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Images for Self-Recognition

The Christian as Player, Sufferer, and Vandal

By: David Baily Harned

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Images for Self-Recognition

The Christian as Player, Sufferer, and Vandal

By: David Baily Harned

With clear purpose and remarkable style, David Baily Harned writes about our identity as an imaginative act of mind and spirit. In this important theological work, Harned shows that the “master images” of self as player, sufferer, and vandal are fundamental ways of understanding who we are and what we might be in our lifetime. The book points out that conflicting images of ourselves often develop out of our social relationships and our bodily experiences. Some images are more important than others, and it is these “master images” that express what is most fundamental to our self-understanding. The extent to which the master images are recognized by us and allowed to subdue lesser images determines our stability and wholeness as persons. Recognition of God’s presence, especially as it is disclosed to us in hearing and sensing, is the primary way to growth in wisdom, character, and virtue.

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1532692064

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Faith and Virtue

By: David Baily Harned

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Faith and Virtue

By: David Baily Harned

Faith and Virtue starts with the traditional metaphor and departs dramatically from tradition: ‘Faith and hope and love are not some late and miraculous addition to existence, comforting and exhilarating but finally gratuitous. They are the indispensable foundation for everything else.’ Professor Harned insists that the clue to moral life is vision, for among all the senses it is the eye that serves as the architect of our decisions. In its emphasis on the importance of imagination and oon the integral relationship between the moral and aesthetic aspects of existence, Faith and Virtue provides a salutary remedy for our too often manipulative and instrumental approach to the world and its citizens. In an earlier book, Grace and common Life, the author traced some intimations of grace in ordinary experience, times when the self is surprised by gifts that it could neither expect nor deserve. Now, he examines the effects of grace. In this exploration of the moral life, he argues that the metaphor is no less important now than it used to be, for its consistent focus on the problem of time and the emergency of habit can remind a world which has lost its sense of rhythm that there is more to reality than the present moment, greater rewards than instant gratification, higher values than relevance to the contemporary scene. Virtue cannot be satisfactorily examined without reference to the Church. While virtue is not an exclusive Christian attribute, it would be puzzling to refer to Christian virtue without any reference to a Christian context, since virtues are born from our social experience. This has been the greatest flaw in earlier studies of the metaphor. The old notion, that the theological virtues crown the natural, should be stood on its head, writes the author. He acknowledges the Christian origin of natural theology.

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1532692404

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Mrs. Gandhi's Guest

Growing Up with India

By: David Baily Harned

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Mrs. Gandhi's Guest

Growing Up with India

By: David Baily Harned

About the Contributor(s): David Baily Harned (PhD, Yale Graduate School) is a retired professor of religious studies who remains active as a classroom teacher and a scholarly writer. He taught at Williams, Smith, and Allegheny Colleges, and served a five-year term as president at Allegheny College. His longer terms of service were seven years as the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Louisiana State University and ten years as the founding chairman of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. Elaine H. Harned is David's wife.

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1625647336

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Patience

How We Wait Upon the World

By: David Baily Harned

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Patience

How We Wait Upon the World

By: David Baily Harned

In this book, David Baily Harned makes a persuasive case for the significance of patience as an essential ingredient of the moral life. In a bold and invigorating manner, the author addresses contemporary existence--the lives of individuals, families, communities, and nations--and demonstrates how the Christian vision informs our efforts to live in a chaotic and violent world as faithful, hopeful, loving children of God. This essay in theological ethics is rooted in classic texts: the Old and New Testaments, as well as the writings of Augustine, Gregory I, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas a Kempis, John Calvin, Soren Kierkegaard, and W. H. Vanstone. In graceful prose and through careful analysis, David Harned both inspires and instructs. This new edition also includes an afterword by one of his former students who explores the value of this study by applying its insights to the life and leadership of George Washington.

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1498217583

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Creed and Personal Identity

The Meaning of the Apostles' Creed

By: David Baily Harned

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Creed and Personal Identity

The Meaning of the Apostles' Creed

By: David Baily Harned

In eight chapters, David Harned explores the theology of the Apostles’ Creed, taking the position that the creed, in fact, provides us with a master image for self-understanding, and that controlling image is “child of God.” The creed is seen as being important for personality formation and the development of “character,” rather than as either a statement of beliefs or a loyalty oath. Harned’s ninth and final chapter is intended for those who wish to pursue further the question of master imagery for the formation of a Christian Sense of Identity.

