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Author : Paul Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666786910
Author : Paul E. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Catholic Biblical Quarterly
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0915170361
This book is divided into six chapters. In the first chapter, "A Review of the Critical Study of Ezekiel 38-39 in the Context of Its Placement in the Book," Fitzpatrick provides an extensive (nearly one-fourth of the book) and well-written review of the literature on Ezekiel, especially noting the appreciation by earlier authors of the place of chaps. 38-39 in the final form of the text. Chapter 2, "The Significance of Myth in Itself and in Ezekiel" (pp. 49-73), is, by contrast, less a review of the discussion of myth than a statement of the importance of understanding myth. In chap. 3, "Textual Links Between the Gog Pericope and Other sections of Ezekiel" (pp. 74-81), F. seeks to integrate the pericope into the final form of the text by creating a list of "textual links," largely vocabulary and phrases. Chapter 4, "Ezekiel 38-39, Cosmogony Completed, A Covenant of Peace Fulfilled," and chap. 5, "Mythic Elements and Cosmogony in Ezekiel 1-37 and 40-48," are the heart of the work, where F. comes to the following conclusion: "In the final form the book is presenting a new ending to the Israelite cosmogonie myth, and that in this cosmogonie myth, understandable and yet distinct in the context of the religious myths of the ancient Near East, chapters 38-39, the decisive battle and defeat of Gog and his hordes, must take place if the covenant of peace promised in chapters 34-37 is to be realized and the Temple is to be re-established (chapters 40-48) whose function is both symbol and fulfillment of cosmogony's completion in the Israelite creation myth" (p. 194). Following chap. 6, "Summary and Conclusions," are an extensive bibliography and indexes of biblical texts, authors, and subjects.
Author : Daniel Berrigan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606084700
Written during the 1970s and early 1980s at the height of Daniel Berrigan's work to stop the Vietnam war and nuclear weapons, The Nightmare of God offers a stunning commentary on the book of Revelation as a textbook of nonviolent resistance to empire. It begins in jail, where Berrigan sits after a 1976 protest at the Pentagon. As he takes us through the book of Revelation, Berrigan suggests that apocalyptic language and imagery are used to name Death (and its empires and wars) as anti-Christ, and challenges us to do the same today, to name every empire and war as anti-Christ, anti-humanity, anti-creation. Written with poetic insight and prophetic passion, Berrigan urges us to resist the culture of war as the early Christian heroes and martyrs did, so that we can end the suffering, heal humanity and join our place to worship the God of peace. Tom Lewis-Borbely's photo etchings complement the literary images. Daniel Berrigan describes Tom's art as healing the ancient killing split between ethics and imagination.
Author : Jack Miles
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780679781608
With the same passionate scholarship and analytical audacity he brought to the character of God, Jack Miles now approaches the literary and theological enigma of Jesus. In so doing, he tells the story of a broken promise–God’s ancient covenant with Israel–and of its strange, unlooked-for fulfillment. For, having abandoned his chosen people to an impending holocaust at the hands of their Roman conquerors. God, in the person of Jesus, chooses to die with them, in what is effectively an act of divine suicide. On the basis of this shocking argument, Miles compels us to reassess Christ’s entire life and teaching: His proclivity for the powerless and disgraced. His refusal to discriminate between friends and enemies. His transformation of defeat into a victory that redeems not just Israel but the entire world. Combining a close reading of the Gospels with a range of reference that includes Donne, Nietzche, and Elie Wiesel, Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God is a work of magnificent eloquence and imagination.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567658586
This powerful collection of essays focuses on the representation of God in the Book of Ezekiel. With topics spanning across projections of God, through to the implications of these creations, the question of the divine presence in Ezekiel is explored. Madhavi Nevader analyses Divine Sovereignty and its relation to creation, while Dexter E. Callender Jnr and Ellen van Wolde route their studies in the image of God, as generated by the character of Ezekiel. The assumption of the title is then inverted, as Stephen L. Cook writes on 'The God that the Temple Blueprint Creates', which is taken to its other extreme by Marvin A. Sweeney in his chapter on 'The Ezekiel that God Creates', and finds a nice reconciliation in Daniel I. Block's chapter, 'The God Ezekiel Wants Us to Meet.' Finally, two essays from Christian biblical scholar Nathan MacDonald and Jewish biblical scholar, Rimon Kasher, offer a reflection on the essays about Ezekiel and his God.
