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Book SynopsisA Companion to Medieval Rules and Customaries offers an introduction to the rules and customaries of the main religious orders in medieval Europe: Benedictine, Cistercian, Carthusian, Augustinian, Premonstratensian, Templar, Hospitaller, Teutonic, Dominican, Franciscan, and Carmelite. As well as introducing the early history and spirituality of the orders, scholars survey the central topics – organization, doctrine, morality, liturgy, and culture, as documented by these primary sources. Contributors are: James Clark, Tom Gaens, Jean-François Godet-Calogeras, Holly Grieco, Emilia Jamroziak, Gert Melville, Stephen Molvarec, Carol Neel, Krijn Pansters, Matthew Ponesse, Bert Roest, Kristjan Toomaspoeg, Paul van Geest, Ursula Vones-Liebenstein, and Coralie Zermatten.Trade Review"Pansters' profound and content-rich introduction to the subject, the structure and aim of the volume, and the largely uniform organization of the individual contributions, which are very convincing throughout, will make the work essential reading for the future study of medieval normative texts." Robert Harlaß, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, on H-Soz-Kult "Pansters designates three broad categories of religious: monks [...], canons [...], and mendicants.[...] To facilitate comparison across the articles, authors were invited to address a shared set of conceptual and methodological issues (including questions of group origins, characteristic spiritual practices, the survival and authenticity of textual sources, and contributions in the areas of education, theology, the arts, craftwork, and architecture). This shared framework productively links the various articles and lends admirable coherence to the volume." "A Companion to Medieval Rules and Customaries provides a useful starting point for scholars interested in extending their understanding of the ideals and realities of formal religious orders and for advanced students in search of steady guidance through the sometimes-bewildering world of monastic rules and customaries." Alison I. Beach, University of St Andrews, in Church History, 2021, pp 938-939 (doi:10.1017/S0009640722000269) The implementation of the idea to collect normative texts in a handbook is very successful. Current editions, historical as well as research-historical contexts as well as central regulations with regard to the organization, the communal life, and the spirituality and culture of the orders are presented. This handbook now invites complementary comparative studies and at the same time lays a valuable foundation for them. Julia Bruch, Universität zu Köln, in Historische Zeitschrift, 2022, 748-749 "Undoubtedly, the individual contributions will enrich the study of the respective communities as well as spiritual life in the Middle Ages as a whole. The book can thus be consulted with great profit by both religious and wider medieval studies. As a "handbook" on medieval rules, consuetudines, and statutes, the volume thus promises to be of valuable service to future research." Stephan Flemmig, Jena in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 49 (2022) 105-106 Die Umsetzung der Idee, normative Texte in einem Handbuch zu sammeln, ist sehr gut gelungen. Präsentiert werden aktuelle Editionen, historische sowie for forschungsgeschichtliche Kontexte und darüber hinaus zentrale Regelungen zur Organisation,dem Zusammenleben, zur Spiritualität und Kultur der Orden. Dieses Handbuch fordert nun ergänzende vergleichende Studien heraus und legt zugleich einen wertvollen Grundstein dafür. Julia Bruch, Universität zu Köln, in Historische Zeitschrift, 2022, 748-749 "Durch die profunde und inhaltsreiche Einführung Pansters´ in das Thema, die Struktur und das Ziel des Bandes sowie die weitgehend einheitliche Gliederung der durchweg sehr überzeugenden Einzelbeiträge wird das Werk für die künftige Beschäftigung mit mittelalterlichen normativen Texten eine zentrale Lektüre darstellen." Robert Harlaß, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, on H-Soz-Kult "Zweifellos werden die einzelnen Beiträge die Beschäftigung mit den jeweiligen Gemeinschaften sowie mit demgeistlichen Leben im Mittelalter insgesamt bereichern. Das Buch kann damit sowohl von der Ordens- als auch von der weiteren mediävistischenforschung mit großem Gewinn konsultiert werden. Als „Handbuch“ zu den mittelalterlichen Regeln, consuetudines und Statuten verspricht der Band der zukünftigen Forschung somit wertvolle Dienste zu leisten." Stephan Flemmig, Jena in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 49 (2022) 105-106Table of Contents List of Contributors 1 Medieval Rules and Customaries Reconsidered   Krijn Pansters 2 The Rule of Saint Benedict   James G.Clark 3 The Cistercian Customaries   Emilia Jamroziak 4 The Carthusian Customaries   Stephen J. Molvarec and Tom Gaens 5 The Rule of Saint Augustine   Paul van Geest 6 The Customaries of Saint-Ruf   Ursula Vones-Liebenstein 7 The Premonstratensian Project   Carol Neel 8 Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights   Kristjan Toomaspoeg 9 The Dominican Constitutiones>   Gert Melville 10 The Rule of Saint Francis   Holly J. Grieco 11 The Rules of Poor Clares and Minoresses   Bert Roest 12 The Rule of the Franciscan Third Order   Jean-François Godet-Calogeras 13 The Carmelite Rule   Coralie Zermatten 14 The Augustinian Rules and Constitutions   Matthew Ponesse   Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1679 Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716) was banished from the province of Holland. Why was this humanist scholar exiled from one of the most tolerant parts of Europe in the seventeenth century? To answer this question, this book places Beverland’s writings on sex, sin, and scholarship in their historical context for the first time. Beverland argued that sexual lust was the original sin and highlighted the importance of sex in human nature, ancient history, and his own society. His audacious works hit a raw nerve: Dutch theologians accused him of atheism, he was abandoned by his humanist colleagues, and he was banished by the University of Leiden. By positioning Beverland’s extraordinary scholarship in the context of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, this book examines how his radical studies challenged the intellectual, ecclesiastical, and political elite, providing a fresh perspective upon the Dutch Republic in the last decades of its Golden Age.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Tables and Illustrations Abbreviations and Translations Note on Translations Introduction  1 Studies on Beverland  2 The Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic  3 Sin, Scripture, Scholarship, Sex Prologue: Banishment (1650–1680)  1 Early Life and Student Years  2 First Publications  2 Trial and Banishment 1 Sin  1 The Fall of Adam and Eve  2 Ideas on Sex and Sin  3 Beverland and the Dutch Theologians  4 Conclusion 2 Scripture  1 The Bible in the Seventeenth Century  2 Philological Criticism  3 Composition and Conservation  4 A Spinozist?  