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Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter (Hardcover): Margaret R. Miles Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter (Hardcover)
Margaret R. Miles
R1,151 R930 Discovery Miles 9 300 Save R221 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beyond the Centaur (Hardcover): Margaret R. Miles Beyond the Centaur (Hardcover)
Margaret R. Miles
R928 R754 Discovery Miles 7 540 Save R174 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bodies in Society (Hardcover): Margaret R. Miles Bodies in Society (Hardcover)
Margaret R. Miles
R1,175 R948 Discovery Miles 9 480 Save R227 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Wendell Cocktail (Hardcover): Margaret R. Miles The Wendell Cocktail (Hardcover)
Margaret R. Miles
R850 R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Save R151 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Long Goodbye (Hardcover): Margaret R. Miles The Long Goodbye (Hardcover)
Margaret R. Miles
R841 R690 Discovery Miles 6 900 Save R151 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rereading Historical Theology (Hardcover): Margaret R. Miles Rereading Historical Theology (Hardcover)
Margaret R. Miles
R1,614 R1,276 Discovery Miles 12 760 Save R338 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Augustine and Psychology (Hardcover): Sandra Dixon, John Doody, Kim Paffenroth, Villanova University Augustine and Psychology (Hardcover)
Sandra Dixon, John Doody, Kim Paffenroth, Villanova University; Contributions by Todd Breyfogle, Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, …
R2,612 Discovery Miles 26 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The essays in Augustine and Psychology, edited by Sandra Lee Dixon, John Doody, and Kim Paffenroth, relate St. Augustine to the modern theory and practice of psychology in several ways. The contributors analyze Augustine's own examination of himself (and occasionally others) to see to what extent he himself was a "doctor" or practiced "therapy" in ways that we can recognize and appreciate; they find connections between his theories of memory and mind, and modern theories of the same; they consider the influences and context in which he worked, and how those affected him and his ideas of the mind and soul; and, lastly, the contributors subject St. Augustine to the scrutiny of modern psychoanalysis (and critique such scrutiny where appropriate).

Getting Here from There (Hardcover): Margaret R. Miles, Hiroko Sakomura Getting Here from There (Hardcover)
Margaret R. Miles, Hiroko Sakomura
R947 R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Save R175 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
On Memory, Marriage, Tears, and Meditation (Hardcover): Margaret R. Miles On Memory, Marriage, Tears, and Meditation (Hardcover)
Margaret R. Miles
R2,418 R1,430 Discovery Miles 14 300 Save R988 (41%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

On Memory, Marriage, Tears, and Meditation offers readers the tools for reading Augustine's journey to human emotions through his writings on feeling, marriage, conversion, and meditation. Augustine understood that feeling, not rationality, gathers and reveals the deep longing of the whole person. Throughout his ecclesiastical career, he discussed marriage in sermons, letters, and treatises from the perspective of his own experience. Miles examines Augustine's prototypes for conversion - reading and conversion; sacrifice and conversion; and the importance of friends in what might be considered a subjective and private process. Meditation was central to Augustine's Christian life and Miles argues that his practice of meditation suggests that penitence included a rich range of feeling leading to gratitude, peace, wonder, and love.

Getting Here From There - Conversations on Life and Work (Paperback): Margaret R. Miles, Hiroko Sakomura Getting Here From There - Conversations on Life and Work (Paperback)
Margaret R. Miles, Hiroko Sakomura
R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book of conversations between Margaret R. Miles and Hiroko Sakomura compares the experiences of two women who grew up in different societies, with different educations, different professions, and different religious orientations. Reflecting on the ways in which Japanese and American societies inhibited and enabled them, these two women share their struggles, difficulties, and achievements. All of this is set in the context of the feminist movement, one of the most radical social movements in the twentieth century, as women are gaining increments of equality with men in designing and administering the institutions of public life with opportunities, dangers, and rewards. This is a moment in which a critical mass of women 'want it all now' in the best sense of the phrase, seeking to preserve and reinterpret traditional values while exercising their capabilities and skills both in the home and in public life. This book is the memoir of two women's painful and joyful experiences in 'getting here from there'.

