Nevertheless In The Image Of God

Author : Douglas K. Blount,Joseph D. Wooddell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0742551032

Get Book

The Baptist Faith and Message 2000 by Douglas K. Blount,Joseph D. Wooddell Pdf

Southern Baptists are the nation's largest protestant denomination, with over 43,000 churches and millions of members. Since its inception, controversy has surrounded the Baptist Faith and Message 2000, Southern Baptists' most recent confession of faith. The present volume consists of essays by Baptist scholars explaining and defending that document. Each of the 18 articles of the BF&M 2000 is addressed, with special attention to the most critical issues and changes from the denomination's 1963 confession. Also included is an appendix comprising the full text of all three Baptist Faith and Message statements from the 20th century (1925, 1963, and 2000), in side-by-side columns for easy reference and comparison. Contributors include Al Mohler, Paige Patterson, Tom Nettles, Dorothy Patterson, E. David Cook, and C. Ben Mitchell, with a foreword by Susie Hawkins. Brief yet comprehensive, detailed yet accessible to the non-specialist, this volume is a must read for Southern Baptist professors and students, staff and church members, and anyone interested in one of the most powerful religious forces in America.

Author : Beth Felker Jones,Jeffrey W. Barbeau
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830899609

Get Book

The Image of God in an Image Driven Age by Beth Felker Jones,Jeffrey W. Barbeau Pdf

Humans are created in the image of God, yet by choosing to rebel against God we become unfaithful bearers of his image. But Jesus, who is the image of God, restores the divine image in us. At the intersection of theology and culture, these essays offer a unified vision of what it means to be truly human and created in the divine image in the world today.

Author : J. Richard Middleton
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441242785

Get Book

The Liberating Image by J. Richard Middleton Pdf

For two thousand years, Christians have been intrigued by the somewhat enigmatic Imago Dei references in the book of Genesis. Much theological ink has been spilled mulling over the significance and meaning of these words: "Let us make humanity in our image, according to our likeness . . . " In The Liberating Image, J. Richard Middleton takes on anew the challenge of interpreting the Imago Dei. Reflecting on the potential of the Imago Dei texts for developing an ethics of power rooted in compassion, he relates its significance to the Christian community's distinct calling in an increasingly violent world. The Liberating Image introduces a relevant, scholarly take on an important Christian doctrine. It will appeal to all Christians seeking to better understand what it means to be made in God's image.

Author : Dr Assaf Pinkus
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781472422651

Get Book

Sculpting Simulacra in Medieval Germany, 1250-1380 by Dr Assaf Pinkus Pdf

This book constitutes the first art-historical attempt to theorize the idiosyncratic character of German Gothic sculpture and trace the high and late medieval notions of the ‘living statue’ and the simulacrum in religious, lay and travel literature. In addressing a range of works, from the oeuvre of the Naumburg Master through Freiburg-im-Breisgau to the imperial art of Vienna and Prague, Pinkus offers a new understanding of the function, production, and use of three-dimensional images in late-medieval Germany.

Author : Christopher A. Beeley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199886135

Get Book

Gregory of Nazianzus on the Trinity and the Knowledge of God by Christopher A. Beeley Pdf

Gregory of Nazianzus, a 4th-century bishop of Constantinople, receives relatively little attention from modern Western scholars, yet he is one of the most influential theologians in the history of Christian doctrine. As an advocate for the conceptual understanding of the Trinity, Gregory set precedents for the way his fellow and future Christians would perceive and worship God. Christopher A. Beeley presents the first comprehensive study in modern Western scholarship of Gregory's doctrine of the Trinity in the full range of his theological and practical vision of the Christian life.

