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This book explores a number of closely related logical and metaphysical questions relating to the identity of Jesus Christ. In particular it considers: ‘What does “Jesus Christ” name?'and ‘How may Jesus Christ be the subject of both divine and human attributes, given their apparent incompatibility?'. The author draws on analytic and scholastic influences and integrates them into a rehabilitation of the neglected habitus theory of the hypostatic union. The theory maintains a real identity between Christ and the Word and emphasises the instrumental or possessory dimension of Christ's relationship to his human nature. This approach allows for an account of the hypostatic union that is true to the indispensable articles of classical Christology and which satisfies the demands of logical coherence. Yet, at no point is the mystery of the Incarnational event reduced to the strictures of creaturely comprehension. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of Christology, analytic theology and the philosophy of religion.

Il pensiero cristiano soffre oggi, specie in Europa occidentale, di un certo discredito. È stato però il grande studioso RENÉ GIRARD (1923-2015) a mettere le cose a posto, riscoprendo ciò che ne costituisce il vero fondamento. Il merito del suo lavoro intellettuale è reso più notevole dal fatto che, nonostante fosse cresciuto nella fede cattolica, Girard se ne era – come capita a tanti adolescenti – dapprima allontanato, rivenendovi in seguito, per ragioni strettamente letterarie e antropologiche, connesse alla sua attività accademica, maturata in Francia e soprattutto negli Stati Uniti.La rivalutazione del pensiero cristiano, e cattolico in particolare, è cruciale in quanto, nell'ottica di Girard, non costituisce solo uno strumento per prevenirci dalle terribili catastrofi che sembrano pesare sul mondo, ma rappresenta un'occasione preziosa per leggere in modo critico le correnti e gli autori più diversi, fra i quali: san Tommaso d'Aquino, Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald, G.W.F. Hegel, Ernst Bloch, Claude Tresmontant e Fëdor Dostoevskij.

L'Amour, est-ce quelque chose? C'est l'interrogation qui transcende la dualité entre altérité et nuptialité qu'établit ce subtil texte d'Abbé Paul Macodou Séne. Parler de l'amour aujourd'hui comme en ont parlé de grands penseurs tels qu'Emmanuel Lévinas et Luce Irigaray, en l'inscrivant dans quelque chose qui transcende l'être touché, constitue un défi dans un monde où tout est mobilisé pour mettre en avant justement l'individu. C'est un pari risqué à coup sûr. Mais l'auteur semble l'avoir réussi par l'ancrage de son analyse dans le dépassement de l'être concerné pour l'inscrire dans le mouvement de la vie. L'amour surclasse et nie la singularité. Loin du Carpe Diem, il se déplace et nous sort du confort du présent par ses crocs et accros et ses fruits qui nous projettent dans un ailleurs temporel et existentiel.

This volume of the Biblia Americana contains Cotton Mather's annotations on the books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Canticles, Jeremiah, and Isaiah. A mixture of historical-textual criticism and pious explications, the commentaries are a treasure trove for scholars interested in the development of Reformed theology and biblical interpretation during a decisive period of intellectual change in the early modern Atlantic world. Mather, an apologetically oriented, pastoral yet deeply learned exegete, confronts the early Enlightenment challenges to the Bible's authority. He engages with issues of translation and the difficult questions about authorship, provenance, and genre being asked in his day, especially about the three books traditionally ascribed to King Solomon. Who wrote Proverbs and Ecclesiastes? How can the worldly wisdom of these books be reconciled with the Christian gospel? Is Canticles only a royal wedding song celebrating human love? In turn, the annotations on Isaiah and Jeremiah are crucially concerned with the relevance and evidential value of the Hebrew prophets for the claims of Christian theology. If seen in their original contexts, in what ways can the oracles of Isaiah and Jeremiah be understood to speak of Christ, the gospel and the second coming? The volume shows the struggle of exegetes in Mather's generation to adjust traditional interpretations of the Old Testament to a growing awareness of the Scriptures'historicity. The annotations shift between detailed attention to this historical dimension of the texts and typological and allegorical readings. Moreover, many of the entries reveal a new'Baconian'concern with demonstrating the factual realism of the scriptural narratives by recourse to empirical evidence and the natural sciences.

Cotton Mather's synoptic commentary on Ezra through the Psalms contains the core of the massive theological and scholarly endeavor that he called'Biblia Americana.'Here, he links biblical to secular history, analyzes the problem of suffering and evil in creation, and considers the Psalms both as Hebrew poetry and as Christian prophecy. In his annotations on Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, Mather explores topics that range from the philosophical underpinnings of international law to court customs in the Persian Empire to the uneven progress of the reformations attempted by Ezra and Nehemiah. In Job, Mather turns to questions of theodicy and natural philosophy. The Psalms commentary shows his linguistic acumen and his formidable skill as a Christian Hebraist, as well as his sensitivity to difficult matters of hermeneutics. Throughout, he displays the lively wit, curious intellect, and compassionate nature that made him one of the most popular ministers of the colonial period.