Responsibility (Hardcover, New): Barbara Darling-Smith Responsibility (Hardcover, New)
Barbara Darling-Smith; Contributions by Roger T. Ames, Thomas M. Chappell, M. David Eckel, Anna Lannstroem, …
R2,712 Discovery Miles 27 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this book philosophers, scholars of religion, and activists address the theme of responsibility. Barbara Darling-Smith brings together an enlightening collection of essays that analyze the ethics of responsibility, its relational nature, and its global struggle. With references to Homer's the Iliad and Buddhist teachings, these essays demonstrate that while selfhood is an illusion, there is still a conventional self that must be held responsible. This book finds the underlying distinctions between ultimate and conventional understandings of selfhood, which lead to variations on the role of responsibility in the community and government. With essays from CEOs to historical theologians, Responsibility offers a variety of perspectives that will captivate the interest of philosophers and scholars of ethnics and religion.

Responsibility (Paperback): Barbara Darling-Smith Responsibility (Paperback)
Barbara Darling-Smith; Contributions by Roger T. Ames, Thomas M. Chappell, M. David Eckel, Anna Lannstroem, …
R1,240 Discovery Miles 12 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this book philosophers, scholars of religion, and activists address the theme of responsibility. Barbara Darling-Smith brings together an enlightening collection of essays that analyze the ethics of responsibility, its relational nature, and its global struggle. With references to Homer's the Iliad and Buddhist teachings, these essays demonstrate that while selfhood is an illusion, there is still a conventional self that must be held responsible. This book finds the underlying distinctions between ultimate and conventional understandings of selfhood, which lead to variations on the role of responsibility in the community and government. With essays from CEOs to historical theologians, Responsibility offers a variety of perspectives that will captivate the interest of philosophers and scholars of ethnics and religion.

Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter (Paperback, New): Margaret R. Miles Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter (Paperback, New)
Margaret R. Miles
R648 Discovery Miles 6 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter, Margaret Miles weaves her memoirs together with refl ections on Augustine's Confessions. Having read and reread Augustine's Confessions, in admiration as well as frustration, over the past thirty-five years, Miles brings her memories of childhood and youth in a fundamentalist home into conversation with Augustine's effort to understand his life. The result is a fascinating work of autobiographical and theological reflection. This project brings together a rare combination of insights on fundamentalists' convictions and habits of mind. Such reflections are especially urgent in this time in which fundamentalism is prominent in political and social discourse.

Recollections and Reconsiderations (Paperback): Margaret R. Miles Recollections and Reconsiderations (Paperback)
Margaret R. Miles
R598 R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Save R101 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Recollections and Reconsiderations (Hardcover): Margaret R. Miles Recollections and Reconsiderations (Hardcover)
Margaret R. Miles
R1,024 R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Save R203 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Long Goodbye (Paperback): Margaret R. Miles The Long Goodbye (Paperback)
Margaret R. Miles
R377 R311 Discovery Miles 3 110 Save R66 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beyond the Centaur (Paperback): Margaret R. Miles Beyond the Centaur (Paperback)
Margaret R. Miles
R512 R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Save R90 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Wendell Cocktail - Depression, Addiction, and Beauty (Paperback): Margaret R. Miles The Wendell Cocktail - Depression, Addiction, and Beauty (Paperback)
Margaret R. Miles
R428 R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Save R73 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Synopsis: The Wendell Cocktail describes a major social problem, exemplified by the journals of a person with coexisting conditions--mental illness and addiction. Although there are resources for people with each of these conditions--psychiatry for mental illness and twelve-step programs for addiction--there are few effective resources for people with both. Since about half of the mentally ill medicate with an addiction, an increasingly large percentage of the American population is left without adequate care. Wendell's journals illuminate the complexity of a tormented mind that is nevertheless capable of exquisite enjoyment of music, natural beauty, and delight in the observation of birds and animals. The book's conclusion suggests approaches to understanding and better providing for persons with addiction and mental illness. Endorsements: "Margaret R. Miles is one of the most insightful religious thinkers of our time. The breadth of her historical understanding of Western thought and art, and her sensitive observations about the changing roles of women over time, have been clearly established in her other books. In this book she advances our understanding of mental illness and drug addiction." --Malcolm Young, Rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Los Altos, California "Margaret R. Miles has crafted a narrative marked by honesty and wisdom. A sister's promise and devotion, added to a brother's pain and courage, are key ingredients for The Wendell Cocktail. The suffering and anger voiced in her brother's journal entries are palpable. They bear convincing witness to the struggles of those living with mental illness and addiction in a culture that does not deal well with either." --Flora Keshgegian, Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology, Graduate Theological Union "This unusually personal volume is by turns painful, insightful, and disturbing, even occasionally beautiful and humorous, illuminating the dark corners of addiction and mental illness by skillfully interweaving the journals of an acute sufferer with the commentary of a compassionate observer--an observer who is also a distinguished historian and thinker. Deliberately avoiding neat lessons and pat answers, Margaret R. Miles nevertheless ensures that, through sharing her brother's story, his intense pain is not wasted." --Robert MacSwain, Assistant Professor of Theology and Christian Ethics, The University of the South "The Wendell Cocktail considers the fierce landscape of mental illness and addiction. By opening her own journal alongside those of her brother, Miles speaks not about but from the experience. . . . If you've ever wanted to get inside the head of someone with this condition, this book points the path. And if you've ever needed language to express your own experience, Wendell's journals, graciously edited and shared, give an account from a fellow-traveler." --Martha E. Stortz, Professor for Religion and Vocation, Augsburg College Author Biography: Margaret R. Miles is Emerita Professor of Historical Theology, The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Her most recent books are Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter (2011) and Getting Here from There: Conversations on Life and Work (with Hiroko Sakomura, 2011).

