Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Catalogue of the Michigan State Library, for the Years 1881-2
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
A Working Conference on the Union of American Methodism, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday February Fifteen, Sixteen, and Seventeen, Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen
Author: John Richard Lindgren FoundationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodism
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
A Guided Science
Author: Jaan ValsinerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351535412
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
That sciences are guided by explicit and implicit ties to their surrounding social world is not new. Jaan Valsiner fills in the wide background of scholarship on the history of science, the recent focus on social studies of sciences, and the cultural and cognitive analyses of knowledge making. The theoretical scheme that he uses to explain the phenomena of social guidance of science comes from his thinking about processes of development in general--his theory of bounded indeterminacy--and on the relations of human beings with their culturally organized environments. Valsiner examines reasons for the slow and nonlinear progress of ideas in psychology as a science at the border of natural and social sciences. Why is that intellectual progress occurs in different countries at different times? Most responses are self-serving blinders for presenting science as a given rather than understanding it as a deeply human experience. For Valsiner, scientific knowledge is cultural at its core. Major changes have occurred in contemporary sciences--collective authorship, fragmentation of knowledge into small, quickly published (and equally quickly retractable) journal articles, and the counting of numbers of such articles by institutions as if that is a measure of "scientific productivity." Scientists are inherently ambivalent about the benefit of these changes for the actual development of knowledge. There is a gradual "takeover" of the domain of scientific knowledge creation by other social institutions with vested interests in defending and promoting knowledge that serves their social interests. Sciences are entering into a new form of social servitude.
In Discordance with the Scriptures
Author: Peter Johannes ThuesenPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019515228X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The story of the translation of the Bible in America begins with the King James Version. In fact, many Americans thought of the KJV as the foundational text of the Republic, rather than a cultural inheritance from Anglican Britain. In the nineteenth century, however, as new editions of the Greek New Testament appeared, scholars increasingly recognized significant errors and inconsistencies in the KJV. This soon 1ed to the Bible revision movement, whose goal was the uniting of all English-speaking Protestants behind one new, improved version of the Bible. Ironically, as Peter Thuesen shows in this fascinating history, the revision movement in fact resulted in a vast proliferation of English scripture editions and an enduring polarization of American Christians over versions of Holy Writ. The recurrent controversies over Bible translations, he argues, tell us less about the linguistic issues dividing conservatives and liberals than about the theological assumptions they have long held in common.
A Working Conference on the Union of American Methodism
Author: John Richard Lindgren FoundationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Schleiermacher's Influences on American Thought and Religious Life, 1835-1920
Author: Jeffrey A. WilcoxPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1606080059
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
Here freshly researched, unprecedented stories regarding modern American thought and religious life show how the scholar Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) provides ongoing influence still. They describe his influence on universal rights, American religious life, theology, philosophy, history, psychology, interpretation of texts, community formation, and interpersonal dialogue. Schleiermacher is an Einstein-like innovator in all these areas and more. This work contrasts chiefly "evangelical liberal" figures with others (between circa 1835 and the 1920s). It also looks ahead to several careers extended well into the twentieth century and offers numerous characterizations of Schleiermacher's thought. In six tightly organized parts, fourteen expert historians chronologically discuss the following: (1) Methodist leaders (1766-1924); (2) Stuart, Bushnell, Nevin, and Hodge; (3) Restorationists, Transcendentalists, women leaders, Schaff, and Rauschenbusch; (4) Clarke, Mullins, Carus, and Bowne; (5) Dewey, Royce, Ames, Knudson, Brown, Fosdick, Cross, Jones, and Thurman--within contemporary contexts. Unexpectedly, John Dewey lies at the epicenter of the narrative, and Harry Emerson Fosdick and Howard Thurman bring it to its climax. Recently, evidence displays a broadening influence advancing rapidly. The sixth part of the book surveys modern historiography, Schleiermacher on history and comparative method and on psychology as a basic scientific and philosophical field. That section also provides a critical survey of histories of modern theology and offers concluding questions and answers. The three editors contribute twenty of the thirty-one chapters.
Literature of Theology
Author: John Fletcher HurstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Catalogue of the Reference Library
Author: Birmingham Free Libraries. Reference DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1638
Book Description
The Delta Upsilon Quinquennial Catalogue
Author: Delta Upsilon FraternityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek letter societies
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Health and Medicine in the Methodist Tradition
Author: E. Brooks HolifieldPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532675623
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
As E. Brooks Holifield notes in his introduction, "John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement, would have relished the opportunity to write this volume. He recognized the power of religious traditions, and he thought that issues of health and medicine were profoundly interwoven into the texture of religious faith. All ten themes that have concerned [this series] - healing and well-being, suffering and madness, passages and sexuality, dying and caring, morality and dignity - were among the topics that Wesley believed should interest Christians." In the attempt to show how a Wesleyan understanding of theology might inform a modern Methodist sensibility, the author has structured his treatment of Health and Medicine in the Methodist Tradition around the polarities of health and healing, holiness and happiness, penalty and promise, love and law, restraint and responsibility, and possibility and limit. These are not to be construed as opposites or as mutually exclusive extremes. Each member of each pair both checks and enriches the other. They provide a way of establishing boundaries; they mark the way of a journey - "the way of salvation," or the way of love.