The Study of Literature and Religion - 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 Study of Literature and Religion write by D. Jasper. This book was released on 1989-09-18. The Study of Literature and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration of the relationship between literature and religion, which adopts an interdisciplinary approach, aiming to provide an introduction to the variety of ways in which literature, literary theory and theology are related.
History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles
History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles - 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, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles write by Ehud Ben Zvi. This book was released on 2014-12-05. History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles presents a new way of approaching this key biblical text, arguing that the Book employs both multiple viewpoints and the knowledge of the past held by its intended readership to reshape social memory and reinforce the authority of God. The Book of Chronicles communicates to its intended readership a theological worldview built around multiple, partial perspectives which inform and balance each other. This is a worldview which emphasizes the limitations of all human knowledge, even of theologically "proper" knowledge. When Chronicles presents the past as explainable it also affirms that those who inhabited it could not predict the future. And, despite expanding an "explainable" past, the Book deliberately frames some of YHWH's actions - crucial events in Israel's social memory - as unexplainable in human terms. The Book serves to rationalise divinely ordained, prescriptive behaviour through its emphasis on the impossibility of adequate human understanding of a past, present and future governed by YHWH.
The Literature of Theology
The Literature of Theology - 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 Literature of Theology write by David R. Stewart. This book was released on 2003-01-01. The Literature of Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This updated reference guide directs students to over five hundred significant theological resources across a wide area of theological research. It details bibliographic sources for encyclopedias, dictionaries, and electronic resources in biblical studies, historical studies, theology, and practical theology.
Literature and Theology
Literature and Theology - 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 Literature and Theology write by Dr Heather Walton. This book was released on 2013-06-28. Literature and Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores current trends in the interdisciplinary study of literature and theology - an area of academic activity that has developed dramatically in the past twenty years. The field of study originated from the impetus to embrace the richness of imaginative resources in theological reflection and was stimulated by the re-emergence of the sacred in contemporary theory. Since the mid '90s critical theory has undergone a number of significant transformations, theology has become a subject of public concern and the boundaries between sacred and cultural texts have become increasingly unstable. This book brings together the work of leading scholars in the field with that of emerging voices. Offering an important resource for the growing number of postgraduate courses exploring the relation between religion and culture in the contemporary context, this book delineates current trends in interdisciplinary debate as well as tracing emerging configurations.
The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology
The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology - 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 Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology write by Paul Cefalu. This book was released on 2017-11-03. The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology argues that the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were so influential during the early modern period in England as to share with Pauline theology pride of place as leading apostolic texts on matters Christological, sacramental, pneumatological, and political. The book argues further that, in several instances, Johannine theology is more central than both Pauline theology and the Synoptic theology of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, particularly with regard to early modern polemicizing on the Trinity, distinctions between agape and eros, and the ideologies of radical dissent, especially the seventeenth-century antinomian challenge of free grace to traditional Puritan Pietism. In particular, early modern religious poetry, including works by Robert Southwell, George Herbert, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Traherne, and Anna Trapnel, embraces a distinctive form of Johannine devotion that emphasizes the divine rather than human nature of Christ; the belief that salvation is achieved more through revelation than objective atonement and expiatory sin; a realized eschatology; a robust doctrine of assurance and comfort; and a stylistic and rhetorical approach to representing these theological features that often emulates John's mode of discipleship misunderstanding and dramatic irony. Early modern Johannine devotion assumes that religious lyrics often express a revelatory poetics that aims to clarify, typically through the use of dramatic irony, some of the deepest mysteries of the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle.
