La oración de petición bajo sospecha

La oración de petición bajo sospecha
Author: Juan Antonio Estrada
Publisher: Editorial SAL TERRAE
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1997
Genre: Oración
ISBN: 9788429312171

¿Qué significado tiene la oración? La crítica a la religión se radicaliza en lo que concierne a la oración: ¿no es la mejor expresión de la alienación religiosa, dado que conjuga deseos y carencias con una proyección inmadura?: más aun, ¿no es la oración de petición el colmo de la heteronomía y la dependencia humanas? El infantilismo religioso lleva a crearse un Dios omnipotente que satisfaga nuestras necesidades, y la petición conjuga la pasividad humana con una concepción mágica y utilitarista de Dios. Estas y otras críticas similares son las que se abordan en este trabajo. El autor busca fundamentar la oración en general, y la de petición en particular, en el contexto general de la relación del hombre con Dios y, sobre todo, en el marco del cristianismo. Esto implica plantearse en qué consiste la comunicación con Dios, en qué sentido es la oración la raiz de la praxis religiosa y cuál es el concepto de Dios desde el que se aborda la problemática de la oración. A partir de ahí, se estudian los problemas de la oración de petición y se indican algunas pautas para cristianizarla y potenciarla, teniendo como trasfondo las críticas de la Ilustración y de la propia teología a la oración. JUAN ANTONIO ESTRADA es profesor del Departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad de Granada y profesor invitado de la Universidad Centroamericana de El Salvador. Ha impartido cursos en otros centros superiores de Lima, Asunción y Managua y en la Facultad de Teología de Granada. Entre sus últimas obras, destacan: Dios en las tradiciones filosóficas, I-II (1994-96): La espiritualidad de los laicos (1992): La identidad de los laicos (1990) y el estudio Oración: liberación y compromiso de fe (1986).

The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible

The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible
Author: Michael Lieb
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks Online
Total Pages: 742
Release: 2011-01-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199204543

This wide-ranging volume looks at the reception history of the Bible's many texts; Part I surveys the outline, form, and content of twelve key biblical books that have been influential in the history of interpretation. Part II offers a series of in-depth case studies of the interpretation of particular biblical passages or books.

The Gospel of Life

The Gospel of Life
Author: Pope John Paul II
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1995
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780679758648

Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill

Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill
Author: Cirilo Villaverde
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2005-09-29
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0199725233

Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.

A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse

A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse
Author: Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-12-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027266336

Does gender condition politicians’ discourse strategies in parliament? This is the question we try to answer in A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament. This book, written by experts in the field of discourse analysis, covers key aspects of political discourse such as gender, identity and verbal and nonverbal strategies: intensification, enumerative series, non-literal quotations, pseudo-desemantisation, lexical colloquialisation, emotion, eye contact and time management. It provides a large number of examples from a balanced gender parliament, the Andalusian Parliament, and it focuses mainly on argumentation, since parliamentary discourse is above all argumentative. This book will prove invaluable to students and teachers in the field of discourse analysis, and more specifically of political discourse, and will also be very useful to politicians and anyone interested in communication strategies. As of January 2019, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.