5 Conclusion 3 Scholarship  1 The Humanist  2 Sex and Humanist Scholarship  3 Conclusion 4 Sex  1 Bars, Brothels, and Obscenities  2 Enticing Texts and Images  3 Truth and Liberty  4 Conclusion Epilogue: Exile (1680–1716)  1 Studies and Services  2 Return to the Dutch Republic  3 A Broken Man Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisStudying Christianity in China introduces an emerging academic trend in contemporary Chinese scholarship. Through qualitative interviews with leading experts in Chinese Christian studies, Naomi Thurston has investigated the ongoing conversation between China and Christianity. Since the 1980s, this conversation has given rise to an interdisciplinary academic field that is quickly gaining traction as a cutting-edge, cross-cultural discourse. The Chinese intellectuals driving this field are encountered as unique transmitters of cultural knowledge: they are cultural mediators working in a range of humanities and social science disciplines who are not only re-interpreting Western theology, but are also lending a new voice to Chinese expressions of the Christian faith. As such, they are at the forefront of a novel force in World Christianity.Trade Review"Thurston succeeds in ascertaining the intellectual and theological depth that transcends intergenerational scholarship in China. This is quite the feat and quite the gift for English readers.", Erin Rafferty, Princeton Theological Seminary, in: Journal of World Christianity Volume 10.1 (2020) "In short, Thurston has written an insightful analysis of Sino-Christian humanism in contemporary China, and her findings should appeal to anyone interested in Chinese theology and church history." Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, in: Exchange Volume 48 (2019). "Those interested in ministering to mainland scholars will benefit from Thurston’s categorization of Chinese scholars of Christianity as well as the many personal interviews contained in this study. For those less directly engaged with Chinese scholars, this book provides four valuable insights that will affect the future of Christianity in China." - Chinasource Blog Posts, May 8, 2019 (link visited Sept. 9, 2019)Table of ContentsContents Foreword by Thomas Jansen Foreword by Jason Lam Preface Acknowledgments List of Tables and Charts Part 1: Introduction, Methodology and Background 1 Introduction  1.1 Sino-Christian Theology and Sino-Christian Studies  1.2 Background and Approach, Questions and Aims  1.3 Current State of Research and Works Consulted  1.4 Plan of the Chapters 2 Theory, Terms and Methodology  2.1 Approaching a Phenomenon: “What Manner of Men Are These?”  2.2 The Terminological Instability of “Sino-Christian Theology”  2.3 Methodology 3 Religious Studies and Christianity in China Today  3.1 Approaching Religion in Post-Secular Chinese Society  3.2 Confronting Chinese Modernity: Theology Versus Ethicization  3.3 Evaluating Sino-Christian Studies Part 2: Studying Christianity in China 4 Development and Institutional Context of Sino-Christian Studies  4.1 Institutions and Institutional Structures  4.2 Developing Christian Studies in Mainland China  4.3 Generational Distinctions Within the Sphere of Sino-Christian Studies 5 Trendsetting: Senior Scholars and the Social Sciences  5.1 China’s “Lost Generation”  5.2 Introducing Scholarly Types: The Common Thread of Academic Commitment  5.3 “Type 2”: Observing Christianity in Chinese Society  5.4 Historical Perspectives  5.5 Why the Marginal-Status Claim? 6 The Core of the Phenomenon: Senior Generation Theologians and Philosophers  6.1 Hong Kong Theologians: Mining the Symbolic Power of Sino-Christian Theology  6.2 Catholic Theology: A Beijing Theologian Shares His Perspective  6.3 Sino-Christian Theology: A Handmaiden for Philosophy?  6.4 The Potential of Sino-Christian Theology and Sino-Christian Studies 7 The Younger Scholars  7.1 Disciplinary Diversification Among the Younger Scholars  7.2 Recognizing the Accomplishments of Senior Scholars  7.3 The Missing Link of Biblical Studies  7.4 Vitality in the Margins  7.5 Christian and Non-Christian Identity Among the Younger Scholars  7.6 The Role of Theology 8 Analysis and Argumentation: Marginality and Sino-Christian Studies  8.1 Marginality and Prominence  8.2 Openness for the Marginal: Appraising the Interpretive Position of Tolerance  8.3 Inquiry, Discourse, Discipline: Legitimizing an Emerging Discourse  8.4 Suspended in Interdisciplinary Space Part 3: Conclusion and Appendix 9 Conclusion  9.1 Translating Christianity into Chinese  9.2 Insiders/Outsiders: Voices from the Margins  9.3 Contributions of the Study  9.4 Suggestions for Further Research  9.5 A Final Thought Appendix Interview Transcripts  1 Interview with Senior Generation Scholar, Theology and Religious Studies  2 Interview with Senior Generation Scholar, Theology and Religious Studies  3 Interview with Younger Scholar, Philosophy  4 Interview with Younger Scholar, Theology   Interview Guide (Interviews 10–38) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual Experience Ingrid Falque analyses the meditative functions of early Netherlandish paintings including devotional portraits, that is portraits of people kneeling in prayer. Such paintings have been mainly studied in the context of commemorative and social practices, but as Ingrid Falque shows, they also served as devotional instruments. By drawing parallels between the visual strategies of these paintings and texts of the major spiritual writers of the medieval Low Countries, she demonstrates that paintings with devotional portraits functioned as a visualisation of the spiritual process of the sitters. The book is accompanied by the first exhaustive catalogue of paintings with devotional portraits produced in the Low Countries between c. 1400 and 1550. This catalogue is available at no costs in e-format (HERE) and can also be purchased as a printed hardcover book (HERE).Trade Review“With Falque’s lucid description of the complex visual language of the paintings, this project will be appreciated by art historians already familiar with the pictorial conventions of the era but it will also serve as an effective lens for scholars in neighboring disciplines – especially those concerned with devotional literature – who seek to explore the participation of the visual arts in theological and devotional discourse.” Mitzi Kirkland-Ives, Missouri State University. In: HNA Reviews, April 2020. “A monumental achievement.” Catherine Levesque, College of William and Mary. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 1 (Spring 2022), pp. 213–216.