Creative Fidelity

Author : Francis A. Sullivan SJ
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725200623

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Creative Fidelity by Francis A. Sullivan SJ Pdf

An important part of the theologians' task is to make the church's dogmas meaningful to the faithful of their own time. The attitude with which a theologian should undertake this task of communicating a contemporary understanding of the faith is well described as one of creative fidelity. Two basic sources for Catholic theology are scripture and the documents of the Magisterium. Just as Catholic theologians must know how to distinguish among the various literary genres in the bible and how to interpret scriptural texts, they must also know how to determine the relative degree of authority exercised in the various documents issued by popes or councils and how to apply the principles of hermeneutics in interpreting them. This book offers guidelines that will help those interested in Catholic theology to make sound judgments about the authority and meaning of the documents in which the church has expressed its faith over the centuries. Making such judgments requires a knowledge of the correct level of response these documents call for from the faithful and the ability to offer to today's faithful a contemporary understanding of their faith. The task of the interpreter is one of creative fidelity, requiring a delicate balance between being faithful to the original meaning of the text and creative in finding the concepts and terms that make it meaningful today.

Author : Francis A. Sullivan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592442089

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Creative Fidelity by Francis A. Sullivan Pdf

An important part of the theologians' task is to make the church's dogmas meaningful to the faithful of their own time. The attitude with which a theologian should undertake this task of communicating a contemporary understanding of the faith is well described as one of creative fidelity. Two basic sources for Catholic theology are scripture and the documents of the Magisterium. Just as Catholic theologians must know how to distinguish among the various literary genres in the bible and how to interpret scriptural texts, they must also know how to determine the relative degree of authority exercised in the various documents issued by popes or councils and how to apply the principles of hermeneutics in interpreting them. This book offers guidelines that will help those interested in Catholic theology to make sound judgments about the authority and meaning of the documents in which the church has expressed its faith over the centuries. Making such judgments requires a knowledge of the correct level of response these documents call for from the faithful and the ability to offer to today's faithful a contemporary understanding of their faith. The task of the interpreter is one of creative fidelity, requiring a delicate balance between being faithful to the original meaning of the text and creative in finding the concepts and terms that make it meaningful today.

Author : Gabriel Marcel
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0823221849

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These lectures and essays were regarded by Marcel as the best introduction to his thought. Creative Fidelity not only deals with perennial themes of faith, fidelity, belief, incarnate being, and participation, but also includes chapters on religious tolerance and orthodoxy and an important critical essay on Karl Jaspers.

Author : Gabriel Marcel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
ISBN : UOM:39076002444573

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Creative Fidelity by Gabriel Marcel Pdf

Author : R. Scott Appleby,Patricia Byrne,William L. Portier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015059171861

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Creative Fidelity by R. Scott Appleby,Patricia Byrne,William L. Portier Pdf

Finding themselves in a Protestant nation with little interest and less respect for Catholic habits of mind, often the sons and daughters of immigrants who had no training in the intellectual life of their native cultures, Catholics found themselves challenged to show one could be both Catholic and American. The result was one that Appleby, Byrne, and Portier see as a work of creative fidelity. In this book, the editors offer the reader a chance to see what Catholics from the earliest days to the present grappled with that task. In the process, we gain insight into such questions as, Is there or even ought there be a distinctively Catholic intellectual style? How can Catholics best bring their insights into the nature and shape of the common weal into the public forum to influence debates? Some texts will seem quaint. Others, though, take on immense relevance as one comes to understand the relative poverty of secular ethics in coming to grips with many of the truly great issues that matter most to how a nation ought to live its life. Texts from figures as different as Thomas Merton and John Carroll, Orestes Brownson and John Courtney Murray illuminate the landscape of American Catholic intellectual life. This book is absolutely important for college courses on Catholic life and history, but it will also be fascinating reading for the general reader who wants to understand how the Catholic people made themselves a richly furnished intellectual home in an often hostile land.

Author : Katharine Rose Hanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015019361750

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Dramatic Approaches to Creative Fidelity by Katharine Rose Hanley Pdf

Author : James L. Marsh
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791440745

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Process, Praxis, and Transcendence by James L. Marsh Pdf

Presents a North American philosophy of liberation that defends both metaphysics and philosophy of religion, and acts as a critique of neo-imperialism.

Author : James J. Walter,Timothy E. O’Connell,Thomas A. Shannon
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1589012747

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A Call to Fidelity by James J. Walter,Timothy E. O’Connell,Thomas A. Shannon Pdf

A Call to Fidelity seeks to thoughtfully examine and critically evaluate the contributions that Charles E. Curran has made to the field of Catholic moral theology over the past forty years. It also seeks to assess the development of specific topics in contemporary moral theology to which Curran has made his unique mark, particularly in fundamental ethics, sexual and medical ethics, social and political ethics, and topics related to dialogue with other traditions and approaches to Catholic ethics. Reviewing the many years of his influential writings, thought, and scholarship, fourteen distinguished scholars examine his contributions and the current state of the topics under discussion-which are as far ranging as academic freedom, birth control, gay and lesbian relationships, and feminism. Each contributor also provides a critical evaluation of Curran's work and outlines how these areas will hold or undergo transformation as the church looks toward its relationship with society and culture in the coming decades.

