Author: Carolyn Thomas
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809135103
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 167
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Gift And Response

by Carolyn Thomas, Gift And Response Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Gift And Response books, Presents contemporary issues as content for a modern spirituality based on Scripture.

Author: Jan-Olav Henriksen
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 080286371X
Size: 23.95 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 379
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Desire Gift And Recognition

by Jan-Olav Henriksen, Desire Gift And Recognition Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Desire Gift And Recognition books, A major work in the philosophy of religion, this book interprets the Jesus story in terms of postmodern philosophy - particularly using Jacques Derrida?s categories of "desire," "gift," and "recognition." Author Jan-Olav Henriksen also attempts to reformulate Christology without resorting to such metaphysical concepts as substance, transcendence, etc. While not denying traditional doctrines, Henriksen explicates the meaning of Jesus' life and death in ways that engage contemporary philosophy and challenge contemporary (academic) Christians to rethink the basics of their faith; and he outlines the possibility of a "post-metaphysical Christology." / Henriksen s book is a clearly reasoned guide not only to the argument that Christology still has something to say to contemporary believers but also to ways in which theologians must learn to reconnect to everyday human experience.

Author: Aroh Prudentius Emeka
Publisher: Gregorian Biblical BookShop
ISBN: 8878392839
Size: 19.69 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Priestly Celibacy A Gift And A Commitment Can 277 1

by Aroh Prudentius Emeka, Priestly Celibacy A Gift And A Commitment Can 277 1 Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Priestly Celibacy A Gift And A Commitment Can 277 1 books, Is celibacy an exclusive practice of the Latin Church? Why has priestly celibacy in the Catholic Church always been singled out for attacks? Is the requirement of celibacy harmful to man’s psycho-sexual equilibrium and to the normal development of human personality? Is celibacy a greater burden to priests from non-Western cultures like Ingho-Nigerian culture? Is priestly celibacy still relevant in today’s society? If priestly celibacy is a charism, how can it be imposed by law? These crucial questions about priestly celibacy find their answers in this work. There has been a debate concerning the primary source of the obligation of priestly celibacy. This work clarifies that since priestly celibacy is a charism of the Holy Spirit, the primary source of obligation does not rise from the law but from the charism itself (gift) and from the free response which the person gives in love to this charism (commitment). The work traced the magisterium of the Church on priestly celibacy from 1917 code to the pontificate of Benedict XVI and came to the conclusion that the crisis associated with celibacy is not solved by abrogating the law but through an integrated celibate formation of seminarians. The work therefore developed an «integrated celibate formation model for Igho-Nigerian seminarians»., a model which is adaptable to the formation of seminarians in any socio-cultural and ecclesial situation.

Author: Diana Butler Bass
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062659510
Size: 54.98 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Grateful

by Diana Butler Bass, Grateful Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Grateful books, The Wilbur Award-winning book Grateful is now available in paperback and with an updated subtitle. If gratitude is good, why is it so hard to do? In Grateful, Diana Butler Bass untangles our conflicting understandings of gratitude and sets the table for a renewed practice of giving thanks. We know that gratitude is good, but many of us find it hard to sustain a meaningful life of gratefulness. Four out of five Americans report feeling gratitude on a regular basis, but those private feelings seem disconnected from larger concerns of our public lives. In Grateful, cultural observer and theologian Diana Butler Bass takes on this “gratitude gap” and offers up surprising, relevant, and powerful insights to practice gratitude. Bass, author of the award-winning Grounded and ten other books on spirituality and culture, explores the transformative, subversive power of gratitude for our personal lives and in communities. Using her trademark blend of historical research, spiritual insights, and timely cultural observation, she shows how we can overcome this gap and make change in our own lives and in the world. With honest stories and heartrending examples from history and her own life, Bass reclaims gratitude as a path to greater connection with god, with others, with the world, and even with our own souls. It’s time to embrace a more radical practice of gratitude—the virtue that heals us and helps us thrive.

Author: Peter Schmiechen
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532604963
Size: 15.61 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Gift And Promise

by Peter Schmiechen, Gift And Promise Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Gift And Promise books, What would happen if the liturgy for the Lord's Supper started with the images in the New Testament rather than the divisions of our past? It would be like going through an open door into a new world. There we would find a new Passover celebration, a new covenant, and remembrance and proclamation of Jesus' death and resurrection--all in the context of the kingdom of God. It would be an evangelical Lord's Supper. This is a high-risk operation, given the reliance by many on transactional sacrifice and the tendency to reduce the Supper to a sacrament of penance for individuals. Ideas rejected by Luther and Calvin now reappear even among Protestants. The goal cannot be reached by subtracting a few things and adding references to eschatology and joy. The good news is that many churches have already taken steps to reform their liturgies. To support that process, here is a clear and consistent evangelical perspective, based on the theology and biblical considerations that have formed our faith and practice.