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Graph Abbreviations Note to the Reader Introduction 1 Ora pro me: The Forms and Locations of Devotional Portraits in Early Netherlandish Painting  1 From the Outside to the Inside: The Location of Portraits within the Physical Spaces of the Work 2 Via ad Deum: Devotional Portraiture and the Spiritual Journey  1 Spiritual Progress and the Meditative Process in the Medieval Religious Tradition  2 The Devotee on the Path  3 The Goal of the Spiritual Journey and the Status of the Sacred Space 3 Ascensiones in corde disposuit: Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual Ascent  1 Mise en Mots and Mise en Image of the Spiritual Ascent in the Medieval Spiritual Tradition  2 The Theme of the Spiritual Ascent in Devotional Literature of the Low Countries in the Late Middle Ages  3 Mise en Image of the Spiritual Ascent in Early Netherlandish Painting  4 Petrus Christus’ Exeter Madonna, an Emblematic Case of Spiritual Ascent  5 The Diptych of Lodovico Portinari and the Visualisation of the Meditative Process 4 Eene vergaderinghe van twee personen die comen van diverschen staden: Devotional Portraiture, Union with God and Spiritual Perfection  1 The Outcome of the Contemplative Process: Spiritual Perfection, Union with God and the Ghemeine Leven  2 Devotional Portraiture and the Visualisation of Spiritual Perfection  3 The Van der Burch Triptych of Jan Provoost, an Exemplary Image of Spiritual Perfection 5 In spiritualem quandam armoniam: Devotional Portraiture and the Role of Images in the Meditative Process  1 The Place of Images in Late Medieval Meditative Theory and Practices  2 Geert Grote’s Tractatus de Quattuor Generibus Meditabilium, the Ghemeine Leven and the Status of Images Conclusions Bibliography index

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Book SynopsisA Companion to the Reformation in Geneva describes the course of the Protestant Reformation in the city of Geneva from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It explores the beginnings of reform in the city, the struggles the reformers encountered when seeking to teach, minister to, educate, and discipline the inhabitants of Geneva, and the methods employed to overcome these obstacles. It examines Geneva’s relations with nearby cities and how Geneva handled the influx of immigrants from France. The volume focuses on the most significant aspects of life in the city, examines major theological and liturgical subjects associated with the Genevan Reformation, and describes the political, social, and cultural consequences of the Reformation for Geneva. Contributors include: Jon Balserak, Sara Beam, Erik de Boer, Michael Bruening, Mathieu Caesar, Jill Fehleison, Emanuele Fiume, Hervé Genton, Anja Silvia Goeing, Christian Grosse, Scott Manetsch, Elsie McKee, Graeme Murdock, William G. Naphy, Peter Opitz, Jennifer Powell McNutt, Jameson Tucker, Theodore G. Van Raalte, and Jeffrey R. Watt. “This volume is a scholarly and very accessible introduction to the Genevan Reformation that covers history, religious developments, and impact, balancing the perspectives of both historians and theologians. The contributors present an extraordinarily well-rounded view of Geneva during the Reformation. It will be a tremendous aid to scholarship and the book that the next generation of scholars will use both as a handy reference and as the starting point for future work.” Amy Nelson Burnett, University of Nebraska-LincolnTrade Review“I commend this exceptional tome to your attention. If the Reformation is a field which interests you, then you will need to read it so as to be on the cutting edge of the discussions in the field. Wherever your interests lead you, let them lead you here, to this book. Even if it’s a bit of a detour, it is a worthy use of your time [...]Seriously. Read this book.” Jim West, Ming Hua Theological College / Charles Sturt University, in Zwinglius Redivivus “This volume is a scholarly and very accessible introduction to the Genevan Reformation that covers history, religious developments, and impact, balancing the perspectives of both historians and theologians. The contributors present an extraordinarily well-rounded view of Geneva during the Reformation. It will be a tremendous aid to scholarship and the book that the next generation of scholars will use both as a handy reference and as the starting point for future work.” - Amy Nelson Burnett, University of Nebraska-LincolnTable of ContentsPreface Abbreviations List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction   Jon Balserak PART 1 Reforming Geneva 1 Government and Political Life During an Age of Transition (1451–1603)   Mathieu Caesar 2 Apostle of the Alps  Guillaume Farel and the Reforming of Geneva   Theodore G. Van Raalte 3 A Long-Suffering Ministry  Calvin and the Continual Crises of Geneva, ca. 1535–1560   William G. Naphy 4 Théodore de Bèze and Geneva   Hervé Genton 5 The Pays de Vaud  First Frontier of the Genevan Reformation   Michael Bruening 6 The Genevan Churches and the Western Church   Jon Balserak PART 2 Ministry 7 “Docere et movere”  Preaching, Sacrament, and Prayer in the Reformed Liturgical System of 16th-Century Geneva   Christian Grosse 8 Pastors and Ministry in Reformed Geneva   Scott M. Manetsch 9 Expounding the Scriptures  The Sermons, Lectures, and congrégations   Erik A. de Boer 10 Religious Life in Rural Geneva   Graeme Murdock 11 ‘Where today are the widows who have this honorable office?’  Calvin, the Diaconate, and Women   Elsie Anne McKee PART 3 Education, Discipline, and Control 12 The Genevan Academy  Scrutinizing European Connections in the Time of Theodore Beza   Anja-Silvia Goeing 13 The Consistory of Geneva   Jeffrey R. Watt 14 Torture and Punishment in Reformation Geneva   Sara Beam PART 4 Relationships and Developments 15 Geneva, Zurich, and the Swiss Reformed Churches   Peter Opitz 16 Geneva, the Italian Refuge, and Contact with Italy   Emanuele Fiume 17 Geneva, Its Printing Industry, and Book Trade   Jameson Tucker 18 Bishop in Exile  Francis de Sales, Annecy, and Reformation   Jill Fehleison 19 Reform under Siege  The Resilience of Geneva’s 17th-and 18th-Century Church   Jennifer Powell McNutt Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisKnowledge and Profanation offers numerous instances of profoundly religious polemicists profanizing other religions ad majorem gloriam Dei, as well as sincere adherents of their own religion, whose reflective scholarly undertakings were perceived as profanizing transgressions – occasionally with good reason. In the history of knowledge of religion and profanation unintended consequences often play a decisive role. Can too much knowledge of religion be harmful? Could the profanation of a foreign religion turn out to be a double-edged sword? How much profanating knowledge of other religions could be tolerated in a premodern world? In eleven contributions, internationally renowned scholars analyze cases of learned profanation, committed by scholars ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the early nineteenth century, as well as several antique predecessors. Contributors are: Asaph Ben-Tov, Ulrich Groetsch, Andreas Mahler, Karl Morrison, Martin Mulsow, Anthony