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Author : Alex Jassen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047420613
This book is a comprehensive treatment of prophecy and revelation in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It examines the reconfiguration of biblical prophecy and revelation, the portrait of prophecy at the end of days, and the evidence for ongoing prophetic activity.
Author : Alex P. Jassen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004158429
This book is a comprehensive treatment of prophecy and revelation in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It examines the reconfiguration of biblical prophecy and revelation, the portrait of prophecy at the end of days, and the evidence for ongoing prophetic activity.
Author : Pieter F. Craffert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0620252383
Author : C.L. Crouch,Jonathan Stökl,Anna Elise Zernecke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567461629
Analyzes the variety of religious practices employed to communicate with deities and to interpret the divine response, including intuitive divination (prophecy), technical divination and prayers.
Author : C.L. Crouch,Jonathan Stökl,Anna Elise Zernecke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567446244
This volume brings together experts in the study of ancient prayers and divination methods to analyse the variety of means by which human beings sought to communicate with their gods and by which the gods were seen to communicate with their worshippers. In a departure from previous scholarship, the volume brings together the study of prophecy, as an intuitive form of divination, with the study of technical methods of communication and other forms of institutionalised communication such as prayer. Such a format allows divine-human communication to be studied in both directions simultaneously: the means by which the divine communicates to human beings through divination, and the means by which human beings communicate with the divine through prayer. This new perspective on the study of divine-human-divine communication allows scholars to better appreciate the way in which communication and the relationship between heaven and earth was conceived in the ancient near East.
Author : Andrei A. Orlov
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Angels
ISBN : 3161485440
Andrei A. Orlov examines the tradition about the seventh antediluvian patriarch Enoch, tracing its development from its roots in the Mesopotamian lore to the Second Temple apocalyptic texts and later rabbinic and Hekhalot materials where Enoch is often identified as the supreme angel Metatron. The first part of the book explores the imagery of the celestial roles and titles of the seventh antediluvian hero in Mesopotamian, Enochic and Hekhalot materials. The analysis of the celestial roles and titles shows that the transition from the figure of patriarch Enoch to the figure of angel Metatron occurred already in the Second Temple Enochic materials, namely, in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch, a Jewish work, traditionally dated to the first century CE. The second part of the book demonstrates that mediatorial polemics with the traditions of the exalted patriarchs and prophets played an important role in facilitating the transition from Enoch to Metatron in the Second Temple period.
Author : Oleg Dik
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783847007197
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 : Clint Schnekloth
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781451472295
The church struggles with media. Whether it is a denomination negotiating the 24-hour news cycle or a church evaluating how Facebook or online games are influencing the youth group, media is raising questions and placing demands on communities of faith in ways that could not have been imagined just 20 years ago. Thus the importance of understanding media for the church has never been greater. In Mediating Faith, church leaders of all kinds will find Clint Schnekloth an engaging and insightful guide to this new and sometimes wondrous world. In doing so he offers an evaluation and theological response to the trans-media era that highlights its potential to transform our work and world.Far from frightening, Schnekloth highlights the opportunities and the riches of this fascinating time.
Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107393455
Prominent in the canonical texts and traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is the claim that God speaks. Nicholas Wolterstorff argues that contemporary speech-action theory, when appropriately expanded, offers us a fascinating way of interpreting this claim and showing its intelligibility. He develops an innovative theory of double-hermeneutics - along the way opposing the current near-consensus led by Ricoeur and Derrida that there is something wrong-headed about interpreting a text to find out what its author said. Wolterstorff argues that at least some of us are entitled to believe that God has spoken. Philosophers have never before, in any sustained fashion, reflected on these matters, mainly because they have mistakenly treated speech as revelation.
Author : Shane Clifton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004175266
The global growth of Pentecostal movements during the course of the twentieth century has been widely documented although, to date, there has been little written on their developing ecclesiology. After making the case for a concrete rather than idealised approach to ecclesiology, this book describes and analyses the transitions that have framed the ways in which Australian Pentecostals have understood church life and mission. From a loosely knit faith missions movement, to congregational free church structures, to the so-called apostolic models of mega-churches, Australian pentecostalism stands as a microcosmos of ecclesial developments that have occurred throughout the world. This book, therefore, provides a means of reflecting upon what has been gained and lost in the process of ecclesiological change.
Author : Craig A. Evans,Jeremiah J. Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567663832
This work critically engages the hermeneutical methods used to analyse the New Testament writings, so that the lenses through which studies of the texts have been traditionally viewed can be revised. Jeremy Hultin contributes an article on the rhetorical use of the chosen citations by Jewish rabbis in their commentary on scripture, while Mark Gignilliat writes on the potential implications for viewing Old Testament Scripture in the manner of the early Church exegetes and theologians. With these two contributions providing a frame for the other chapters, the essays explore a range of topics including the significance of the number 42 in Matthew; the study of Wisdom in Matthew, the extent to which the four gospels are underlined by Hebrew material, if any; the use of Hebrew material in shaping New Testament writings; and the uses of Scripture in the letters of Paul and the letters to the Hebrews. Read separately, these articles provide fascinating insights and revisions to established ideas on intertextuality between the Old/Hebrew Bible and the New Testament writings. Taken together, the collection presents a solid argument for the fundamental revision of our current hermeneutical practice in Biblical Studies.
Author : Yochanan Silman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791424626
This book relates the various strata of Halevi's Book of Kuzari to the different periods of Halevi's philosophical development.
Author : Khaled Anatolios
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441231956
Khaled Anatolios, a noted expert on the development of Nicene theology, offers a historically informed theological study of the development of the doctrine of the Trinity, showing its relevance to Christian life and thought today. According to Anatolios, the development of trinitarian doctrine involved a global interpretation of Christian faith as a whole. Consequently, the meaning of trinitarian doctrine is to be found in a reappropriation of the process of this development, such that the entirety of Christian existence is interpreted in a trinitarian manner. The book provides essential resources for this reappropriation by identifying the network of theological issues that comprise the "systematic scope" of Nicene theology, focusing especially on the trinitarian perspectives of three major theologians: Athanasius, Gregory of Nyssa, and Augustine. It includes a foreword by Brian E. Daley.
Author : La Verne Tolbert
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630871758
Exploring and Engaging Spirituality for Today's Children: A Holistic Approach answers questions about the most effective ways to help children, pre-teens, and teens develop spiritually. This collection of research gleaned from presentations during the Fourth Triennial Children's Spirituality Conference at Concordia University in 2012 is divided into four major sections: (1) theological and historical foundations, (2) engaging parents and congregations, (3) engaging methodologies, and (4) exploring children at risk, child pornography, social justice, intercultural diversity, and abstinence education. Researchers acknowledge that the home is the foundation for Christian nurture. In Exploring and Engaging Spirituality for Today's Children, both scholars and ministry leaders come together with parents to promote a holistic environment where children are encouraged to love, respect, and obey God. From birth to high school, children's voices resonate throughout these studies as they are invited to share their reflections and experiences. Exploring and Engaging Spirituality for Today's Children is a lively, easy-to-read collection that reflects a broad range of faith traditions and is ideal for all those who are committed to the spiritual development of children.
Author : David W. Torrance
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610976664
This book while presenting the contribution of a variety of scholars also presents important statements of Churches today on the Jewish people and her place in God's purpose for the world. It also gives statistics of Jewish communities.
