Religion and beliefs Books
Peeters Publishers A Cloud of Witnesses: The Cult of Saints in Past
Book SynopsisFrom 11 to 16 August 2003, the nineteenth international congress of the Societas Liturgica was held in Veldhoven (the Netherlands), with as its theme «A cloud of witnesses. Saints and role models in Christian liturgy». The present publication contains a collection of nineteen case studies reflecting the versatility of the congress in its variations and themes, its scope in time (from early Christian times to the present day), and the fact that many churches and religious communities as well as the Jewish tradition are represented. The collection contains a number of articles that reflect on subjects like the phenomenon of saintliness, heortology, the dimensions of time and space in ritual-liturgical practice, and saints and canonizations in the present-day Roman Catholic and Protestant church. The last section consists of contributions on saints and forms of saint's cult by a number of authors, based on their own religious communities, such as the Old Catholic Church, Anglican Church, Dissenting Free Church, Reformed Church and ecumenical movement. The editors of this collection have by way of an introduction compiled a historiographic-bibliographic overview relating to saints and their cults in various research domains, specifically within liturgical studies, also touching upon certain specific, and for this collection interesting, themes such as the position of the (cult of) saints in cultural and historical studies, Protestant traditions, and the Feminist Liturgical Movement.
£59.85
Peeters Publishers Augustiniana Neerlandica: Aspecten Van
Book SynopsisDit boek verschijnt naar aanleiding van de 1650e geboortedag van Augustinus van Hippo. Op een toegankelijke manier, bestemd voor een zo groot mogelijk publiek, introduceren meer dan dertig deskundigen (filologen, filosofen, historici en theologen) de lezer in de wereldhistorische betekenis van Augustinus. Vrijwel alle fasen en facetten van de diepgang van zijn denken komen aan de orde, en ook de immense invloed ervan in de na hem komende eeuwen en speciaal in onze eigen tijd. Doel van dit boek is het zo goed mogelijk toegankelijk maken van Augustinus' veelkleurige en telkens weer verrassende spiritualiteit voor een ruime kring van lezers in het Nederlandse taalgebied. De bijdragen in deze bundel bieden uitzicht op het gehele complex van Augustinus' oeuvre, waarin op haast organische wijze alles met alles is verbonden. Het gedenkboek kan ook gebruikt worden als een inleidend handboek, dat op de hoogte brengt van de huidige stand van het onderzoek en voor elke geinteresseerde een opmaat vormt tot verdere studie.
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Peeters Publishers Paulus Und Die Gesinnung Christi: Identitat Und
Book Synopsis"Wir haben die Gesinnung Christi", mit diesem Resumee beschliesst Paulus in 1Kor 2,16 einen Gedankengang, der beim "Wort vom Kreuz" beginnt, die Tiefen der Weisheit Gottes erschliesst und schliesslich jene innere Grundhaltung thematisiert, die zum Garant der Einheit der Gemeinde und als Gestaltungsprinzip ihres Zusammenlebens geeignet ist. Der Apostel vermittelt diese "Gesinnung Christi" nicht bloss argumentativ. Sie wird auch an den Verkundigern und insbesondere an Paulus selbst erfahrbar, damit die Korinther ihre eigene Identitat an der Gesinnung Christi schulen. Der Ansatz bei der Mitte von 1Kor 1-4 erlaubt es, den Zusammenhang der Themen in den ersten vier Kapiteln des 1Kor zu erfassen. Von hier aus ist es ausserdem moglich, die folgenden Kapitel 5-14 im Licht der Eingangssektion zu lesen und als "Testfalle" einer Lebensgestaltung aus jener Gesinnung zu begreifen, die Paulus auf den gekreuzigten Christus zuruckfuhrt. Identitat und Entscheidungsfindung orientieren sich im ersten Korintherbrief an der Mitte von 1Kor 1-4.
£92.96
Peeters Publishers Analyse Narrative Et Bible: Deuxieme Colloque
Book SynopsisCet ouvrage rassemble diverses etudes d'analyse narrative presentees lors du 2e colloque international du RRENAB a Louvain-la-Neuve (avril 2004). La critique narrative y est mise en oeuvre par de nombreux specialistes sur differents corpus des deux Testaments et sur quelques livres apocryphes, tandis que d'autres essais abbordent des questions methodologiques (lien a l'anthropologie et a l'ethique, focalisation, rapport a l'histoire). Plusieurs etudes autour de memes themes permettent une approche croisee des questions. On y parle ainsi de l'intrigue, des personnages et de leur caracterisation (Jacob, Jesus chez Marc, oeuvre de Luc), de textes parraleles dans l'A.T., de l'intertextualite particuliere entre les deux Testaments, des tensions presentes dans l'evangile de Matthieu, de la finale des quatre evangiles, de la fonction de passages poetiques ou de discours dans des sections narratives, de la possibilite de recourir a la narratologie pour etudier certains passages de lettres de Paul. Un beau tour d'horizon de la recherche actuelle en narratologie biblique dans le monde francophone.
£87.40
Peeters Publishers Geschiedenis Van Het Kerkelijk Recht: Tweede,
Book SynopsisDe hoofdindeling van deze geschiedenis van het kerkelijk recht is niet systematisch, maar chronologisch: een eerste tijd loopt van de stichting van de Kerk tot en met de Gregoriaanse hervorming; een tweede tijd na de 'Gregoriaanse hervorming' tot het midden van de 16de eeuw; een derde tijd van het Concilie van Trente (1545-1563) tot Vaticanum II. Daarnaast wordt in elk van die tijdperken een kort overzicht gegeven van de belangrijkste historische feiten of bewegingen die op de ontwikkeling van de kerkrechtelijke kenbronnen en op de kerkrechtelijke leerstelsels een invloed hebben gehad, gevolgd door de documentaire bronnen, de rechtswetenschap en haar beoefenaars. Uiteindelijk is dit werk een nieuw boek over de geschiedenis van het kerkelijk recht, vervolledigd en bijgewerkt met bibliografie, studies en uitgaven over een looptijd van de laatste vijftig jaar.
