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Innocence Uncovered: Literary and Theological Perspectives
by Elizabeth S. Dodd Carl E. Findley IIIInnocence is a rich and emotive idea, but what does it really mean? This is a significant question both for literary interpretation and theology—yet one without a straightforward answer. This volume provides a critical overview of key issues and historical developments in the concept of innocence, delving into its ambivalences and exploring the many transformations of innocence within literature and theology. The contributions in this volume, by leading scholars in their respective fields, provide a range of responses to this critical question. They address literary and theological treatments of innocence from the birth of modernity to the present day. They discuss major symbols and themes surrounding innocence, including purity and sexuality, childhood and inexperience, nostalgia and utopianism, morality and virtue. This interdisciplinary collection explores the many sides of innocence, from aesthetics to ethics, from semantics to metaphysics, examining the significance of innocence as both a concept and a word. The contributions reveal how innocence has progressed through centuries of dramatic alterations, secularizations and subversions, while retaining an enduring relevance as a key concept in human thought, experience, and imagination.
Innocence of Father Brown: A Collection of Short Stories Regarding the Famous Detective (Father Brown Mystery Ser.)
by G. K. ChestertonThis first volume of G. K. Chesterton's mysteries marks the debut of a most unusual detective: Father Paul Brown, a short, stumpy priest with an extraordinary and uncanny ability to spot the evil that lies in human hearts. In these twelve stories, Father Brown uses his wisdom, common sense, and experience as a confessor to solve baffling, fascinating crimes--and save lost souls along the way.Updated for the modern reader, The Innocence of Father Brown is primed to draw in new fans.
Innocent Target: Amish Haven Buried Mountain Secrets Innocent Target (Mills And Boon Love Inspired Suspense Ser.)
by Elisabeth ReesA journalist trying to exonerate her father becomes a serial killer’s next target in this romantic thriller set in a small Oklahoma town.Journalist Kitty Linklater is determined to prove that her father was wrongfully convicted of murder. She’s not about to let anything stop her from uncovering the truth—not even a killer who wants to silence her. With the whole town turned against Kitty, Chief Deputy Ryan Lawrence isn’t convinced of her father’s innocence, but he’s sure she’s in danger. And he’ll put his heart and job on the line to save her life . . . even it costs his own.
Innovating Christian Education Research: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
by Johannes M. Luetz Beth GreenThis book reformulates Christian education as an interdisciplinary and interdenominational vocation for professionals and practitioners. It speaks directly to a range of contemporary contexts with the aim of encouraging conceptual, empirical and practice-informed innovation to build the field of Christian education research. The book invites readers to probe questions concerning epistemologies, ethics, pedagogies and curricula, using multidisciplinary research approaches. By helping thinkers to believe and believers to think, the book seeks to stimulate constructive dialogue about what it means to innovate Christian education research today.Chapters are organised into three main sections. Following an introduction to the volume's guiding framework and intended contribution (Chapter 1), Part 1 features conceptual perspectives and comprises research that develops theological, philosophical and theoretical discussion of Christian education (Chapters 2-13). Part 2 encompasses empirical research that examines data to test theory, answer big questions and develop our understanding of Christian education (Chapters 14-18). Finally, Part 3 reflects on contemporary practice contexts and showcases examples of emerging research agendas in Christian education (Chapters 19-24).
Innovation and Inequality
by Gilles Saint-PaulKarl Marx predicted a world in which technical innovation would increasingly devalue and impoverish workers, but other economists thought the opposite, that it would lead to increased wages and living standards--and the economists were right. Yet in the last three decades, the market economy has been jeopardized by a worrying phenomenon: a rise in wage inequality that has left a substantial portion of the workforce worse off despite the continuing productivity growth enjoyed by the economy. Innovation and Inequality examines why. Studies have firmly established a link between this worrying trend and technical change, in particular the rise of new information technologies. In Innovation and Inequality, Gilles Saint-Paul provides a synthetic theoretical analysis of the most important mechanisms by which technical progress and innovation affect the distribution of income. He discusses the conditions under which skill-biased technical change may reduce the wages of the least skilled, and how improvements in information technology allow "superstars" to increase the scale of their activity at the expense of less talented workers. He shows how the structure of demand changes as the economy becomes wealthier, in ways that may potentially harm the poorest segments of the workforce and economy. An essential text for graduate students and an indispensable resource for researchers, Innovation and Inequality reveals how different categories of workers gain or lose from innovation, and how that gain or loss crucially depends on the nature of the innovation.
