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Search For Nothing: The Life Of St. John Of The Cross By Richard P. Hardy, Philip Novak
Search For Nothing: The Life Of St. John Of The Cross By Richard P. Hardy, Philip Novak
Philip Novak
"A new biography of such a seminal figure could hardly be anything but welcome. Yet I can only recommend Hardy's book with reservations. Though written lovingly by a professor of spirituality who seems to share John of the Cross' contemplative sensibilities, and who, moreover, has done his homework, the book remains curiously one-dimensional. In a word it lacks, depth." ~ from the article
Search For Nothing: The Life Of St. John Of The Cross By Richard P. Hardy, Philip Novak
Search For Nothing: The Life Of St. John Of The Cross By Richard P. Hardy, Philip Novak
Philip Novak
"A new biography of such a seminal figure could hardly be anything but welcome. Yet I can only recommend Hardy's book with reservations. Though written lovingly by a professor of spirituality who seems to share John of the Cross' contemplative sensibilities, and who, moreover, has done his homework, the book remains curiously one-dimensional. In a word it lacks, depth." ~ from the article
Fullness Of Life: Historical Foundations For A New Mysticism By Margaret R. Miles, Philip Novak
Fullness Of Life: Historical Foundations For A New Mysticism By Margaret R. Miles, Philip Novak
Philip Novak
"When in his poem 'Among School Children' W. B. Yeats spoke of that place where 'the body is not bruised to pleasure soul,' he unwittingly pointed to a task that has lately engaged the energies of a number of scholars of Christianity: how to revalorize the body in the Christian tradition and rescue it from its status as the spiritually detrimental half of human being. Margaret Miles, a professor of historical theology at Harvard Divinity School, has responded to this task with scholarship, style and insight." ~ from the article
The Visible Church In A Visual Culture, Susan Trollinger
The Visible Church In A Visual Culture, Susan Trollinger
Susan L. Trollinger
We live in a visual culture. To say that is to say, in the most obvious sense, that we live in a culture that is saturated by images. They are everywhere. We see them in the expected places: on our television and computer screens, in newspapers and magazines, on billboards, in our scrapbooks and photo albums, in picture frames and coffee table books. Increasingly, we see them in unexpected places. They show up on the floors of grocery stores, the backs of ATM receipts, the sides of tractor trailers and school buses, and even on the otherwise bare stomachs of …
Jewish, Christian – Or What? Questions Of Self-Designation In The 'Ascension Of Isaiah', Meghan Henning, Tobias Nicklas
Jewish, Christian – Or What? Questions Of Self-Designation In The 'Ascension Of Isaiah', Meghan Henning, Tobias Nicklas
Meghan Henning
The Question of the “Parting of the Ways” between Jews and Christians has become a matter of debate again: is it really appropriate to speak about two more or less coherent groups going two different ways from a certain point in history – perhaps after Paul’s mission, after the destruction of the Second Temple (70 CE), or after the Bar-Kokhba War (132-135 CE)? Does the image of a tree with one root and two different trunks going into two different directions really fit what the extant sources tell us about the complexities of the past? Or shouldn’t we distinguish between …
Eternal Punishment As Paideia: The Ekphrasis Of Hell In The Apocalypse Of Peter And The Apocalypse Of Paul, Meghan Henning
Eternal Punishment As Paideia: The Ekphrasis Of Hell In The Apocalypse Of Peter And The Apocalypse Of Paul, Meghan Henning
Meghan Henning
Much of the history of scholarship on “hell” has been devoted to tracing genetic relationships between older texts and more recent ones, typically based upon generic elements or the specific features of hell’s landscape. This paper suggests a new direction for classics and New Testament study, focusing instead on the rhetorical function of hell in antiquity. This paper argues that the ancient conventions of descriptive rhetoric were at work in the depictions of Hell that we find in the Jewish and early Christian apocalypses. It begins with a definition of these rhetorical devices by examining the Progymnasmata as well as …
Educating Early Christians Through The Rhetoric Of Hell: 'Weeping And Gnashing Of Teeth' As 'Paideia' In Matthew And The Early Church, Meghan Henning
Educating Early Christians Through The Rhetoric Of Hell: 'Weeping And Gnashing Of Teeth' As 'Paideia' In Matthew And The Early Church, Meghan Henning
Meghan Henning
Meghan Henning explores the rhetorical function of the early Christian concept of hell, drawing connections to Greek and Roman systems of education, and examining texts from the Hebrew Bible, Greek and Latin literature, the New Testament, early Christian apocalypses and patristic authors. This work is a revised version of the author's Ph.D. dissertation, which was successfully defended at Emory University in 2013. It is included in the series Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament II. She writes, "Now that this work is finished, I am delighted to have the opportunity to thank those who have generously traveled with me on this …
Paralysis And Sexuality In Medical Literature And The 'Acts Of Peter', Meghan Henning
Paralysis And Sexuality In Medical Literature And The 'Acts Of Peter', Meghan Henning
Meghan Henning
This paper focuses on the story of Peter’s daughter that is found in the Berlin Coptic papyrus BG 8502.4 and is associated with the apocryphal Acts of Peter. Research on the story of Peter’s daughter has primarily focused on its interpretation of the theme of chastity, or whether the story was originally included in the Acts of Peter. In the course of these investigations, scholars have taken for granted the curious assumption of the text that paralysis renders Peter’s daughter unfit for marriage, and thus safe from Ptolemy’s unwanted advances. This paper explores the underlying understandings of paralysis and sexuality …
Elusive Reality - Quantum Physics And Theology, Benjamin Schumacher
Elusive Reality - Quantum Physics And Theology, Benjamin Schumacher
Benjamin Schumacher
Dr. Benjamin Schumacher explains basic quantum physics and some of the unique things about it.
