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Peeters Publishers Catholic Social Thought: Renovating the
Book SynopsisAs the sub-title indicates the book is a guide to resources in Catholic Social Thought. Part I is a summary in 24 Sections of the 'Distinctiveness, Strengths & Weaknesses of Catholic Social Thought'. Distinctions of Catholic Social Teaching, Non-official Catholic Social Thinking and Catholic Social Thought are drawn, with emphasis on the worth of the system of thought as a theory, with its telos of the 'common good', and its foundational principles as solidarity, justice and subsidiarity. The corpus of teaching is extracted from analysis of some 500 books and articles, in 5 languages, on Catholic Social Thought (constituting the major part of the book) which are summarised in 100-300 words on each. Part II represents survey and pedagogical research in colleges, universities, seminaries and other educational institutions from which is derived conceptions of the subject to guide a proposed syllabus for teaching the subject at 3 levels: beginners, graduates and postgraduates. Part III is the bibliography of books and articles covering the whole range of Catholic Social Teaching and Thought. Three appendices cover Institutes of Catholic Social Thought, Journals of Catholic Social Thought and Details on Secular Think Tanks on Policy-making. The relationship to economic and political policy-making, and to the social thought of other churches and secular institutions are recurrent themes throughout the book.
£57.95
Peeters Publishers Ancient and Modern Scriptural Historiography -
Book SynopsisThis collection of nineteen essays is the fruit of ongoing collaboration in Biblical Studies between the Universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Manchester and Sheffield. The essays are arranged under three headings (General Studies; Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism; and New Testament, Early Christianity and their Contexts) but share many overlapping interests. In particular, the studies show intriguingly that the concerns of ancient historians are both similar to and different from those of modern historians. Several contributions also demonstrate that the historical value of ancient texts can only become apparent if they are set alongside suitable co-texts, whether from Mesopotamia, from Greek and Roman writings, or from other sources. In addition it is clear in some of the contributions that the interplay between authors and readers is no less significant in history writing than in the production of other genres. Overall the set of essays shows forcefully that history writing, in antiquity as today, is principally about the meaning of the past for the present, only secondarily about the past for its own sake.
£86.69
Peeters Publishers Die Kammer Der Andacht: Formbeschreibung Einer
Book SynopsisDie Kammer der Andacht basiert auf einem Text des flamischen Mystikers und Karmeliten Franciscus Amelry (um 1550), dessen Werk vor kurzem erst wiederentdeckt wurde. Es geht in diesem Text um die Geschichte einer Seele, die sich in Gott verliebt hat. Ihre Begleiterin, die Amme, weist der Seele den Weg in die Liebesekstase hinein - bis hin zur unio mystica. Ein Mystagoge hebt ins Bewusstsein, was mit der Seele geschieht, die Gott immer naher kommt. Das MusikTheaterKoln hat diesen Text als Vorlage fur eine Theaterarbeit ausgewahlt. Wahrend der Probenzeit wurde eine szenisch-musikalische Improvisationsstruktur erarbeitet. Die Regisseurin Ursula Albrecht hat auf Grund ihrer langjahrigen Erfahrung mit Texten aus der christlichen Mystik und durch ihre Lehrtatigkeit im Bereich der szenischen Improvisation einen zielorientierten phanomenologischen Regiestil entwickelt.
£42.37
Peeters Publishers Volk Gottes in Afrika: Die Rolle Der Laien in Der
Book SynopsisIn diesem Buch geht es um die Rolle der sogenannten Laien in der Kirche. Am Beispiel der Ostkirche von Kinshasa (Demokratische Republik Kongo) wird die Frage der kleinen christlichen Gemeinschaften und der Dienstamter fur Laien in der Kirche erortert. Kardinal Malula von Kinshasa (1947-1989) hat in seiner Erzdiozese die Einsichten des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils uber die Kirche als Volk Gottes in einem einzigartigen Prozess der Rezeption des Konzils in die Praxis umgesetzt. Um die missionarische Kraft der christlichen Gemeinschaften in der Grossstadt Kinshasa zu starken, hat er die aus der Kolonialzeit ubernommenen, riesigen Pfarreien in kleine christliche Gemeinschaften unterteilt und den Laien in eigens eingerichteten Dienstamtern auch innerkirchlich weitreichende Verantwortung ubertragen. Das Buch stellt die Ortskirche von Kinshasa und ihre Erfahrungen in den letzten Jahrzehnten vor und diskutiert die theologische Tragweite der kleinen christlichen Gemeinschaften und der Laiendienstamter im Sinne einer missionarischen und prophetischen Kirche.
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Peeters Publishers 'Augustinianism': Studies in the Process of
Book SynopsisThe book is about the evolution of 'Augustinianism' in a process of 'spiritual transvaluation' as Augustine of Hippo's thought was appropriated by spiritual masters in the mediaeval period. The chapters deal with a range of experiences in 'spiritual transvaluation' beginning with Augustine's own philosophic transvaluation of Christian 'affectivity'. The first study is about St Gregory the Great's 'pastoral' transvaluation of Augustine's spirituality; the second about William of St Thierry's 'mystical' transvaluation in the twelfth century; and the final one is about Walter Hilton's 'christo-centric' transvaluation, writing as an Augustinian Canon Regular in late fourteenth century England. The Epilogue draws together the themes of each chapter as a reflection about the spiritual nature of 'Augustinianism'.
£48.91
Peeters Publishers Scandinavian Critique of Anglo-American Feminist
Book SynopsisScandinavian Critique of Anglo-American Feminist Theology is a collection of articles by scholars in various theological disciplines from five Scandinavian or Nordic countries. The articles cover a wide range of topics, including feminist sexual ethics, ecofeminist theology, gender perspectives on European welfare systems, Birgitta of Sweden and a search for Mary beyond stereotypes. As the title implies, a critical dialogue with US feminist theology is a recurrent theme throughout the book, but the essays also include constructive work from different theological perspectives. The journal also includes a bibliography that shows the diversity of Scandinavian and Nordic feminist theological research.
£27.55
Peeters Publishers Loving God: Krsna and Christ: A Christian
Book SynopsisHuman love for God has taken myriad expression in different religious traditions. Millions of Hindus are, and have been, passionately devoted to Visnu whom they love with whole heart, whole soul, and whole strength. The Narada Sutras on Loving God is a tenth-century Hindu manual on how to love God. Its teachings on the importance of loving God and on the many ways of loving God have resonated eloquently down the centuries in the songs of Hindu lovers and poets. In this Christian commentary on the Narada Sutras, Daniel Sheridan approaches the text as a catalyst for Christian readers to renew their own Christian love for God. Each Sutra, discussed first within its original Hindu context, is brought to resonate with expressions of love of God within the Christian tradition, thus creating new harmonies and reawakening attention to layers of meaning and levels of passion contained within traditional devotional texts.