This volume presents psychobiographical research in non-WEIRD—Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic—contexts and samples, focusing on culture, transcultural and transdisciplinary work. It creates a platform for researchers, scholars and scientists from diverse backgrounds to put forth new theoretical and methodological stances in psychobiography, thereby making the field more inclusive, diverse and equitable. The chapters in this volume investigate the role of context across the life course of non-WEIRD psychological subjects, as well as the interplay between them and their environments across the life span. They further elucidate cognitive, affective and behavioural aspects of individuals with non-WEIRD backgrounds.The volume provides a broad and at the same time in-depth perspective into psychobiography beyond the usual contexts and therefore has new and original learnings to offer across disciplines and cultures. It is a breakthrough in terms ofits transcultural and transdisciplinary insights into lives lived in different contexts in the world.'Every person is in certain respects (a) like all other persons, (b) like some other persons, (c) like no other persons. This book is a challenging and fascinating exploration of extending psychobiography beyond its origins in Europe and America to women and men of different races and social and economic classes from Africa, Asia, and around the world. At its best, psychobiography can increase people's awareness of their own subjective experience and that of others, contributing to movements for social, cultural and political change.'William McKinley Runyan, Professor Emeritus & Professor of the Graduate School, School of Social Welfare, U. of California BerkeleyBeyond Weird is beyond needed. The book triumphantly fills the gap created by a dearth of studies of people other than Western, educated, European and American men. James William Anderson, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago.

“God is. There is no statement more profound or simpler than this. Nothing exists apart from God. God is Being – the eternal, unchanging, infinitely powerful, infinitely knowing, and infinitely loving Being. God is life. He is creator and sustainer of all life and has created us in his own image to know, serve, and love him and to share eternal life with him. History is the story of our response to God's unceasing invitation to be known, served, and loved.” And so begins one of our generation's most necessary and rationally deduced theological texts on Catholicism. A Parent's Catechism: Passing on the Catholic Faith is an accessible, highly readable, and objective explanation of the Catholic faith. With a measured hand and strong sense of hope, Dana Paul Robinson thoughtfully and eloquently examines all that is relevant and necessary as he explores the basics of the Catholic faith, a faith when effectively followed, leads to knowledge of God, commitment to God, and surrender to God.

Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments geben Zeugnis von unterschiedlichen Konflikten und Krisen unter den frühen christusgläubigen Gemeinden sowie Versuchen, diese zu bewältigen. Man ringt um Fragen der rechten Lehre und des rechten Verhaltens; Auseinandersetzungen erfolgen gegenüber der Umwelt nach außen oder gegenüber anderen gläubigen Gruppierungen nach innen. In den Briefen werden diese Konflikte oft direkt ausgetragen und konkrete Konsequenzen der Jesusnachfolge gefordert, in den Erzähltexten der Evangelien und der Apostelgeschichte werden die Auseinandersetzungen häufig stärker in die Interaktion der Erzählfiguren untereinander eingespielt. Im vorliegenden Band werden aus einer Vielzahl der neutestamentlichen Schriften exemplarische Konflikte und Krisen sowie Bewältigungsstrategien thematisiert und mittels verschiedener methodischer Herangehensweisen analysiert.

Todos os interessados em comunicar o evangelho entre as múltiplas culturas de hoje vão querer ouvir o que Paul Hiebert diz neste livro. O que significa a conversão a Cristo? Uma mudança de comportamento? Uma mudança nas crenças? Para os missionários dos séculos 19 e 20, a mudança nessas duas áreas foi o principal indicador de que a conversão havia de fato ocorrido. Mas essa mudança por si só é insuficiente para explicar a conversão segundo o evangelho. E, mesmo quando ela esteja em evidência, é possível que o resultado seja simplesmente um'cristianopaganismo'sincretista. O renomado antropólogo e missionário Paul Hiebert sustenta que, para a missão no século 21, precisamos experimentar mudança numa terceira frente: na cosmovisão — o que está por trás tanto do comportamento quanto das crenças. E, oferece um estudo abrangente sobre cosmovisão e suas implicações de uma perspectiva antropológica.

As doutrinas — aquilo que sabemos e confessamos ser verdade sobre Deus — são cruciais para a vida espiritual de todo crente. Compreender as doutrinas bíblicas não só nos ajuda a aprender mais sobre Deus, elas mudam radicalmente nosso coração. Contudo, ao olhar de forma bem realista, existe uma lacuna entre aquilo em que dizemos crer e o modo como agimos em nosso dia a dia, podendo nos levar a pecar e nos deixar desencorajados. Nesta obra, o autor de grandes best-sellers Paul David Tripp examina doze doutrinas centrais que todo cristão deve conhecer. Ao aprender a colocar as doutrinas em prática tornando-as um estilo de vida — não meras ideologias — acabamos com essa lacuna entre o que cremos e como vivemos e agimos. É dessa forma que o evangelho molda a nós e as escolhas que fazemos no dia a dia.

Paul Helm is a distinguished philosopher, with particular interests in the philosophy of religion. His work covers some of the most important aspects of the field as it has developed in the last thirty years with particular contributions to metaphysics, religious epistemology, and philosophical theology. In celebration of Helm's life's work, Reason in the Service of Faith brings together a range of his essays which reflect these central concerns of his thought.Over thirty of Helm's selected essays and four unpublished articles are gathered into five parts: Metaphilosophical Issues; Action, Change, and Personal Identity; Epistemology; God; and Creation, Providence, and Prayer. The volume is prefaced with a short editorial introduction, and ends with an extensive bibliography of Helm's published works.Demonstrating the important connection between Helm's theological and philosophical interests across his body of work, this collection is a remarkable resource for scholars of religion, philosophy, and theology.

