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In the time of the church, transformation, renewal, and the process of coming-to-faith rely on the symbolic efficacy of speech, where God is encountered as a word. The Sacramentality of Preaching examines the thought of Louis-Marie Chauvet and incorporates it into contemporary homiletical theory in order to bolster and renew Christian proclamation that has an intentionally sacramental character. Liturgical preachers will find practical pathways, frameworks, and common language through the use of this innovative sacramentology.

Argues the despite John Dewey's failure to articulate an adequate theory of personality, his writings provide at least a theory-sketch of human personality consistent with assumptions that framed his philosophical outlook. This title examines Dewey's participatory notion of deliberation, what he calls dramatic rehearsal.

An evaluation of the model-theoretic and proof-theoretic characterizations of logical consequence that proceeds from Alfred Tarski's characterization of the informal concept of logical consequence. It evaluates and expands upon ideas set forth in Tarski's 1936 article on logical consequence, and appeals to his 1935 article on truth.

This book studies C.P. Snow¿s eleven-volume series of novels (Strangers and Brothers) as documents detailing the social and political life of mid-twentieth-century Britain, and points out the uses for the novels in the academic study of that time period. Both Snow and his central character, Lewis S. Eliot, started from unremarkable origins in terms of their mutual background in the lower reaches of the middle class, their dreams of success in their teen years, and their early professional education in a new, struggling academic institution in the mid-1920s. Neither could really be considered typical for men of their class. Eliot¿s working life would include being a very minor town clerk, a barrister, an advisor to a powerful industrialist, a Cambridge don, a moderately powerful civil servant, and finally, in early retirement, a writer. Eliot would befriend members of both the traditional and Jewish upper classes, scholars and brilliant scientists, powerful behind-the-scenes civil servants, second-tier British and Nazi politicians, financiers and industrialists, Communists, and writers and artists, providing a fairly broad overview of parts of the middle class and ruling elites of the periods. Snow¿s sequence of novels is therefore useful to the historian of twentieth-century Britain, both in understanding the period as it recedes away from common experience and in presenting the period in the classroom. Snow was a classic twentieth-century writer who presented a more balanced account of the British «governing classes» of the middle third of the twentieth century than did the upper-class (and would-be upper-class) or working-class writers of the same period. His novels provide an insight that every student of twentieth-century Britain must have on hand.

Critical Essays on Dagaaba Rhetoric

Presents an account of the activities of the German League for the Prevention of Women's Emancipation from its beginnings in 1912 to its dissolution in 1920. This book documents motives for membership, the League's philosophy, and the political and social activism used by the League to achieve its aims.

Delves into some of the specific ways these powerhouses of the twentieth century moved beyond the boundaries of tradition and helped to redefine our perception and understanding of words and music in contemporary society.

Ernst Troeltsch and Comparative Theology

Aims to reconstruct original teachings of Jesus in a way that can begin a conversation on what it means to be a Christian in a post-Christian world, while drawing on a range of supporting material, including John D Caputo's theological appropriation of Derrida's deconstruction, the work of John Dominic Crossan on the parables of Jesus.

An Assessment of Contemporary Models of Forgiveness

Approaches to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey

Probing deeply into texts by and about prominent Christian mystics, religious authors, and saints, German Mysticism and the Politics of Culture challenges the reader to rethink the medieval past as a contemporary presence.

Hadewijch of Antwerp (c.1200?-1240), Beatrice of Nazareth (1200-1268), Margaret Ebner (1291-1351), and Julian of Norwich (1343-1416/19) are best known for their mystical experiences and literary styles. This title explores the reality that these women understood their encounters in primarily theological categories.

Ethics after Auschwitz?

Explores the ascetical logic of the various practices that Christians call theology. In this book, by establishing ascetic practice as coherent within the logic of Christian thought, the author argues that Christian theology itself, as an embodied Christian practice, is a type of and participant in Christian asceticism.

Philosophical genealogy is a distinct method of historical and philosophical inquiry that was developed by the nineteenth-century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, and subsequently adopted and extended by the twentieth-century philosopher, Michel Foucault. This book explores the three axes of the genealogical method: power, truth and the ethical.

Suitable for courses in theology, religious education, and social philosophy, and for all interested in promoting the common good, this book focuses on how support for individuals and social groups in Nigeria can foster the building of their communities through the practice of social justice.

Makes a contribution to the philosophical and intellectual tradition of the English-speaking Caribbean by exploring the theory of justice underpinning the life, work, and writings of former Prime Minister of Jamaica and renowned Third World Statesman the late Michael Manley.