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Peeters Publishers Scrutinizing the Signs of the Times in the Light
Book SynopsisGaudium et spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World) was promulgated on December 7, 1965. It mirrors a new spirit of openness of the Catholic Church to the world, as well as a new historical consciousness, based on a self-understanding of the Catholic Chuch as "linked with mankind and its history by the deepest bonds" (GS, 1). This historical consciousness resulted in a method of social discernment which, inspired by John XXIII, was articulated by Gaudium et spes in terms of 'scrutinizing the signs of the times' and of 'interpreting them in the light of the gospel' (GS, 4). Conscious of the need to revisit the pastoral constitution of Vatican II, the Centre for Catholic Social Thought at the Catholic University of Leuven, has organised two international expert seminars. The first expert seminar (6-7 September 2003) was rather explorative and focused on the relevance of catholic social thought in its actual context with special attention paid to the signs of the times in an era of globalisation. The discussion on the contemporary signs of the times revealed the necessity to clarify the theoretical and practical implications of the methodology of social discernment and particularly of a social hermeneutic in the light of the gospel. This became the theme of a second expert seminar (Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve, 9-11 September 2004), the discussions of which are the background to this book.
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Peeters Publishers Virtuelle Vergangenheit: Die Textrekonstruktion
Book SynopsisBei dem in dieser Studie veroffentichten Text der Evangelienharmonie handelt es sich um eine Rekonstruktion, eine Textversion, die in dieser Gestalt niemals existiert hat. Dennoch vertritt die Rekonstruktion den Anspruch, eine Textgestalt zu reprasentieren, die den mittelniederlandischen Wortlaut der nunmehr als verschollen geltenden Handschrift Utrecht, Universitatsbibliothek 1009 an vielen Stellen sehr prazise wiedergibt. Als Einfuhrung in diese Ausgabe werden Inhalt und Forschungsgeschichte der Utrechter Handschrift beschrieben, anschliessend folgt ein Abschnitt, in dem der Verlust der Handschrift und die Versuche, sie zuruck zu bekommen bzw. etwas uber ihren Verbleib in Erfahrung zu bringen, erlautert werden. Sodann wird die Textrekonstruktion selbst sowie ihr technischer Gebrauch verdeutlicht. Im Zusammenhang damit finden sich zudem Hinweise auf verschiedene Textphanomene, die Anstoss fur weitere Untersuchungen bieten konnten. Am Ende der Ausgabe finden sich Literaturverzeichnis und Bibelstellenregister.
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Peeters Publishers Ik Ben De Heer Uw God: De Tien Geboden in
Book SynopsisIk ben de Heer uw God. De Tien Geboden in traditie, beeld en Bijbel bundelt lezingen die door Bijbelkenners uit Vlaanderen en Nederland te Leuven gegeven werden tijdens een gelijknamige tentoonstelling van schilderijen van de Nederlandse kunstenares Dora van de Loo. Ook deze kunstwerken zijn in dit boek opgenomen. Waarom de Tien Geboden? Zijn zij niet overbodig geworden, regels van een voorbijgestreefde tijd? Vreemd genoeg is men juist vandaag de dag veel belang gaan hechten aan de decaloog in de zoektocht naar zingeving, in een versplinterde wereld die geconfronteerd wordt met soms zeer agressief zwart-wit denken en zwarte, zelden witte daden. Vanuit alle hoeken van onze globale samenleving is er nog gezonde belangstelling voor de oude joods-christelijke traditie van de Tien Geboden. Door deze te belichten vanuit de Bijbelwetenschap en de kunst biedt deze bundel een bron van inspiratie voor een zinvolle beleving.
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Peeters Publishers 2 Corinthians: A Bibliography
Book Synopsis2 Corinthians: A Bibliography is intended to be a complete bibliography until 2007. It contains almost 1,900 entries of academic publications on Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians. Making use of the standard bibliographical tools (both printed and electronic), the goal was to include as many references as possible. However, there is no pretense of being exhaustive. 2 Corinthians: A Bibliography builds on the list published in Reimund Bieringer & Jan Lambrecht, Studies in 2 Corinthians (BETL, 112), Leuven: University Press - Peeters, 1994, pp. 3-66. The list of entries up to 1993 was corrected, updated and supplemented with the works published between 1994 and 2007. In addition to a full alphabetical list at the end, this book contains a list of commentaries, a list of references ordered according to the pericopes of 2 Corinthians and according to themes contained in the letter. In order to increase user friendliness full references are used in each list.
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Peeters Publishers Exodus. Volume 2
Book SynopsisThis is the second volume in a new series, the Historical Commentary on the Old Testament, which devotes explicit attention to the history of interpretation of biblical tradition in all its stages, both within and without the Hebrew canon. As the term "Old Testament" indicates, the commentary stands in the Christian exegetical tradition. The team of contributors comprises scholars from all over the world and from any different churches and denominations. The commentary is intended not only for Old Testament scholars, but also for ministers and other interested parties. The treatment of every pericope is preceded by a new translation and a section called "Essentials and Perspectives" in which the author summarizes the results of the exegesis in non-technical language. The primacy here is assigned to the final stage of the text. The summary should incite the user to consult the main body of the exegesis which is headed "Scholarly Exposition". Here the approach is that of modern critical scholarship.
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Peeters Publishers Homoseksualiteit En Wijding. Juridische En
Book SynopsisTijdens de Monsignor W. Onclin Chair, een jaarlijks terugkerend evenement aan de Faculteit Kerkelijk Recht van de K.U.Leuven, geven bekende vakspecialisten lezingen over een actueel kerkrechterlijk thema. Het thema van 2006, 'Homoseksualiteit en kerkelijk ambt', was brandend actueel - niet alleen voor kerkjuristen, maar ook voor een ruimer geinteresseerd publiek - naar aanleiding van de door Rome uitgevaardigde recente instructie die duidelijke richtlijnen geeft voor het al dan niet toelaten van homoseksuelen tot de kerkelijke wijding. Dit thema werd in de lezingen vanuit verschillende invalshoeken benaderd: zowel vanuit kerkjuridisch standpunt, als vanuit psychiatrisch standpunt en vanuit de praktijk van kerkelijke ambtenaren. During the Monsignor W. Onclin Chair, an annual event held at the Faculty of Canon Law of the K.U.Leuven, known specialists in the field of canon law give lectures on a topical subject. The theme of 2006, 'Homosexuality and Holy Orders' was particularly relevant for specialists as well as for a wider audience because of the recent instruction from Rome that gave explicit directions for the admittance of homosexuals to the holy orders. This theme was considered from an ecclesiastical as well as from a psychiatric point of view. Other speakers based themselves on the practical experience of church administrators.
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Peeters Publishers Markante Jezuieten Uit De Lage Landen. Canisius,
Book SynopsisNaar aanleiding van het Jubeljaar van de Societeit van Jezus organiseerde het Universitair Centrum Sint-Ignatius Antwerpen (UCSIA) in 2006 een lezingenreeks gewijd aan vier markante jezuieten uit de geschiedenis van de Societeit. Dit boek bundelt de lezingen die door Vlaamse en Nederlandse academici werden gebracht over Petrus Canisius, Leonardus Lessius, Robert Regout en Ferdinand Verbiest. Zij onderscheidden zich door hun innoverende benadering van cruciale thema's in verschillende maatschappelijk relevante sectoren: onderwijs, economie, volkenrecht, ontdekking van vreemde culturen. Hun drijfveren en verwezenlijkingen inspireren nieuwe initiatieven van de Societeit van Jezus. Daarvan getuigen de huidige werking van UCSIA en het SCRIBANI-netwerk van Europese jezuietencentra.