Innovation in Early Modern Catholicism
by Ulrich L. LehnerThis volume demonstrates that the Catholic rhetoric of tradition disguised both novelties and creative innovations between 1550 and 1700. Innovation in Early Modern Catholicism reveals that the period between 1550 and 1700 emerged as an intellectually vibrant atmosphere, shaped by the tensions between personal creativity and magisterial authority. The essays explore ideas about grace, physical predetermination, freedom, and probabilism in order to show how the rhetoric of innovation and tradition can be better understood. More importantly, contributors illustrate how disintegrated historiographies, which often excluded Catholicism as a source of innovation, can be overcome. Not only were new systems of metaphysics crafted in the early modern period, but so too was a new conceptual language to deal with the pressing problems of human freedom and grace, natural law, and Marian piety. Overall, the volume shines significant light on hitherto neglected or misunderstood traits in the understanding of early modern Catholic culture. Re-presenting early modern Catholicism more crucially than any other currently available study, Innovation in Early Modern Catholicism is a useful tool for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars in the fields of philosophy, early modern studies, and the history of theology.
Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present (Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities)
by Georgiana D. Hedesan Tim RudbøgThis collection explores the role of innovation in understanding the history of esotericism. It illustrates how innovation is a mechanism of negotiation whereby an idea is either produced against, or adapted from, an older set of concepts in order to respond to a present context. Featuring contributions from distinguished scholars of esotericism, it covers many different fields and themes including magic, alchemy, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, Tarot, apocalypticism and eschatology, Mesmerism, occultism, prophecy, and mysticism.
Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation (Early Modern Exchange)
by Shannon McHugh and Anna WainwrightThe enduring "black legend" of the Italian Counter-Reformation, which has held sway in both scholarly and popular culture, maintains that the Council of Trent ushered in a cultural dark age in Italy, snuffing out the spectacular creative production of the Renaissance. As a result, the decades following Trent have been mostly overlooked in Italian literary studies, in particular. The thirteen essays of Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation present a radical reconsideration of literary production in post-Tridentine Italy. With particular attention to the much-maligned tradition of spiritual literature, the volume’s contributors weave literary analysis together with religion, theater, art, music, science, and gender to demonstrate that the literature of this period not only merits study but is positively innovative. Contributors include such renowned critics as Virginia Cox and Amadeo Quondam, two of the leading scholars on the Italian Counter-Reformation.Distributed for UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS
Innovation in the Orthodox Christian Tradition?: The Question of Change in Greek Orthodox Thought and Practice
by Trine Stauning Willert Lina Molokotos-LiedermanThe relationship between tradition and innovation in Orthodox Christianity has often been problematic, filled with tensions and contradictions starting from the Byzantine era and running through the 19th and 20th centuries. For a long period of time scholars have typically assumed Greek Orthodoxy to be a static religious tradition with little room for renewal or change. Although this public perception continues, the immutability of the Greek Orthodox tradition has been questioned by several scholars over the past few years. This book continues this line of reasoning, but brings it into the centre of contemporary discussion. Presenting case studies from different periods of history up to the present day, the authors trace different aspects in the development of innovation and renewal in Orthodox Christianity in the Greek-speaking world and among the Diaspora.