Getting Here from There - Conversations on Life and Work (Paperback): Margaret R. Miles, Hiroko Sakomura Getting Here from There - Conversations on Life and Work (Paperback)
Margaret R. Miles, Hiroko Sakomura
R521 R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Save R89 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Description: This book of conversations between Margaret R. Miles and Hiroko Sakomura compares the experiences of two women who grew up in different societies, with different educations, different professions, and different religious orientations. Reflecting on the different ways in which Japanese and American societies inhibited and enabled them, these two women share their struggles, difficulties, and achievements. All of this is set in the context of one of the most radical social movements in the history of the world, as women are gaining increments of equality with men in designing and administering the institutions of public life with opportunities, dangers, and rewards. This is a moment in which a critical mass of women ""want it all now,"" in the best sense of the phrase, seeking to preserve and reinterpret traditional values while exercising their capabilities and skills both in the home and in public life. This book is the memoir of two women's painful and joyful experiences in ""getting here from there."" Endorsements: ""Getting Here from There affords the reader a rare opportunity to listen in on a dialogue between two women who took risks in daily life and with ideas, and who invented themselves as highly accomplished professionals. Across differences of culture, age, and vocation, Miles and Sakomura create a common ground for exploring shared values and life concerns. Their wisdom, erudition, and straight-up common sense are a profound inspiration to all of us to seek the lives we envision."" -Deborah J. Haynes University of Colorado-Boulder ""Margaret R. Miles and Hiroko Sakomura draw out the best in one another despite their significant differences. Their lives as professor and producer, American and Japanese, Christian and Buddhist are rich sources of well-distilled wisdom. Their shared commitments to families and selves, to work and pleasure, to substance and style, make them ideal discussion partners. How fortuitous that they found one another and how lucky for readers that they chose to share their conversations widely."" -Mary E. Hunt Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER) About the Contributor(s): Margaret R. Miles is Emerita Professor at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She taught at Harvard Divinity School for eighteen years and is the author of numerous books, including a memoir: Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter (2011). Hiroko Sakomura has produced many exhibitions worldwide, including The Vision and Craft of Sinjo Ito (2008); Wisdom and Compassion (1997); Audrey Hepburn (1998); Noh at the Met (1993); and Salvatore Ferragamo (1998).

Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter (Paperback): Margaret R. Miles Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter (Paperback)
Margaret R. Miles
R723 R602 Discovery Miles 6 020 Save R121 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Description: In Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter, Margaret Miles weaves her memoirs together with reflections on Augustine's Confessions. Having read and reread Augustine's Confessions, in admiration as well as frustration, over the past thirty-five years, Miles brings her memories of childhood and youth in a fundamentalist home into conversation with Augustine's effort to understand his life. The result is a fascinating work of autobiographical and theological reflection. Moreover, this project brings together a rare combination of insights on fundamentalists' convictions and habits of mind, as well as on differences among fundamentalists. Such reflections are especially urgent in this time in which fundamentalism is prominent in political and social discourse. Endorsements: ""For over thirty years we have read and heard Margaret Miles on Augustine, and her insights on this spectacular ancient have been compelling. Now we read Miles in Augustine's Confessions, and her self-disclosure is as compelling as Augustine's. This is a soul-rending book that opens the world of Augustine to the world of a fundamentalist's daughter. We have known for a long time that scholarly study reflects the life experience of the scholar, but Miles has taken this both to new heights and new depths. This book reveals both Augustine and the world of a fundamentalist, and it is simply stunning in its depth of disclosure and revelation--all what we have come to expect from Augustine and now from Miles."" -Richard Valantasis Co-director, Institute for Contemplative Living, Santa Fe Canon Theologian for Formation and Education, Diocese of the Rio Grande ""Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter is a revealing, lively, and deeply engrossing conversation among many speakers, from Saint Augustine to modern poets to the multiple voices age and insight have given Professor Miles on her own journey from fundamentalism to wisdom. In this book, we meet the rich tapestry of life's defeats, fears, delights, and changes in the vignettes of memories narrated from either Augustine's new state of restful faith or Margaret Miles's hard-won place of gracefully honest reflection. Find a quiet room, pull up a chair, and listen to this superb scholar and teacher talk with her longtime mentor, Augustine, about life, love, sex, faith, and family. It is a conversation not to be missed."" -Mary Ann Tolbert George H. Atkinson Professor of Biblical Studies Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley About the Contributor(s): Margaret R. Miles is Emerita Professor of Historical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. She is the author of A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350-1750 (2008).

