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Knowledge Communities eBook Serie

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  • The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages

    Images, Impact, Cognition

    door Line Cecilie Engh ...
    Serie series Knowledge Communities
    In the Middle Ages everyone, it seems, entered into some form of marriage. Nuns - and even some monks - married the bridegroom Christ. Bishops married their sees. The popes, as vicars of Christ, married the universal Church. And lay people, high and low, married each other. What united these marriages was their common reference to the union of Christ and Church. Christ's marriage to the Church was ... Meer lezen

    58,61 €

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  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    door Giorgio Agamben ...
    Serie series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule?It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. The book ... Meer lezen

    20,02 €

  • The Kingdom and the Glory

    For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government

    door Giorgio Agamben ...
    Vertaald door Lorenzo Chiesa, Matteo Mandarini ...
    Serie series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Why has power in the West assumed the form of an "economy," that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that is, the ceremonial and liturgical apparatus that has always accompanied it?In the early centuries of the Church, in order to reconcile monotheism with God's threefold nature, the doctrine of Trinity was introduced in the guise of ... Meer lezen

    25,47 €

  • Proving Woman

    Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages

    door Dyan Elliott ...
    Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ages female mystics were frequently mistrusted, derided, and in danger of their lives. The witch hunts were just ... Meer lezen

    46,63 €

  • Opus Dei

    An Archaeology of Duty

    door Giorgio Agamben ...
    Vertaald door Adam Kotsko ...
    Serie series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy. Beginning with the New Testament and working through to late scholasticism and modern papal encyclicals, Agamben traces the Church's attempts to repeat Christ's unrepeatable sacrifice. Crucial here is the paradoxical ... Meer lezen

    20,02 €

  • Discerning Spirits

    Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages

    door Nancy Mandeville Caciola ...
    Serie series Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
    Trance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting, and other physical manifestations were often regarded as signs that a person was seized by spirits. In a book that sets out the prehistory of the early modern European witch craze, Nancy Caciola shows how medieval people decided whom to venerate as a saint infused with the spirit of God and whom to avoid as a demoniac possessed of an unclean spirit ... Meer lezen

    25,43 €

  • Iustitia Dei

    A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification

    door Alister E. McGrath ...
    The Christian doctrine of justification is of immense interest to historians and theologians ,and continues to be of major importance in modern ecumenical discussions. The present work appeared in its first edition in 1986, and rapidly became the leading reference work on the subject. Its many acclaimed features include a detailed assessment of the semantic background of the concept in the Ancient ... Meer lezen

    55,67 €

  • The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336

    door Caroline Walker Bynum ...
    Serie series American Lectures on the History of Religions
    A classic of medieval studies, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 traces ideas of death and resurrection in early and medieval Christianity. Caroline Walker Bynum explores problems of the body and identity in devotional and theological literature, suggesting that medieval attitudes toward the body still shape modern notions of the individual. This expanded edition ... Meer lezen

    26,28 €

  • The Disputed Teachings of Vatican II

    Continuity and Reversal in Catholic Doctrine

    door Thomas G. Guarino ...
    The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) radically shook up many centuries of tradition in the Roman Catholic Church. This book by Thomas Guarino, a noted expert on the sources and methods of Catholic doctrine, investigates whether Vatican II's highly contested teachings on religious freedom, ecumenism, and the Virgin Mary represented a harmonious development of—or a rupture with—Catholic tradition ... Meer lezen

    37,56 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • The Reception of Vatican II

    Bewerkt door Matthew L. Lamb, Matthew Levering ...
    From 1962 to 1965, in perhaps the most important religious event of the twentieth century, the Second Vatican Council met to plot a course for the future of the Roman Catholic Church. After thousands of speeches, resolutions, and votes, the Council issued sixteen official documents on topics ranging from divine revelation to relations with non-Christians. But the meaning of the Second Vatican ... Meer lezen

    29,11 €

  • Sensus Fidelium and Moral Theology, The

    Readings in Moral Theology No. 18

    Bewerkt door Charles E. Curran, Lisa A. Fullam ...
    Presents points of view on the sensus fidelium from a wide range of theologians and pastors and makes an outstanding contribution by widening its application to ethical and not only doctrinal issues. ... Meer lezen

    25,44 €

  • Abelard and Heloise

    door Constant J. Mews ...
    Serie series Great Medieval Thinkers
    Constant J. Mews offers an intellectual biography of two of the best known personalities of the twelfth century. Peter Abelard was a controversial logician at the cathedral school of Notre-Dame in Paris when he first met Heloise, who was the brilliant and outspoken niece of a cathedral canon and who was then engaged in the study of philosophy. After an intense love affair and the birth of a child, ... Meer lezen

    51,85 €