• 1. Introduction: A Conspiracy of Silence, Bisexuality and Christianity.-
• 2. Why be happy when you can be normal? Heteronormativity and Worship in the Western Christian Church.-
• 3. Too Hot to Handle: A Denominational Sweep of Bisexual Erasure in the Church.-
• 4. The Damage of Silence: Bisexual Christians discuss mental health.-
• 5. Intersectional Identities: Bisexual Christians discuss self-actualisation and spirituality.-
• 6. Great is Thy Faithfulness: Bisexual Christians discuss non-monogamy and the Bible.-
• 7. The Church doesn't know what to do with us: Bisexual Christians in the UK discuss church life.-
• 8. It's just crap: Bisexual Christians in the USA discuss church life.-
• 9. The Silent B: Pastors and Educators discuss bisexuality and bisexual provision.-
• 10. Believing Out Loud: Pastors and Educators discuss affirming practice.- 11.Prudery, Primates and Public Conveniences: Specific challenges faced by Pastors and Educators.-12. Conclusion.
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This book critically examines the lived experiences of bisexual Christians across a range of Christian traditions in the UK and the USA. Shepherd assesses whether current data on elevated rates of depressive illnesses among bisexual people also apply to the bisexual Christian community. Drawing on data collected by the author on bisexual Christians across the lifespan, the book uncovers shocking incidences of biphobia and bi erasure in the Church. Widespread ignorance among pastors of middle sexualities outside of the hetero-/homonormative binary is revealed as well as a corresponding absence of appropriate support resources. Bisexuality and the Western Christian Church will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, applied theology, sociology and social psychology. It is also important reading for clergy, and LGBT faith organisations. With a Foreword by Eric Anderson, Professor of Sport, Masculinities, and Sexualities, University of Winchester, UK.
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• 1 General Introduction
• Section One: Setting the Interpretative Context
• 2 The Two Lungs of the Christian Mystical Life: the Cataphatic Way and the Apophatic Way
• 3 Theories of Mystical Development: the Classical Model According to Evelyn Underhill's Mysticism
• 4 Contemporary Approaches to Faith Development and Spiritual Growth
• 5 Hermeneutical and Methodological Considerations
• Section Two: Stories of Faith and Patterns of Growth: The Eight Interviews
• 6 Family, Faith, and the Path towards Coming Out
• 7 Early Adulthood and the Path Towards Integration
• Section Three: Towards a Gay Mystical Theology: Creating the Conversation
• 8 From Awakening to Coming Out
• 9 From Coming Out to Union with God
• Conclusion.
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Is the Christian mystical tradition a relic of another time, shaped by celibates for celibates, unable to engage meaningfully with people of our time who embrace their corporeality and sexuality as crucial aspects of their journey towards union with God? This book reflects in serious theological depth and detail on the spiritual and sexual journeys of gay men of mature and committed Christian faith, employing the Christian mystical tradition as the lens and the interlocutor in this process. This study examines the major themes and stages of the mystical tradition as outlined by Evelyn Underhill, but also including more recent work by Ruth Burrows, Thomas Merton and Constance Fitzgerald. Using methods of qualitative research, it then considers the texts of in-depth interviews conducted with men, most of whom are theologians or spiritual leaders with a deep Catholic faith, and all of whom are openly, self-affirmingly gay. Finally, it employs Ricoeur's hermeneutical theory to engage in a creative theological conversation between the traditional mystical stages and themes and these men's lives, as described in their interviews. This is a unique study that brings together ancient spirituality with contemporary lived religion. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of religious studies, theology, Christian mysticism and spirituality, and queer studies. It will be of particular interest to those teach spiritual direction and to all who seek new ways to engage with the spiritual lives of LGBTIQ+ people.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138562127 20181105

One of the marks of being a philosopher is participating in debates about what counts as "philosophy." Of particular note in such debates is the question of how to distinguish philosophy from theology. Although a variety of answers to this question have been offered in the history of philosophy, in recent decades, the prominence of Christian philosophy has been heralded by many as a genuine triumph over the problematic narrowness of strong foundationalism, positivism, and scientism. For others, however, it signals that philosophy continues to risk being replaced by confessional theology. Wherever one comes down on such issues, and however one interprets recent trends in philosophy of religion, the idea of Christian philosophy continues to present pressing questions for those working in meta-philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, hermeneutics, and