wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Mending a Tattered Faith: Devotions with Dickinson
ISBN: 9781608995103 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Description: Although Emily Dickinson is sometimes seen as a religious skeptic, she never gave up on God, struggling with issues of faith and doubt throughout her life. Many of her poems depict such struggles, sometimes with humor and sometimes with despair. Reading and reflecting on these poems can be a powerful way to listen to and experience God through the arts. Mending a Tattered Faith presents, first, an accessible introduction to the mysteries of Dickinson's life and poetry, considering her relationships to her family and the church, the significant poetic strategies she employed, and...
Description: Although Emily Dickinson is sometimes seen as a religious skeptic, she never gave up on God, struggling with issues of faith and doubt th...
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82,79 zł |
Reading a Different Story: A Christian Scholar's Journey from America to Africa
ISBN: 9780801039942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Christianity's demographics, vitality, and influence have tipped markedly toward the global South and East. Addressing this seismic shift, a noted Christian literary scholar recounts how her focus has shifted from American to African literature.
Susan VanZanten began her career working on nineteenth-century American literature. A combination of personal circumstances, curricular demands, world events, and unfolding scholarship have led her to teach, research, and write about African literature and to advocate for a global approach to education and scholarship. This is the second book in... Christianity's demographics, vitality, and influence have tipped markedly toward the global South and East. Addressing this seismic shift, a noted Chr...
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97,56 zł |
Mending a Tattered Faith
ISBN: 9781498212724 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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Joining the Mission: A Guide for (Mainly) New College Faculty
ISBN: 9780802862631 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Joining the Mission is a helpful guide for new (and experienced) faculty at religious colleges and universities. Susan VanZanten here provides an orientation to the world of Christian higher education and an introduction to the academic profession of teaching, scholarship, and service, with a special emphasis on opportunities and challenges common to -mission-driven- institutions. From designing a syllabus to dealing with problem students, from working with committees to achieving a balanced life, VanZanten's guidebook will help faculty across the disciplines -- Art to Zoology and every...
Joining the Mission is a helpful guide for new (and experienced) faculty at religious colleges and universities. Susan VanZanten here provides an orie...
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121,97 zł |
Postcolonial Literature and the Biblical Call for Justice
ISBN: 9781604730166 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Colonizers imposed Christianity and biblical codes upon their conquered subjects. In the waning of imperialism the newly emerging peoples employed these same biblical codes as their cries for freedom and justice as they drove out their former masters.
This collection of twelve essays exposes this tool of oppression as a tool of justice in works from Latin American, Native American, African, and Middle Eastern authors. Drawing on a variety of theological perspectives, including liberation theology, feminist theology, and the Reformed tradition, the contributors examine works by a number of... Colonizers imposed Christianity and biblical codes upon their conquered subjects. In the waning of imperialism the newly emerging peoples employed the...
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158,81 zł |
Literature and the Renewal of the Public Sphere
ISBN: 9780312226725 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. With the diminished influence of intellectuals outside the academy and a marked decline in the quality of public discourse, many observers have called for the return of the "public intellectual." At the same time, religion is playing an increasingly public role in the modern world. This collection of essays examines the possibility that both religion and literature, in their complex interactions, are capable of reentering and renewing what the eminent German philosopher JUrgen Habermas refers to as "the public sphere."
With the diminished influence of intellectuals outside the academy and a marked decline in the quality of public discourse, many observers have called...
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192,30 zł |