Author : Carl A. Raschke
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664255022
Asserts the religious equality of men and women woven throughout both the Jewish and Christian traditions
Author : Rachel Adler
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 1999-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807036198
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for 1998. How can women's full participation transform Jewish law, prayer, sexuality, and marriage? What does it mean to "engender" Jewish tradition? Pioneering theologian Rachel Adler gives this timely and powerful question its first thorough study in a book that bristles with humor, passion, intelligence, and deep knowledge of traditional biblical and rabbinic texts.
Author : William C. Chittick
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791498964
The Self-Disclosure of God offers the most detailed presentation to date in any Western language of the basic teachings of Islam's greatest mystical philosopher and theologian. It represents a major step forward in making available to the Western reading public the enormous riches of Islamic teachings in the fields of cosmology, mystical philosophy, theology, and spirituality. The Self-Disclosure of God continues the author's investigations of the world view of Ibn al-ʿArabī, the greatest theoretician of Sufism and the "seal of the Muhammadan saints." The book is divided into three parts, dealing with the relation between God and the cosmos, the structure of the cosmos, and the nature of the human soul. A long introduction orients the reader and discusses a few of the difficulties faced by Ibn al-ʿArabī's interpreters. Like Chittick's earlier work, The Sufi Path of Knowledge, this book is based primarily on Ibn al-ʿArabī's monumental work, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkīyah "The Meccan Openings." More than one hundred complete chapters and subsections are translated, not to mention shorter passages that help put the longer discussions in context. There are detailed indices of sources, Koranic verses and hadiths. The book's index of technical terminology will be an indispensable reference for all those wishing to delve more deeply into the use of language in Islamic thought in general and Sufism in particular.
Author : William Lad Sessions
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Faith
ISBN : 9780801428739
Faith lies at the heart of human life, and not just in religious contexts. But just what is faith? In this book William Lad Sessions ventures a new approach to this age-old problem. Viewing it in global terms, he provides an effective and insightful set of analytical tools for deepening our understanding of the ideas of belief.
Author : Mohammed Rustom
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438494300
Inrushes of the Heart delves deeply into the life and thought of 'Ayn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī (d. 525/1131), a major Muslim philosopher, Sufi master, and religious judge who was executed by the Seljuq government at the age of thirty-four. Mohammed Rustom presents nearly eight hundred passages in translation (most of which appear here for the first time in English) from 'Ayn al-Quḍāt's Arabic and Persian writings alongside a step-by-step commentary that outlines every major theme that guides his worldview. Contextualizing 'Ayn al-Quḍāt's life, influence, and self-perception as a teacher and scholar extraordinaire, the book then carefully unpacks his highly original teachings on God, cosmology, human agency, spiritual practice, imagination, death, knowledge, scripture, beauty, and love.
Author : Adela Yarbro Collins
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,64 MB
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802807720
This book traces the history of the idea that the king and later the messiah is Son of God, from its origins in ancient Near Eastern royal ideology to its Christian appropriation in the New Testament. Both highly regarded scholars, Adela Yarbro Collins and John J. Collins argue that Jesus was called "the Son of God" precisely because he was believed to be the messianic king. This belief and tradition, they contend, led to the identification of Jesus as preexistent, personified Wisdom, or a heavenly being in the New Testament canon. However, the titles Jesus is given are historical titles tracing back to Egyptian New Kingdom ideology. Therefore the title "Son of God" is likely solely messianic and not literal. King and Messiah as Son of God is distinctive in its range, spanning both Testaments and informed by ancient Near Eastern literature and Jewish noncanonical literature.
Author : Christopher D. Rodkey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3319965956
The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology is the definitive guide to radical theology and the commencement for new directions in that field. For the first time, radical theology is addressed and assessed in a single, comprehensive volume, including introductory and historical essays for the beginner, essays on major figures and their thought, and shorter articles on various themes, concepts, and related topics. This book is a seminal work for the radical theology movement. It clarifies origins and demonstrates the exigency and utility of current figures and issues. A useful and essential guide for newcomers and veterans in the field, this volume serves as both a reference work and an introduction to omitted or forgotten topics within contemporary discussions.
Author : George Edwin Burnell
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Christian Science
ISBN :
Author : Asma Barlas
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0292782888
Does Islam call for the oppression of women? Non-Muslims point to the subjugation of women that occurs in many Muslim countries, especially those that claim to be "Islamic," while many Muslims read the Qur'an in ways that seem to justify sexual oppression, inequality, and patriarchy. Taking a wholly different view, Asma Barlas develops a believer's reading of the Qur'an that demonstrates the radically egalitarian and antipatriarchal nature of its teachings. Beginning with a historical analysis of religious authority and knowledge, Barlas shows how Muslims came to read inequality and patriarchy into the Qur'an to justify existing religious and social structures and demonstrates that the patriarchal meanings ascribed to the Qur'an are a function of who has read it, how, and in what contexts. She goes on to reread the Qur'an's position on a variety of issues in order to argue that its teachings do not support patriarchy. To the contrary, Barlas convincingly asserts that the Qur'an affirms the complete equality of the sexes, thereby offering an opportunity to theorize radical sexual equality from within the framework of its teachings. This new view takes readers into the heart of Islamic teachings on women, gender, and patriarchy, allowing them to understand Islam through its most sacred scripture, rather than through Muslim cultural practices or Western media stereotypes.
Author : Richard La Rue Swain
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul" by Richard La Rue Swain was written to answer some of the most important and nagging questions humans face which have often caused men and women to suffer from uncertainty. Starting with an examination of how religion can, in some cases, push people toward atheism, the book then goes on to look at the question of God and belief from a scientific perspective before delving into some of man's unanswered questions.
