Search Results - "Eschatology"

Judaism and the Gentiles Jewish patterns of universalism (to 135 CE) / by Donaldson, Terence L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Scripture, Septuagint and Apocrypha -- Pseudepigrapha -- Qumran -- Philo -- Josephus -- Greco-Roman literature -- Early Christian literature -- Inscriptions -- Sympathization -- Conversion -- Ethical monotheism -- Participation in eschatological salvation -- Conclusion.…”
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Wolfhart Pannenberg on human destiny by Wong, Kam Ming, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Setting the scene -- Image of God as both fount and destiny of humanity -- Openness of humanity -- Sin as an antithesis to human destiny -- Eschatology and ethics in human destiny -- Theological anthropology : destiny centred, history focused.…”
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The thought of Pope Benedict XVI an introduction to the theology of Joseph Ratzinger / by Nichols, Aidan

Table of Contents: “…The Bavarian background -- Augustine and the Church -- Bonaventure and saving history -- Christian brotherhood -- The event of the Council -- Reflections on the Creed -- More ecclesiological essays -- The eschatology theme -- The preacher -- The liturgist -- Back to foundations -- The prefect -- The candidate.…”
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Pentecostal theology for the twenty-first century engaging with multi-faith Singapore / by Tan-Chow, MayLing

Table of Contents: “…A hermeneutic of Singapore culture -- Christianity in Singapore -- Pentecost revisisted -- Interrogating Pentecostalism : a biblical challenge to LoveSingapore -- An alternative way : re-conceiving the Spirit in Pentecostalism -- A Pentecostal theological contribution : pneumatological eschatology.…”
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Formations of violence the narrative of the body and political terror in Northern Ireland / by Feldman, Allen

Table of Contents: “…The breaker's yard -- 6. Eschatology.…”
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Ascensions on high in Jewish mysticism pillars, lines, ladders / by Idel, Moshe, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…On diverse forms of living ascent on high in Jewish sources -- On cosmic pillars in Jewish sources -- The eschatological pillar of the souls in zoharic literature -- Psychanodia and metamorphoses of pillars in eighteenth-century Hasidism -- The neoplatonic path for dead souls : medieval philosophy, Kabbalah and renaissance.…”
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An introduction to Second Temple Judaism history and religion of the Jews in the time of Nehemiah, the Maccabees, Hillel and Jesus / by Grabbe, Lester L.

Table of Contents: “…Revolutionary Judaism: the political and 'messianic' current -- 4. Eschatological Judaism: the apocalyptic current -- 5. …”
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Wisdom's root revealed Ben Sira and the election of Israel / by Goering, Greg Schmidt

Table of Contents: “…Wisdom, Torah, and election : an introduction to the study -- Election and creation : the sun, the moon, and Israel's chosenness -- Election and revelation : general and special wisdom -- Election and tradition : the preservation and transmission of wisdom -- Election and piety : the "fear of YHWH" -- Election and eschatology : Israel among the nations -- Conclusion : Ben Sira and the election of Israel.…”
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The medieval Haggadah : art, narrative, and religious imagination / by Epstein, Marc Michael, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Jewish visual culture as memory's mirror -- The Birds' Haggadah -- Birds' Head revisited -- Socioreligious stratification -- Narrative sequence -- Eucharistic polemics -- Metahistorical connections -- Eschatological hopes -- The Golden Haggadah -- Silence is golden -- Women hidden in plain sight -- The Rylands and "Brother" Haggadot -- Siblings : identical or fraternal? …”
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Historical interpretations of the "fifth empire" the dynamics of periodization from Daniel to António Vieira, S.J. / by Travassos Valdez, Maria Ana

Table of Contents: “…Augustine's two cities -- Joachim of Fiore : from the Status to the "last emperor" -- António Vieira, S.J., and the Clavis prophetarum. Eschatology in António Vieira's previous works -- Clavis prophetarum or De regno Christi in terris consummato -- The fifth empire -- Universal evangelization, toleration, and ecumenism?.…”
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Displacing Christian origins philosophy, secularity, and the New Testament / by Blanton, Ward

Table of Contents: “…Strauss on the production of religious texts in the age of industrial media -- Paul's secretary : Heidegger's apostolic light from the ancient Near East -- Reason's apocalypse : Albert Schweitzer's fully eschatological Jesus and the collapse of metaphysics -- Conclusion: Displacing Christian origins as displacements of religion and secularity.…”
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Torah in the observatory Gersonides, Maimonides, Song of Songs / by Kellner, Menachem Marc, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Providence and the rabbinic tradition -- Mosaic prophecy: Maimonides and Gersonides -- Eschatology and miracles -- Creation, miracles, revelation -- Song of Songs and Gersonides' world -- Maimonides and Gersonides on astronomy and metaphysics -- Gersonides on the Song of Songs and the nature of science -- Politics and perfection: Gersonides vs. …”
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Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / by Garcia, Humberto, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: rethinking Islam in the eighteenth century -- "A true protestant Mahometan": Henry Stubbe, Ottoman Hungary, and the siege of Vienna -- Letters from a female deist: Lady Mary Wortley, muslim women, and freethinking feminism -- In defense of the ancient Mughal constitution: Edmund Burke, India and the Warren Hastings trial -- Hermetic Egypt, Ali Bonaparte, and the colonial politics of Walter Savage Landor's Gebir -- "The flight and return of Mohammed": plotting Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and Robert Southey's unitarian epic -- A last woman's eschatology: the avenging Turks in Mary Shelley's The last man -- Epilogue: postcolonial reflections.…”
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Defining identities we, you, and the other in the Dead Sea Scrolls : proceedings of the fifth meeting of the IOQS in Gröningen /

Table of Contents: “…/ Sarianna Metso -- Social identity approach: identity-constructing elements in the Psalms pesher / Jutta Jokiranta -- Eschatological identities in the Damascus document / Albert L.A. …”
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Liberal faith essays in honor of Philip Quinn /

Table of Contents: “…: a disputable question in Christian eschatology / Paul J. Griffiths -- Part III: Political philosophy -- Moral foundations of liberal democracy, secular reasons, and liberal neutrality toward the good / Robert Audi -- Egalitarianism without equality? …”
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The wounds of nations horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity / by Blake, Linnie

Table of Contents: “…Romero's horror of the 1970s ; All hail to the serial killer : America's last frontier hero in the age of Reaganite eschatology and beyond -- From Vietnam to 9/11 : the orientalist other and the American poor white. …”
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Rewriting Buddhism : Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270 / by Gornall, Alastair

Table of Contents: “…Buddhist Scholasticism: Suman·gala's Commentaries -- 6. Eschatological Encyclopedism: Siddhattha's Anthology -- Part III: Emotion -- 7. …”
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Moral agents and their deserts the character of Mu'tazilite ethics / by Vasalou, Sophia

Table of Contents: “…-- The identity of beings in Baṣran Mu'tazilite eschatology -- Resurrection and the criterion of identity -- Accidents and the formal reality of resurrected beings -- Appendix : translation from Mānkdīm Shāshdīw, "The promise and the threat," in Sharḥ al-uṣūl al-khamsa.…”
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Making animal meaning

Table of Contents: “…Eliot's Old Possum's book of practical cats / Stacy Rule -- Animals at the end of the world : notes toward a transspecies eschatology / Casey R. Riffel.…”
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Paul and his theology

Table of Contents: “…Tan -- The Spirit and the temple in Paul's letters to the Corinthians / John R. Levison -- Eschatology in Philippians / Heinz Giesen -- Neither hierarchicalist nor egalitarian : gender roles in Paul / Craig L. …”
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