Download or read book Hard Sayings written by Thomas F. Haddox and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Sayings: The Rhetoric of Christian Orthodoxy in Late Modern Fiction by Thomas F. Haddox examines the work of six avowedly Christian writers of fiction in the period from World War II to the present. This period is often characterized in western societies by such catchphrases as "postmodernism" and "secularization," with the frequent implication that orthodox belief in the dogmas of Christianity has become untenable among educated readers. How, then, do we account for the continued existence of writers of self-consciously literary fiction who attempt to persuade readers of the truth, desirability, and utility of the dogmas of Christianity? Is it possible to take these writers' efforts on their own terms and to understand and evaluate the rhetorical strategies that this kind of persuasion might entail? Informed by the school of rhetorical narratology that includes such critics as Wayne Booth, James Phelan, and Richard Walsh, Hard Sayings offers fresh new readings of fictive works by Flannery O'Connor, Muriel Spark, John Updike, Walker Percy, Mary Gordon, and Marilynne Robinson. In its argument that orthodox Christianity, as represented in fiction, still has the power to persuade and to trouble, it contributes to ongoing debates about the nature and scope of modernity, postmodernity, and secularization.
Download or read book The Christian Religion and Biotechnology written by George P. Smith and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-06-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is a dominant force in the lives of many Americans. It animates, challenges, directs and shapes, as well, the legal, political, and scientific agendas of the new Age of Biotechnology. In a very real way, religion, biomedical technology and law are - epistemologically - different. Yet, they are equal vectors of force in defining reality and approaching an understanding of it. Indeed, all three share a synergetic relationship, for they seek to understand and improve the human condition. This book strikes a rich balance between thorough analysis (in the body), anchored in sound references to religion, law and medical scientific analysis, and a strong scholarly direction in the end notes. It presents new insights into the decision-making processes of the new Age of Biotechnology and shows how religion, law and medical science interact in shaping, directing and informing the political processes. This volume will be of interest to both scholars and practitioners in the fields of religion and theology, philosophy, ethics, (family) law, science, medicine, political science and public policy, and gender studies. It will serve as a reference source and can be used in graduate and undergraduate courses in law, medicine and religion.
Download or read book General History of the Christian Religion and Church written by August Neander and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philosophy of the Christian Religion written by Andrew Martin Fairbairn and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philosophy of the Christian Religion written by A. M. Fairbairn and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book may be described as an attempt to do two things; first, to explain religion through nature and man; and, secondly, to construe Christianity through religion. The author conceives religion to be a joint product of the mind within man and the nature around him, the mind being the source of the ideas which constitute its soul, the nature around determining the usages and customs which build up its body. He does not think, therefore, that any one of its special forms can be explained without the local nature which begot and shaped it, or that its general being can be resolved and construed without the reason or thought which is common to the race. He sees in religion the greatest of all man's unconscious creations, and the most potent of the means which the past, while it was still a living present, formed for the making of the man and the times that were yet to be." -- From the Preface
Download or read book A History of the Christian Church written by Karl von Hase and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Critical History of Free Thought in Reference to the Christian Religion written by Adam Storey Farrar and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General History of the Christian Religion and Church written by Joseph Torrey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book A Body of Divinity Wherein the Doctrines of the Christian Religion are Explained and Defended The Third Edition written by Thomas RIDGLEY and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Divine Original and Incomparable Excellency of the Christian Religion as Founded on the Holy Scriptures Asserted and Vindicated in VIII Sermons Preach d at the Lecture Founded by Robert Boyle Esq in the Year 1709 10 written by Josiah WOODWARD and published by . This book was released on 1712 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Christian Church written by Charles E. Blumenthal and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book Christian Masculinity written by Yvonne Maria Werner and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-nineteenth century, when the idea of religion as a private matter connected to the home and the female sphere won acceptance among the bourgeois elite, Christian religious practices began to be associated with femininity and soft values. Contemporary critics claimed that religion was incompatible with true manhood, and today's scholars talk about a feminization of religion. But was this really the case? What expression did male religious faith take at a time when Christianity was losing its status as the foundation of society? This is the starting point for the research presented in Christian Masculinity. Here we meet Catholic and Protestant men struggling with and for their Christian faith as priests, missionaries, and laymen, as well as ideas and reflections on Christian masculinity in media, fiction, and correspondence of various kinds. Some men engaged in social and missionary work, or strove to harness the masculine combative spirit to Christian ends, while others were eager to show the male character of Christian virtues. This book not only illustrates the importance of religion for the understanding of gender construction, but also the need to take into consideration confessional and institutional aspects of religious identity.
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Christian Church written by Charles Hase and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
Download or read book The Christian Religion in the Study and the Street written by James Hope Moulton and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Institution of Christian Religion written by Jean Calvin and published by . This book was released on 1574 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Perspectives on Education Religion and Law written by Charles J Russo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the legal status of religion in education, both public and non-public, in the United States and seven other nations. It will stimulate further interest, research, and debate on comparative analyses on the role of religion in schools at a time when the place of religion is of vital interest in most parts of the world. This interdisciplinary volume includes chapters by leading academicians and is designed to serve as a resource for researchers and educational practitioners, providing readers with an enhanced awareness of strategies for addressing the role of religion in rapidly diversifying educational settings. There is currently a paucity of books devoted solely to the topic written for interdisciplinary and international audiences involving educators and lawyers, and this book will clarify the legal complexities and technical language among the law, education, and religion.
