Mediating the Divine
Title | Mediating the Divine PDF eBook |
Author | Alex P. Jassen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 469 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004158421 |
This book is a comprehensive treatment of prophecy and revelation in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It examines the reconfiguration of biblical prophecy and revelation, the portrait of prophecy at the end of days, and the evidence for ongoing prophetic activity.
Mediating Between Heaven and Earth
Title | Mediating Between Heaven and Earth PDF eBook |
Author | C.L. Crouch |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2012-05-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567461629 |
Analyzes the variety of religious practices employed to communicate with deities and to interpret the divine response, including intuitive divination (prophecy), technical divination and prayers.
Maria Mediatrix
Title | Maria Mediatrix PDF eBook |
Author | Clare Marie Snow |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780494974636 |
Mediating Divine Power
Title | Mediating Divine Power PDF eBook |
Author | Pieter F. Craffert |
Publisher | |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN | 9780620252386 |
Divine Discourse
Title | Divine Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Wolterstorff |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 1995-10-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1107393450 |
Prominent in the canonical texts and traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is the claim that God speaks. Nicholas Wolterstorff argues that contemporary speech-action theory, when appropriately expanded, offers us a fascinating way of interpreting this claim and showing its intelligibility. He develops an innovative theory of double-hermeneutics - along the way opposing the current near-consensus led by Ricoeur and Derrida that there is something wrong-headed about interpreting a text to find out what its author said. Wolterstorff argues that at least some of us are entitled to believe that God has spoken. Philosophers have never before, in any sustained fashion, reflected on these matters, mainly because they have mistakenly treated speech as revelation.
The Enoch-Metatron Tradition
Title | The Enoch-Metatron Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Andrei A. Orlov |
Publisher | Mohr Siebeck |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Angels |
ISBN | 9783161485442 |
Andrei A. Orlov examines the tradition about the seventh antediluvian patriarch Enoch, tracing its development from its roots in the Mesopotamian lore to the Second Temple apocalyptic texts and later rabbinic and Hekhalot materials where Enoch is often identified as the supreme angel Metatron. The first part of the book explores the imagery of the celestial roles and titles of the seventh antediluvian hero in Mesopotamian, Enochic and Hekhalot materials. The analysis of the celestial roles and titles shows that the transition from the figure of patriarch Enoch to the figure of angel Metatron occurred already in the Second Temple Enochic materials, namely, in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch, a Jewish work, traditionally dated to the first century CE. The second part of the book demonstrates that mediatorial polemics with the traditions of the exalted patriarchs and prophets played an important role in facilitating the transition from Enoch to Metatron in the Second Temple period.
A Theology for a Mediated God
Title | A Theology for a Mediated God PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Ford |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 123 |
Release | 2015-10-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1317401875 |
A Theology for a Mediated God introduces a new way to examine the shaping effects of media on our notions of God and divinity. In contrast to more conventional social-scientific methodologies and conversations about the relationship between religion and media, Dennis Ford argues that the characteristics we ascribe to a medium can be extended and applied metaphorically to the characteristics we ascribe to God—just as earlier generations attempted to comprehend God through the metaphors of father, shepherd, or mother. As a result, his work both challenges and bridges the gap between students of religion and media, and theology.