Perspectives on Latter-day Saint Names and Naming approaches cultural, historical, and doctrinal dimensions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through a fresh lens that explores how these dimensions intersect with names and naming. Featuring a collection of chapters from multiple authors, its bipartite structure examines fascinating topics in relation to the Church, looking first at cultural and historical perspectives before analyzing doctrinal and scriptural perspectives. The book discusses such matters as how contemporary naming practices of Latter-day Saints compare to those outside the faith, how code names were used in one of the faith's books of scripture to protect Church leaders from persecution, and how names and naming relate to the covenant identity of Church members. Through its fresh approach to understanding religious identity and belief in relation to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of Mormon studies and will also be of interest to people with a fascination with names and naming issues as those occur in a variety of settings, including religious ones.

Conventional wisdom holds that tradition and history meant little to nineteenth-century American Protestants, who relied on common sense and'the Bible alone.'The Old Faith in a New Nation challenges this portrayal by recovering evangelical engagement with the Christian past. Even when they appeared to be most scornful toward tradition, most optimistic and forward-looking, and most confident in their grasp of the Bible, evangelicals found themselves returning, time and again, to Christian history. They studied religious historiography, reinterpreted the history of the church, and argued over its implications for the present. Between the Revolution and the Civil War, American Protestants were deeply interested in the meaning of the Christian past. Paul J. Gutacker draws from hundreds of print sources-sermons, books, speeches, legal arguments, political petitions, and more-to show how ordinary educated Americans remembered and used Christian history. While claiming to rely on the Bible alone, antebellum Protestants frequently turned to the Christian past on questions of import: how should the government relate to religion? Could Catholic immigrants become true Americans? What opportunities and rights should be available to women? To African Americans? Protestants across denominations answered these questions not only with the Bible but also with history. By recovering the ways in which American evangelicals remembered and used Christian history, The Old Faith in a New Nation shows how religious memory shaped the nation and interrogates the meaning of'biblicism.'

This volume focuses on the role Christian churches have played in Africa's democratisation movements since the late 1980s. In some cases churchmen have presided over national conferences; in many, Christians comprise arguably the most significant segment of civil society. In some countries pastoral letters have challenged dictators; in others, churches have provided an essential support for the status quo. The book comprises both theoretical analyses and case studies. The theoretical discussions include the history of Church-State relations; theology and democracy; Pentecostalism and democracy; the problems of consolidating democracy. The 13 case studies sketch the historical context, and then critically examine developments up till late 1993. The book will prove particularly useful to students of Third World Christianity, African historians and political scientists, and all interested in the socio-political role of Christianity.

Bien que peu médiatisée, la question de la place du christianisme dans le monde chinois se pose, sous des formes diverses, depuis plus de trois siècles. Qu'en est-il en ce début du 21e siècle, plus particulièrement du point de vue de l'inculturation? Ce volume collectif et pluridisciplinaire tente d'apporter un début de réponse à cette interrogation en mobilisant différentes disciplines et en ouvrant de nouvelles perspectives.

The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology is the first global treatment of the dying and rising god archetype since that classification was called into serious doubt in the final decades of the twentieth century. While assaults on the concept have focused on the Classical and ancient Near Eastern (Biblical) traditions, this study goes beyond but also includes these areas to encompass world mythology. Beginning with an interrogation of the most influential criticisms, the author then examines evidence for the archetype's validity by analyzing dying and rising god myths from ancient Near Eastern, Classical, and non-Classical sources from around the world. He treats implications of the archetype for religious studies, literature, and psychology, both in discussing the myths themselves and in separate chapters dedicated to these fields. The focused treatment on single myths makes this book a useful reference source. At the same time, its inductive approach to evidence provides a conclusive argument on the question with applications that warrant reading it from cover to cover. Additional distinctive features of this book include a thematic interpretation of T. S. Eliot's Waste Land, a new perspective on the Jungian archetypes, and a call for a neo-archetypal approach to literary criticism.

Antonio da Rho's Three Dialogues against Lactantius (1445) followed the lead of Jerome and Augustine yet went well beyond patristic concerns. During the Middle Ages Lactantius'works, while largely neglected, had enjoyed moments of intense interest and study. From the death of Lactantius (325) to his broad Quattrocento recovery, many profound cultural and intellectual shifts had transpired. Consequently, Rho's dialogues engage topics arising from scholastic and other debates in jurisprudence, cosmology, astrology, geography, philosophy, and theology. He was convinced that insights from these fields would elucidate errors of Lactantius that his readers had overlooked. This reveals much about the cultural and intellectual developments that shaped readers'efforts to recover, comprehend, and define Lactantius as an author. Significantly, the list of Lactantius'errors discussed in the dialogues was printed with nearly every edition of Lactantius through the sixteenth century and beyond.

W. H. Paul Thompson critiques modern scholarship on Pauline slavery for failing to define and reason consistently about equality. Instead, he engages in an equality analysis of Aristotle and Seneca in their Greco-Roman contexts, the Torah and its Jewish reception, and selected Pauline texts. Focusing on slave welfare? how slaves should be treated relative to free persons of the same historical context? rather than on abolitionism or reinforcement of slave submission, the author argues for a distinctive Jewish ethic of numerically equal treatment between slave and free that imitates Yahweh's impartiality. The Apostle reorients this ethic into a Christocentric framework to intensify both the quality of slave obedience and the degree of slave welfare required relative to the prevailing Roman ethos.