Augustine on the Body (Paperback): Margaret R. Miles Augustine on the Body (Paperback)
Margaret R. Miles
R644 R534 Discovery Miles 5 340 Save R110 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bodies in Society - Essays on Christianity in Contemporary Culture (Paperback): Margaret R. Miles Bodies in Society - Essays on Christianity in Contemporary Culture (Paperback)
Margaret R. Miles
R745 R619 Discovery Miles 6 190 Save R126 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Description: Education is about learning to think. Much of what we call thinking, however, is a hodge-podge of repetitious self-talk, opinion, and cutting and pasting of second-hand ideas. Moreover, thinking in the present has often been alien to scholars who were tempted to think abstractly. But life and thought belong together and require each other, as Plotinus pointed out many centuries ago: "" T]he object of contemplation is living and life, and the two together are one"" (Ennead 3.8.8). Presently, many women and men in the academic world are thinking concretely within the context of their own lives and with acknowledged accountability to broader communities with whom they think and to whom they are answerable. The essays in this volume consider Christianity as an aspect of North American culture, bringing the critical tools of the academy to thinking about some of the perplexing and pressing problems of contemporary public life. Three interactive and interdependent themes traverse these essays: gender, the effects of media culture, and institutions. Each of these themes has been central to Margaret Miles's work for thirty years. Each understands corporeality as fundamental both to subjectivity and society. Miles finds that Christianity, critically appropriated, provides ideas and methods for thinking concretely about life in North American society. Endorsements: Through her prolific career Margaret Miles has focused her scholarly sensibilities on the history of Christianity in conjunction with real and abiding social concerns. Not least of these are the problems and promises of gender relations. In this collection of essays, she turns her critical gaze upon food and film, media and mythology, delight and desire, as she examines the verbal and visual dimensions that comprise institutional, personal, communal, and artistic bodies. Miles mines the history of Christianity for ways to overcome our contemporary dis-ease with bodies. Incisively descriptive, Miles nonetheless remains unafraid to write prescriptions. --S. Brent Plate, author of Blasphemy: Art that Offends and Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World This collection of essays, written over two decades, displays Margaret Miles's remarkable breadth as a theologian, administrator, and cultural critic. With equal adeptness, she brings ancient theological insights to bear on contemporary culture and sheds critical, historical light on Christianity. The essays are written with elegance, humor, and acuity, and their subject matter offers something for almost everyone--from film to sexuality, asceticism to pleasure, philosophical reflection to institutional strategy. But they are unified by a single quest--for embodied, passionate life in all its fullness. Following that pilgrimage through these essays, one cannot help but breathe and think more deeply. --Kathleen Sands, Associate Professor and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston About the Contributor(s): Margaret R. Miles is Emerita Professor of Historical Theology, the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. She was Bussey Professor of Theology at the Harvard University Divinity School until 1996, when she became Dean and Academic Vice President of the Graduate Theological Union. Her books include A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350-1750 (2008), Rereading Historical Theology: Before, During, and After Augustine (2008), The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought (2005), and Plotinus on Body and Beauty (1999).

Image as Insight - Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture (Paperback): Margaret R. Miles Image as Insight - Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture (Paperback)
Margaret R. Miles
R734 R614 Discovery Miles 6 140 Save R120 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Practicing Christianity (Paperback): Margaret R. Miles Practicing Christianity (Paperback)
Margaret R. Miles
R696 R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Save R118 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fullness of Life (Paperback): Margaret R. Miles Fullness of Life (Paperback)
Margaret R. Miles
R643 R533 Discovery Miles 5 330 Save R110 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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