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Courage Beyond Fear
Re-Formation in Theological Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
The aim of this book, Courage Beyond Fear: Re-Formation in Theological Education, is to combat actual crises we have survived in theological institutions. We first document responses of resistance to authoritarian structures in student and faculty meditations and sermons. Then through them...
Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize
Birmingham Mass Meeting Rhetoric and the Prophetic Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Among pivotal historical moments in the United States, the civil rights movement stands out. In Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize: Birmingham Mass Meeting Rhetoric and the Prophetic Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, David G. Holmes offers an original rhetorical analysis of six speeches delivered...
Master Kierkegaard: The Complete Journals
Summer 1847, Fall / Winter / Spring 1847–1848, and Summer 1848
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
In this serial work of religious historical fiction, Magda, a fallen woman from Berlin turned maidservant in the house of Soren Kierkegaard, seeks the full life that has thus far eluded her. Two journals set in the summer of 1847 record Magda's responses to the Luther Bible, Goethe's Faust, and her...
Seek the Peace of the City
Christian Political Criticism as Public, Realist, and Transformative
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Seek the Peace of the City provides a robust engagement with the theological foundations and practices of Christian social and political criticism. Richard Bourne identifies a theological realism found in the work of John Howard Yoder. This realism bases social and political criticism in the purposes...
Ministry Among God’s Queer Folk, Second Edition
LGBTQ Pastoral Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
This practical pastoral care handbook, written by two self-described queer people of faith, covers the basic skills that religious caregivers and ministry students need in order to be effective, enlightened, and supportive pastoral care providers to LGBTQ persons in congregational and other community...
The Philosophy of Literature
Four Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
The Philosophy of Literature: Four Studies puts forth the question of the extent to which philosophers must go to school with the poets. It begins with a new interpretation of the famous Platonic quarrel with the poetic wisdom of Homer. It brings this question forward through the humanism of thinkers...
by Donald Phillip Verene
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Metaphysics and the Modern World makes the abiding questions of the nature of the self, world, and God available for the modern reader. Donald Phillip Verene presents these questions in both their systematic and historical dimensions, beginning with Aristotle's claim in his Metaphysics that philosophy...
by Donald Phillip Verene
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
This work raises for the contemporary reader the ancient and abiding question of the nature and meaning of human virtue. In Part 1, it draws upon Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero and the works of Renaissance Christian humanists who were influenced by them, such as Pico, Vives, and Erasmus. The moral act...
Truth Springs from the Earth
The Teachings of Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotsk
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotsk (1787-1859) was one of the most interesting and challenging figures of Hasidism in the nineteenth century. His search for truth and battles against falsehood and spiritual compromise are the subject of many legends, hagiographical stories, and anecdotes. Though he was...
Trois Troupiers
( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Ce recueil de nouvelles nous plonge, au travers de différents récits, au sein de l’armée des Indes et nous permet de vivre, en compagnie d’officiers et de jeunes gens cultivés, les anecdotes racontées dans un style direct et vigoureux pimenté d’argot militaire.
Trois Troupiers
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Raising Spirits
Stories of Suffering and Comfort at Death's Door
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Raising Spirits: Stories of Suffering and Comfort at Death's Door springs from Michael Goldberg's experiences serving dying patients as a hospital and hospice chaplain. Previously, he had held positions as a management consultant, a chaired university professor, and a congregational rabbi. Although...
Finding Our Voice
Embodying the Prophetic and Other Misadventures
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Finding Our Voice is a series of meditations on how to express the deepest sense of who we are in a troubled world. What is the core of our being? How do we find the language to name that core? If the core of our faith is identifying and embodying the prophetic for our time, surviving that naming...
Metaphor: Its Therapeutic Use and Construction
A Professional Guide to Using Metaphor in Psychotherapy and Counseling
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book helps counselors/therapists in all treatment modalities effectively use the extended metaphor as a therapeutic tool. It is a needed addition to every therapist's tool kit. The book will show you how to create a personalized and carefully constructed metaphor to reach a resistant client....
Œuvres de Mikhaïl Bakounine
( Edition intégrale ) Tome I II III IV V VI - annoté
Language: French
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Fédéralisme, Socialisme et Antithéologisme - Lettres sur le patriotisme - Dieu et l'État
Avant de publier ces volumes d’œuvres inédites ou peu connues de Michel Bakounine, j’ai dû me demander quel choix il convenait de faire entre les écrits assez nombreux, soit manuscrits, soit...