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Peeters Publishers L'administration Des Cultes Dans Les Pays De
Book SynopsisCet ouvrage collectif presente les pratiques administratives des divers gouvernements, au sein de l'Union Europeenne, a l'egard des religions ou communautes de convictions. En Europe, quelles sont les attentes des grandes religions et comment dialoguent-elles avec les autorites de Bruxelles afin d'apporter leur contribution specifique a la construction europeenne? Dans ce volume, de hauts responsables des religions catholique, protestante, orthodoxe, israelite, musulmane aupres de la Commission exposent les modalites de ce dialogue entre l'Europe et les religions. Tous les Etats membres de l'Union Europeenne sont confrontes aux memes evolutions des realites religieuses et tous s'accordent pour reconnaitre les memes principes fondamentaux relatifs a la liberte religieuse. Pourtant, chaque Etat reste competant pour determiner le statut juridique qu'il entend accorder aux confessions religieuses. A partir d'une selection significative d'Etats membres de l'Union Europeenne, les auteurs presentent l'organisation et les competences des Directions et Bureaux charges, aupres des gouvernements, de l'administration des Affaires religieuses.
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Peeters Publishers L'alterite, Fondement De La Personne Humaine Dans
Book SynopsisDans l'oeuvre d'Edith Stein, l'alterite apparait comme constitutive de la personne humaine. D'un point de vue proprement subjectif, l'alterite renvoie a l'alter ego, a la dimension communautaire et, dans une perspective croyante, au Tout-Autre. D'un point de vue objectif, elle designe les valeurs, qui faconnent la personnalite, et la foi, qui vient au secours de la raison humaine. Un parcours des oeuvres principales de l'auteur permet de prendre la mesure a la fois de la continuite et de l'evolution de sa pensee. A partir de la, l'etude entreprend de mettre en evidence, d'une part, l'originalite de la pensee d'Edith Stein par rapport a celle de Husserl et, d'autre part, comment Edith Stein se situe par rapport a la pensee de Thomas d'Aquin. L'influence de l'oeuvre de Jean de la Croix est egalement abordee. Enfin, en dialogue avec des auteurs comme Ricoeur, Levinas ou Ladriere, la troisieme partie du livre aborde de maniere critique la question de l'alterite comme fondement de la personne et cela selon trois parcours, l'un lie a la phenomenologie d'Edith Stein, l'autre a sa philosophie chretienne, et le dernier a son attrait pour la mystique.
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Peeters Publishers When 'Love' Strikes: Social Sciences, Ethics and
Book SynopsisThe family many people long for is a 'safe haven', a place of love. Nevertheless, in many cases this 'love' becomes dangerous or violent. Idealistic views on the family can veil violence in the family. How should we speak about families in order to make visible both the hard realities of some families as well as the positive feelings and experiences? The existence of violence in families challenges many of our presuppositions. When 'love' strikes contains various studies on the theme of violence in families, focussing on four key relational axes. This book deals with violence between partners, between siblings and violence done to children and to elderly people or parents. Family violence is analysed from ethical, philosophical and theological perspectives. The book brings together different views on the relationship between Christianity and different forms of family violence. It offers resources for theologians, ministers, (pastoral) counsellors, chaplains, social workers, psychologists and therapists who are confronted with violence in families.
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Peeters Publishers Patristic Sources and Catholic Social Teaching: a
Book SynopsisThe fact that over one hundred patristic sources may be found in the documents of Catholic social teaching (CST) would suggest that patristic sources have not been "forgotten" as the title to this book suggests. Yet, this study of every patristic source citation in twenty-one CST documents since the late nineteenth century suggests that just such a conclusion should be drawn. The CST documents in this study largely ignored the historical and literary contexts of the patristic sources, and this had the concomitant effect of limiting appropriation of the fullness of their arguments. In addition, most of the patristic citations do not reflect the socio-ethical concerns of the patristic authors themselves. Even when the patristic citations supported related, theological themes, usually they were relegated to footnotes. This is not a study of themes or of theologies in the CST documents, nor is it a study of the cultural and historical forces at work in the arguments made by those who drafted them. Rather, it is a study of the rhetorical, theological and/or pastoral function of each patristic source citation in the CST documents. In this respect, each CST document stands on its own as a rhetorical tour de force. For that reason, the study concludes with a vision for the "fair use" of patristic sources in future CST documents.
£49.35
Peeters Publishers With Wisdom Seeking God: The Academic Study of
Book SynopsisThe distinctiveness of this volume is its European texture derived from papers delivered at the first European Spirituality Conference held at Milltown Institute, Dublin, Ireland in June 2004. Its aim is to extend the horizons of understanding of the discipline of Spirituality as it is being mapped by some of the most experienced voices in the field. The idea for the conference drew inspiration from the work of the US founded Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, whose recent President, Dr Stephanie Paulsell, delivered the keynote address. Among the features of this three-part publication is an exploration of methodologies for the study of Christian spirituality, interdisciplinary conversations with scholars from varied fields of scholarship and topics which demonstrate how Spirituality is applied in a variety of situations and locations. Along with the well-known voices of Philip Sheldrake, Kees Waaijman, Dominique Salin SJ and Leif Gunner Engedal, a number of prominent Irish voices in the field of spirituality are given an international forum for the first time.
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Peeters Publishers From Fast to Feast: A Ritual-liturgical
Book SynopsisToday, some years after the first democratic elections in South Africa as well as the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), it is clear that reconciliation is still needed on all terrains of South African society. More and more people are becoming aware of unchanneled emotions such as guilt, fury, revenge and grief which are still alive in South Africa and which come to fore in different ways. It seems as if reconciliation is a process that will in fact take years, if not generations. The task of the TRC has been completed, but the task of reconciliation on all levels in South African society and the debate surrounding it are far from complete. Very little research has been conducted to understand both the process and the kinds of reconciliation rituals that are needed. And this is exactly the aim of the research described in this book. The research described here aims at making a contribution towards the process of reconciliation in South Africa by specifically looking at one small but important element in that process, namely ritual. To this end several ritual probes were conducted, including an ethnographic probe describing research by means of participatory observation in local South African communities, as well as a cultural-anthropological, biblical, historical and descriptive probe. From these probes ritual qualities were distilled which can be used for the liturgical inculturation of rituals of reconciliation in South Africa.
