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The Parables: A Preaching Commentary
By Paul Simpson Duke. 2005
Many resources have been written to offer assistance in exploring and understanding the lectionary texts for the purpose of preaching.…
However, few have sought to provide this kind of preaching commentary on texts that do not follow the lectionary's grouping. For those whose preaching does not customarily follow the lectionary, and for those who depart from the lectionary text during certain periods of the year, little guidance has been offered for how to select, and preach on, important biblical texts. The Parables: A Preaching Commentary, the third book in The Great Texts series, gives guidance to preachers on preaching about this central part of faith. The principles by which volumes in The Great Texts series have been chosen are primarily two-fold: -Thematic: Texts on certain overarching themes or ideas of the Christian faith are brought together. -Biblical/traditional: Texts have long been recognized as belonging together, and as being particularly beneficial to the work of preaching.Jesus' Parables of Grace
By James W. Moore. 2004
Toward a Theology of Scientific Endeavour: The Descent of Science (Routledge Science and Religion Series)
By Christopher B. Kaiser. 2007
Foundations of science are specific conditions of the cosmos, of human intelligence, of cultural beliefs, and of technological structures that…
make the pursuit of modern science possible. Each of the four foundations of scientific endeavour can be studied as a topic on its own. The concurrent study of all four together reveals several tensions and interconnections among them that point the way to a greater unification of faith and science. This book explores four foundations of scientific endeavour and investigates some of the paradoxes each of them raises. Kaiser shows that the resolution of these paradoxes inevitably leads us into theological discourse and raises new challenges for theological endeavour. In order to address these challenges, Kaiser draws on the wider resources of the Judeo-Christian tradition and argues for a refocusing of contemporary theology from the perspective of natural science.The so-called “Bone Wars” of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of…
fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinosaur rush, which took place around the turn of the twentieth century, brought the prehistoric beasts back to life. These later expeditions—which involved new competitors hailing from leading natural history museums in New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh—yielded specimens that would be reconstructed into the colossal skeletons that thrill visitors today in museum halls across the country. Reconsidering the fossil speculation, the museum displays, and the media frenzy that ushered dinosaurs into the American public consciousness, Paul Brinkman takes us back to the birth of dinomania, the modern obsession with all things Jurassic. Featuring engaging and colorful personalities and motivations both altruistic and ignoble, The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush shows that these later expeditions were just as foundational—if not more so—to the establishment of paleontology and the budding collections of museums than the more famous Cope and Marsh treks. With adventure, intrigue, and rivalry, this is science at its most swashbuckling.The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion #1)
By Nickolas P. Roubekas. 2021
Explore a rigorous but accessible guide to contemporary approaches to the study of religion from leading voices in the field The…
Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion delivers an expert and insightful analysis of modern perspectives on the study of religion across the humanities and the social sciences. Presupposing no knowledge of the approaches examined in the collection, the book is ideal for undergraduate students who have yet to undertake extensive study in the humanities or social sciences. The book includes perspectives from those in fields as diverse as globalization, cognitive science, the study of emotion, law, esotericism, sex and gender, functionalism, terror, the comparative method, modernism, and postmodernism. Many of the topics covered in the book clearly hail from religious studies, while others are grounded in other areas of academia. All of the chapters contained within are written by recognized authors who show how their chosen discipline contributes to the understanding of the phenomenon of religion. This book also includes topics like: A comprehensive exploration of multiple approaches to religious study, including anthropology, economics, literature, phenomenology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology A review of various topics germane to the study of religion, including the study of the body, cognitive science, the comparative method, death and the afterlife, law, magic, music, and myth A selection of subjects touching on modern trends in extremism and violence, including chapters on terror and violence, fundamentalism, and nationalism A discussion of the influence of modernism and postmodernism in religion Ideal for undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students in humanities and social science programs taking courses on religion and myth, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion will also earn a place in the libraries of specialists working in the fields of Religious Studies, Theology, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Political Science, History, and Philosophy.Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion
