The Mestizo Augustine
Title | The Mestizo Augustine PDF eBook |
Author | Justo L. González |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2016-11-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830873082 |
Few thinkers have been as influential as Augustine of Hippo, yet we easily forget he was a man of two cultures: African and Greco-Roman. Cuban American historian and theologian Justo González presents Augustine as a "mestizo" (mixed) theologian, using the perspective of his own Latino heritage to find in the bishop of Hippo a remarkable resource for the church today.
On the Road with Saint Augustine
Title | On the Road with Saint Augustine PDF eBook |
Author | James K. A. Smith |
Publisher | Brazos Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 149341996X |
★ Publishers Weekly starred review One of the Top 100 Books and One of the 5 Best Books in Religion for 2019, Publishers Weekly Christianity Today 2020 Book Award Winner (Spiritual Formation) Outreach 2020 Resource of the Year (Spiritual Growth) Foreword INDIES 2019 Honorable Mention for Religion This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows far more about us than we might expect. Following Smith's successful You Are What You Love, this book shows how Augustine can be a pilgrim guide to a spirituality that meets the complicated world we live in. Augustine, says Smith, is the patron saint of restless hearts--a guide who has been there, asked our questions, and knows our frustrations and failed pursuits. Augustine spent a lifetime searching for his heart's true home and he can help us find our way. "What makes Augustine a guide worth considering," says Smith, "is that he knows where home is, where rest can be found, what peace feels like, even if it is sometimes ephemeral and elusive along the way." Addressing believers and skeptics alike, this book shows how Augustine's timeless wisdom speaks to the worries and struggles of contemporary life, covering topics such as ambition, sex, friendship, freedom, parenthood, and death. As Smith vividly and colorfully brings Augustine to life for 21st-century readers, he also offers a fresh articulation of Christianity that speaks to our deepest hungers, fears, and hopes.
Christian Thought Revisited
Title | Christian Thought Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | Justo L. Gonzlez |
Publisher | Orbis Books |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1608331962 |
First published in 1989, Christian Thought Revisited offers an overview of three basic models of theology in Western Christianity. The purpose of this categorization is to help students understand the validity and application of all three models in the study of theology today. Gonzalez has updated the discussion on each model to include contemporary concerns.
Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"
Title | Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" PDF eBook |
Author | Alcira Duenas |
Publisher | University Press of Colorado |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2010-06-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1607320193 |
Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial rule, these writings challenged colonial hierarchies and ethnic discrimination in attempts to redefine the Andean role in colonial society. Scholars have long assumed that Spanish rule remained largely undisputed in Peru between the 1570s and 1780s, but educated elite Indians and mestizos challenged the legitimacy of Spanish rule, criticized colonial injustice and exclusion, and articulated the ideas that would later be embraced in the Great Rebellion in 1781. Their movement extended across the Atlantic as the scholars visited the seat of the Spanish empire to negotiate with the king and his advisors for social reform, lobbied diverse networks of supporters in Madrid and Peru, and struggled for admission to religious orders, schools and universities, and positions in ecclesiastic and civil administration. Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" explores how scholars contributed to social change and transformation of colonial culture through legal, cultural, and political activism, and how, ultimately, their significant colonial critiques and campaigns redefined colonial public life and discourse. It will be of interest to scholars and students of colonial history, colonial literature, Hispanic studies, and Latin American studies.
The Theology of Augustine
Title | The Theology of Augustine PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Levering |
Publisher | Baker Books |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2013-03-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1441240454 |
Most theology students realize Augustine is tremendously influential on the Christian tradition as a whole, but they generally lack real knowledge of his writings. This volume introduces Augustine's theology through seven of his most important works. Matthew Levering begins with a discussion of Augustine's life and times and then provides a full survey of the argument of each work with bibliographical references for those who wish to go further. Written in clear, accessible language, this book offers an essential introduction to major works of Augustine that all students of theology--and their professors!--need to know.
Once Blind
Title | Once Blind PDF eBook |
Author | Kay Marshall Strom |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2008-01-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0830857214 |
Kay Marshall Strom tells the story of how John Newton, the famous writer of Amazing Grace, was converted in a life-threatening storm and went on to become a powerful voice against the slave trade.
C.S. Lewis, My Godfather
Title | C.S. Lewis, My Godfather PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence Harwood |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0830834982 |
Laurence Harwood presents his memories and interactions with godfather C. S. Lewis, spanning Harwood's early boyhood to young adulthood. This book contributes to a more complete portrait of Lewis and focuses on Lewis's friendships with a boy and his father.