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Peeters Publishers Epigonism and the Dynamic of Culture
Book SynopsisThe articles collected in this volume were originally presented at a summer colloquium in Oxford in 2004. The 'epigone' is generally believed to be an imitator, deprived of an independent, original talent. He necessarily follows in someone else's footsteps, a source of inspiration that can (or indeed must) be identified. The epigone can operate only after a certain span of time, during which he has studied his example and learned how to follow in his master's footsteps. An epigone is always influenced - be it consciously or unconsciously - by another person, or by the surrounding cultural climate. The epigone is, per definition, second rate. Furthermore, it is believed that the epigonic product cannot have an independent value. Its only value lies in demonstrating a condition in culture, a spirit of the area, a trend in the arts, philosophy or any other human occupation. Rather than continuing to view epigonism as a natural, if regrettable, part of the cultural process, an inevitable secondary stage within the development of any corpus, the essays in this volume approach the phenomenon from a perspective that is at once more neutral and more positive. They do so not by rehabilitating the quality of the epigone's output, but by redefining his role within the cultural process per se. In each of these contributions, epigones appear as the true carriers of, in this case Jewish, culture. Rather than mere witnesses or, at best, historical mirrors of primary, canonical, cultural codes and modes, they represent one of the dynamic forces within the development of a culture. For the epigone is not merely imitating, but also disseminating. It is not the isolated peaks of the cultural panorama that the articles in this book seek to map out, but the modest planes that allow us to travel the landscape in the first place.
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Peeters Publishers Translating a Translation: The LXX and its Modern
Book SynopsisAs part of a Joint Project of Bilateral Scientific Cooperation between the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and University of Stellenbosch (South Africa), the Centre for Septuagint Studies and Textual Criticism (Faculty of Theology, K.U.Leuven) organised a Specialists' Symposium on the Septuagint Translation. This scholarly meeting took place from 4 to 6 December 2006 at the Leuven Faculty of Theology, Research Unit Biblical Studies. The symposium's aim was to survey contemporary research within the realm of the translations of the Septuagint. Therefore, the most important Septuagint translation projects were confronted with each other, from the perspective of their objective and methodology as well as with regard to their concrete application in particular cases or examples. The meeting was exclusively intended for specialists in the field. The present book contains the proceedings of this symposium. It offers the full text of the contributions by J. Cook, R. Sollamo, H. Ausloos & B. Lemmelijn, G. Dorival, K. Hauspie, C. Dogniez, M. Karrer, W. Kraus, E. Bons, H.-J. Fabry, A. Pietersma, D. Buchner, C. Boyd-Taylor, H. Van Rooy, J. Naude, A. Piquer, P. Torijano & Julio Trebolle Barrera and N. Fernandez Marcos. In this way, it reflects the views of leading voices in contemporary research on the Septuagint's translation, and thus confronts different methodological perspectives on a most intriguing research topic.
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Peeters Publishers Jan Van Ruusbroec: De Mystieke Vereniging Met God
Book SynopsisDe mysticus Jan van Ruusbroec (1293-1381) wordt vaak hemelhoog geprezen, ook internationaal. Zo kwam Cuthbert Butler tot de conclusie dat er "zeker...geen groter mystiek schrijver is geweest." Het is dan ook verrassend dat over Ruusbroecs mystieke leer als zodanig geen omvattende studie voorhanden is. Dat deze lacune aangevuld moet worden, is des te vanzelfsprekender nu de kritische editie van Ruusbroecs werken volledig is: Jan van Ruusbroec Opera omnia (1981-2006). Het leidend beginsel van onderhavig boek is, dat de mysticus zelf in de allereerste plaats aan het woord moet komen, en niet de commentator. Bovendien bestaat de kern van Ruusbroecs geschriften in het beschrijven van een bewustwording - de bewustwording van de aanwezigheid van een Ander -, met het gevolg dat enkel door de close reading van het gehele werk en door passende tekstanalyses zijn opvattingen van de mystieke eenwording met God te voorschijn komt. Daar echter in deze studie een mystieke figuur en zijn literair werk centraal staan, wordt in de eerste twee hoofdstukken, steeds op basis van hetgeen de mystici zelf vertellen, gepreciseerd wat hen essentieel kenmerkt, wat zij ervaren en hoe zij ervaren, waarom zij schrijven en op welke manier. Ruusbroecs eigen beschrijving van de mystieke ervaring wordt in vijf hoofdstukken ontvouwd. Hoofdstuk III - "Het mensbeeld van Ruusbroec" - betreft de manier waarop deze mysticus de structuur van de menselijke psyche voorstelt. Hoofdstuk IV - "De ontmoeting met de Ander" - behandelt de mystieke weg zoals Ruusbroec die uittekent. Wat hier vooral opvalt, is de persistentie van het verschijnsel "ontmoeting" door de hele ontwikkelingsgang van de mysticus heen, van het premystieke begin tot en met de diepste eenheidsbeleving. Het blijkt eveneens dat deze weg niet noodzakelijk gevolgd dient te worden: het contemplatieve leven is geen lineair vooruitgang-maken maar veeleer een spiraalsgewijs meegenomen-worden. In hoofdstuk V - "Het mystieke eenzijn met God" - komt het hart van Ruusbroecs mystieke ervaring tot uitdrukking en schittert natuurlijk het meest zijn uniek talent om weer te geven wat niet gezien maar wel gevoeld wordt. Het belangrijkste punt hier is, dat voor de mysticus de meest gevorderde ervaring van het eenzijn met God bestaat in het beleven van zowel "eenheid" als "vereniging", van zowel "rusten" als "werken". Anders gezegd, het volkomen eenzijn met God wordt helemaal niet beschouwd als een uiteindelijke versmelting. Het is, integendeel, door het blijvende samenspel te ervaren van zulke verschillende aspecten als "eenheid" en "vereniging" dat de mysticus ten volle een is met de Ander. Uit de complexe natuur van de volmaakte mystieke staat volgt dat Ruusbroec de volgroeide mysticus voorstelt als de "ghemeyne mensche" die "geheel in God is en geheel in zichzelf." De laatste twee hoofdstukken van het boek gaan over Ruusbroecs houding ten aanzien van de natuurlijke mystiek. Daar hij te maken kreeg met een aantal van zijn tijdgenoten die naar eigen zeggen "contempleerden zonder (Gods) genade", voelde Ruusbroec zich geroepen om met hen in discussie te treden. In hoofdstuk VI blijkt dat hij niet enkel hun methode - "inkeeren" - waardeert, maar eveneens de uitkomst ervan: "zij voelen de enkelvoudigheid van hun wezen dat in Gods wezen hangt." In hoofdstuk VII komt echter ook Ruusbroecs kritiek op de natuurlijke contemplatie ter sprake. Deze richt zich voornamelijk op twee punten. De contemplatief die zich zonder de genade naar binnen keert, "blijft rusten in zichzelf" en hij zal de dehumaniserende gevolgen ondergaan van een contemplatie waarin men "geen anderheid voelt."
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Peeters Publishers The Truth, the Way, the Life: Christian
Book SynopsisThe Truth, the Way, the Life offers a careful reading of the three holy mantras of Srivaisnavism, a south Indian Hindu tradition dedicated to Narayana, Lord of the universe, and Sri, his eternal spouse. The mantras, short prayers rich in theological and devotional meaning, explain and encourage a way of life dedicated to praise and service, surrender and dependence on divine grace - and so introduce key topics that Christian readers will find familiar and still central to the spiritual life today. Francis Clooney's commentary is explicitly Christian and yet deeply indebted to the classic reading of the mantras by the 14th century theologian Vedanta Desika; it thus exemplifies an interreligious learning appropriate to the 21st century and yet, in the end, still deeply Christian.
