Author: John Warner BarberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emblems, Religious
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Christian Similitudes: Being a Series of Emblematic Engravings, with Written Explanations, Miscellaneous Observations, and Religious Reflections, Designed to Illustrate Divine Truth, in Accordance with the Cardinal Principles of Christianity ...
Author: John Warner BarberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emblems, Religious
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Christian Similitudes: Being a Series of emblematic Engravings
Author: John W. BarberPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375255858X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Dissimilar Similitudes
Author: Caroline Walker BynumPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1942130716
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objects Between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, European Christians used a plethora of objects in worship, not only prayer books, statues, and paintings but also pieces of natural materials, such as stones and earth, considered to carry holiness, dolls representing Jesus and Mary, and even bits of consecrated bread and wine thought to be miraculously preserved flesh and blood. Theologians and ordinary worshippers alike explained, utilized, justified, and warned against some of these objects, which could carry with them both anti-Semitic charges and the glorious promise of heaven. Their proliferation and the reaction against them form a crucial background to the European-wide movements we know today as “reformations” (both Protestant and Catholic). In a set of independent but interrelated essays, Caroline Bynum considers some examples of such holy things, among them beds for the baby Jesus, the headdresses of medieval nuns, and the footprints of Christ carried home from the Holy Land by pilgrims in patterns cut to their shape or their measurement in lengths of string. Building on and going beyond her well-received work on the history of materiality, Bynum makes two arguments, one substantive, the other methodological. First, she demonstrates that the objects themselves communicate a paradox of dissimilar similitude—that is, that in their very details they both image the glory of heaven and make clear that that heaven is beyond any representation in earthly things. Second, she uses the theme of likeness and unlikeness to interrogate current practices of comparative history. Suggesting that contemporary students of religion, art, and culture should avoid comparing things that merely “look alike,” she proposes that humanists turn instead to comparing across cultures the disparate and perhaps visually dissimilar objects in which worshippers as well as theorists locate the “other” that gives religion enduring power.
Christ and Community
Author: Thomas SlaterPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1850759391
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Slater presents a study of the three major christological images of Revelation and their meanings for the original audience. Employing both historical criticism and elements of sociology of knowledge, Christ and Community explores the social functions of 'one like a son of man', the Lamb, and the Divine Warrior, identifying both similarities and dissimilarities. The study argues, on the one hand, that the religious laxity found in Revelation 2-3 reflects attempts by some Christians to accommodate to provincial social pressures, while, on the other hand, Revelation 4-19 reflect the low status of Christians in the cities of Asia Minor.
Christian Science Against Itself
Author: Miram W GiffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha
Author: James R. DavilaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004137521
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This book analyzes a substantial corpus of Old Testament pseudepigrapha, proposing a methodology for understanding them first in the social context of their earliest (Christian) manuscripts and inferring still earlier Jewish or other origins only as required by positive evidence.
Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Additional Volume
Author: Allan MenziesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
The Method and Message of Jesus' Teachings
Author: Robert H. SteinPublisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664255138
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This useful and practical book provides the college student, seminarian, church study group, and interested lay person with a much-needed introductory guide on the "how" (method) and the "what" (message) of Jesus' teachings. In this revised edition, Robert Stein updates his classic work, adds a new bibliography, and introduces use of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, bringing this important text to a new generation of students.
Biblical Interpretation in Early Christian Gospels Volume 1
Author: Thomas R. HatinaPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567381420
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This collection of essays is the second volume in a projected series of five volumes that gather together recent research by leading scholars on the narrative function of embedded Jewish scripture texts (quotations or allusions) in early Christian Gospels. While the contributors employ a diverse range of methods, their research is directed towards considering the function of embedded scripture texts in the context of the Gospels as self-contained narratives written and read/heard in their early Christian settings. The essays are arranged according to their appropriate methodological categories.
Biblical Interpretation in Early Christian Gospels Volume 1
Author: Thomas HatinaPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567080676
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This collection of essays is the second volume in a projected series of five volumes that gather together recent research by leading scholars on the narrative function of embedded Jewish scripture texts (quotations or allusions) in early Christian Gospels. While the contributors employ a diverse range of methods, their research is directed towards considering the function of embedded scripture texts in the context of the Gospels as self-contained narratives written and read/heard in their early Christian settings. The essays are arranged according to their appropriate methodological categories.