The Scandal

Author : Robert P. Vande Kappelle
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532640605

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The Scandal of Divine Love by Robert P. Vande Kappelle Pdf

There is no more important topic for inquiry today than the meaning and message of Jesus, for in this quest lies the solution to human discontent and despair. Examining an array of titles for Jesus found in the New Testament, expressions ranging from rabbi and messiah to Wisdom of God, Word of God, and Lord, this study explores why Christology is not simply the study of Jesus Christ but also of the highest and best in us all. Who is Jesus Christ, and what is his significance for today? Was he fully human, the perfect human, God in disguise, or somehow all of these simultaneously? The key is to begin where the first Christians began, with their experience of Jesus, and then to press forward with the development of that understanding in our experience of Christ. While The Scandal of Divine Love is designed for Christian believers (survivors), it embraces skeptics and seekers alike, mindful that within each of us are multiple voices, sometimes affirming, sometimes questioning, occasionally even denying. Whether you consider yourself primarily as skeptic, seeker, or believer, this study encourages you to listen, appreciate, and cultivate each voice. This volume, ideal for individual and group study, will help you discover anew the magnificence of the life and person known to us as Jesus of Nazareth, as guide, exemplar, and Lord.

Author : Albena Azmanova
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231527286

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The Scandal of Reason by Albena Azmanova Pdf

Theories of justice are haunted by a paradox: the more ambitious the theory of justice, the less applicable and useful the model is to political practice; yet the more politically realistic the theory, the weaker its moral ambition, rendering it unsound and equally useless. Brokering a resolution to this "judgment paradox," Albena Azmanova advances a "critical consensus model" of judgment that serves the normative ideals of a just society without the help of ideal theory. Tracing the evolution of two major traditions in political philosophy—critical theory and philosophical liberalism—and the way they confront the judgment paradox, Azmanova critiques prevailing models of deliberative democracy and their preference for ideal theory over political applicability. Instead, she replaces the reliance on normative models of democracy with an account of the dynamics of reasoned judgment produced in democratic practices of open dialogues. Combining Hannah Arendt's study of judgment with Pierre Bourdieu's social critique of power relations, and incorporating elements of political epistemology from Kant, Wittgenstein, H. L. A. Hart, Max Weber, and American philosophical pragmatism, Azmanova centers her inquiry on the way participants in moral conflicts attribute meaning to their grievances of injustice. She then demonstrates the emancipatory potential of the model of critical deliberative judgment she forges and its capacity to guide policy making. This model's critical force yields from its capacity to disclose the common structural sources of injustice behind conflicting claims to justice. Moving beyond the conflict between universalist and pluralist positions, Azmanova grounds the question of "what is justice?" in the empirical reality of "who suffers?" in order to discern attainable possibilities for a less unjust world.

Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467464628

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The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Mark A. Noll Pdf

Winner of the Christianity Today Book of the Year Award (1995) “The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.” So begins this award-winning intellectual history and critique of the evangelical movement by one of evangelicalism’s most respected historians. Unsparing in his indictment, Mark Noll asks why the largest single group of religious Americans—who enjoy increasing wealth, status, and political influence—have contributed so little to rigorous intellectual scholarship. While nourishing believers in the simple truths of the gospel, why have so many evangelicals failed to sustain a serious intellectual life and abandoned the universities, the arts, and other realms of “high” culture? Over twenty-five years since its original publication, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind has turned out to be prescient and perennially relevant. In a new preface, Noll lays out his ongoing personal frustrations with this situation, and in a new afterword he assesses the state of the scandal—showing how white evangelicals’ embrace of Trumpism, their deepening distrust of science, and their frequent forays into conspiratorial thinking have coexisted with surprisingly robust scholarship from many with strong evangelical connections.

Author : John W. Rogerson
Publisher : SLG Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780728301801

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Strength in Weakness: The Scandal of the Cross by John W. Rogerson Pdf

Fairacres Publications 160 These theological reflections on the Cross and Passion of Jesus Christ touch upon some central paradoxes of the Christian faith. Jesus was put to death publicly by crucifixion which, according to traditional Jewish teaching, was a scandal and an affront to God. Yet a Roman centurion present was able to exclaim in awe, ‘Truly this man was the Son of God!’ The book invites us to ponder instances where strength was manifested in weakness, not only for Jesus – in Gethsemane, at his Trial and on the Cross – but also for those two pillars of the early Church, Peter and Paul, as they too wrestled with ‘the Scandal of the Cross’.