Ossa-Richardson, Wolfgang Spickermann, Riccarda Suitner, John Woodbridge, Azzan Yadin, and Holger Zellentin.Table of ContentsContents Notes on the Editors Notes on the ContributorsIi Introduction  Martin Mulsow and Asaph Ben-Tov Part 1: The Sacred and the Profane in Art, Literature and Parody 1 Lucian of Samosata on Magic and Superstition  Wolfgang Spickermann 2 Rabbi Lazarus and the Rich Man: A Talmudic Parody of the Late Roman Hell (Yerushalmi Hagigah 2.2, 77d and Sanhedrin 6.9, 23c)  Holger Zellentin 3 Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti’s Call for Reform of Christian Art  Karl F. Morrison 4 The Sacred Becomes Profane – The Profane Becomes Sacred: Observations on the Desubstantialisation of Religious Discourse in the Early Modern Age  Andreas Mahler Part 2: Early Modern European Knowledge about Pagan Religion 5 The Seventeenth Century Confronts the Gods: Bishop Huet, Moses, and the Dangers of Comparison  Martin Mulsow 6 The Eleusinian Mysteries in the Age of Reason  Asaph Ben-Tov Part 3: Crossing the Boundaries in Biblical Scholarship: Ancient Preconditions and Early Modern Conflict 7 Athens and Jerusalem? Early Jewish Biblical Scholarship and the Pagan World  Azzan Yadin-Israel 8 Richard Simon and the Charenton Bible Project: The Quest for ‘Perfect Neutrality’ in Interpreting Scripture  John Woodbridge 9 The Devil in the Details: The Case of Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694–1768)  Ulrich Groetsch Part 4: Scientific Knowledge and Religion 10 Cry Me a Relic: The Holy Tear of Vendôme and Early Modern Lipsanomachy  Anthony Ossa-Richardson 11 The Powerlessness of the Devil: Scientific Knowledge and Demonology in Clemente Baroni Cavalcabò (1726–1796)  Riccarda Suitner Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisMultiple forms of oppression, injustice, and violence today have roots in histories of colonialism. This connection to the past feels familiar for some and less relevant for others. Understanding and responding to these connections is more crucial than ever, yet some resist rather than face this task directly. Others resist oppressive postcolonial conditions. Using intercultural stories and pastoral care scholarship, this book charts pathways through five resistances (not me, not here, not now, not relevant, not possible) to awaken creative pastoral care in a postcolonial world. McGarrah Sharp recommends practices that everyone can do: believing in each other, revisiting how histories are taught, imagining more passable futures, heeding prophetic poets, and crossing borders with healthy boundaries.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Illustrations Resistance Is Many Things  1 Resourcing Resistances: a Fable  2 Joining the Resistance  3 Resisting Means Many Things  4 Resisting as Pastoral Care  5 Guide to the Book  6 Invitation to Readers  7 Introduction Discussion Questions 1 Unlocking Disbeliefs: Moving through “Not Me” Resistances  1 Encountering “Not Me” Resistances  2 Unlocking Disbeliefs: Resisting Injustices in Everyday Life  3 Resistance Movements that Loosen Hinges of Healing in Everyday Life  4 Summary and Conclusion  5 Chapter 1 Discussion Questions 2 Remembering Pasts: Moving through “Not Here” Resistances  1 Encountering “Not Here” Resistances  2 Re-Membering Past “Not Here” Resistances  3 Practicing Resistance Movements: Role Playing Role Playing  4 Inviting “The Living Me” Here (without the Sugar-Coating)  5 Chapter 2 Discussion Questions 3 Re-Storying Impassable Futures: Moving through “Not Now” Resistances  1 Encountering “Not Now” Resistances: Adjudicating Possibilities, Legislating Futures  2 Re-Storying Impassable Futures  3 Pastoral Care as Resistance That Restores Possibilities and Re-Stories Dreams  4 Chapter 3 Discussion Questions 4 Amplifying Phoenix Poets: Moving through “Not Relevant” Resistances  1 Confronting “Not Relevant” Resistances  2 Vulnerabilities and Values of Resisting as Pastoral Care  3 Learning That Resistance Movements Create Dangerously  4 Moving in Search of the Phoenix Poet (or, a Necessarily Fragmentary Conclusion)  5 Chapter 4 Discussion Questions 5 Crossing Borders with Healthy Boundaries: Moving through “Not Possible” Resistances  1 I Am the Resistance  2 Border Crossing without Healthy Boundaries: Confronting “Not Possible” Resistances  3 Ethics Conundrums in an Intercultural Paradigm of Pastoral Care  4 Postcolonializing Ethics in Intercultural Pastoral Care: Soul Work  5 Learning Creative Possibilities  6 Making Resistance as Prophetic Pastoral Care  7 Conclusion  8 Chapter 5 Discussion Questions Widening the Scope: Seven Contributions and Connections to Pastoral and Practical  1 Pastoral Care Begins with a Question: “What Are You Going through?”  2 Resisting in Pastoral Care and Pastoral Theology: a Brief Historical Trajectory  3 Multiple Methodological Belonging  4 Intercultural Paradigm of Pastoral Care  5 Postcolonializing Pastoral Care: an Ongoing Creative Collaboration  6 Living Postcolonializing Processes in Practice(s)  7 Widening the Scope More: Decolonizing Theological Education Epilogue Bibliography Index of Terms and Names Index of Practices Index of Biblical Citations

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Book SynopsisCollaborative Practical Theology documents and analyses research on Christian practices conducted by academic practical theologians in collaboration with practitioners of different kinds in Christian practices all around the world. These practitioners include professional practitioners, everyday believers, volunteers and students in theological education. The book offers rationales for setting up joint investigation groups with different ‘communities of practice’, describes a wide range of collaborative research strategies and methods and also has a clear eye for their limitations. In Christian practices faith is mediated, enacted and nurtured. The aim of the book is to improve the utility of theological research on these practices. It communicates the vision that academic research is for the people of God in today’s world.Trade Review"this is a ‘must read’ for research students and those in the leadership of seminaries. However, as the title suggests, an even more fruitful reading might be experienced in an interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners who would be open to explore the implications for theological reflection in their own contexts; a truly collaborative reading." — Mike Pears, Amsterdam, in: Journal of European Baptist Studies, Volume 21.2 (2021) "De Roest has succeeded in pointing to new directions for practical theological research in a field that is already packed with methodological handbooks, whilst also providing enough detail on how collaborative research might work to enable people to get to work. And that is precisely what he envisages, doing collaborative research which will be ‘for the benefit of the world’ (323)." — Jack Barentsen, Leuven, in: European Journal of Theology, Volume 30.2 (2021) "This important