Author : Wing Yi Au
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161620652
Author : Ida ZaraGrace Iyen-Aghedo
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780578204031
God’s End-Time Moves is as much about the outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit as it is about the affirmation of His Truth and Word, both of which shall touch down everywhere on earth. This book is a work of the End-Time Prophetic Mission, to show in what direction the Lord God of All Creation will be leading the world and, even more so, the Church. God is set to show in every way that the world is not in place by accident, and the Spirit of God will appear to walk on two feet while still being solidly Spirit. In His mercy and grace, God always allows an adequate period of preparation so that no one will be caught unaware, except by personal choice. God’s End-Time Moves, therefore, is His wakeup call!
Author : Miles Huntley Hodges
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781973681038
This book is part of a three-part series on America as a Covenant Nation. This volume covers from the rise of America’s industrial revolution in the late 1800s to America’s taking the position in the Cold-War 1950s as the leader of the “Free World.” It is a typical social (political, economic, and military) history of America—untypical however in how it connects the intellectual, moral and spiritual character of America with those same social events. It takes the reader through the days of Western imperialism, World War One, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, World War Two, the beginning of the Cold War, and finally the age of Middle-America’s grand success (the 1950s). It focuses heavily on the leaders (most frequently the country’s presidents) and how their own personal spirituality shaped their times—and the way the Christian community in particular responded to both the social challenges facing it and the spiritual leadership attempting to inspire and guide it. It seeks to give the Christian reader (or Secular reader if he or she is willing to be challenged) a highly-detailed knowledge of the historical path—social and spiritual—that has brought us to today’s world ... and its enormous challenges.
Author : Richard T. McSorley SJ
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725226937
The Aims and Means of the Catholic Worker Reprinted from The Catholic Worker newspaper, May 2019, 86th Anniversary Issue The aim of the Catholic Worker movement is to live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ. Our sources are the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as handed down in the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, with our inspiration coming from the lives of the saints, "men and women outstanding in holiness, living witnesses to Your unchanging love." (Preface to the Eucharistic Prayer for holy men and women) This aim requires us to begin living in a different way. We recall the words of our founders, Dorothy Day who said, "God meant things to be much easier than we have made them," and Peter Maurin who wanted to build a society "where it is easier for people to be good."
Author : Wojciech Pikor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567678850
Pikor anaylzes the land of Israel in the book of Ezekiel showing how its preoccupation with the Babylonian exile and the loss of the Promised Land that this entails is directly linked to the danger this poses to Israel's covenant with God. Pikor examines the motif of land in its literary and historical contexts and in relation to the oracles of salvation in chapters 34-39 as well as the vision of the new Israel and the return of Yahweh's Glory to the temple. Pikor begins by examining the motif of land in its literary and historical contexts. The main body of the book then addresses specific sections of Ezekiel. Chapter two analyzes the oracles of punishment addressed to Israel, in which the land undergoes a process of anthropomorphization. Chapter three situates the punishment experienced by Ezekiel and his listeners in a broader historical context suggested by the prophet in Ezekiel 20. Chapter four analyses the oracles of salvation in Ezekiel 34–39, in which the restoration of the land of Israel remains intertwined with the promise of the new covenant. Finally, chapter five addresses the closing vision of the new Israel (Ezekiel 40–48), which is characterized by the territorial dimension of the future restoration. This feature is shown via analysis of the rhetoric of the land, the crucial element of which is the return of Yahweh's Glory to the temple. God's presence adds sacral value to the land in which his covenant with his people is to be realized. The covenant will be finalized through Israel's repopulation of the renewed land.
