Author: Jeff Nowers
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date: 2013-10-11
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Category : Religion
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Theology And The Crisis Of Engagement

Book by Jeff Nowers, Theology And The Crisis Of Engagement Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Theology And The Crisis Of Engagement books, "What does theology have to do with sociology? Do the social sciences in general provide helpful assistance to theologians? Does theology have anything to contribute to social theory? This compendium of essays attempts to address such questions. In so doing, it confronts assumptions about how academic disciplines are best articulated, whether within their own airtight frames or in dialogue with one another. The essays in the first half of the book accomplish this from historical and methodological perspectives, while the remaining essays present case studies or constructive proposals for how theology might engage the social sciences in productive ways. For those particularly interested in the ongoing development of theologies of liberation, this book will be timely. The essays, reflecting a definite international flavor, are written in honor of Lee Cormie, a long-standing advocate of what he calls the ""new voices"" in theology that have irrupted in the wake of Vatican II. Cormie has spent over three decades teaching theologies of liberation at the Toronto School of Theology on the campus of the University of Toronto. This book continues the many conversations that his teaching has provoked. "

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Author: Adam C. Clark
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date: 2013-08-27
Size: 26.92 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Ontology And Ethics

Book by Adam C. Clark, Ontology And Ethics Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Ontology And Ethics books, Recent scholarship in a number of disciplines has explored the relationship between ontology and ethics. The essays in this collection indicate what the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) has to contribute to this discussion. By engaging the breadth of his academic and pastoral writings, these essays retrieve Bonhoeffer's theology for a contemporary audience. They do so by critically clarifying and extending key concepts developed by Bonhoeffer across his corpus and in dialogue with Hegel, Heidegger, Dilthey, Barth, and others. They also create dialogues between Bonhoeffer and more recent figures like Levinas, Agamben, Foucault, and Lacoste. Finally, they take up pressing, contemporary ethical issues such as globalization, managerialism, and racism.

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Author: Corine Pelluchon
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date: 2014-02-01
Size: 20.71 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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Leo Strauss And The Crisis Of Rationalism

Book by Corine Pelluchon , Leo Strauss And The Crisis Of Rationalism Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Leo Strauss And The Crisis Of Rationalism books, Examines the German and Jewish sources of Strauss’s thought and the extent to which his philosophy can shed light on the crisis of liberal democracy. How can Leo Strauss’s critique of modernity and his return to tradition, especially Maimonides, help us to save democracy from its inner dangers? In this book, Corine Pelluchon examines Strauss’s provocative claim that the conception of man and reason in the thought of the Enlightenment is self-destructive and leads to a new tyranny. Writing in a direct and lucid style, Pelluchon avoids the polemics that have characterized recent debates concerning the links between Strauss and neoconservatives, particularly concerns over Strauss’s relation to the extreme right in Germany. Instead she aims to demystify the origins of Strauss’s thought and present his relationship to German and Jewish thought in the early twentieth century in a manner accessible not just to the small circles devoted to the study of Strauss, but to a larger public. Strauss’s critique of modernity is, she argues, constructive; he neither condemns modernity as a whole nor does he desire a retreat back to the Ancients, where slaves existed and women were not considered citizens. The question is to know whether we can learn something from the Ancients and from Maimonides—and not merely about them.

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Author: Carl Boggs
Publisher: SUNY Press
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Intellectuals And The Crisis Of Modernity

Book by Carl Boggs, Intellectuals And The Crisis Of Modernity Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Intellectuals And The Crisis Of Modernity books, This book explores the role of intellectuals in politics and social change from traditional society to the present. Its theoretical structure is based upon six distinct types of intellectual activity. The rise and decline of specific types is analyzed in the historical context of industrialization, technological change, shifting social forces, and the emergence of popular movements.

