To Vanquish Darkness
To Vanquish Darkness

Author: Cindy Gunderson

Publisher: Button Press

Published: 2024-10-21

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13:

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For fans of One Dark Window and A Serpent and the Wings of Night comes a dark, delicious gothic fantasy about a woman who vows to vanquish the creatures of the dark haunting their villages. But the blood coursing through her veins holds a secret... When Amalie stabs Theo Vallon in the heart with an ash spike, she finally proves her uncle wrong: Vampires do exist, and she will be the one to vanquish them. When Theo attacks her alone late that night, she comes face to face with her deadly mistake. He can’t die, at least not in the way the legends proclaimed, and her life will be payment for her naivety. Instead, Theo offers her a bargain. The truth about her bloodline for help only she can offer him. He swears they both want the same thing. His death. But the curse of the Shadow won’t release its claws that easily, and creatures of the dark are better known for seduction than honesty. Amalie can’t relinquish her chance to avenge her mother’s death and rid the region of the vampire’s dark plague, but as her blood surges toward the darkness she was created to satisfy, she realizes she may have traipsed willingly into the spider’s den. And she may not want to retreat.

Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology
Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology

Author: Brian D. Ingraffia

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-12-07

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780521568401

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This book explores the relationship between postmodernism and Christianity. Whereas deconstructionists claim all religious discourses can be radically undermined, Ingraffia argues that the version of Christianity constructed by Nietzsche, Heidegger and especially Derrida ignores Christianity's unique ontological status. This truth, Ingraffia claims, is an unacknowledged influence on leading postmodernist thinkers, thereby demonstrating the priority of the Judaeo-Christian tradition over secular attempts to displace it.

Ambiguity and the Absolute
Ambiguity and the Absolute

Author: Frank Chouraqui

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2013-12-02

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 0823254127

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Friedrich Nietzsche and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Chouraqui argues, are linked by how they conceive the question of truth. Although both thinkers criticize the traditional concept of truth as objectivity, they both find that rejecting it does not solve the problem. What is it in our natural existence that gave rise to the notion of truth? The answer to that question is threefold. First, Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty both propose a genealogy of “truth” in which to exist means to make implicit truth claims. Second, both seek to recover the preobjective ground from which truth as an erroneous concept arose. Finally, this attempt at recovery leads both thinkers to ontological considerations regarding how we must conceive of a being whose structure allows for the existence of the belief in truth. In conclusion, Chouraqui suggests that both thinkers’ investigations of the question of truth lead them to conceive of being as the process of self-falsification by which indeterminate being presents itself as determinate.

Stories of the Middle Space
Stories of the Middle Space

Author: Deborah C. Bowen

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2010-04-19

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0773591036

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Highlighting the wide variety of ethical concerns considered by writers such as Timothy Findley, Thomas King, Carol Shields, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, and Salman Rushdie, Deborah Bowen makes the case for a new category of "postmodern realism" and shows how contemporary stories about "the real" and "the good" are constructed. Applying theoretical insights from Emmanuel Levinas and Mikhail Bakhtin, Bowen investigates categories of postmodern realism such as magic realism, parody, and metafiction while laying the groundwork for Christian readings of a medium that is often perceived as largely irreligious. An illuminating study of well-known contemporary writers, Stories of the Middle Space is a critically nuanced and methodologically innovative work that reads the postmodern from a faith-based perspectives to create new literary insights.

Inerrancy and the Spiritual Formation of Younger Evangelicals
Inerrancy and the Spiritual Formation of Younger Evangelicals

Author: Carlos R. Bovell

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2007-03-01

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1498270980

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In Inerrancy and the Spiritual Formation of Younger Evangelicals, readers are urged to pastorally consider their own spiritual responsibilities toward students by taking more seriously six representative critical discoveries that students tend to make during the course of their higher education. By doing this, it is hoped that leaders and teachers might become more sensitive to the reality that younger evangelicals are not generally "already" convinced of the Bible's inerrancy and may even be secretly and frantically searching for existentially workable bibliological alternatives. It behooves evangelical leaders as responsible shepherds of God's people to give their students the social and spiritual room they need to breathe by offering them acceptably orthodox alternatives for understanding the inspiration and authority of the Bible.

Christian Ethics, Issues and Insights
Christian Ethics, Issues and Insights

Author: Eṃ St̲t̲īphan

Publisher: Concept Publishing Company

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9788180693632

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This book makes a comprehensive study of the foundational aspects of Christian ethics.

Reading the Hebrew Bible for a New Millennium, Volume 1
Reading the Hebrew Bible for a New Millennium, Volume 1

Author: Wonil Kim

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2000-08-01

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9781563383144

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Part of the Studies in Antiquity series, these 21 essays feature interpretations of the Hebrew Bible using the comprehensive, interpretive methodology developed by Rolf P. Knierim.

Christology in Cultural Perspective
Christology in Cultural Perspective

Author: Colin J. D. Greene

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2015-10-14

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1498230555

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Christology defines the very heart of the Christian faith. Traditionally the study of the person and work of Christ has been understood largely as an exercise in biblical exegesis or historical and doctrinal analysis. Rarely, if ever, has Christology focused on the changing cultural paradigms that have deeply influenced the development of human knowledge and self understanding. This unique volume by Colin Greene reverses that trend and, in line with developments in modern cultural theory, explores the interlaces between successive cultural contexts and the story of Jesus to which the Scriptures bear witness. Starting with an examination of the three main Christological trajectories that have dominated the history of Christology--cosmological Christology, political Christology, and anthropological Christology--Greene proceeds to concentrate on the subtle and complex linkages between Christology and the sociopolitical paradigms that have bolstered the epistemological assumptions of modernity. Greene's wide-ranging study closes with a creative exploration into how Christology might once again provide us with a Christ-centered vision of reality.

Towards a Christian Literary Theory
Towards a Christian Literary Theory

Author: L. Ferretter

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-12-17

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0230006256

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Most modern literary theory is explicitly anti-theological. This book states the case for a contemporary literary theory whose principles derive from Christian theology. Ferretter argues that it remains rationally and ethically legitimate to use theological language in literary theory despite the objections to such a theory posed by deconstruction, Marxism and psychoanalysis. He concludes with an assessment of how such a theory can be formulated and used in contemporary cultural analysis.