Author : Edward Slingerland,Mark Collard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190207991
Calls for a "consilient" or "vertically integrated" approach to the study of human mind and culture have, for the most part, been received by scholars in the humanities with either indifference or hostility. One reason for this is that consilience has often been framed as bringing the study of humanistic issues into line with the study of non-human phenomena, rather than as something to which humanists and scientists contribute equally. The other major reason that consilience has yet to catch on in the humanities is a dearth of compelling examples of the benefits of adopting a consilient approach. Creating Consilience is the product of a workshop that brought together internationally-renowned scholars from a variety of fields to address both of these issues. It includes representative pieces from workshop speakers and participants that examine how adopting such a consilient stance -- informed by cognitive science and grounded in evolutionary theory -- would concretely impact specific topics in the humanities, examining each topic in a manner that not only cuts across the humanities-natural science divide, but also across individual humanistic disciplines. By taking seriously the fact that science-humanities integration is a two-way exchange, this volume takes a new approach to bridging the cultures of science and the humanities. The editors and contributors formulate how to develop a new shared framework of consilience beyond mere interdisciplinarity, in a way that both sides can accept.
Author : Richard M. Blaylock
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666752373
Hardening hearts. Blinding eyes. Sending deceitful spirits. Crafting vessels of wrath. Few will deny that certain biblical passages make claims about God that are difficult to accept. But perhaps the most troubling are the verses that describe God as influencing individuals or groups towards wicked behavior for the purpose of condemning them. What are readers to do with these texts? In Vessels of Wrath, Richard M. Blaylock tackles the thorny subject of divine reprobating activity (DRA). Through an exhaustive, biblical-theological study of the Old and New Testaments, Blaylock argues that the Bible does not present DRA as an insignificant or monolithic concept; instead, the biblical authors showcase both the significance and the complexity of DRA in a variety of ways. The book aims to help readers of the Bible to wrestle with the Scriptures so that they might come to better understand its testimony to this mysterious and awesome divine activity.
Author : William Allen White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038666124
White, who died in 1944, was both small-town newspaperman and national celebrity, a journalist, editor and author, popular commentator, Republican political leader and founder of the Progressive party. First published posthumously in 1946, this 2nd ed. of the Autobiography is abridged and edited for the modern reader. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351474214
This book presents a unique effort to create a new understanding of the Christian sign of the cross. At its core, it traces the conscious and unconscious influence of this visual symbol through time. What began as the crucifixion of a Jewish troublemaker in Roman-occupied Judea in the first century eventually gave rise to a broad spectrum of readings of the instrument used to accomplish such a punishment, a cross. The author argues that Jesus was a provocative, grandiose masochist whose suffering and death initially signified redemption for believers. This idea gradually morphed into a Christian sense of freedom to persecute and wage war against non-believers, however, as can be seen in the Crusades ("wars of the cross"). Many believers even construed the murder of their savior as a crime perpetrated by "the Jews," and this paranoid notion culminated in the mass murder of European Jews under the sign of the Nazi hooked cross (Hakenkreuz). Rancour-Laferriere's book is expertly written and argued; it will be readable to a large audience because it touches on many areas of controversy, interest, and scholarship. The work is critical, but not unfair; it employs psychoanalysis, art history (the study of the symbol of the cross in works of art), religion and religious texts, and world history generally. The interweaving of these various themes is what gives this work its ability to draw in readers-and will ultimately be what keeps the reader interested through the conclusion.
Author : John Goldingay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567390790
This Festschrift for Leslie C. Allen reflects the ferment in studies of Jeremiah. A group of international scholars examine the location of the prophecies in Jeremiah's life and consider the book's social, ethical, theological, political, and devotional implications.