Theological Fragments
Author: Henri de Lubac
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 462
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Fragments
Author: Peter T Cavallaro
Publisher:
Published: 2020-08-12
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNEW PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD FROM THE VOICE OF A MILLENNIAL CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN. Imagine a world in which gods did not conceal their existence from humankind but instead walked the earth until they were hunted to near-extinction. Only two remain, and here enters our central character, a celebrity of sorts, known only as the god-slayer. But as a self-described "swashbuckling philosopher," the god-slayer is not out for blood so much as knowledge. And then, of course, there is that dream. . . . Fragments takes its reader on a journey of questions, answers, and more questions. Through a series of dialogues between the god-slayer and the last of the remaining deities, the book explores the mystery of creation and the problem of human suffering before advancing four innovative proofs for the existence of God. For when the god-slayer encounters a renowned deity called Romulus, the deity, in an effort to save himself, proposes that they consider an alternate reality in which the gods never revealed themselves to human beings and gave no direct evidence of their existence. In the mysterious final act, a heavy decision must be made, but not everything is as it seems. Elegantly written and packed with thought-provoking content on every page, Fragments offers readers a fresh take on timeless questions from the voice of a new, millennial-aged theologian. Recommended just as much for those who wish to strengthen their faith as those who seek to challenge it, Fragments is a one-of-a-kind work of Christian apologetics for the 21st century.
Fragments
Author: David Tracy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-04-06
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 022656729X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Tracy is widely considered one of the most important religious thinkers in North America, known for his pluralistic vision and disciplinary breadth. His first book in more than twenty years reflects Tracy’s range and erudition, collecting essays from the 1980s to 2018 into a two-volume work that will be greeted with joy by his admirers and praise from new readers. In the first volume, Fragments, Tracy gathers his most important essays on broad theological questions, beginning with the problem of suffering across Greek tragedy, Christianity, and Buddhism. The volume goes on to address the Infinite, and the many attempts to categorize and name it by Plato, Aristotle, Rilke, Heidegger, and others. In the remaining essays, he reflects on questions of the invisible, contemplation, hermeneutics, and public theology. Throughout, Tracy evokes the potential of fragments (understood both as concepts and events) to shatter closed systems and open us to difference and Infinity. Covering science, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and non-Western religious traditions, Tracy provides in Fragments a guide for any open reader to rethink our fragmenting contemporary culture.
Prophetic Fragments
Author: Cornel West
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780802807212
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This collection of writings, drawn from a wide variety of sources, reveals the intellectual depth and breadth of the author. The articles include political commentary, cultural critique, literary analysis, extended book reviews, and even a short story by West. All of these are held together by a prophetic Afro-American Christian perspective. The value of this book is that it provides easy access to a significant selection of the author's corpus." --Religious Studies Review (October 1989) "This volume collects over 50 articles, book reviews, and addresses by a Union Seminary theologian . . . . The most eloquent pieces are those in which West explains and interprets his more personally felt tradition of Afro-American Protestantism." -- Library Journal
Entangled Worlds
Author: Catherine Keller
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2017-08-08
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0823276236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorically speaking, theology can be said to operate “materiaphobically.” Protestant Christianity in particular has bestowed upon theology a privilege of the soul over the body and belief over practice, in line with the distinction between a disembodied God and the inanimate world “He” created. Like all other human, social, and natural sciences, religious studies imported these theological dualisms into a purportedly secular modernity, mapping them furthermore onto the distinction between a rational, “enlightened” Europe on the one hand and a variously emotional, “primitive,” and “animist” non-Europe on the other. The “new materialisms” currently coursing through cultural, feminist, political, and queer theories seek to displace human privilege by attending to the agency of matter itself. Far from being passive or inert, they show us that matter acts, creates, destroys, and transforms—and, as such, is more of a process than a thing. Entangled Worlds examines the intersections of religion and new and old materialisms. Calling upon an interdisciplinary throng of scholars in science studies, religious studies, and theology, it assembles a multiplicity of experimental perspectives on materiality: What is matter, how does it materialize, and what sorts of worlds are enacted in its varied entanglements with divinity? While both theology and religious studies have over the past few decades come to prioritize the material contexts and bodily ecologies of more-than-human life, Entangled Worlds sets forth the first multivocal conversation between religious studies, theology, and the body of “the new materialism.” Here disciplines and traditions touch, transgress, and contaminate one another across their several carefully specified contexts. And in the responsiveness of this mutual touching of science, religion, philosophy, and theology, the growing complexity of our entanglements takes on a consistent ethical texture of urgency.