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Peeters Publishers Spiritual Awakening: The Hidden Key to Peace and
Book SynopsisThis remarkable book, written by a former senior Dutch diplomat, offers a penetrating analysis of some of the major threats to humanity. Its special feature is that it goes beyond the usual pragmatic approach by putting the emphasis on a spiritual awakening. Edy Korthals Altes makes a convincing case about the need for a fundamental transformation in our deepest motivation; a reappraisal of man's place in Ultimate Reality. Here is, according to the author, the base for the so urgently required change in attitude towards man, material goods and nature. This 'spiritual approach' has not only far-reaching consequences for our personal development, but also for the society we live in. Spiritual values should not be treated as abstract notions, but have to be translated into hard reality. Hence, the inspiring chapters about just and sustainable economics; a comprehensive concept of security and a responsible European Union. This is a challenging and most timely book in a world short of hope and vision. It should be widely read by all those who care for our time.
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Peeters Publishers Islam, Friend or Foe?
Book SynopsisIn this study, Emilio Platti dares to enquire directly into the compatibility between Islam and Christianity, as well as between Islam and modernity. He insists that the best way to answer such questions is to return to the origins of the Islamic tradition. What precisely does the Qur'an have to say about Christians? How can we explain the resentment towards the 'West' that seems to characterize some Muslims? Does the so-called clash of civilizations have its roots in Islamic theology? How did the negative portrait of Muslims that was characteristic of the Latin Middle Ages come about? Is it possible to speak in a 'monolithic' fashion about Islam? Is it really the case that Muslims must set about developing a new identity? What is the relationship between Islamic law and modern theories of human rights? What does it mean to be a 'believer' and might this not be the real heart of the tensions and controversies that mark so much of the contemporary encounter between Islam and the West? Platti's study engages both classical and contemporary readings of the Islamic tradition and offers a nuanced and challenging view not only of its past, but of its present and of the directions it might take in the years ahead.
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Peeters Publishers Hout in Boeken, Houten Boeken en de Fraaye Konst
Book SynopsisDit wetenschappelijk, cultuurhistorisch en artistiek project van de Maurits Sabbebibliotheek van de Faculteit Godgeleerdheid - K.U.Leuven kwam tot stand dankzij de samenwerking van Belgische, Nederlandse, Luxemburgse, Duitse en Engelse wetenschappers, houtspecialisten en houtdraaiers. Ieder heeft vanuit zijn specifiek standpunt van dendro(chrono)loog, boekhistoricus, houtsnedendeskundige, boek- en houtrestaurateur, kunsthistoricus, theoloog, emblematicus, xylothekendeskundige, houtdraaier,...een originele bijdrage geschreven in een toegankelijke taal waarvan het geheel in dit bijzonder fraai geillustreerd boek samengebracht is. Bijzondere aandacht werd geschonken aan het technisch onderzoek van de berderen van boekbanden, het uit hout gesneden illustratiemateriaal van boeken, vanaf de eerste blokboeken (1450-1470) tot het begin van de 17de eeuw in de Officina Plantiniana te Antwerpen. Historische xylotheken en het xylarium van Tervuren komen ook aan bod. De samenwerking met de provinciale afdeling (Belgisch en Nederlands) Limburg en Vlaams-Brabant van de Vlaamse Gilde van Houtdraaiers leverde indrukwekkende resultaten op: de bouw van een 'engeltjesdraaibank' uit 1627, een schamel uit 1650, voorbeelden van gedraaide sterren ter illustratie van het boek L'art de tourner van Charles Plumier (1706), bewaard in de Maurits Sabbebibliotheek, en tenslotte een fotogalerie van 130 stukken draaiwerk van een 40-tal houtdraaiers. Een vroeg 19de-eeuwse ornamentdraaibank en enkele voorbeelden van ornamentdraaiwerk zullen zowel in het boek als op de tentoonstelling het naslagwerk van Plumier illustreren. Men zal kennismaken met een gedraaide lezenaar en bijhorende stoel uit Echternach, een gotische en gedraaide lezenaar (ca. 1500) uit de Sint-Gertrudiskerk van Leuven en met andere uitzonderlijke gedrukte documenten uit de 15de eeuw, nl. een blokdruk over de kruishoutlegende en het Boec van den houte (1483).
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Peeters Publishers Monasticism Buddhist and Christian: The Korean
Book SynopsisWhen the history of Christian monasticism is written for the twentieth century, it will include one surprising and revolutionary development that nothing in its previous history could have prepared it for: the living dialogue with Buddhism. Over the past thirty years, while Christian theologians were eagerly discussing their doctrinal traditions with their Buddhist counterparts and rethinking their characterization of the "non-Christian" world, men and women monastics East and West were sharing methods of meditation and experiencing life in one another's communities. All of this, in turn, was part of a larger pursuit among religious-minded people across the world for a revitalized spirituality, one open to the inheritance of traditions previously considered false or at least irretrievably foreign. As the essays gathered together in the book will show, with Buddhist and Christian populations almost evenly distributed and the preservation of community-based monasticism still living in both traditions, Korea is in a unique position to reflect on the ideals of a life of "self-renunciation" as they have been conceptualized and embodied in these two world religions, and to ask what meaning the monastic experience still has for society at large.
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Peeters Publishers La Version Ethiopienne De Barlaam Et Josaphat:
Book SynopsisLe livre de Barlaam et Josaphat fut probablement le "roman" le plus lu au cours du Moyen Age. Le noyau du recit est constitue par l'enfance du Bouddha qui, peu a peu, se detache de la vie et des biens du siecle pour embrasser la solitude monastique. Dans ce cheminement, Josaphat (une deformation du mot Bouddha) est guide par Barlaam, un ascete hindou ulterieurement devenu ermite chretien. L'histoire du texte est remarquable: le canevas general, tire d'une Vie legendaire du personnage ecrite en sanscrit, fut traduit en pehlvi puis, a la conquete musulmane, en arabe. Il passe bientot en georgien puis en grec, ou il prend sa forme definitive, fortement christianisee; traduit en latin, il est a l'origine de toutes les versions occidentales. Une autre traduction, en arabe, servira de modele au texte ethiopien. Celui-ci a fait l'objet d'une unique edition il y a plus de trois quarts de siecle; il n'avait jamais ete traduit en francais.
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Peeters Publishers Companion to Marital Spirituality
Book SynopsisThe twentieth century has witnessed the emergence of a new discourse in Christianity's approach to marriage and family life which is not simply one of official doctrine or institutional teaching. The term "marital spirituality" describes a field of Christian faith and practice that emanates from and has its distinctive contours in the lives of married people and their families. This Companion to Marital Spirituality, multi-disciplinary and international in scope, is dedicated entirely to the exploration of this recent and still relatively young discourse: how the ground was prepared and how it finally emerged in the history of Christianity, the specific field of faith experience and practice it points to, and the perspectives it opens for the Christian understanding of marriage and spirituality alike. By providing an overview of key developments, thematic issues and debates, this volume is conceived as an academically grounded introduction to the growing subject of marital spirituality.