Space sharing by groups and organizations is widespread in the United States, from commercial partnerships, to government and private sector joint use agreements, to the use of public facilities and commons, and more. Drawing upon a variety of historical examples and contemporary cases, The Religious Dimensions of Shared Spaces offers a focused and systematic analysis of space sharing involving religious groups or organizations. All space-sharing arrangements are similar in most respects, so what difference does it make when religious groups or organizations are involved? How do they invest meaning in the spaces they use and share, including “sacred space”? When and why do they enter into space-sharing arrangements with other parties, religious and/or secular? How do religious space sharers structure and maintain their arrangements, including handling tensions that arise? What can secular space sharers learn from their religious counterparts, and vice versa? The book also teases out when religion does not matter in space sharing, even when religious groups or organizations are involved. Case studies include internal congregational groups that negotiate the use of shared facilities, arrangements between congregations and external groups or organizations, multifaith partnerships, and shared spaces in secular venues.

The pandemic presented religion as a paradox: faith is often crucial for helping people weather life's troubles and make difficult decisions, but how can religion continue to deliver these benefits and provide societal structure without social contact? The topical volume, An Epidemic among My People explains how the COVID-19 pandemic stress tested American religious communities and created a new politics of religion centered on public health. The editors and contributorsconsider how the virus and government policy affected religion in America. Chapters examine the link between the prosperity gospel and conspiracy theories, the increased purchase of firearms by evangelicals, the politics of challenging public health orders as religious freedom claims, and the reactions of Christian nationalists, racial groups, and female clergy to the pandemic (and pandemic politics). As sharp lines were drawn between people and their governments during this uncertain time, An Epidemic among My People provides a comprehensive portrait of religion in American public life.

This book focuses on applying the thought of Saint Augustine to address a number of persistent 21st-century socio-political issues. Drawing together Augustinian ideas such as concupiscence, virtue, vice, habit, and sin through social and textual analysis, it provides fresh Augustinian perspectives on new—yet somehow familiar—quandaries. The volume addresses the themes of fallenness, politics, race, and desire. It includes contributions from theology, philosophy, and political science. Each chapter examines Augustine's perspective for deepening our understanding of human nature and demonstrates the contemporary relevance of his thought.

L'évêque, le philosophe et le journaliste échangent leurs points de vue concernant l'unité des chrétiens face aux troubles sociétaux de l'époque contemporaine.Notre mission est de poursuivre l'évangélisation des peuples jusqu'aux périphéries du monde. Nous, laïcs, prêtres et religieux, héritiers du concile œcuménique Vatican II cherchant l'unité des chrétiens, nous devons bien le comprendre et le mettre en œuvre dans la culture et la société d'aujourd'hui. Nous devrons aussi faire revivre le monde dans la paix, à l'heure où la guerre réapparaît aux portes de l'Europe, après la crise de civilisation révélée par la « crise sanitaire du Covid » : c'est le moment de changer nos modes de vie. Nous sentons la nécessité d'une « écologie intégrale » qui renouvelle la vie des familles et l'éducation des jeunes, car nous traversons un changement d'époque. En une série d'entretiens, un évêque sociologue et théologien à la longue expérience, un philosophe formé à l'étude de saint Thomas d'Aquin et de Bergson, et un journaliste informateur religieux et essayiste ont confronté leurs points de vue sur ces grands thèmes qui concernent l'avenir de l'Église et du monde.À PROPOS DES AUTEURSMgr Gérard Defois, prêtre du diocèse d'Angers a été enseignant à l'Institut catholique de Paris, secrétaire général de la Conférence épiscopale de France (1973-1983), recteur de l'Université catholique de Lyon, archevêque de Sens-Auxerre, de Reims, où il reçut le pape Jean-Paul II, et de Lille. Émérite depuis 2008, il a été président des commissions Justice et Paix pour l'Europe (2009-2012).Henri-Paul Hude est philosophe, auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont Éthique des décideurs (Economica, 2013) et Ce monde qui nous rend fous (Mame, 2020). Ancien élève de l'ENS, docteur habilité, à été professeur à Rome (institut Jean Paul II, Université du Latran), directeur de'Stan', à Paris, puis du pôle d'éthique aux Écoles militaires de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan. A fondé la société internationale d'éthique militaire en Europe et est membre du comité de rédaction de la revue Commentaire et a été membre du conseil scientifique de l'institut Montaigne.Denis Lensel est journaliste et essayiste, auteur d'une dizaine d'ouvrages, spécialisé dans les questions religieuses, familiales et pédagogiques. Envoyé spécial en Europe de l'Est, en ex-URSS et à la conférence de l'ONU sur les droits des femmes à Pékin, il a suivi les voyages œcuméniques de Jean-Paul II dans les pays orthodoxes.

Secrecy is a central and integral component of all religious traditions. Not limited simply to religious groups that engage in clandestine activities such as hidden rites of initiation or terrorism, secrecy is inherent in the very fabric of religion itself. Its importance has perhaps never been more acutely relevant than in our own historical moment. In the wake of 9/11 and other acts of religious violence, we see the rise of invasive national security states that target religious minorities and pose profound challenges to the ideals of privacy and religious freedom, accompanied by the resistance by many communities to such efforts. As such, questions of secrecy, privacy, surveillance, and security are among the most central and contested issues of twenty-first century religious life.The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy is the definitive reference source for the key topics, problems, and debates in this crucial field and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising twenty-nine chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into five parts: Configurations of Religious Secrecy: Conceptual and Comparative Frameworks Secrecy as Religious Practice Secrecy and the Politics of the Present Secrecy and Social Resistance Secrecy, Terrorism, and Surveillance. This cutting-edge volume discusses secrecy in relation to major categories of religious experience and individual religious practices while also examining the transformations of secrecy in the modern period, including the rise of fraternal orders, the ongoing wars on terror, the rise of far-right white supremacist groups, increasing concerns over religious freedom and privacy, the role of the internet in the spread and surveillance of such groups, and the resistance to surveillance by many indigenous and diasporic communities.The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, comparative religion, new religious movements, and religion and politics. It will be equally central to debates in the related disciplines of sociology, anthropology, political science, security studies and cultural studies.

