Imagination

Imagination
Author: John Cocking
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2005-08-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134932081

The origins, nature, function and effects of imagination have engrossed writers, theologians, philosophers and practitioners of the arts across the ages; its influence on painting and music continues to be debated. It has been simultaneously feared as a dangerous, uncontrollable force and revered as the supreme visionary power. Cocking's Imagination is an exploration of the history of imagination from antiquity to the Renaissance. The book opens with a treatment of imagination in the writings of Aristotle and Plato. Developments in the Middle Ages are traced, with particular attention to the parallel tradition in Islamic thought of the period and the book pursues the concept through the theories of Dante and the Neo-platonists to the High Renaissance. The manuscript was left unfinished on Professor Cocking's death in 1986 and has been edited by Penelope Murray, who adds an introductory essay. The book will be of particular value as a background to the explosion of interest in the imagination in the Romantic period.

The Essential Pope Benedict XVI

The Essential Pope Benedict XVI
Author: John F. Thornton
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2008
Genre:
ISBN: 006112883X

"A collection of writings and speeches by Pope Benedict XVI introduces his perspectives on key issues marking his papacy, addressing topics ranging from abortion and priesthood sexual misconduct to anti-Semitism and Christian relations with Islam"--OCLC

Christianity and the Laws of Conscience

Christianity and the Laws of Conscience
Author: Jeffrey B. Hammond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2021-06-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108835384

This book explores the Christian theological, legal, constitutional, historical, and philosophical meanings of conscience for both scholarly and educated general audiences.

Duplex Regnum Christi

Duplex Regnum Christi
Author: Jonathon D. Beeke
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2020-09-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004440674

In this historical study, Jonathon D. Beeke considers the various sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Reformed expressions regarding the duplex regnum Christi (the twofold kingdom of Christ), or, as especially denominated in the Lutheran context, the “doctrine of the two kingdoms.” While a sampling of patristic and medieval sources is considered, the focus is on select magisterial Reformers of the sixteenth century and representative intellectual centers of the seventeenth century (Leiden, Geneva, and Edinburgh). A primary concern is to examine the development of these formulations over the two centuries in question, and relate its maturation to the theological and political context of the early modern period. Various conclusions are offered that address the contemporary “two-kingdoms” debate within the Reformed tradition.

Trichier

Trichier
Author: Alessandra Ceretto
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 192
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 136509796X

The Theology of Jonathan Edwards

The Theology of Jonathan Edwards
Author: Michael J. McClymond
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 774
Release: 2012-01-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199791600

Scholars and laypersons alike regard Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) as North America's greatest theologian. The Theology of Jonathan Edwards is the most comprehensive survey of his theology yet produced and the first study to make full use of the recently-completed seventy-three-volume online edition of the Works of Jonathan Edwards. The book's forty-five chapters examine all major aspects of Edwards's thought and include in-depth discussions of the extensive secondary literature on Edwards as well as Edwards's own writings. Its opening chapters set out Edwards's historical and personal theological contexts. The next thirty chapters connect Edwards's theological loci in the temporally-ordered way in which he conceptualized the theological enterprise-beginning with the triune God in eternity with his angels to the history of redemption as an expression of God's inner reality ad extra, and then back to God in eschatological glory.The authors analyze such themes as aesthetics, metaphysics, typology, history of redemption, revival, and true virtue. They also take up such rarely-explored topics as Edwards's missiology, treatment of heaven and angels, sacramental thought, public theology, and views of non-Christian religions. Running throughout the volume are what the authors identify as five basic theological constituents: trinitarian communication, creaturely participation, necessitarian dispositionalism, divine priority, and harmonious constitutionalism. Later chapters trace his influence on and connections with later theologies and philosophies in America and Europe. The result is a multi-layered analysis that treats Edwards as a theologian for the twenty-first-century global Christian community, and a bridge between the Christian West and East, Protestantism and Catholicism, conservatism and liberalism, and charismatic and non-charismatic churches.

The Restoration Church of England, 1646-1689

The Restoration Church of England, 1646-1689
Author: John Spurr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 445
Release: 1991
Genre: Anglican Communion
ISBN: 9780300050714

This book is a comprehensive account of the Church of England, Anglicanism and religious life in England during the Restoration period that shaped all three. While much has been written about the Church of England in the century before the Civil War, this history focuses on Anglicanism in the second half of the 17th century, a period when it began to establish a distinct indentity, to recognize and explain how it differed from both the Church of Rome and the Protestant Reformed churches of Europe.

Participation in God

Participation in God
Author: Andrew Davison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2019-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1108483283

Offers a substantial discussion of a central theme in Christian theology - that everything comes from and depends upon God.