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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461541503321

Autore

Gill Robin

Titolo

Changing Worlds [[electronic resource] ] : Can the Church Respond?

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2002

ISBN

1-283-19720-0

9786613197207

0-567-36939-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Disciplina

262.7

Soggetti

Christianity -- Forecasting

Church and the world

Church renewal

Church

Church - Forecasting

Christianity

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Introduction: Theology After September 11; Part 1 Changing moral perceptions; 1 Religion and the Environment; 2 The Arms Trade; 3 Media Ethics and the Lambeth Conference; 4 Sexual Ethics; Part 2 Changing patterns of churchgoing; 5 Churchgoing Decline - A Case-study; 6 Responses to Churchgoing Decline; 7 Beyond Decline - Three Case-studies; Part 3 Changing approaches to theology; 8 Beyond Confessional Theology; 9 Changes in Applied Theology; 10 Sociology and Theology; Conclusion; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Churches everywhere are experiencing change. In his thought-provoking book, Professor Robin Gill identifies the main challenges facing the church and reflects on how Christians should respond.He first studies the immense moral challenges of our rapidly changing world: religion and the environment, the arms trade (including



reflection on the global situation since the attack on New York on 11 September 2001), media ethics and the Lambeth Conference, and sexual ethics.The second part focuses on the changing patterns of churchgoing and addresses anxieties about churchgoing decline in the West, wh

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780250703321

Autore

Hasan-Rokem Galit

Titolo

Tales of the neighborhood : Jewish narrative dialogues in late antiquity / / Galit Hasan-Rokem

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-282-35687-9

9786612356872

0-520-92894-6

1-59734-930-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 208 pages)

Collana

The Taubman lectures in Jewish studies ; ; 4

Disciplina

398.2/089/924

Soggetti

Jews - Israel - Galilee

Jewish legends - History and criticism

Rabbinical literature - History and criticism

Women in rabbinical literature

Folklore in rabbinical literature

Galilee (Israel) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-190) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Erecting the Fence: Texts, Contexts, Theories, and Strategies -- 2. Peeping through a Hole: Comparing and Borrowing -- 3. Building the Gate, or Neighbors Make Good Fences -- 4. The Evasive Center: Hadrian, the Old Man, the Neighbor, and the Rabbinic Rhetoric of the Empire -- 5. Between Us: A Conclusion -- Notes -- Index of Ancient Sources and Authors -- General Index -- Index of Modern Authors



Sommario/riassunto

In this lively and intellectually engaging book, Galit Hasan-Rokem shows that religion is shaped not only in the halls of theological disputation and institutions of divine study, but also in ordinary events of everyday life. Common aspects of human relations offer a major source for the symbols of religious texts and rituals of late antique Judaism as well as its partner in narrative dialogues, early Christianity, Hasan-Rokem argues. Focusing on the "neighborhood" of the Galilee that is the birthplace of many major religious and cultural developments, this book brings to life the riddles, parables, and folktales passed down in Rabbinic stories from the first half of the first millennium of the Common Era.