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Author	: Sarah Coakley
Publisher	: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date	: 2008-04-15
ISBN 10	: 9780470692684
Pages	: 192 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (926 users)

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Download or read book Powers and Submissions written by Sarah Coakley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Sarah Coakley confronts a central paradox of theological feminism - what she terms 'the paradox of power and vulnerability'. Confronts a central paradox of theological feminism – what Coakley terms 'paradox of power and vulnerability'. Explores this issue through the perspective of spiritual practice, philosophical enquiry and doctrinal analysis. Draws together an essential collection of Sarah Coakley's work in this field. Offers an original perspective into contemporary feminist theology.

God, Sexuality, and the Self

Author	: Sarah Coakley
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2013-08-29
ISBN 10	: 9780521552288
Pages	: 388 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (522 users)

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Download or read book God, Sexuality, and the Self written by Sarah Coakley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A creative new venture in systematic theology which tackles the intrinsic relation of God and 'sexuality'.

Christian Doctrine and the Grammar of Difference

Author	: Janice McRandal
Publisher	: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Release Date	: 2015
ISBN 10	: 9781451484472
Pages	: 203 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (844 users)

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Download or read book Christian Doctrine and the Grammar of Difference written by Janice McRandal and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rees argues that the doctrinal narrative of creation, fall, and redemption provides resources to resolve the theological impasse of difference in contemporary feminist theology. The divine economy reveals a God who enters into history and destabilizes fixed binaries and oppressive categories. As created subjects, we are sustained, affirmed, and drawn back into the Triune life, patterns present in liturgy, prayer, and practices of contemplation. The grammar of Christian faith cannot ultimately be uncovered except in prayer, opened beyond itself to a source of life and giving.

The New Catholic Feminism

Author	: Tina Beattie
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2004-06-01
ISBN 10	: 9781134417933
Pages	: 348 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (179 users)

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Download or read book The New Catholic Feminism written by Tina Beattie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is hard to over-estimate the challenge that feminism poses to Roman Catholicism. Pope John Paul II's call for a 'new feminism' has led to the development of a Catholic theological response to the so-called 'old feminism'. The New Catholic Feminism sets up a dramatic encounter between the orthodox Catholic establishment and contemporary critical theory, including feminist theology and philosophy, queer theory, and French psycholinguistics, in order to explore fundamental questions about human identity, personhood and gender. From the naked bodies of Eden to the 'gay nuptials' of liturgy, it argues that the strange and volatile world of Catholic sexual symbolism cannot be 'tamed' to meet the ideological agendas of either feminist theology or conservative Catholicism. Only through a radical re-evaluation of the sacramental significance of the sexed human body might the Catholic Church provide a redemptive response to the sexual politics of contemporary society.

Re-visioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion

Author	: Dr Pamela Sue Anderson
Publisher	: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date	: 2013-01-28
ISBN 10	: 9781409472322
Pages	: 264 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (723 users)

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Download or read book Re-visioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion written by Dr Pamela Sue Anderson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passion for justice and truth motivates the bold challenge of Revisioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion. Unearthing the ways in which the myths of Christian patriarchy have historically inhibited and prohibited women from thinking and writing their own ideas, this book lays fresh ground for re-visioning the epistemic practices of philosophers. Pamela Sue Anderson seeks both to draw out the salient threads in the gendering of philosophy of religion as it has been practiced and to re-vision gender for philosophy today. The arguments put forth by contemporary philosophers of religion concerning human and divine attributes are epistemically located; yet the motivation to recognize this locatedness has to come from a concern for justice. This book presents invaluable new perspectives on the philosopher’s ever-increasing awareness of his or her own locatedness, on the gender (often unwittingly) given to God, the ineffability in both analytic and Continental philosophy, the still critical role of reason in the field, the aims of a feminist philosophy of religion, the roles of beauty and justice, the vision of love and reason, and a gendering which opens philosophy of religion up to diversity.

Sarah Coakley and the Future of Systematic Theology

Author	: Janice McRandal
Publisher	: Fortress Press
Release Date	: 2016-02-01
ISBN 10	: 9781506408064
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (8 users)

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Download or read book Sarah Coakley and the Future of Systematic Theology written by Janice McRandal and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Coakley is one of the most exciting and creative figures in contemporary theology. Her far-reaching systematic vision of the Christian faith has integrated insights from systematic theology, gender studies, sociology, patristics, analytic philosophy of religion, and evolutionary biology. This integrated vision coheres around the mystical and contemplative core of Christian experience. In her challenging revisionary work on themes such as gender, sacrifice, desire, and the doctrine of the Trinity, Coakley reconnects theological reflection with its contemplative roots and pushes toward a new approach to systematic theological reflection. In Sarah Coakley and the Future of Systematic Theology, scholars explore Coakley’s multifaceted contribution to contemporary theology and consider the ways through which her work sets a new standard for systematic reflection on the Christian faith. This volume brings together, around Coakley’s work, a gathering of established and emerging scholars and asks critical questions of Coakley’s work as we await three further volumes of her systematic theology.