£33.46
Peeters Publishers Suffering and Salvation: The Salvific Meaning of
Book SynopsisSuffering, especially that of the innocent and those unjustly treated, is a universal experience which has perplexed and agonised humanity. This reality is especially a challenge to believers in an all powerful, good and loving God. Within the Christian tradition in particular, because of the centrality of the cross and the crucified and risen One, there has been a tradition which has hallowed suffering. In this perspective suffering "per se", whatever its origin, is mystified as a necessary prelude to salvation.Is suffering salvific? Are all experiences of suffering saving? What is God's attitude and involvement with suffering? In this work, these questions are explored through the lens of Edward Schillebeeckx's later theology which is primarily concerned with the development of a contemporary soteriology.
£28.00
Peeters Publishers La Celebration Du Mystere Chretien Dans Le
Book SynopsisDans sa Deuxieme Partie, le "Catechisme de l'Eglise catholique", approuve par Jean-Paul II en juin 1992, expose comment le mystere pascal est rendu present dans la liturgie, particulierement dans les sacrements et les sacramentaux.Dans le present volume, chaque chapitre, article et paragraphes de cette Deuxieme Partie est confronte - comme ce fut deja le cas dans le volume precedent ou figure une evaluation de la Premiere Partie, le Symbole des apotres - aux enseignements du Catechisme tridentin (1566), du "Directorium catechisticum generale" (1971) et des schemas preparatoires envoyes a des "consulteurs" (le 3e, 1987) et a tous les eveques (le 5e, 1989). Un regard sur les nouveaux rituels d'apres concile et sur les principaux catechismes pour adultes publies recemment par des conferences episcopales a egalement permis d'apprecier le texte finalement adopte.Avant de parcourir les 625 paragraphes sur "la celebration du mystere chretien", la question du plan du catechisme est soulevee: pourquoi avoir repris l'ordre deja suivi en 1566 par le Catechisme romain? Et un epilogue rassemble les principales conclusions de la confrontation des documents; il pose un certain nombre de questions sur les choix operes par le "Catechisme de l'Eglise catholique" (jusqu'en son edition typique de 1997) comme sur les omissions constatees et s'interroge sur la pertinence d'affirmations peu accessibles a de tres nombreux destinataires non inities.
£99.24
Peeters Publishers The Ge'ez Acts of Abba Estifanos of Gwendagwende:
Book SynopsisAbuna Estifanos (Stephen), the edition and translation of whose hagiographical life is presented here, was the leader of a monastic reform movement that shook the foundations of the Ethiopian State and Church in the fifteenth century. Estifanos (Stephen) started his movement at the end of the reign of the king whom Emperor Yeshaq succeeded in 1413 AD. The reform movement of Estifanos and his followers, called Daqiqa Estifanos or Estifanosites or Stephanites, was known to the local clergy from the time of the reign of Emperor Zar'a Ya'eqob (1434-1468). As we know from Zar'a Ya'eqob's writings, including some miracles of Mary or Ta'ammera Maryam, the Estifanosites were at loggerheads with the monarch. The outside world first became aware of the Daqiqa Estifanos from the narratives of the Portuguese embassy that visited Ethiopia during the years 1520-1527. Since then several travelers and scholars have written about these monks. The basis of the Estifanosites reform movement was that monks should observe a strict monastic life, according to the rules laid down by the fathers of monasticism, and that the teachers of the Church should limit the doctrine of Christianity to what was found in the eighty-one canonical books of the Bible, recognized by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and the observance of God's Commandments found in them. As they understood it, the main commandment neglected at that time was the order to worship God alone - the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. They considered the segdat, "prostration to the ground," a form of worship that should not be performed in reverence even to the Holy Cross or to the icon of the Madonna and Child, and certainly not out of respect for the king and his name. We hear little about the activities of the Daqiqa Estifanos after Na'od (1494-1508). But their history is a major component of the history of the Church. Although the acts of a few of the followers of Estifanos were published decades ago, the publication of the acts of their leader, the Gadla Abuna Estifanos, has somehow had to await the present day. Coincidentally, there is at present a movement to revive and pursue the reforms of the Estifanosites, which adds importance and urgency to the publication of this Gadla.
£65.00
Peeters Publishers The Septuagint and Messianism: Colloquium
Book SynopsisThe question of the extent to which the Septuagint reflects an evolution in messianic belief in comparison with the Masoretic Text has come into prominence in recent years, and in view of the role played by messianism in Jewish belief of the late Second Temple period and in early Christianity it seemed very appropriate that "The Septuagint and Messianism" should be chosen as the theme of the 2004 Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense. This volume contains the papers given at the Colloquium, which are concerned both with methodological issues and with the interpretation of specific texts (in practice the majority of the texts in the Septuagint for which a messianic interpretation has been claimed). The papers are very far from all reflecting the same approach, and it has frequently happened that the same texts have been treated by different contributors from very different viewpoints. But the fact such different viewpoints are expressed is a proper reflection of the complexity of the issues involved in the question of the extent of messianic belief in the Septuagint, and of the fact that the question requires a nuanced answer. It is in any case hoped that the varied approaches reflected in the papers will serve to make clear the underlying reasons for the differences between those who take a "minimalist" and those who take a "maximalist" view on the subject of the Septuagint and Messianism.