value theory. In this volume, established scholars representing a variety of cultural traditions, religious perspectives, and philosophical priorities all wrestle with how the idea of Christian philosophy should be understood, appropriated, and engaged in light of where philosophy is and where it is likely to go. The volume includes classical essays that have deeply marked the field and also new essays that explore the relevance of Christian philosophy to issues in disability studies, engaged pedagogy, lived phenomenology, the academic study of religion, and the workings of social power. Rather than offer a unified view that seeks to settle things, the contributors demonstrate that Christian philosophy remains a topic of lively debate. Wherever one comes down on the issues considered here, this volume shows that Christian philosophy is neither merely of historical interest, nor of interest only to Christians, but instead remains a thoroughly philosophical topic worthy of serious consideration and substantive critique. With a Foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University; Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia; and Honorary Professor of Australian Catholic University.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780198834106 20190211

• Preface and Acknowledgments ix
• Introduction: The Bodhisattva Path and the Christ Path
• 1 Comparative Theology as Christian Theology * Some Historical Background * Theology of Religious Pluralism * Plan of This Book
• I Two Paths
• 1 Two Problems, Two Miracles
• 25 What to Study? * Bridging Gaps * The Miracle of the Bodhisattva * The Miracle of the Great Exchange * Matchless Wonders
• II Perfection of Wisdom and the Bodhisattva Path in Santideva
• 2 The Bodhisattva Path
• 59 Undertaking the Way of Enlightenment: Text and Reader * Cultivating Awakening Mind: Starting Where We Are
• 3 Extreme Wisdom, Groundless Compassion
• 82 Expanding and Dispelling the Self * Perfection of Wisdom * Back to the Bodhisattva * Being Buddha
• III Christian Reflections
• 4 The Bodhisattva as Aspirant: Creatures and No-Self
• 127 Creatures and No-Self * The Blessings of Emptiness * Mimetic Self: Too Little or Too Much? * No-Self and the Cross
• 5 The Bodhisattva as Buddha: Immanence and Emptiness
• 165 Buddha Nature * Theosis, Divine Energies, and Bare Awareness * Attainment and History * Attainment and Self-Consciousness * Practicing Bare Immanence * Christ and the Bodhisattva
• 6 How Do Buddhas Help?: Bodhisattva as Benefactor and Christ as Savior
• 209 Many Faces of Compassion * Three Ways That Bodhisattvas Help * Deity and Benefactor Meditation * Christian Reflections * Benefactor Practices in Christian Perspective * Bodhisattva and Christ I: Diversity and Person-Making * Bodhisattva and Christ II: Why Christ Suffers and Bodhisattvas Don't
• Conclusion: Crucified Wisdom
• 261
• Notes
• 271
• Works Cited
• 309
• Index 321.
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This work provides the first systematic discussion of the Bodhisattva path and its importance for constructive Christian theology. Crucified Wisdom examines specific Buddhist traditions, texts, and practices not as phenomena whose existence requires an apologetic justification but as wells of tested wisdom that invite theological insight. With the increasing participation of Christians in Buddhist practice, many are seeking a deeper understanding of the way the teachings of the two traditions might interface. Christ and the Bodhisattva are often compared superficially in Buddhist-Christian discussion. This text combines a rich exposition of the Bodhisattva path, using Santideva's classic work the Bodicaryavatara and subsequent Tibetan commentators, with detailed reflection on its implications for Christian faith and practice. Author S. Mark Heim lays out root tensions constituted by basic Buddhist teachings on the one hand, and Christian teachings on the other, and the ways in which the Bodhisattva or Christ embody and resolve the resulting paradoxes in their respective traditions. An important contribution to the field of comparative theology in general and to the area of Buddhist-Christian studies in particular, Crucified Wisdom proposes that Christian theology can take direct instruction from Mahayana Buddhism in two respects: deepening its understanding of our creaturely nature through no-self insights, and revising its vision of divine immanence in dialogue with teachings of emptiness. Heim argues that Christians may affirm the importance of novelty in history, the enduring significance of human persons, and the Trinitarian reality of God, even as they learn to value less familiar, nondual dimensions of Christ's incarnation, human redemption, and the divine life. Crucified Wisdom focuses on questions of reconciliation and atonement in Christian theology and explores the varying interpretations of the crucifixion of Jesus in Buddhist-Christian discussion. The Bodhisattva path is central for major contemporary Buddhist voices such as the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh, who figure prominently as conversation partners in the text. This work will be of particular value for those interested in "dual belonging" in connection to these traditions.