Moral Powers, Fragile Beliefs

Author	: Joseph Carlisle
Publisher	: A&C Black
Release Date	: 2011-02-17
ISBN 10	: 9781441140319
Pages	: 290 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (43 users)

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Exploring Christian Spirituality

Author	: Bruce H. Lescher
Publisher	: Paulist Press
Release Date	: 2006
ISBN 10	: 0809142163
Pages	: 249 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (63 users)

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Download or read book Exploring Christian Spirituality written by Bruce H. Lescher and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandra Schneiders commands respect as one of the most significant and influential figures in the emergence of the study of Christian spirituality as an academic discipline, as the focused and disciplined exploration of religious experience. This book honors her contributions to the field by addressing issues that are emerging at the creative "edges" of the discipline. In this volume, colleagues and students of Dr. Schneiders and other collaborators in the academic discipline of Christian spirituality examine crucial issues from their various disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Questions of methodology address the status of spirituality as a discipline, interdisciplinarity, and self-implication. Other essays explore the "edges" of Christian spirituality and biblical spirituality, gender studies, the natural sciences, nature writing, the social sciences, and interfaith issues. This collection of essays will provoke students and scholars of Christian spirituality, as well as practitioners, to continue critically thinking, discussing, writing, and practicing it.

Deaconesses, the Ordination of Women and Orthodox Theology

Author	: Eleni Kasselouri-Hatzivassiliadi
Publisher	: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date	: 2018-06-11
ISBN 10	: 9781527511972
Pages	: 610 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (119 users)

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Download or read book Deaconesses, the Ordination of Women and Orthodox Theology written by Eleni Kasselouri-Hatzivassiliadi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays highlights the thorny and divisive issue of the admission of women into the sacramental diaconal priesthood of the Christian Church from the Orthodox theological perspective. The contributions here stem from scientific papers presented at an international conference titled “Deaconesses, Ordination of Women and Orthodox Theology”, organized in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2015 by the Center of Ecumenical, Missiological and Environmental Studies (CEMES). They cover almost all the fields of biblical, liturgical, patristic, systematic, canonical, and historical theology. The volume’s main focus is the ancient order of deaconesses, in connection with the overall issue of the ordination of women. Although most papers address the issues from an Orthodox perspective, their sober analysis can provide theological argumentation for the wider Christian community, both the Churches and Christian denominations that exclude women from the sacramental priesthood, and those that have already adopted their ordination.

The Mind of Christ

Author	: Stephen T. Pardue
Publisher	: A&C Black
Release Date	: 2013-09-12
ISBN 10	: 9780567343802
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (438 users)

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Download or read book The Mind of Christ written by Stephen T. Pardue and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings a variety of theological resources to bear on the now widespread effort to put humility in its proper place. In recent years, an assortment of thinkers have offered competing evaluations of humility, so that its moral status is now more contentious than ever. Like all accounts of humility, the one advanced in this study has to do with the proper handling of human limits. What early Christian resources offer, and what discussions of the issue since the eighteenth century have often overlooked, is an account of the ways in which human limits are permeable, superable and open to modification because of the working of divine grace. This notion is especially relevant for a renewed vision of intellectual humility-the primary aim of the project-but the study will also suggest the significance of the argument for ameliorating contemporary concerns about humility's generally adverse effects.

Power For: Feminism and Christ's Self-Giving

Author	: Anna Mercedes
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2011-09-22
ISBN 10	: 9780567277688
Pages	: 184 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (776 users)

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Download or read book Power For: Feminism and Christ's Self-Giving written by Anna Mercedes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contesting the feminist critique of the dangers of Christianity's self-giving ethics, this book advances a contemporary feminist christology engaging the strength of self-giving power.

Beauty

Author	: Natalie Carnes
Publisher	: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date	: 2014-11-13
ISBN 10	: 9781630876678
Pages	: 282 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (766 users)

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Download or read book Beauty written by Natalie Carnes and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty engages fourth-century bishop Gregory of Nyssa to address beauty's place in theology and the broader world. With the recent resurgence of attention to beauty among theologians, questions still remain about what exactly beauty is, how it is perceived, and whether we should celebrate its return. If beauty fell out of favor because it was seen to distract from the weightier concerns of poverty and suffering--because it can even be a tool of oppression--why should we laud it now? Gregory's writings offer surprisingly rich and relevant reflections that can move contemporary conversations beyond current impasses and critiques of beauty. Drawing Gregory into conversation with such disparate voices as novelist J. M. Coetzee and art theorist Kaja Silverman, Beauty displays the importance of beauty to theology and theology to beauty in a discussion that bridges ancient and modern, practical and theoretical, secular and religious.

Contemplative Prayer

Author	: David Foster
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2015-05-07
ISBN 10	: 9781408187128
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (871 users)

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Download or read book Contemplative Prayer written by David Foster and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Foster, author of the bestselling Reading with God and Deep Calls to Deep (Bloomsbury), extends their discussion of contemplative prayer in terms of its philosophical framework. Contrasting a traditional framework with one based on continental philosophy, Foster explores a number of metaphysical and epistemological questions as well as the place of silence in a philosophy of language. He defends traditional insights of the mystical tradition, including its underlying metaphysical realism, religious experience as awareness of God, and the role of apophatic discourse in mysticism, arguing that the sense of God's absence can be a threshold of prayer.