£71.47
Peeters Publishers The Ge'ez Acts of Abba Estifanos of Gwendagwende:
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Peeters Publishers L'ecclesiologie de John Henry Newman, Anglican
Book SynopsisUne reflexion ecclesiologique fondamentale se recommande a un double titre, pour verifier la validite d'un discours ecclesiologique et pour favoriser un dialogue 'cumenique fecond. Pour aider a une telle reflexion, John Henry Newman (1801-1890) possede plusieurs titres a notre attention. D'abord, tout simplement, il fut un des grands penseurs religieux des temps modernes. Ensuite, le sujet de l'Eglise a eu une place centrale dans sa pensee et dans sa vie. Enfin, dans un contexte de pluralisme doctrinal, place au confluent meme des divers courants intellectuels majeurs de l'Eglise de son temps, assez opposes les uns aux autres (en particulier quant a la nature et a la fonction de l'Eglise), il a toujours ete amene a reflechir aux fondements de sa pensee. L'objet de cette etude est l'evolution ecclesiologique de Newman durant les annees oA' il etait membre de l'Eglise d'Angleterre. Notre objectif est de parvenir, a partir d'une utilisation intensive des sources, a manifester le processus selon lequel sont formees et deformees les opinions et les convictions ecclesiologiques fondamentales de Newman.
£93.41
Peeters Publishers Song Divine: Christian Commentaries on the
Book SynopsisFrom T.S. Eliot to Bede Griffiths, many a Christian thinker has found in the Bhagavad Gita a source of genuine spiritual insight and inspiration. As Christians continue to explore the text in a spirit of dialogue, new points of theological interest are discovered and new insights gained into the meaning and importance of the text for Christian thought and practice. In this collection of Christian commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita, Christian theologians and scholars of Hinduism offer a variety of different perspectives on the text using a diversity of commentarial approaches and styles, from close textual analysis and exegetical comparison to a more general theological reflection on the text, from comparison of the Gita with a particular Christian classic to a focus on specific religious categories such as detachment, incarnation and eschatology. While some contributions focus mainly on the similarities between Christian thought and the Gita, others also engage differences in a mutually critical and constructive way. Each of these commentaries thus offers a distinctive lens through which Christians may read the Bhagavad Gita, and points to the endless possibility and promise of inter-religious hermeneutics, or the religious reading of a sacred text from another religious tradition.
£36.10
Peeters Publishers Noli Me Tangere . Maria Magdalena in Veelvoud:
Book SynopsisNoli me tangere', zegt de verrezen Christus tegen Maria Magdalena volgens de Latijnse bijbelvertaling van Johannes 20,17. Weinig bijbelse uitspraken hebben zoveel interesse gewekt van zowel kunstenaars als theologen als deze drie intrigerende woorden. Het "Noli me tangere"-motief ligt aan de basis van het door het Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen gefinancierde interdisciplinaire onderzoeksproject 'Maria Magdalena en het aanraken van Jezus. Een intra- en interdisciplinair onderzoek naar de interpretatie van Johannes 20,17 in exegese, iconografie en pastorale begeleiding'.In samenwerking met het Centrum Vrouwenstudies Theologie van de Faculteit Godgeleerdheid van de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organiseerde de onderzoeksgroep in de Maurits Sabbebibliotheek een tentoonstelling onder de titel '"Noli me tangere". Maria Magdalena in veelvoud' (23 februari tot 30 april 2006). In het eerste deel van deze tentoonstellingscatalogus exploreren de vier promotoren van dit project, Sabine Van den Eynde, Raimund Bieringer, Karlijn Demasure en Barbara Baert de betekenis van het "Noli me tangere"-motief elk vanuit de eigen discipline. In het tweede deel van de catalogus worden de bijna dertig tentoongestelde stukken telkens met een kleurenafbeelding geillustreerd en besproken. De kunstwerken zijn afkomstig uit diverse periodes, gaande van de vijftiende tot de eenentwintigste eeuw. Diversiteit is ook troef als men de genres en de artistieke media bekijkt: grafiek, schilderkunst, beeldhouwkunst en miniatuurkunst naast volkse reproducties.De onderzoeksgroep heeft ook hedendaagse kunstenaars uitgenodigd om hun visie weer te geven op het "Noli me tangere"-motief. De Indiase kunstenares Lucy D'Souza maakte een schilderij op het snijpunt van christendom en hindoeisme. De fotografe Malou Swinnen portretteert een Filippijns model, terwijl de kalligraaf Brody Neuenschwander een sculptuur gemaakt heeft bedekt met een sluier met letters. De schilderes Claire Vanden Abbeele en de schilder Jan Vanriet waren bereid om hun reeds bestaande "Noli me tangere" ter beschikking te stellen. Op deze manier verbindt de tentoonstelling artistieke periodes, artistieke media en diverse werelddelen. "Noli me tangere: Maria Magdalena in veelvoud" wil u een Maria Magdalena aanbieden die verleden en heden verbindt.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Towards Another Future: On the Christian Faith
Book SynopsisFrom the beginning, the gospel has been understood and articulated in terms borrowed from the cultural context in which it finds itself. For the largest part of the church's history, the prevailing context has worked with a static vision of humanity and the world. Theology and philosophy perpetuated this static worldview. This was both legitimate and necessary as long as the culture was shaped by such a worldview. Since the advent of modernity, however, this is no longer the case. The advent of science and technology has seen the static view of things give way to an understanding of ourselves and our world as dynamic entities. This has made the traditional understanding of faith increasingly untenable. One might say that the gospel has become the prisoner of its previous embodiments. The church's determination to hold on to established forms, and with them the traditional understanding of humanity and the world, has led to its increasing alienation from the prevailing culture, especially in the West. For many in our society, the church's language has become increasingly incomprehensible and its message increasingly untenable. In this book, the author argues that the church's attachment to a static worldview is the fundamental cause of the current crisis, especially as this is manifest in western Europe. He provides a detailed discussion of the European context and analyzes the main features of the traditional, static understanding of faith and its roots in classical culture. He then examines the contemporary crisis of faith and offers a critical evaluation of attempts at 'restoration'. Finally, he proposes a vision of the way forward for the church as it struggles to come to terms with the modern worldview.
