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Iconen en beeldverering: godsdienst als symbolische praktijk
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ISBN: 9789085064114 9085064112 Year: 2007 Volume: *9 Publisher: Amsterdam SUN

Idolatry and representation : the philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig reconsidered
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ISBN: 0691048509 0691144273 1400823587 9786612767012 1282767011 1400810930 9781400810932 9781400823581 6612767014 9780691048505 9781282767010 9780691144276 1400800382 1400800390 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Although Franz Rosenzweig is arguably the most important Jewish philosopher of the twentieth century, his thought remains little understood. Here, Leora Batnitzky argues that Rosenzweig's redirection of German-Jewish ethical monotheism anticipates and challenges contemporary trends in religious studies, ethics, philosophy, anthropology, theology, and biblical studies. This text, which captures the hermeneutical movement of Rosenzweig's corpus, is the first to consider the full import of the cultural criticism articulated in his writings on the modern meanings of art, language, ethics, and national identity. In the process, the book solves significant conundrums about Rosenzweig's relation to German idealism, to other major Jewish thinkers, to Jewish political life, and to Christianity, and brings Rosenzweig into conversation with key contemporary thinkers. Drawing on Rosenzweig's view that Judaism's ban on idolatry is the crucial intellectual and spiritual resource available to respond to the social implications of human finitude, Batnitzky interrogates idolatry as a modern possibility. Her analysis speaks not only to the question of Judaism's relationship to modernity (and vice versa), but also to the generic question of the present's relationship to the past--a subject of great importance to anyone contemplating the modern statuses of religious tradition, reason, science, and historical inquiry. By way of Rosenzweig, Batnitzky argues that contemporary philosophers and ethicists must relearn their approaches to religious traditions and texts to address today's central ethical problems.

Theology, ideology and liberation : towards a liberative theology
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ISBN: 0521464765 0521072298 0511896085 Year: 1994 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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How is theology liberating? In the context of a post-Gorbachev world, where many demand freedom which the Western powers seem ill-equipped to deliver, is it even possible to envisage a liberative theology? Taking as his starting point the Marxist complaint that Christianity is ideological, Peter Scott argues that it is not enough for Christian theology to talk about liberation: it must be liberative. Stressing with feminist and liberation theologies the embodied, contextual nature of theology, the constructive proposal made here locates God's liberating abundance toward society in an interpretation of resurrection as social. Only in this way, in the author's view, can a trinitarian Christian account of liberation be adequately grounded. The book will be of interest to all those who wish to know if theology may speak truthfully about the transformation of society: it offers the shape of a liberative theology pointing towards social freedom.


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De Koran uitgelegd
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ISBN: 9789089649898 9089649891 9789085284253 9789048529797 9789048529803 9085284252 9048529794 9048529808 9784048529797 Year: 2017 Publisher: Antwerpen Halewijn

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