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Peeters Publishers The Financing of Religious Communities in the
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Peeters Publishers Where is the Truth?: Narrative Exegesis and the
Book SynopsisThis book takes a point of departure from what the author considers to constitute the important elements in any exegetical exercise; an interaction of three elements which are the text, the reader and the interpretive key. The text studied is Jer. 26-29(MT), the interpretive key is the narrative method. The interaction of the text with the reader, using the narrative method as the hermeneutical key is aimed at discovering what the text says from a theological point of view. So far in the history of research in the book of Jeremiah, except of course in the very recent times, historical questions have dominated, and many authors would doubt the applicability of the approaches with synchronic presumptions to the book. And so, the book of Jeremiah has remained for the most part, described either as a conglomeration of disparate unconnected elements, or a product of ideological juxtapositions that do not exhibit any literary or theological intention, or even pieces of texts chanced together by redactional happenstance. Consequently, works and commentaries on the book though with different accents, are still united in the goal of discovering the diverse origins of the different disparate units, or detecting the ipsissima verba of the prophet (if any). However, armed with tools for narrative exegesis, we could still, in a derived sense, notice a flow of story, a narrative logic in this block which begins with the prophet's preaching in chapter 26, through the tensions raised in 27 and dramatized in the direct duel of 28 between Jeremiah and Hananiah and finally Jeremiah's own vision of peace and the conditions on which the latter is possible in 29. The narrative reading of the four chapters therefore provides the scriptural basis for asking relevant questions concerning the theological problem of true and false prophecy which we identify to be the major theological theme in the block under study.
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Peeters Publishers Le Monachisme En Perse. La Reforme D'Abraham Le
Book SynopsisAbraham le Grand, considere comme le Pere des moines de l'Orient, suscita par sa reforme, au sein de l'Eglise syro-orientale, un veritable renouveau du monachisme et de l'ascetisme; des le VIe siecle, le Grand monastere au mont Izla, en Mesopotamie septentrionale, devient un pole d'excellence au service de la theologie syro-orientale et de la diffusion de la culture monastique, analogue a ce qu'etait, pour la vie intellectuelle, l'ecole de Nisibe. Les fondations filles qui se reclameront de la paternite spirituelle d'Abraham de Kaskar, parfois structurees en reseaux d'alliance, contribueront au rayonnement exceptionnel de ce courant reformateur a travers la Babylonie, la Susiane et la Perse, et a la perennite des communautes chretiennes syro-orientales confrontees a d'autres courants christologiques et a l'arrivee de l'islam. La grande avancee missionnaire qui atteindra son apogee sous le patriarche Timothee Ier trouva dans le monachisme reforme son socle et son ferment.
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Peeters Publishers 1 Timothy Reconsidered
Book Synopsis1 Timothy Reconsidered contains the presentations and deliberations of the nineteenth meeting of the Colloquium Oecumenicum Paulinum, a distinguished group of some thirty-five international and ecumenical Pauline scholars, held at the Abbey of Saint Paul in Rome during September, 2006. 1 Timothy served as the focal point for all eight papers, although the relationship of this text to that of 2 Timothy, Titus and to other Pauline writings was repeatedly considered. Extensive dialogue centered on the methodological issue of pseudonymity and its continued effectiveness as an exegetical tool. Some urged consideration of a broader view of Pauline letter writing, one that involved authorization to, or joint authorship with, co-workers situated in diverse Pauline missionary centers. The volume also contains a major reassessment of theological themes found in 1 Timothy including the relationship of grace to such heteronomous norms as asceticism, the so-called accomodationist character of the letter, especially the relationship of eusebeia to bourgeois Christianity, and whether the use of the category "household" is, in fact, a misrepresentation of Paul's understanding of the church. Under the presidency of Karl Donfried, presenters included David Horrell, Luke Timothy Johnson, Vasile Mihoc, Margaret Mitchell, Yann Redalie, Laszlo Simon and Thomas Soding.
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Peeters Publishers Islam in Nederland En Belgie Religieuze
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Peeters Publishers Between Two Worlds: Yiddish-German Encounters
Book SynopsisWhat does Yiddish have to do with German? It is a question that has perplexed Jews and Germans alike for centuries. The relationship between the two languages - both originating from a common source and from a common location - has often become a metaphor for the relationship of German and Jewish societies, a relationship whose fraught and complex history is one of the most important in the study not only of Jews, but of modern European history. The two languages and their literary cultures have continued their intimate and mutually nourishing relationship and exchange over the course of a millennium, as is documented even from the earliest substantial corpus of Yiddish texts (ca. 1382), while during the last four centuries the relationship can be seen surprisingly clearly and profoundly in a broad range of texts and genres. A reevalution of this fraught cultural relationship is the focus of the present volume, whose panoramic approach suggests that the study of German culture is essential for those who wish truly to understand Yiddish literary culture - and, even more provocatively, vice versa.
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Peeters Publishers Ephesische Entheullungen 1: Fruhe Christen in
Book SynopsisIn Ephesos befand sich eine der sieben Gemeinden, an welche der Seher Johannes seine Apokalypse schickte. Doch die Johannesapokalypse ist nicht der einzige neutestamentliche Text, der eine Verbindung mit Ephesos hat. Auch im Corpus Paulinum und in der Apostelgeschichte spielt Ephesos eine bedeutende Rolle, wenngleich viele "Einleitungsfragen" umstritten sind. Uber das antike Ephesos sind wir durch die Ausgrabungen und ein reichhaltiges Corpus von Inschriften sehr gut informiert. Allerdings blieben die Kontakte zwischen althistorischer und exegetischer Forschung bislang meistens sparlich. Ephesische Enthullungen 1 ist der erste Teil einer lokalgeschichtlichen Studie zur Johannesapokalypse. Dieser Band bundelt gleichermassen althistorische und exegetische Erkenntnisse uber Ephesos und die fruchristlichen Gruppen in dieser Stadt: Offenbar gab es um 100 n. Chr. in Ephesos unterschiedliche christliche Gemeinden, deren Texte - etwa das lukanische Doppelwerk - im Neuen Testament erhalten sind. Damit wird sowohl der hellenistische und romische als auch der judische und christliche Hintergrund beleuchtet, vor dem ihre ephesischen Horer die Johannesapokalypse rezipieren konnten.
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Peeters Publishers Neo-Muslim Intellectuals in the West and Their
Book SynopsisThis study is an exploration of the contributions made by neo-Muslim intellectuals to Islamic thought and the development of Islam in the West. It focuses on the works of contemporary neo-Muslim intellectuals that enjoy a wide circulation, especially among Muslim migrants in the West and throughout the Muslim world. Through their intellectual vision, they impart a certain understanding of Islam, which is acceptable in the Western context and culture. They produce a new Islamic literature which can be classified as a Western Islamic literature. The core questions of this study are: - What are the main contributions made by neo-Muslim intellectuals to Islamic thought and the formation of Western Islam? - What is the main focus of their contributions: political, cultural, social, religious? The author presents an overview of the estimated numbers of converts in different European countries and presents detailed profiles of the main protagonists of the study. He reviews the contributions of neo-Muslim intellectuals to Western Islamic literature. He discusses their contributions to Islamic political thought and to Islamic politics. He studies the attitudes of these converts towards Western civilization. In conclusion, he analyses their views on non-Islamic religions, particularly their polemical views on Christianity.