£30.40
Peeters Publishers Arabic Theology, Arabic Philosophy
Book SynopsisIn the course of his career, Professor Richard M. Frank of the Catholic University of America produced a hugely significant corpus of works on the intellectual activity in Classical Islam known as Kalam, which he argued should be rendered as 'speculative theology'. He also wrote on the Qur'an, on the Arabic and Syriac philosophical tradition, and argued vigorously for a new reading of the famous religious scholar and theologian al-Ghazali (d. 1111) as a devotee of the cosmology of Ibn Sina (d. 1037). In this volume, fourteen scholars, many of them contemporaries of Professor Frank, engage with his legacy with important and seminal works which take some of his ideas as their points of departure. The book is divided into six sections: the Qur'an, Paths to al-Ash'ari, Al-Ash'ari and the Kalam, Christian Falsafa, Avicenna and Beyond, and Al-Ghazali on Causality. There are major articles on Qur'anic emendations and Arabia and Late Antiquity, on the Arabic Plotinian Tradition, on Syriac Philosophical Vocabulary, and an important reading of the Greek-Arabic translation movement in terms of the practical and exact sciences. There are seminal studies of atomism, with valuable translations of complex theological passages previously untranslated, of the Christian philosophy of Yahya ibn 'Adi, of a late Mu'tazili argument for the existence of God and a hitherto unedited section on optics by Ibn Mattawayh. These are complemented by important, close readings of Avicenna's epistemology and his Metaphysics together with a major, new survey of the Avicennan tradition in the madrasas of the Islamic East. The volume ends with two discussions of the perennial question of al-Ghazali's theory of causality. In addition, the volume contains an autobiographical piece by Professor Frank and a complete bibliography of his published works.
£98.93
Peeters Publishers How Do Stories Save Us?: An Essay on the Question
Book SynopsisThe postmodern turn in theology reminds us that religion is imaginative before it becomes prosaic or propositional. Theologians are now joining literary critics, novelists and poets in asking the question, "How Do Stories Save Us?" Claiming that the truth of religion, like the truth of its nearest analogue, art, is primordially a truth of manifestation, this book explores the question in constructive conversation with the hermeneutics of David Tracy. With Tracy's analogical imagination as a guide, Scott Holland takes the reader on an intellectual adventure through narrative theology, literary criticism, poetics, ritual studies and aesthetics in the composition of a theology of culture.
£33.36
Peeters Publishers Woman, Mother and Bride: An Exegetical
Book SynopsisOver the past fifty years, studies pertaining to the reality of the church in the Apocalypse have, for the most part, tended to be either selective or sketchy in their treatment of the relevant material of the book. Yet in all fairness to the seer of Patmos, his portrayal of the church as a reality decidedly complex and at once profound can only be attained in a thoroughgoing study of the principal ecclesial narratives of his work, so as to allow for that indispensable 'synoptic' overview of such intentionally correlated material. "Woman, Mother and Bride" is such a study. It re-examines the relevant imagery of the Apocalypse but from the perspective of the seer's ecclesial 'thought-world' and on the basis of his overriding pastoral concerns for the 'seven churches' without which his work will continue to puzzle and trouble at every page. The ensuing outlook on the church is panoramic in its scope yet compelling in its appeal which further goes to confirm the Apocalypse as one of the most significant theological achievements of early Christianity.
£90.86
Peeters Publishers In God's Hands
Book SynopsisThe articles on the church and ecumenism in this "Festschrift" celebrate Professor Fahey's contributions, accomplishments and gifts to the academy and the Church. They reflect his sensitivities and spirituality as a friend and pastor, his support for the many voices in the church, his engagement and mentoring of several generations of students and scholars, his demand for honest and critical scholarship, and his deep desire for a spirit of Christian unity among us all.
£90.00
Peeters Publishers Commission Narratives: A Comparative Study of the
Book SynopsisCommission Narratives is based on the author's doctoral dissertation in Groningen (2002). The monograph offers the first overarching, comparative treatment of commission narratives in the canonical and apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, analysing them in their ancient literary setting. Following a survey of this widespread narrative theme in the cultural environment of early Christianity, Czachesz establishes a threefold social typology of divine commission (institutional, prophetic and philosophical) and explores the occurences of the three types in the canonical and apocryphal Acts. The central chapters of the book provide a close reading of the textual evidence, investigating intertextual relations, the function of commission in the narrative structure, and the biographical models of self-definition that commission stories offered to the ancient readers in their changing social and ecclesiastical environments. Based on this textual analysis, Czachesz makes new proposals about the reconstruction, Sitz im Leben and dating of several apocryphal Acts. Finally, he examines the synchronic structure of commission, showing that the variety of commission narratives emerges from a constant set of motifs that are generated by interactions among the characters.
£47.80
Peeters Publishers Waar De Ziel Haar Naam Verliest: Handschrift
Book SynopsisEen van de oudste Middelnederlandse teksten die bewaard zijn gebleven, is een handschrift in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek te Brussel: 3067-3073. Het eerste stukje van dit handschrift komt uit de omgeving van meester Eckhart en behandelt de naamloze grond van de ziel, die een verborgen toegangspoort is tot de Godheid. De tekst heeft een verstillende en onthaastende werking. Hij maakt ruimte in de lezer, houdt diens concentratie op een ontspannen manier bij de Godheid en doet zo zijn recreatieve invloed op de geest gelden. De ziel wordt oog in het oog, oor in het oor, grond in de grond, wezen in het wezen. Wij ontsluiten de tekst in drie stappen: (1) de verkenning van zijn literair-historische context, (2) de presentatie van de tekst in zijn oorspronkelijke gestalte en in hedendaags Nederlands, (3) het commentaar op zijn mystieke inhoud.
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Peeters Publishers The Visio Pauli and the Gnostic Apocalypse of
Book SynopsisThe "Visio Pauli" and the Gnostic "Apocalypse of Paul" is the first modern collection of studies on the most important aspects of the "Visio Pauli", the most popular early Christian apocalypse in the Middle Ages. The volume starts with a short study of the textual traditions of the "Visio Pauli", its Jewish and early Christian traditions as well as its influence on later literature, such as Dante. This is followed by studies of the Prologue, the four rivers of Eden, the place of the Ocean, the relation between body and soul, the image of hell and its punishments, and the connection with fantastic literature. Finally, a codicological, comparative, and textual re-evaluation of the Coptic translation attempts to correct earlier errors and to rehabilitate the value and interest of this long neglected version of the "Visio Pauli". The book is concluded with a study of the earthly tribunal in the fourth heaven of the Gnostic "Apocalypse of Paul". As has become customary, the volume is rounded off by an extensive bibliography of the "Visio Pauli" and the Gnostic "Apocalypse of Paul" and a detailed index.