This is the first book of its kind about the Turkish Muslim scholar, Fethullah Gülen, since the July 2016 events in Turkey, the trauma experienced by Gülen, and the disruption to initiatives inspired by his teaching, known as Hizmet. Drawing on primary interviews with Gülen and Hizmet participants and a literature review, this Open Access book locates the clear origins of Gülen's teaching in the Qur'an and Sunnah in dynamic engagement with their geographical, temporal and existential reception, translation, and onward communication. It argues that as Hizmet cannot be understood apart from Gülen and his teaching, Gülen and his teaching cannot be understood apart from Hizmet, while exploring the heritage of both. A more geographically focused case study is set out in author Paul Weller's Hizmet in Transitions: European Developments of a Turkish Muslim-Inspired Movement, also published by Palgrave Macmillan (2022).

The poet-saint Raskhān lived in the 16th/17th century C.E. Story has it he was born as a Muslim, but later converted to Krishnaism. This conversion took place because at first he was infatuated by a young boy, but later on transformed his love to a mystical devotion to the young cowherd god Krishna. Due to this conversion his mystical poems have a particular place in the bhakti cult of Northern-India. Raskhān's songs rank among the finest of Krishna poetry in Brajbhāṣā, the language the young god Krishna is supposed to have spoken when he lived on earth. It is the language of the pilgrimage site of Brindavan in Northern-India. Raskhān's songs are on the lips of many devotees up to the present day. Paul van der Velde is professor of Asian Religions, Sanskrit and Hindi at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He stayed long periods in the village of Brindavan and did research there on the devotional cult on Krishna and Rādhā and the Brajbhāṣā language.

In this study, Paul S. Chung charts the history of social scientific study of religion from the axial age to the present day, and thereby lays a foundation for a new model of constructive theology in the comparative study of religion, culture and society. Analysing the thought of Max Weber, Alfred Schutz, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Edmund Husserl, Max Horkheimer and others, Chung deals effectively with material interests, power relations and the history of race, gender and sexuality. The result is a synthesis that is at once innovative, critical, and applicable to current methodology in theology and the social sciences.

The contributors to this volume address three central approaches in biblical interpretation: historical settings, intertextuality, and biblical theology. The first section traces and reassesses the multifaceted aspects relevant to the historical settings of the ancient texts, writers, and worlds. The second section describes the comparative analysis of biblical literature, with inner-biblical or non-biblical texts, not only to improve textual meanings but also to deepen the relationship between biblical texts and their contexts. The final section highlights theological approaches to the Hebrew Bible, addressing the themes of Jewish theology, justice, theophany, loss, and trauma, while confronting significant ethical and theological challenges.

Die neutestamentlichen Debatten der zurückliegenden 125 Jahre umfassen drei Themenschwerpunkte: Sie diskutieren das Verhältnis zwischen dem antiken Weltbild und der aufgeklärten Weltsicht der Gegenwart; sie behandeln die Beziehung zwischen Jesus als historischer Persönlichkeit und der auf ihn bezogenen Christologie; und sie ringen um die Relation zwischen Judentum und Christentum. Angesichts der Vielfalt exegetischer Detailforschung zeichnet Paul-Gerhard Klumbies die übergreifenden Gesprächsfäden in der neutestamentlichen Wissenschaft seit dem Jahr 1900 nach. Seine Rückschau zeigt, wie Denkbewegungen unter veränderten zeitgeschichtlichen Umständen fortentwickelt und in Neuformulierungen alte Themen weitergeführt worden sind. Die Auswahl der Stimmen orientiert sich daran, inwieweit die Beiträge unter theologischem Gesichtspunkt Bedeutung für die Wissenschaft vom Neuen Testament besitzen.

Cet ouvrage interroge l'école sur sa capacité à prévenir les conflits, les injustices, les inégalités et le rapport irresponsable à la nature. L'école catholique est interpellée quant à sa mission d'éduquer à la paix et à l'environnement dans le monde marqué par les conflits fratricides, le radicalisme religieux, le tribalisme, la corruption, le repli identitaire, le populisme, l'individualisme, le règne de l'immédiateté, l'exploitation et l'exclusion des plus faibles, la déforestation et la pollution. Fidèle à l'esprit de la Fondation Internationale Religions et Sociétés, ce livre met en dialogue les expériences de terrain présentées et analysées par les pasteurs ainsi que les réflexions des chercheurs du Sud et du Nord.

This book sets out a new agenda for science-theology interactions and offers examples of what that agenda might look like when implemented. It explores, in innovative ways, what follows for science-theology discussions from recent developments in the history of science. The contributions take seriously the historically conditioned nature of the categories ‘science'and ‘religion'and consider the ways in which these categories are reinforced in the public sphere. Reflecting on the balance of power between theology and the sciences, the authors demonstrate a commitment to moving beyond traditional models of one-sided dialogue and seek to give theology a more active role in determining the interdisciplinary agenda.