Transformation

Author	: Eolene M. Boyd-MacMillan
Publisher	: Peter Lang
Release Date	: 2006
ISBN 10	: 3039105655
Pages	: 313 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (55 users)

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Download or read book Transformation written by Eolene M. Boyd-MacMillan and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformation is a desired outcome of Christian spirituality. Christians pray, trust, and hope that their responsive embrace of God will transform them. Interdisciplinary study of this process, as journey and as significant movements, hits upon key philosophical, theological, and psychological debates. Are all spiritualities the same core with an overlay of traditional practices and beliefs? How is the Holy Spirit involved in human life as the potential for this transformation process unfolds from birth? Can psychological theories of transformation that do not affirm divine reality have explanatory and descriptive power for Christian understandings of transformation? These areas of focus and related questions encompass broad landscapes. This book places a magnifying glass on one piece of the terrain by engaging the work of philosopher, theologian, and psychologist James Loder, mystical spirituality scholars Andrew Louth, Bernard McGinn, Denys Turner, and Mark McIntosh, and archetypal movement founder James Hillman. Without denying differences, this work is the first analysis to identify connections among these thinkers. The significance of the connections is both substantive and methodological for intra- and inter-faith (broadly understood) spirituality discussion, as well as for the engagement of the Christian church with the culture of the twenty-first century.

Faith, Rationality and the Passions

Author	: Sarah Coakley
Publisher	: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date	: 2012-07-20
ISBN 10	: 9781118321683
Pages	: 272 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (216 users)

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Download or read book Faith, Rationality and the Passions written by Sarah Coakley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith, Rationality and the Passions presents a fresh andoriginal examination of the relation of religious faith,philosophical rationality and the passions. Contributions seeleading scholars refute the widely-held belief that religiousEnlightenment forced passion and reason apart. Leading Philosophical experts offer new research on therelation of faith, reason and the passions in classic andEnlightenment figures Overturns the widely-held presumption that the Enlightenmentwas responsible for creating a gulf between reason andpassion Presents original and innovative research on the importance ofthe late-19th century creation of the category of‘emotion’, and its striking difference from classicideas of passion Brings together secular science and philosophy of emotion withphilosophical theology to seek a new integration of belief, emotionand reason

God, Value, and Nature

Author	: Fiona Ellis
Publisher	: OUP Oxford
Release Date	: 2014-10-31
ISBN 10	: 9780191023545
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (235 users)

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Download or read book God, Value, and Nature written by Fiona Ellis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many philosophers believe that God has been put to rest. Naturalism is the default position, and the naturalist can explain what needs to be explained without recourse to God. This book agrees that we should be naturalists, but it rejects the more prevalent scientific naturalism in favour of an 'expansive' naturalism inspired by David Wiggins and John McDowell. It is argued that expansive naturalism can accommodate the idea of God, and that the expansive naturalist has unwittingly paved the way towards a form of naturalism which poses a genuine challenge to the atheist. It follows that the traditional naturalism versus theism debate must be reconfigured: naturalism and theism are no longer logically incompatible; rather, they can both be true. Fiona Ellis draws on a wide range of thinkers from theology and philosophy, and spans the gulf between analytic and continental philosophy. She tackles various philosophical problems including the limits of nature and the status of value; some theological problems surrounding the natural/supernatural relation, the Incarnation, and the concept of myth; and offers a model - inspired by the secular expansive naturalist's conception of philosophy - to comprehend the relation between philosophy and theology.

Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion

Author	: Chad Meister
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2013-01-17
ISBN 10	: 9781136696862
Pages	: 848 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (968 users)

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Download or read book Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion written by Chad Meister and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Second edition is an indispensable guide and reference source to the major themes, movements, debates and topics in philosophy of religion. Considerably expanded for the second edition, over seventy entries from a team of renowned international contributors are organized into nine clear parts: philosophical issues in world religions key figures in philosophy of religion religious diversity the theistic conception of God arguments for the existence of God arguments against the existence of God philosophical theology Christian theism recent topics in philosophy of religion. Covering key world religions including Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam, and key figures such as Augustine, Aquinas and Kierkegaard, the Companion explores the central topics in theism such as the ontological, cosmological and teleological arguments for God’s existence. Three final parts consider Catholicism, Protestantism, Eastern orthodoxy and current debates including phenomenology, reformed epistemology, religious experience, and religion and science, making the Companion as a whole essential reading for students of philosophy or religion, and suitable for anyone coming to the subject for the first time. This second edition includes new chapters on Blaise Pascal, Baruch Spinoza, Interreligious Dialogue, Death and the Afterlife, Incorporeality, Religion and Global Ethics, New Religious Movements, Religion and the Environment, and Religion and Film.