Author : Frances Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107470958

Get Book

God's Presence by Frances Young Pdf

In 2011, Frances Young delivered the Bampton Lectures in Oxford to great acclaim. She offered a systematic theology with contemporary coherence, by engaging in conversation with the fathers of the church - those who laid down the parameters of Christian theology and enshrined key concepts in the creeds - and exploring how their teachings can be applied today, despite the differences in our intellectual and ecclesial environments. This book results from a thorough rewriting of those lectures in which Young explores the key topics of Christian doctrine in a way that is neither simply dogmatic nor simply historical. She addresses the congruence of head and heart, through academic and spiritual engagement with God's gracious accommodation to human limitations. Christianity and biblical interpretation are discussed in depth, and the book covers key topics including Creation, anthropology, Christology, soteriology, spirituality, ecclesiology and Mariology, making it invaluable to those studying historical and constructive theology.

Author : Ian W. Payne
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625640772

Get Book

Wouldn't You Love to Know? by Ian W. Payne Pdf

With all the jumble of human disagreements, how can we know? Can the Christian church think coherently about knowledge? Can it regain confidence in teaching what it knows? In an increasingly divided and pessimistic postmodern world this book offers a theology for epistemology and for pedagogy that aims to be faithful and fruitful. Building on Karl Barth, it argues that God's knowing guides how humans know. We should imitate God's epistemic stance--his love--for that is the best model for knowing anything. The Trinitarian theme in Barth identifies three key concepts: committedness, openness, and relationality. These mean being committed and open towards what we wish to know. Relational open committedness also profoundly clarifies and shapes what love means in knowing and in teaching. This book unpacks an epistemology and pedagogy of love. Wouldn't you love to know?

Author : Francis Etheredge
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443892032

Get Book

From Truth and truth by Francis Etheredge Pdf

What emerges in this second book of the trilogy is that the very “ground” and content of experience is richer than what can be reduced to a particular account of it. As such, dialogue develops from the “natural” diversity of what is “of” faith and what is “of” reason. Neither faith nor reason, however, originates “from” experience; rather, both are “witnessed” in experience. In other words, taking up questions about the nature of man, whether philosophically, psychologically or in terms of social structures, manifests both a variety of points of departure and, at the same time, the manifold conversations that are possible in the “field of culture”.Focusing particularly on the work of St. John Paul II, the first essay examines the answer of reason and the answer of faith to the same question: What is man? Conversion, too, entails an “unexpected” relationship to natural truth, which, in its own way, is both adequate and inadequate to salvation. Communication, as it were, runs throughout these essays; however, in particular, there is a need to enrich our human understanding of the process of “coming to ourselves” with the insights of spiritual discernment. Axiomatically, however, it is possible to say that just as we come to exist through a relationship to others, so our healing and holiness are manifest through our relationship to others in the “Other”. Furthermore, while it is ultimately true that we exist as individually rooted in the social structure of our origin and the times in which we live, we need to critically participate in the dialogue which identifies our common “reality” and not live our lives covered in “psycho-social” labels of one kind or another.As a whole, then, there is an incomparable range and depth to “dialogue”. Indeed, given the many critical situations in the world, it is increasingly indispensable and essential that humanity choose the incredible wealth of dialogue in contrast to the possibility of a “polarised” and “conflictual” structure between people and peoples.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467444095

Get Book

The Book of Genesis by Anonim Pdf

Retrieves rich historical biblical insights for readers of Genesis today In this latest addition to the Bible in Medieval Tradition series, Joy Schroeder provides substantial excerpts — none previously available in English — from seven noteworthy medieval biblical interpreters who commented on Genesis between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Representing a chronological and geographical range of authors — including Hildegard of Bingen, Nicholas of Lyra, and Denis the Carthusian — these clear, readable translations illustrate the rich diversity of medieval approaches to biblical interpretation. The commentary covers the entire book of Genesis and includes an in-depth introduction by Schroeder that locates each of the medieval authors within his or her context.

