Death To The World And Apocalyptic Theological Aesthetics

Author : Robert Cady Saler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567704440
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Death to the World" and Apocalyptic Theological Aesthetics written by Robert Cady Saler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Saler examines the small but influential Death to the World movement in US Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Presenting a case study in theological aesthetics, Saler demonstrates how a relatively small consumer phenomenon within US Eastern Orthodoxy sits at the centre of a variety of larger questions, including: - The relationship between formal ecclesial and para-church structures - The role of the Internet in modern religiosity - Consumer structures and patterns as constitutive of piety - How theology can help us understand art and vice versa Understanding "Death to the World" as an instance of lived religion tied to questions of identity, politics of religious purity, relationships to capitalism, and concerns over conspiracy theory helps us to see how studies of uniquely American Eastern Orthodox identity must address these broader cultural strands.

Author : Robert Cady Saler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567704483
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Death to the World" and Apocalyptic Theological Aesthetics written by Robert Cady Saler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Saler examines the small but influential Death to the World movement in US Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Presenting a case study in theological aesthetics, Saler demonstrates how a relatively small consumer phenomenon within US Eastern Orthodoxy sits at the centre of a variety of larger questions, including: - The relationship between formal ecclesial and para-church structures - The role of the Internet in modern religiosity - Consumer structures and patterns as constitutive of piety - How theology can help us understand art and vice versa Understanding "Death to the World" as an instance of lived religion tied to questions of identity, politics of religious purity, relationships to capitalism, and concerns over conspiracy theory helps us to see how studies of uniquely American Eastern Orthodox identity must address these broader cultural strands.

Author : Robert Cady Saler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567704459
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Death to the World" and Apocalyptic Theological Aesthetics written by Robert Cady Saler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Demonstrates how the small but influential "Death to the World" movement can be understood within the context of antimodernist subcultures within American Eastern Orthodoxy"--

Author : Robert C. Saler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780567704498
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last True Rebellion written by Robert C. Saler and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Demonstrates how the small but influential "Death to the World" movement can be understood within the context of antimodernist subcultures within American Eastern Orthodoxy"--

Author : Frederick J. Murphy
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441238743
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apocalypticism in the Bible and Its World written by Frederick J. Murphy and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apocalypticism is not a peripheral topic in biblical studies. It represents the central, characteristic transformation of Hebrew thought in the period of the Second Temple. It therefore constituted the worldview of Jesus, Paul, and the earliest Christians, and it is the context in which the New Testament books were written. In this volume, Frederick Murphy defines apocalypticism while discussing its origins, where it comes into play in the Hebrew Bible, and how it relates to Jesus and the New Testament.

Author : Thomas J. J. Altizer
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438466730
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Satan and Apocalypse written by Thomas J. J. Altizer and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a profound vision of the Christian epic as the site of the modern apocalyptic reenactment of the original apocalypse. In this series of essays, Thomas J. J. Altizer explores the Christian epic as the site of modern revolutionary apocalyptic reenactments and renewals of the original apocalypse enacted by Jesus Christ and primitive Christianity. Beginning with the pivotal seventeenth-century figures Milton and Spinoza, Altizer analyzes the apocalyptic visions of key figures of modernity, including Blake, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Joyce, often juxtaposing them to surprising and illuminating effect. These revolutionary moments stand in opposition to what Altizer calls the pathological modern counterrevolution that dominates the world today, which is an effect of a new postmodernity and of a progressive dissolution of historical consciousness. Through his analysis of modern apocalyptic moments and thinkers, this book becomes an elegant and accessible guide to Altizer’s own apocalyptic vision and his ultimate project of the total and comprehensive reconstruction of theology. “This is an indispensable work of closure coming from one of contemporary theology’s most lucid, original, rebellious, provocative, and passionate voices. Altizer’s most central and tenaciously held convictions are distilled into this essential testament.” — William Franke, author of Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante “This book is vintage Altizer: a vast and profound vision of the transformations of interiority, conceptions of the world, and the idea/image of God throughout the time of Western culture. Altizer is an incredible and amazing writer and thinker. I found myself stopped dead in my tracks, left to ponder anew everything that I thought I knew. His intuitions and insights are so penetrating and enlightening that they evoke sheer wonder at the marvel of his accomplishment.” — David E. Klemm, coauthor of Religion and the Human Future: An Essay on Theological Humanism

Author : Tina Pippin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134673434
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apocalyptic Bodies written by Tina Pippin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apocalyptic Bodies traces the biblical notions of the end of the world as represented in ancient and modern texts, art, music and popular culture, for example the paintings of Bosch. Tina Pippin addresses the question of how far we, in the late twentieth century, are capable of reading and responding to the 'signs of the times'. It will appeal not only to those studying religion, but also to those fascinated with interpretations of the end of the world.

Author : R. B. Bauckham
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004112032
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fate of the Dead written by R. B. Bauckham and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These pioneering studies of personal eschatology in the Jewish and Christian apocalypses, including those neglected apocalypses which focus on life after death, make an important contribution to understanding ideas and images of the hereafter in early Judaism and Christianity.

Author : Greg Carey
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 9780827238183
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ultimate Things written by Greg Carey and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carey presents an introduction to the elements of apocalyptic discourse in the Hebrew Bible, the intertestamental texts of the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and the Jewish and Christian apocalyptic texts. He seeks to help modern readers perplexed by the rampant and somewhat outrageous depiction and interpretation of apocalyptic literature to see apocalyptic discourse as a flexible set of resources that early Jews and Christians could employ for a variety of persuasive tasks. Carey examines each of the literary works that exhibit apocalyptic discourse. He briefly introduces the date and language of each text and shows its basic contents. Then he examines the particular topics and purposes of the work. Carey concludes by showing a way to read the particular example of apocalyptic discourse as a whole in its own setting with its own purposes. Carey invokes discourse as a category of study in an attempt to bring together the literary, ideological, and social dimensions of apocalyptic language. He sees the genius of apocalyptic discourse in its ability to bring its audience into otherwise inaccessible mysteries concerning the future and the heavenly realms. As theology, apocalyptic discourse engages life's greatest questions-the nature of God, the desire for justice, and the frustrations of human finitude. As poetry, it expresses the theological imagination in vivid symbols and conventional literary forms.

Author : Prof. Stephen L. Cook
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426750889
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Apocalyptic Literature written by Prof. Stephen L. Cook and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical texts create worlds of meaning and invite readers to enter them. When readers enter such textual worlds, which are strange and complex, they are confronted with theological claims. With this in mind, the purpose of the IBT series is to help serious readers in their experience of reading and interpreting by providing guides for their journeys into textual worlds. The focus of the series is not so much on the world behind the text as on the worlds created by the texts in their engagement with readers. Nowhere is the world of the biblical text stranger than in the apocalyptic literature of both the Old and New Testaments. In this volume, Stephen Cook makes the puzzling visions and symbols of the biblical apocalyptic literature intelligible to modern readers. He begins with definitions of apocalypticism and apocalyptic literature and introduces the various scholarly approaches to and issues for our understanding of the text. Cook introduces the reader to the social and historical worlds of the apocalyptic groups that gave rise to such literature and leads the reader into a better appreciation and understanding of the theological import of biblical apocalyptic literature. In the second major section of the book, Cook guides the reader through specific examples of the Bible’s apocalyptic literature. He addresses both the best-known examples (the biblical books of Daniel and Revelation) and other important but lesser known examples (Zechariah and some words of Jesus and Paul).