£49.67
Peeters Publishers The Gospel Preached by the Deaf: Proceedings of a
Book SynopsisThis book contains the proceedings of a conference on Deaf Liberation Theology that took place at the Catholic University of Leuven. Four Deaf persons, rooted in the Deaf community and professionally involved in Deaf pastoral ministry, Thomas Coughlin (USA), Cyril Axelrod (South Africa), Peter McDonough (UK), and Beth Lockard (USA), relate their views on and experiences with shepherding Deaf communities as social-cultural minority groups within the hearing Church, and their efforts to enculturate the Christian message, which often looks so typically hearing in Deaf eyes, in Deaf cultures. Marcel Broesterhuizen, hearing, puts their reports against the background of the paradigm shifts that have taken place in the field of deafness and Catholic views on the relationship between Church and culture. Jacques Haers, hearing, discusses the presentations in the light of liberation theologies. The book contains a verbatim transcript of the forum discussion led by Helga Stevens, Deaf, who is actually a member of the Flemish Parliament.
£49.89
Peeters Publishers Churches and Other Religious Organisations as
Book SynopsisThis book contains the contributions to the Conference 'Churches and Other Religious Organisations as Legal Persons', organised in 2005 by the European Consortium for Church and State Research. The contributions cover the conference subject in nearly all EU member states. Experts from the different countries have described the situation in their states. This book contains an analysis of the legal status of churches and other religious organisations on a regional basis as well. Such regional analysis is given for Northern Europe, Western Europe, Southern Europe, and the "new" EU states. An overall analysis was written by professor Silvio Ferrari, Milan.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Les Lieux De Culte En France Et En Europe:
Book SynopsisL'ouvrage collectif sur les lieux de culte en France et en Europe est un des premiers dossiers presentant de maniere exhaustive l'histoire, la sociologie et le statut juridique des edifices du culte dans une selection d'Etats membres de l'Union Europeenne.La construction et l'entretien des edifices cultuels, la nature de leur affectation mais egalement leur statut au regard des disciplines et droits confessionnels sont autant d'elements traites dans ce livre.Ces themes sont envisages au prisme des evolutions du paysage religieux contemporain dont certains effets ne sont pas sans consequences sur les modes d'utilisation et la construction d'edifices dedies a l'exercice du culte. Le tassement de la pratique religieuse au sein des religions historiques tend a remettre en cause le principe de l'affectation cultuelle exclusive des eglises et des temples au profit d'une double, voir d'une triple utilisation. Inversement, les confessions religieuses d'implantation recente revendiquent l'edification de mosquees, de pagodes et de salles de priere.A cet egard, "Les lieux de culte en France et en Europe" est un instrument de travail necessaire pour ceux qui sont interesses par les relations entre l'Etat, la societe et les religions.
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Peeters Publishers Interreligious Learning
Book SynopsisThe growth of secularisation, pluralism and globalisation have placed the West's traditional monoreligious education under pressure. Christianity no longer possesses a privileged position in Western Europe. Since the 1970's, a number of scholars have been trying to formulate an answer to this question of multireligiosity by developing a multireligious concept of religious education. As both a critique on, and alternative for, the multireligious model, scholars in the 1990s developed the interreligious model of religious education. This aproach distinguishes itself from monoreligious pedagogy through acknowledging plurality among the pupils as both a part of departure and as a possible end result of religious education. Moreover, it openly approaches the plurality of religions and worldviews as a learning opportunity. Religious education thus becomes a place of encounter and dialogue between different religious convictions. Interreligious learning further distinguishes itself from the multireligious model by overcoming a purely objective representation of the multitude of religions. In the interreligious model, students are not only informed, but are introduced to the cognitive and value commitments underlying the different religions, giving them the opportunity to enrich and develop their own personal religious identity. The teacher takes an explicit and particular religious (Christian) standpoint, but also tries to bring in other committed religious and philosophical voices. The interreligious model aims to teach students that holding a proper religious identity while having an openness to the religious other is not necessarily self-contradictory. What is more, that authentic religiosity is able to welcome the other in his/her vulnerability and strength as a witness to God. In this volume, scholars from various disciplines (theology, pedagogy, psychology and ethics) and from different religious backgrounds (Jews, Christians and Muslims) face up to a total of ten challenges related to interreligious learning. Challenges that may act as obstacles to the acceptance of this possible new paradigm for religious education.
£80.00
Peeters Publishers Theology and the Quest for Truth: Historical -
Book SynopsisIn 2001, three research groups from the field of systematic theology and church history at the Faculty of Theology, K.U.Leuven, decided to join forces in an interdisciplinary project, entitled: "Orthodoxy: Process and Product". The main aim of this project consists of a "church-historical and systematic-theological study of the determination of truth in church and theology". Senior and junior scholars from the three groups agreed to take this theme as the starting point and leading question from which the many research projects they are engaged in, could be brought into relationship and - as far as possible - integrated. Although the question for theological truth already structured the research being conducted in the three groups to a significant degree, joining forces promised the realisation of a surplus-value, and this both through the gathering of a considerable critical mass (in total more than thirty junior and senior researchers) and the interdisciplinary design of the project. In this volume a first collection of contributions to this project, from a diversity of angles and research subjects, is presented. In these contributions scholars from the participating research groups investigate the implications of the overall research question for their particular line of research and research methodologies, and suggest how from this specific research the overall question may be refined and elements of answering it can be provided.
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Peeters Publishers Liturgia Et Cultus, Theologica Et Philosophica,
Book SynopsisPapers presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2003 (see also Studia Patristica 39, 41, 42 and 43). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.