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• L'héritage chrétien : une évidence
• Les héritages, ou non, du christianisme
• Le pape et l'empereur
• La Réforme protestante
• Les guerres de Religion et l'État westphalien : 1517-1648
• L'incapacité des religions à faire la paix
• État moderne et statut des religions
• La mondialisation du christianisme
• La sécularisation de l'Europe une déchristianisation ?
• Les deux sécularisations
• Le concile Vatican II, début de la fin
• Quand l'identité chrétienne n'est pas la foi en Christ
• L'identité chrétienne survit-elle à la fin de la foi
• Peut-on fonder la morale en dehors de la religion ?
• L'Église contre le modernisme (1864-1964)
• Philosophie des Lumières et sécularisation de la morale
• La réaction antimoderniste de l'Église catholique
• L'auto-sécularisation du religieux
• L'entrée de l'Église dans la modernité
• Le monde protestant
• La réforme théologique de Vatican II
• La rupture anthropologique des années 1960
• La crise de 1968 et la rupture anthropologique : une nouvelle culture européenne
• L'institutionnalisation des "valeurs" de 1968...
• La sécession religieuse : l'encyclique Humanae vitae (juillet 1968)
• Un nouveau front : celui de la norme sexuelle et d'un tournant anthropologique
• Un revivalisme proprement catholique
• La recomposition du catholicisme européen
• La disparition de la démocratie chrétienne
• L'Église et le dilemme du relais politique
• L'identité et la valeur : quelle Europe face à l'Autre ?
• Les deux fronts de la guerre des valeurs : l'exemple américain
• Les deux fronts de la guerre des valeurs en Europe
• Le débat sur l'identité chrétienne
• L'Église entre identité et valeurs
• L'Église face à l'islam
• L'Église et l'offensive laïque
• L'identité chrétienne séculière et le populisme
• Fin de l'Europe chrétienne ou fin de la religion ?
• L'islam, accélérateur de l'évolution religieuse en Europe
• Quand la sécularisation de l'Europe est accélérée par les décisions des tribunaux
• Les lois sur les signes religieux
• La circoncision
• L'abattage rituel
• Le blasphème
• Le démantèlement de l'immunité cléricale
• La réglementation bureaucratique
• La défense de l'identité chrétienne : une contribution à la sécularisation des sociétés européennes
• Le voile de la musulmane et celui de la bonne soeur
• Les minarets suisses
• Le cas du crucifix
• La Cour européenne des droits de l'homme et la religion.

"Depuis des années, le débat sur l'identité chrétienne de l'Europe va bon train. Olivier Roy prend la question de front : l'Europe est-elle chrétienne aujourd'hui, et comment ? Peut-elle le rester en adoptant des postures nostalgique, autoritaires, identitaires ? De quel christianisme parlent donc ceux qui opposent, parfois de façon vindicative, les "valeurs chrétiennes" à deux vagues perçues comme également puissantes et menaçantes : une société très sécularisée et un islam conquérant, signes tangibles de l'effondrement en cours ? Quel sens, quels liens, quelle logique se repèrent dans la sarabande éclatée des réalités de l'héritage européen : christianisme, sécularisation, identité, culture, valeurs, normes, droit(s)... Au-delà du constat sans concession, le premier mérite de ce livre est d'éclairer notre condition d'Européens orphelins de leur passé chrétien. Lequel ne sera pas ranimé par des législations, mais, peut-être, par des prophètes."--Page 4 of cover.

The topic of immigration is at the center of contemporary politics and, from a scholarly perspective, existing studies have documented that attitudes towards immigration have brought about changes in both partisanship and voting behavior. However, many scholars have missed or misconstrued the role of religion in this transformation, particularly evangelical Protestant Christianity. This book examines the historical and contemporary relationships between religion and immigration politics, with a particularly in-depth analysis of the fault lines within evangelicalism-divisions not only between whites and non-whites, but also the increasingly consequential disconnect between elites and laity within white evangelicalism. The book's empirical analysis relies on original interviews with Christian leaders, data from original church surveys conducted by the authors, and secondary analysis of several national public opinion surveys. It concludes with suggestions for bridging the elite/laity and racial divides. Ruth M. Melkonian-Hoover: (Ph.D., Emory University) is Chair and Professor of Political Science at Gordon College, Massachusetts. She has contributed chapters to Faith in a Pluralist Age (2018) and Is the Good Book Good Enough? (2011). She has published in a wide range of journals including Social Science Quarterly, The Review of Faith & International Affairs, Latin American Perspectives, Political Research Quarterly, Comment, and Capital Commentary. Lyman A. Kellstedt: (Ph.D., University of Illinois) is Professor of Political Science (emeritus) at Wheaton College, Illinois. He has authored or coauthored numerous articles, book chapters, and books in religion and politics, including Religion and the Culture Wars (1996), The Bully Pulpit (1997), and The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics (2009).
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• Danksagung
• Abkürzungsverzeichnis
• Apokalyptik und Kirchenkritik, die Macht des Bösen und die Verheissungen der Erwählung : Wichtige Bezugsfelder des Themas im Spiegel der Forschung
• "Vides, quia iam incipiunt misteria" : Joachims 'ungewollte' Kinder : die kirchen- und papstkritischen Zuspitzungen in der nach- und pseudojoachimischen Tradition des 13. Jahrhunderts
• Der lange Schatten des Joachim von Fiore und die mendikantische Vereinnahmung des apokalyptischen Erwählungsnarrativs
• Die frühen Pseudo-Joachimitica und das populäre Geschäft der Prophetieauslegung
• "Divulgavit stultitiam suam" : der Liber introductorius in Evangelium Aeternum und die 'Einfalt' des Gerhard von Borgo San Donnino
• ... Ipse draco magnus, qui seduxit universum orbem : die apokalyptische Pragmatik in der konfrontativen politischen Kommunikation zwischen Friedrich II. und den Päpsten seiner Zeit
• Die neuen 'Gesichter' der Erwählung : Alternative Vereinnahmungen der apokalyptischen Feindbilder sowohl innerhalb als auch am Rande und jenseits der kirchlichen Orthodoxie
• Das unsichtbare Schisma : Cölestin V. und Bonifaz VIII. : das Scheitern zweier Päpste und die apokalyptischen Dimensionen seiner Deutung
• Der 'gute' und der 'böse' Papst
• Robert von Uzès : Dunkelheit und Leere : der apokalyptische Kirchenbezug eines 'spiritualen' Dominikaners kurz vor dem Ende des 13. Jahrhunderts
• Petrus Johannis Olivi : die Auslegung der Offenbarung und das umstrittene theologische Vermächtnis an die spirituale Apokalyptik
• Das apokalyptische Schisma in den pseudo-joachimischen Papstprophetien um die Jahrhundertwende
• Genus nequam : die ersten illustrierten Papstorakel
• Oraculum Cyrilli : der Pseudopontifex und der Orthopontifex
• Liber de Flore : die franziskanische 'Fussnote' zu Genus nequam
• Liber Horoscopus : die astrologische Paraphrase zu den apokalyptischen Papstorakeln
• Ubertino da Casale : die mentale Verschmelzung mit dem Gekreuzigten und die radikale Abrechnung mit dem post-Cölestinischen Papsttum
• 'Ingressus illegitimus' : der 'Geburtsfehler' eines umstrittenen Pontifikats und die politische Instrumentalisierung der antibonifazianischen Ressentiments
• Zusammenfassung
• Ausblick : die weitere Eskalation der apokalyptischen Krisensemantik unter den Nachfolgern Bonifazʼ VIII
• Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis
• Quellen
• Sammlungen und Hilfsmittel
• Literatur
• Verzeichnis mittelalterlicher Personennamen und häufig zitierter Werke unklarer Herkunft.

• Introduction: Xiamen Protestantism Over the Years-- Chris White.-
• Chapter 1. Xinjie Church and Christianity as Chinese Cultural Heritage-- Chris White.-
• Chapter 2. Christianity, Imperialism and Modernity in Treaty Port Xiamen-- David Woodbridge.-
• Chapter 3. The Passing of Glory: Urban Development, Local Politics, and Christianity on Gulangyu-- Jifeng Liu.-
• Chapter 4. The Haicang Voice: Modernity, Cultural Continuity and the Spirit World in a 1920s Chinese Church-- Chris White.-
• Chapter 5. "Could they be Made to See?": The Educational Legacy of Xiamen to the Philippines-- Jean Uayan.-
• Chapter 6. "Sing to the Lord a New Song": The Development and Influence of Minnan Hymns-- Yingheng Cheng and Chris White.-
• Chapter 7. Christmas Reverberations in Xiamen: Insights from a Grand Religious Festival in Contemporary China-- Bram Colijn.
