The Fullness Of Time In A Flat World

Author : Scott Waalkes
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556358630

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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World by Scott Waalkes Pdf

Best-selling author Thomas Friedman says that globalization has made the world flat and that we cannot stop the process. But while it is right to say that globalization tends to flatten our world, it is wrong to say that there are no alternatives to current patterns of economic, ecological, political, and cultural integration. This book argues that the Christian liturgical calendar provides a constructive alternative to the globalization of economics, ecologies, politics, and cultures. It does so by incorporating the church into the fullness of time in the gospel narrative, thereby helping us escape from the dead end of Friedman's flat world so that we can improvise healthier ways of being globally integrated.

Author : Khalia J. Williams,Mark A. Lamport
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493431083

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Theological Foundations of Worship (Worship Foundations) by Khalia J. Williams,Mark A. Lamport Pdf

This volume brings together an ecumenical team of scholars to present key theological concepts related to worship to help readers articulate their own theology of worship. Contributors explore the history of theology's impact on worship practices across the Christian tradition, highlighting themes such as creation, pneumatology, sanctification, and mission. The book includes introductions by N. T. Wright and Nicholas Wolterstorff. A forthcoming volume will address the historical foundations of worship.

Author : Scott Waalkes
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621890522

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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World by Scott Waalkes Pdf

Best-selling author Thomas Friedman says that globalization has made the world flat and that we cannot stop the process. But while it is right to say that globalization tends to flatten our world, it is wrong to say that there are no alternatives to current patterns of economic, ecological, political, and cultural integration. This book argues that the Christian liturgical calendar provides a constructive alternative to the globalization of economics, ecologies, politics, and cultures. It does so by incorporating the church into the fullness of time in the gospel narrative, thereby helping us escape from the dead end of Friedman's flat world so that we can improvise healthier ways of being globally integrated.

Author : Michael Fuller,Dirk Evers,Anne Runehov,Knut-Willy Sæther,Bernard Michollet
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030311827

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Issues in Science and Theology: Nature – and Beyond by Michael Fuller,Dirk Evers,Anne Runehov,Knut-Willy Sæther,Bernard Michollet Pdf

This book addresses a variety of important questions on nature, science, and spirituality: Is the natural world all that there is? Or is it possible to move ‘beyond nature’? What might it mean to transcend nature? What reflections of anything ‘beyond nature’ might be found in nature itself? Gathering papers originally delivered at the 2018 annual conference of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT), the book includes contributions of an international group of scientists, philosophers, theologians and historians, all discussing nature and what may lie beyond it. More than 20 chapters explore questions of science, nature, spirituality and more, including Nature – and Beyond? Immanence and Transcendence in Science and Religion Awe and wonder in scientific practice: Implications for the relationship between science and religion The Cosmos Considered as a Moral Institution The transcendent within: how our own biology leads to spirituality Preserving the heavens and the earth: Planetary sustainability from a Biblical and educational perspective Issues in Science and Theology: Nature – and Beyond will benefit a broad audience of students, scholars and faculty in such disciplines as philosophy, history of science, theology, and ethics.

Author : Jason Reimer Greig
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781626162440

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Reconsidering Intellectual Disability by Jason Reimer Greig Pdf

Drawing on the controversial case of “Ashley X,” a girl with severe developmental disabilities who received interventionist medical treatment to limit her growth and keep her body forever small—a procedure now known as the “Ashley Treatment”—Reconsidering Intellectual Disability explores important questions at the intersection of disability theory, Christian moral theology, and bioethics. What are the biomedical boundaries of acceptable treatment for those not able to give informed consent? Who gets to decide when a patient cannot communicate their desires and needs? Should we accept the dominance of a form of medicine that identifies those with intellectual impairments as pathological objects in need of the normalizing bodily manipulations of technological medicine? In a critical exploration of contemporary disability theory, Jason Reimer Greig contends that L'Arche, a federation of faith communities made up of people with and without intellectual disabilities, provides an alternative response to the predominant bioethical worldview that sees disability as a problem to be solved. Reconsidering Intellectual Disability shows how a focus on Christian theological tradition’s moral thinking and practice of friendship with God offers a way to free not only people with intellectual disabilities but all people from the objectifying gaze of modern medicine. L'Arche draws inspiration from Jesus's solidarity with the "least of these" and a commitment to Christian friendship that sees people with profound cognitive disabilities not as anomalous objects of pity but as fellow friends of God. This vital act of social recognition opens the way to understanding the disabled not as objects to be fixed but as teachers whose lives can transform others and open a new way of being human.

Author : Jeff Barnes
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532648588

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O God Our Help in Ages Past by Jeff Barnes Pdf

Today’s headlines daily confront us with the spectacle of a troubled world. Natural disasters, war, economic uncertainty, and many other issues have become part and parcel of our daily experience. Many, including those who bear the name of Christ, have lost hope in this climate. What are believers to do when confronted with the chaos of the present age? The answer can be found through a Christian engagement with history. Far from being an esoteric discipline to be studied by a learned few, a Christ-centered view of the past can transform the believer’s walk with God, providing comfort and hope in the face of the chaos that besets our world today. Through seeing the sovereign hand of God as it writes the human story, believers can question God in faith, better understand the divine purpose in suffering, more fully grasp their need for a Savior, repent from participation in present injustice, challenge the idol of nostalgia, and better understand our place within the kingdom of God.

