Displacing Christian Origins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Displacing Christian Origins write by Ward Blanton. This book was released on 2008-09-15. Displacing Christian Origins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent critical theory is curiously preoccupied with the metaphors and ideas of early Christianity, especially the religion of Paul. The haunting of secular thought by the very religion it seeks to overcome may seem surprising at first, but Ward Blanton argues that this recent return by theorists to the resources of early Christianity has precedent in modern and ostensibly secularizing philosophy, from Kant to Heidegger. Displacing Christian Origins traces the current critical engagement of Agamben, Derrida, and Žižek, among others, back into nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century philosophers of early Christianity. By comparing these crucial moments in the modern history of philosophy with exemplars of modern biblical scholarship—David Friedrich Strauss, Adolf Deissmann, and Albert Schweitzer—Blanton offers a new way for critical theory to construe the relationship between the modern past and the biblical traditions to which we seem to be drawn once again. An innovative contribution to the intellectual history of biblical exegesis, Displacing Christian Origins will promote informed and fruitful debate between religion and philosophy.
Beyond Homelessness
Beyond Homelessness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Homelessness write by Steven Bouma-Prediger. This book was released on 2008-06-03. Beyond Homelessness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a brilliant use of metaphor that makes clear why the world leaves us feeling so uneasy!
The Christian Imagination
The Christian Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Christian Imagination write by Willie James Jennings. This book was released on 2010-05-25. The Christian Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-ranging work, Willie James Jennings delves deep into the late medieval soil in which the modern Christian imagination grew, to reveal how Christianity's highly refined process of socialization has inadvertently created and maintained segregated societies. A probing study of the cultural fragmentation-social, spatial, and racial-that took root in the Western mind, this book shows how Christianity has consistently forged Christian nations rather than encouraging genuine communion between disparate groups and individuals. Weaving together the stories of Zurara, the royal chronicler of Prince Henry, the Jesuit theologian Jose de Acosta, the famed Anglican Bishop John William Colenso, and the former slave writer Olaudah Equiano, Jennings narrates a tale of loss, forgetfulness, and missed opportunities for the transformation of Christian communities. Touching on issues of slavery, geography, Native American history, Jewish-Christian relations, literacy, and translation, he brilliantly exposes how the loss of land and the supersessionist ideas behind the Christian missionary movement are both deeply implicated in the invention of race. Using his bold, creative, and courageous critique to imagine a truly cosmopolitan citizenship that transcends geopolitical, nationalist, ethnic, and racial boundaries, Jennings charts, with great vision, new ways of imagining ourselves, our communities, and the landscapes we inhabit.
History of Christianity
History of Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of Christianity write by Paul Johnson. This book was released on 2012-03-27. History of Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude—“a tour de force, one of the most ambitious surveys of the history of Christianity ever attempted and perhaps the most radical” (New York Review of Books). In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author Johnson has illuminated the Christian world and its fascinating history in a way that no other has. Johnson takes off in the year AD 49 with his namesake the apostle Paul. Thus beginning an ambitious quest to paint the centuries since the founding of a little-known ‘Jesus Sect’, A History of Christianity explores to a great degree the evolution of the Western world. With an unbiased and overall optimistic tone, Johnson traces the fantastic scope of the consequent sects of Christianity and the people who followed them. Information drawn from extensive and varied sources from around the world makes this history as credible as it is reliable. Invaluable understanding of the framework of modern Christianity—and its trials and tribulations throughout history—has never before been contained in such a captivating work.
The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity
The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity write by James C. Russell. This book was released on 1996. The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses German influence on the development of early medieval Christianity.