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This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present. This important regional study is particularly revealing due to the unbroken history of Sino-Christian interactions in Xiamen and the extensive ties that its churches have maintained with global missions and overseas Chinese Christians. Its authors draw upon a wide range of foreign missionary and Chinese official archives, local Xiamen church publications, and fieldwork data to historicize the Protestant experience in the region. Further, the local Christians' stories demonstrate a form of sociocultural, religious and political imagination that puts into question the Euro-American model of Christendom and the Chinese Communist-controlled Three-Self Patriotic Movement. It addresses the localization of Christianity, the reinvention of local Chinese Protestant identity and heritage, and the Protestants' engagement with the society at large. The empirical findings and analytical insights of this collection will appeal to scholars of religion, sociology and Chinese history.
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• Introduction / Darren E. Grem
• Judgment, grace, race, and the transcendental blues: the study of religion in the South in the era of Charles Reagan Wilson / Paul Harvey
• Religious history and church history
• The riverbank politics of uncommon prayers in antebellum Arkansas / Ryan L. Fletcher
• Race and the visions of John Lafayette Girardeau / Otis W. Pickett
• Having our own: the colored Methodist Episcopal church and the struggle for Black autonomy in education / Alicia Jackson
• Religious history beyond institutions
• Spirit in the air: Pentecostal and holiness media innovation in the twentieth-century South / Randall Stephens
• "The pure of body are pure of soul": religion and the emerging sports culture of the New South / Arthur Remillard
• The land of misfit relics: Southern Protestants and the sacred play of cultural objects / Chad Seales
• Afterword: Charles Reagan Wilson as scholar, editor, innovator, and resonator / Ted Ownby.

Contributions by Ryan L. Fletcher, Darren E. Grem, Paul Harvey, Alicia Jackson, Ted Ownby, Otis W. Pickett, Arthur Remillard, Chad Seales, and Randall J. Stephens Over more than three decades of teaching at the University of Mississippi, Charles Reagan Wilson's research and writing transformed southern studies in key ways. This volume pays tribute to and extends Wilson's seminal work on southern religion and culture. Using certain episodes and moments in southern religious history, the essays examine the place and power of religion in southern communities and society. It emulates Wilson's model, featuring both majority and minority voices from archives and applying a variety of methods to explain the South's religious diversity and how religion mattered in many arenas of private and public life, often with life-or-death stakes. The volume first concentrates on churches and ministers, and then considers religious and cultural constructions outside formal religious bodies and institutions. It examines the faiths expressed via the region's fields, streets, homes, public squares, recreational venues, roadsides, and stages. In doing so, this book shows that Wilson's groundbreaking work on religion is an essential part of southern studies and crucial for fostering deeper understanding of the South's complicated history and culture.
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• Preface Abbreviations
• 1 Augustine and Plotinus on Imaging the Divine
• 1 Introduction
• 2 A New Study on Augustine and Plotinus?
• 3 Key Aspects of This Study
• 4 The Multiple Accounts of a Status Quaestionis in an Interdisciplinary Research
• 2 Augustine's Appraisal of Plotinus' Philosophy
• 1 Augustine's Accounts of Platonism in Confessions
• 2 Augustine on Plato and the Platonists in De civitate Dei and De Trinitate
• 3 Augustine as Christian Platonist: Synthesis
• 3 Plotinus: Imaging, the Soul and the Ascent
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Images and Imaging in Plotinus' Theogony and Cosmology
• 3 The Human Soul as Image:
• ,
• and
• 4 The Ascent: Intellectual Contemplation and the Soul's Ascent to Beauty
• 4 Augustine: the Image of God in His Genesis Commentaries
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Augustine's Doctrine of Creation: Ideas and Images
• 3 The Soul-Intellect in Augustine's Doctrine of the Imago Dei in De genesi ad litteram
• 4 The Ascent: the Soul's Vision and Contemplation of the Ideas
• 5 Augustine: the Image of the Trinity in De Trinitate
• 1 Introduction: The Trinity
• 2 The Trinitarian Godhead and Christology
• 3 The Imago Trinitatis: Knowledge and Love
• 4 Augustine's Account of the Ascent in De Trinitate
• Prologue: Introduction to Chapters 6-9 on Augustine and Plotinus
• 6 Augustine and Plotinus on the Godhead
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Triune Godhead: Similarities
• 3 Differences
• 4 Synthesis and Conclusions
• 7 Augustine and Plotinus on the Image-Intellect and Epistemology
• 1 Introduction-- Definition of the Terms, Image and Intellect
• 2 Epistemology: Similarities
• 3 Differences
• 4 Synthesis and Conclusions
• 8 Augustine and Plotinus on Love
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Summaries of Plotinus and Augustine on Love
• 3 General Correspondences
• 4 General Differences
• 5 Synthesis
• 9 Augustine and Plotinus on the Ascent
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Plotinus: the Epistemological Ascent and the Ascent by Love
• 3 Augustine on the Ascent
• 4 General Similarities
• 5 Gray Areas
• 6 Major Differences
• 7 Synthesis
• 10 Plotinus in Augustine's Doctrine of the Image of God
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Plotinian Influence on Augustine: Marked Similarities
• 3 Major Differences
• 4 Augustine's Critique of Platonism from
• Chapter 2: an Evaluation
• 11 Augustine's Christian Platonism
• 1 How Can We Characterize Augustine as a Christian?
