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Maximus the Confessor's combustive historicalera, committed doctrinal reflection, and loud and influential voice took him ona turbulent career of traveling and writing around the Mediterranean. Maximuswas a spiritual teacher, an ascetic and a contemplative, but he was also apolemicist, a crafter of dogma, an embattled Christologian, a premeditatingrhetorician. In this study, Luke Steven binds togetherthese two disparate sides of the man and his writings by showing thatthroughout his oeuvre the Confessor positions imitation as the key toknowledge. This lasting epistemology characterizes his earlier ascetic andspiritual works, and in his later works it prominently defines his dogmaticChristological method - that is, the means by which he communicates andpersuades and brings people to understand and encounter Jesus Christ, the onewith two natures, divine and human. This multifaceted study offers a deepassessment of Maximus's forebears, new insight on the animating assumptions ofhis thought, and an unprecedented focus on the rhetoric and method of hischristological writings.  

Even in the twenty-first century, criticaland creative engagement with modern and postmodern philosophy is a rarity inOrthodox circles. The collection of essays presented here by ChristophSchneider makes a significant contribution to overcoming this deficit. Eightscholars from six different countries, working on the intersection betweenOrthodox thought and philosophy, present their research in short and accessibleform. The topics covered range from political philosophy to phenomenology,metaphysics, philosophy of self, logic, ethics, and philosophy of language.The authors do not all promote one particularapproach to the relationship between Orthodox theology and philosophy. Nevertheless, taken together, their work demonstrates that Orthodox scholarshipis not confined to historical research about the Byzantine era, but cancontribute to, and enrich, contemporary intellectual debates.  

Jean-Jacques von Allmen's work was animated bythree key insights: the Church both learns and becomes what it truly is when itgathers to worship; worship tells the story of God's salvation history andinvites God's people into it; and by doing so, the church offers the world botha stern warning and a hopeful promise. The Swiss Reformed pastor and professoris among the most admired liturgical theologians of the twentieth century, buthis work is largely and lamentably unknown to most worship leaders. In Church at Church, Ron Rienstra provides an introduction tothis important thinker. He offers methodological and biographical context andthen explores von Allmen's most generative insights concerning the church as itengages in its most foundational activity: worship. Viewed through the lens ofthe Nicene marks, Rienstra's exploration yields the outlines of a 'liturgicalecclesiology', a way to help the church think more deeply about its identityand to help its leaders shape the worship they prepare and lead today. 

In his commentary, John Paul Heil presents two new proposals regarding Paul's letter to the Galatians. First, he demonstrates an entirely new chiastic structure embracing the entire letter, based on strict linguistic and textual criteria rather than on conceptual or theological themes. This chiastic structure accords with the view that Galatians was originally performed orally in a setting of communal worship. Second, Heil offers a new proposal for a key theme that runs throughout Galatians, as expressed by the subtitle of this book - 'Worship for Life by Faith in the Crucified and Risen Lord'. Here, 'worship' is considered to be a comprehensive concept that includes liturgical, cultic, or ritual worship as well as the moral behaviour that is to complement it as ethical worship in accord with the biblical tradition. 'Life' refers both to the present way of living as well as to future eternal life. 'Faith' refers to the acceptance of divine grace available to the believer because of the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The complex nature of Christian communion with a personal God requires a nuanced expression. Since its inception, the early church affirmed God's unknowable nature and also participation in God through Christ. The church fathers employed the language of theosis in talking about union with God and human transformation in the likeness of God. However, the term theosis or deification is a broad category and requires precise explanation to avoid human dissolution into the divine in the mystical union it attempts to describe. In Triadosis, Eduard Borysov offers a new approach to the conundrum of the imparticipable divine nature and the prospect of personal union between human and the Trinity. Most significantly, he proposes that if God is Trinity, then we are created and restored in the image of the same tri-personal God.

The contemporary philosopher William Desmond has many companions inthought, and one of the most important of these is Augustine. In lucid prosethat draws on the riches of a vibrant philosophical-theological tradition,Rene Khler-Ryan explores Desmond's metaxological philosophy. Shebrings together philosophy, theology and literature to elaborate on theconversation that Desmond's philosophical work in discovering how humans areconstantly 'between' sustains with a tradition of thinkers that also includesPlato, Thomas Aquinas and Shakespeare.Whether considering how our elemental wonder at creation brings uscloser to God, or how our most intimate revelations about being human happen inthe interior space of prayer, reading Desmond with Augustine illuminates aporous and interdisciplinary space of inquiry. With a foreword from Desmondhimself, Companions in the Between is a unique contribution to thegrowing body of scholarship on his thought. Khler-Ryan's analysis will enticeany reader who wants to know more about how contemporary philosophy can contesta space where philosophers are formulaically expected to shy away from divinetranscendence.   