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Peeters Publishers Staging the Liturgy: The Medieval Altarpiece in
Book SynopsisSpain and Portugal possess a wealth of medieval churches, including many with original furnishings. Most outstanding of all is the altarpiece or 'retablo', the epitome of Iberian ecclesiastical art. With its exceptional dimensions, architectural structure and extensive imagery, it became clearly distinct from altarpieces elsewhere in Europe. The retable cannot be understood simply as an artistic genre, but must be viewed in its spatial surroundings and against its religious and socio-cultural background. In the present study, the medieval altarpiece in the Iberian Peninsula is approached as a witness to liturgy, faith and devotion. Part I sketches its morphological development from its origins around 1100 to the end of the Gothic age in the first half of the sixteenth century. Part II analyses the retable in its spatial context, formed by the architecture of the church building and other elements of the interior such as the choir. In Part III the retable is discussed as a means of communication, conveying a message between the patron who commissioned it and the recipients. Both as an art object and as a bearer of imagery, the altar retable played an important part in the staging of liturgy in the medieval church of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Peeters Publishers Augustine and Postmodern Thought: A New Alliance
Book SynopsisOn November 9-11, 2006, the Research Group 'Theology in a Postmodern Context' (K.U.Leuven) organised an expert symposium on the return of Augustine in current postmodern philosophical-theological debates. The North-African Church Father, or at least the thinking patterns or intuitions borrowed from him, are often invoked in discussions on the relation between Christian faith and the contemporary postmodern context. On the one hand, one observes the retrieval of rather premodern approaches in order to remedy the so-called (post-)modern crisis, which is said to result in nihilism, relativism, etc. For what seems to attract some theologians in Augustinian thinking is the (apparent) marriage between Greek (neo-Platonic) philosophy and Christian faith. Such a combination of premodern metaphysics and Christian faith would serve as a necessary presupposition for every legitimate theological epistemology. On the other hand, there are theologians and philosophers who are increasingly trying to reread Augustine from a postmodern stance, stressing the role of particularity, narrativity, historicity, and the decentring of subjectivity, which they see present in Augustine's approach, or from which they deconstruct Augustine's thinking. Central questions discussed during the symposium were: Are the analyses, offered by authors who are re-introducing Augustine with respect to the contemporary context, correct? To what diagnosed problems, and on what basis, do they propose Augustine as a remedy? Are their presentations of other theological and philosophical responses to the present situation correct and which 'Augustine' do they claim to represent? More fundamentally: what would a genuine Augustinian epistemology look like, and what can we gain from it? In what way can it be normative for a theological epistemology in our day? In answering these questions, the symposium focused explicitly on contemporary philosophical and theological evaluations of both modernity and postmodernity, and theological responses to them.
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Peeters Publishers Miracles and Imagery in Luke and John:
Book SynopsisLuke and John have been the double focus of the research Professor Ulrich Busse has been conducting for many years and which has resulted in major publications on the miracle stories in the Gospel of Luke and on the images and metaphors used by the Fourth Evangelist. Luke and John, miracles and images, was the obvious choice for the topic of this collection of essays in honour of Professor Busse at the occasion of his retirement. The volume contains contributions by P. Hoffmann (Q 6,39.40 and Luke); R. Hoppe (Lk 5,1-11); B.J. Koet - W.E.S. North (Lk 10,38-42 and Jn 11,1-12,8); A. Denaux (Lk 24,29); T. Nicklas (Jn 4,43-54); F. Tolmie (Jn 13,21-30); J.A. Du Rand (Jn 13,31-14,31); G.J. Steyn (Jesus as Lord in Jn); M. Theobald (Augustine on Lk 5,1-11 and Jn 21,1-14); M.J.J. Menken (1 Jn 3,12); J.-M. Van Cangh (Miracle stories in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world); J.G. van der Watt (Reading the Bible in an African context).
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Peeters Publishers Responsibility, God and Society. Theological
Book SynopsisA generation of students at the Faculty of Theology of the K.U.Leuven have been introduced by Roger Burggraeve to the thoughts of Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995). Levinas has been (and still is) for him a true "master in thinking". For Levinas responsibility is heteronymous because it does not start from the "I" but from the epiphany of the other as the face, appealing to me not "to kill" but to promote him/her. In and through the appeal of the face, the difference between the other and me - expressed in the irreducible alterity of the other - is, ethically speaking, the appeal to the highest "non-indifference": proximity without absorption. As Levinas' thinking carries on obvious Jewish-Talmudic imprint, Burggraeve was interested as to how the concept of responsibility can be connected to a biblically inspired ethic. In which way can the Levinasian view on responsibility enhance a Christian anthropology, and in particular that one articulated by Louvain personalism, and in its turn inspired by a Christian anthropology, so that it benefits from uniquely Christian accents? In this Festschrift for Roger Burggraeve, authors explore the theme of "Responsibility, God and Society" in order to answer two questions. What does Levinas' ethic of responsibility have to offer Christian theology? And vice-versa, what can Christian theology offer to contemporary ethical thought on personal, relational and societal responsibility.
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Peeters Publishers You are My Son : The Reception History of Psalm
Book SynopsisThis award-winning study characterizes Psalm 2 as a messianic-theocratic psalm. Early Jewish literature emphasises the eschatological and sapiential applications of the psalm more than the messianic interpretation. However, surprisingly, we come across the same text combinations that later emerge in New Testament literature: Christian scholarship obviously stood in a long tradition. It is shown how the relevant New Testament texts focus on the messianic interpretation of Psalm 2, especially of the words: "You are my Son". In the post-Easter confusion it functions as an argument to show that the crucified Jesus nevertheless was the Son of God. Luke apologetically explains how in this psalm the Messiah, identified earlier as the despised king, is also called "My Son" by God himself. Mark elaborates this idea for catechetical purposes: Jesus already was the Son of God at the time of his baptism and transfiguration. Finally, Hebrews uses Ps.2 to prove the pre-existence of Jesus. Thus, this volume forms a welcome addition to the existing literature on this topic.
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Peeters Publishers Newman and Truth
Book SynopsisJohn Henry Newman (1801-1890) chose as his epitaph the words, 'Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritaten' ('Out of shadows and images into the truth'). These words are more than the expression of Newman's hope for the future. They summarize his lifelong quest to penetrate ever more deeply into the mystery of God's relationship to humankind and the ways in which men and women are able to gain insight into that relationship. This collection of papers reflects on Newman's understanding of the nature of truth's survival in the contemporary world. At the same time, it provides a critical reflection on the continuing significance of Newman's thought. The collection includes contributions by Colin Barr, Michael J. Buckley, Brian Daley, Paul J. Griffiths, Keith Hanley, Ian Ker, Terrence Merrigan, and John Milbank.
