Author: Joseph D'Arcy SirrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Sacrifices: past, present, and future
Author: Joseph D'Arcy SirrDiversity of Sacrifice
Author: Carrie Ann MurrayPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438459963
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The term "sacrifice" belies what is a complex and varied transhistorical and transcultural phenomenon. Bringing together scholars from such diverse fields as anthropology, archaeology, epigraphy, literature, and theology, Diversity of Sacrifice explores sacrificial practices across a range of contexts from prehistory to the present. Incorporating theory, material culture, and textual evidence, the volume seeks to consider new and divergent data related to contexts of sacrifice that can help broaden our field of vision while raising new questions. The essays contributed here move beyond reductive and simple explanations to explore complex areas of social interaction. Sacrifice plays a key role in the overlapping sacred and secular spheres for a number of societies in the past and present. How religious beliefs and practices can be integral parts of life on individual and community levels is of fundamental importance to understanding the past and present. In addition to aiding scholarly research, Diversity of Sacrifice enables students to explore this rich theme across Europe and the Mediterranean with clear discussions of theory and data.
Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel
Author: Heath D. DewrellPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 1646022017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Among the many religious acts condemned in the Hebrew Bible, child sacrifice stands out as particularly horrifying. The idea that any group of people would willingly sacrifice their own children to their god(s) is so contrary to modern moral sensibilities that it is difficult to imagine that such a practice could have ever existed. Nonetheless, the existence of biblical condemnation of these rites attests to the fact that some ancient Israelites in fact did sacrifice their children. Indeed, a close reading of the evidence—biblical, archaeological, epigraphic, etc.—indicates that there are at least three different types of Israelite child sacrifice, each with its own history, purpose, and function. In addition to examining the historical reality of Israelite child sacrifice, Dewrell’s study also explores the biblical rhetoric condemning the practice. While nearly every tradition preserved in the Hebrew Bible rejects child sacrifice as abominable to Yahweh, the rhetorical strategies employed by the biblical writers vary to a surprising degree. Thus, even in arguing against the practice of child sacrifice, the biblical writers themselves often disagreed concerning why Yahweh condemned the rites and why they came to exist in the first place.
Catholic Theological Ethics, Past, Present, and Future
Author: James F. KeenanPublisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1570759413
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
Theological ethicists confront key questions and issues from around the globe to provide a 'state of the art' volume in 21st-century moral theology.
King of Sacrifice
Author: Sarah HitchPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Descriptions of animal sacrifice in Homer offer detailed accounts of this attempt at communication between man and gods. Hitch explores the structural and thematic importance of animal sacrifice as an expression of the quarrel between Akhilleus and Agamemnon through the differing perspectives of the primary narrative and character speech.
Cracking the Twin Global Reset Code
Author: Philip R. HerronPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
CRACKING THE TWIN GLOBAL RESET CODE This book reveals how the process of Cracking the Twin Global Reset Code Led to discovering several other SECRET CODES. Those codes reveal Hidden aspects of The end times. These codes were THE PANDEMIC CODE, THE ANGEL OF DEATH CODE, THE GREAT FAMILY REUNION CODE. WILL THESE CODES TIE COMING END TIMES TO OUR GENERATION
Sacrifice Unveiled
Author: Robert J. DalyPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567034216
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Offers a new understaning of sacrifice as a response to love and an entering into the self-giving life of God
Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos
Author: Kay Almere ReadPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253113917
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.
The Transonic Sacrifice
Author: Glen C. CutlipPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796094536
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
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Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice
Author: William MageePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atonement
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description