| |
Storytracking is a work of theory and application. It is both a study of history and culture and the academic issues accompanying the interpretation and observation of other peoples. Sam Gill writes about Central Australia, but, more importantly, he writes about the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1998-02-12
PDF
|
Written between the mid-fourth and late sixth centuries to commemorate and glorify the achievements of early Christian saints, these six biographies depict men who devoted themselves to solitude, poverty and prayer. Athanasius records Antony's extreme seclusion in the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1998-01-29
ePub
|
Our century has witnessed violence on an unprecedented scale, in wars that have torn deep into the fabric of national and international life. And as we can see in the recent strife in Bosnia, genocide in Rwanda, and the ongoing struggle to control nuclear weaponry,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1998-01-15
PDF
|
Reimagining the Bible collects a dozen essays by Howard Schwartz. Together the essays present a coherent theory of the way in which each successive phase of Jewish literature has drawn upon and reimagined the previous ones. The book is organized into four sections: The...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1998-01-15
PDF
|
This book argues the provocative thesis that Philip Melanchthon, so often pictured as hopelessly caught in the middle between Erasmus and Luther, and more "Erasmian" than Lutheran in his thought, was, at least in his theological methods and views, not Erasmian at all,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1998-01-08
PDF
|
This book is the first English translation of a text that Michael Cahill identifies as the first formal commentary on Mark's Gospel. Thought to have been written by an early seventh-century abbot, the commentary was for almost 1000 years attributed to St. Jerome and as...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1998-01-08
PDF
|
For several decades, the Muslim world has experienced a religious resurgence. The reassertion of Islam in personal and political life has taken many forms, from greater attention to religious practice to the emergence of Islamic organizations, movements, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-12-11
PDF
|
For several decades, the Muslim world has experienced a religious resurgence. The reassertion of Islam in personal and political life has taken many forms, from greater attention to religious practice to the emergence of Islamic organizations, movements, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-12-11
ePub
|
This book is the sequel to Robert Forman's well-received collection, The Problem of Pure Consciousness (Oxford, 1990). The essays in the earlier volume argued that some mystical experiences do not seem to be formed or shaped by the language system--a thesis that stands...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-12-04
PDF
|
Educated people have become bereft of sophisticated ways to develop their religious inclinations. A major reason for this is that theology has become vague and dull. In The Character of God, author Thomas E. Jenkins maintains that Protestant theology became boring by...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-12-04
PDF
|
This book compares a variety of biblical narratives with the stories found in several Northwest Semitic inscriptions from the ancient kingdom of Judah and its contemporary Syro-Palestinian neighbors. In genre, language, and cultural context, these epigraphic stories are...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-11-27
PDF
|
In the past decade, the struggle for new forms of federal order and public life has exploded in central Europe, the former Soviet Union, and South Africa. Religious traditions and organizations have played a crucial role in these revolutions, and have also been critical...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-11-27
PDF
|
Positioned at the boundary of traditional biblical studies, legal history, and literary theory, Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation shows how the legislation of Deuteronomy reflects the struggle of its authors to renew late seventh- century Judean...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-10-23
PDF
|
By the end of the 1920s, fundamentalism in America was intellectually bankrupt and publicly disgraced. Bitterly humiliated by the famous Scopes "monkey trial," this once respected movement retreated from the public forum and seemed doomed to extinction. Yet...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-10-23
PDF
|
This book offers a close-up look at theological education in the U.S. today. The authors' goal is to understand the way in which institutional culture affects the outcome of the educational process. To that end, they undertake ethnographic studies of two seminaries-one...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-10-16
PDF
|
Our Lady of the Exile is a study of Cuban-American popular Catholicism, focusing on the shrine ofOur Lady Charity in Miami. Drawing on a wide range of sources and using both historical and ethnographic methods, the book examines the religious life of the Cuban exiles...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-10-02
PDF, ePub
|
This book tells how a group of Protestant theologians forged a theology of international engagement for America in the 1930s and 40s, and how in doing so they informed the public rationale for the United States' participation in World War II and stimulated American...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-09-25
PDF
|
This book addresses the role of religion in the massive political changes that took place in Eastern Europe in 1989. In particular, it examines the role played by the East German church in that country's bloodless revolution. Although some scholars and political...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-09-25
PDF
|
This book develops the thesis that classical Christian theology seeks to help believers flourish by knowing and loving God. Ellen Charry argues this premise by example, offering a close reading of a number of classical texts, from the New Testament era to the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-07-03
ePub
|
Susanna Wesley, long celebrated in Methodist mythology as mother of the movement's founders, now takes place as a practical theologian in her own right. This collection of her letters, spiritual diary, and longer treatises (only one of which was published in her...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-06-26
PDF, ePub
|