work by a leading European practical theologian is a very welcome contribution to the discipline in the 21st century. For two long white men in North America and Europe have carried on as if they had no accountability to the feminist, post-colonial and other critiques of our disciplinary assumptions. Not here. Prof. de Roest has listened, and written an almost confessional work, seeking to portray the way forward for practical theology as only responsible via collaborative and participatory approaches that deeply respect the communities who are impacted by—and more importantly, who benefit from participation in—practical theological research." — Rev. Dr. Christian Scharen, Vice President of Applied Research, Auburn Seminary "At a time when practical theology in Europe and North America is experiencing itself as established as a discipline, this scholarly work comes as a timely reminder of the risks of such establishment. In order for practical theologians to avoid just becoming another kind of academic, we need, as Henk de Roest's argument makes clear, to persist in and develop participatory forms of research with those engaged in faith practices. Learning from a range of collaborative research practices, and with acute awareness of the pervasive questions of power and politics that such collaboration raises, this book offers an important way of renewal for practical theology's fundamental commitments." — Dr. Clare Watkins, Reader in Ecclesiology and Practical Theology, University of Roehampton "In writing Collaborative Practical Theology Henk de Roest has constructed a clever and compelling text that opens up the terrain of Practical theology in an imaginative and insightful manner. The central import of the discipline has been its attention to lived experience, collaborative working, interdisciplinary methodologies, the relationship between practice and theory and the necessity of reflecting on and indeed, even changing practice. In this comprehensive intellectual trajectory through the hinterland of Practical theology, de Roest has provided an important book that is a must read for scholars and religious practitioners alike." — Professor Anthony G. Reddie, Extraordinary Professor at the University of South Africa "This book changes empirical research in Practical Theology. Instead of examining people and groups as objects, they are included as subjects in the research process. What this means hermeneutically and methodically, and how this can be implemented in one's own research practice, is described fundamentally, in detail and in a practice-oriented manner. An essential work for those who want to research together with those who are concerned." — Professor Uta Pohl-Patalong, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel "Practical theology is a collaborative and interdisciplinary enterprise. Collaborating with those inside and outside of the discipline and inside and out of the academy is what gives it its richness and diversity. However, the theological nature of collaboration and precisely what models, approaches and ideas are best suited to operationalise its goals has to date, not been developed in detail. In this book Henk de Roest offers us a rich and full description of collaboration and provides tools and perspectives that can enable both academics and practitioners to engage in the journey of practical theology in new ways that will bring knowledge and blessing. This is one of those books that will definitely make a difference to the ways on which we do Practical theology." — Professor John Swinton, Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at the University of AberdeenTable of ContentsContents Introduction The Valorisation of Practical Theology 1 Valorising Practical Theology: Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research  1 We. . . All. . . Benefit!  2 Knowledge Valorisation, Collaborative Research, Stakeholder Orientation and Lifelong Learning in a Global Context  3 Collaborative Research in Practical Theology  4 Empirical Theology  5 The Structure of Practical Theological Research and the Problem of Implementation  6 Knowledge Transfer Activities in Practical Theology  7 Independent Academic Practical Theological Research?  8 The Researcher and the Researched  9 Two-Way Flows of Knowledge  10 Conclusion 2 Knowledge Transfer in Practical Theological Education: Seven Instructive Curriculum Reforms  1 Introduction  2 University of Leiden: an Attempt to Establish a Chair in Practical Theology  3 Franz Stephan Rautenstrauch, University of Vienna: Preventing Routines  4 Friedrich Schleiermacher, Humboldt University: Shaping an Academic Spirit  5 William Harper, University of Chicago: Shaping the Culture of the Nation  6 Anton Boisen, Clinical Pastoral Education: Co-Operative Inquiry  7 The Network for African Congregational Theology: Radical Contextualisation  8 Protestant Theological University (PThU): Internship, Learning Empirical Research  9 Conclusion 3 Continuing Education in Community: Lifelong Learning in Communities of Practice  1 Introduction  2 Continuing Ministerial Education in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century  3 Continuing Education in Recent Decades  4 The Continuing Need for Continuing Education  5 Conclusion 4 The Scope of Practical Theology" Practices, Addressees, and Relation to Theology and the Social Sciences  1 Introduction  2 Practical Theology from the 1800s to the 1960s: Church-Oriented Practical Theology  3 Practical Theology Since the 1960s: Broadening the Domain  4 Practical Theology Since the 1980s: the Empirical Turn  5 Practices of the Church and Practices of the World  6 Practical Theology and Theology  7 Systematic Theology in Need of Practical Theology  8 Practical Theology and the Social Sciences  9 Conclusion Collaborative Research Approaches and Methods in Practical Theology 5 Know-Why, Know-How and Know-What The Crisis of Routines and the Practitioner’s Needs for Knowledge and Skills  1 Introduction  2 The Concept of Practice, Crises of Routines and Professional Communities of Practice  3 Crises of Routines in Churchly Practices  4 Consequences for Knowledge Transfer in Contemporary Practical Theology  5 Practical Theology: a Science of Crisis?  6 The Information Needs of Professional Practitioners  7 Conclusion 6 Collaborative Research in Practical Theology: Rationales for Collaborative Approaches  1 Introduction  2 The Missio Dei Rationale  3 The Emerging Community Rationale  4 The Epistemological Rationale  5 The Innovation and Professionalisation Rationale  6 The Post-Colonial Rationale  7 The Utility Rationale  8 Conclusion 7 Doing Research in Community: A Multiplicity of Collaborative Research Practices  1 Introduction  2 Collaborative Research: an Example  3 Relational Approaches: Some General Characteristics  4 Action Research (AR)  5 Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Participatory Research (PR)  6 Theological Action Research (TAR)  7 Collaborative Ethnography (CE)  8 Change Laboratory (CL)  9 Appreciative Inquiry (ai)  10 Narrative Inquiry (NI) and Collaborative Narrative Inquiry (CNI)  11 Professional Learning Community (PLC), Research Community (RC), Knowledge Workplace (KW) and Action Research Community (ARC)  12 Citizen Science (CS)  13 Some Collaborative Methods  14 Conclusion 8 Collaborative Research in Practical Theology: Nuances and Limitations: Constraints to Participation  1 Introduction  2 Reliability or ‘Good Reasons for the Ivory Tower’  3 Nuancing Collaboration  4 Different Types and Roles of Stakeholders  5 Asymmetry and Power  6 Remedies against Power Mechanisms  7 Limits and Constraints to Participation  8 Mutual Beneficial Collaboration?  