Saints and Postmodernism - 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 Saints and Postmodernism write by Edith Wyschogrod. This book was released on 1990-10-15. Saints and Postmodernism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In this exciting and important work, Wyschogrod attempts to read contemporary ethical theory against the vast unwieldy tapestry that is postmodernism. . . . [A] provocative and timely study."—Michael Gareffa, Theological Studies "A 'must' for readers interested in the borderlands between philosophy, hagiography, and ethics."—Mark I. Wallace, Religious Studies Review
Medical Saints
Medical Saints - 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 Medical Saints write by Jacalyn Duffin. This book was released on 2013-06-13. Medical Saints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an exploration of illness and healing experiences in contemporary society through the veneration of saints: primarily the twin doctors Saints Cosmas and Damian. It also follows the author's personal journey from her role as a hematologist who inadvertently served as an expert witness in a miracle to her research as a historian on the origins, meaning and functions of saints. Sources include interviews with devotees in both North America and Europe. Cosmas and Damian were martyred around the year 300 A.D. in what is now Syria. Called the "Anargyroi" (without silver) because they charged no fees, they became patrons of medicine, surgery, and pharmacy as their cult spread widely across Europe. The near eastern origin explains their popularity in Byzantine and Orthodox traditions and the concentration of their shrines in Eastern Europe, Southern Italy, and Sicily. The Medici family of Florence also viewed the "santi medici" as patrons, and their deeds were depicted by great Renaissance artists. In medical literature they are now revered as patrons of transplantation. Duffin's research focuses on how people have taken the saints with them as they moved within Italy and beyond. It also shows that their veneration is not confined to immigrant traditions, and that it fills important functions in health care and healing. Duffin's conclusions are situated within scholarship in medicine, medical history, sociology, anthropology, and popular religion; and intersect with the current medical debate over spiritual healing. This work springs from medical history and Roman Catholic traditions; however, it extends to general observations about the behaviors of sick people and about the formal responses to individual illness from collectivities in religion, medicine, and, indeed, history.
The Postmodern Saints of France
The Postmodern Saints of France - 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 Postmodern Saints of France write by Colby Dickinson. This book was released on 2013-07-18. The Postmodern Saints of France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the mid to the late 20th century various French thinkers have at times toyed wth the label of 'the saint', applying it to friends, colleagues, the revered nd even the worshipped such as Genet, Sartre, Camus or Foucault. Despite this profaning of the term, however, here are many subtle truths which emerge from its usage among such writers. This volume is devoted to exploring certain varied notions of 'the saint' in recent French philosophical and literary thought from within a theological context, offering insights and valuable contributions toward how we understand sainthood in cultural, philosophical and religious terms. Each essay focuses on the convergence of a particular author's work and their various (re)formulations of 'saintliness' in their writings, whether this concept is directly expressed in their writings or not. In general, the aim of the volume is to develop a critical engagement between each authors' philosophical worldview and historical notions of sainthood, such that we are capable of providing new understandings of what a 'saint' could be said to be in our world today.
Patron Saints for Postmoderns
Patron Saints for Postmoderns - 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 Patron Saints for Postmoderns write by Chris R. Armstrong. This book was released on 2009-08-27. Patron Saints for Postmoderns available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A professor of church history, Armstrong provides rich portraits of ten people from the past who: translated the gospel for their own times; broke down barriers; ministered out of the brokenness we all share; knew what it feels like to live on the margins; believed in the power of stories to bring transformation through Christ. --from publisher description
Christianity and the Postmodern Turn
Christianity and the Postmodern Turn - 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 Christianity and the Postmodern Turn write by Myron B. Penner. This book was released on 2005-07. Christianity and the Postmodern Turn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Addresses the promises and perils of postmodernity for the church today.
