The Four Faces of God
Author | : John Bickersteth |
Publisher | : Trans-Atlantic Publications |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9780854763269 |
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Author | : John Bickersteth |
Publisher | : Trans-Atlantic Publications |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9780854763269 |
Author | : Peter Hannan |
Publisher | : St Pauls BYB |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788171094998 |
Author | : Thom Stark |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1498276970 |
Does accepting the doctrine of biblical inspiration necessitate belief in biblical inerrancy? The Bible has always functioned authoritatively in the life of the church, but what exactly should that mean? Must it mean the Bible is without error in all historical details and ethical teachings? What should thoughtful Christians do with texts that propose God is pleased by human sacrifice or that God commanded Israel to commit acts of genocide? What about texts that contain historical errors or predictions that have gone unfulfilled long beyond their expiration dates? In The Human Faces of God, Thom Stark moves beyond notions of inerrancy in order to confront such problematic texts and open up a conversation about new ways they can be used in service of the church and its moral witness today. Readers looking for an academically informed yet accessible discussion of the Bible's thorniest texts will find a thought-provoking and indispensible resource in The Human Faces of God.
Author | : Gordon DePree |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780664243500 |
Author | : Leslie G. Desmangles |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807861014 |
Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this book, Leslie Desmangles analyzes the mythology and rituals of Vodou, focusing particularly on the inclusion of West African and European elements in Vodouisants' beliefs and practices. Desmangles sees Vodou not simply as a grafting of European religious traditions onto African stock, but as a true creole phenomenon, born out of the oppressive conditions of slavery and the necessary adaptation of slaves to a New World environment. Desmangles uses Haitian history to explain this phenomenon, paying particular attention to the role of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century maroon communities in preserving African traditions and the attempts by the Catholic, educated elite to suppress African-based "superstitions." The result is a society in which one religion, Catholicism, is visible and official; the other, Vodou, is unofficial and largely secretive.
Author | : Donald A. Nielsen |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780791440360 |
A fresh interpretation of the work of Emile Durkheim, which argues that in addition to being a pioneer in sociological theory and research, Durkheim was also a major social philosopher concerned with religion, metaphysics, and knowledge.
Author | : Roger Scruton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2012-03-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441140638 |
Roger Scruton explores the place of God in a disenchanted world. His argument is a response to the atheist culture that is now growing around us, and also a defence of human uniqueness. He rebuts the claim that there is no meaning or purpose in the natural world, and argues that the sacred and the transcendental are 'real presences', through which human beings come to know themselves and to find both their freedom and their redemption. In the human face we find a paradigm of meaning. And from this experience, Scruton argues, we both construct the face of the world, and address the face of God. We find in the face both the proof of our freedom and the mark of self-consciousness. One of the motivations of the atheist culture is to escape from the eye of judgement. You escape from the eye of judgement by blotting out the face: and this, Scruton argues, is the most disturbing aspect of the times in which we live. In his wide-ranging argument Scruton explains the growing sense of destruction that we feel, as the habits of pleasure seeking and consumerism deface the world. His book defends a consecrated world against the habit of desecration, and offers a vision of the religious way of life in a time of trial.
Author | : Thomas Morawetz |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0292749414 |
Wearing a mask—putting on another face—embodies a fundamental human fantasy of inhabiting other bodies and experiencing other lives. In this extensively illustrated book, Thomas Morawetz explores how the creation of transformational makeup for theatre, movies, and television fulfills this fantasy of self-transformation and satisfies the human desire to become "the other." Morawetz begins by discussing the cultural role of fantasies of transformation and what these fantasies reveal about questions of personal identity. He next turns to professional makeup artists and describes their background, training, careers, and especially the techniques they use to create their art. Then, with numerous before-during-and-after photos of transformational makeups from popular and little-known shows and movies, ads, and artist's demos and portfolios, he reveals the art and imagination that go into six kinds of mask-making—representing demons, depicting aliens, inventing disguises, transforming actors into different (older, heavier, disfigured) versions of themselves, and creating historical or mythological characters.
Author | : David L. Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781882670949 |
This book provides a demonstration that the difficult notion of the Trinity is alive and well, although not in places that one may have expected. It flourishes in a mythology recovered from an ancient pagan past and, surprisingly, in secular poetry and drama of our own time, even though it is often neglected in popular piety and in academic theology.
Author | : Jeremy Campbell |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : God |
ISBN | : 9780393344851 |
In this grand work of philosophy and history, Campbell shows how religious conceptions have been shaped by advances in technology and science over a 400-year period.