9 The Dynamics in Research Groups  10 Conclusion 9 Taking the Initiative: Practitioners Doing Collaborative Research Communities of Practice Becoming Research Communities  1 Introduction  2 Practitioners Becoming Research-Informed  3 The Knowledge of the Community  4 Teachers Doing Research in Community  5 Chaplains Doing Research in Community  6 Ministers Doing Research in Community  7 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPicturing Death: 1200–1600 explores the visual culture of mortality over the course of four centuries that witnessed a remarkable flourishing of imagery focused on the themes of death, dying, and the afterlife. In doing so, this volume sheds light on issues that unite two periods—the Middle Ages and the Renaissance—that are often understood as diametrically opposed. The studies collected here cover a broad visual terrain, from tomb sculpture to painted altarpieces, from manuscripts to printed books, and from minute carved objects to large-scale architecture. Taken together, they present a picture of the ways that images have helped humans understand their own mortality, and have incorporated the deceased into the communities of the living. Contributors: Jessica Barker, Katherine Boivin, Peter Bovenmyer, Xavier Dectot, Maja Dujakovic, Brigit Ferguson, Alison C. Fleming, Fredrika Jacobs, Henrike C. Lange, Robert Marcoux, Walter S. Melion, Stephen Perkinson, Johanna Scheel, Mary Silcox, Judith Steinhoff, and Noa Turel.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction  Stephen Perkinson and Noa Turel part 1: Housing the Dead 1 Looking beyond the Face: Tomb Effigies and the Medieval Commemoration of the Dead  Robert Marcoux 2 Portraiture, Projection, Perfection: The Multiple Effigies of Enrico Scrovegni  Henrike Christiane Lange 3 Plorans ploravit in nocte: The Birth of the Figure of the Pleurant in Tomb Sculpture  Xavier Dectot 4 Gendering Prayer in Trecento Florence: Tomb Paintings in Santa Croce and San Remigio  Judith Steinhoff 5 Two-Story Charnel-House Chapels and the Space of Death in the Medieval City  Katherine M. Boivin part 2: Mortal Anxieties and Living Paradoxes 6 The Living Dead and the Joy of the Crucifixion  Brigit G. Ferguson 7 The Speaking Tomb: Ventriloquizing the Voices of the Dead  Jessica Barker 8 Feeding Worms: The Theological Paradox of the Decaying Body and Its Depictions in the Context of Prayer and Devotion  Johanna Scheel 9 Not Quite Dead: Imaging the Miracle of Infant Resuscitation  Fredrika H. Jacobs part 3: The Macabre, Instrumentalized 10 Dissecting for the King: Guido da Vigevano and the Anatomy of Death  Peter Bovenmyer 11 Covert Apotheoses: Archbishop Henry Chichele’s Tomb and the Vocational Logic of Early Transis  Noa Turel 12 Into Print: Early Illustrated Books and the Reframing of the Danse Macabre  Maja Dujakovic 13 Death Commodified: Macabre Imagery on Luxury Objects, c. 1500  Stephen Perkinson part 4: Departure and Persistence 14 Coemeterium Schola: The Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan David’s Veridicus Christianus  Walter S. Melion 15 A Protestant Reconceptualization of Images of Death and the Afterlife in Stephen Bateman’s A Christall Glasse  Mary V. Silcox 16 Shifting Role Models within the Society of Jesus: The Abandonment of Grisly Martyrdom Images c. 1600  Alison C. Fleming Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Fannie Lou Hamer’s Revolutionary Practical Theology Crozier acknowledges, analyses, and constructs the civil and human rights leader’s Christian thought and practice. Commonly known for her political activism, Hamer is presented as a religious thought leader whose embodiment of ideas and ideals helped to disrupt and transform the Jim Crow of the South within and beyond electoral politics. Through primary source documents of Hamer’s oral history interviews, autobiographical writings, speeches, and multimedia publications on or about her life and legacy, Crozier allows Hamer to have her say on racial and environmental justice concerns. Crozier introduces Hamer as a revolutionary practical theologian who resided on the margins of the church, academy, and society.Trade Review"Dr. Crozier reminds a world that cries out for healing of the patron saint of theo-political practical imagination that is Fannie Lou Hamer. It is more than a biography of Hamer. Crozier offers Hamer's life and work as a call to action for anyone standing for freedom and justice across this nation." – Dr Patrick B. Reyes, Forum for Theological Exploration.Table of ContentsForeword  Rosetta E. Ross Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Christian and Civic Education: Hamer's Alternative, Redemptive Training  1 Hamer's Intellect and Training in Perspective  2 Family Life and Black Church Training  3 SNCC Training and Civic Education  4 Christian Biblical and Theological Foundation   4.1 Christ   4.2 God   4.3 The Church and Kingdom of God   4.4 Justice and Peace   4.5 Land and Labor  5 Summary 2 Hamer and the Academic Disciplines of Practical, Black, and Womanist Theologies  1 Non-Academic and Academic Theologies in Practice  2 Roots and Vision of Hamer's Christian Ministry  3 Hamer's Invitation to White Academic Practical Theologians  4 Summary 3 Black Prey, White Predator: Fannie Lou Hamer's Practical Theology of Racial Freedom in the United States "Wilderness"  1 Hamer's Practical Theology of Racial Freedom: A Rich Description  2 Contextualizing Hamer's Practical Theology of Racial Freedom  3 Hamer's Creation Care Advocacy   3.1 Land Use and Access   3.2 Reproduction and Procreation   3.3 Preservation and Conservation  4 Hamer's Corrective and Model 4 Healing the People, Healing the Land: Fannie Lou Hamer's Theo-Politics of Love  1 Love and the Civil Rights Movement: A Snapshot  2 Hamer's Theo-Politics of Love: Four Stages  3 Hamer's Theo-Politics of Love: Analysis and Outcomes  4 Healing Vision and Accolades  5 Summary 5 Revolutionizing the Diversity and Inclusion Paradigm: Hamer's Leadership for Jubilee and Black Reparations  1 Revolutionizing Diversity and Inclusion: A Necessity  2 The Powerful Practices of Storytelling and Nonviolent Direct Action  3 Hamer's Paradigm of Jubilee and Black Reparations   3.1 Christ's Freedom   3.2 The Cross   3.3 Structural, Systemic Renewal   3.4 Black Power   3.5 