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Living on the Edge of the Edge

Letters to a Younger Colleague

By: Ruth Elizabeth Krall,Lisa Schirch, PhD

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Living on the Edge of the Edge

Letters to a Younger Colleague

By: Ruth Elizabeth Krall,Lisa Schirch, PhD

There are several divisive issues that separate Christian from Christian in the current century. One issue is the church’s management of clergy sexual abuses of children, teens and adults. A second is the issue of sexual gender orientation and church membership. Contemporary Christian denominations often intermingle the divisive issue of clergy and religious leader sexual abusiveness with the equally divisive issue of sexual gender orientation. In this book Professors Krall and Schirch disentangle and discuss these two issues. They discuss their personal and their professional opinions about ways in which religious and spiritual teaching communities can avoid the institutional perils of abusive clericalism and divisive denominational management practices. Throughout the book, they apply Anabaptist-Mennonite principles of peace-making in situations of sexual violation. Case studies are provided. A feminist hermeneutic is applied. Each letter-essay is auto-ethnographic in style: the professional and the personal are deliberately blurred inside a framework of narrative and story. Each essay is deeply rooted in its author’s academic interests and in her personal life history. This book can be a text in graduate and undergraduate classrooms. It can also be used in denominational self-study programs.

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428

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FriesenPress

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1525500600

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9781525500602

Guillaume de Machaut

Secretary, Poet, Musician

By: Elizabeth Eva Leach

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Guillaume de Machaut

Secretary, Poet, Musician

By: Elizabeth Eva Leach

At once a royal secretary, a poet, and a composer, Guillaume de Machaut was one of the most protean and creative figures of the late Middle Ages. Rather than focus on a single strand of his remarkable career, Elizabeth Eva Leach gives us a book that encompasses all aspects of his work, illuminating it in a distinctively interdisciplinary light. The author provides a comprehensive picture of Machaut's artistry, reviews the documentary evidence about his life, charts the different agendas pursued by modern scholarly disciplines in their rediscovery and use of specific parts of his output, and delineates Machaut's own poetic and material presentation of his authorial persona. Leach treats Machaut's central poetic themes of hope, fortune, and death, integrating the aspect of Machaut's multimedia art that differentiates him from his contemporaries' treatment of similar thematic issues: music. In restoring the centrality of music in Machaut's poetics, arguing that his words cannot be truly understood or appreciated without the additional layers of meaning created in their musicalization, Leach makes a compelling argument that musico-literary performance occupied a special place in the courts of fourteenth-century France.

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384

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Cornell University Press

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1501704869

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9781501704864

Spousal Violence Among World Christians

Silent Scandal

By: Elizabeth Koepping

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Spousal Violence Among World Christians

Silent Scandal

By: Elizabeth Koepping

This book takes a global approach to violence between husbands and wives in faith contexts. Focusing primarily on Christians, the book uses anthropological, theological and historical methods, which intersect with, and are challenged by, lay and ordained women and men from sixteen countries. Focusing on marital violence, the book explores ways to understand how various churches, their priests, preachers, theologians and members, approach the topic, interpret the texts, and, with often thoughtless complicity, hide from the sin. Drawing on over a decade researching marital violence in Christian contexts across five continents, Elizabeth Koepping, an anthropologist and priest, presents testimonies from abused women, as well as theological and cultural justifications for spousal abuse employed by perpetrators and bystanders. She argues that if violence against the (female) spouse is understood as proper behaviour by manly men towards unruly wives, Christians may set aside the core text 'Men and women are made in the Image of God', enabling and silently colluding in abuse. The book shows that spousal abuse is an ecumenical phenomenon present all over the inhabited world, and therefore in all Christian churches and indeed other faith traditions.

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208

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135008056X

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9781350080560

Shhh, Quiet, Listen

What Do You Hear When You Listen for God?

By: Elizabeth Marie Fortune

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What Do You Hear When You Listen for God?

By: Elizabeth Marie Fortune

Faith is a little girl who wonders about God. Unable to see or hear God herself, Faith asks her mother how she will know God is with her every day. Her mother tells her she must be quiet, listen, and thank God for all she has each day in order to feel Gods presence in her life, and soon Faith begins to learn how easy it is to talk to God. As Faith wakes up the next morning, she remembers to be quiet, listen, and thank God for being with her. After she arrives home from a busy day at school, Faith reminds herself to be quiet, listen, and thank God for being with her at schooland again as she helps cheer her team at a game, visits her grandparents, and gets ready to go to sleep. This story tells the tale of a little girl who learns that all she needs to do to be closer to God is simply be quiet and thank Him and know that He loves her.

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Inspiring Voices

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1462408400

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9781462408405

Society Bride

By: Elizabeth Bevarly

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Society Bride

By: Elizabeth Bevarly

Debutante Renee Riley's getaway weekend at theFinal Destination Ranch had brought the dutiful virginup close and personal with the man of her dreams—six-feet-plus of pure, unbridled sex appeal.But Garrett Fortune was no ordinary cowboy.Renee was sure he could teach a woman allsorts of things. Still, she was a week awayfrom marrying Mr. Wrong—unless shecould lasso Garrett's heart!

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182

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Silhouette

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142687328X

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9781426873287

Dangerous Memories

A Mosaic of Mary in Scripture

By: Elizabeth A. Johnson

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Dangerous Memories

A Mosaic of Mary in Scripture

By: Elizabeth A. Johnson

Elizabeth Johnson takes the 13 gospel appearances of Mary of Nazareth and creates a rich, deep Marian identity from this complex mosaic. Dangerous Memories is taken from her acclaimed Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of Saints (0-8264-1473-7), with the addition of a new introduction and a short annotated bibliography.

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174

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441182489

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9781441182487

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Living on the Edge of the Edge

Living on the Edge of the Edge

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Guillaume de Machaut

Spousal Violence Among World Christians

Spousal Violence Among World Christians

Shhh, Quiet, Listen

Shhh, Quiet, Listen

Society Bride

Society Bride

Dangerous Memories

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