Innovation's Dirty Little Secret: Why Serial Innovators Succeed Where Others Fail
by Larry OsborneMost books on innovation make it sound as if successful innovation is the end result of a carefully followed recipe. But the simple fact is that when it comes to any new venture, failure is the surest horse to bet on. Respected pastor and author, Larry Osborne, explains how understanding this dirty little secret behind innovation can bring both stability and creativity to organizations, especially those with teams of people that focus on innovation, creativity, new ideas, and problem-solving. Using the wisdom and principles found in this book, you will be free to lead dynamically without causing uncertainty or insecurity in your organization. In Innovation’s Dirty Little Secret, you’ll learn: How to foster innovation’s most powerful igniters and accelerators while avoiding the most common killers of innovation How to recognize and break through ceilings of complexity and competency The six pitfalls of growth and what you can do to avoid them The three questions every leader needs to ask before launching any new endeavor
Innovation's Dirty Little Secret: Why Serial Innovators Succeed Where Others Fail (Leadership Network Innovation Series)
by Larry OsborneMost books on innovation make it sound as if successful innovation is the end result of a carefully followed recipe. But the simple fact is that when it comes to any new venture, failure is the surest horse to bet on. Respected pastor and author, Larry Osborne, explains how understanding this dirty little secret behind innovation can bring both stability and creativity to organizations, especially those with teams of people that focus on innovation, creativity, new ideas, and problem-solving. Using the wisdom and principles found in this book, you will be free to lead dynamically without causing uncertainty or insecurity in your organization. In Innovation’s Dirty Little Secret, you’ll learn:How to foster innovation’s most powerful igniters and accelerators while avoiding the most common killers of innovationHow to recognize and break through ceilings of complexity and competencyThe six pitfalls of growth and what you can do to avoid themThe three questions every leader needs to ask before launching any new endeavor
Innovative Catholicism and the Human Condition (Routledge Studies in Religion)
by Jane AndersonInnovative Catholicism and the Human Condition gives an anthropological account of a progressive religious movement in the Roman Catholic Church that is attempting to reconcile religious conviction and reason, and, ergo, modify the human condition. Investigation is given to a representative group of this movement, "Innovative Catholics," who are endeavouring to maintain the momentum for change which began in the 1960s and 1970s. They now find themselves caught between traditional notions of religion and a secularised society, while trying to reconcile these polarising forces to find a pathway forward. While ethnographic fieldwork for this research was conducted in Australia, this movement is to be found across the Western world. The research is framed by the question posed by Jürgen Habermas, who asks whether the democratic constitutional state is able to renew itself, and recognises a benefit in learning from religion. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, subsequently Pope Benedict XVI, responds by asserting the need for a common ethical basis and limits on reason. This latter position, however, remains problematic for Innovative Catholics who are conscious of history and culture. The research explores how Innovative Catholics, who in taking the middle position, inform this dialectic on secularization through their ideas and practices about the human condition.
Inocencia, Saber y Asombro: ¿Qué pasó con la capacidad de asombro que sentía cuando era niño?
by Osho¿Qué pasó con la capacidad de asombro que sentía cuando era niño? Inocencia, saber y asombro es un discurso en el que Osho reflexiona, a través de anécdotas y experiencias, qué son la inocencia y el saber, y por qué es tan importante vivir a partir de una ideología en apariencia insignificante, pero que en realidad esconde todas las respuestas al misterio de la existencia humana. La inocencia es la puerta; a la belleza se entra a través de la inocencia. Cuanto más inocente te vuelves, más hermosa es la existencia. Cuanto más sabes, más fea se va haciendo la existencia, porque empiezas a funcionar desde las conclusiones, empiezas a funcionar desde el saber.
Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity: Religious Dissent in the Russian and Romanian Borderlands (Routledge New Religions)
by James A. KapalóThis book explores the history and evolution of Inochentism, a controversial new religious movement that emerged in the Russian and Romanian borderlands of what is now Moldova and Ukraine in the context of the Russian revolutionary period. It centres around the charismatic preaching of Inochentie, a monk of the Orthodox Church, who inspired an apocalyptic movement that was soon labelled heretical by the Orthodox Church and persecuted as socially and politically subversive by Soviet and Romanian state authorities. Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity charts the emergence and development of Inochentism through the twentieth century based on hagiographies, oral testimonies, press reports, state legislation and a wealth of previously unstudied police and secret police archival material. Focusing on the role that religious persecution and social marginalization played in the transformation of this understudied and much vilified group, the author explores a series of counter-narratives that challenge the mainstream historiography of the movement and highlight the significance of the concept of ‘liminality’ in relation to the study of new religious movements and Orthodoxy. This book constitutes a systematic historical study of an Eastern European ‘home-grown’ religious movement taking a ‘grass-roots’ approach to the problem of minority religious identities in twentieth century Eastern Europe. Consequently, it will be of great interest to scholars of new religions movements, religious history and Russian and Eastern European studies.
Inquebrantable: Desarme el plan de Satanás para destruir su fundamento
by John EckhardtUSTED DEBE SER CONSTANTE, INAMOVIBLE Y ESTAR FIRMEMENTE PLANTADO EN DIOS PARA SOVREVIVIR EN ESTE MUNDO INESTABLE. Todos conocemos a personas que a veces actúan como polos opuestos: el ministro que es devoto, dedicado a la oración y santo, a veces, no obstante, tiene períodos de pecado y perversión; la persona alegre y extrovertida puede padecer episodios de aislamiento y depresión; o la persona gentil y bondadosa, de pronto puede tener momentos de exabruptos e ira.Inquebrantable constituye una enseñanza diferente a cualquier otra, del autor de éxitos de venta John Eckhardt, sobre cómo quebrantar la fuerza demoníaca más dominante; el doble ánimo. A través de este poderoso libro, usted podrá desarrollar una identidad sólida y semejante a la de Cristo, la cual no será fácilmente conmovida por este mundo. Usted aprenderá cómo vencer las manifestaciones del espíritu de doble ánimo que causan: Relaciones rotas y divorciosIndecisión y pasividadHeridas y ofensas por parte de líderes inestablesAmarguras y enojosTemor y rechazoEnfermedades y dolencias arraigadas en lo espiritual¡ Y mucho más!
Inquebrantables (Unbreakable Spanish Edition)
by Daniel Habif«Este es un libro que no acepta resúmenes. No forma parte de los títulos que tachas y vas a otra cosa. No es un trofeo, ni un manual de procedimientos. No es una tesis, ni un texto académico. Si tu intención es pasar por él sin dejar que él lo haga por ti, no servirá de nada. El dinero lo podrás recuperar, pero te advierto que el tiempo se habrá ido para siempre. Su belleza no está en las palabras que yo escribí, sino en las que tú generes con él. Está compuesto de mil pedazos míos, trozos sueltos de mi alma y de mi carne: un alcázar edificado con todas las piedras que me han lanzado, una diadema confeccionada con las perlas que he recibido. Hallarás soledades y alegrías, anhelos y zozobras, inquietudes y esperanzas, clamores y murmullos. No fue fácil desprenderme de ellos». —Daniel HabifInquebrantables reúne y expande los mensajes de inspiración y motivación más populares que han tenido el mayor impacto y que representan mejor a Daniel Habif como orador motivacional.