• 2 How as a Platonist?
• 3 Augustine's Relationship to Platonism (Confessions and The City of God)
• 4 Conclusions
• 12 Epilogue
• Primary Sources Bibliography Bible References Index.
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In Augustine and Plotinus: the Human Mind as Image of the Divine Laela Zwollo provides an inside view of two of the most influential thinkers of late antiquity: the Christian Augustine and the Neo-Platonist Plotinus. By exploring the finer points and paradoxes of their doctrines of the image of God (the human soul/intellect), the illustrious church father's complex interaction with his most important non-biblical source comes into focus. In order to fathom Augustine, we should first grasp the beauty in Plotinus' philosophy and its attractiveness to Christians. This monograph will contribute to a better understanding of the formative years of Christianity as well as later ancient philosophy. It can serve as a handbook for becoming acquainted with the two thinkers, as well as for delving into the profundity of their thought.
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• Les nouveaux païens : une révolution apostolique
• Confucius est-il ou non païen ?
• Pascal, Confucius et Chacim-Choan. La Chine comme arme dans la controverse entre jansénistes et jésuites
• Éthique naturelle et vertu des païens dans la première scolastique réformée. Lambert Daneau, Bartholomée Keckermann et William Ames
• La prudence de Simone Luzzatto dans le grand théâtre du monde
• Les vertus des païens chez quelques réformateurs protestants, de Luther à Melanchthon et Calvin : question de morale et problème de méthode
• Vertus et raison chez les bouddhistes japonais : interprétations chrétiennes et réactions nippones
• Les "Hellènes" au regard des Moscovites (Maxime le Grec, Fiodor Karpov et le protopope Avvakoume face aux "païens vertueux")
• Les jésuites des Lumières face à la vertu des "vérités pérennes" des anciens païens
• Retour aux sources
• Modèles anciens et nouvelle leçon de vie : la uirtus, des premiers apologistes latins à Lactance, le "Cicéron chrétien"
• Des barbares aux païens : l'évolution de la représentation de l'autre dans le christianisme des trois premiers siècles
• La fécondité théologique de la rencontre entre Écriture sainte et philosophie dans l'exégèse de Philon d'Alexandrie
• Les semences du Verbe Variations autour d'un thème patristique siècles)
• Lactance, le "paganisme", les dieux : construire l'image de la religion des autres au début du IVe siècle
• Augustin et les vertus des païens
• Variations médiévales
• Les bons païens des temps passés dans l'Irlande chrétienne du haut Moyen Âge
• Vandales mais vertueux : valeurs civiques et eschatologiques des infidèles aux temps barbares (Ve-IXe siècles)
• "Adorateur du feu" : Olgierd, grand-duc de Lituanie vu par le Patriarcat oecuménique
• Les vertus des païens au XIIe siècle
• La question du mal à la cour mongole suivant Guillaume de Rubrouck (1254), et la destinée de son Itinerarium à l'époque moderne
• Approche historique de quelques évaluations chrétiennes de l'islam : des moments eschatologiques ?
• La vertu et le salut des païens dans la Commedia
• Une vertu des païens à la Renaissance : la vérité et son voile
• Epoque contemporaine
• Vers une complémentarité socioculturelle
• La mission moderne et la vertu des païens vus de Rome : les chemins sinueux d'une redécouverte (1626-1958)
• De la vertu des païens aux chrétiens anonymes
• La vertu paradoxale de la religion selon Karl Barth : un commentaire critique et reconstructif
• Les droits de l'homme, expression contemporaine de la vertu des païens ?
• La vertu des païens. Paganisme, goyitude et judaïsme contemporain
• "Un troisième ciel sans maladies, sans impôts et sans Russes". Brève relation des vices chrétiens et des vertus chamanistes dans l'Arctique sibérien (XIXe-XXe siècle)
• L'émergence d'un nouveau regard chrétien sur les religions d'Asie au XXe siècle à partir de quelques expériences d'immersion spirituelle dans le Vedanta indien : de la conversion des païens à l'hybridation religieuse
• Religion et paganisme. Pour une approche chrétienne de la diversité
• Ethnè des stoïciens, Caïus des nouveaux mondes... et nomades d'aujourd'hui
• L'ombre d'Augustin. La vertu des païens et la querelle des rites chinois.

