Outline : How to translate and apply the complex concept encapsulated in words like saint, martyr and hero in a global space? This volume is devoted to the study of some of the transformations of the broad concept of sanctity and its exportation and adaptation in and outside Europe, through a series of case studies focusing on gender, popular and learned culture. The collected essays weave toge…
Outline : "The Post-Secular City" is the first attempt to systematically map and assess the re-cent debate about secularization. "The Post-Secular City" examines the alleged shift from a "secular" to a "post-secular" dispensation from the perspective of the ongoing de-construction of the secularization "theorem" (as Hans Blumenberg called it). Accordingly, the new secularization debate is descr…
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978-3-506-79526-7
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187 hal
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Supplementa Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society Volume 2
Outline : Mid-nineteenth-century America was a vibrant period marked by charismatic leaders who produced new sacred writing. This book explores the lives and works of Mormon founder Joseph Smith Jr., Methodist revivalist Phoebe Palmer, and Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, focusing on how their textual productions contributed to a diverse discourse community grappling with a perceived loss…
Outline : A Companion to Comparative Theology offers a unique survey of a rapidly developing field of modern theology in 32 chapters coordinated by five editors. Its first part discusses some of the main historical developments in theology and religious studies before 1985 that are relevant for understanding contemporary approaches in comparative theology. The main part of the companion traces …
Outline : Although Third World liberation theology is often viewed as a monolithic religious expression, it is in reality a richly varied phenomenon, as diverse as are the continents from which it springs. A companion to Third World Liberation Theologies: An Introductory Survey, this volume, judiciously edited by Deane William Ferm, brightly illustrates this diversity, bringing together represe…
Outline : The theme of The Book of Job is nothing less than human suffering and the transcendence of it: it pulses with moral energy, outrage, and spiritual insight. Now The Book of Job has been rendered into English by the eminent translator and scholar Stephen Mitchell, whose versions of Rilke, Israeli poetry, and the Tao Te Ching have been widely praised. This is the first time ever that the…
Outline : There are some things in life so evil that when we meet them we only want to destroy them-like starvation or tyranny, excessive drink or drugs, sickness, hunger, old age and death, or a three-year-old with a fragment of a bomb in his head. Dorothee Sölle knows about them all and burns for change and revolution. But here feelings are tempered by patience. Sometimes we have to endure. …
Outline : This book is a basic introduction to the thought of one of the world's outstanding religious figures. Carefully chosen both for accessibility and as an overview of Wilfred Cantwell Smith's thinking, these nine selections on world religions move gracefully through a wide range of concerns.
Part One, Religious Diversity and Truth, highlights the continuing tension between the poles of…
Outline : Can there be major dimensions of a poem, a painting, a musical composition created in the absence of God? Or, is God always a real presence in the arts? In Real Presences, George Steiner, one of this century's most original thinkers, passionately argues that a transcendent reality grounds all genuine art and human communication.
Outline : African Christian theologies aim to contextualise the gospel in African cultures, yet they also have much to offer to the development of systematic theology elsewhere. In this book the responses of Barth and of Pannenberg to the question of how God is related to the world are analysed and then re-formulated. This is done through interaction with the themes of community, life and co-cr…
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3-631-4509-3
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194 hal
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Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity No. 86
Outline : This groundbreaking work presents a stimulating and perceptive rethinking and restating of five basic Christian doctrines in the light of "liberation theology." As Dr. Migliore explains, "The theology of liberation is a challenge to Christians everywhere. It should be neither ignored nor dismissed as a passing theological fad. The ecumenical church should welcome this challenge to mov…
Outline : Buku ini berisi informasi tentang upaya penerjemahan Alkitab ke dalam bahasa-bahasa daerah di Indonesia yang diawali dengan penerbitan Injil Matius dalam bahasa Melayu pada tahun 1629 dan terus berlanjut hingga abad ke-20. Tampak ada hubungan yang signifikan antara ketersediaan terjemahan Alkitab dan perkem-bangan umat Tuhan. Selain itu, sejarah memperlihatkan bagaimana upaya penerjem…
Outline : This unique book embodies one of the most comprehensive works ever writ-ten on the theme of prayer. It not only summarizes all the prayers of the Bible, giving a brief exposition of every prayer mentioned from Genesis through Revelation, but also analyzes what each book of the Bible has to say concerning prayer and its role in human life and history. Dr. Robert G. Lee, former Presiden…
Outline : All the Men of the Bible, the most unique source book on the subject of Bible characters ever published, is a monumental achievement to benefit Christians who want to have information on Biblical characters at their fingertips. Dr. Lockyer has given us a spiritual classic that will never lose its value and interest. The Bible contains more than three thousand named men, all of whom ar…
Outline : Says Professor F. F. Bruce in his foreword, "Dr. Lockyer, out of his long experience and ripe wisdom, has written a book which will help many to under-stand the cardinal doctrines of the Chris-tian faith. It will not take the place of the Bible, but will prove of greatest use to those who study it along with an open Bible. The Bible, as it recites the mighty and self-revealing account…
Outline : GEREJA YANG BERDOA
Bagaimana doa dapat menghidupkan kembali gereja saudara dan meruntuhkan tembok pemisah di antara gereja dan masyarakat sekitar saudara. Merubah doa retorik menjadi doa yang aktif, betapa pentingnya bagi gereja mengerti kebenaran tentang doa yang efektif. Belajar Mendengar suara Tuhan. Kita tak mungkin mengalami janji-janji Tuhan kecuali kita tahu/mengenal kehendak …
Outline : INILAH SEJUMLAH ATURAN UNTUK TIKUS GOT
Pancangkan ambisi besar. Jangan pernah merasa puas. Pandanglah kehidupan sebagai bagian dari kerja, dan bukan kerja sebagai bagian dari kehidupan. Patuhi semua aturan itu, menangi balapan tikus got, dan tetaplah menjadi tikus got! Inilah sejumlah aturan untuk tikus rumah-Tak ada pertarungan, tak saling menggigit. Jika kaucakar punggungku, kucak…
Overview: Perintah terpenting dalam Kekristenan adalah untuk mengasihi. Pertama-tama untuk mengasihi Tuhan, yang adalah Kasih itu sendiri, juga untuk mewujudkannya dalam kasih kepada sesama manusia dan segala makhluk yang diciptakan Tuhan. Di dalam menaati perintah bahagia ini kita akan berjumpa dengan diri kita yang sebenarnya, dengan kelumpuhan dan keengganan untuk mencinta - tetapi sekalig…
Outline: If that sounds like you, here is the help you've been looking for. Richard L. Pratt, Jr., knows the burdens many of us carry because of inadequate prayer lives. In this instructive yet often entertaining book, he offers clear biblical direction on how to pray more effectively. With remarkable care and balance he discusses key issues: from fascination with God to honest confession of ou…
Outline: Alkitab mengatakan ada suatu masa ketika Allah dan Adam berjalan bersama di Taman Eden dan berbicara sebagai sahabat. Lalu, doa pun menjadi sama alaminya seperti obrolan dengan seorang rekan atau kekasih. Namun, kini banyak di antara kita yang menyuarakan komentar seperti ini: Saya tidak selalu bersikap jujur saat berdoa. Kadang hal itu terasa seperti dipaksakan, mirip semacam ritual…