Biographies On 5 Old Testament Scholars, David Pettus
Biographies On 5 Old Testament Scholars, David Pettus
David D Pettus
No abstract provided.
Scripture And Politics, William Cavanaugh
Mikveh: The Relationship Of Jewish Ritual Immersion And Christian Baptism, Barry Fike
Mikveh: The Relationship Of Jewish Ritual Immersion And Christian Baptism, Barry Fike
Barry D. Fike
Most Christians understand baptism as an undeniable doctrine of early Christianity. What most don’t grasp is that this practice goes far beyond the confines of Jesus and John the Baptist to some of the earliest recorded stages of the people of God, meaning that it has always been a part of the plan of God for the redemption of mankind. In this book, Barry Fike goes back into the Hebrew background of the concept of Christian baptism into the Jewish understanding of this ritual of cleanliness to show that our present understanding needs to have some backdrop to correctly identify …
Vatican Ii And The Challenges Of Inter-Faith Dialogue In African Christianity, Stan Chu Ilo
Vatican Ii And The Challenges Of Inter-Faith Dialogue In African Christianity, Stan Chu Ilo
Stan Chu Ilo
No abstract provided.
A Study Of Revelation 20:1-6: A Premillennial Approach, Wes Green
A Study Of Revelation 20:1-6: A Premillennial Approach, Wes Green
Wes Green
No abstract provided.
Breaking Bad As Theological Text: A Process-Theological Reflection On Theodicy And Anthropodicy, Brent Hege
Breaking Bad As Theological Text: A Process-Theological Reflection On Theodicy And Anthropodicy, Brent Hege
Brent A. R. Hege
The recently-wrapped AMC megabit Breaking Bad (set and filmed in Albuquerque) has challenged viewers to reevaluate their assumptions about good and evil, freedom and determinism, and the possibility of redemption. Walter White, the protagonist and postmodern anti-hero, is a mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher and family man who is diagnosed with terminal cancer. To provide for his family after his death, he enters the crystal meth underworld, eventually securing for himself a vast underground empire and a new persona as "Heisenberg." Over the course of five seasons White makes a series of choices that implicate him in deception, betrayal, and …
He Shall Be Called A Nazorean: Intertextuality Without An Intertext?, James F. Mcgrath
He Shall Be Called A Nazorean: Intertextuality Without An Intertext?, James F. Mcgrath
James F. McGrath
Inexact quotations are a common phenomenon in Biblical intertextuality, and some suspected allusions are so fleeting and/or imprecise as to leave interpreters wondering whether an allusion was intended or not. But in at least one instance, Matthew 2:23, we have a reference to something unspecified prophets are supposed to have said, namely that “He shall be called a Nazorean,” which may not in fact have any intertext at all.