Sacred Fragments
Author: Neil Gillman
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780827604032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe modern Jew, living in a world of shattered beliefs and competing ideologies, is often confronted with questions of faith. Sacred Fragments is for those who still care enough to continue the struggle. In forthright, nontechnical language the author addresses the most difficult theological questions of our time and shows that there are still viable Jewish answers for even the greatest skeptics.
Gospel Fragments
Author: Tobias Nicklas
Publisher: Oxford Early Christian Gospel
Published: 2009-01-08
Total Pages: 350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis co-edited scholarly edition provides Greek texts with English translations for several key gospel fragments including P.Egerton 2, P. Oxy. 840, and P. Oxy. 1224. Introductions and commentaries provide clear discussion of major textual and critical issues.
Kierkegaard on Ethics and Religion
Author: W. Glenn Kirkconnell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2008-06-27
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1441146733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSøren Kierkegaard is simultaneously one of the most obscure philosophers of the Western world and one of the most influential. His writings have influenced atheists and faithful alike. Yet there is still widespread disagreement on many of the most important aspects of his thought. Kierkegaard was deliberately obscure in his writings, forcing the reader to interpret and reflect as Socrates did with incessant questioning. But at the same time that Kierkegaard was producing his esoteric, pseudonymous philosophical writings, he was also producing simpler, direct religious writings. Kierkegaard always claimed that he was, despite appearances, a religious writer. This important book accepts that claim and tests it. By using Kierkegaard's direct writings as he suggests, as the key to understanding the more obscure, indirect works, W. Glenn Kirkconnell aims to develop a coherent understanding of Kierkegaard's authorship and his theories.
Filaments
Author: David Tracy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-04-06
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 022656732X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the second volume of his two-volume collection of essays from the 1980s to 2018, renowned Catholic theologian David Tracy gathers profiles of significant theologians, philosophers, and religious thinkers. These essays, he suggests, can be thought of in terms of Walt Whitman’s “filaments,” which are thrown out from the speaking self to others—ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary—in order to be caught elsewhere. Filaments arranges its subjects in rough chronological order, from choices in ancient theology, such as Augustine, through the likes of William of St. Thierry in the medieval period and Martin Luther and Michelangelo in the early modern, and, finally, to modern and contemporary thinkers, including Bernard Lonergan, Paul Tillich, Simone Weil, Karl Rahner, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Iris Murdoch. Taken together, these essays can be understood as a partial initiation into a history of Christian theology defined by Tracy’s key virtues of plurality and ambiguity. Marked by surprising insights and connections, Filaments brings the work of one of North America’s most important religious thinkers once again to the forefront to be celebrated by longtime and new readers alike.
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation
Author: Paul M. Blowers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-05-16
Total Pages: 785
ISBN-13: 0191028207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bible was the essence of virtually every aspect of the life of the early churches. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation explores a wide array of themes related to the reception, canonization, interpretation, uses, and legacies of the Bible in early Christianity. Each section contains overviews and cutting-edge scholarship that expands understanding of the field. Part One examines the material text transmitted, translated, and invested with authority, and the very conceptualization of sacred Scripture as God's word for the church. Part Two looks at the culture and disciplines or science of interpretation in representative exegetical traditions. Part Three addresses the diverse literary and non-literary modes of interpretation, while Part Four canvasses the communal background and foreground of early Christian interpretation, where the Bible was paramount in shaping normative Christian identity. Part Five assesses the determinative role of the Bible in major developments and theological controversies in the life of the churches. Part Six returns to interpretation proper and samples how certain abiding motifs from within scriptural revelation were treated by major Christian expositors. The overall history of biblical interpretation has itself now become the subject of a growing scholarship and the final part skilfully examines how early Christian exegesis was retrieved and critically evaluated in later periods of church history. Taken together, the chapters provide nuanced paths of introduction for students and scholars from a wide spectrum of academic fields, including classics, biblical studies, the general history of interpretation, the social and cultural history of late ancient and early medieval Christianity, historical theology, and systematic and contextual theology. Readers will be oriented to the major resources for, and issues in, the critical study of early Christian biblical interpretation.
