Include Me Out! is Colin Morris's outspoken attempt to straighten out some of the church's problems. When a man dies of starvation only a few yards from the author's front door, it makes him realize that the whole problem of Christian unity has grown out of all proportion and is of no real importance compared with the problem of the world's starving peoples. He shows how the church has failed to help those most in need and has changed the fight for unity into a fight for survival.
Henry Scott Holland's lines beginning 'Death is nothing at all' are often quoted at funerals. But what evidence is there for the existence of an afterlife at all, let alone one that is 'just round the corner'? Most of the great religions have promises about immortality at the heart of their faith, but religious believers have no monopoly of convictions about any future beyond this earthly life. People who are generations removed from churches, temples, mosques and synagogues and yet hope that death is not the end find comfort and reassurance in some unusual places because our so-called post-religious age is obsessed with the Supernatural. In literature, films and television, society is bombarded with paranormal happenings and stories about 'the truth out there', to quote the motto of that vastly popular TV series, The X Files. Science too is opening up exciting new possibilities - astrophysicists pondering the origins and future of the universe, neurologists searching the brain for evidence of the soul, geneticists examining mechanisms that might postpone death and chemists on the trail of drugs capable of reversing the ageing process. In this witty and perceptive book Colin Morris looks at some of the responses the people of our time are making to the question first put by the prophet Jeremiah: 'What will you do as death approaches?' The answers might range from 'Do nothing, ', through 'Toss a Coin', 'Follow the Book', 'Go into Deep Freeze' to 'Explore another Universe' or 'Claim the Right to be Forgotten.' Amongst other subjects, he looks at the turtle that lives for ever, the Tutankhamun of Torquay, the celebrity that Sun readers voted an angel and questions such as: 'Any signs of life in Lenin's tomb? and 'Would you like to know When?' Given the importance of what is at stake, Colin Morris believes that the deeply held convictions of anybody about immortality, however strange, are worth a moment's thought provided they are not logically absurd or morally degenerate. After all, such beliefs are not just debating points, sooner or later they will be put to the test. As he points out, the unlikeliest things have turned out to be true. Carl Jung said, 'Using subjective assumptions, a false hypothesis and a route abandoned by modern navigation, Christopher Columbus nevertheless discovered America.' Colin Morris is a preacher, broadcaster and writer.
Enriches the concpetual arsenal for interdisciplinary analysis of political, social and cultural change... stimulates more nuanced thinking about the cultural and political legacy of the Reformation era... manages both to clarify tensions surrounding cultural and social integration in the late 20th century while underscoring the real historical complexity of modern bodies' - "American Journal of Sociology " Through an analysis of successive re-formations of the body, this innovative and penetrating book constructs a fascinating and wide-ranging account of how the creation and evolution of different patterns of human community are intimately related to the somatic experience of the sacred. The book places the relationship between the embodiment and the sacred at the crux of social theory, and casts a fresh light on the emergence and transformation of modernity. It critically examines the thesis that the rational projects of modern embodiment have 'died and gone to cyberspace', and suggests that we are witnessing the rise of a virulent, effervescent form of the sacred which is changing how people 'see' and 'keep in touch' with the world around them.
This volume brings together ten essays by Alexandra Walsham dealing with Catholic Reformation in Protestant Britain. It revisits questions about the Catholic experience in England, Wales and Scotland, and situates it in the wider European context of the Counter Reformation to take stock of the current scholarly debate and suggest avenues for future research. Two of the chapters are entirely new, whilst the others are all updated and revised versions of previously published pieces.
How do real individuals live together in real societies in the real world? Jeffrey Alexander's masterful work, The Civil Sphere, addresses this central paradox of modern life. Feelings for others--the solidarity that is ignored or underplayed by theories of power or self-interest--are at the heart of this novel inquiry into the meeting place between normative theories of what we think we should do and empirical studies of who we actually are. A grand and sweeping statement, The Civil Sphere is a major contribution to our thinking about the real but ideal world in which we all reside.
Though they have long been portrayed as arch rivals, Alan Perreiah here argues that humanists and scholastics were in fact working in complementary ways toward some of the same goals. After locating the two traditions within the early modern search for the perfect language, this study re-defines the lines of disagreement between them. For humanists the perfect language was a revived Classical Latin. For scholastics it was a practical logic adapted to the needs of education. Succeeding chapters examine the concepts of linguistic meaning and truth in Lorenzo Valla’s Dialectical Disputations and Juan Luis Vives’ De disciplinis. The third chapter offers a new interpretation of Vives’ Adversus pseudodialecticos as itself an exercise in scholastic sophistry. Against this humanistic background, the study takes up the concepts of meaning and truth in Paul of Venice’s Logica parva, a popular scholastic textbook in the Quattrocento. To advance recent research on language pedagogy in the Renaissance, it clarifies the connections between truth and translation and shows how scholastic logic performed an essential task in the early modern university: it was a translational language that enabled students who spoke mainly their regional vernaculars to learn the language of university discourse. A conclusion reviews some major themes of the study-e.g., linguistic determinism and relativity, vernacularity and translation, semantical vs. epistemic truth-and evaluates the achievements of humanism and scholasticism according to appropriate criteria for a perfect language.
The Earth and Its Peoples was one of the first texts to present world history in a balanced, global framework, shifting the focus away from political centers of power. This truly global text for the world history survey course employs a fundamental theme, the interaction of human beings and the environment, to compare different times, places, and societies. Special emphasis is given to technology (in its broadest sense) and how technological development underlies all human activity. Highly acclaimed in their fields of study, the authors bring a wide array of expertise to the program. A combination of strong scholarship and detailed pedagogy gives the book its reputation for rigor and student accessibility. The Fourth Edition features extensive new coverage of world events, including globalization in the new millennium. Coverage of China has also been extensively reorganized and rewritten.
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