Atf press dez 2008 (4 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - For many decades, Sr Veronica Brady, IBVM, has been a gadfly to political and ecclesiastical princes and their entourages. For those parched for relief from straitening patterns of thinking and self-absorbed myopia she has been a refreshing breeze, bringing hope to the heart and vision to the imagination. This book brings together a selection of her addresses that dare to suggest that there is a mystery beckoning us into something new, that is not satisfied with the way things are and that dares to believe that novels and poetry bear witness to this ministry. She calls this mystery - God - not with any confident triumphalism but as an other (who speaks through others) that subverts such a corrosive vice seeping through contemporary society. For her, God leads to other places, even to that which is not God. So from Marcus Clarke to Judith Wright, from Primo Levi to Kim Scott, she drinks in the refreshment of new possibilities which sacred texts have often lost under a pall of imperial conventionality. She discovers in these early and contemporary writers a way into the potential of - The God Shaped Hole - where is found the call and narrative of the necessity of remembrance, of balm for suffering, and pathway hints into a respect for Aboriginal Australians and the land of their identity. Veronica Brady IBVM is Loreto Sister and Honary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. Her main research interest has been the writings of Patrick White.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The global world is one in which cultures and religions increasingly meet and mix, engage in various ways, and where groups advocate the recognition of their cultural and/or ethnic identity. Enhancing Understanding - Advancing Dialogue: Approaching Cross Cultural Communication aims to facilitate encounters with other cultures and their members by examining how it is approached in the West. The books asks: What are some taken-for-granted assumptions brought into attempts to understand members of other cultures What are some of the basic premises used when we meet someone from another culture, or see their behaviour on TV, or read about their perspectives in the print media While engaging the author's western counterparts rather than cultural interlocutors, the book explores some adverse assumptions which tend to be smuggled into cross cultural understanding, including those from popular views about science and social science, postmodernism, tolerance and neutrality. Enhancing Understanding - Advancing Dialogue argues that a first step to an increasingly sympathetic awareness and understanding of others, their cultures and religions, can be aided by examining and challenging entrenched social claims and values. Rodney Fopp teaches at the University of South Australia, Adelaide.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The book draws on this broad eschatological canvas. It is the fruit of a consultation which brought together scientific and theological thinkers, including Bishop NT Wright, Professor Ted Peters and Professor Robert Russell, to engage on these themes. It is a contribution to public and contextual theologies which address contemporary issue of concern to people in the churches and in wider society.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - How do stories reflect and inform human experience of the world' This book investigates the relationship between Hebrew biblical narrative and the theological problem of theodicy. In the narrative-critical reading offered here, the Esther narrative and its post holocaust and rabbinic re-tellings can be seen as examples of survival literature, around which identity is forged as a matter of ethno-cultural life and death. Treloar argues that Esther is a maverick voice - a private transcript - hidden within the public transcripts of the Canon of scripture, biblical theology, and rabbinic exegesis. Narrative criticism is presented a s a means by which such voices might be better heard, and the violent reductionism of the final solution averted. Richard Treloar has taught hermeneutics, Old Testament and Systematic Theology at Trinity Theological College in Melbourne.…