Mediating Divine Power

Author : Pieter F. Craffert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0620252383

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Mediating Divine Power by Pieter F. Craffert Pdf

Author : Agata Bielik-Robson,Daniel H. Weiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110684421

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Tsimtsum and Modernity by Agata Bielik-Robson,Daniel H. Weiss Pdf

This volume is the first-ever collection of essays devoted to the Lurianic concept of tsimtsum. It contains eighteen studies in philosophy, theology, and intellectual history, which demonstrate the historical development of this notion and its evolving meaning: from the Hebrew Bible and the classical midrashic collections, through Kabbalah, Isaac Luria himself and his disciples, up to modernity (ranging from Spinoza, Böhme, Leibniz, Newton, Schelling, and Hegel to Scholem, Rosenzweig, Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, Levinas, Jonas, Moltmann, and Derrida).

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351931137

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Hegel's God by William Desmond Pdf

William Desmond's misgivings regarding Hegel's take on God leads the reader through Hegel's writings to reveal a path that leads anywhere but to God. The author believes that an idol is no less an idol constructed from thought as constructed from gold.

Author : Pieter F. Craffert
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621892502

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The Life of a Galilean Shaman by Pieter F. Craffert Pdf

Historical Jesus research remains trapped in the positivistic historiographical framework from which it emerged more than a hundred and fifty years ago. This is confirmed by the nested assumptions shared by the majority of researchers. These include the idea that a historical figure could not have been like the Gospel portrayals and consequently the Gospels have developed in a linear and layered fashion from the authentic kernels to the elaborated literary constructions as they are known today. The aim of historical Jesus research, therefore, is to identify the authentic material from which the historical figure as a social type underneath the overlay is constructed. Anthropological historiography offers an alternative framework for dealing with Jesus of Nazareth as a social personage fully embedded in a first-century Mediterranean worldview and the Gospels as cultural artifacts related to this figure. The shamanic complex can account for the cultural processes and dynamics related to his social personage. This cross-cultural model represents a religious pattern that refers to a family of features for describing those religious entrepreneurs who, based on regular Altered State of Consciousness experiences, perform a specific set of social functions in their communities. This model accounts for the wide spectrum of the data ascribed to Jesus of Nazareth while it offers a coherent framework for constructing the historical Jesus as a social personage embedded in his worldview. As a Galilean shamanic figure Jesus typically performed healings and exorcisms, he controlled the spirits while he also acted as prophet, teacher and mediator of divine knowledge.

Author : Matthias Joseph Scheeben
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645850366

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Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics 5.1 by Matthias Joseph Scheeben Pdf

In Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics, Book V, Soteriology Part 1 Matthias Joseph Scheeben delineates who and what Jesus Christ is as the Incarnate Son of God in Person. With characteristic brilliance, Scheeben sets forth in this first half-volume the essential nature and attributes proper to Christ as the hypostatic union of God and man. Beginning with the Scriptural and traditional foundations, he elucidates the Catholic Church’s traditional teaching on Christ’s unity of Person in two natures as they were developed in response to the main Christological heresies of the early Christian centuries. On this basis, he then delves into the speculative depths of the hypostatic union itself as well as the attributes of the God-man that arise from this union. “[T]he translation of the Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics by the greatest speculative theologian of the nineteenth century into the modern lingua franca is an invaluable service to the future of the Church in the secular age. With his speculative penetration of the mystery of the Incarnation in the present volume—enriched by a comprehensive knowledge of patristic, scholastic, and modern theology—Matthias Joseph Scheeben preserves the mystery of Divine Revelation from attempts to naturalize it and the Church from the tendency to reduce it to a merely functional civil religion. He proves that even on the highest level of rational reflection the believer can give to modern man an account for ‘the hope that is in him’ (cf. 1 Pet 3:15), which puts us in a position to clarify definitively our understanding of ourselves and of the world in light of the knowledge of God.” —Cardinal Gerhard Müller— Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Author : Matthew Levering
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781595250292

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Christ and the Catholic Priesthood by Matthew Levering Pdf

Author : Ralph Erskine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1729
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024970107

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The Mediator's Power in Heaven and Earth. In a Sermon Upon Matthew Xxviii. 18. Preached Immediately Before the Administration of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, at Dunfermline, July 14. 1728. By Mr. Ralph Erskine .. by Ralph Erskine Pdf

Author : Oleg Dik
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783847007197

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Realness through Mediating Body by Oleg Dik Pdf

After the end of the civil war in 1990, the Charismatic/Pentecostal (C/P) movement in Beirut spread across various Christian denominations. C/P believers narrated how Jesus became real to them via the experience of the Holy Spirit. The author explains this impression of realness through embodiment. Ritual practices like testimony and experience of divine agency are experienced as fullness within a post war society and are extended into the every day sphere. This ethnographic account represents the beginning research of C/P Christianity's emergence in the Middle East and its contribution to social change.