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Peeters Publishers Augustine, Other Latin Writers
Book SynopsisPapers presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2003 (see also Studia Patristica 39, 40, 41 and 42). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.
£120.00
Peeters Publishers In Spirit and Truth: An Exegetical Study of John
Book SynopsisIn the context of his conversation with the Samaritan woman the Johannine Jesus says "the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth" (4:23). In this monograph Benny Thettayil undertakes a detailed exegetical study of the fourth evangelist's understanding of 'worship in Spirit and truth'. Part One is devoted to a detailed exegetical analysis of John 4:19-26 focusing on the relationship between Jews and Samaritans, the meaning of pneuma and aletheia as well as the question whether Jesus reveals himself as the Messiah to the Samaritan woman. In Part Two Thettayil offers an extensive study of the replacement theme in the Fourth Gospel. He studies this issue in connection with the Johannine community and with the presentation of Jesus as the fulfilment of the temple. In his final chapter Thettayil enters into the difficult field of "Johannine Replacement Theology", taking up the challenge of confronting the theological implications of the way the fourth evangelist presents judaism.
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Peeters Publishers Historica, Biblica, Ascetica Et Hagiographica
Book SynopsisPapers presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2003 (see also Studia Patristica 40, 41, 42 and 43). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.
£120.00
Peeters Publishers Other Greek Writers, John of Damascus and Beyond,
Book SynopsisPapers presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2003 (see also Studia Patristica 39, 40, 41 and 43). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.
£120.00
Peeters Publishers Das Gemeinschaftliche Gebet in Der Sicht Des
Book SynopsisDie Haltung des Lukas zur romischen Offentlichkeit und zur griechisch-romischen Kultur ist in neuster Zeit ofter gewurdigt worden, weniger jedoch seine darstellung des gemeinschaftlichen Betens bei Christen, Juden und Heiden. Die Studie geht dieser Frage nach, wobei sie der Eigenart der lukanischen Theologie besondere Beachtung schenkt. Erortert werden die historischen Hintergrunde und die literarischen Vorbilder des Idealbildes, das Lukas von den Anfangen des christlichen Gemeindelebens zeichnet. Um die lukanische Sicht zu verstehen, werden nicht allein biblische und fruhchristliche Texte, sondern verstarkt auch Zeugnisse der hellenistisch-judischen Diaspora herangezogen, wobei die Werke des Philo von Alexandria und des Josephus eine herausragende Rolle spielen. So leistet die Studie einen Beitrag zur Erforschung des judischen und christlichen Gebets und kontextualisiert dieses Feld zugleich in der paganen Antike. Es erweist sich dabei in vielfacher Hinsicht, dass Lukas seine Wurzeln im Umfeld der Synagoge hatte.
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Peeters Publishers Scientiam Salutis: Quarante Annees De Recherches
Book SynopsisSpecialiste de l'ancienne litterature chretienne, de la critique textuelle des livres bibliques et de l'histoire de l'Eglise ancienne, directeur du Vetus Latina Institut (Beuron) depuis 1998, Mgr Roger Gryson est l'auteur d'une 'uvre scientifique considerable, qui a marque la recherche au 20e siecle. Au terme de son enseignement a l'Universite catholique de Louvain, il rassemble ici ses articles les plus significatifs et retrace le parcours intellectuel dont ils sont issus. Les principaux themes abordes sont les suivants: les Peres apostoliques, la vie et l"uvre d'Ambroise de Milan, les ministeres dans l'Eglise ancienne, l'arianisme latin, la critique textuelle de la Bible, les versions latines d'Isaie et le commentaire de Jerome sur Isaie, l'Apocalypse de Jean chez les peres latins. Les articles ici rassembles forment l'indispensable complement aux livres qui constituent l'essentiel de la publication scientifique de l'auteur.
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Peeters Publishers Les Dernieres Redactions du Pentateuque, de
Book SynopsisLe present volume trouve son origine dans un seminaire de 3e cycle en Ancien Testament sur "les dernieres redactions du Pentateuque, de l'Hexateuque et de l'Enneateuque" organise par l'Institut romand des Sciences Bibliques (regroupant les enseignements en sciences bibliques des Universites de Geneve, de Lausanne et de Neuchatel) en collaboration avec les enseignants en Ancien Testament de la Faculte de theologie de l'Universite de Zurich. Ce seminaire s'est deroule du 8 au 11 fevrier 2005 a Lausanne; il a ete suivi le 12 fevrier par une journee d'etude de la Societe Suisse pour l'etude du Proche-Orient ancien ayant pour theme "Les dernieres redactions des grands ensembles litteraires du Proche-Orient ancien".Il a paru utile aux editeurs de publier les contributions les plus importants de ces colloques afin de permettre a d'autres de prendre connaissance de ces travaux qui refletent une nouvelle orientation des recherches veterotestamentaires et d'engager ainsi un debat sur des questions qui furent injustement negligees par la recherche exegetique.
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Peeters Publishers Omnia in Eo: Studies on Jewish Books and
Book SynopsisIn 2005 the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana celebrated its 125th year as part of the University Library of the University of Amsterdam. Several events were held to mark this anniversary, including lectures and an exhibition. In this volume the history of the library is examined further with new and incisive articles on the life and work of many of its leading figures and an analysis of part of Leeser Rosenthal's original collection. In addition, new material is presented regarding the fate of the library during the Second World War. A year earlier, in 2004, Adri Offenberg retired as curator of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana. Alongside a review of his work at the library, this volume provides a complete bibliography of all his published work until 2006 and what has become known in English as a festschrift: a collection of studies in his honour by Dutch and international colleagues and fellow bibliophiles about items in the library collection, as well as topics relating to Jewish booklore unconnected with the library. This volume is a tribute to Adri Offenberg the curator, but above all to Adri Offenberg the groundbreaking researcher.