Hamer's Projects  4 Hamer's Diversity Praxis and Practical Theology   4.1 Appropriating Hamer's Thought Leadership  5 Summary 6 Hamer's Revolutionary Practical Theology: Sources and Relevance to the Field of Practical Theology  1 Hamer's Revolutionary Practical Theology: Sources   1.1 Lived Experience   1.2 Scripture   1.3 Tradition   1.4 Reason  2 Hamer as a Protowomanist  3 The Relevance of Hamer's Revolutionary Practical Theology  4 Summary 7 Hamer's Revolutionary Practical Theology in and for the Twenty-First Century  1 Hamer and Black Lives Matter   1.1 General Description and Assessment   1.2 The Church   1.3 Religious Institutions, Black Women, and Social Movements  2 Hamer's International Influence Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSaint Birgitta of Sweden (d. 1373), one of the most famous visionary women of the late Middle Ages, lived in Rome for the last 23 years of her life. Much of her extensive literary work was penned there. Her Celestial Revelations circulated widely from the late 14th century to the 17th century, copied in Italian scriptoria, translated into vernacular, and printed in several Latin and Italian editions. In the same centuries, an extraordinary number of women writers across the peninsula were publishing their work. What echoes might we find of the foreign widow’s prophetic voice in their texts? This volume offers innovative investigations, written by an interdisciplinary group of experts, of the profound impact of Birgitta of Sweden in Renaissance Italy. Contributors include: Brian Richardson, Jane Tylus, Isabella Gagliardi, Clara Stella, Marco Faini, Jessica Goethals, Anna Wainwright, Eleonora Cappuccilli, Eleonora Carinci, Virginia Cox, Unn Falkeid, and Silvia Nocentini.Trade Review"[...] a truly distinguished series, the list of whose authors reads like a Who's Who of early modern historians." William V. Hudon, in: The American Historical Review "There were some who worried that Brill’s Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions might languish once separated from the guiding hand of Heiko Oberman. One need not worry." David M. Whitford, in: Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction  Unn Falkeid and Anna Wainwright 1 Birgitta and Pseudo-Birgitta: Textual Circulation and Perceptions of the Saint  Brian Richardson 2 Making Birgitta Italian: The Time of Translation  Jane Tylus 3 Prophetic Theology: The Santa Brigida da Paradiso in Florence  Isabella Gagliardi 4 A Lineage of Apocalyptic Queens: The Portrayal of Birgitta of Sweden in Domenica Narducci’s Sermon to Caterina Cibo (1533)  Clara Stella 5 The Fifteen Prayers Attributed to Birgitta and Their Circulation in Early Modern Italy: Private Devotion, Heterodoxy, and Censorship  Marco Faini 6 Ventriloquizing Birgitta: The Saint’s Prophetic Voice During the Italian Wars  Jessica Goethals and Anna Wainwright 7 The Semantics of Obedience. Birgittine Influences on Paola Antonia Negri’s Letters  Eleonora Cappuccilli 8 Discourses on the Virgin Mary: Birgitta of Sweden and Chiara Matraini  Eleonora Carinci 9 “Consenti, o pia, ch’in lagrimosi carmi …:” Birgitta in the Verse, Thought, and Artistic Commissions of Angelo Grillo  Virginia Cox 10 “The Most Illustrious and Divine of All the Sibyls.” Saint Birgitta in the Prophetic Visions of Tommaso Campanella and Queen Cristina of Sweden  Unn Falkeid Appendix: One Life, Many Hagiographers: The Earliest Vitae of Birgitta of Sweden  Silvia Nocentini Bibliography General Index

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Book SynopsisIn what is often considered ‘a society “after God”’, millions of Dutch participate annually in a public multi-media performance of Christ's Passion. What to make of this paradox? In Playing On: Re-staging the Passion after the Death of God, Mirella Klomp offers a theological analysis of this performance and those involved in it. Working in an interdisciplinary fashion and utilizing creative interludes, she demonstrates how precisely this production of Jesus' last hours carves out a new and unexpected space for God in a (post-)secular culture. Klomp argues compellingly that understanding God's presence in the Western world requires looking beyond the church and at the public domain; that is the future of practical theology. She lays out this agenda for practical theology by showing how the Dutch playfully rediscover Christian tradition, and – perhaps – even God.Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Charts, Figures and Tables Prologue Setting the Stage 1 The Play: A Popular Passion in the Public Sphere 2 The Scenery: Dwellings in a Sacro-Soundscape 3 The Re-Appearance of God: Ana-Liturgy Cross-Fading Perspectives on the Play 4 Claiming Sacred Ground: A Spatial Practice Side Light: Locus Iste. A Meditation 5 Playing with the Sacred: A Ludic Practice Side Light: @deusludens. A Twitter Thread 6 Dealing with Society’s Secular Self-Understanding: A Reflexive Practice Side Light: Reflections in a Mirror. A Meditative Exegesis 7 Staging the Resurrection: A Public Theological Practice Side Light: What Is This All About? A Letter Full Up Finish 8 Playing on: Practical Theology after the Death of God Appendix 1: Research Methodology Appendix 2: Tables Bibliography Index Permissions

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Book SynopsisPractices of sharing marginalised lived experiences are framed as providing insight into injustices; yet social inequalities influence whose experiences, and whose interpretations of these experiences, are seen as valid. Lived Experiences and Social Transformations analyses academic and activist encounters with lived experiences, arguing that these practices reinforce or disrupt power relations. Through the example of UK activists sharing their experiences of poverty, Wren Radford advocates for collaborative interventions that emphasise the critical, creative knowledges enmeshed in marginalised experiences. The book compellingly enacts this approach to practical theology; rooted in concrete issues and argued through poetic writing, artwork, and interdisciplinary sources.