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Author : Richard Briggs
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801038433
An expert in biblical interpretation explores "interpretive virtue" and examines five ways the Old Testament seeks to shape its readers.
Author : Karen Swallow Prior
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493415465
★ Publishers Weekly starred review A Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers Weekly Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue, says acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior. In this book, she takes readers on a guided tour through works of great literature both ancient and modern, exploring twelve virtues that philosophers and theologians throughout history have identified as most essential for good character and the good life. Covering authors from Henry Fielding to Cormac McCarthy, Jane Austen to George Saunders, and Flannery O'Connor to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prior explores some of the most compelling universal themes found in the pages of classic books, helping readers learn to love life, literature, and God through their encounters with great writing. The book includes end-of-chapter reflection questions geared toward book club discussions, original artwork throughout, and a foreword by Leland Ryken. The hardcover edition was named a Best Book of 2018 in Religion by Publishers Weekly. "[A] lively treatise on building character through books.'"--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author : Aemilia Lanyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019508361X
Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) was the first woman poet in England who sought status as a professional writer. Her book of poems is dedicated entirely to women patrons. It offers a long poem on Christ's passion, told entirely from a woman's point of view, as well as the first country house poem published in England. Almost completely neglected until very recently, her work changes our perspective on Jacobean poetry and contradicts the common assumption that women wrote nothing of serious interest until much later. Mistress and friend of influential Elizabethan courtiers, Lanyer gives us a glimpse of the ideas and aspirations of a talented middle class Renaissance woman.
Author : Jessica Murphy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472119578
A new way of looking at behavioral expectations for women in early modern England
Author : Richard Lockwood
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 2600001409
Author : David G. Ford
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532636820
In many places in the Western world, churchgoing is in decline and it cannot be assumed that people have a good grasp of the Bible's content. In this evolving situation, how would "the person on the street" read the Bible? Reading the Bible Outside the Church begins to answer this question. David Ford spent ten months at a chemical industrial plant providing non-churchgoing men with the opportunity to read and respond to five different biblical texts. Using an in-depth qualitative methodology, he charts how their prior experiences of religion, sense of (non)religious identity, attitudes towards the Bible, and beliefs about the Bible all shaped the readings that occurred.
Author : Angela Lou Harvey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498209762
Reading Scripture is a spiritual practice at the very heart of the Christian faith. But how is it possible to encounter God in reading the words of the Bible? Does reading the Christian Bible require a different approach from how one may read other texts or writings? What is required of the spiritual reader to read well? Seeking to answer such questions, Angela Lou Harvey provides a theological exploration of the idea of "spiritual reading" in the context of the Western church today. Drawing upon insights of theologians such as Karl Barth, Henri de Lubac, and Ellen F. Davis, the author suggests that the particulars of Christian belief profoundly shape the distinctive practice of the spiritual reading of the Bible.
Author : John Goldsbury,William Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Elocution
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1MT2
Author : Burkhard Reis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139456999
There is now a renewed concern for moral psychology among moral philosophers. Moreover, contemporary philosophers interested in virtue, moral responsibility and moral progress regularly refer to Plato and Aristotle, the two founding fathers of ancient ethics. The book contains eleven chapters by distinguished scholars which showcase current research in Greek ethics. Four deal with Plato, focusing on the Protagoras, Euthydemus, Symposium and Republic, and discussing matters of literary presentation alongside the philosophical content. The four chapters on Aristotle address problems such as the doctrine of the mean, the status of rules, equity and the tension between altruism and egoism in Aristotelian eudaimonism. A contrast to classical Greek ethics is presented by two chapters reconstructing Epicurus' views on the emotions and moral responsibility as well as on moral development. The final chapter on personal identity in Empedocles shows that the concern for moral progress is already palpable in Presocratic philosophy.
Author : Professor Jennifer Clement
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472453778
While humility is not especially valued in modern Western culture, Clement argues, it is central to early modern understandings of Christian faith and behavior, and is vital to contemporary concepts of the self. Early modern literary engagements with humility link it to self-knowledge through the practice of right reading. This study complicates modern views of an early modern virtue, and challenges the assumption that agency is always defined by resistance.
Author : David W. Montgomery
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252056796
A foundational figure in modern labor history, David Montgomery both redefined and reoriented the field. This collection of Montgomery’s most important published and unpublished articles and essays draws from the historian’s entire five-decade career. Taken together, the writings trace the development of Montgomery’s distinct voice and approach while providing a crucial window into an era that changed the ways scholars and the public understood working people’s place in American history. Three overarching themes and methods emerge from these essays: that class provided a rich reservoir of ideas and strategies for workers to build movements aimed at claiming their democratic rights; that capital endured with the power to manage the contours of economic life and the capacities of the state but that workers repeatedly and creatively mounted challenges to the terms of life and work dictated by capital; and that Montgomery’s method grounded his gritty empiricism and the conceptual richness of his analysis in the intimate social relations of production and of community, neighborhood, and family life.
Author : William Frederick Mayers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : China
ISBN : HARVARD:HY46NN
This is a handbook of biographical, historical, mythological and general literary references helpful to students of Chinese literature.
Author : John P. McCormick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691211541
A new reading of Machiavelli’s major works that demonstrates how he has been previously misread To what extent was Niccolò Machiavelli a “Machiavellian”? Was he an amoral adviser of tyranny or a stalwart partisan of liberty? A neutral technician of power politics or a devout Italian patriot? A reviver of pagan virtue or initiator of modern nihilism? Reading Machiavelli answers these questions through original interpretations of Machiavelli’s three major political works—The Prince, Discourses, and Florentine Histories—and demonstrates that a radically democratic populism seeded the Florentine’s scandalous writings. John McCormick challenges the misguided understandings of Machiavelli set forth by prominent thinkers, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau and representatives of the Straussian and Cambridge schools, and he emphasizes the fundamental, often unacknowledged elements of a vibrant Machiavellian politics. Advancing fresh readings of Machiavelli’s work, this book presents a new outlook on how politics should be conceptualized and practiced.
Author : Uche Anizor
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625644824
The history of modern biblical interpretation is checkered with attempts to rethink and resituate readers theologically and ethically. At least two tendencies emerge in these remedial proposals, both of which animate this project: (1) many accounts privilege either divine action (theology) or human, ecclesial response (ethics); (2) few proposals have availed themselves of the potential hermeneutical resources of a more extensive biblical theology. This study offers a theological and ethical account of Christian readers of Scripture--one that brings together these two apparently divergent poles--through the deployment of a biblical theological motif: royal priesthood. The designation of the people of God as a royal priesthood, conditioned and informed by the offices of king and priest, carries with it themes that frame the hermeneutical situation in such a way that accounts well for the integral relation of divine agency and ecclesial response, theology and ethics.
Author : Richard S. Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1441257616
An expert in biblical interpretation explores "interpretive virtue" and examines five ways the Old Testament seeks to shape its readers.