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Peeters Publishers Prophecy After the Prophets?: The Contribution of
Book SynopsisIt is often said that prophecy came to an end in the early Second Temple period. This volume investigates how the Dead Sea Scrolls help to better understand Israelite Jewish prophecy and Israelite-Jewish prophetic texts. However, it not only contributes to the study of prophecy and the prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible by analyzing the textual history and interpretative history of prophetic books - the former being concerned with the manuscripts of prophetic books found in Qumran and elsewhere, the latter being focused on para-prophetic texts and commentaries - it also investigates the phenomenon of active prophecy, i.e. ongoing prophetic activities, after the early Second Temple period, long after prophecy came to its so-called end. In the first part of this volume, Matthias Henze deals with the paraprophetical literature from Qumran. Martti Nissinen addresses the relation between Qumran Pesher hermeneutics and Ancient Near Eastern omen divination. Timothy H. Lim asks if, why, and in what sense the psalms were considered to be prophecies or prophetic. In the second part of the volume, George J. Brooke asks the question, 'Was the Teacher of Righteousness Considered To Be a Prophet?' and Katell Berthelot shows in her study of 4QTestimonia (4Q175) that the Teacher of Righteousness was not the only active 'prophet' in the 2nd cent. BCE. The third part of the volume looks at a wider definition of prophecy. Esther Eshel shows how the tree imagery of the Genesis Apocryphon's symbolic dreams participates in a Jewish tradition that is attested in both earlier and later texts. Leo G. Perdue demonstrates that apocalyptic developed out of both prophecy and mantic wisdom. Perdue also provides a survey of mythical mantic sages in the Ancient Near Eeast and mantic sages and mantic wisdom in biblical, and ancient Jewish literature. Finally, in the fourth part of the volume, Armin Lange offers an example of how the Dead Sea Scrolls help to solve cruces interpretum in the prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible. For this purpose he studies 'The Genre of the Book of Jonah' in light of the paratextual literature from Qumran.
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Peeters Publishers Infant Milk or Hardy Nourishment?: The Bible for
Book SynopsisThe Pauline expressions "infant milk" and "hardy nourishment" or "solid food" (cf. 1 Cor 3,2 and Heb 5,12-14) have frequently been used by the Church fathers, medieval preachers and early modern writers, to voice the contrasting opinions that the words of Scripture are either simple to understand for the uneducated laity, or only discernable for professional theologians. Hence, the present volume considers the place of the Scriptures in both lay spirituality and in theological thinking. It includes a wide range of articles, dealing with vernacular Bible translations intended for common people, visual Bible culture, Bible commentaries written by theologically and philologically skilled scholars, and other related topics. The essays have been arranged in a chronological order, and divided into three sections, the first part considering the period from 1450 to 1520. This period begins when the mediaeval production of Bible translations is at a peak, and when another readership, other than the clergy, has increasingly found its way to the Bible. The printing press, which makes an appearance at the time, provides an immediate response to this growing demand. During the same period, also in the north, we see the gradual rise of humanism, which for figures such as Erasmus and Lefevre d'Etaples, also entailed a great interest in the Bible sources (ad fontes). In 1519 Erasmus published his Novum Testamentum (a revised version of his 1516 Novum Instrumentum), providing from 1520 the basis for various vernacular Bible publications. His Paraphrases on diverse books of the New Testament also appealed to a broad reading public. The effects of this Biblical humanism provide the point of departure for the second part of this book. During the same decennia, through the influence of the Reformation and its sola scriptura principle, new translations became available. The response to this new Bible elan in Catholic circles was varied, from an absolute prohibition of Bible translation in the vernacular, to a cautious integration of a Biblical spirituality in teaching and preaching. The different contributions demonstrate how the religious diversity and plurality continues to expand in this period, with each group increasingly accentuating its own confessional identity. The way in which the Bible is dealt with reflects this process. In the seventeenth century, on which the third section of this book focuses, this evolution is pursued further. From the middle of this century however, an evolution takes place, with a growing number of exegetes taking a critical, scholarly attitude to the Bible, a development that is in an obvious relationship with the growing contemporary phenomenon of secularisation and rationalism. The present book will serve as a valuable companion to Lay Bibles in Europe 1450-1800 (eds. August den Hollander and Mathijs Lamberigts), the proceedings of the 2004 Amsterdam Conference with the same title, which has been published as volume 198 of the BETL-series.
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Peeters Publishers Le Droit Ecclesiastique En Europe Et a Ses Marges
Book SynopsisCet ouvrage collectif a ete realise a partir des actes du colloque organise par le centre Droit et Societes religieuses de l'Universite de Paris Sud, les 12 et 13 octobre 2007, a la Faculte Jean Monnet, a Sceaux. Dans une perspective historique mais tout en menant leurs investigations jusqu'a nos jours, les auteurs abordent les questions fondamentales relatives a la place des religions dans la societe ou a leurs relations avec les pouvoirs publics et autorites politiques, en France, dans divers pays europeens (Italie, Espagne, Suisse, Belgique, Roumanie) ou aux marges de l'Europe (Russie, Turquie). Partout, les societes se sont secularisees; quels sont les courants ideologiques qui ont accompagne ces mutations? Ces evolutions ont-elles modifie le fonctionnement d'institutions sociales comme le systeme d'education ou de sante? Partout la liberte religieuse est proclamee; doit-on en deduire que les pouvoirs publics traitent toutes les religions sur un meme mode? Certains Etats signent des concordats avec le Saint-Siege, ou promulguent des lois de liberte religieuse; d'autres se disent laiques; quels furent les processus selon lesquels les laicites italienne, turque, francaise ou autres se sont construites? Telles sont quelques-unes des interrogations auxquelles ce livre repond.
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Peeters Publishers Philosophie Moderne Et Christianisme
Book SynopsisLe present ouvrage etudie la facon dont les principaux philosophes du XVIIIe au XXe siecle ont pense le christianisme et reflechi a la complexite des liens - complexite qui va de la meconnaissance au respect, en passant par la negation, l'ignorance ou l'absorption - entre la pensee philosophique et l'alterite representee par le christianisme. Apres avoir rappele en guise d'introduction la maniere dont le christianisme a recu la philosophie paienne et l'apport de la theologie chretienne a la raison philosophique, le livre deploie en six grandes parties le panorama des relations entre la philosophie moderne et le christianisme. La premiere partie considere le rationalisme, l'empirisme et la crise des croyances au XVIIe siecle. La deuxieme partie traite du proces du christianisme dans la pensee du XVIIIe siecle, tandis que la troisieme presente la philosophie du christianisme developpee par Kant et par les grands philosophes idealistes (Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schleiermacher). La quatrieme partie expose la critique du christianisme elaboree, parmi d'autres, par les representants de la " gauche hegelienne " et par Nietzsche. La cinquieme partie lui repond en presentant les differentes formes de philosophie chretienne elaborees au XIXe siecle. La sixieme et derniere partie passe en revue le XXe siecle. Plus de 90 auteurs, qui ont faconne et alimentent encore la reflexion actuelle, sont ainsi " visites " selon la perspective choisie. Les conclusions degagent une typologie riche en contrastes. Comme le parcours propose le suggere, le rapport entre philosophie et christianisme implique une tension feconde, qu'aucune synthese n'est a meme d'extirper totalement.
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