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Christian Mysticism

An Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Approaches

By: Dr Kevin Magill,Dr Louise Nelstrop,Mr Bradley B Onishi

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Christian Mysticism

An Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Approaches

By: Dr Kevin Magill,Dr Louise Nelstrop,Mr Bradley B Onishi

This book introduces students to Christian mysticism and modern critical responses to it. Christianity has a rich tradition of mystical theology that first emerged in the writings of the early church fathers, and flourished during the Middle Ages. Today Christian mysticism is increasingly recognised as an important Christian heritage relevant to today's spiritual seekers. The book sets out to provide students and other interested readers with access to the main theoretical approaches to Christian mysticism – including those propounded by William James, Steven Katz, Bernard McGinn, Michael Sells, Denys Turner and Caroline Walker-Bynum. It also explores postmodern re-readings of Christian mysticism by authors such as Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-François Lyotard. The book first introduces students to the main themes that underpin Christian mysticism. It then reflects on how modern critics have understood each of them, demonstrating that stark delineation between the different theoretical approaches eventually collapses under the weight of the complex interaction between experience and knowledge that lies at the heart of Christian mysticism. In doing so, the book presents a deliberate challenge to a strictly perennialist reading of Christian mysticism. Anyone even remotely familiar with Christian mysticism will know that renewed interest in Christian mystical writers has created a huge array of scholarship with which students of mysticism need to familiarise themselves. This book outlines the various modern theoretical approaches in a manner easily accessible to a reader with little or no previous knowledge of this area, and offers a philosophical/theological introduction to Christian mystical writers beyond the patristic period important for the Latin Western Tradition.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409480496

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Christian Education and the Emerging Church

Postmodern Faith Formation

By: Rev. Dr. Wendi Sargeant

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Christian Education and the Emerging Church

Postmodern Faith Formation

By: Rev. Dr. Wendi Sargeant

All signs point to Christian education having lost its theological location and prominence in the life of the Western Protestant church. The Emerging Church movement, as an intentionally postmodern approach to ministry in the contemporary context, may, however, offer insights to reinterpret Christian education. This significant movement in today's church gives Christian education a new interpretive framework that is theologically located at an intersection of doxology and doctrine. In her examination of postmodern faith formation, Wendi Sargeant explores the importance of the Christian worshipping community as the most appropriate setting for Christian education. Practitioners and students will benefit from the ready-to-use teaching and learning matrix, and all those with interest in the formation of faith in themselves and others will draw much from the way Sargeant situates worship as the basis for enhancing Christian formation and ethos.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498204317

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Radical Theology and Emerging Christianity

Deconstruction, Materialism and Religious Practices

By: Dr Katharine Sarah Moody

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Radical Theology and Emerging Christianity

Deconstruction, Materialism and Religious Practices

By: Dr Katharine Sarah Moody

John D. Caputo’s deconstructive theology and Slavoj Žižek’s materialist theology are two radical theologies that explore what it might mean to pass through the death of God and to abandon this experience as specifically Christian. Moody demonstrates how these theologies are transforming everyday religious practices through an examination of the work of Peter Rollins and Kester Brewin, two figures at the radical margins of a contemporary expression of Western religiosity called emerging Christianity. The author uses her analysis of all four figures to argue that deconstructive practices can enable religious communities to become part of a wider materialist collective in which the death of God continues to resonate.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409455912

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Mission From Below

Growing a Kingdom Community

By: Dr. Janet Hodgson

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Mission From Below

Growing a Kingdom Community

By: Dr. Janet Hodgson

A radical and controversial challenge to the top-down leadership models that are so widespread in the church, instead making the case for a new model of people-driven servant leadership, guided by the Holy Spirit towards kingdom growth rather than church growth.

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144

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Sacristy Press

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1910519790

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Legal Flexibility and the Mission of the Church

Dispensation and Economy in Ecclesiastical Law

By: Revd Dr Will Adam

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Legal Flexibility and the Mission of the Church

Dispensation and Economy in Ecclesiastical Law

By: Revd Dr Will Adam

Legal scholars and authorities generally agree that the law should be obeyed and should apply equally to all those subject to it, without favour or discrimination. Yet it is possible to see that in any legal system there will be situations when strict application of the law will produce undesirable results, such as injustice or other consequences not intended by the law as framed. In such circumstances the law may be changed but there may be broad policy reasons not to do so. The allied concepts of dispensation and economy grew up in the western and eastern traditions of the Christian church as mechanisms whereby an individual or a class of people could, by authority, be excused from obligations under a particular law in particular circumstances without that law being changed. This book uncovers and explores this neglected area of church life and law. Will Adam argues that dispensing power and authority exist in various guises in the systems of different churches. Codified and understood in Roman Catholic and Orthodox canon law, this arouses suspicion in the Church of England and in English law in general. The book demonstrates that legal flexibility can be found in English law and is integral to the law of the Church, to enable the Church today better to fulfil its mission in the world.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409481638

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Book's by Dr Louise Nelstrop

Christian Mysticism

Christian Mysticism

Christian Education and the Emerging Church

Christian Education and the Emerging Church

Radical Theology and Emerging Christianity

Radical Theology and Emerging Christianity

Mission From Below

Mission From Below

Legal Flexibility and the Mission of the Church

Legal Flexibility and the Mission of the Church

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