1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458565103321

Autore

Flanagan William G (William George), <1942->

Titolo

Ireland now [[electronic resource] ] : tales of change from the global island / / William Flanagan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007

ISBN

0-268-07964-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

941.70824

Soggetti

National characteristics, Irish

Electronic books.

Ireland Economic conditions

Ireland Social conditions

Ireland Social life and customs 20th century

Ireland Social life and customs 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-278).

Nota di contenuto

There is no map of Ireland -- In the teeth of the tiger -- Strangers at home -- No traditions without change : listeners make the music -- Passing on the farms : from family to Euro-business -- Parish life : the job of keeping the faith in changing times -- The new Irish -- Global Ireland and places called home.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459350903321

Autore

Davies Douglas James

Titolo

The theology of death [[electronic resource] /] / Douglas J. Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : T & T Clark, 2008

ISBN

1-282-86824-1

9786612868245

0-567-34647-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Disciplina

236/.1

Soggetti

Death - Religious aspects - Christianity

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

Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Corpse, Coffin and Cross; 3. Baptism and Marriage; 4. Liturgies, Life and Death; 5. Heaven and Hell; 6. Longings; 7. Grave, Grove and Rapture; 8. Cremation, Burial and Change; 9. Life-Death Balance; 10. To Live and Live again; Bibliography; Index; Biblical References

Sommario/riassunto

The first part of the book is grounded in biblical issues and in historical and philosophical theology. It seeks to establish several schemes of death theology related, for example, to early Christianity's Jewish cultural milieu, to belief in Christ's resurrection and to Christology, to issues of millennial belief and to an emergent liturgical practice. The rise of notions of the soul in relation to medieval thought and practice and the place of death in reformation theology are both covered, as is the role of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Finally the rise of biblical theology is consi