"Le présent volume part d'une question simple : comment le christianisme occidental, à partir du XVIe siècle, parvient-il à incorporer, dans son histoire et dans son destin, la découverte des peuples non-chrétiens ? Comment peut-il chercher à convertir des peuples qu'il avait repoussés, jusqu'ici, aux limites de sa propre assurance à se tenir au centre du monde ? Cette question ne concerne pas seulement l'aventure des missions de Chine, mais la Chine porte à ses sommets l'angoisse théologique et anthropologique d'une autre civilisation, seule comparable aux grandes civilisations antiques. N'a-t-il pas fallu pour cela tenter de transférer la relation des juifs et des chrétiens à celle des confucéens et des catholiques ? Ce moment crucial de l'époque moderne redécouvre d'autres grandes scansions de l'histoire de l'Occident, non pas seulement dans le rapport entre judaïsme et christianisme, mais dans ce que l'on peut appeler l'invention chrétienne du "paganisme" comme religion des autres, ou du passé. Sommes-nous aujourd'hui aussi loin de tout cela qu'on pourrait le penser ? Qu'en est-il du statut des autres religions dans une période de grand reflux de l'oecuménisme religieux ? La reconnaissance de la "vertu des païens", reconnaissance ambiguë, proche d'une tolérance toute aussi ambiguë elle-même, est pour nous aujourd'hui un miroir tendu, dans l'épaisseur du temps, au malaise d'une civilisation qui se veut post-chrétienne. Le volume propose, à partir de ce moment essentiel, un retour en arrière dans le temps - l'Antiquité, le Moyen Âge - et un saut vers le futur, notre présent, et entend confronter les débats historiques les plus complexes, éclairés par les meilleurs spécialistes, avec une réalité contemporaine dans laquelle, comme nous le savons parfois trop bien, l'"Autre" hante encore l'identité incertaine des sociétés et des peuples."--Page 4 of cover.

• Abbreviations Foreword Preface Introduction
• 1 The World 1.1 Zeitgeist 1.2 The World 1.3 Transformation 1.4 Apocalypse Now! 1.5 Conclusion
• 2 Justice 2.1 Social, Not Political, Involvement 2.2 Love 2.3 Rights 2.4 Deliverance 2.5 Conclusion
• 3 Culture 3.1 The Vietnamization of Faith 3.2 Contextualization 3.3 Iconoclasm 3.4 Multi- Ethnicity 3.5 Conclusion
• 4 Development 4.1 National Development 4.2 Transformational Development 4.3 Prosperity Teaching 4.4 The Value of Prosperity Teaching 4.5 Conclusion
• 5 The Underprivileged 5.1 Becoming Pentecostal 5.2 Aspiring Newness 5.3 Receiving Justice 5.4 Becoming Privileged 5.5 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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This book offers an analysis of the historical, theological, and social conditions that give rise to the growth of pentecostalism among contemporary Vietnamese evangelicals. Emerging from the analysis is an understanding of how underprivileged evangelicals have utilized the pentecostal emphasis on divine intervention in their pursuit of the betterment of life amid religious and ethnic marginalization. Within the context of the global growth of pentecostalism, Vietnamese Evangelicals and Pentecostalism shows how people at the grassroots marry the deeply local-based meaning dictated by the particularity of living context and the profoundly universal truth claims made by a religion aspiring to reach all four corners of the earth to enhance life.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9789004383821 20190218

• Vorwort
• Von der Kontroverse zur Historisierung : das Corpus Catholicorum und die katholische Reformationsforschung im 20. Jahrhundert / Volker Leppin
• Joseph Greving : Anfang aus der Defensive
• Die Anfangsphase : eine Sammlung der Kontroverstheologie
• Die Neubewertung der katholischen Schriftsteller nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
• Das Corpus Catholicorum unter den Bedingungen der gegenwärtigen Wissenschaftspolitik
• Das Corpus Catholicorum / von Franz Falk
• Katholische Schriftsteller aus der Reformationszeit / von N. Paulus
• Katholische Schriftsteller aus der Reformationszeit : Nachtrag / von N. Paulus
• Plan für ein Corpus Catholicorum / von Prof. Greving
• Bericht über den Stand des Corpus Catholicorum / von Prof. Greving
• Hubert Jedin, an die Mitglieder der Gesellschaft zur Herausgabe des Corpus Catholicorum.