Author: Jason Alvis
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319279424
Size: 58.40 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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Marion And Derrida On The Gift And Desire Debating The Generosity Of Things

by Jason Alvis, Marion And Derrida On The Gift And Desire Debating The Generosity Of Things Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Marion And Derrida On The Gift And Desire Debating The Generosity Of Things books, This book examines the various encounters between Jean-Luc Marion and Jacques Derrida on “the gift,” considers their many differences on “desire,” and demonstrates how these topics hold the keys to some of phenomenology’s most pressing structural questions, especially regarding “deconstructive” approaches within the field. The book claims that the topic of desire is a central lynchpin to understanding the two thinkers’ conflict over the gift, for the gift is reducible to the “desire to give,” which initiates a turn to the topic of “generosity.” To what degree might loving also imply giving? How far might it be suggested that love is reducible to desire and intentionality? It is demonstrated how Derrida (the generative “father” of deconstruction) rejects the possibility of any potential relation between the gift and desire on the account that desire is bound to calculative repetition, economical appropriation, and subject-centered interests that hinder deconstruction. Whereas Marion (a representative of the phenomenological tradition) demands a unique union between the gift and desire, which are both represented in his “reduction to givenness” and “erotic reduction.” The book is the first extensive attempt to contextualize the stark differences between Marion and Derrida within the phenomenological legacy (Husserl, Heidegger, Kant), supplies readers with in-depth accounts of the topics of the gift, love, and desire, and demonstrates another means through which the appearing of phenomena might be understood, namely, according to the generosity of things.

Author: Courtney Campbell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401582440
Size: 25.22 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Duties To Others

by Courtney Campbell, Duties To Others Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Duties To Others books, Despite reservoirs of moral discourse about duties in religious communities, professional caregiving traditions, and philosophical perspectives, the dominant moral language in contemporary biomedical ethics is that of `rights'. Duties to Others begins to correct this imbalance in our ethical language through theoretical expositions of the ideas of duty and of the `other', and by applied exemplifications of particular duties to identified others that arise in the context of health care. A pronounced multidisciplinary orientation informs this analysis of our moral call to respond to the needs of others. The essays in this volume offer a stimulating intellectual freshness through a continual engagement of theological, professional, and philosophical understandings of the duties that arise in our relationships with others in medicine, nursing, and social contexts. Duties to Others provides provocative challenges about the terrain of our moral world for both students and professionals in biomedical ethics, medicine, philosophy, and theology.

Author: Philip Mauro
Publisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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God S Gift And Our Response

by Philip Mauro, God S Gift And Our Response Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download God S Gift And Our Response books,

Author: Susan Marie Smith
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1630878146
Size: 18.84 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Christian Ritualizing And The Baptismal Process

by Susan Marie Smith, Christian Ritualizing And The Baptismal Process Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Christian Ritualizing And The Baptismal Process books, Most people, even non-Christians, know that Christians gather for worship once a week, and that they are right there to support each other when there is a baptism or a wedding or a funeral. But what about other poignant, vulnerable, or life-changing times? How does the church help people handle changes that in the past, in Christendom, were considered secular? Does the church have a role at retirement when one's ministry changes, or when a family's children leave home and familiar patterns seem to grind to a halt? Is there any rite possible for someone who is called to Christian ministry but not to ordination? Or to someone whose vows are broken in divorce? Christian Ritualizing and the Baptismal Process asserts that baptism marks the beginning of a process of participation in Christ's ministry, so that no part of life can finally be considered secular. Susan Marie Smith shows how every passage, healing, and ministry vocation is holy, and she lays the groundwork needed for every church to create the rituals necessary to lament and celebrate the endings and beginnings that happen in every Christian life.

Author: John Koenig
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0819225576
Size: 25.11 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Soul Banquets

by John Koenig, Soul Banquets Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Soul Banquets books, A look at the way meals of various sorts can be more effectively integrated into parish activities, promoting the emergence of new gifts for ministry as well as increasing our gratitude for God’s abundance and the works of justice and mercy that follow from our expressions of thanksgiving.