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Author | : Andrew Byers |
Publisher | : Lutterworth Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2014-08-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0718842642 |
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The church can be uncertain of itself in our digital age. Some Christians denounce the twenty-first century's media culture while others embrace the latest gadgets and apps as soon as they appear. Many of us are stumbling along amidst the tweets, status updates, podcasts, and blog posts, wondering if we have ventured into a realm beyond the scope of biblical wisdom. Though there is such a thing as 'new media', Andrew Byers reminds us that the actual concept of media is ancient, theological, andeven biblical. In fact, there is such a thing as the media of God. 'TheoMedia' are means by which God communicates and reveals himself - creation, divine speech, inspired writings, the visual symbol of the cross, and more. Christians are actually called to media saturation. But the media that are to most prominently saturate our lives are the media of God. If God creates and uses media, then Scripture provides a theological logic by which we can create and use media in the digital age. This book is not an unqualified endorsement of the latest media products or a tirade against media technology. Instead, Byers calls us to rethink our understanding of media in terms of the media of God in the biblical story of redemption.
Author | : Andrew Byers |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2011-02-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830868526 |
Download Faith Without Illusions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Cynicism has become almost a cliché. It pervades the culture and defines the age--and threatens to derail faith. Andrew Byers identifies the primary factors in the church that inspire disillusionment rather than faith, but he goes beyond that to help struggling cynics channel their frustrations into the redemptive vocations found in the Bible: the prophet, the sage, the tragic poet. These all find their fulfillment in Jesus, and he in turn inspires cynics from the apostle Paul to you and me to embrace our saintly calling--hopeful realism.
Author | : Donald Boyes Johnstone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Copper |
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Download The Effect of Copper Upon the Development of Bacteria in Sea Water and the Isolation of Some Specific "copper" Bacteria Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Carl A. P. Ruck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fairy tales |
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It was mainly only the European urban centers that converted to Christianity, and often more for political or commercial interests, than as a matter of faith. The old religions persisted in the villages or pagani, from which the term Paganism arose. The Christians built their sanctuaries upon the pagan sites, expropriating their numinous past, assimilating the symbolism of the former deities, and commonly incorporating the actual architectural remnants. The wisdom of those deposed gods and their rites persisted in less objectionable forms -- disguised to delude the censors -- as country festivals and quaint tales often about the fairy folk, who coexisted with this world and could be accessed by magical procedures that perpetuated half-remembered methods of authentic ancient shamanism. Such shamanism always involved pharmaceutical expertise. Mircea Eliade was mistaken in concluding that drugs were characteristic only of the late and decadent stages of a religion. Rock paintings of the greatest antiquity and his own abundant citations indicate that, instead, a pharmacological Eucharist was the norm; and Eliade was himself about to reverse his stance shortly before his death. Encoded in tales seemingly as simple as Snow White with her poisoned red and white apple are themes traceable back to the great epics of Homer and the Mesopotamian Gilgamesh. These patterns of shamanic empowerment lurk also in the histories of the leading families of Europe, who could not completely divest themselves of the former religious basis for their right to rule, but instead they embraced, Christianized, and buried it in sanctified graves, as was the case with the great fairy Melusina, whose eighth abominable son, called Horrible, was murdered. A number of churches involved in the Albigensian heresy claim his body was laid to rest beneath them.
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Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Information science |
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Author | : Andrew J. Byers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2017-06-16 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 1107178606 |
Download Ecclesiology and Theosis in the Gospel of John Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
John's Gospel directs attention to the vision of community. Andrew Byers argues that ecclesiology is as central a Johannine concern as Christology.
Author | : Adrian Barlow |
Publisher | : Lutterworth Press |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2019-01-31 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0718845315 |
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Espying Heaven presents the first full-scale and full-colour survey of the achievement of Charles Eamer Kempe (1837-1907), the outstanding stained-glass designer of his era, and his Studio. From the start, Kempe gathered around him a close-knit team of artists and craftsmen who together developed his vision of a distinctive aesthetic setting for worship based on late medieval art, especially the stained glass of northern Europe. Espying Heaven illustrates the evolution of the 'Kempe style' and allows readers to judge for themselves the extent to which the later firm of C.E. Kempe & Co. (1907- 1934), set up by Kempe himself, succeeded in working within the tradition established by his founding artists. This book is meant to be a companion to Adrian Barlow's biographical study, Kempe: the Life, Art and Legacy of Charles Eamer Kempe (2018). In its own right, Espying Heaven both documents and celebrates a style of church art and decoration that has had a defining influence upon the Anglican Church worldwide. It highlights key features of Kempe glass, exploring questions of representation, symbolism and technique and suggesting new ways of 'reading' a Kempe window.
Author | : Anna-Katharina Höpflinger |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2016-10-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1474224865 |
Download Commun(icat)ing Bodies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As a basic medium of human interaction, the body is fundamental to socio-cultural communication systems, in particular the communication system of religion. This innovative and ground-breaking volume studies these systems and the role that the body plays in their organization through the perspective of the concept of body as a medium and by drawing on media and communication theory.
Author | : Michael John Halsall |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2020-01-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532641109 |
Download Creation and Beauty in Tolkien's Catholic Vision Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book invites readers into Tolkien’s world through the lens of a variety of philosophers, all of whom owe a rich debt to the Neoplatonic philosophical tradition. It places Tolkien’s mythology against a wider backdrop of Catholic philosophy and asks serious questions about the nature of creation, the nature of God, what it means to be good, and the problem of evil. Halsall sets Tolkien alongside both his contemporaries and ancient authors, revealing his careful use of literary devices inspired by them to craft his own “mythology for England.”
Author | : Mark D. Smith |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 071889510X |
Download The Final Days of Jesus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Final Days of Jesus, Mark Smith brings his experience as a classical historian to bear on the life of the historical Jesus, piecing together the volatile political context of first-century Judaea, as well as the lives of Pontius Pilate, Annas, and Joseph Caiaphas. The claim that 'the Jews crucified Jesus' has spawned a long and tragic history of Christian anti-Semitism. Smith challenges this claim through detailed exploration of Roman, Jewish, and Christian written sources and a broad range of archaeological evidence, such as the ossuary of Caiaphas, the 'Hidden Gate', and the rich vein of research devoted to the archaeology of ritual purity. The result is an earthy and nuanced portrait of Jewish life under Roman rule. From his discussion of the multiplicity and brutality of Roman executions to the intricate personal relationships among elites that provided the means of collaboration and redress, Smith details the complex push-pull of forces between Rome and the Temple as they collided in one history-changing week.