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The Flourishing Teacher

Vocational Renewal for a Sacred Profession

By: Christina Bieber Lake

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The Flourishing Teacher

Vocational Renewal for a Sacred Profession

By: Christina Bieber Lake

Drawing on more than twenty years of teaching experience, Christina Bieber Lake helps you rediscover your passion for the teaching profession. Creatively structured around the typical rhythms of the academic calendar, this book offers refreshing and practiced advice about how to flourish in the midst of the teaching life.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830853944

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Prophets of the Posthuman

American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood

By: Christina Bieber Lake

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Prophets of the Posthuman

American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood

By: Christina Bieber Lake

Prophets of the Posthuman provides a fresh and original reading of fictional narratives that raise the question of what it means to be human in the face of rapidly developing bioenhancement technologies. Christina Bieber Lake argues that works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walker Percy, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Marilynne Robinson, Raymond Carver, James Tiptree, Jr., and Margaret Atwood must be reevaluated in light of their contributions to larger ethical questions. Drawing on a wide range of sources in philosophical and theological ethics, Lake claims that these writers share a commitment to maintaining a category of personhood more meaningful than that allowed by utilitarian ethics. Prophets of the Posthuman insists that because technology can never ask whether we should do something that we have the power to do, literature must step into that role. Each of the chapters of this interdisciplinary study sets up a typical ethical scenario regarding human enhancement technology and then illustrates how a work of fiction uniquely speaks to that scenario, exposing a realm of human motivations that might otherwise be overlooked or simplified. Through the vision of the writers she discusses, Lake uncovers a deep critique of the ascendancy of personal autonomy as America’s most cherished value. This ascendancy, coupled with technology’s glamorous promises of happiness, helps to shape a utilitarian view of persons that makes responsible ethical behavior toward one another almost impossible. Prophets of the Posthuman charts the essential role that literature must play in the continuing conversation of what it means to be human in a posthuman world.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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026815869X

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Beyond the Story

American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism

By: Christina Bieber Lake

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Beyond the Story

American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism

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Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism argues that theology is crucial to understanding the power of contemporary American stories. By drawing on the theories of M. M. Bakhtin, Christian personalism, and contemporary phenomenology, Lake argues that literary fiction activates an irreducibly personal intersubjectivity between author, reader, and characters. Stories depend on a dignity-granting valuation of the particular lives of ordinary people, which is best described as an act of love that mirrors the love of the divine. Through original readings of the fiction of Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, Lydia Davis, Toni Morrison, and others, Lake enters into a dialogue with postsecular theory and cognitive literary studies to reveal the limits of sociobiology’s approach to culture. The result is a book that will remind readers how storytelling continually reaffirms the transcendent value of human beings in an inherently personal cosmos. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of theology and literary studies, as well as a broad audience of readers seeking to engage on a deeper level with contemporary literature.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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Prophets of the Posthuman

American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood

By: Christina Bieber Lake

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American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood

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The Flourishing Teacher

Vocational Renewal for a Sacred Profession

By: Christina Bieber Lake

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Beyond the Story

American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism

By: Christina Bieber Lake

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The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor

By: Christina Bieber Lake

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The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor

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The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor argues that O'Connor designed a unique asthetic to defy the Gnostic dualisms that characterize American intellectual and spiritual life. Focusing on stories with artist figures, objets d'art, child protagonists, and embodied images, Lake describes how O'Connor's fiction actively resisted romantic theories of the imagination and religious life by highlighting the epistemological necessity of the body. Ultimately O'Connor challenges the romantic and modern notion of the artist as a fire-stealing Prometheus and replaces it with a notion of the artist as a locally committed craftsman. Drawing upon M. M. Bakhtin's early essays in Art and Answerability and Toward a Philosophy of the Act, Lake illustrates O'Connor's conviction that art deliberately assigns the highest value of transcendental beauty to those beings least valued by the modern world, and challenges us to do the same. The book culminates with an original reading of Parker's Back that shows how in art, as in life, true knowledge comes to us through our own grotesque bodies and those of others. Unafraid of the mystery of being human, art can be the place where we encounter anew the world as more than what the intellect can unravel.

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Mercer University Press

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0865549435

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The Wonders of Creation

Learning Stewardship from Narnia and Middle-Earth

By: Kristen Page

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The Wonders of Creation

Learning Stewardship from Narnia and Middle-Earth

By: Kristen Page

In this insightful exploration of Narnia and Middle-earth, Biologist Kristen Page discovers what we these beloved fictional landscapes might teach us about our real-life landscapes and how to become better stewards of God's good creation.

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InterVarsity Press

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The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor

By: Christina Bieber Lake

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The Flourishing Teacher

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The Flourishing Teacher

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The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor

The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor

The Wonders of Creation

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