The Transfigured Kingdom - 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 Transfigured Kingdom write by Ernest A. Zitser. This book was released on 2018-09-05. The Transfigured Kingdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this richly comparative analysis of late Muscovite and early Imperial court culture, Ernest A. Zitser provides a corrective to the secular bias of the scholarly literature about the reforms of Peter the Great. Zitser demonstrates that the tsar's supposedly "secularizing" reforms rested on a fundamentally religious conception of his personal political mission. In particular, Zitser shows that the carnivalesque (and often obscene) activities of the so-called Most Comical All-Drunken Council served as a type of Baroque political sacrament—a monarchical rite of power that elevated the tsar's person above normal men, guaranteed his prerogative over church affairs, and bound the participants into a community of believers in his God-given authority ("charisma"). The author suggests that by implicating Peter's "royal priesthood" in taboo-breaking, libertine ceremonies, the organizers of such "sacred parodies" inducted select members of the Russian political elite into a new system of distinctions between nobility and baseness, sacrality and profanity, tradition and modernity. Tracing the ways in which the tsar and his courtiers appropriated aspects of Muscovite and European traditions to suit their needs and aspirations, The Transfigured Kingdom offers one of the first discussions of the gendered nature of political power at the court of Russia's self-proclaimed "Father of the Fatherland" and reveals the role of symbolism, myth, and ritual in shaping political order in early modern Europe.
The Transfigured Kingdom
The Transfigured Kingdom - 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 Transfigured Kingdom write by Ernest Zitser. This book was released on 2000. The Transfigured Kingdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace - 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 Transfiguration of the Commonplace write by Arthur C. Danto. This book was released on 1981. The Transfiguration of the Commonplace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Danto argues that recent developments in art--in particular the production of works that cannot be told from ordinary things--make urgent the need for a new theory of art. He demonstrates the relationship between philosophy and art and the connections that hold between art, social institutions, and art history.
Transfiguration and Transformation
Transfiguration and Transformation - 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 Transfiguration and Transformation write by Hywel R. Jones. This book was released on 2021-11-15. Transfiguration and Transformation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our Bibles consistently use the noun 'Transfiguration' with regard to Jesus but 'Transformation' with regard to the Christian - and yet it is one and the same verb, transliterated 'metamorphosed, ' that is used in those places in the original text. Why is that so? Is there an important difference between them? And why does the noun 'metamorphosis' which is familiar to us never occur in the New Testament? And yet is there some connection between the Transfiguration of Jesus and the Transformation of the Christian? Hywel R. Jones presents answers to these questions in this book. In the course of doing so he shows how the divine can penetrate the human without destroying it as in the Person of Christ, and how the human can become conformed to the divine without its ceasing to be human as in the case of the Christian. That kind of metamorphosis accords and exalts the Christian gospel over against the humanism of our culture, whether secularised or spiritualised. There is a distinction between God and Man which will never be obliterated but preserved for ever - even in the glorified Christ in whom they are joined. But communion between the God-Man and his believing people will result in each Christian being fully conformed to the perfect humanity of Christ while retaining his or her own individuality. It will not result in a faceless absorption into the divine but face to face communion with the triune God for ever. 'The transfiguration of Christ shows how the divine can penetrate the human without destroying it. The transformation of the believer shows how the human can become conformed to the divine without its ceasing to be human. This is the ultimate metamorphosis that is compatible with Christian truth.' -- HYWEL R. JONES
The Way of the Lord
The Way of the Lord - 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 Way of the Lord write by Joel Marcus. This book was released on 2004-11-09. The Way of the Lord available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New Testament's messianic interpretation of the Old is an important key to its theology. This book examines the way the author of the Gospel of Mark uses the Old Testament to convey the identity of Jesus.
