In Search Of Theological Modesty

Author : William Liss-Levinson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498270263
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Theological Modesty written by William Liss-Levinson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century is emerging as a challenging time for people with faith-based traditions who also seek paths of openness to pluralistic voices and streams of spirituality. In Search of Theological Modesty: Biblical Lessons, deeply rooted in traditional Jewish approaches to biblical exegesis, finds new ways to support this commitment to tolerance and respect through examination of key stories and commandments in the Torah. Blending homiletics with profound psychological insights, Liss-Levinson creates images, themes, and lessons that are both particularistic and global. In this accessible discussion of Torah, the author invites people of varying backgrounds and understandings to join in his search to more humbly approach their own beliefs, other people, and their beliefs and faiths.

Author : Lauren Shields
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807093920
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beauty Suit written by Lauren Shields and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young feminist finds herself questioning why “hotness” has become necessary for female empowerment—and looks for alternatives. Looking good feels good. But in a society where looking good is posited as being strong, while negotiating for better pay is statistically proven to damage our careers, is it fair to say that wicked eyeliner, weekly blowouts, and a polished Instagram feed are the keys to our liberation? If so—if “hot” really is a good enough synonym for “empowered”—why do so many of us feel, deep in our bones, that the sexy-as-strong model is a distraction? Is “pretty” still the closest to power women can get? Why is looking fierce an acceptable substitute for living in a world where women are safe? Inspired in seminary by American Muslimahs who wear the hijab for feminist reasons, Lauren Shields took off what she calls the Beauty Suit—the “done” hair, the tasteful and carefully applied makeup, the tight clothes and foot-binding shoes—for nine months. She’d really only wanted to do an experiment. Instead, her life—especially her views on what constitutes “liberation”—changed forever. Rooted in feminist theory and religious history, and guided by a snappy personal narrative, The Beauty Suit unpacks modern American womanhood: a landscape where the female body is still so often the battleground for male ideals, and where we struggle with our rights as human beings to define and exercise our freedom.

Author : Jeff Pollard
Publisher : Vision Forum
ISBN 13 : 9781929241347
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America written by Jeff Pollard and published by Vision Forum. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A much needed tonic for every Christian parent.

Author : Martha Peace
Publisher : P & R Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781629950815
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modesty written by Martha Peace and published by P & R Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unpacking modestys biblical foundations, Martha and Kent encourage and equip girls to pursue an appearance and heart attitude that please God. Includes discussion questions and a chapter on identifying legalism.

Author : Aaron Frost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781983121746
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Body written by Aaron Frost and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible has plenty to say about the human body and clothing in ancient times, but modern translations and socially conditioned assumptions have drifted significantly away from ancient cultures and the intent of the earliest texts. Do you you know what the Bible really says in the original Greek and Hebrew, or have you trusted what you hear? Perhaps it is time to make a detailed exposition of what the Bible has to say about clothing and nakedness for a believer's life. In these pages, journey with me through a comprehensive study of nearly every passage relating directly to the topic so that we can definitively establish a clear, Biblical position directly from the Bible's words while removing subjective culture and fallible bias as much as we possibly can. Packed with detailed references, archeological illustrations, and historical insights, this painstaking Bible study book will illuminate your readings of misunderstood and mistranslated passages, exposing generations of false interpretation and shameful teachings for a fresh look at a beautiful topic.

Author : Russell T. McCutcheon
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900428141X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Modest Proposal on Method written by Russell T. McCutcheon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Modest Proposal on Method further documents methodological and institutional failings in the academic study of religion. This collection of essays—which includes three previously unpublished chapters—identifies the manner in which old problems (like the presumption that our object of study is a special, deeply meaningful case) yet remain in the field. But amidst the critique there are a variety of practical suggestions for how the science of religion can become methodologically even-handed and self-reflexive—the markings of a historically rigorous exercise. Each chapter is introduced and contextualized by a newly written, substantive introduction.

Author : Mortimer Dormer Leggett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dream of a Modest Prophet written by Mortimer Dormer Leggett and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher West
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780852446003
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology of the Body Explained written by Christopher West and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher West makes John Paul II's theology of the body available for the first time to people at all levels within the Christian community. Love, sexuality, and human flourishing are inseparable. Those who doubted this will find West's book a transforming experience, and those who have been wounded will find liberation and peace. A wonderful education on the meaning of being human. Christopher West teaches the theology of the body and sexual ethics at St John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver. He is also visiting faculty member of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Melbourne, Australia.

Author : Daniel Franklin Pilario
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042915657
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Back to the Rough Grounds of Praxis written by Daniel Franklin Pilario and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is 'praxis'? How do we study theology from its perspective?" These are the main questions which this book seeks to answer. As 'propaedeutic' to theological reflection, it surveys the notion of 'praxis' in the philosophical, sociological and anthropological traditions - from Aristotle and Marx to contemporary theories. It argues that Pierre Bourdieu's 'theory of practice' achieves a critical synthesis of these different traditions making it a viable theological dialogue-partner. Bourdieu provides us with a praxeological theory to scrutinize the complexity of the social realm and an epistemological theory to understand the mystery of God's presence in these socio-historical conjunctures which serve as the privileged and only locus of His/Her revelation. The author thus engages two theologians who take 'praxis/practice' as central to their theological methods: Clodovis Boff (liberation theology) and John Milbank (radical orthodoxy). From the perspective of its appropriated framework, this work attempts to avoid the limitations as well as preserves the gains achieved by these two approaches - as it also explores the rudiments of a theological method relevant to our post-Marxist and postmodern-global contexts.

Author : Charles A. Wilson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532643012
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Christic Jesuses: Rules and Warrants for Theology written by Charles A. Wilson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first comprehensive proposal for revisionist theology’s deployment of historical Jesus research, Inventing Christic Jesuses rejects positions that insulate theology from Jesus research. By setting out theological methods, warrants, and rules, in dialogue with an analysis of the Jesus historians of the Third Quest (c. 1980–2010), the study charts a path toward a quested christology positioned between categorical rejection and uncritical acceptance of historical results on Jesus. Volume 1, Method, analyzes the methods and values of historical research on Jesus and identifies the retrojective activity of value production when historians, in conversation with historical sources, invent images of Jesus. Volume 2, Christological Recommendations, gathers potential contributions of Jesus research for revisionist theology according to the cataphatic, apophatic, and eminent pattern of classical theology. By attending to the limits and opportunities afforded by historical research, both negative and positive, the argument retrieves for theology the complex way that historians shape same and different, association and dissociation in the production of their Jesuses. Then it analyzes how values shape Jesuses in a pervasive Narcissus project to invent a self (and a community) through imaging Jesus. Proposing that the disciplined invention of Jesuses is highly useful for theology, the book ends with recommendations for a quested christology.