Abraham’S Faith: A Study Of Genesis 15:6, Wes Green
Making Room: A Place For Children’S Spirituality In The Christian Church, Heather Ingersoll
Making Room: A Place For Children’S Spirituality In The Christian Church, Heather Ingersoll
Heather Ingersoll
A relatively uncharted territory until recently, the concept of children as innate spiritual beings has garnered significant attention among scholars over the past two decades. Seminal studies by researchers provide practitioners with the opportunity to gain a deeper appreciation of the spirituality of children and their ability to seek and contemplate spiritual concepts (Ratcliff, 2007). The more that is learned about children’s spirituality, the more apparent it becomes that the Christian church in the United States generally fails to provide sufficient space for children to explore, develop, and share their spirituality. This potentially leads children to suppress or disconnect from …
Making Room: A Place For Children’S Spirituality In The Christian Church, Heather Ingersoll
Making Room: A Place For Children’S Spirituality In The Christian Church, Heather Ingersoll
Heather Ingersoll
A relatively uncharted territory until recently, the concept of children as innate spiritual beings has garnered significant attention among scholars over the past two decades. Seminal studies by researchers provide practitioners with the opportunity to gain a deeper appreciation of the spirituality of children and their ability to seek and contemplate spiritual concepts (Ratcliff, 2007). The more that is learned about children’s spirituality, the more apparent it becomes that the Christian church in the United States generally fails to provide sufficient space for children to explore, develop, and share their spirituality. This potentially leads children to suppress or disconnect from …
Welcome To Bedrock: A Liberal Theologian Visits The Creation Museum, Brent Hege
Welcome To Bedrock: A Liberal Theologian Visits The Creation Museum, Brent Hege
Brent A. R. Hege
The Creation Museum, established by the conservative Christian organization "Answers in Genesis," purports to offer visitors a realistic and historically and scientifically accurate representation of the origins of life on Earth according to the Book of Genesis. By employing all of the features of modern museums of science and history and elaborate cutting-edge technology and special effects, the Creation Museum intends to convince visitors of the scientific validity of a hyperliteral reading of Genesis's creation accounts and, therefore, of the truth of their particular version of Christianity. In my paper I will reflect on my visit to the Creation Museum …
Against The Consensus Of The Fathers ? The Travail Of Eighteenth Century Catholic Exegesis And The Case Of J. L. Isenbiehl Of 1777/778, Ulrich Lehner
Against The Consensus Of The Fathers ? The Travail Of Eighteenth Century Catholic Exegesis And The Case Of J. L. Isenbiehl Of 1777/778, Ulrich Lehner
Ulrich L. Lehner
No abstract provided.
Monastic Prisons And Torture Chambers. Crime And Punishment In Central European Monasteries, 1600-1800, Ulrich Lehner
Monastic Prisons And Torture Chambers. Crime And Punishment In Central European Monasteries, 1600-1800, Ulrich Lehner
Ulrich L. Lehner
Based on archival research and an analysis of early modern monastic canon law, the reader is introduced to how crimes were prosecuted in a monastic setting and how they were punished.
Cross-Currents In African Christianity: Lessons For Intercultural Hermeneutics Of Friendship And Participation, Stan Chu Ilo
Cross-Currents In African Christianity: Lessons For Intercultural Hermeneutics Of Friendship And Participation, Stan Chu Ilo
Stan Chu Ilo
No abstract provided.
Anne Hutchinson, Michael Ditmore
Merry Season’S Controversy, Lorin Geitner
Merry Season’S Controversy, Lorin Geitner
Lorin C. Geitner
Discussion of the infamous "Christmas Controversy" – the legality of religious symbols in holiday displays on public land. This issue is examined both from the viewpoint of an attorney and a scholar of religion: From a legal point of view, the article examines the holdings of three major Supreme Court cases which have addressed this issue. From the viewpoint of religious scholarship, the article examined the relevant sociology of religion, which is also an important factor in accounting for why, in spite of settled precedents, this issue remains controversial.
Visions Of A Better World: Howard Thurman's Pilgrimage To India And The Origins Of African American Nonviolence, Quinton Dixie, Peter Eisenstadt
Visions Of A Better World: Howard Thurman's Pilgrimage To India And The Origins Of African American Nonviolence, Quinton Dixie, Peter Eisenstadt
Quinton H Dixie
No abstract provided.
John Cotton, Thomas Shepard, Thomas Hooker, William Apess, And Devotional Literature, Michael Ditmore
John Cotton, Thomas Shepard, Thomas Hooker, William Apess, And Devotional Literature, Michael Ditmore
Michael Ditmore
No abstract provided.
"From The Challenge Of Peace To The Gift Of Peace: Re-Reading The Consistent Ethic Of Life As An Ethic Of Peacemaking, M. Therese Lysaught
"From The Challenge Of Peace To The Gift Of Peace: Re-Reading The Consistent Ethic Of Life As An Ethic Of Peacemaking, M. Therese Lysaught
M. Therese Lysaught
No abstract provided.
Doing Ethics In An Ecclesial Context, M. Therese Lysaught
Doing Ethics In An Ecclesial Context, M. Therese Lysaught
M. Therese Lysaught
No abstract provided.
When God Seems Far Way, Wes Green