Category: Faith & Philosophy

The New Testament: A Literary History by Gerd Theissen
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Overview: Gerd Theissen takes up the problem of the emergence of the New Testament canon out of the wide variety of early Christian literature. Drawing from Max Weber’s discussion of the evolution of religious organizations, Theissen describes the development of early Christian literature as a series of phases in the life of the movement: the charismatic, the pseudepigraphic, the functional, and the canonical.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy

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Practicing Mindfulness: Finding Calm and Focus in Your Everyday Life by Jerry Braza
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Overview: Thousands of readers—from prisoners to priests—have embraced Jerry Braza’s insights in this book, adopting and integrating the mindful practices and habits it presents.

This new edition expands on the author’s time-tested approach, introducing in-the-moment thinking and techniques for achieving clarity, focus and energy to a new generation of readers. Given the current uncertainty and changes throughout the world, all types of readers will find this guide to be useful—from those practicing mindfulness for the first time to meditation veterans.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy

This practical guide to mindfulness contains reflections, actions and practices that will help you to:
• Reduce anxiety and stress
• Calm and quiet the mind
• Transform negative feelings and habits
• Intensify personal connections and relationships
• Heighten productivity and concentration
• Address unresolved emotional issues and traumas
• Discover the power of contemplative practice

This interactive book models best practices then invites the reader to participate through a Mindfulness Test, guided meditations, daily reflections and rituals, and thought-provoking and challenging questions and prompts to set readers on the path to more mindful living.

Practicing mindfulness means performing all activities consciously. This awareness enables us to become more fully alive in each moment, enjoy more abundance, and avoid the stress and guilt that have been written into our habits. Based on the author’s Mindfulness Training Program, Braza uses this book to gently provide simple exercises for applying these practices to our daily lives.

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Outlaw Justice: The Messianic Politics of Paul by Theodore W. Jennings Jr.
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Overview: This book offers a close reading of Romans that treats Paul as a radical political thinker by showing the relationship between Paul’s perspective and that of secular political theorists. Turning to both ancient political philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero) and contemporary post-Marxists (Agamben, Badiou, Derrida, and Žižek), Jennings presents Romans as a sustained argument for a new sort of political thinking concerned with the possibility and constitution of just socialities.

Reading Romans as an essay on messianic politics in conversation with ancient and postmodern political theory challenges the stereotype of Paul as a reactionary theologian who “invented” Christianity and demonstrates his importance for all, regardless of religious affiliation or academic guild, who dream and work for a society based on respect, rather than domination, division, and death. In the current context of unjust global empires constituted by avarice, arrogance, and violence, Jennings finds in Paul a stunning vision for creating just societies outside the law.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy

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The Tempo of Modernity by Gabriel R. Ricci
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Overview: The present work is a study in the history of an enduring idea that defines the inner life of the mind and also supplied a substratum for the twentieth-century literary imagination and substance for philosophical thinking, producing a unique alliance between philosophy and literature. This special union was forged by a new holistic conception of time which supplemented, and even supplanted, the conventional sense of chronological time. This temporal turn animated the existential insights of Husserl, Heidegger, and Bergson, but it was grounded in nineteenth-century advances in the biological sciences, the hegemony of Hegelianism, and even stretched back to Augustine’s early meditation on time in Book XI of his Confessions. In linking together a set of thinkers who addressed this form of temporal consciousness, Gabriel R. Ricci illuminates a common intellectual preoccupation from the vantage point of a concept. The authors do not together assemble the thought; it is the thought that produced a collective voice. This voice appears in the episodes outlined in each chapter, and they are framed by an introduction, which explores Joseph Frank’s insights into the new spatial forms in literature, and an epilogue, which resurrects J.W. Dunne’s peculiar dream experiments and theory of precognition. Ricci employs Frank’s seminal essay to draw comparisons between literature’s adaptation of the new time sense and philosophy’s expression of the new compatibility between space and time. Dunne’s theory serves to demonstrate the continuity between literary form and philosophical speculation.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy

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God and Difference: The Trinity, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Finitude by Linn Marie Tonstad (Gender, Theology and Spirituality, v. 17)
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Overview: God and Difference interlaces Christian theology with queer and feminist theory for both critical and constructive ends. Linn Marie Tonstad uses queer theory to show certain failures of Christian thinking about God, gender, and sexuality. She employs queer theory to dissect trinitarian discourse and the resonances found in contemporary Christian thought between sexual difference and difference within the trinity. Tonstad critiques a broad swath of prominent Christian theologians who either use queer theory in their work or affirm the validity of same-sex relationships, arguing that their work inadvertently promotes gendered hierarchy. This volume contributes to central debates in Christianity over divine and human personhood, gendered relationality, and the trinity, and provides original accounts of God, sexual difference, and Christian community that are both theologically rich and thoroughly queer.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy

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