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1532692358

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Theology and the Arts

By: David Baily Harned

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Theology and the Arts

By: David Baily Harned

This treatise on the importance of what the artist does--especially the man of letters--examines recent Christian appraisals of the creative enterprise and argues that Protestant interpretations of culture today are marred by their departure from Biblical faith in God as Creator. Today, theologians find themselves writing more and more about painting, music, poetry, drama, and the novel. Many are convinced that no definition of man or interpretation of his condition is adequate if it ignores man as a creator. Some Christian writers have been content to explore the possibilities of new dialogue between religion and the arts. Others have sought to develop a theology of art--a systematic interpretation of what artists are doing, why they are doing it, and what it means in the context of the Christian story about nature, man, and God. In doing so, they have used either the image of creation, the cross, or consummation as their point of departure for an interpretation of the artist's venture. Dr. Harned examines the merits and problems involved in the use of each image for the appraisal of the human enterprise and contends that consummation must use the doctrine of God as Creator in order to be useful to contemporary Christianity. He emphasizes the need for Protestantism to recover the idea of "the natural" and defines it in a way congruent with the theology of the Reformers. Here are insightful answers for all who want to understand the importance of the arts, why theologians are concerned with literature and painting, and how that concern has been expressed.

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1625648065

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Grace and Common Life

By: David Baily Harned

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Grace and Common Life

By: David Baily Harned

This book consists of lectures originally written for a seminar on secularization and later revised and presented at a center for the study of world religions in North India. The central theme which Professor Harned explores is one shared by different traditions, namely, grace and the view of man as a player, i.e. engaging in the activity of play. The book aims to show how the Christian faith among others relies upon ordinary experience, especially family life and playing. Grace, which is available to all and is defined as the presence and activity of the divine among men, is bound up with imagination and creativity.

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1532692439

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Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century

By: David Hein

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Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century

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Hein skillfully provides regional, religious, and historical contexts for Powell's life and furnishes penetrating insights into the man and the entire Episcopal establishment of this era. [The author] resourcefully combines secondary scholarship, personal conversations and communications, and conventional primary documents to capture Powell's personality, career, and relationships.... Anyone with a serious interest in American religious history will find this compelling biography to be both informative and thought provoking. -- Samuel C. Shepherd Jr., Journal of Southern History Hein's wide knowledge of the sociocultural forces at work in the mid-twentieth century, and especially the forces that generated the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, have enabled him to illuminate an entire period of Episcopal Church history through the life and work of one man. . . . Hein's gracious style, judicious insights, and especially his striking ability to penetrate the subtleties of southern religion in brief and trenchant observations make this book a pleasure to read. -- Susan J. White, Anglican and Episcopal History [A] painstaking, thoughtful biography. . . . To this story Hein ... brings balance, sensitivity, and exhaustive research. As 'the last bishop of the old church,' Noble Powell will be remembered longer than many of his predecessors. -- James Bready, Baltimore Sun [This] biography . . . is meticulously researched, full of primary source material and rich documentation. [It] is fun to read for anyone with an interest in American Protestant history. -- David E. Sumner, Journal of American History

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Images for Self-Recognition

The Christian as Player, Sufferer, and Vandal

By: David Baily Harned

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The Christian as Player, Sufferer, and Vandal

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God Through the Looking Glass

Glimpses from the Arts

By: William David Spencer,Aída Besançon Spencer

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Glimpses from the Arts

By: William David Spencer,Aída Besançon Spencer

An accessible introduction enabling Christians to approach the arts with enjoyment and discernment.

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0801057698

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David Bailey

Chasing Rainbows

By: Robin Muir,David Bailey

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Chasing Rainbows

By: Robin Muir,David Bailey

While photographer Bailey has a large variety of work to his credit, this book focuses on his beauty images that represent the often fleeting face of the moment. 110 photos.

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Images for Self-Recognition

Images for Self-Recognition

Faith and Virtue

Faith and Virtue

Mrs. Gandhi's Guest

Mrs. Gandhi's Guest

Patience

Patience

Creed and Personal Identity

Creed and Personal Identity

Theology and the Arts

Theology and the Arts

Grace and Common Life

Grace and Common Life

Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century

Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century

Images for Self-Recognition

Images for Self-Recognition

God Through the Looking Glass

God Through the Looking Glass

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