Author : Andreas Andreapoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134936694

Get Book

Art as Theology by Andreas Andreapoulos Pdf

Religion and spirituality are key aspects of the contemporary art scene. Following Ronald Barthes' 'death of the author' - which argued for the dissociation of work from creator - works of art have withdrawn as independent objects, giving way to a growing religious awareness or practice. 'Art and Theology' examines the connection between art and religion in ancient Jewish drama, Greek tragedy, the Renaissance, the Byzantine icon and the medieval cathedral. The book explores how art lost its sacred character in the late Middle Ages and how the current withdrawal or 'death' of art and the fusion of the limits of art and life are consistent with the medieval view of the religious icon.

Author : Walter J. Burghardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Image of God
ISBN : IND:39000002805997

Get Book

The Image of God in Man by Walter J. Burghardt Pdf

Author : William J. Bouwsma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 019976297X

Get Book

John Calvin by William J. Bouwsma Pdf

Historians have credited--or blamed--Calvinism for many developments in the modern world, including capitalism, modern science, secularization, democracy, individualism, and unitarianism. These same historians, however, have largely ignored John Calvin the man. When people consider him at all, they tend to view him as little more than the joyless tyrant of Geneva who created an abstract theology as forbidding as himself. This volume, written by the eminent historian William J. Bouwsma, who has devoted his career to exploring the larger patterns of early modern European history, seeks to redress these common misconceptions of Calvin by placing him back in the proper historical context of his time. Eloquently depicting Calvin's life as a French exile, a humanist in the tradition of Erasmus, and a man unusually sensitive to the complexities and contradictions of later Renaissance culture, Bouwsma reveals a surprisingly human, plausible, ecumenical, and often sympathetic Calvin. John Calvin offers a brilliant reassessment not only of Calvin but also of the Reformation and its relationship to the movements of the Renaissance.

Author : Andrew Paterson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000600223

Get Book

Late Antique Portraits and Early Christian Icons by Andrew Paterson Pdf

This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which bear many resemblances to three other well-established genres of ‘sacred portrait’ also produced during late antiquity, namely Roman imperial portraiture, Graeco-Egyptian funerary portraiture and panel paintings depicting non-Christian deities. Andrew Paterson addresses two fundamental questions about devotional portraiture – both Christian and non-Christian – in the late antique period. Firstly, how did artists visualise and construct these images of divine or sanctified figures? And secondly, how did their intended viewers look at, respond to, and even interact with these images? Paterson argues that a key factor of many of these portrait images is the emphasis given to the depicted gaze, which invites an intensified form of personal encounter with the portrait’s subject. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, theology, religion and classical studies.

Author : Dominic Robinson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780754698289

Get Book

Understanding the "Imago Dei" by Dominic Robinson Pdf

As theologians across confessional divides try to say something significant about human dignity in our contemporary society, there is fresh interest in the ancient Christian doctrine that the human being is created in the 'imago Dei'. Robinson examines the 'imago Dei' debate through three giants of twentieth century theology - Karl Barth, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Jürgen Moltmann. Fresh analysis of ecumenical contributions places the development of the doctrine in the context of the ongoing process of ecumenical dialogue on the dignity of the human person.

Author : Matthias Smalbrugge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501358883

Get Book

On Images, Visual Culture, Memory and the Play without a Script by Matthias Smalbrugge Pdf

Matthias Smalbrugge compares modern images to plays without a script: while they appear to refer to a deeper identity or reality, it is ultimately the image itself that truly matters. He argues that our modern society of images is the product of a destructive tendency in the Christian notion of the image in general, and Augustine of Hippo's in particular. This insight enables him to decode our current 'scripts' of image. As we live in an increasingly visual culture, we are constantly confronted with images that seem to exist without a deeper identity or reality – but did this referential character really get lost over time? Smalbrugge first explores the roots of the modern image by analysing imagery, what it represents, and its moral state within the framework of Platonic philosophy. He then moves to the Augustinian heritage, in particular the Soliloquies, the Confessions and the Trinity, where he finds valuable insights into images and memory. He explores within the trinitarian framework the crossroads of a theology of grace and a theology based on Neoplatonic views. Smalbrugge ultimately answers two questions: what happened to the referential character of the image, and can it be recovered?