By David Loewenstein, Michael Witmore. 2015
Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious…
beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions of Protestantism, Catholicism, non-Christian religions including Judaism and Islam, and secular perspectives, considering plays such as Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale. The collection is of great interest to readers of Shakespeare studies, early modern literature, religious studies, and early modern history.Salka Viertel beherbergte in ihrem Exil Schauspieler, berühmte Intellektuelle und anonyme Personen, die vor dem Nationalsozialismus geflüchtet waren. Die Biographie…
schildert das Leben von Salka Viertel, einer jüdischen Schauspielerin, die nach Hollywood emigrierte und die sich als Drehbuchautorin der schwedischen Schauspielerin Greta Garbo einen Namen machte. Zudem hielt sie einen Salon in Santa Monica in Kalifornien ab, in dem sich ein großer Teil der europäischen Exil-Intellektuellen versammelte. Salka war eine für die damalige Zeit sehr moderne und interessante Frau, die ihren Platz in der Geschichte verdient. Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der vermeintlichen Bisexualität von Salka Viertel sowie mit ihren zahlreichen berühmten Freunden, unter anderem: Albert Einstein, Charles Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein, F. W. Murnau, Max Reinhardt, Arnold Schönberg, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Greta Garbo, Montgomery Clift… Ebenso wie Gertrude Stein und andere berüchtigte Frauen unterhielt sie ihren eigenen Literatursalon, in dem sich Schriftsteller wie Truman Capote, Christopher Isherwood, Gore Vidal und viele mehr einfanden. Weitere Themen dieses Werks sind das Berlin der zwanziger Jahre oder der Übergang vom Stumm- zum Tonfilm aus der Perspektive des Film-Mekkas Hollywood. Der Aufstieg Hitlers und die daraus entstehenden Konsequenzen für die Juden; das Leben im Exil für die Intellektuellen, die aufgrund des Zweiten Weltkriegs nicht länger in ihre Heimatländer zurückkehren konnten. Der Kalte Krieg und die Hexenjagd gegen die Anhänger des Kommunismus. Ohne Zweifel verläuft das Leben von Salka Viertel und ihren Freunden vor dem Hintergrund der großen Ereignisse des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Für die Arbeit an diesem Projekt erhielt die Autorin die Stipendien Shanghai Writing Program (China, 2016) und des Baltic Centre (Schweden, 2017). „EineThe Secret From Genesis: The Creation
By Benedito Inácio Neto. 2021
Synopsis: What is the secret of living a life of blessings, peace and prosperity? What is God's true reason for…
creating mankind? These are questions that naturally arise, and for which the answers are not always unveiled. The secret of Genesis the Creation deals with these matters in such a way that the reader will have the chance to be able to discover God's true motive in creating us and how to be able to take advantage of this transforming force in his favor. Just read this book to the end, then your life will never be the same. Like those who have had the opportunity to take advantage of the great power that moves the cosmos to have countless blessings, you will be able to take this great strength to yourself, and there will be no limits that can stop you from being a victorious person. Have a good reading.Religion and Pride: Hindus in Search of Recognition in La Réunion
By Natalie Lang. 2021
Seeking recognition presents an important driving force in the making of religious minorities, as is shown in this study that…
examines current debates on religion, globalization, diaspora, and secularism through the lens of Hindus living in the French overseas department of La Réunion. Through the examination of religious practices and public performance, the author offers a compelling study of how the Hindus of the island assert pride in their religion as a means of gaining recognition, self-esteem, and social status.This book introduces and examines the work of two significant 21st century Christian – Muslim dialogue initiatives – "Building Bridges"…
