Charity and giving in monotheistic religion [[electronic resource] /] / [edited by] Miriam Frenkel and Yaacov Lev

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455028103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-29602-7; 9786612296024; 3-11-021683-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (430 p.)
• Collana: Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients, , 1862-1295 ; ; Bd. 22
• Altri autori (Persone): FrenkelMiriam; LevYaacov
• Disciplina: 205/.677
• Soggetti: Generosity; Generosity - Religious aspects; Monotheism; Charity; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. The World of Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages -- The Early Byzantine State and the Christian Ideal of Voluntary Poverty -- Charitable Ministrations (Diakoniai), Monasticism, and the Social Aesthetic of Sixth-Century Byzantium -- Charity and Piety as Episcopal and Imperial Virtues in Late Antiquity -- Healing the world with righteousness ? The language of social justice in early Christian homilies -- Almsgiving, Donatio Pro Anima and Eucharistic Offering in the Early Middle Ages of Western Europe (4th-9th century) -- Part Two. Medieval Islam -- Christian Pious Foundations as an Element of Continuity between Late Antiquity and Islam -- Charity and Piety for the Transformation of the Cities -- Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria -- Forms and Functions of Charity in Al-Andalus -- "When Death Will Fall Upon Him": Charitable Legacies in 15th Century Granada. -- Charity and Gift Giving in Medieval Islam -- Charity and Repentance in Medieval Islamic Thought ; and Practice -- Part Three. The Jewish World -- Geniza Documents for the Comparative History of Poverty and Charity -- Charity in Jewish Society of the Medieval Mediterranean World -- Benefaction (Ni ma), Gratitude (Shukr), and the Politics of Giving and Receiving in Letters from the Cairo Geniza -- An Indigent Scholar's Plea for Charity: A Geniza Letter
• Sommario/riassunto: This book deals with various manifestations of charity or giving in the contexts of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim societies in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages. Monotheistic charity and giving display many common features. These underlying similarities reflect a commonly shared view about God and his relations to mankind and what humans owe to God and expect from him. Nevertheless, the fact that the emphasis is placed on similarities does not mean that the uniqueness of the concepts of charity and giving in the three monotheistic religions is denied. The contributors of the book deal with such heterogeneous topics like the language of social justice in early Christian homilies as well as charity and pious endowments in medieval Syria, Egypt and al-Andalus during the 11th-15th centuries. This wide range of approaches distinguish the book from other works on charity and giving in monotheistic religions.

Essential primary care / / edited by Andrew Blythe, Jessica Buchan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910466104903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; ; Hoboken, NJ : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-78785-069-2; 1-118-86760-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (793 pages) : illustrations (some color)
• Disciplina: 362.1071422/6
• Soggetti: Primary health care - Great Britain; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Giving beyond the gift : apophasis and overcoming theomania / / Elliot R. Wolfson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789199503321
• Autore: Wolfson Elliot R
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014
• ISBN: 0-8232-5572-7; 0-8232-5571-9; 0-8232-5573-5; 0-8232-6107-7; 0-8232-5574-3
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (576 p.)
• Disciplina: 181/.06
• Soggetti: Jewish philosophy - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: imagination and the prism of the inapparent -- 1. Via negativa and the imaginal configuring of God -- 2. Apophatic vision and overcoming the dialogical -- 3. Echo of the otherwise and the lure of theolatry -- 4. Secrecy of the gift and the gift of secrecy -- 5. Immanent atheology and the trace of transcendence -- 6. Undoing (k)not of apophaticism: a Heideggerian afterthought.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the co-dependency of monotheism and idolatry by examining the thought of several prominent twentieth-century Jewish philosophers—Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, and Levinas. While all of these thinkers were keenly aware of the pitfalls of scriptural theism, to differing degrees they each succumbed to the temptation to personify transcendence, even as they tried either to circumvent or to restrain it by apophatically purging kataphatic descriptions of the deity. Derrida and Wyschogrod, by contrast, carried the project of denegation one step further, embarking on a path that culminated in the aporetic suspension of belief and the consequent removal of all images from God, a move that seriously compromises the viability of devotional piety.The inquiry into apophasis, transcendence, and immanence in these Jewish thinkers is symptomatic of a larger question. Recent ; attempts to harness the apophatic tradition to construct a viable postmodern negative theology, a religion without religion, are not radical enough. Not only are these philosophies of transcendence guilty of a turn to theology that defies the phenomenological presupposition of an immanent phenomenality, but they fall short on their own terms, inasmuch as they persist in employing metaphorical language that personalizes transcendence and thereby runs the risk of undermining the irreducible alterity and invisibility attributed to the transcendent other.The logic of apophasis, if permitted to run its course fully, would exceed the need to posit some form of transcendence that is not ultimately a facet of immanence. Apophatic theologies, accordingly, must be supplanted by a more far-reaching apophasis that surpasses the theolatrous impulse lying coiled at the crux of theism, an apophasis of apophasis, based on accepting an absolute nothingness—to be distinguished from the nothingness of an absolute—that does not signify the unknowable One but rather the manifold that is the pleromatic abyss at being’s core. Hence, the much-celebrated metaphor of the gift must give way to the more neutral and less theologically charged notion of an unconditional givenness in which the distinction between giver and given collapses. To think givenness in its most elemental, phenomenological sense is to allow the apparent to appear as given without presuming a causal agency that would turn that given into a gift.

Le riz / Par Auguste Chevalier et André Angladette

• Record Nr.: UNINA990007499490403321
• Autore: Chevalier, Auguste
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Paris, : Presses Universitaires de France, 1948
• Descrizione fisica: 127 p. ; 21 cm
• Collana: Que sais-je?
• Locazione: ILFGE; FAGBC
• Collocazione: C-03-113; F ECO 165
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia