Hagar's Vocation
Author: Raymond James Long
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0813227372
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A Place for Hagar's Son
Author: John T. Noble
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2016-06-01
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1506402011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe profound ambivalence of the biblical portrayals of Hagar and Ishmael—dispossessed, yet protected; abandoned, yet given promises that rival those of the covenant with Abraham—belies easy characterizations of the Pentateuch’s writers. In particular, John T. Noble argues, conventional characterizations of the Priestly writers’ view of covenant have failed to take into account the significance of these two “non-chosen” figures. Noble carefully examines their roles and depictions in the P and non-P Genesis traditions, comparing them to other “non-chosen” figures and to patterns found in Exodus traditions and the patriarchal promises to Abraham, showing that Ishmael is clearly favored, though not chosen. Indeed, Noble argues, Ishmael must be seen as a key figure in the Priestly material, highlighting the relationship between Noahic and Abrahamic covenants. His ambiguous status calls for reconsideration of the goals and values of the Priestly work, which Noble sketches around themes of covenant, fertility, life, and the future of nations.
Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932
Author: Rickie-Ann Legleitner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-05-06
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1793610355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artist novels, American women writers challenge cultural, social, and legal systems that attempt to limit or diminish women’s embodied capabilities outside of the domestic. Women writers such as E.D.E.N. Southworth, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Jessie Fauset, and Zelda Fitzgerald use the artist novel to highlight the structural and material limitations that women artists face when attempting to achieve critical success while navigating inequitable marriages and social codes that restrict women’s mobility, education, and pursuit of vocation. These artist-rebel protagonists find that their very bodies demand an outlet to articulate desires that defy patriarchal rhetoric, and this demand becomes an artistic drive to express an embodied knowledge through artistic invention. Ultimately, these women writers empower their heroines to move beyond prescribed patriarchal identities in order to achieve autonomous subjectivity through their artistic development, challenging stereotypes surrounding gender, race, and ability and beginning to reshape cultural notions of marriage, motherhood, and artistry at the turn of the twentieth century.
Best Practices in Marketing and their Impact on Quality of Life
Author: Helena Alves
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-04
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9400758782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is based on the premise that marketing is central to understanding and advancing companies, businesses, countries, major economic areas and every-day problems. It opposes the view held by some social scientists that the positive effects of marketing in a society are a product of capitalist enterprises and that marketing involves excessive exploitation and is a tool for creating and maintaining their power structures. To illustrate its point, the book examines successful marketing practices with implications for consumers’ quality of life. Its compilation of cases from all over the world provides a unique and concise review of best practices in marketing and their impact on QOL. Each case in the book presents a specific social problem and discusses details of the marketing strategy adopted to resolve it, as well as the results obtained both for society at large and in terms of the citizens’ quality of life. In addition, each case addresses the theoretical background of the specific area of marketing used in the case.
Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics
Author: Amy Plantinga Pauw
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2006-04-17
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1611647738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a collection of essays by thirteen feminist and womanist authors who locate themselves within the Reformed tradition. Topics explored include: the Trinity, creation, election, atonement, the church, fear, resistance, and vocation. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students interested in feminist theology. The Columbia Series in Reformed Theology represents a joint commitment by Columbia Theological Seminary and Westminster John Knox Press to provide theological resources from the Reformed tradition for the church today. This series examines theological and ethical issues that confront church and society in our own particular time and place.
From Hagar to Rachel
Author: Rachel Andrea Palmer
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2015-01-06
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1553953398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Hagar to Rachel is a psychological, semi-autobiographical journey that portrays how the author, Dr Rachel Andrea Palmer metamorphosed over the course of her life from the bound and unhappy Hagar to the beloved Rachel. In it are the keys that all women can similarly use to free themselves and to begin their own personal journey to becoming the beautiful women that God has decreed them to be. From Hagar to Rachel is powerful, touching and refreshing, a book that will make you laugh and cry and will surely live on in your spirit.
Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?
Author: Brian D. McLaren
Publisher: Jericho Books
Published: 2012-09-11
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 1455513946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen four religious leaders walk across the road, it's not the beginning of a joke. It's the start of one of the most important conversations in today's world. Can you be a committed Christian without having to condemn or convert people of other faiths? Is it possible to affirm other religious traditions without watering down your own? In his most important book yet, widely acclaimed author and speaker Brian McLaren proposes a new faith alternative, one built on "benevolence and solidarity rather than rivalry and hostility." This way of being Christian is strong but doesn't strong-arm anyone, going beyond mere tolerance to vigorous hospitality toward, interest in, and collaboration with the other. Blending history, narrative, and brilliant insight, McLaren shows readers step-by-step how to reclaim this strong-benevolent faith, challenging us to stop creating barriers in the name of God and learn how affirming other religions can strengthen our commitment to our own. And in doing so, he invites Christians to become more Christ-like than ever before.
Writing the Wrongs
Author: John L. Thompson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001-06-28
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0195137361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhyllis Trible's Texts of Terror is a landmark among those studying women of the Bible. Focusing on stories of the maltreatment of women, Trible paved the way for subsequent feminist exegetes who have been very critical of such stories in the Bible, and who see Christianity as an unredeemably patriarchal religion. It is commonly said that these Old Testament stories of rape, murder, torture, and abandonment passed without comment until recent times. Here, Thompson traces and analyzes various Christian interpretations of these bible stories of women. In drawing attention to views other than Texts of Terror, Thompson speaks to Christians who are battling over how the Bible ought to be read today.
Teaching for a Culturally Diverse and Racially Just World
Author: Eleazar S. Fernandez
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2014-02-25
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1630871389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCultural and ethnic diversity is the reality of our world, and much more so in this age of heightened globalization. Yet, do our ways of doing theological education match with our current reality and hopes for a colorful and just tomorrow? How shall we do theological formation so it helps give birth to a culturally diverse, racially just, and hospitable world? This edited volume gathers the voices of minoritized scholars and their white allies in the profession in response to the above questions. More particularly, this volume gathers the responses of these scholars to the questions: What is the plight of theological education? Who are the teachers? Who are our students? What shall we teach? How shall we teach? How shall we form and lead theological institutions? It is the hope of this volume to contribute to the making of theological education that is hospitably just to difference/s and welcoming of our diverse population, which is our only viable future. When we embody this vision in our daily educational practices, particularly in the training of our future religious leaders, we may help usher in a new, colorful, and just world.
Not for Sale
Author: David Batstone
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0061206717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHuman trafficking generates $31 billion annually and enslaves 27 million people around the globe, half of them children under the age of eighteen. Award-winning journalist David Batstone, whom Bono calls "a heroic character," profiles the new generation of abolitionists who are leading the struggle to end this appalling epidemic"--P. [4] of cover.