Author : Christina McKnight
Publisher : La Loma Elite Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945089367

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The Lady Loves A Scandal by Christina McKnight Pdf

Originally published in IT STARTED WITH A WHISPER Anthology Lady Sybil Anson thought she had it all. Even a match of the heart, despite so many London elite marrying for convenience. But the night before their betrothal was to become official, the love of her life vanished—with a hastily scrawled note and little more. She feared the worst as her heart ached for Gideon, and the scandal sheets simply made matters worse with their preposterous musings on the hows and whys of Viscount Galway’s disappearance. Now, more than a year later, he’s unexpectedly back, and Sybil will have her answers. Many, many years ago, Gideon Lyndon made a grave mistake. One he’s spent most of his adult life trying to rectify. And despite the progress made, the sacrifices were extensive and damaging. On the verge of repairing one misdeed, he finds himself faced with his greatest challenge yet: winning back the woman he has loved since the moment he met her. But after a year of silence, convincing his headstrong paramour to take him back will not be easy. Especially since he can’t even explain why he left—not if he wants to keep her safe.

Author : Lanny Davis
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403984753

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Scandal by Lanny Davis Pdf

The former Special Counsel to President Clinton exposes the roots of today's scandal culture

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23T22:59:00Z
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798822522121

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Summary of Mark A. Noll's The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The evangelical mind is not well-developed, and this is especially true for American evangelicals. They have failed to sustain a serious intellectual life, and have largely abandoned the universities, the arts, and other realms of high culture. #2 Evangelical Christians are, however, in the position of theological conservatives in Great Britain: they play a small, but vital, role in shaping the secular mind. They accept the secular mind’s frame of reference and criteria, and there is no shared field of discourse in which writers can reflect christianly on the modern world and modern man. #3 Throughout the book, America will mostly mean the United States, even though the inclusion of Canada in the study of Christian developments in North America is an immensely rewarding effort. Occasional efforts will be made to include Canada in the pages that follow. #4 By the mind or the life of the mind, I do not mean theology as such. I mean the effort to think like a Christian and to think within a specifically Christian framework across the whole spectrum of modern learning, including economics and political science, literary criticism and imaginative writing, historical inquiry and philosophical studies, linguistics and the history of science, social theory and the arts.

Author : Marida Hollos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315499482

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A Scandal in Tiszadomb: Understanding Modern Hungary Through the History of Three Families by Marida Hollos Pdf

This fascinating book tells the story of modern Hungarian society through the interconnected lives of several families in a small town on the Great Hungarian Plain. It opens in 1989 - on the eve of communism's collapse - with the suicide of the town's dynamic and popular mayor. The author quickly sketches in the details of the small scandal that precipitated the mayor's shocking act. Amazingly enough, this small scandal in a small town became a sensation in the Hungarian national press during the months leading up to the fall of the regime. It was seen to typify the corruption of national life under the communist system. Following this prologue, each of the three parts of the book tells the story of one of the families over the course of the last century - and, through that family history, the story of one of the social groups making up the community. The ups and downs of each family are tied not only to the strengths and weaknesses of its individual members, but also to the twists and turns of East European history and the vagaries of politics under changing political regimes and economic systems. At the end of the book, the author revisits the town (in 1998) and the surviving characters, and tells of their fate in the new Hungary.

Author : Steven Moffat
Publisher : Titan Comics
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781787734555

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Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia #7 by Steven Moffat Pdf

Irene Adler holds the key to an international incident in the palm of her hand, and Sherlock has only two more attempts to guess the password. After discovering that Adler had only faked her death, Sherlock has a renewed interest for the case. But Adler’s web of secrets is larger than even the Detective can begin to fathom…

Author : Steven Moffat
Publisher : Titan Comics
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781787733923

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Sherlock: A Scandal In Belgravia #2 by Steven Moffat Pdf

The critically acclaimed manga adaptation of Sherlock hits season two, introducing the iconic Irene Adler! Sherlock comes face to face with the mysterious and beautiful Irene Adler as he attempts to solve a series of murders. But will Irene help him - or create more danger for Sherlock?