Inquebrantables, Edición del quinto aniversario
by Daniel HabifEn su primer libro, Inquebrantables, Daniel Habif, proporciona inspiración y motivación para ayudar al lector superar obstáculos y crear la vida que desea vivir.Más que un libro de autoayuda, Inquebrantables ofrece un manifiesto que invita al lector a participar en el proceso de romper patrones y crear la vida que desean en las áreas de la familia, el amor, el matrimonio, carrera profesional y la vida. «No lo escribí con la intención de que te enganches; es todo lo contrario. Lo escribí para que cada página detone en ti una necesidad de dejarlo, para que pongas una marca y vayas a perseguir lo que resuena dentro de ti», escribe Habif.Inquebrantables reúne y expande los mensajes de inspiración que mayor impacto han tenido y que mejor representan a Daniel Habif como orador motivacional y lo presentan en un libro que también ofrece:El manifestó de los Inquebrantables que resuena con sus miles de seguidoresEjercicios prácticos para ayudar a los lectores a superar obstáculos personales en todas las áreas de sus vidasCitas poderosas para reflexionar, inspirar y transformarCartas abiertas, directamente del corazón del autor, al lector y la sociedadInquebrantables es un libro para todas las edades, una chispa que enciende pasiones, el despertar de una vocación que te morderá por dentro, un manifiesto a la mejora continua. Sus páginas están impresas con la versión más afilada de la irreverencia, el humor y el ímpetu que caracteriza a Daniel Habif.Unbreakable In his first book, Inquebrantables, Daniel Habif provides inspiration and motivation to help the reader overcome obstacles and create the life he or she wants.More than a self-help book, Inquebrantables offers a manifesto that invites the reader to participate in the process of breaking patterns and creating the life they desire in the areas of family, love, marriage, career, and life. "I didn't write this book with the intention of getting you hooked; it's just the opposite. I wrote it so that every page triggers a need for you to stop, bookmark the page, and go after whatever resonates within you," writes Habif.Inquebrantables gathers and expands the inspirational messages that have had the greatest impact and that best represent Daniel Habif as a motivational speaker. This best-selling book also includes:The official Inquebrantables Manifesto that resonates with his millions of followersPractical exercises to help readers overcome personal obstacles in all areas of their livesPowerful quotes to reflect, inspire, and transformOpen letters, directly from the heart of the author, to the reader and societyInquebrantables is a book for all ages, a spark that ignites passions, an awakening that burns inside, and a manifesto for continuous improvement. Its pages are printed with the sharpest version of the irreverence, humor, and impetus that characterizes Daniel Habif.
Inquilab: Bhagat Singh on Religion and Revolution
by Syed Irfan HabibExtolled for his extraordinary courage and sacrifice, Bhagat Singh is one of our most venerated freedom fighters. He is valourised for his martyrdom, and rightly so, but in the ensuing enthusiasm, most of us forget, or consciously ignore, his contributions as an intellectual and a thinker. He not only sacrificed his life, like many others did before and after him, but he also had a vision of independent India. In the current political climate, when it has become routine to appropriate Bhagat Singh as a nationalist icon, not much is known or spoken about his nationalist vision. Inquilab provides a corrective to such a situation by bringing together some of Bhagat Singh's seminal writings on his pluralist and egalitarian vision. It compels the reader to see that while continuing to celebrate the memory of Bhagat Singh as a martyr and a nationalist, we must also learn about his intellectual legacy. This important book also makes a majority of these writings, hitherto only available in Hindi, accessible for the first time to the English-language readership.
Inquiry Into The Origin Of Humanity: An Annotated Translation Of Tsung-mi's Yuan Jen Lun With A Modern Commentary (Kuroda Classics In East Asian Buddhism Ser. #4)
by Peter N. GregoryInquiry Into the Origin of Humanity: An Annotated Translation of Tsung-mi's Yuan jen lun (Kuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism, 4)
Inquiry into the New Testament: Ancient Context to Contemporary Significance
by David Landry John MartensThe enormous cultural impact of the Bible--and in particular, the New Testament--has given people of all backgrounds and traditions at least some familiarity with it. Yet the Bible remains one of the most misread and misunderstood books of all time. Given the sheer variety of interpretive and critical methods, perhaps this isn't altogether surprising.