• Vorwort
• Geisteswissenschaftliche Grossforschung gestern, heute, morgen : Paul Fridolin Kehr (1860-1944) und die Folgen : 100 Jahre Germania Sacra / Hedwig Röckelein
• Die Erfindung der 'Germania Sacra' im 16. Jahrhundert : die Reformation als Anstoss für neue Formen humanistischer Bistumsgeschichtsschreibung / Andreas Bihrer
• Kirchengeschichtsschreibung in Europa im konfessionellen Zeitalter und ihre Implikationen auf die Gegenwart / Helmut Flachenecker
• Proteus mit "Klingelbeutelgenie" : Paul Fridolin Kehr als 'Wissenschaftsmanager' / Volkhard Huth
• Die Germania Sacra in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus / Sven Kriese
• Kirchengeschichtliche Grundlagenforschung heute : die Germania Sacra im Akademienprogramm / Hedwig Röckelein
• Das Forschungsportal Germania Sacra Online : der Weg in die digitale Zukunft / Bärbel Kröger, Christian Popp
• Germania Sacra im europäischen Forschungsverbund I : Papsturkunden des frühen und hohen Mittelalters / Klaus Herbers
• Germania Sacra im europäischen Forschungsverbund II : das Repertorium Germanicum am Deutschen Historischen Institut in Rom / Andreas Rehberg, Jörg Hörnschemeyer
• Germania Sacra im europäischen Forschungsverbund III : Criminal Clerks and Political Strategists : the English Episcopal Acta Project / Philippa Hoskin
• Die Germania Sacra und das Archivwesen / Mechthild Black-Veldtrup
• Colloquien der Germania Sacra von 1957 bis 2018
• Publikationen der Germania Sacra
• Register.

Two volume set The Second Council of Nicaea (787) decreed that religious images were to set up in churches and venerated. It thereby established the cult of icons as a central element in the piety of the Orthodox churches, as it has remained ever since. In the West its decrees received a new emphasis in the Counter-Reformation, in the defence of the role of art in religion. It is a text of prime importance for the iconoclast controversy of eighth-century Byzantium, one of the most explored and contested topics in Byzantine history. But it has also a more general significance - in the history of culture and the history of art. This edition offers the first translation that is based on the new critical edition of this text in the Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum series, and the first full commentary of this work that has ever been written. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers from a variety of disciplines.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781786941275 20190128

• Einleitung
• Vorbemerkungen
• Methodik
• Danksagung
• Adam von Trott der Ältere (... 1564)
• Die frühen Jahre : hessische Wurzeln und ein undeutliches Bild der Jugend
• Erste Schritte in der Mark : Versuch einer Etablierung in der Fremde
• Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Religionspolitik und Interessenwahrung : Aufträge in Reich, Territorium und Region
• Die "Affäre Eva von Trott" und ihre Instrumentalisierung aufgrund reichspolitischer Divergenzen
• Das geschichtliche Faktum
• Die literarische Verarbeitung
• Die realen Folgen der "Affäre Eva von Trott"
• Reichs- und Territorialpolitik mit Ecken und Kanten : Neue Herausforderungen für Adam von Trott im In- und Ausland
• Neue Flexibilität im Umgang mit Konflikten Adam von Trott zwischen Konfrontation und Konsens
• Der territorialpolitische Aspekt
• Der reichspolitische Aspekt : der Schmalkaldische Krieg (1546-47)
• Vermittlungsversuche zwischen verhärteten Fronten
• Diplomatie auf höchstem Niveau
• Über den territorialpolitischen und privaten Einsatz zum Lehnsbesitz Himmelpfort
• Über die Belagerung Magdeburgs und die Befreiung des hessischen Landgrafen zum Passauer Vertrag
• Erste bescheidene Konsolidierungsmassnahmen und politische Umorientierung
• Bewusste Hinwendung zum kurbrandenburgischen Territorium
• Die Niederlage nach dem Triumph : ein freier Landgraf : von Hessen und ein toter Kurfürst von Sachsen
• Noch einmal zu höchsten Ehren : das Jahr 1557 und seine Folgen
• Die letzten Lebensjahre
• Ausblick : die zweite Generation : Wege in die höfische Gesellschaft
• Zusammenfassung und Schlussbemerkungen
• Anhang
• Stammtafel : Märkischer Zweig der von Trott
• Bibliographie.