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction  1 Sharing Lived Experiences as a Political Practice  2 Practical Theologies and Lived Experiences  3 Locating This Research  4 The Structure of This Book Part 1: Developing an Approach for Working with Lived Experiences 1 The Dynamics of Sharing Lived Experiences  1 ‘The Difficulties of Telling and Listening’  2 Social Relations  3 Critical Interpretations and Creative Work  4 Concluding 2 Passionate Ambivalence  1 Theological Knowledge Making and Disciplinary Desires  2 Engaging Lived Experiences  3 Practical Theology as a Process of Making  4 Risking Transformation  5 Concluding Part 2: Creative Interventions into Austerity 3 Tracing the Labyrinth  1 One  2 Two  3 Three  4 Four  5 Five  6 Six 4 Disrupting Austerity Cultures of Judgement and Disbelief  1 Austerity Cultures of Judgement and Disbelief  2 Testimonial Spaces  3 Judgement and Disbelief as Social and Material  4 Art-Activism as Creative Interventions  5 Creative Interventions in Cultures of Judgement and Disbelief  6 Concluding Part 3: Theological and Political Disruptions 5 Transformations in the Everyday  1 Troubling ‘Transformation’  2 Poetic Modes of Transformation  3 Putting Cultures of Judgement on Trial  4 Incarnational and Performative Interventions  5 Cultural Transformations in the Everyday  6 Everyday Transformations as Social, Material, and Spiritual 6 Enacting Disruptive Encounters  1 ‘Face-to-Face’ Sharing  2 Collaborative Practices  3 Creative Arts-Based Research Practices  4 Fragile, Ongoing, Responsive Practices Concluding Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does 'performance' mean in Christian culture? How is it connected to rituals, dramatic and visual arts, and the written word? Performing the Sacred: Christian Representation and the Arts explores both the meaning of re-presentation and the role of performance within the Christian tradition between arts and drama. The essays in this book demonstrate that the idea of performance was central to Christian theology and that—from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern era—it became a device through which people saw, prayed, preached, wrote, imagined, officiated rites, celebrated cults, and practiced devotions. Seen that performance is a habitus within Christianity, performing the sacred does not just mean representing it, but rather enacting it in a tangible, visible and involved way.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Notes on Contibutors Introduction  Carla M. Bino and Corinna Ricasoli 1 The Drama of Christian Images: Art, Liturgy, Sacred Theatre  Timothy Verdon 2 A ‘Dramatic Turn’: The Revolution of Christian Representation  Carla M. Bino 3 No Drama Please, We’re Greek: Sacred Plays from a Greek Orthodox Perspective  Andrew Walker White 4 Enacting Sacred Narrative: Biblical, Liturgical, and Sacramental Practices in the Latin West  Nils Holger Petersen 5 Mary in the Scriptures as Container and Way: Henry Adams and the Virgin of Chartres  Rachel Fulton Brown 6 The Power of Images of Passion: Animated Sculptures of the Crucified Christ and the Problem of Visualizing Suffering in Medieval Art  Kamil Kopania 7 Women as Performers of the Bible: Female Preaching in Premodern Europe  Carolyn Muessig 8 Dramatic Action and the Participatory Spectator at the Sacro Monte di Varallo: Frozen Theatre or Immersive Installation?  Allie Terry-Fritsch 9 The Paradox of the Saint Actress: Church and Commedia Dell’arte during the Counter-Reformation  Fabrizio Fiaschini 10 Performing Glory: The Misteri or Festa D’elx on Contemporary Stages  Francesc Massip 11 Performing the Bible: Christian Drama and the Arts  Jean-Claude Schmitt Copyright Index

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Book SynopsisThis book goes beyond a simple study of Newman’s thought and work and seeks to apply his deductions to modern value conflicts. Although it will be of particular relevance to academic readers with some prior knowledge of Newman’s works, it may also be of wider interest to students of history, philosophy, theology and spirituality. More generally, its unusual focus on Newman’s epistemology and philosophical deductions, and how these relate to present-day dilemmas, should also attract interest from his many non-academic followers and devotees. “The main value of this work lies in its original approach to Newman from a Polish Personalist perspective, and this (rather than as another amorphous study of Newman) could give it novelty value and attract real interest from Newman scholars and experts.” -Jonathan Luxmoore, Oxford-based writer and Church historian "How do we evaluate a human life, our own life? Beginning with John Henry Newman’s defence of his life, Jan Kłos in this volume sensitively explores from a personalist perspective how all our lives involve struggle with commitment, responsibility, and truth. In its emphasis on the narrative structure of human lives, the book makes a valuable contribution not just to the philosophy of personalism but to social theory overall." -Douglas Porpora, Professor of Sociology, Drexel UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations of John Henry Newman’s Texts Introduction Part 1 The Main Components of Newman’s Personalist System of Cognition  Introduction to Part 1 1 Probability as the Guide of Life 2 Real and Unreal Words 3 Egotism Is True Modesty 4 Certitude or I Know that I Know 5 The Guidance of Conscience Part 2 Historical Studies  Introduction to Part 2 6 The Church of England and the Church of Rome 7 The Church Fathers 8 Tract xc and the Articles 9 The Logic of Dogmas 10 The Individual Journey Has Reached Its Destination—1845 and Thereafter  Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWere mid-Tudor evangelicals roaring lions or meek lambs? Did they struggle with a minority complex, or were they comfortable with their position of political ascendancy under Edward VI? How did their theological blueprint of the ‘True Church’ fit their temporal realities? By relocating the Book of Common Prayer at the centre of the English Reformation, Stephen Tong gives new significance to two underacknowledged drivers of reform: ecclesiology and liturgy. Edwardian reformers caused a sensation in England by engaging with these questions, which spilled over into Ireland, and continued to cast a shadow over subsequent generations of the English Protestants.Trade Review"In this clear and thought-provoking study, Stephen Tong moves on from recent historiography to illuminate how the first untrammelled phase of the Protestant Reformation under Edward VI viewed itself and intended to change the Church of England. His refreshingly novel perspective is to reject hindsight, and to avoid viewing the Edwardian Church through the lens of later Elizabethan Puritan/conformist conflict." Diarmaid N.J. MacCulloch, Saint Cross College and Campion Hall, Oxford Building the Church provides a stimulating new perspective on the short-lived Edwardian Reformation. Deftly weaving together the histories of liturgy, theology and ecclesiastical politics, this excellent book illuminates the hidden complexities and the creative dynamism of the evangelical movement and the institution it forged. Peering behind the pious myths that have accumulated around the Edwardian church and prayer book in succeeding centuries, Stephen Tong helps us to better understand both in their own terms. In the process, he successfully recasts our understanding of the significance of the mid-Tudor period in the longer story of the evolution of English Protestantism. A critical intervention in the contested debates about its early history, his book will be vital reading for students and scholars of the Reformation in Britain and further afield. Alexandra Walsham, Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge

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