Wagner's Ring is one of the greatest of all artworks of Westerncivilization, but what is it all about? The power and mystery of Wagner'screation was such that even he felt he stood before his work 'as though beforesome puzzle'. A clue to the Ring's greatness lies in its multiple avenues of self-disclosure and thecorresponding plethora of interpretations that over the years has granted amplescope for directors, and will no doubt do so well into the distant future. Onepossible interpretation, which Richard Bell argues should be taken seriously,is the Ring as Christiantheology. In this first of two volumes, Bell considers, among other things, howthe composer's Christian interests may be detected in the 'forging' of his Ring, in his appropriation of sources (whether theybe myths and sagas, writers, poets, or philosophers), and in works composedaround the same time, especially his Jesus ofNazareth. 

The second volume in a two-part analysis of Wagner's most famous workand its theological message.

In this remarkable study, Pamela Sambrook rescues from obscurity the contribution of a former member of Napoleon's Imperial Guard to the development of specialist hotels and catering in the formative years of the railway network in England and France. In doing so, she interrogates what lies behind some of Zenon Vantini's very real achievements, legacies and disasters. She asks how far he was driven by his familial background in Elba and his involvement in the political turmoil of early-nineteenth-century France, and to what extent his whole life was known to those around him. Vantini's extraordinary life encapsulates the change between two very different worlds - the old imperial past and the new age of entrepreneurial risk-taking. Never shaking off his old political loyalties, he believed resolutely that the mobility afforded by railway travel would change Europe fundamentally. In the long view he was a component part in the very early years of an industry which arguably changed England and Europe more than did even his hero, Napoleon. Scholars and casual readers of British and European social history will be fascinated by his story.

A lively biography of the Victorian mathematician and philosopher William Clifford and his wife Lucy, the influential journalist and novelist.

An imaginative exploration of how an understanding of liminality aids those in leadership roles in adapting creatively to change.

An exploration of the tension in Western thought between the secular belief in human moral self-sufficiency and Christian belief in reconciliation in history.

A study of Collations on the Hexaemeron, the last work of Saint Bonaventure, and one of the most important texts of medieval theology.

The book covers her life in Whitchurch, Burton on Trent, Everton, Liverpool and finally in Middlesex. It describes her school and investigates the lives of some her pupils, one from the influential Rathbone family and one who became a suffragist.

A biography of the second Earl of Liverpool, revealing a highly capable leader who laid the foundations for nineteenth-century Britain's prosperity.

A challenging and timely examination of the philosophical and ideological assumptions that underlie modern Western culture and politics.

A collection of passages from the ecclesiastical writers of the 17th-century, which illustrates the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England at that age. This volume provides an account of the theological literature of the period.

In its various forms, speech is absolutely integral to the Christian mission. The gospel is a message, news that must be passed on if it is to be known by others. Nevertheless, the reality of God cannot be exhausted by Christian knowledge and Christian knowledge cannot be exhausted by our words. All the while, the philosophy of modernity has left Christianity an impoverished inheritance within which to think these things. In Speak Thus, Craig Hovey explores the possibilities and limits of Christian speaking. At times ethical, epistemological, and metaphysical, these essays go to the heart of what it means to be the church today. In practice, the Christian life often has a linguistic shape that surprisingly implicates and reveals the commitments of people like those who care for the sick or those who respond as peacemakers in the face of violence. Because learning to speak one way as opposed to another is a skill that must be learned, Christian speakers are also guides who bear witness to the importance of churches for passing on a felicity with Christian ways of speaking. Through constructive engagements with interlocutors like Ludwig Wittgenstein, George Lindbeck, Jeffrey Stout, Stanley Hauerwas, John Howard Yoder, Thomas Aquinas, and the theology of Radical Orthodoxy, Hovey offers a challenging vision of the church able to speak with a confidence that only comes from a deep attentiveness to its own limitations while able to speak prophetically in a world weary of words.

Suitable for the student of English literature and religion, the general reader of the Bible and the Bible lover, this title is based on the King James (Authorised) version of the Bible. It examines the Bible's unique 'forge of style' and the 'imagery' which so profoundly give the Bible its Biblical character.

A timely and fascinating examination of the decline in religious faith and rise of secular thought in western intellectual society.