SCM Studyguide to Religious and Spiritual Experience
Title | SCM Studyguide to Religious and Spiritual Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Astley |
Publisher | SCM Press |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2020-02-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0334057981 |
This Studyguide provides a succinct and lucid introduction to the subject for those studying and teaching religion at both undergraduate and GCE AS/A level. By exploring the key areas of both the empirical and theoretical study of religious and spiritual experience, the Studyguide will serve as an accessible and nonpartisan guide to enable its readers to explore the range of challenging data, debates, approaches, and issues that relate to the study of this widespread and significant phenomenon.
SCM Studyguide to Christian Spirituality
Title | SCM Studyguide to Christian Spirituality PDF eBook |
Author | Ross Thompson |
Publisher | Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2008-09-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0334040930 |
TheSCM Studyguide: Christian Spiritualityis designed as an introduction to spirituality for students of all religious backgrounds coming to the subject for the first time.
SCM Studyguide: Christian Ethics
Title | SCM Studyguide: Christian Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Messer Neil |
Publisher | SCM Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2015-04-21 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0334048028 |
Providing the level one student with all they will need to know to understand their course fully, the textbook covers the major areas of ethical theory and methodology that are key to the use of the Bible in Christian ethics, natural law, conscience, various philosophical approaches to ethics and the influence of liberation theologies.
Spirituality, Theology and Mental Health
Title | Spirituality, Theology and Mental Health PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Cook |
Publisher | Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0334046262 |
Theology, Spirituality and Mental Health provides reflections from leading international scholars and practitioners in theology, anthropology, philosophy and psychiatry as to the nature of spirituality and its relevance to constructions of mental disorder and mental healthcare. Key issues are explored in depth, including the nature of spirituality and recent debates concerning its importance in contemporary psychiatric practice, relationship between demons and wellbeing in ancient religious texts and contemporary practice, religious conversion, and the nature and importance of myth and theology in shaping human self understanding. These are used as a basis for exploring some of the overarching intellectual and practical issues that arise when different disciplines engage together with an attempt to better understand the relationship between spirituality and mental health and translate their findings into mental healthcare practice.
SCM Studyguide: Biblical Hermeneutics
Title | SCM Studyguide: Biblical Hermeneutics PDF eBook |
Author | David Holgate |
Publisher | SCM Press |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2019-09-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0334057310 |
The SCM Studyguide: Biblical Hermenuetics offers entry-level undergraduates a framework for interpreting the Bible. The book goes beyond offering guidance on how to do exegesis, and is intended as a practical tool to help readers develop good interpretative strategies for themselves. As such it features pedagogical tools such as Try-it-Out boxes to assist students to develop a tested and thought - through overall interpretative strategy of their own. This fully updated 2nd edition takes into account the changing church and world context, and the new challenges this context brings as students seek to read the Bible with attentiveness, integrity and faithfulness. Table of contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Where Do We Want to Go? 2. Past Experience and Present Expectations 3. Tools for Exegesis 4. Our Reality 5. Committed Readings 6. Enabling Dialogue with the Text 7. Our Goal: Life-Affirming Interpretations Summary of the Interpretative Process References and Further Reading Index of Biblical References Index of Names Index of Subjects
SCM Studyguide to Religious and Spiritual Experience
Title | SCM Studyguide to Religious and Spiritual Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Astley |
Publisher | SCM Press |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2020-03-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0334057965 |
Spiritual, religious, sacred, or mystical experiences may be broadly defined as subjective human experiences that appear to the person undergoing them, or to others, to convey or imply contact with or knowledge about a transcendent power, presence, or superior reality beyond the realm of the physical. Research has shown that these forms of awareness of ‘something beyond’ are of considerable significance in the ordinary lives of very many people, as well as being elements of signal importance in the origin and development of religion: not least by deepening characteristically spiritual or religious attitudes, emotions, beliefs, values and practices, along with fundamental orientations of life and quests for meaning. This Studyguide provides a succinct and lucid introduction to the subject for those studying religion at both undergraduate and GCE AS/A level. By exploring the key areas of both the empirical and theoretical study of religious and spiritual experience, the Studyguide will serve as an accessible and nonpartisan guide to enable its readers to explore the range of challenging data, debates, approaches, and issues that relate to the study of this widespread and significant phenomenon.
SCM Studyguide to Science and Religion
Title | SCM Studyguide to Science and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Dorricott |
Publisher | Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780334029755 |
This undergraduate level one textbook provides an introduction to the apparently incompatible subjects of religion and science. Each chapter contains references for finding out more about particular arguments, be they scientific or religious areas for discussion. Where particularly difficult concepts are referred to in the body of the text, further explanations are provided in boxed sections.