Liberal Quaker Reconciliation Theology A Constructive Approach

Author : Christy Randazzo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004425064

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Liberal Quaker Reconciliation Theology: A Constructive Approach by Christy Randazzo Pdf

This work brings the fields of Christian theologies of atonement and reconciliation and Liberal Quaker theology into dialogue, and lays the foundation for developing an original Liberal Quaker reconciliation theology. This dialogue focuses specifically on the metaphorical language employed to describe the relationship of interdependence between humans and God, which both traditions hold as integral to their conceptions of human and divine existence. It focuses on these areas: the sin of human division and exclusion; atonement and reunification of humans and God as a response to sin; and the metaphors Liberal Quaker use to describe this interdependent relationship, specifically the metaphor of Light. This unique approach develops an original model of reconciliatory interdependence between humans and God that is rooted in both Christological and Universalist Liberal Quaker metaphorical and theological categories and utilizes the Liberal Quaker language of God as interdependent Light towards a new theology.

Author : Cherice Bock,Christy Randazzo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004535923

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Quakers, Ecology, and the Light by Cherice Bock,Christy Randazzo Pdf

As the community of life on this planet experiences the anthropogenic climate crisis, what tools from faith traditions can help us meet the coming challenges? By expanding the metaphor of light within the Christian and Quaker traditions to include light’s role in ecosystems, this project develops an ecotheology of light that aims to answer this question. Cherice Bock and Christy Randazzo draw on their contexts in the Religious Society of Friends, placing the Quaker Inward Light in dialogue with the Bible, and light in Eastern Orthodox, ecological, and interdependence theologies. The Quaker ecotheology of light developed argues that Light is a vitally important and mutually translatable metaphor providing a common language that can aid humanity, reinterpreting traditions to meet this moment with spiritual grounding to transition to a just and sustainable future for the Earth, our common home. Bock and Randazzo connect this ecotheology of light with implications for Friends testimonies.

Author : Chris Adam-Bagley,Mahmoud Abubaker,Alice Sawyerr
Publisher : Ethics International Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781804411247

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Developing Social Science and Religion for Liberation and Growth by Chris Adam-Bagley,Mahmoud Abubaker,Alice Sawyerr Pdf

This book integrates humanist approaches in enabling both spiritual growth and social science knowledge in advocating for the emancipation of exploited women, children and youth, based on critical realism. Through an autoethnographic account of the first author’s journey from being a secular Jew, through Anglicanism, to Quakerism and then Islam, a pacifist-based social science methodology is developed. This approach describes attempts to understand and liberate sexually exploited youths in Bangladesh; exploited women and girls in Pakistan; and struggling women in Gaza, Palestine. The model attempts to integrate moral goals of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in seeking peaceful co-operation. Secular humanism is added, creating a research model which seeks the enhancement of human welfare through the universal ethic of the social contract, in which humans and their welfare are both interesting and exciting. A review of research on child sexual exploitation elaborates the model of child-centred humanism.

Author : Rhiannon Grant
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004431553

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Theology from Listening: Finding the Core of Liberal Quaker Theological Thought by Rhiannon Grant Pdf

Rhiannon Grant explores continuities in liberal Quaker theology through close analysis of material produced by Quaker meetings and individuals. She concludes that liberal Quaker theology possesses a core claim: the belief that direct, unmediated contact with the Divine is possible.

Author : M. V. Dougherty
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004699854

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New Techniques for Proving Plagiarism by M. V. Dougherty Pdf

This book demonstrates that the principles of textual criticism—borrowed from the fields of classics and medieval studies—have a valuable application for plagiarism investigations. Plagiarists share key features with medieval scribes who worked in scriptoriums and produced copies of manuscripts. Both kinds of copyists—scribes and plagiarists—engage in similar processes, and they commit distinctive copying errors. When committed by plagiarists, these copying errors have probative value for making determinations that a text is copied, and hence, unoriginal. To show the efficacy of the newly proposed techniques for proving plagiarism, case studies are drawn from philosophy, theology, and canon law.

Author : Veli-Matti Krkkinen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780802868534

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Christ and Reconciliation by Veli-Matti Krkkinen Pdf

In Christ and Reconciliation Veli-Matti Karkkainen develops a constructive Christology and theology of salvation in dialogue with the best of Christian tradition, with contemporary theology in its global and contextual diversity, and with other major living faiths. Karkkainen's Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World is a five-volume project that aims to develop a new approach to and method of doing Christian theology in our pluralistic world at the beginning of the third millennium. Topics such as diversity, inclusivity, violence, power, cultural hybridity, and justice are part of the constructive theological discussion along with classical topics such as the messianic consciousness, incarnation, atonement, and the person of Christ. With the metaphor of hospitality serving as the framework for his discussion, Karkkainen engages Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism in sympathetic and critical mutual dialogue while remaining robustly Christian in his convictions. Never before has a full-scale doctrinal theology been attempted in such a wide and deep dialogical mode.

Author : Thomas D. Hamm
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004430730

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Liberal Quakerism in America in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1790-1920 by Thomas D. Hamm Pdf

A self-conscious liberal Quakerism emerged in North America between 1790 and 1920. It shared three characteristics: commitment to liberty of conscience; questioning of Christian orthodoxy; and an insistence that liberalism was a continuation of historic Quakerism.

Author : Michael Birkel,Charlotte Northrop
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004445192

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Quakeriana Latina: Quaker texts in Latin from the 1670s by Michael Birkel,Charlotte Northrop Pdf

Translation and commentary of Latin texts from the 1670s by early Quaker theologians George Keith and Robert Barclay reveal concerns for Christian application of Jewish Kabbalah, the chronology of the end times, and theological justification of distinctive Quaker teachings.

Author : Kristina Stoeckl
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004440159

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Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism by Kristina Stoeckl Pdf

In Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism, Kristina Stoeckl surveys the ways in which the Russian Orthodox Church has negotiated its relationship with the secular state, with other religions, and with Western modernity from its beginnings until the present.

Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 019974369X

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Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer Pdf

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

Author : Lauren F. Winner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Baptism
ISBN : 9780300215823

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The Dangers of Christian Practice by Lauren F. Winner Pdf

Challenging the central place that "practices" have recently held in Christian theology, Lauren Winner explores the damages these practices have inflicted over the centuries Sometimes, beloved and treasured Christian practices go horrifyingly wrong, extending violence rather than promoting its healing. In this bracing book, Lauren Winner provocatively challenges the assumption that the church possesses a set of immaculate practices that will definitionally train Christians in virtue and that can't be answerable to their histories. Is there, for instance, an account of prayer that has anything useful to say about a slave-owning woman's praying for her slaves' obedience? Is there a robustly theological account of the Eucharist that connects the Eucharist's goods to the sacrament's central role in medieval Christian murder of Jews? Arguing that practices are deformed in ways that are characteristic of and intrinsic to the practices themselves, Winner proposes that the register in which Christians might best think about the Eucharist, prayer, and baptism is that of "damaged gift." Christians go on with these practices because, though blighted by sin, they remain gifts from God.

Author : Rhiannon Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Quakers
ISBN : 9004378707

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British Quakers and Religious Language by Rhiannon Grant Pdf

In British Quakers and Religious Language, Rhiannon Grant explores the ways in which this community discusses the Divine. She identifies characteristic patterns of language use and uncovers the philosophical and theological claims that support these patterns.

Author : William James
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781877527463

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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James Pdf

Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."

Author : Unitarian Universalist Commission on Appraisal
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1558964975

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Engaging Our Theological Diversity by Unitarian Universalist Commission on Appraisal Pdf

Author : Pink Dandelion
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443807166

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The Quaker Condition by Pink Dandelion Pdf

This book focuses primarily on what we have termed the ‘Quaker Condition’. It looks sociologically at the condition of present-day British Quakerism. This original and innovative collection contributes to several different, though obviously connected, fields within the study of religion. It operates on five levels. In the first place, the volume is the first to represent, substantially, the contribution of social science to the study of Quakerism and therefore provides useful comparative material for those whose focus is on other faith groups. Second , the book focuses largely on British Quakerism and so enriches the pool of resources relating to the sociology of British religion and British culture more generally Third , there are very few sociological volumes dedicated to the analysis of a single faith group. Fourth, the book represents an in-depth study of a liberal faith group, when liberal religion is the focus of much scholarly debate at present particularly with reference to the secularisation thesis. The study of British Quakerism is especially fascinating in this regard, given how the group can be described almost as hyper- or ultra-liberal, prefiguring many of the developments which may overtake currently more conservative groups. Fifth, the volume represents a particularly collective way of working of interest to all those concerned with the methodology of social research, with the design and construction of the volume jointly agreed by all the authors. Regular meetings of the group and a conference based on these chapters has culminated in a book far more interwoven and layered than a typical ‘edited collection.’