Author : Joanna Swanger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319399812

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Radical Social Change in the United States by Joanna Swanger Pdf

This book tackles the question of why the United States is so resistant to radical change towards economic justice and peace. Taking full stock of the despair that launched the popular support for Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, Swanger historicizes the political paralysis of post-1974 United States that deepened already severe economic inequalities, asking how the terrain for social movements in the early twenty-first-century US differs from that of the 1960s. This terrain is marked by the entrenchment of neoliberalism, anti-intellectualism, and difficulties paradoxically posed by the ease of social media. Activists now must contend with a paralyzing “post-factual” moment. Alain Badiou’s thought informs this book on breaking through contemporary political paralysis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : UVA:X030802392

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The Great Brooklyn Romance by Anonim Pdf

Author : Margot Gayle Backus
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780268158040

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Scandal Work by Margot Gayle Backus Pdf

In Scandal Work: James Joyce, the New Journalism, and the Home Rule Newspaper Wars, Margot Gayle Backus charts the rise of the newspaper sex scandal across the fin de siècle British archipelago and explores its impact on the work of James Joyce, a towering figure of literary modernism. Based largely on archival research, the first three chapters trace the legal, social, and economic forces that fueled an upsurge in sex scandal over the course of the Irish Home Rule debates during James Joyce’s childhood. The remaining chapters examine Joyce’s use of scandal in his work throughout his career, beginning with his earliest known poem, “Et Tu, Healy,” written when he was nine years old to express outrage over the politically disastrous Parnell scandal. Backus’s readings of Joyce’s essays in a Trieste newspaper, the Dubliners short stories, Portrait of the Artist, and Ulysses show Joyce’s increasingly intricate employment of scandal conventions, ingeniously twisted so as to disable scandal’s reifying effects. Scandal Work pursues a sequence of politically motivated sex scandals, which it derives from Joyce's work. It situates Joyce within an alternative history of the New Journalism’s emergence in response to the Irish Land Wars and the Home Rule debates, from the Phoenix Park murders and the first Dublin Castle scandal to “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon” and the Oscar Wilde scandal. Her voluminous scholarship encompasses historical materials on Victorian and early twentieth-century sex scandals, Irish politics, and newspaper evolution as well as providing significant new readings of Joyce’s texts.

Author : Miguel de Unamuno
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486119755

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Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel de Unamuno Pdf

The acknowledged masterpiece of one of Spain's most influential thinkers. Between despair and the desire for something better, Unamuno finds that "saving incertitude" that alone can console us.

Author : J. Budziszewski
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781497644328

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The Line through the Heart by J. Budziszewski Pdf

The suicidal proclivity of our time, writes the acclaimed philosopher J. Budziszewski, is to deny the obvious. Our hearts are riddled with desires that oppose their deepest longings, because we demand to have happiness on terms that make happiness impossible. Why? And what can we do about it? Budziszewski addresses these vital questions in his brilliantly persuasive new book, The Line Through the Heart. The answers can be discovered in an exploration of natural law—a venture that, with Budziszewski as our expert guide, takes us through politics, religion, ethics, law, philosophy, and more. Natural law, the author states plainly but provocatively, is a fact about human beings; as surely as we have hands and feet, we have the foundational principles of good and evil woven into the fabric of our minds. From this elemental fact emerges a natural law theory that unfolds as part of a careful study of the human person. Thus, Budziszewski shows, natural law forms a common ground for humanity. But this common ground is slippery. While natural law is truly an observable part of human nature, human beings are hell-bent—quite literally—on ignoring it. The mere mention of the obligations imposed on man by his nature will send him into a rage. In this sense, The Line Through the Heart explores natural law as not simply a fact and a theory but also a sign of contradiction. While investigating the natural law and its implications, Budziszewski boldly confronts—and offers a newly integrated view of—a wide range of contemporary issues, including abortion, evolution, euthanasia, capital punishment, the courts, and the ersatz state religion being built in the name of religious toleration. Written in Budziszewski’s usual crystalline style, The Line Through the Heart makes clear that natural law is a matter of concern not merely to scholars; it touches how each of us lives, and how all of us live together. His profoundly important examination of this subject helps us make sense of why habits that run against our nature have become second nature, and why our world seems to be going mad.