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Peeters Publishers Heilige Oder Hure?: Die Rezeptionsgeschichte Von
Book SynopsisDie Untersuchung entfaltet die judische und christliche Auslegungsgeschichte eines in verschiedener Hinsicht provozierenden Kapitels der Bibel von der Antike bis in die Reformationszeit. Die Geschichte von Juda und Tamar in Genesis 38 scheint hierzu besonders geeignet, weil sich unterschiedliche literarisch-kontextuelle, historische, ethische und gesamtbiblische Problemfelder auftun. Die Analyse der Rezeptionsgeschichte erweist, dass die chronologische Einbindung in die Josefgeschichte immer als problematisch betrachtet wurde, wenn Judas Enkel 22 Jahre spater bei der Ubersiedlung nach Agypten dabei gewesen sein sollen. In besonderer Weise wird der Frage nachgegangen, warum die Josefgeschichte durch dieses Kapitel unterbrochen wird und welche Funktion es in seinem jetzigen Zusammenhang erfullt. Wie ist das Verhalten Judas und Tamars ethisch bewertet worden? Welche Rolle hat dabei gespielt, dass Juda und Tamar Vorfahren von David und vom Messias bzw. von Christus sind? Dr. Walter Hilbrands stellt die Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten der doppelten Nachgeschichte von Gen 38 ubersichtlich dar. Allen originalsprachlichen Quellen wird eine Ubersetzung beigefugt. Besonders die lateinischen Kommentare des Mittelalters werden in diesem Zusammenhang neu erarbeitet und bewertet. Ein Ausblick auf die Exegese der Neuzeit erweist in den genannten Fragenkomplexen eine Verarmung gegenuber der reichen und bis heute ertragreichen judisch-christlichen Auslegungstradition.
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Peeters Publishers Voces Biblicae: Septuagint Greek and Its
Book SynopsisDuring the Renaissance period, when the Greek texts of the Bible became accessible again to Western scholars, a large number of words were identified that seemed to be attested only in the Septuagint and New Testament: the famous "voces biblicae", "biblical words". They were held by some to reflect a special kind of Jewish Greek, or perhaps even a peculiar Greek idiom created by the Holy Spirit in order to express the unspeakable mysteries of God's grace. Today, scholars usually prefer more down-to-earth explanations. Moreover, the list of "voces biblicae" has been much shortened because many words that were initially found only in the Bible later turned up in the papyri. Nevertheless, the "biblical words" continue to fascinate. The present volume contains seven essays illuminating different aspects of the vocabulary of the Greek Bible.
£46.17
Peeters Publishers Two Anonymous Sets of Scholia on Dionysius the
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Peeters Publishers Two Anonymous Sets of Scholia on Dionysius the
Book SynopsisThese two volumes consist of a critical edition and English translation of the two earliest known Armenian sets of scholia on the Heavenly Hierarchy of Dionysius the Areopagite. Composed in the monastic schools of Erznka in the late thirteenth century, these scholia provide significant insight into how the Heavenly Hierarchy in particular, and Armenian translations of Greek texts in general, were understood by Armenian scholars in the Middle Ages. This editio princeps of the scholia represents a rare critical edition of a native Armenian composition from the medieval period. In addition to the text and translation, these volumes include a textual commentary as well as a critical collation and English translation of a number of scholia from the Armenian version of the Greek scholia on the Heavenly Hierarchy.
£63.58
Peeters Publishers The Armenian Scholia on Dionysius the Areopagite.
Book SynopsisThis volume serves as a companion to the critical edition and English translation prepared by the author of two sets of scholia on the Heavenly Hierarchy of Dionysius the Areopagite. In this volume the author rejects the traditional authorship of the scholia and establishes their date, provenance and context. The study also examines the manuscript tradition of the scholia, the exegetical technique of the scholiasts and their extra-textual concerns.
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Peeters Publishers Religion Under Siege I: The Roman Catholic Church
Book SynopsisThe stance taken by the Catholic Church in occupied Europe during World War II remains a significant focal point of historical research. In the last ten years we have been confronted with a resurgence of the so-called 'Pius-war', the frequently emotional polemic surrounding the justification or absence thereof of the role of Pope Pius XII, the head of the Catholic Church at the time. The work presented here, however, focuses on the role of the local churches rather than that of the Pope and the Vatican. Its goal is to shed light more specifically on the position maintained by the Catholic bishops, clergy and faithful in a variety of European countries under occupation throughout the war. The local churches are approached from a political-social, institutional and ideological perspective. This collection of essays represents the results of a research project established under the auspices of the European Science Foundation entitled 'The Impact of National Socialist and Fascist Occupation in Europe' (1999-2005). Within the broader framework of the project, research into the aspect of Church and Religion was scribed more specifically to Team 2 'The Continuity of the Churches'. The team strove to reach as broad a spectrum possible, both with respect to the churches and religions in Europe (Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, and to a limited degree, Islam) as the various regions of the European continent (North, West, Central and (South) East). The present volume contains the research results presented in relation to the Catholic Church. Developments in Central and Eastern Europe are given priority, in particular in Slovenia, Croatia, Slovakia, Poland and Lithuania. In addition, a number of articles endeavour to shed light on developments in Western Europe as in Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Austria. The goal of the present volume is to stimulate an ongoing comparative study of the attitude of the Catholic Church during the Second World War from a European perspective. Together with a parallel volume that deals with the Protestant and Orthodox churches, this approach can be extended to include other ecclesial denominations and religions in Europe. While significant differences exist between the various countries and denominations, several similar patterns of approach are also strikingly evident.
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Peeters Publishers Building Bridges in a Multifaceted Europe.
Book SynopsisBuilding bridges has been and still is the main task of the European Society of Women in Theological Research (ESWTR). It aims to facilitate theological and academic religious debate transcending the borders between languages and countries, as well as those resulting from religions, confessions, cultures or traditions, in order to offer constructive future perspectives. This volume has now adopted "building bridges" as its main theme. It reflects the contributions to the 11th International Conference of ESWTR held in 2005 in the unique historical and cultural setting of Budapest. European women in the lead of theological research discuss the subject on the basis of their different specialist approaches and thus provide a unique spectrum of contemporary discourse from very varied disciplines in theology and religious studies.
