The Consolations Of Theology

Author : Brian S. Rosner
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802860400
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Consolations of Theology written by Brian S. Rosner and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Alain de Botton's bestselling Consolations of Philosophy, this volume shows how theology can be of practical value to every believer. The great theologians in the history of the church have always found that theology affords genuine comfort in the face of life's difficulties. InThe Consolations of Theology Brian Rosner and other practical theologians present a compelling blend of biography and theology that profoundly addresses the perennial human problems of anger, obsession, despair, anxiety, disappointment, and pain. Contributors: Gwenfair Walters Adams Robert Banks Peter Bolt Andrew Cameron Richard Gibson Brian Rosner Mark Thompson

Author : Stephen Blackwood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191028118
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy written by Stephen Blackwood and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, literature was read with the ear as much as with the eye: silent reading was the exception; audible reading, the norm. This highly original book shows that Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy - one of the most widely-read texts in Western history - aims to affect the listener through the designs of its rhythmic sound. Stephen Blackwood argues that the Consolation's metres are arranged in patterns that have a therapeutic and liturgical purpose: as a bodily mediation of the text's consolation, these rhythmic patterns enable the listener to discern the eternal in the motion of time. The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy vividly explores how in this acoustic encounter with the text philosophy becomes a lived reality, and reading a kind of prayer.

Author : Boethius
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0199540543
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Consolation of Philosophy written by Boethius and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published as an Oxford world's classics paperback 2000. Reissued 2008"--Copyright page.

Author : Boethius
Publisher : Elliot Stock
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.KJ/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Consolation of Philosophy written by Boethius and published by Elliot Stock. This book was released on 1897 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Why else does slippery Fortune change So much, and punishment more fit For crime oppress the innocent?' Written in prison before his brutal execution in AD 524, Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy is a conversation between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' Philosophy, whose instruction restores him to health and brings him to enlightenment. Boethius was an eminent public figure who had risen to great political heights in the court of King Theodoric when he was implicated in conspiracy and condemned to death. Although a Christian, it was to the pagan Greek philosophers that he turned for inspiration following his abrupt fall from grace. With great clarity of thought and philosophical brilliance, Boethius adopted the classical model of the dialogue to debate the vagaries of Fortune, and to explore the nature of happiness, good and evil, fate and free will. This edition includes an introduction discussing Boethius's life and writings, a bibliography, glossary and notes.

Author : Saint Ignatius (of Loyola)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manresa written by Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johann Gerhard
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606086642
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Consolations written by Johann Gerhard and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Gerhard (1582-1637) was one of the leading dogmatic theologians of his time and was the authoritative voice of seventeenth-century Lutheran Orthodoxy. Yet, he also published numerous devotional works and meditations that were meant to be used in the daily lives of ordinary believers. The Handbook of Consolations sought to provide comfort and encouragement not only to those approaching death, but also to those who provided care for the sick and dying. Gerhard himself was no stranger to sickness and death, having lost his infant son and young wife, and faced numerous life-threatening illnesses throughout his life. In this pastoral work, which is the first complete English translation based on Gerhard's original Latin to be published since the seventeenth century, Gerhard brings together his extensive understanding of Scripture, theology, and church history in a practical and easy-to-understand manual that is as relevant and meaningful in the twenty-first century as it was in Gerhard's day.

Author : Henry Chadwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191682896
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boethius written by Henry Chadwick and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biographical study of the Roman senator begins by tracing his political career under the Gothic king Theoderic the Great. Subsequent chapters describe his educational programme in the liberal arts, his translations into Latin of the works of Aristotle and Plato, and his own compositions.

Author : Rivkah Zim
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691176132
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Consolations of Writing written by Rivkah Zim and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why writing in captivity is a vitally important form of literary resistance Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This classic philosophical statement of late antiquity has had an enduring influence on Western thought. It is also the earliest example of what Rivkah Zim identifies as a distinctive and vitally important medium of literary resistance: writing in captivity by prisoners of conscience and persecuted minorities. The Consolations of Writing reveals why the great contributors to this tradition of prison writing are among the most crucial figures in Western literature. Zim pairs writers from different periods and cultural settings, carefully examining the rhetorical strategies they used in captivity, often under the threat of death. She looks at Boethius and Dietrich Bonhoeffer as philosophers and theologians writing in defense of their ideas, and Thomas More and Antonio Gramsci as politicians in dialogue with established concepts of church and state. Different ideas of grace and disgrace occupied John Bunyan and Oscar Wilde in prison; Madame Roland and Anne Frank wrote themselves into history in various forms of memoir; and Jean Cassou and Irina Ratushinskaya voiced their resistance to totalitarianism through lyric poetry that saved their lives and inspired others. Finally, Primo Levi's writing after his release from Auschwitz recalls and decodes the obscenity of systematic genocide and its aftermath. A moving and powerful testament, The Consolations of Writing speaks to some of the most profound questions about life, enriching our understanding of what it is to be human.

Author : Andrew Cameron
Publisher : Christian Focus
ISBN 13 : 9781845504670
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trials of Theology written by Andrew Cameron and published by Christian Focus. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying theology can be a time of strengthening and renewing, but it is also filled with pitfalls and trials. Through this reader you will learn how to brave the depths of Augustine, Martin Luther, C. H. Spurgeon, B. B. Warfield and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Author : Anicius Boethius
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681494760
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Consolation of Philosophy written by Anicius Boethius and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the sixth century, The Consolation of Philosophy was one of the most popular and influential works of the Middle Ages. Boethius composed the masterpiece while imprisoned and awaiting the death sentence for treason. The Christian author had served as a high-ranking government official before falling out of favor with Roman Emperor Theodoric, an Arian. In the Consolation, Boethius explores the true end of life-knowledge of God-through a conversation with Lady Philosophy. Part prose, part poetry, the work combines Greek philosophy and Christian faith to formulate answers to some of life's most difficult and enduring questions.