After a conference at Niagara Falls in 1895 said that five doctrines were of fundamental importance, twelve
volumes of essays, called Fundamentals, were published privately and circulated free in 1909.
It has produced four
volumes of essays on whether the statements of the past need still divide the churches.
This slim
volume of essays adds to the growing literature defending Pope Pius XII against charges that he was complicit in the Holocaust.
The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new
volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.
But Bultmann gave his answer to such criticisms — in, for example, his contribution to
the volume of essays edited by Charles W. Kegley, The Theology of Rudolf Bultmann (Harper & Row, 1966).
Accounting for this paradox, and finding realistic ways to address it, is the goal of
this volume of essays, featuring a lively array of eminent contributors from all over the world, including Gerard Bradley and Thomas Farr, who are well known to First Things readers.
Specializing in Nikos Kazantzakis» fiction and theological thought, he is to be co-editor (with Peter A. Bien) of
a volume of essays devoted to Kazantzakis» mythopoesis of Bergsonian doctrine.
In this connection see also
the volume of essays that connect spirituality and social compassion, edited by Tilden H. Edwards, Living with Apocalypse: Spiritual Resources for Social Compassion (New York: Harper & Row, 1984).
One finds a similar sympathy for precritical exegesis in
a volume of essays on sixteenth - century exegesis and interpretation: Biblical Interpretation in the Era of the Reformation, edited by Richard A. Muller and John L. Thompson.
Another offering from the Conservatives is After the Coalition: A Conservative Agenda for Britain (Biteback, # 9.99),
a volume of essays edited by Kwasi Kwarteng MP.
In The Coalition Effect 2010 - 2015, Anthony Seldon and Mike Finn have collected
a volume of essays examining the impact of the Coalition government of 2010 - 2015 on British politics.
Ahead of the 2015 General Election, Anthony Seldon wrote a clear introduction to this expert
volume of essays, setting out the observation that David Cameron's place in history was already secured: for holding the coalition itself together; significantly improving the economic outlook; overseeing some steady domestic reform; restoring dignity to the PM's office; and winning the Scottish referendum (25).
Humanities education in the nation's schools is «under siege,» primarily because many of those entrusted to defend these disciplines have «lost their nerve, forgotten their mission, clouded their vision, or, in some instances, defected altogether,» according to Challenges to the Humanities, a new
volume of essays edited by Chester E. Finn Jr., Diane Ravitch, and P. Holley Roberts.
This edited
volume of essays brings together perspectives from all the significant participants involved in assessment in the primary school: teachers, head teachers, LEA advisors, inspectors, pupils, academics and researchers.
In a 2006
volume of essays published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), for example, training is described as a «technical transmission activity» and an «oversimplification of teaching and learning, ignoring its dynamic, social and moral aspects.»
The main difference is that the essay is written in accordance to certain rules, namely:
The volume of essay should meet the requirements of the tutor.
In collaboration with e-flux and Verso Books, the Guggenheim presents the U.S. launch of two recent Verso publications: Hito Steyerl's Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War, a new
volume of essays by the writer, filmmaker, and artist; and Supercommunity: Diabolical Togetherness Beyond Contemporary Art, a collection of essays, poems, short stories, and plays by artists and theorists selected from the eponymous 88 - text issue of e-flux journal commissioned for the 56th Venice Biennale.
He is the author of 11 collections of poetry (including Study for the World's Body, nominated for The National Book Award in Poetry), most recently the collection, The Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems, as well as
a volume of essays, interviews and reviews entitled Where the Angels Come Toward Us.
This beautifully illustrated and profoundly original
volume of essays by the New York poet and critic John Yau mounts one of the most eloquent defenses of the art and vision of Jasper Johns ever written — going well past tired and traditional Formalist readings of the artist's work to propose a completely new way of reading them: One that is intensely human.
This year she is working on a manuscript about British art and politics after 1968, curating an exhibition of post-minimalist art and co-editing
a volume of essays on the critic / curator Lawrence Alloway.
I am currently editing
a volume of essays about Philip Guston, which originated in the symposium held at the American Academy in 2010 in conjunction with the exhibition at the Museo Carlo Bilotti.
The Beyond the Supersquare companion
volume of essays is now on sale!
He is currently editing
a volume of essays on Andrew Wyeth to be published by the University of California Press.
Not exact matches
The two
essays in this
volume «The History
of Freedom in Antiquity» and «The History
of Freedom in Christianity» are most welcome, and can be recommended highly.
And just so you know, I haven't yet tackled your important «Locke's Law
of Nature»
essay in that great Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy
essay volume that came out last year.
Explorations in Metaphysics: Being - God - Person By W. Norris Clarke, S.J. University
of Notre Dame Press, 228 pages, $ 19.95 Selected from forty years» worth
of essays by W. Norris Clarke» the Jesuit whose work helped emphasize the «uncompromisingly existential character»
of Thomas Aquinas» metaphysics» this
volume offers contemporary Catholic philosophy at its best.
