Alternative Salvations

Author : Hannah Bacon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472579968
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Salvations written by Hannah Bacon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By considering transformative ideas and experiences which are explicitly articulated or implicitly structured in languages of religion and spirituality, Alternative Salvations probes concepts including 'religious', 'secular', 'spiritual', 'post-Christian', and 'post-secular', providing a series of studies which question the functionality of these broad categories. Part one draws on contemporary salvation narratives showing how current cultural forms, social practices and secular discourses are influenced by, or are interpreted through, the lens of religious and theological accounts of salvation. Examples include twelve step recovery programs, drug culture, and public policy surrounding HIV-AIDs in Kenya. Although outside traditional religious contexts, the contributors show ways in which they are not free from religious symbolism. Part two explores alternative accounts of salvation rooted in religious traditions. Established orthodoxies are confronted by contemporary critical questions, for example about gender, the status of animals, and the political dimensions of salvation. By contributing new perspectives and unique case studies, Alternative Salvations provides a deliberate challenge to easy binaries which often underpin contemporary and traditional discourses of salvation.

Author : Hannah Bacon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147257995X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Salvations written by Hannah Bacon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By considering transformative ideas and experiences which are explicitly articulated or implicitly structured in languages of religion and spirituality, Alternative Salvations probes concepts including 'religious', 'secular', 'spiritual', 'post-Christian', and 'post-secular', providing a series of studies which question the functionality of these broad categories. Part one draws on contemporary salvation narratives showing how current cultural forms, social practices and secular discourses are influenced by, or are interpreted through, the lens of religious and theological accounts of salvation. Examples include twelve step recovery programs, drug culture, and public policy surrounding HIV-AIDs in Kenya. Although outside traditional religious contexts, the contributors show ways in which they are not free from religious symbolism. Part two explores alternative accounts of salvation rooted in religious traditions. Established orthodoxies are confronted by contemporary critical questions, for example about gender, the status of animals, and the political dimensions of salvation. By contributing new perspectives and unique case studies, Alternative Salvations provides a deliberate challenge to easy binaries which often underpin contemporary and traditional discourses of salvation.

Author : Hannah Bacon
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ISBN 13 : 9781474220101
Total Pages : pages
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Author : Wayne Morris
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567345173
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salvation as Praxis written by Wayne Morris and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will people of other faiths be 'saved' and to what extent should the response to this question shape Christian engagements with people of other faiths? Historically, the predominant answer to these questions has been that the person of another faith will not be saved and is therefore in need of conversion to Christianity for their salvation to be possible. Consequently, it has been understood to be the obligation of Christian persons to convert people of other faiths. More recent theologies of religions for the past half century and more have sought to reconsider these approaches to soteriology. This has sometimes led to a reaffirmation of the status quo and at other times to an alternative soteriological understanding. In seeking to articulate soteriologies that make logical and doctrinal sense, too often these new approaches to salvation and people of other faiths have paid little attention to questions of practice. Drawing on alternative understandings of soteriology as deification, healing, and liberation, each perspective having ancient roots in the Christian tradition, it is argued that salvation can be understood as form of concrete earthly practice. Understood in this way, this book considers how these alternative theologies of salvation might shape Christian practices in a way that departs from a history in which the person of another faith has been perceived as a threat to Christianity and therefore in need of conversion. Further it asks how the complex multi-faith world of the twenty-first century might better inform and shape the way in which Christian theologies frame soteriological understandings.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford House Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth Keathley
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433669633
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salvation and Sovereignty written by Kenneth Keathley and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Salvation and Sovereignty, Kenneth Keathley asks, “What shall a Christian do who is convinced of certain central tenets of Calvinism but not its corollaries?” He then writes, “I see salvation as a sovereign work of grace but suspect that the usual Calvinist understanding of sovereignty (that God is the cause of all things) is not sustained by the biblical witness as a whole.” Aiming to resolve this matter, the author argues that just three of Calvinism’s five TULIP points can be defended scripturally and instead builds on the ROSES acronym first presented by Timothy George (Radical depravity, Overcoming grace, Sovereign election, Eternal life, Singular redemption). In relation, Keathley looks at salvation and sovereignty through the lens of Molinism, a doctrine named after Luis Molina (1535-1600) that is based on a strong notion of God’s control and an equally firm affirmation of human freedom.

Author : Charles Gore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lux Mundi written by Charles Gore and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Sleightholme Franks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book The New Testament Doctrines of Man, Sin, and Salvation written by Robert Sleightholme Franks and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Stuart Candlish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
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Download or read book The Christian Salvation written by James Stuart Candlish and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Salvation Army
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
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Download or read book Sketches of the Salvation Army Social Work written by Salvation Army and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: