Islām and the People of the Book Volumes 1-3
Critical Studies on the Covenants of The Prophet
Islam and the People of the Book features three dozen scholarly studies on the treaties that the Prophet Muhammad concluded with Jewish, Samaritan, Christian, and Zoroastrian communities, along with translations of Six Covenants of the Prophet in over a dozen languages. The combined effort of over forty-five academics, intellectuals, and translators from around the world, this work powerfully confirms the conclusions drawn by Dr John Andrew Morrow in his critically-acclaimed book on The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World, offers unprecedented insight into…
Over forty-five academics present scholarly studies on the treaties Prophet Muhammad concluded with Jewish, Christian, and other communities. This work offers unprecedented insight into the pluralistic nature of the state he created and includes translations of his Six Covenants.
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Based on a medieval extrabiblical Christian legend, the figure of the Wandering Jew has long served as a negative representation of all Jews. Condemned by Christ to endless wandering and everlasting life, the Wandering Jew has lived on ever since in literature and criticism as a legendary and symbolic paradigm, ranging from anti-Jewish stereotype to the generalized cultural Other. While Romanticism took him outside of the Jewish context, nineteenth-century antisemitic racism again adopted the figure in an evolving discourse that culminated in his image in Nazi propaganda as the despicable,…
The Wandering Jew began as an anti-Jewish stereotype. This work shifts the focus to the Jewish Other, exploring how Jewish writers and thinkers have subverted and reinvented the figure to confront modern issues of uprootedness, migration, and human rights.
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Tales of “saints”, whether told by their adherents or detractors, frequently featured the holy person’s dealings with members of other religions or cultures, or the stories themselves were appropriated by different religious or cultural groups. As such narratives moved from one social, cultural, religious or chronological milieu to another, the representation and meaning of the given holy person and the manner of his/her dealing with the religious other also often changed. As basic storylines remained recognizable, the transformations of specific details often provide important clues about shifts in attitudes over…
As tales of holy people moved across cultures and time, their meanings transformed. While basic storylines remained, changing details reveal important shifts in attitudes. This volume presents case studies from early China to Christian, Muslim, and Jewish contexts.
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Romantic Daemons in the Poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats
Beyond the Human
This book offers detailed readings of relevant works by Blake, Shelley and Keats, to bring together what is loosely termed as Hermetic tradition, British Romantic poetry and responses to the present crises regarding our life on the planet, including those linked to the notion of posthumanism. This conjunction of forces, so to speak, points beyond the boundaries erected by general sociological complacency and the acceptance of humankind as the centre of existence on Earth, to affirm the value of the non-human world and the possibilities inherent in an awareness of…
This book connects the poetry of Blake, Shelley, and Keats to the Hermetic tradition and our planetary crisis. It challenges human-centered views to affirm the value of the non-human world and the heightened consciousness found within their exalted works.
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Secularism in French Cultural Discourse
Timeless Laïcité
This book explores the interplay between literature and law, showing how writers from Victor Hugo to Annie Ernaux have influenced and reflected changes in secularism. The book examines pivotal moments like the Dreyfus Affair, intellectuals' roles during the World Wars, and French socio-political shifts, highlighting literature's engagement with religious freedom, church-state separation, and equality. Focusing on post-1964 developments, it discusses the rise of the "specific intellectual" and integrates philosophical and sociological insights into literary analysis, offering a comprehensive view of laïcité beyond legal interpretations. This multidisciplinary approach reveals how literature…
This book explores the interplay between literature and law, revealing how writers have shaped French secularism. It examines pivotal debates on religious freedom, church-state separation, and equality, offering a view of laïcité beyond purely legal interpretations.
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Teaching C. S. Lewis
A Handbook for Professors, Church Leaders, and Lewis Enthusiasts
This handbook provides a practical guide for teachers and non-academic C.S. Lewis enthusiasts who lead Lewis study groups. It can eliminate the weeks of research necessary to build a course from scratch and can also be used by students as a supplementary text. The chapters cover all of Lewis’s novels, plus Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters. Each chapter includes the following components: I. A biographical sketch of Lewis’s life at the time he was composing the book, including his sources and influences. This section provides basic background for a…
This practical guide for C.S. Lewis study groups eliminates weeks of research. Covering his novels, Mere Christianity, and The Screwtape Letters, each chapter includes biographical sketches, chapter summaries, discussion themes, and study questions.
