyse the often contradictory thought of the early humanist,
Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406), who struggled to reconcile his
classical learning with his medieval allegiances. In the collection
as a whole humanism emerges as a literary movement drawing as
heavily on patristic and medieval culture as on antiquity.
Awareness of its various debts permits recognition of what humanism
itself contributed to the development of western thought and
ethics.
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