Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought
Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought

Author: George H. Williams

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1498224563

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Paradise or wasteland--the wilderness has always been a challenge to Westerners. Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought traces the exciting theme of the quest for the wilderness--both physical and metaphysical--to create a new and important perspective for understanding Christian civilization. With a wealth of knowledge, a renowned historian presents the biblical understanding of the religious and ethical significance of the desert and how this understanding has influenced later Christian history and culture. Dr. Williams specifically applies the paradise theme to the university today and shows the continuing vitality of this ancient concept.

Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought
Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought

Author: George H. Williams

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1725235579

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Paradise or wasteland--the wilderness has always been a challenge to Westerners. Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought traces the exciting theme of the quest for the wilderness--both physical and metaphysical--to create a new and important perspective for understanding Christian civilization. With a wealth of knowledge, a renowned historian presents the biblical understanding of the religious and ethical significance of the desert and how this understanding has influenced later Christian history and culture. Dr. Williams specifically applies the paradise theme to the university today and shows the continuing vitality of this ancient concept.

Exile and Kingdom
Exile and Kingdom

Author: Avihu Zakai

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-08-22

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780521521420

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This book explores the ideological origins of the Puritan migration to and experience in America.

Into The American Woods
Into The American Woods

Author: James H Merrell

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2000-01-18

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9780393319767

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The bloodshed and hatred of frontier conflict at once made go-betweens obsolete and taught the harsh lesson of the woods: the final incompatibility of colonial and native dreams about the continent they shared. Long erased from history, the go-betweens of early America are recovered here in vivid detail.

Protestant Empires
Protestant Empires

Author: Ulinka Rublack

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-09-10

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1108898459

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Protestantism during the early modern period is still predominantly presented as a European story. Advancing a novel framework to understand the nature and impact of the Protestant Reformations, this volume brings together leading scholars to substantially integrate global Protestant experiences into accounts of the early modern world created by the Reformations, to compare Protestant ideas and practices with other world religions, to chart colonial politics and experiences, and to ask how resulting ideas and identities were negotiated by Europeans at the time. Through its wide geographical and chronological scope, Protestant Empires advances a new approach to understanding the Protestant Reformations. Showcasing selective model approaches on how to think anew, and pointing the way towards a multi-national and connected account of the Protestant Reformations, this volume demonstrates how global interactions and their effect on Europe have played a crucial role in the history of the 'long Reformation' in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination
Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination

Author: Ross Labrie

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0826262791

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Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Roman Catholic priest, a Trappist monk, a social activist, and a poet. Author of the celebrated autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, Merton has been described as the most important American religious writer of the past hundred years. One of the notable characteristics of Merton's writing, both in poetry and in prose, was his seamless intermingling of religious and Romantic elements, an intermingling that, because of his gifts as a writer and because of his enormous influence, has had the effect of making widespread a distinctive form of religious thought and expression. In Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination, Ross Labrie reveals the breadth of Merton's intellectual reach by taking an original and systematic look at Merton's thought, which is generally regarded as eclectic and unsystematic.

Creases in Culture
Creases in Culture

Author: Dennis Patrick Slattery

Publisher: Fisher King Press

Published: 2014-01-15

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1771690062

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This collection of essays, written over a period of years, entertains the shared place of psyche and poetics. Dr. Slattery has explored the manner in which the psyche is poetic and how poetry is deeply psycho-mythical. Influenced in part by the archetypal psychologist James Hillman's idea of the "poetic basis of mind" that comprises the soul's foundation, Slattery's writing moves into the interactive field in which myth is the ground for both psyche and poetry. The essays develop a further understanding of what has been called mythopoiesis, the fundamental myth-making and shaping capacity of the soul.