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Within Minnesota's borders you will find such exotic place names as
Amor and Darling, Fertile and Conception, Comfort and Happyland,
Looneyville and Nimrod, Flour Lake and the Diarrhoea River, Great
Scott and Eureka, Home and Nowhere, Moonshine and Whiskey Creek,
Stringtown and Pig's Eye, Snowball and North Pole, Embarrass and
Kiester, Coin and Money Creek, and Chickentown and Bull Moose. But
how did these places get such unusual names? Wonder no longer as
Michael Fedo relates the curious and prosaic ways in which a place
gets named. Place names tell a rich history of how our state was
settled. This compact guide presents the fascinating stories behind
over 1,200 Minnesota place names. Included are all the names you
would expect -- counties, larger towns and cities, major lakes and
rivers -- as well as the curious and odd. This concise guide is the
perfect companion for anyone who travels the highways and waterways
of the North Star state.
The main purpose of The Fathers of the Church in Christian Theology
is to argue that Patristic studies still has much to contribute to
theological reflections in our time. Throughout history, the
reading of the Fathers of the Church has made major contributions
to Christian thinking. This fecundity was notably verified in the
20th century through the work of theologians like Henri de Lubac
and Hans Urs von Balthasar. It was as well manifested broadly in
the life of the church that, with the Vatican II council, drew from
the patristic tradition a source of inspiration for its own
renewal. However, even though the research and work on early
Christianity has experienced considerable growth for several
decades, Christian theology is today confronted with new questions.
Thus, what status to recognize in the exegesis of the Fathers? Has
not the distance from the heritage of patristic thinking been
widened? More radically, do not the demands of contextual
theologies on diverse continents compel a distancing away from some
traditions that formerly were principally limited to Mediterranean
and European regions? If these questions must be taken into
account, they, nevertheless, cannot dispense with Christian
theology being, today as yesterday, inspired and made fecund by the
writings of the Fathers. Michel Fedou attempts to shed light on
what, in our own era, justifies the necessity of a patristic
theology. He shows how the reading of the Fathers contributes to
the understanding of the faith in the different fields of Christian
thinking. It highlights the importance of their writings for the
spiritual life and the valuable nourishment that they thus offer to
our times.
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