One
of the most significant
essays in the
volume, the concluding Christian reflection by George Lindbeck, helps us see precisely how the recognition
of analogies and shared metaphors can in fact empower a community to live its own tradition more faithfully.
The very rich (and thick)
volume includes a biographical
essay, a personal memoir by one
of Torrance's students, now an Orthodox priest; nine substantial papers on....
But for the reader the
volume lacks a sense
of flow or unity because with each
essay one has to determine not only how the Jewish writers are thinking
of Christians and how the Christian writer is understanding Jews but what kind
of Jew and what kind
of Christian are being brought together in this particular chapter.
The
essays contained in this
volume cover a remarkable range
of topics, from Aristotle and Solzhenitsyn to Leo Strauss, Flannery O'Connor, and even, in no less than two chapters, Star Trek.
Both proponents and critics
of this honored philosopher contribute
essays to this
volume, and Hartshorne writes extensive response to each writer.
This
essay, the first in the book, sets out one
of the
volume's major themes: the duty
of the elderly to serve others.
In an overview
essay introducing the published
volume of conference papers, Robert Haveman, a distinguished student
of anti-poverty policies, declared that «the day
of income poverty as a major public issue would appear to be past.»
They recognized that they were not writing independent
essays but were creating sections
of a carefully planned
volume and were aware that their fellow Muslims looked over their shoulders as they Wrote.
In one
of the
essays in this
volume, pastoral theologian Carrie Doehring distinguishes between «theological literacy,» which knows the vocabulary and the right answers to the questions, and «theological fluency,» in which «we «inhabit» our theology as a faith perspective that we use to understand and respond to spiritual and psychological needs.
Her review is suggestive
of broader possibilities for narrative, but those broader possibilities are not the intent
of her
essay, nor
of the
volume and others like it.
4In addition to his article in the present
volume, see e.g., «A Whiteheadian Basis for Pannenberg's Theology,» Encounter 38 (1977): 307 - 17; «A Dialogue About Process Philosophy» (with Wolfhart Pannenberg), Encounter 38 (1977): 318 - 24; «God as the Subjectivity
of the Future,» Encounter 41 (1980): 287 - 92; «The Divine Activity
of the Future,» Process Studies 11/3 (Fall 1981): 169 - 79; and «Creativity in a Future Key,» in New
Essays in Metaphysics, ed.
These shorter
essays of little more than eight hundred words form almost the entirety
of this thoroughly satisfying
volume.
theology's purpose is to give a «rational account
of the truth
of faith,» as Pannenberg stated in his
essay «Faith and Reason» (Basic Questions in Theology,
Volume 11 [Fortress, 197 11, pp. 52 - 53).
The best avenue
of approach is not to jump straight into his great trilogy, Theological Aesthetics (seven
volumes), Theo - Drama (five
volumes) and Theo - Logic (three
volumes), but to wade into some
of his shorter writings like Love Alone Is Credible or A Theology
of History or the
essays in Explorations in Theology.
Jüngel wrote an extended
essay - review
of the first
volume of Pannenberg's Systematic Theology in which, while praising his achievement, he raised some fundamental objections to his program.
It is the doctrine
of the Church» and with it questions
of ministry, sacramentality, and liturgy» that the
essays in this short
volume address.
But McCarthy's best work does not appear in these
volumes, and readers would do well to seek out her
essays, her correspondence with Hannah Arendt, and Memories
of a Catholic Girlhood, a justly celebrated memoir.
The
essays in this
volume present fine examples
of the theological work that results when the Reformation's catholicity and commitment to the unity
of the Church are properly valued and when the need for genuine renewal and reform is posited by Protestants for Protestantism.
Her crowning achievement, Mind: An
Essay on Human Feeling, is paradigmatic
of the «Post-Whiteheadian» philosophizing this
volume celebrates, and it is most appropriate that her spirit, as well as her title, hover over these explorations
of «Philosophy After Whitehead.»
Although his exhaustive Principia Mathematica (with Bertrand Russell, 1910 - 1913) and his revolutionary Process and Reality (1929) stand as twin monuments to his mind's adventures, it is likely that the sensible Aims
of Education and Other
Essays (1929) can claim a wider readership over the past sixty years than the other two
volumes combined.
In an
essay in Bruce Lincoln's
volume Religion, Rebellion, Revolution, Christopher Hill also considers the lay aspect
of Puritanism.4 In a sense, Hill's story picks up where Zaret's and Seaver's leave off.
I have been asked to provide a Christian critique
of Pure Land Buddhism as that is presented in the three
essays with which this
volume begins.
I have introduced him to the reader because in one
of his
essays, prepared for a
volume of which I was an editor, he dealt with the task
of preaching; and in that
essay he used a phrase which is relevant to our present discussion.
The
essays in the Sigmund
volume address both the challenge
of religious pluralism in Latin America and the challenge
of Hispanic immigrants coping with a very different religious circumstance in the U.S. Especially noteworthy in the Witte «Bourdeaux
volume is an
essay by Librarian
of Congress James H. Billington on the vitality
of Orthodoxy in Russia and what Christianity in the West has to receive from it, notably the witness
of the martyrs.