Author : Diana Espirito Santo,Nico Tassi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780857734068

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Making Spirits by Diana Espirito Santo,Nico Tassi Pdf

The analysis of religion has often placed an emphasis on beliefs and ideologies, prioritizing these elements over those of the material world. Through the ethnographic analysis of a variety of contemporary religious practices, Making Spirits questions the presumed separation of spirit and matter, and sheds light on the dynamics between spiritual and material domains. By examining the cultural contexts in which material culture is central to the creation and experience of religion and belief, this volume analyses the different ways in which the concepts of the material and spiritual worlds intersect, interact and inform each other in the reproduction of religious rites. Using examples such as spirit mediums, fetishes and ritual objects across a variety of cultures such as Latin America, Japan and Central Africa, Nico Tassi and Diana Espirito Santo offer insights that challenge accepted categories in the study of religion, making this book important for scholars of comparative religion, anthropology and sociology.

Author : John Yocum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351942010

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Ecclesial Mediation in Karl Barth by John Yocum Pdf

Karl Barth is widely considered the greatest theologian of the Twentieth Century, exerting a major influence in almost every area of theological thought in both Reformation and Roman Catholic traditions. Ecclesial Mediation in Karl Barth deals with one of the most important and controversial themes in Barth's theology, the relation between divine and human action. John Yocum argues that Barth's late rejection of the concept of sacrament, explicated in the final volume of his Church Dogmatics, is not only at odds with his account of the nature and importance of sacraments presented earlier in the Church Dogmatics but subverts important elements of his theology as a whole especially the mediation of divine grace in preaching and the Bible. Bringing Barth into fruitful dialogue with Yves Congar, Yocum contends that the notion of sacrament is crucial to an account of the divine-human relation that respects the character of both agents.

Author : Andy Reimer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567008848

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Miracle and Magic by Andy Reimer Pdf

Miracle-workers and magicians are diffcult characters for contemporary readers of Greco-Roman narratives to comprehend and to distinguish. Hindered both by our modern definitions of "miracle" and "magic," we need to focus our attention on those ancient texts that deal with such characters and their differentiation. Two such texts, the Acts of the Apostles and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius, come from quite different religious backgrounds, but demonstrate remarkably similar subtle cultural scripts at play. A detailed investigation of the social interactions in these two narrative worlds brings these characters and their communities alive and reveals how legitimate miracle-workers were distinguished from illegitimate magicians by the Mediterranean population of the Greco-Roman world.

Author : Chauncey GILES
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023203928

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The Incarnation, Atonement, and Mediation of ... Jesus Christ. Lectures by Chauncey GILES Pdf

Author : Chauncey Giles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Atonement
ISBN : HARVARD:HWK9DL

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Lectures on the Incarnation, Atonement, and Mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ by Chauncey Giles Pdf

Author : Thomas Hughson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781442223967

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Connecting Jesus to Social Justice by Thomas Hughson Pdf

Many Christians see the societal dimension of their faith as a matter of biblical and social ethics. Returning to classical Christology, Connecting Jesus to Social Justice explores messianic potential in the Council of Chalcedon on the divine identity of Christ. Who Jesus is makes all the difference to Christian entrance into the public sphere on behalf of a just society. The Messiah’s divinity bears on social mission directed toward a just social order. Theological appropriation of Chalcedon overcomes a gap between the professing the Creed and interpreting social existence in light of a just social order. Connecting Jesus to Social Justice argues a doctrinally traditional, orthodox basis for Christian participation in the public sphere on behalf of social justice. The book addresses a situation internal to churches in the U.S. from a Catholic perspective yet not without analogies in other churches and Christian movements. Applying traditional Christology to contemporary social mission solidifies an answer to adversarial queries on the appropriateness of a social agenda. Implications in the classical Christology also confirm churches and discipleship in commitment to social justice promoted through a subaltern counter-public and then by word and deed in the public sphere.

Author : William Brownsberger
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813221199

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Jesus the Mediator by William Brownsberger Pdf

In Jesus the Mediator, William L. Brownsberger offers an account of the human psychology assumed by the Second Person of the Trinity in light of its salvific significance