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Why Not Her?
A Form and Literary-Critical Interpretation of the Named and Unnamed Women in the Elijah and Elisha Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
In this book, Hye Kyung Park examines the functions and roles of the women who appear in the Elijah and Elisha narratives. The named and unnamed female characters in the Elijah and Elisha cycles frequently drive the plot of these narratives, giving a voice to important theological, historical, and...
The Life of Augustine of Hippo
Part Three: The Pelagian Crisis (411430)
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The seventeenth century was the century of Saint Augustine. In 1695, Louis Sébastien, Le Nain de Tillemont, finished volume 13 of his Mémoires ecclésiastique, entitled La vie de saint Augustin. The volume consisted of approximately 1200 pages wherein Louis Sébastien gathered from the works of...
by Marek Tomecek
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The topic of George Berkeley and common sense is challenging: Berkeley claims that matter does not exist and at the same time he writes a whole book (Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous) on how his system agrees with common sense. However, once we understand why he felt so confident that his...
God and Human Freedom
A Kierkegaardian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
In God and Human Freedom: A Kierkegaardian Perspective Tony Kim discusses Søren Kierkegaard’s concept of historical unity between the divine and human without disparaging their absolute distinction. Kim’s central analysis between the relation of God and human freedom in Kierkegaard presents God’s...
Myth, Mind and Religion
The Apocalyptic Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
The French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss scoured the Amazon forest for the myths of its primitive peoples. He found that a certain logic governed the construction of these myths—his mythologique; he regarded this logic as innate in the human mind and thus universal. Despite this claim of universality,...
by Michael B. Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Analysis of inner-biblical exegesis ordinarily involves examination of the intertextual relationship between two texts within the biblical corpus. But in many cases there is an often overlooked intertext that serves as a bridge between the two texts. Such an intermediary text reads the primary text...
by John C. Peckham
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
The Concept of Divine Love in the Context of the God-World Relationship addresses the significant and far-reaching theological conflict over the nature of God’s love, which is deeply rooted in broader conflicts regarding divine ontology and the nature of the God-world relationship. After engaging...
Both Sides of the Table
Autoethnographies of Educators Learning and Teaching With/In [Dis]ability
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Both Sides of the Table is a set of evocative, heartfelt, personal, and revealing stories, told by educators about how their experiences with disability, personally and in the lives of family members, has affected their understanding of disability. It uses disability studies and critical theory lenses...
Paulo Freire
The Global Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
This collection is the first book devoted to Paulo Freire’s ongoing global legacy to provide an analysis of the continuing relevance and significance of Freire’s work and the impact of his global legacy. The book contains essays by some of the world’s foremost Freire scholars – McLaren, Darder,...
History and Education
Engaging the Global Class War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
History and Education is a text that engages the history of the global class war, from the United States to the former Soviet Union, from the People’s Republic of China to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in order to contribute to the development of communist pedagogy. Central to this...
My Teaching, My Philosophy
Kenneth Wain and the Lifelong Engagement with Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
My Teaching, My Philosophy brings together twenty of the most prominent thinkers on education, philosophy, art, and literature to converse with Kenneth Wain and the many facets of his work. It shows how Wain’s passionate engagement with various issues, most prominently philosophy and education,...
Teachers and Students as Co-Learners
Toward a Mutual Value Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Teaching is hard. Many teachers find it stressful. New teachers often lose their enthusiasm. The special education population is skyrocketing. Students are losing their motivation. What has gone wrong? How can we create powerful learning in students? Most importantly, how can we bring joy back to...
by Ulrike Wiethaus
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Probing deeply into texts by and about prominent Christian mystics, religious authors, and saints, German Mysticism and the Politics of Culture challenges the reader to rethink the medieval past as a contemporary presence. This «presence of the past» shapes memory of place, valorizes the trope of...
Artistic Research Methodology
Narrative, Power and the Public
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Artistic Research Methodology argues for artistic research as a context-aware and historical process that works inside-in, beginning and ending with acts committed within an artistic practice. An artistic researcher has three intertwined tasks. First, she needs to develop and perfect her own artistic...