In this open-access monograph, Paul Weller explores how the movement known as Hizmet (meaning “service”) is undergoing a period of transitions in Europe. Inspired by the teaching and practice of the Turkish Islamic scholar, Fethullah Gülen, Hizmet has been active in Europe (and other continents) for several decades. It has always been subject to some degree of contestation, which has intensified following the July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, for which the current Turkish government holds Fethullah Gülen and Hizmet as responsible – a claim they strongly deny. In Turkey, thousands of people associated with Hizmet have been imprisoned. In Europe, pressures have been brought to bear on the movement and its activities. In charting a way forward, Hizmet finds itself in a significant transitional period, the nature and possible future trajectories of which are explored in this volume. The book is informed by a comprehensive literature review and a recent research project which includes primary research interviews with key Hizmet figures in Europe and beyond. It contends that to properly understand Hizmet in Europe, one has to situate it in its interactive engagement both with its diverse European national contexts and with Fethullah Gülen's teaching and practice.

« Lorsque le frère Paul de la Croix annonça qu'il songeait à partir vivre en ermitage, l'étonnement fut grand. Une aventure étalée sur 28 ans. Assez régulièrement, il a noté ce qui était advenu et qu'il voulait partager. D'abord et de façon soulignée, sa gratitude d'être appelé à une vie en ermitage. Des confidences sur ce que peut réserver le fait d'être la plupart du temps en solitude avec une santé parfois chancelante. Des expressions où il se met à découvert : “Vivre dans le consentement de ce que l'on a ou n'a pas”. Accepter la privation comme une amie et la privation cesse d'en être une : “Brûle en moi, Seigneur, ce qui n'est pas ton Royaume”. “Que je sois par Toi, à cause de ta proximité, petit, content, confiant, joyeux, les yeux éblouissants de ton amour, que je contemple inlassablement”. Dans une langue claire, simple qui vient à vous, se perçoit la quête de Dieu dans une recherche incessante ». Frère VincentÀ PROPOS DE L'AUTEURLe Père Paul de la Croix était frère capucin, ermite et l'auteur de La pluie et la source (1999), Prier les Psaumes aujourd'hui (1978).

This book explores how beliefs and practices have shaped the interactions between different ethnic groups in Western Hunan, as well as considering how religious life has adapted to the challenges of modern Chinese history.Combining historical and ethnographic methodologies, chapters in this book are structured around changes that occurred during the interaction between Miao ritual traditions and religions such as Daoism, with particular focus on the commonalities and differences seen between Western Hunan and other areas of Southwest China. In addition, investigation is made into how gender and ethnicity have shaped such processes, and what these phenomena can teach about larger questions of modern Chinese history. As such, this study transcends existing scholarship on Western Hunan – which has stressed the impact of state policies and elite agendas – by focusing instead on the roles played by ritual specialists. Such findings call into question conventional wisdom about the ‘standardization'of Chinese culture, as well as the integration of local society into the state by means of written texts. Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Western Hunan during the Modern Era will prove valuable to students and scholars of history, ethnography, anthropology, ethnic studies, and Asian studies more broadly.

In this study, John-Paul Harper critically compares how Paul and Philo rethought the significant Jewish symbols of Land, Jerusalem, and Temple. Drawing particular attention to their political significance, he demonstrates how these symbols offer important insights into how both Paul and Philo conceptualised authority in the local community (Temple), within the wider'people of God'(Jerusalem), and in relation to the Roman Empire (Land). The author argues that, while both conceptualised authority in charismatic terms, Philo's appropriation tended to be more individualistic and focussed on otherworldly realities, whereas Paul's tended to be more communal and focussed on this-worldly realities. Along the way, the author contributes to contemporary discussions of Paul and Philo's Jewish identity, their perspectives on community leadership and order, and their perspectives on the Roman Empire.

The pieces collected here are written by fifteen philosophers and one poet who have been influenced by Stephen Priest, or develop themes in Priest's philosophy, or both. They include contributions from the United Kingdom, the USA, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Taiwan and Japan by authors working in a range of traditions. Topics covered include philosophical method, the analytical/continental divide, the nature of the mind (or self, or soul), metaphysics, and the meaning of life. The volume also includes responses by Priest and an intellectual biography, describing some of the life-experiences which caused Priest to become interested in philosophy and to make the transition from existentialism to metaphysics.

Interweaving the interpretative methods of religious studies, literary criticism and cultural geography, the essays in this volume focus on issues associated with the representation of place and space in the writing and reading of the postcolonial. The collection charts the ways in which contemporary writers extend and deepen our awareness of the ambiguities of economic, social and political relations implicated in “sacred space” - the sense of spiritual significance associated with those concrete locations in which adherents of different religious traditions, past and present, maintain a ritual sense of the sanctity of life and its cycles. Part I, “Land, Religion and Literature after Britain,” explores how postcolonial writers dramatize the contested processes of colonization, resistance and decolonization by which lands and landscapes may be viewed as now sacred, now desacralized, now resacralized. Part II, “Sacred Landscapes and Postcoloniality across International Literatures,” draws upon postcolonial theory to inquire into how contemporary fiction, drama and poetry represent themes of divine dispensation, dispossession and reclamation in regions as diverse as Haiti, Israel, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Arctic, and the North American frontier. A critical “Afterword” considers the implications of such multi-disciplinary approaches to postcolonial literatures for present and future research in the field. Writers discussed in the essays include Russell Banks; James K. Baxter; Ursula Bethell; Erna Brodber; Marcus Clarke; Allen Curnow; Edwidge Danticat; Mak Dizdar; Sara Jeannette Duncan; Zee Edgell; “Grey Owl”; Haruki Murakami; Seamus Heaney; Peter Høeg; Hugh Hood; Janette Turner Hospital; James Houston; Dany Laferrière; B. Kojo Laing; Lee Kok Liang; K.S. Maniam; Mudrooroo; R.K. Narayan; Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Ben Okri; Chava Pinchas-Cohen; Mary Prince; Nancy Prince; Nayantara Sahgal; Ken Saro-Wiwa; Ibrahim Tahir; Amos Tutuola; W.D. Valgardson; Derek Walcott; and Rudy Wiebe. Maps accompany almost every essay.