Author : Gabriel Marcel
Publisher : New York, Farrar
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
ISBN : OCLC:640134727

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Creative Fidelity by Gabriel Marcel Pdf

Author : Katharine Rose Hanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy in literature
ISBN : 0761853677

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Dramatic Approaches to Creative Fidelity by Katharine Rose Hanley Pdf

This book is a unique study of the work of Gabriel Marcel, a twentieth-century philosopher of international renown. This book brings a fresh perspective to the examination of Marcel's thought, highlighting facets of interest to many different audiences and presenting a clear exposition of the nature of creative fidelity.

Author : Jared Kemling
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438486185

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The Cultural Power of Personal Objects by Jared Kemling Pdf

The Cultural Power of Personal Objects seeks to understand the value and efficacy of objects, places, and times that take on cultural power and reverence to such a degree that they are treated (whether metaphorically or actually) as "persons," or as objects with "personality"—they are living objects. Featuring both historical and theoretical sections, the volume details examples of this practice, including the wampum of certain Native American tribes, the tsukumogami of Japan, the sacred keris knives of Java, the personality of seagoing ships, the ritual objects of Hinduism and Ancient Egypt, and more. The theoretical contributions aim to provide context for the existence and experience of personal objects, drawing from a variety of disciplines. Offering a variety of new philosophical perspectives on the theme, while grounding the discussion in a historical context, The Cultural Power of Personal Objects broadens and reinvigorates our understanding of cultural meaning and experience.

Author : Matthew J. Smith,Caleb D. Spencer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350193932

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Literature and Religious Experience by Matthew J. Smith,Caleb D. Spencer Pdf

This book challenges the status quo of studies in literature and religion by returning to “experience” as a bridge between theory and practice. Essays focus on keywords of religious experience and demonstrate their applications in drama, fiction, and poetry. Each chapter explores the broad significance of its keyword as a category of psychological and social behavior and tracks its unique articulation by individual authors, including Conrad, Beecher Stowe and Melville. Together, the chapters construct a critical foundation for studying literature not only from the perspectives of theology and historicism but from the ways that literary experience reflects, reinforces, and sometimes challenges religious experience.

Author : Ira Allen
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780822983422

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The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory by Ira Allen Pdf

Despite its centrality to its field, there is no consensus regarding what rhetorical theory is and why it matters. The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory presents a critical examination of rhetorical theory throughout history, in order to develop a unifying vision for the field. Demonstrating that theorists have always been skeptical of yet committed to "truth" (however fantastic), Ira Allen develops rigorous notions of truth and of a "troubled freedom" that spring from rhetoric’s depths. In a sweeping analysis from the sophists Aristotle, and Cicero through Kenneth Burke, Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyceta, and contemporary scholars in English, communication, and rhetoric’s other disciplinary homes, Allen offers a novel definition of rhetorical theory: as the self-consciously ethical study of how humans and other symbolic animals negotiate constraints.

Author : Claire Boyles
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393531831

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Site Fidelity: Stories by Claire Boyles Pdf

Finalist for the 2022 Reading the West Debut Fiction Award Finalist for the 2022 Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Set in the western sagebrush steppe, Site Fidelity is a vivid, intimate, and deeply human exploration of life on the shifting terrain of our changing planet. Firmly rooted in the modern American West, Site Fidelity follows women and families who feel the instinctual, inexplicable pull of a home they must work to protect from the effects of economic inequity and climate catastrophe. A seventy-four-year-old nun turns to eco-sabotage to stop a fracking project. A woman delivers her own baby in a Nevada ghost town. A young farmer hides her chicken flock from the government during a bird flu epidemic. An ornithologist returns home to care for her rancher father and gets caught up trying to protect a breeding group of endangered Gunnison sage grouse. In lean, lyrical prose, Claire Boyles evokes the bleakness and beauty of our threatened western landscapes. Spanning the decades from the 1970s to a plausible near future, this knockout debut introduces unforgettable characters who must confront the challenges of caregiving and loss alongside the very practical impacts of fracking, water rights law, and other agricultural policies. Site Fidelity is a vivid, intimate, and deeply human exploration of life on the shifting terrain of our changing planet.

Author : Thomas G. Welsh
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780739165942

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Closing Chapters by Thomas G. Welsh Pdf

Closing Chapters attempts to explain the disintegration of urban parochial schools in Youngstown, Ohio, a onetime industrial center that lost all but one of its eighteen Catholic parochial elementary schools between 1960 and 2006. Through this examination of Youngstown, Welsh sheds light on a significant national phenomenon: the fragmentation of American Catholic identity.