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Peeters Publishers Faith and Culture: The Construction of a
Book SynopsisNo one would seriously doubt that religion classes constitute one of the most important forums for religious communication in our time. In order to practice religious education in an appropriate manner, it is crucial that teachers and students have high-quality, useful materials at their disposal. Time and again, there arises a demand for a correct and balanced representation and treatment of non-Christian religions and cultures, especially Islam. In practice, this can give rise to two extremes. In the one case, pages from older textbooks whose value has long since been proven are transferred almost verbatim without everyone ever asking whether what was said at that time can still be literally translated to the contemporary social and religious constellation. At the other extreme, one anxiously rejects any remnants of the approach taken by older textbooks, in an attempt to make religion more attractive to today's youth, without ever asking whether the traditional choice of materials and its organization might still have something to contribute to today's teachers and students. Although this book is not a tract but a synthesis of historical, theological, anthropological articles, it might help to clarify the topic and approach.
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Peeters Publishers As a Consuming Fire, Wisdom: Translated from the
Book SynopsisIn a lovely book As a Consuming Fire, Wisdom, Claire Dumont shares with us her very profound, personal experience of the Wisdom Spirituality proposed by Saint Louis-Marie de Montfort in his masterpiece The Love Eternal Wisdom. Claire Dumont vividly describes the passionate loving relationship with God in which de Montfort invites us to enter. Those who will accept his guidance will be profoundly transformed, freed from their anxiety, pacified and encouraged to find their own happiness in the love and service of others. Thus the consuming fire of divine love will spread throughout a world which needs it so much.
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Peeters Publishers Philosophie Et Theologie: Festschrift Emilio
Book SynopsisEdite a l'occasion de l'accession a l'emeritat du Pr. E. Brito, "Philosophie et theologie" rassemble une trentaine de contributions qui rendent hommage a l"uvre du professeur louvaniste, specialiste de l'idealisme allemand et des rapports entre philosophie et theologie. Reparties en deux grandes sections, une plus historique, l'autre plus thematique, les differentes contributions eclairent de maniere specifique et variee la problematique des relations entre les deux disciplines.
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Peeters Publishers Marriage - Divorce - Remarriage. Mariage -
Book SynopsisMarcel Gauchet est un des auteurs politiques les plus importants du moment. Comme personne au prealable il reussit a combiner l'erudition historique, le questionnement pertinent en philosophie politique et les observations sociologiques minutieuses dans un diagnostic penetrant de l'ordre democratique contemporain en Europe occidentale. A cet egard il se situe dans la tradition de la philosophie politique s'etendant de Montesquieu a Claude Lefort.L'objet de ce volume est de presenter une introduction critique a la philosophie politique de Marcel Gauchet sous forme d'une discussion. Marcel Gauchet lui-meme ouvre le present volume avec un synopsis de sa philosophie politique, rebondissant sur le titre du volume : " La democratie a la recherche d'un second souffle ". Puis, suivent des interventions et des questionnements critiques, qui visent surtout sa pensee politique, mais qui concernent egalement les points-cles de sa philosophie toute entiere. A la fin du volume, le lecteur trouvera les reponses de Marcel Gauchet sous forme d'une interview.
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Peeters Publishers Entre Le Global Et Le Local: Inculturation Et
Book SynopsisLe modele de la contextualisation conjure la pastorale missionnaire de s'adresser a la situation culturelle integrale des societes, qui comprend des vetera mais egalement des nova, de prendre en consideration la marche des peuples vers l'avenir autant que la culture traditionnelle encore tres vivante, de tenir compte des determinants de la vie des populations encore tres immergees dans les traditions d'antan et de s'y adapter, mais de s'y adapter avec une flexibilite et une ouverture conscientes des aspirations modernes au developpement et de l'evolution ulterieure des societes. Ce louable souci d'equilibre ne suffit point pour satisfaire ni les exigences d'une intelligence a la recherche de comprehension et de coherence, ni les attentes d'une pastorale avide de programmes pratiques et de solutions concretes. Le noble projet restera un pieux desir aussi longtemps qu'on n'aura pas montre par quelles voies concretes l'integration de la tradition et de la modernite est appelee a prendre forme. La question recurrente des hommes et des femmes qui combattent dans les lignes de feu est: Comment faire concretement lorsque, simultanement, sont a l"uvre dans les societes non-occidentales des forces travaillant dans des directions radicalement opposees, les unes tendant au maintien, et meme a l'accentuation des particularismes, les autres agissant dans le sens de la convergence et de l'affinite? C'est aux divers aspects de cette question complexe et rarement abordee qu'est consacree la reflexion developpee dans ce livre. Grace a la double competence de l'auteur, celui-ci est a la fois un ouvrage de theologie pastorale et un essai d'anthropologie appliquee.
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Peeters Publishers Saint Francis of Assisi: a Guide for Our Times:
Book SynopsisHowever interesting and important the stories by his contemporaries are, there is no better place to discover the most profound inspiration of Saint Francis of Assisi than in his own writings. These prayers, poems, proverbs, rules and letters are a gold-mine for those who wish to delve into his thoroughly biblical spirituality. He reveals himself in them as being someone who was permanently touched and marked by his encounter with Christ. In brief: the seeker of God who considered his fellow-creatures as his brothers and sisters; someone who even these days still exerts an unequalled magnetism due to his radical following of Christ. However this does not mean that his biblically inspired radiance does not need to be translated to the challenges of modern life. This is because the eight centuries separating us from him form a wide chasm. In a small way, this book endeavours to contribute to the actualisation of Francis' charisma: a freely chosen life-style characterised by having no possessions as well as by courageous service and courteous respect to others. What can his biblical 'art of living' signify for the modern individual who jealously guards his or her freedom in a world marked by excessive planning and omnipresent technology, and who at the same time is usually not quite sure for whom or for what he or she is actually free?
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