Reading Moby-Dick and Other Essays (American University Studies, #69)
by William Hamilton
Do you watch movies with your eyes open? You buy your tickets and concessions, and you walk into the theater. Celluloid images flash at twenty-four frames per second, and the hypnotic sequence of moving pictures coaxes you to suspend disbelief and be entertained by the implausible. Unfortunately, many often suspend their beliefs as well, succumbing to subtle lessons in how to behave, think and even perceive reality. Do you find yourself hoping that a sister will succeed in seducing her sibling's...
Vulgata-Studies Vol. I (Das Alte Testament Im Dialog / An Outline of an Old Testamen, #8)
Colonizers imposed Christianity and biblical codes upon their conquered subjects. In the waning of imperialism the newly emerging peoples employed these same biblical codes as their cries for freedom and justice as they drove out their former masters. This collection of twelve essays exposes this tool of oppression as a tool of justice in works from Latin American, Native American, African, and Middle Eastern authors. Drawing on a variety of theological perspectives, including liberation theolo...
An award-winning historian of religion examines the role a "messiah" plays in Western culture, from its pre-Christian roots to modern interpretations of a savior. Over the centuries, people have longed for a messiah, whether a religious figure such as Jesus, a political leader, or even in popular culture. The messianic quest emerges most acutely during difficult times when people experience a sense of powerlessness and desperation. But the concept of a messiah-a savior-has its root in the wr...
The Paranormal and Popular Culture (Routledge Studies in Religion)
Interest in preternatural and supernatural themes has revitalized the Gothic tale, renewed explorations of psychic powers and given rise to a host of social and religious movements based upon claims of the fantastical. And yet, in spite of this widespread enthusiasm, the academic world has been slow to study this development. This volume rectifies this gap in current scholarship by serving as an interdisciplinary overview of the relationship of the paranormal to the artefacts of mass media (e.g....
A historical novel about the births, lives, and related missions of Jesus and John the Baptist
Deux homelies inedites de Jacques de Saroug (Analecta Gorgiana, #497)
This volume contains the Syriac text, with French translation, of two previously unedited homilies from Jacob of Sarug: "On Mary and Golgotha," and "On Strangers and their Burial."
The Existence and Attributes of God, Vol. 7b of 50 Greatest Chr Classics
by Stephen Charnock
The Spiritual World of the Hobbit (Library Edition)
by James Stuart Bell
An Arabic Version of the Acts of the Apostles and the Seven Catholic Epistles
by Margaret Gibson
The variety of Arabic versions of the New Testament is bewildering. In this work, Gibson provides one particular text of the Acts of the Apostles, as well as those of the Minor Catholic Epistles, based on an eighth or ninth century manuscript, preserved at the Convent of St. Catharine in Sinai. The volume also includes a treatise on the Triune nature of God, with an English translation.
T&T Clark Companion to Theology and the Arts (Bloomsbury Companions)
Sancti Patris Nostri Clementis Romani Epistolae Binae de Virginitate (Syriac Studies Library, #126)
This volume is a complete presentation and study of the two letters "On Virginity" ascribed to Clement of Rome, only fragmentarily extant in Greek, but surviving complete in Syriac.