and the "Christian–Muslim Theological Forum" – and gives close attention to five theological themes that have been addressed in common by them. An overview and analysis, including inception, development, outputs and significance, together with discussion of the select themes – community, scripture, prophecy, prayer and ethics – allows for an in-depth examination of significant contemporary Muslim and Christian scholarship on issues important to both faith communities. The result is a challenging encounter to, arguably, a widespread default presumption of irredeemable mutual hostility and inevitable mutual rejection with instances of violent extremism as a consequence. Demonstrating the reality that deep interreligious engagement is possible between the two faiths today, this book should appeal to a wide readership, including upper undergraduate and graduate teaching as well as professionals and practitioners in the field of Christian-Muslim relations.Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey (Ivan Illich: 21st-Century Perspectives #2)
By David Cayley. 2021
In the eighteen years since Ivan Illich’s death, David Cayley has been reflecting on the meaning of his friend and…
teacher’s life and work. Now, in Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey, he presents Illich’s body of thought, locating it in its own time and retrieving its relevance for ours.Ivan Illich (1926–2002) was a revolutionary figure in the Roman Catholic Church and in the wider field of cultural criticism that began to take shape in the 1960s. His advocacy of a new, de-clericalized church and his opposition to American missionary programs in Latin America, which he saw as reactionary and imperialist, brought him into conflict with the Vatican and led him to withdraw from direct service to the church in 1969. His institutional critiques of the 1970s, from Deschooling Society to Medical Nemesis, promoted what he called institutional or cultural revolution. The last twenty years of his life were occupied with developing his theory of modernity as an extension of church history. Ranging over every phase of Illich’s career and meditating on each of his books, Cayley finds Illich to be as relevant today as ever and more likely to be understood, now that the many convergent crises he foresaw are in full public view and the church that rejected him is paralyzed in its "folkloric" shell.Not a conventional biography, though attentive to how Illich lived, Cayley’s book is "continuing a conversation" with Illich that will engage anyone who is interested in theology, philosophy, history, and the Catholic Church.A high-impact leadership coach gives you the tools you need to maximize your influence in a new role, giving you…
the ability to meet any challenge and take your team, organization, church, or company to new heights.&“A practical path to maximizing your influence, navigating transitions, and producing positive results.&”—Jon Gordon, 10x bestselling author of The Power of Positive LeadershipSure, it&’s inspirational when we hear stories about those who founded companies from their garages with one hundred dollars cash while in high school. But such success is super rare and not always how it plays out for great leaders. The reality is that most leaders are responsible for corporations, teams, and products they didn&’t launch from the ground up. Tyler Reagin saw the immense need to address this mission-critical but often overlooked aspect of leadership: healthy transition for leaders who inherit teams, places, or platforms others created. His groundbreaking book Leading Things You Didn&’t Start provides a faith-based four-step plan that answers practical questions such as:• Do I really want to take over something loved by so many?• Is there a secret sauce to doing what the leaders before me did?• How do I get the current team on board with my leadership?• How do I honor the past without being trapped by it?• How do I steward the legacy of the leaders who started the movement?Through the use of tried-and-true coaching principles and practical case studies with leaders like Buzz Williams, head coach at Texas A&M, and Cheryl Bachelder, former CEO of Popeyes, Reagin helps you maximize your newfound influx of influence and master the intentions of an inheriting leader.Meditations for Messies: A Guide to Order and Serenity
By Sandra Felton. 1992
[from the back cover] "Transform your home and your life one day at a time "... Just for today, I…
will close drawers after I open them. Just for today, I will work on the household project before me and I'll finish one project before going on to another one. Just for today I will not be discouraged about my situation. Just for today I will treat myself with respect. I will do nice things for myself. I will allow and expect others to do things for me just as I do things for them. "Just for today." Get each day off to a fresh new start with Meditations for Messies. Messies Anonymous founder Sandra Felton provides you with a devotional that will motivate you in your daily pursuit of a more organized home and life. These affirming, uplifting messages are accompanied by spiritual reflections and a special place for you to write out solutions to your personal organizational struggles. Let Meditations for Messies guide you today toward a more harmonious tomorrow. Sandra Felton's Messies Anonymous program has been "sweeping" the United States and Canada for over a decade. The combined sales of her popular books total over 300,000. These include The Messies Manual, Messies 2, Messie No More, and The Messies SuperGuide." The Bookshare collection contains more books by this author.The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship
By Daniel K. Williams. 2021
Where do Christians fit in a two-party political system? The partisan divide that is rending the nation is now tearing apart…
American churches. On one side are Christian Right activists and other conservatives who believe that a vote for a Democratic presidential candidate is a vote for abortion, sexual immorality, gender confusion, and the loss of religious liberty for Christians. On the other side are politically progressive Christians who are considering leaving the institutional church because of white evangelicalism&’s alliance with a Republican Party that they believe is racist, hateful toward immigrants, scornful of the poor, and directly opposed to the principles that Jesus taught. Even while sharing the same pew, these two sides often see the views of the other as hopelessly wrongheaded—even evil. Is there a way to transcend this deep-seated division?The Politics of the Cross draws on history, policy analysis, and biblically grounded theology to show how Christians can protect the unborn, advocate for traditional marriage, promote racial justice, care for the poor, and, above all, honor the gospel by adopting a cross-centered ethic instead of the idolatrous politics of power, fear, or partisanship. As Daniel K. Williams illustrates, both the Republican and Democratic parties are rooted in Christian principles, but both have distorted those principles and mixed them with assumptions that are antithetical to biblical truth. Williams explains how Christians can renounce partisanship and pursue policies that show love for our neighbors to achieve a biblical vision of justice. Nuanced, detailed, and even-handed, The Politics of the Cross tackles the thorny issues that divide Christians politically and offers a path forward with innovative, biblically minded political approaches that might surprise Christians on both the left and the right.The Miracle Collectors: Uncovering Stories of Wonder, Joy, and Mystery
By Joan Luise Hill, Katie Mahon. 2021
This eye-opening book will teach you how to step back, examine important moments in your life, and recognize the miracles…
that are constantly occurring all around you. As part of their own spiritual quest, miracle experts, Katie Mahon and Joan Luise Hill, discovered that when we are truly awake and present, miracles abound. It started by sharing their own stories which quickly prompted an unexpected outpouring of stories from others. Stories that had never been told, stories that didn't seem to matter, and stories that had been forgotten. While some defy explanation, others invite us to take a closer look, to discover common ground with each other, and to seek meaning in a whole new way. The stories of courage, forgiveness, gratitude, faith, hope, and love from The Miracle Collectors, allow us to notice and appreciate the miracles that are available to each one of us, while opening us up to a part of the Divine mystery we can absorb and understand. By using Take a Miracle Moment challenge at the end of every chapter you open the path for your own reawakening of the spirit. Perhaps you too will become a miracle collector.Called To Community: The Life Jesus Wants For His People
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky, C. S. Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Richard J. Foster, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Mother Teresa, Søren Kierkegaard, Eugene H. Peterson, Henri J. M. Nouwen, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Joan Chittister, Jean Vanier, David Janzen, Christine D. Pohl, John M. Perkins, Howard A. Snyder, Eberhard Arnold, Chiara Lubich, Saint Benedict, Charles E. Moore, S Ren Kierkegaard. 2016
Why, in an age of connectivity, are our lives more isolated and fragmented than ever? And what can be done…
about it? The answer lies in the hands of God's people. Increasingly, today's Christians want to be the church, to follow Christ together in daily life. From every corner of society, they are daring to step away from the status quo and respond to Christ's call to share their lives more fully with one another and with others. As they take the plunge, they are discovering the rich, meaningful life that Jesus has in mind for all people, and pointing the church back to its original calling: to be a gathered, united community that demonstrates the transforming love of God. Of course, such a life together with others isn't easy. The selections in this volume are, by and large, written by practitioners-people who have pioneered life in intentional community and have discovered in the nitty-gritty of daily life what it takes to establish, nurture, and sustain a Christian community over the long haul. Whether you have just begun thinking about communal living, are already embarking on sharing life with others, or have been part of a community for many years, the pieces in this collection will encourage, challenge, and strengthen you. The book's fifty-two chapters can be read one a week to ignite meaningful group discussion.The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism And Society In India
By C. J. Fuller. 2004
Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial…
total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of this rich and accessible study of popular Hinduism in the context of the society of contemporary India. Lucidly organized and skillfully written, The Camphor Flame brings clarity to an immensely complicated subject. C. J. Fuller combines ethnographic case studies with comparative anthropological analysis and draws on textual and historical scholarship as well. The book's new afterword brings the study up-to-date by examining the relationship between popular Hinduism and contemporary Hindu nationalism.At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion (Religion, Culture, and Public Life #44)
By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan. 2021
From right to left, notions of religion and religious freedom are fundamental to how many Americans have understood their country…
and themselves. Ideas of religion, politics, and the interplay between them are no less crucial to how the United States has engaged with the world beyond its borders. Yet scholarship on American religion tends to bracket the domestic and foreign, despite the fact that assumptions about the differences between ourselves and others deeply shape American religious categories and identities.At Home and Abroad bridges the divide in the study of American religion, law, and politics between domestic and international, bringing together diverse and distinguished authors from religious studies, law, American studies, sociology, history, and political science to explore interrelations across conceptual and political boundaries. They bring into sharp focus the ideas, people, and institutions that provide links between domestic and foreign religious politics and policies. Contributors break down the categories of domestic and foreign and inquire into how these taxonomies are related to other axes of discrimination, asking questions such as: What and who counts as “home” or “abroad,” how and by whom are these determinations made, and with what consequences?Offering a new approach to theorizing the politics of religion in the context of the American nation-state, At Home and Abroad also interrogates American religious exceptionalism and illuminates imperial dynamics beyond the United States.A Prophet Has Appeared: The Rise of Islam through Christian and Jewish Eyes, A Sourcebook
By Stephen J. Shoemaker. 2021
Early Islam has emerged as a lively site of historical investigation, and scholars have challenged the traditional accounts of Islamic…
origins by drawing attention to the wealth of non-Islamic sources that describe the rise of Islam. A Prophet Has Appeared brings this approach to the classroom. This collection provides students and scholars with carefully selected, introduced, and annotated materials from non-Islamic sources dating to the early years of Islam. These can be read alone or alongside the Qur'an and later Islamic materials. Applying historical-critical analysis, the volume moves these invaluable sources to more equal footing with later Islamic narratives about Muhammad and the formation of his new religious movement.Included are new English translations of sources by twenty authors, originally written in not only Greek and Latin but also Syriac, Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, and Arabic and spanning a geographic range from England to Egypt and Iran. Ideal for the classroom and personal library, this sourcebook provides readers with the tools to meaningfully approach a new, burgeoning area of Islamic studies.Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility
By Yonatan Gez, Yvan Droz, Jeanne Rey, Edio Soares. 2021
Based on comparative ethnographic research in four countries and three continents, Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility explores the notion…
of "religious butinage" as a conceptual framework intended to shed light on the dynamics of everyday religious practice. Derived from the French word butiner, which refers to the foraging activity of bees and other pollinating insects, this term is employed by the authors metaphorically to refer to the "to-ing and fro-ing" of believers between religious institutions. Focused on urban, predominantly Christian settings in Brazil, Kenya, Ghana, and Switzerland, Butinage examines commonalities and differences across the four case studies and identifies religious mobility as existing at the located at the meeting points ofbetween religious-institutional rules and narratives, local social norms, and individual agency and practice. Drawing on aAnglophone, fFrancophone, and lLusophone academic traditions, Butinage this monograph is dedicated to a dialogue between ethnographic findings and theoretical ideas,, and explores how we may rethink common conceptions of religious normativity.