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This study explores the survival of Roman Catholic doctrine and visual imagery in the alchemical treatises composed by members of the Lutheran and Anglican confessions during the Renaissance and Early Modern periods. It discusses the reasons for such unexpected confessional survivals in a time of extreme Protestant iconoclasm and religious reform. The book presents an analysis of the manner in which Catholic doctrines concerning the Virgin Mary, the Holy Trinity and the Eucharist were an essential factor in the development of alchemical theory and illustration from the medieval period to…
This study explores the survival of Roman Catholic doctrine and visual imagery in the alchemical treatises composed by members of the Lutheran and Anglican confessions during the Renaissance and Early Modern periods.
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Atheism, Morality, and the Kingdom of God
A Philosophical and Literary Investigation
This treatise explores both the beguiling fancy that without God, moral virtue is not possible, and the dream that human fulfillment awaits the faithful in an afterlife Kingdom. It shows that Jesus’ Parables of the Kingdom of God, once stripped of their deceptive theological overlay, reveal an account of real-time flourishing that is secular, constituted by virtue, and incompatible with the life of faith (total dedication to a deity). Part I establishes that morality and human virtue are indeed fully independent of God’s very existence, while Parts II and III…
This treatise argues that moral virtue is independent of God. It shows that Jesus’ Parables, stripped of their theological overlay, reveal an account of real-time, secular flourishing—a good life incompatible with faith and achievable only here and now.
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Jews in an Illusion of Paradise
Dust and Ashes Volume One—Comedians and Catastrophes
The focus of this volume is on essential themes, images and generic patterns, beginning with a Talmudic legend about four scholars. They, by means of daring mystical interpretations of Scripture, entered a Paradise, representing different means of imaginative reading, perception, memory and application of the law. One of them died, one went mad, another became a heretic and the other came back as a traditional exegete and teacher. Based on that legend, this book examines a small group of late 19th and early 20th century European Jewish intellectuals and artists…
Simms looks into a small group of 19th and 20th century European Jewish intellectuals and artists in the light of their dreams, writings, and moments of crisis. His focus is on essential themes, images and generic patterns, beginning with a Talmudic legend about four scholars.
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Confessional Theology?
A Critical Analysis of the Theology of Karl Barth and its Significance for the Belhar Confession
Christian confessions are usually seen as statements of faith which has no relationship with politics. The result is a tendency to view these documents as theological but not political. This study discusses this misconception but adds that although these documents are not to be perceived as political per se, that they can nonetheless not ignore the political contexts from which they emerge. Two confesional documents are discussed to illustrate the point, viz the Barmen Theological Declaration (1934) in Nazi-Germany as well as the Belhar Confession…
Christian confessions are often seen as purely theological, but this study argues they cannot ignore their political contexts. It explores the link through Karl Barth’s theology, examining the Barmen Declaration in Nazi Germany and the Belhar Confession.
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Jews in an Illusion of Paradise
Dust and Ashes Volume Two—Falling out of Place and into History
These further six chapters of Jews in an Illusion of Paradise now focus on individual exemplary figures and clusters of poets, dramatists, critics, journalists, art historians—Jews whose achievements were once celebrated, but now are almost all but forgotten, not because of changes in aesthetic taste or style but because of social, political and other ideological issues. The book continues to examine the clash between their conscious and unconscious self-presentation as Jews in a culture that wilfully or inadvertently misunderstood or rejected this aspect of “otherness” the men and…
Focusing on exemplary Jewish poets, artists, and critics once celebrated but now forgotten—not due to taste, but to social and political issues. This book examines their repressed anxieties and the clash with a culture that rejected their “otherness.”
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Scientific Discourse in John Donne’s Eschatological Poetry offers a compelling critique of John Donne’s religious and erotic poetry, focusing on the intersection of two seemingly antithetical discourses: the language of the scientific revolution and of Christian eschatology. Throughout its three chapters, which correspond to three scientific disciplines – cartography, physics and alchemy – the volume examines the ways in which the references to early modern and medieval science in Donne’s poetry contribute to conceptualizing the Christian mystery of death.
This book offers a compelling critique of John Donne’s poetry, focusing on the intersection of science and Christian eschatology. It examines how references to cartography, physics, and alchemy contribute to conceptualizing the Christian mystery of death.
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Essays on Moses from Buenos Aires
Moses in Three Traditions and in Literature
Essays on Moses from Buenos Aires: Moses in Three Traditions and in Literature brings together papers presented at the International Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Seminar in Biblical Characters in Three Traditions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and in Literature. In 2015, this Meeting took place at the Pontifical Catholic University in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the biblical character of concern being Moses, resulting in a myriad of approaches taken in understanding traditions concerning him. The Seminar has provided a forum for scholars of the three traditions and…
Deriving from a meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, this collection is concerned with Moses, helping to understand traditions concerning him. It provides information on the development of learned opinions on the biblical character.
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