Category: Religion

By Febe Armanios

During this booklet, Febe Armanios explores Coptic spiritual lifestyles in Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798), focusing heavily on manuscripts housed in Coptic records. Ottoman Copts usually became to non secular discourses, practices, and rituals as they handled a variety of modifications within the first centuries of Ottoman rule. those integrated the institution of a brand new political regime, adjustments inside communal management constructions (favoring lay leaders over clergy), the commercial ascent of the archons (lay elites), and advancements within the Copts' dating with different spiritual groups, relatively with Catholics.
Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt highlights how Copts, as a minority residing in a dominant Islamic tradition, pointed out and unique themselves from different teams via turning to a powerful array of non secular traditions, corresponding to the visitation of saints' shrines, the relocation of significant gala's to distant locations, the improvement of recent pilgrimage practices, in addition to the writing of sermons that articulated a Coptic spiritual ethos in response to Catholic missionary discourses. inside of this dialogue of non secular lifestyles, the Copts' courting to neighborhood political rulers, army elites, the Muslim non secular institution, and to different non-Muslim groups also are elucidated. In all, the ebook goals to rfile the Coptic adventure in the Ottoman Egyptian context whereas concentrating on new documentary assets and on an old period that has been lengthy missed.

By Luca Di Blasi

By Benjamin J. Ribbens

This monograph examines Hebrews knowing of the connection among previous covenant sacrifices and Christ s new covenant sacrifice, specifically because it pertains to the query of efficacy. such a lot students imagine the writer of Hebrews strips the levitical sacrifices of such a lot, if now not all, efficacy, yet this paintings affirms a extra optimistic depiction of the levitical sacrifices. a paranormal apocalyptic culture stands in the back of Hebrews description of the heavenly cult, which establishes the framework for touching on the levitical sacrifice to Christ s sacrifice. The earthly, levitical cult used to be efficacious while it corresponded to or synchronized with the heavenly sacrifice of Christ. nonetheless, the writer of Hebrews develops the suggestion of the heavenly cult in detailed methods, as Christ s sacrifice either validates the earthly perform but in addition, as a result of his new covenant theology, demands its finish. Ribbens daring inspiration joins progressively more students that position Hebrews within the mystical apocalyptic culture, highlights confident statements in Hebrews regarding the efficacy of levitical sacrifices which are frequently ignored, and depends on the heavenly cult to reconcile the optimistic and detrimental descriptions of the levitical cult."

By Edmund Wilson

'The lifeless Sea Scrolls is an unsurpassingly lucid advent to a posh topic. Wilson unravels the interesting story of the way the scrolls first got here into the ownership of scholars within the war-torn Palestine of the overdue forties, the excavation of the useless Sea sect's monastery at Qumran, the following debates the scrolls provoked between theologians and students, and the sunshine those unprecedneted reveals have thrown upon bible study and the lifetime of Christ. As regularly Wilson has compelled no effortless conclusions upon us, yet left us wondering connections and features of enquiry we have now formerly now not considered.'

By Richard H. Schlagel

Technological know-how has had a profound impression in shaping modern views of truth, but few within the public have totally grasped the profound implications of medical discoveries. This ebook describes 3 highbrow revolutions that resulted in the present clinical consensus, emphasizing how technological know-how over the centuries has undermined conventional, spiritual worldviews.

The writer starts in historical Greece, the place the 1st revolution came about. starting within the sixth-century BCE, a sequence of leading edge thinkers rejected the mythology in their tradition and became to rational research and the empirical research of fact. this alteration in pondering, although it lay dormant for the various centuries of Christian hegemony within the West, finally gave upward push to the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and 18th centuries--the moment revolution. Highlighted by way of such luminaries as Kepler, Galileo, and Isaac Newton, the Enlightenment laid the rules for our present knowing of the world.

Today we are living amidst the 3rd clinical revolution, together with Darwin's conception of evolution, Planck's proposal of the quantum, Einstein's relativity theories, Bohr's quantum mechanics, in addition to Watson and Crick's interpreting of the human genome with the chance of enhancing human nature. along with technological wonders, this revolution has additionally supported common recognize for freedom of suggestion, better academic possibilities, and democratic governments.

Looking to the longer term, Schlagel sees many intriguing chances but additionally in all likelihood devastating threats to the surroundings. He underscores the necessity for common clinical literacy, stressing that basically unfettered clinical inquiry bargains a practical wish of overcoming those daunting challenges.

From the exchange Paperback edition.

By Ward Blanton

Nietzsche and Freud observed Christianity as metaphysical escapism, with Nietzsche calling the faith a "Platonism for the masses" and faulting Paul the apostle for negating extra immanent, fabric modes of proposal and political cohesion. Integrating this debate with the philosophies of distinction espoused by way of Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ward Blanton argues that genealogical interventions into the political economies of Western cultural reminiscence don't move a ways adequate with regards to the imagined founding father of Christianity.

Blanton demanding situations the belief of Paulinism as a pop Platonic worldview or type of social regulate. He finds in Pauline legacies another way repressed assets for brand spanking new materialist spiritualities and new different types of radical political harmony, releasing "religion" from inherited interpretive assumptions so philosophical notion can take place in dicy, radical freedom.

By Arthur Darby Nock

Initially released in 1933, Conversion is a seminal research of the psychology and conditions of conversion from approximately 500 B.C.E. to approximately four hundred A.D. A.D. Nock not just discusses early Christianity and its converts, but in addition examines non-Christian religions and philosophy, the capacity through which they attracted adherents, and the standards influencing and restricting their good fortune. Christianity succeeded, he argues, partially since it bought and tailored these components of different philosophies and religions that had a well-liked appeal.

By Bernd Ulrich Schipper

By Henri Crouzel

By David P. Jackson

This e-book is the one exact description of the recommendations and ideas of the sacred artwork of Tibetan scroll portray.