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On Distance, Belonging, Isolation and the Quarantined Church of Today

Author: Pablo Irizar

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-01-13

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1350269689

From the closure of churches during the pandemic, and therefore in the absence of a community of worship, arises the pressing theological question: what does it mean to belong 'from a distance'? Although many have reacted to this question by providing virtual alternatives for activities and by reaffirming solidarity in times of hardship, a theological response requires articulating the effects of quarantine and distancing on what it means to belong in the Church. Fundamentally, what does it mean to belong, and is it possible to belong anew after the pandemic? This book addresses these questions by carefully drawing from the thought of Augustine of Hippo, whose life and thought fittingly echoes the course of our times.

On Interrogation, Introspection, Dialectic and the Ineluctable Polarity of Being and Knowing

Author: Matthew W. Knotts

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-06-13

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 135026301X

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This work considers the fundamentally “oppositional” structure of reality, viewing Augustine as a “Christian Heraclitus” and focusing on his conception of dialectic. Matthew W. Knotts situates Augustine's anthropology within a classical Roman philosophical context, while characterizing his intellect by continuous questioning. In this way, the book grounds a constructive philosophical-theological enquiry in an historical-critical study of the sources and their context.

Theology and Philosophy

Author: Oliver D. Crisp

Publisher: T&T Clark

Published: 2012-01-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780567410337

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The purpose of this volume is to offer an authoritative overview of the positive relationship between faith and reason, the latter understood as different mode of philosophy. It will also show that despite important variations and differences, the manner in which Christan faith is able to interact with other intellectual disciplines is grounded in theology and is required by theology. Finally it will ground the overall project of "Religion and the University" firmly in different ecclesial communities within the Christian family and differing theological-philosophical orientations that might be trans-denominational.

Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere

Author: Celia Deane-Drummond

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-04-28

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0567631966

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A collection of essays from top scholars in the field of Religion and Ecology that stimulates the debate about the religious contribution to ecological debate.

The City Record

Author: New York (N.Y.)

Publisher:

Published: 1906

Total Pages: 1132

ISBN-13:

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Includes Official canvas of votes (varies slightly) 1878-1943.

Ecclesial Repentance

Author: Jeremy M. Bergen

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-03-31

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0567523683

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The Re-Enchantment of the West

Author: Christopher Partridge

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2005-01-04

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0567108945

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As a book about emergent spirituality in the contemporary West, this books focuses on the nature, evolution and significance of new forms of religion and alternative spiritualities. Part One of the book provides the theoretical background and guides the reader through some of the principal debates. After an overview of the secularization thesis, which argues that the West is becoming increasingly disenchanted, the second chapter turns to the sociological analysis of new religions and alternative spiritualities. Particular attention is given to the ideas of the sociologist of religion Ernst Troeltsch, especially his enigmatic analysis of the emergence mystical religion, which presciently provides helpful insights into understanding the contemporary alternative religious milieu. Against sociologists such as Bryan Wilson and Steve Bruce, this and the subsequent chapter argues that, rather than being insignificant, new forms of spirituality are actually proving to be a significant part of Western re-enchantment. Chapter 3 constructs a general theory of the re-enchantment of the West.

The Juvenilization of American Christianity

Author: Thomas Bergler

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2012-04-20

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0802866840

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Pop worship music. Falling in love with Jesus. Mission trips. Wearing jeans and T-shirts to church. Spiritual searching and church hopping. Faith-based political activism. Seeker-sensitive outreach. These now-commonplace elements of American church life all began as innovative ways to reach young people, yet they have gradually become accepted as important parts of a spiritual ideal for all ages. What on earth has happened? In The Juvenilization of American Christianity Thomas Bergler traces the way in which, over seventy-five years, youth ministries have breathed new vitality into four major American church traditions -- African American, Evangelical, Mainline Protestant, and Roman Catholic. Bergler shows too how this "juvenilization" of churches has led to widespread spiritual immaturity, consumerism, and self-centeredness, popularizing a feel-good faith with neither intergenerational community nor theological literacy. Bergler s critique further offers constructive suggestions for taming juvenilization. Watch the trailer:

Shrapnel Maps

Author: Philip Metres

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1619322218

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Writing into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict, Philip Metres’ fourth book of poems, Shrapnel Maps, is at once elegiac and activist, an exploratory surgery to extract the slivers of cartography through palimpsest and erasure. A wedding in Toura, a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, uneasy interactions between Arab and Jewish neighbors in University Heights, the expulsion of Palestinians in Jaffa, another bombing in Gaza: Shrapnel Maps traces the hurt and tender places, where political noise turns into the voices of Palestinians and Israelis. Working with documentary flyers, vintage postcards, travelogues, cartographic language, and first person testimonies, Shrapnel Maps ranges from monologue sonnets to prose vignettes, polyphonics to blackouts, indices to simultaneities, as Palestinians and Israelis long for justice and peace, for understanding and survival.