Author : Michael L. Budde
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621892892

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The Borders of Baptism by Michael L. Budde Pdf

It's a simple claim, really - that for Christians, "being a Christian" should be their primary allegiance and identity. For those who proclaim Jesus as Lord, this identity should supersede all others, and this loyalty should trump all lesser ones. It may be a simple claim, but it is a controversial one for many people, Christians and non-Christians alike. The Borders of Baptism uses the idea of solidarity among Christians as a lens through which to view politics, economics, and culture. It offers Christians a fresh perspective capable of moving beyond sterile and dead-end debates typical of debates on issues ranging from immigration and race to war, peace, and globalization. The Borders of Baptism invites Christians of all traditions to reflect on the theological and political implications of first "being a Christian" in a world of rival loyalties. It invites readers to see what it might mean to be members of a community broader than the largest nation-state; more pluralistic than any culture in the world; more deeply rooted in the lives of the poor and marginalized than any revolutionary movement; and more capable of exemplifying the notion of ;e pluribus unum' than any empire past, present, or future.

Author : Michael Grossman,Ronald Eric Matthews,Francis Schortgen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030895297

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Achievements and Legacy of the Obama Presidency by Michael Grossman,Ronald Eric Matthews,Francis Schortgen Pdf

This book provides a broad analysis of the legacy of the Obama presidency, representing multiple perspectives across the partisan and disciplinary divides. The chapters in this book are grouped into three major legacy categories: domestic policy, foreign policy, and rhetoric. Domestically, the contributors examine the “Obama coalition” and its staying power in the age of Trump, President Obama's legacy regarding the use of executive power, his impact on intergovernmental relations, and his impact on the welfare state and education. On the foreign policy front, the central focus is on whether Obama was in fact much different from his predecessor, what impact he had on the Middle East and Afghanistan, and whether his pivot to Asia yielded the hoped-for results. The contributions in this book also aim to (re-)assess the Obama legacy in light of the subsequent efforts by his successor to undo many of the policies embraced and implemented during the Obama years.

Author : Douglas Harink
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606086629

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Paul, Philosophy, and the Theopolitical Vision by Douglas Harink Pdf

The apostle Paul was a man of many journeys. We are usually familiar with the geographical ones he made in his own time. This volume traces others--Paul's journeys in our time, as he is co-opted or invited to travel (sometimes as abused slave, sometimes as trusted guide) with modern and recent Continental philosophers and political theorists. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Benjamin; Taubes, Badiou, Zizek, and Agamben--Paul journeys here among the philosophers. In these essays you are invited to travel with them into the regions of philosophy, hermeneutics, political theory, and theology. You will certainly hear the philosophers speak. But Paul will not remain silent. Above the sounds of the journey his voice comes through, loud and clear.

Author : Anthony E. Mansueto
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621890683

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The Death of Secular Messianism by Anthony E. Mansueto Pdf

The Death of Secular Messianism argues that, the claims of secularists notwithstanding, modernity did not so much abandon humanity's historic search for the divine, but rather transposed it into a new, innerworldly key. This "secret religion of high modernity" came in both positivistic and humanistic variants. The first sought to overcome finitude by means of scientific and technological progress. The second sought to overcome contingency by creating a collective Subject--the Modern Democratic State or the Communist Party--in and through which human beings would become the masters of their own destiny. In making his case for this thesis, the author outlines a new political-theological and social-theoretical perspective which saves what is best in modernity--its focus on human creative activity and its commitment to rational autonomy and democratic citizenship--while re-engaging humanity's great spiritual traditions.

Author : Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher : Picador
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429923075

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The World Is Flat 3.0 by Thomas L. Friedman Pdf

This Independence Day edition of The World is Flat 3.0 includes an an exclusive preview of That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, on sale September 5th, 2011. A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The World Is Flat in 2005. In this new edition, Thomas L. Friedman includes fresh stories and insights to help us understand the flattening of the world. Weaving new information into his overall thesis, and answering the questions he has been most frequently asked by parents across the country, this third edition also includes two new chapters--on how to be a political activist and social entrepreneur in a flat world; and on the more troubling question of how to manage our reputations and privacy in a world where we are all becoming publishers and public figures. The World Is Flat 3.0 is an essential update on globalization, its opportunities for individual empowerment, its achievements at lifting millions out of poverty, and its drawbacks--environmental, social, and political, powerfully illuminated by the Pulitzer Prize--winning author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Railroads
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020087032

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Locomotive Engineering by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : UOM:39015021242097

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Locomotive Engineer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kate Rigby
Publisher : Kate Rigby
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781458087164

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Seaview Terrace by Kate Rigby Pdf

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Told from several viewpoints, Seaview Terrace is a contemporary character-driven novel in a nineties seaside setting about the fragile relationships between neighbours, and the passions and prejudices that arise when so many disparate personalities live in close quarters. It’s a slice-of-life book about the extraordinary in the ordinary. Previously published in paperback by Skrev Press.

Author : Peter M. Burns,Marina Novelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136353772

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Tourism and Social Identities by Peter M. Burns,Marina Novelli Pdf

The making and consuming of tourism takes place within a complex social milieu, with competing actors drawing into the ‘product’ peoples’ history, culture and lifestyles. Culture and people thus become part of the tourism product. The implications are not fully understood, though the literature ranges the arguments along a continuum with culture being described on one hand as vulnerable and fixed, waiting to be ‘impacted’ by tourism and on the other being seen as vibrant and perfectly well capable of dealing with globalization and modernity trends. Some of the answers are likely to focus around ideas of social identities. The intention of this book is to make a contribution to the theoretical framework of tourism through a series of international case studies. The overall purpose of the edited book is to assemble a series of essays enabling the dissemination of ideas on the critical discourse of tourism and tourists as they relate to social and cultural identities.