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Reclaiming Humility
Does humility have a place in contemporary life? Were Enlightenment thinkers wrong to reject humility as a "monkish virtue" (Hume) arising from a "slave morality" (Nietzsche)? Australian theologian Jane Foulcher recovers the counter-cultural reading of humility that marked early Christianity and examines its trajectory at key junctures in the development of Western monasticism. Humility emerges not as a moral virtue achieved by human effort but as a way opened by grace--as a divine "climate" (Christian de Chergé) that we are invited to inhabit. From fourth-century Egypt to twentieth-century Algeria, via Saint Benedict and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Dr. Foulcher's compelling analysis of theology and practice challenges the church to reclaim Christian humility as essential to its life and witness today.
Mystical Prayer
In this book, Charles Murphy explores the still unfolding rediscovery of Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), our foremost American poet, as a mystic of profound depth and ambition. She declined publication of almost all of her hundreds of poems during her lifetime, describing them as a record of her wrestling with God, who, in the Puritan religious tradition she received, she found cold and remote. Murphy places Dickinson's writings within the Christian mystical tradition exemplified by St. Teresa of Avila and identifies her poems as expressions of what he terms theologically as "believing unbelief.” Dickinson's experiences of love and her confrontation with human mortality drove her poetic insights and led to her discovery of God in the beauty and mystery of the natural world.
Metamorphoses
This series will publish monographs and collected essays on topics concerning religious experience in antiquity. Volumes in this series will address a diverse array of religious experiences and movements, and particular expressions of religious experience, such as ecstatic trances, magic, healing, prophecy, divination, and dreams, as well as other phenomena that contribute to the scholarly exploration of religious experience. Methods will range widely, encompassing contemporary sociological, anthropological, and psychological approaches to religious experience, as well as historical analysis of textual, archaeological, and artistic evidence. Image: "firefox", 2007 (c) Elliot R. Wolfson - homepages.nyu.edu/ erw1
The Letters of St. Antony
This book revolutionizes our understanding of the life and thought of the great anchorite father of the Egyptian desert. It is a signal contribution to our knowledge of Egyptian Christianity in the third and fourth centuries.—Birger Pearson, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity Samuel Rubenson, by means of a fresh analysis of the letters of St. Antony, exposes the distortion of the picture of early Christian monks as unlettered and primitive. Rubenson describes the desert monasteries as centers of theological reflection in Egypt, showing how they combined the speculative philosophy of the Greeks and the biblical tradition. Included in this volume is a new translation of the letters themselves, which are shown to be authentic and an important source for the study of the desert fathers and the early monastic tradition. The later image of Antony is demonstrated to be influenced by church politics of the latter part of the fourth century. Samuel Rubenson is Associate Professor at Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Embracing Solitude
Embracing Solitude focuses on the interior turn of monasticism and scans the Christian tradition for women who have made this turn in various epochs and circumstances. New Monasticism is a movement assuming diverse forms in response to the turn to classical spiritual sources for guidance about living spiritual commitment with integrity and authenticity today. Genuine spiritual seeking requires the cultivation of an inner disposition to return to the room of the heart. The lessons explored in this book from women spiritual entrepreneurs across the centuries will benefit contemporary New Monastics--both women and men. The accounts will inspire, challenge, and guide those who follow in the footsteps of the renowned spiritual innovators profiled here.
The Song Cycle
Investigates how other types of music have influenced the scope of the song cycle, from operas and symphonies to popular song --
Women's Health Needs In Patient Education
The goal of this book is to fill the many gaps that health care providers face when helping women learn self care and prevention skills. Special attention is paid to minority status, low literacy, and elderly women who may have fewer opportunities to find health information independently. While this is ample information on reproductive health available, women experience a lack of timely information on nonreproductive health issues, such major killers as lung cancer and cardiovascular disease; adequate information for family caregivers, who are mostly women; and other disorders, ranging from AIDS to osteoporosis and urinary incontinence. Nurses, health educators, physicians, and those interested in women's health will find this an eye-opening and important resource.
MUSEUM GESTALTET GESCHICHTE
2023 feiert das Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum die 200-jährige Gründung. Von engagierten Kulturtreibenden Tirols initiiert, prägt das Ferdinandeum als zweitältestes Landesmuseum Österreichs mit seinen Sammlungen, Ausstellungen und wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten die Region. Im selben Jahr begeht das Museum im Zeughaus, das 1973 als Ausstellungshaus für Geschichte des Tiroler Raums dazu kam, sein 50-jähriges Bestandsjubiläum. Der vorliegende Band vereint Beiträge der Mitarbeiter*innen des Museums und externer Autor*innen, die sich mit unterschiedlichen Aspekten der Geschichte, der Sammlungsarbeit und der Konzert- und Ausstellungstätigkeit befassen. So wird ein Bogen von der Gründung des Museums Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart gespannt, die vielfältige Tätigkeit und Wirkung des Museums eindrücklich dargestellt und das Museum in seiner vergangenen und gegenwärtigen Bedeutung gewürdigt.
Soul Decision
Darkness corrupts a wealthy narcissistic teenager when she falls for her charming and nefarious music professor and is confronted with her own evil demons. Claudia Howcot's journey to find fame and fortune is sinfully diverted by her mysteriously enchanting and demonic professor, Jason Derrick, also known as Xane-a tall, lean demon with dark hair, unnaturally white skin and evil seductive eyes. Claudia is possessed by Xane and takes him in as a trusted friend and lover. She begins to battle her inner darkness and the betrayal that was forced upon her by her professor. She finds herself running from this demon and a spirit of the past and falls into the hands a demon hunter who happens to be her close friend and the family's driver. Fleeing across the world she becomes victim to the demon's enchanted charms and her own darkening soul. Soul Decision is the first of a five novel chronicle series.
Prayer
This landmark book presents prayer in all its richness and variety throughout history, across traditions, and around the globe. Focusing on extraordinary stories of lives changed by prayer and on great works of literature and art inspired by it, Carol and Philip Zaleski map the vast world of prayer from the sacred pipe to the rosary, from Neanderthal funerals to Pentecostal revivals. Examining prayer as petition, thanksgiving, adoration, contemplation, ecstasy, magic, and sacrifice, the Zaleskis probe the language of prayer, the fruits of prayer, its controversies, and its prospects for the future.Prayer is an informative, accessible, and entertaining narrative that will appeal to an audience of all faiths. Doing for the subject of prayer what Jack Miles did for God and Kathleen Norris for the world of monks, the Zaleskis have created a work that will be the standard for years to come.