'Exciting. I absolutely recommend The Scars of Eden.'Erich Von DanikenFrom the author of the bestselling ESCAPING FROM EDEN. Do our world mythologies convey our ancestors'ideas about God? Or are they in reality ancestral memories of extra-terrestrial contact? How do ancient stories of contact, adaptation and abduction relate to people's experiences around the world today? The Scars of Eden will take you around the world to hear first-hand from ancestral voices alongside contemporary experiencers and world-renowned researchers. Recent revelations from US Navy, the Pentagon, and French Intelligence bring the reader right up to date in examining what has been forgotten and remembered, hidden and disclosed. If world mythologies, including the Bible, have confused the idea of God with ancient ET visitations, what difference does it make? How does it impact society today? And why is this cultural taboo so widespread and, for the author, so personal?

Theology and Climate Change examines Progressive Dominion Theology (PDT) as a primary cultural driver of anthropogenic climate change. PDT is a distinctive and Western form of Christian theology out of which the modern scientific revolution and technological modernity arises. Basic attitudes to nature, to instrumental power over nature, and to an understanding of humanity's relationship with nature are a function of the deep theological preconditions of Western modernity. Much of what we like about Western modernity is indebted to PDT at the same time that this tacit cultural theology is propelling us towards climate disaster. This text argues that the urgent need to change the fundamental operational assumptions of our way of life is now very hard for us to do, because secular modernity is now largely unaware of its tacit theological commitments.Modern consumer society, including the global economy that supports this way of life, could not have the operational signatures it currently has without its distinctive theological origin and its ongoing submerged theological assumptions. Some forms of Christian theology are now acutely aware of this dynamic and are determined to change the modern life-world, from first assumptions up, in order to avert climate disaster. At the same time that other forms of Christian theology – aligned with pragmatic fossil fuel interests – advance climate change skepticism and overtly uphold PDT. Theology is, in fact, crucially integral with the politics of climate change, but this is not often understood in anything more than simplistic and polemically expedient ways in environmental and policy contexts. This text aims to dis-imbed climate change politics from polarized and unfruitful slinging-matches between conservatives and progressives of all or no religious commitments.This fascinating volume is a must read for those with an interest in environmental policy concerns and in culturally embedded first-order belief commitments.

What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers—free will and religion—are in some ways fundamentally opposed. Whereas free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and deliberation, religious practices seem to involve a suspension of or relief from the exercise of our will. What, then, is agency, and why has it occupied such a central place in theories of the human? Automatic Religion explores an unlikely series of episodes from the end of the nineteenth century, when crucial ideas related to automatism and, in a different realm, the study of religion were both being born. Paul Christopher Johnson draws on years of archival and ethnographic research in Brazil and France to explore the crucial boundaries being drawn at the time between humans, “nearhumans,” and automata. As agency came to take on a more central place in the philosophical, moral, and legal traditions of the West, certain classes of people were excluded as less-than-human. Tracking the circulation of ideas across the Atlantic, Johnson tests those boundaries, revealing how they were constructed on largely gendered and racial foundations. In the process, he reanimates one of the most mysterious and yet foundational questions in trans-Atlantic thought: what is agency?

The aim of the book is to refute the claim that God's omniscience, omnipotence and benevolence on the one hand and the existence of evil on the other are together inconsistent. This is shown first by unmasking many types of such claims as either logical fallacies or as presupposing false assumptions. Secondly the author formulates God's attributes of omniscience, omnipotence and benevolence and the existence of 10 types of evil in an axiomatic system. This contains the theorems about God's knowledge, will, causation and benevolence without leading to any inconsistency. It proves the compatibility between God's attributes of omniscience, omnipotence and benevolence with the fact of existence of evil. The author offers a consistency proof for the whole axiomatic system with the help of a model in which all axioms and theorems are satisfied.

The great existential psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger famously pointed out to Freud that therapeutic failure could'only be understood as the result of something which could be called a deficiency of spirit.'Binswanger was surprised when Freud agreed, asserting,'Yes, spirit is everything.'However, spirit and the spiritual realm have largely been dropped from mainstream psychoanalytic theory and practice. This book seeks to help revitalize a culturally aging psychoanalysis that is in conceptual and clinical disarray in the marketplace of ideas and is viewed as a'theory in crisis'no longer regarded as the primary therapy for those who are suffering. The author argues that psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy can be reinvigorated as a discipline if it is animated by the powerfully evocative spiritual, moral, and ethical insights of two dialogical personalist religious philosophers—Martin Buber, a Jew, and Gabriel Marcel, a Catholic—who both initiated a'Copernican revolution'in human thought. In chapters that focus on love, work, faith, suffering, and clinical practice, Paul Marcus shows how the spiritual optic of Buber and Marcel can help revive and refresh psychoanalysis, and bring it back into the light by communicating its inherent vitality, power, and relevance to the mental health community and to those who seek psychoanalytic treatment.