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Author: Adrian Pabst
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date: 2011-11-10
Size: 62.75 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The Crisis Of Global Capitalism

Book by Adrian Pabst, The Crisis Of Global Capitalism Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Crisis Of Global Capitalism books, This collection of essays outlines a new political economy. Twenty years after the demise of Soviet communism, the global recession into which free-market capitalism has plunged the world economy provides a unique opportunity to chart an alternative path. Both the left-wing adulation of centralized statism and the right-wing fetishization of market liberalism are part of a secular logic that is collapsing under the weight of its own inner contradictions. It is surely no coincidence that the crisis of global capitalism occurs at the same time as the crisis of secular modernity. Building on the tradition of Catholic social teaching since the groundbreaking encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891), Pope Benedict XVI's Caritas in Veritate is the most radical intervention in contemporary debates on the future of economics, politics, and society. Benedict outlines a Catholic "third way" that combines strict limits on state and market power with a civil economy centered on mutualist businesses, cooperatives, credit unions, and other reciprocal arrangements. His call for a civil economy also represents a radical "middle" position between an exclusively religious and a strictly secular perspective. Thus, Benedict's vision for an alternative political economy resonates with people of all faiths and none.

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Author: George Pattison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2012-11-15
Size: 55.27 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
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Kierkegaard And The Theology Of The Nineteenth Century

Book by George Pattison, Kierkegaard And The Theology Of The Nineteenth Century Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Kierkegaard And The Theology Of The Nineteenth Century books, This study shows how Kierkegaard's mature theological writings reflect his engagement with the wide range of theological positions which he encountered as a student, including German and Danish Romanticism, Hegelianism and the writings of Fichte and Schleiermacher. George Pattison draws on both major and lesser-known works to show the complexity and nuances of Kierkegaard's theological position, which remained closer to Schleiermacher's affirmation of religion as a 'feeling of absolute dependence' than to the Barthian denial of any 'point of contact', with which he is often associated. Pattison also explores ways in which Kierkegaard's theological thought can be related to thinkers such as Heidegger and John Henry Newman, and its continuing relevance to present-day debates about secular faith. His volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of philosophy and theology.

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Author: Richard H. Roberts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2002
Size: 32.11 MB
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Religion Theology And The Human Sciences

Book by Richard H. Roberts, Religion Theology And The Human Sciences Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Religion Theology And The Human Sciences books, Richard Roberts explores the religious consequences of the imposition of managerial modernity upon successive sectors of society.

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Author: Markus Dressler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2011-10-03
Size: 73.15 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Secularism And Religion Making

Book by Markus Dressler, Secularism And Religion Making Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Secularism And Religion Making books, This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and predominantly Christian experiences, knowledges, and institutions. It investigates how religion is universalized and certain ideas, social formations, and practices rendered "religious" are thus integrated in and subordinated to very particular - mostly liberal-secular - assumptions about the relationship between history, politics, and religion. The individual contributions, written by a new generation of scholars with decisively interdisciplinary approaches, examine the processes of translation and globalization of historically specific concepts and practices of religion - and its dialectical counterpart, the secular - into new contexts. This volume contributes to the relatively new field of thought that aspires to unravel the thoroughly intertwined relationships between religion and secularism as modern concepts.

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Author: Christopher West
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Release Date: 2003
Size: 12.77 MB
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Category : Body, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Theology Of The Body Explained

Book by Christopher West, Theology Of The Body Explained Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Theology Of The Body Explained books, Christopher West makes John Paul II's theology of the body available for the first time to people at all levels within the Christian community. Love, sexuality, and human flourishing are inseparable. Those who doubted this will find West's book a transforming experience, and those who have been wounded will find liberation and peace. A wonderful education on the meaning of being human. Christopher West teaches the theology of the body and sexual ethics at St John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver. He is also visiting faculty member of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Melbourne, Australia.

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Author: Larry S. Chapp
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date: 2011-05-19
Size: 14.92 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The God Of Covenant And Creation

Book by Larry S. Chapp, The God Of Covenant And Creation Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The God Of Covenant And Creation books, A new exciting attempt to reconcile theology and science in a contemporara "theology of nature".

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