Inquisition and Power
by John H. ArnoldWhat should historians do with the words of the dead? Inquisition and Power reformulates the historiography of heresy and the inquisition by focusing on depositions taken from the Cathars, a religious sect that opposed the Catholic church and took root in southern France during the twelfth century. Despite the fact that these depositions were spoken in the vernacular, but recorded in Latin in the third person and rewritten in the past tense, historians have often taken these accounts as verbatim transcriptions of personal testimony. This belief has prompted some historians, including E. Le Roy Ladurie, to go so far as to retranslate the testimonies into the first-person. These testimonies have been a long source of controversy for historians and scholars of the Middle Ages.Arnold enters current theoretical debates about subjectivity and the nature of power to develop reading strategies that will permit a more nuanced reinterpretation of these documents of interrogation. Rather than seeking to recover the true voice of the Cathars from behind the inquisitor's framework, this book shows how the historian is better served by analyzing texts as sites of competing discourses that construct and position a variety of subjectivities. In this critically informed history, Arnold suggests that what we do with the voices of history in fact has as much to do with ourselves as with those we seek to 'rescue' from the silences of past.
Inquisition: The Reign of Fear
by Toby GreenA journey across centuries of religious conflict Toby Green's incredible new book brings a vast panorama to life by focusing on the untold stories of individuals from all walks of life and every section of society who were affected by the Inquisition. From witches in Mexico, bigamists in Brazil, Freemasons, Hindus, Jews, Moslems and Protestants, the Inquisition reached every aspect of society. This history, though filled with stories of terror and the unspeakable ways in which human beings can treat one another, is ultimately one of hope, underscoring the resilience of the human spirit. Stretching from the unification of Spain under Ferdinand and Isabella in the fifteenth century to the Napoleanic wars, The Inquisition details this incredible history in all its richness and complexity.
Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt (SUNY series in Islam)
by Mohammed RustomInrushes of the Heart delves deeply into the life and thought of 'Ayn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī (d. 525/1131), a major Muslim philosopher, Sufi master, and religious judge who was executed by the Seljuq government at the age of thirty-four. Mohammed Rustom presents nearly eight hundred passages in translation (most of which appear here for the first time in English) from 'Ayn al-Quḍāt's Arabic and Persian writings alongside a step-by-step commentary that outlines every major theme that guides his worldview. Contextualizing 'Ayn al-Quḍāt's life, influence, and self-perception as a teacher and scholar extraordinaire, the book then carefully unpacks his highly original teachings on God, cosmology, human agency, spiritual practice, imagination, death, knowledge, scripture, beauty, and love.
Insane for the Light: A Spirituality for Our Wisdom Years
by Ronald RolheiserA spiritual journey through life&’s final years and its &“mellowing of souls&”—the long-awaited conclusion of Father Rolheiser&’s trilogy of modern spiritual classics, following The Holy Longing and Sacred Fire&“Ronald Rolheiser is one of the great Christian spiritual writers of our time, as well as one of my own personal favorites.&”—James Martin, SJ, author of Jesus: A PilgrimageEach phase of life presents us with its own unique opportunity to connect with God and to bless those around us—even and perhaps especially in those later decades when careers, raising kids, and mortgage payments are behind us. So argues beloved author Ronald Rolheiser. During life&’s first years, we embark on a search for meaning and discover in ourselves a profound, unquenchable thirst for the Divine. And when we reach adulthood, we realize that we are called to give our lives away―to our spouses, children, careers, friends, and neighbors in need. But in the end, we must learn to let it all go.In this highly anticipated conclusion to Father Rolheiser&’s spiritual classics, The Holy Longing and Sacred Fire, and with characteristic attentiveness and care, Rolheiser accompanies readers on a spiritual journey through life&’s final years and the mellowing of our souls. In these years, bitterness can give way to forgiveness, mere imagination to profound and subtle faith, wishful optimism to virtuous hope, and control to surrender. Readers will learn to see in Jesus a model for a spirituality of holy passivity rather than activity and find in him the courage to overcome the darkest nights of faith.Drawing on the work of John of the Cross and Henri Nouwen, Rolheiser outlines a spirituality capable of giving away one&’s death―and by that a spirituality of truly living.
Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium
by Youval RotmanIn the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing individuals whose apparent madness allowed them to achieve a higher level of spirituality. Youval Rotman examines how the figure of the mad saint or mystic was used as a means of individual and collective transformation prior to the rise is Islam.