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Augustine and Psychology (Hardcover)
Sandra Dixon, John Doody, Kim Paffenroth, Villanova University; Contributions by Todd Breyfogle, Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, …
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Discovery Miles 26 120
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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).
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.
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'.
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Responsibility (Hardcover, New)
Barbara Darling-Smith; Contributions by Roger T. Ames, Thomas M. Chappell, M. David Eckel, Anna Lannstroem, …
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R2,712
Discovery Miles 27 120
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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.
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Responsibility (Paperback)
Barbara Darling-Smith; Contributions by Roger T. Ames, Thomas M. Chappell, M. David Eckel, Anna Lannstroem, …
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R1,240
Discovery Miles 12 400
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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.
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.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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