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Vistas: a Theologian in Past-Life Therapy
In this memoir, the author describes his transition from the role of Catholic theologian to that of a participant in a very different tradition. After a brief account of his struggles as a gay youth with the frustrated desire to only connect, and his entry into Roman Catholic religious life, we are quickly brought to the recent past, as the author finds himself in a moment of near-despair. More or less on a whim, he tries a past-life regression during which the powerful experience of the opening of his heart leads him to a serious study of the writings of psychic Jane Roberts. In turn, these channeled writings (The Seth Material) bring him into conversation with a community of non-traditional spiritual seekers and further adventures.
Faith and Knowledge
In an analysis of Christian faith, the author surveys scriptural, traditional and contemporary values, as well as modern philosophy. Reviews the thoughts of Stephen Toulmin, Hubert Dreyfus, Michael Polanyi, and Alasdair MacIntyre, showing that humans know reality only against the horizon of shared goals, language, and practice of community. Goes on to survey the New Testament, the major figures of the tradition) Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Luther, Kant, Schleiermacher, and Vatican I) and contemporary writers such as David Tracy and Stanley Hauerwas. Concludes that Christian faith is what grounds that community of interpretation known as the church. A helpful educational analysis for students and scholars of theology and philosophy.
Faith and Knowledge
In an analysis of Christian faith, the author surveys scriptural, traditional and contemporary values, as well as modern philosophy. Reviews the thoughts of Stephen Toulmin, Hubert Dreyfus, Michael Polanyi, and Alasdair MacIntyre, showing that humans know reality only against the horizon of shared goals, language, and practice of community. Goes on to survey the New Testament, the major figures of the tradition) Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Luther, Kant, Schleiermacher, and Vatican I) and contemporary writers such as David Tracy and Stanley Hauerwas. Concludes that Christian faith is what grounds that community of interpretation known as the church. A helpful educational analysis for students and scholars of theology and philosophy.
The Robert Bellah Reader
Comparative and theoretical American religion University and society Sociology and theology.
The Delight Makers
An ambitious history of desire in Anglo-American religion across three centuries. The pursuit of happiness weaves disparate strands of Anglo-American religious history together. In The Delight Makers, Catherine L. Albanese unravels a theology of desire tying Jonathan Edwards to Ralph Waldo Emerson to the religiously unaffiliated today. As others emphasize redemptive suffering, this tradition stresses the “metaphysical” connection between natural beauty and spiritual fulfillment. In the earth’s abundance, these thinkers see an expansive God intent on fulfilling human desire through prosperity, health, and sexual freedom. Through careful readings of Cotton Mather, Andrew Jackson Davis, William James, Esther Hicks, and more, Albanese reveals how a theology of delight evolved alongside political overtures to natural law and individual liberty in the United States.
Nothing Gained Is Eternal
In the decades since the declaration of the "end of history," the West has been reminded time and again that history is not yet done with us. Time marches on, but the past keeps pace. The twin questions at the heart of the last two hundred years of philosophy and theology--What is history? What is tradition?--are more pressing now than when they were first posed. While most answers to these questions are methodological and descriptive, Nothing Gained Is Eternal presents an answer both theological and theoretical, an answer rooted in action, memory, and freedom. Drawing on the thought of some of the brightest lights of the twentieth century, such as Bernard Lonergan, Charles Péguy, Maurice B...
Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling
Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and geographies, the Brill Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling presents modern spirit possession in a variety of contexts. Weaving together the interrelated movements of Spiritualism along with its specific Franco and Latin American currents, articles explore the nineteenth-century beginnings of séances and trance mediumship. Channelling, an heir to Spiritualism begun in the 1970s and still flourishing today, is brought into direct conversation with its predecessors with a view to showing both continuity and disjuncture as the products of new cultural and religious needs. The Brill Handbook marks the first extensive collection on these two interrelated movements and examines themes such as gender, race, performance, and technology in each instance.
Creativity and Beyond
Creativity and Beyond offers a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary tour of cultures past and present to examine the different ways people have conceived of "creativity" and how the common understanding of creativity is changing in the current flux of global culture. Weiner analyzes the ways in which understanding creativity is tied to broader contemporary patterns, including intellectual concerns with postmodernism; trends in the arts; the changing status of women; the power of the electronic media; multiculturalism; developments in psychology, science, and technology; and the dramatic political, economic, and social transformations of our age.
Beyond Belief
Beyond Belief collects fifteen celebrated, broadly ranging essays in which Robert Bellah interprets the interplay of religion and society in concrete contexts from Japan to the Middle East to the United States. First published in 1970, Beyond Belief is a classic in the field of sociology of religion.