This book argues that neither theories of secularisation nor theories of lived religion offer satisfactory accounts of religion and social change. Drawing from Deleuze and Gauttari's idea of the assemblage, Paul-Francois Tremlett outlines an alternative.Informed by classical and contemporary theories of religion as well as empirical case studies and ethnography conducted in Manila and London, this book re-frames religion as spatially organised flows. Foregrounding the agency of hon-human actors, it offers a compelling and original account of religion and social change.

Quelle est la différence entre le catholicisme et le protestantisme? Qu'est-ce qui distingue un sunnite d'un chiite? Pourquoi les juifs mangent-ils cacher? Quelle est la position des religions sur la sexualité? La laïcité est-elle antireligieuse? Existe-t-il plusieurs laïcités? Plus que jamais, la question religieuse et la laïcité sont au cœur de l'actualité. Véritable manuel, ce livre donne des repères pour mieux comprendre les différences, les points communs et les évolutions des trois principales religions monothéistes, ainsi que les diverses formes de laïcité. À travers un dialogue entre cinq amis de convictions différentes – un juif, une catholique, un musulman, une pasteure et un athée – ce livre original et vivant permet de comprendre les religions monothéistes et la place qu'elles occupent dans notre société. Ce dialogue « entre potes » vient éclairer, de façon ludique, l'éternel débat sur la laïcité et les religions, en s'appuyant sur des illustrations humoristiques, qui viennent à la fois nourrir et rythmer la lecture.

The identity of contemporary Jews is multifaceted, no longer necessarily defined by an observance of the Torah and God's commandments. Indeed, the Jews of modernity are no longer exclusively Jewish. They are affiliated with a host of complementary and sometimes clashing communities—vocational, professional, political, and cultural—whose interests may not coincide with that of the community of their birth and inherited culture. In Cultural Disjunctions, Paul Mendes-Flohr explores the possibility of a spiritually and intellectually engaged cosmopolitan Jewish identity for our time. Reflecting on the need to participate in the spiritual life of Judaism so that it enables multiple relations beyond its borders and allows one to balance Jewish commitment with a genuine obligation to the universal, Mendes-Flohr lays out what this delicate balance can look like for contemporary Jews, both in Israel and in diasporic communities worldwide. Cultural Disjunctions walks us through the labyrinth of twentieth-century Jewish cultural identities and commitments. Ultimately, Mendes-Flohr calls for Jews to remain “discontent,” not just with themselves but also and especially with the reigning social and political order, and to fight for its betterment.

After a distinction between private religious visions and prophetic religious manifestations this book provides a deteiled description of the great Marian Apparitions in Guadalupe, La Salette, Lourdes, Fatima, Medjugorje and Kibeho. These events are investigated with the axiomatic method, describing its essential features with axioms and definitions from which theorems are derived. The axioms and theorems consider the events to be miracles; they cover the credibility of the events, the reliability of the seers, the voluntary component of the believers and the content and seriousness of the messages given to the people in the whole world. In addition a comparison is made between the prophetic apparitions of Mary and Christian Revelation. This book defends that the ultimate origin of the prophetic manifestations of Mary, including her messages to the world, is God. “Ein innovativer Zugang zum Phänomen Medjugorje” Cardinal Schönborn, Wien

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L'histoire de l'Église catholique du Togo est inscrite dans un monde mouvementé aux enjeux politiques et religieux encore actuels. Protectorat allemand, le Togo a été partagé entre la France et l'Angleterre à l'issue de la Première Guerre mondiale. Tous les Allemands en ont été expulsés ; même les missionnaires qui venaient à peine de célébrer le jubilé d'argent du vicariat apostolique du Togo. L'Allemagne perdit son unique colonie en Afrique de l'Ouest. Les missionnaires allemands de la Société du Verbe Divin tournèrent aussi le dos, malgré eux, à leur unique vicariat en Afrique. Cet ouvrage revisite cette histoire et montre l'impact des événements politiques sur la mission de l'Église catholique au Togo dans la première moitié du XXe siècle.

Il convegno di studi, che si è tenuto all'Università di Bonn e all'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Colonia l'11 e il 12 dicembre 2015, per celebrare i 750 anni dalla nascita di Dante, ha tracciato, coralmente, il disegno dell'universo dantesco. Ogni intervento, quasi come la tessera di un mosaico, ha contribuito a definire i diversi aspetti dell'opera di Dante, soprattutto la Divina Commedia, e della sua ricezione nella musica e nell'arte. Così che la critica letteraria, la filosofia, la teologia, la musicologia e la storia dell'arte hanno, a vario titolo, contribuito a illustrarne la grande varietà. Am 11. und 12. Dezember 2015 fand an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn und im Italienischen Kulturinstitut Köln ein Kolloquium zur Feier von Dantes 750sten Geburtstag statt, bei dem das Bild des dantesken Universums auf neue Weise nachgezeichnet wurde. Die Vorträge haben aus der Sicht der Literaturwissenschaft, Philosophie, Theologie, Musikwissenschaft und Kunstgeschichte dazu beigetragen, die große Vielfalt von Dantes Werk, insbesondere der Divina Commedia, und die Rezeption Dantes in der Kunst und der Musik zu illustrieren.