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This book is unique and of great importance for theologians from diverse traditions but who all share the relevance of the academic Reformed discourse. The book focuses on, and forms part of celebrating 500 years since the start of the Reformation during the 16th century. Its purpose is to commemorate the quincentenary anniversary of the Reformation in Europe and to indicate the way in which the rich legacy of this important period in the history of the church and society still influences globally the theological landscape in the fields of Practical Theology, Missiology and Ethics. Specific attention is given to the manner in which the core principles of the Reformation can be utilised for these disciplines and applied in a contemporary context. The Reformation changed the ecclesiastical landscape of the day and still provides the benchmark for theological principles and praxis in many Protestant denominations. This book illustrates and underscores the practical-theological legacy and importance of the Reformation for church and society. The collected works by various theologians reflect on the impact of Reformed Theology on their respective fields of expertise. The original research is based on literature studies and has not been published previously in any form. Its aim is to stimulate discourse in Theology and related disciplines. Although the chapters represent different perspectives, the collective aim is to propose the vast impact of the Reformational views as they relate to the current context. The target audience is Reformed theologians. This book focuses on ways in which the legacy of the Reformation addresses practical and relevant issues for 21st-century believers, scholars and churches. It explores inter alia important homiletical and liturgical aspects of the Reformation and contemplates the importance of continual reformation in this regard. Furthermore, it discusses a Reformed approach to apologetics, evaluates the driving forces behind the Reformation of the 16th century and its relevance to missions today as well as examines the sola Scriptura principle of the Reformation and provides a critical perspective on Prosperity Theology. Several pastoral themes take centre stage before various aspects of xenophobia and civil prejudice are being investigated – both being very relevant topics throughout the world today. The book also focuses on hermeneutics and ethics in a quest for a biblical ethical approach as well as congregational hymns in the Reformed churches of South Africa today. The research outcomes are relevant not only for the South African context, but also globally.

Religion & beliefs --- scripture --- human --- theology --- christian --- life --- spirit --- africa --- preaching --- word --- theory --- pastoral --- theological --- practical --- church --- time --- bible --- world --- african --- care --- biblical --- christ --- luther --- reformed --- reformation --- liturgy --- calvin --- God --- God in Christianity --- John Calvin --- Martin Luther --- Religious text --- Bible --- Theology.

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Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on which they drew. Nevertheless, it has been assumed that the ancient rabbis were committed to maintaining continuity with the past. Moulie Vidas argues on the contrary that structural features of the Talmud were designed to produce a discontinuity with tradition, and that this discontinuity was part and parcel of the rabbis' self-conception. Both this self-conception and these structural features were part of a debate within and beyond the Jewish community about the transmission of tradition. Focusing on the Babylonian Talmud, produced in the rabbinic academies of late ancient Mesopotamia, Vidas analyzes key passages to show how the Talmud's creators contrasted their own voice with that of their predecessors. He also examines Zoroastrian, Christian, and mystical Jewish sources to reconstruct the debates and wide-ranging conversations that shaped the Talmud's literary and intellectual character.

Talmud --- Jewish law --- History. --- Interpretation and construction. --- Amoraic tradition. --- Babylonian Talmud. --- Bava Qamma. --- Christian literature. --- Christian sources. --- Christianity. --- Christians. --- Hekhalot literature. --- Hekhalot tradition. --- Israel. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish genealogy. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish people. --- Jewish tradition. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Mesopotamia. --- Oral Torah. --- Palestinian Talmud. --- Rav Yehuda. --- Sar ha-Torah narrative. --- Scripture. --- Torah study. --- Written Torah. --- Zoroastrian literature. --- Zoroastrian ritual. --- Zoroastrian sources. --- anonymous layer. --- apodictic rulings. --- attributed rulings. --- authority. --- composition. --- dialectic. --- discontinuity. --- genealogical knowledge. --- genealogical tradition. --- intellectual history. --- layered structure. --- literary design. --- liturgy. --- mystical Jewish sources. --- oral tradition. --- rabbinic culture. --- rabbis. --- recitation. --- religious text. --- sacred texts. --- scholarship. --- self-definition. --- self-presentation. --- stam. --- sugya. --- sugyot. --- tanna'im. --- tradition.

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With the publication of The Origins of Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider audience for the first time. A crucial work in the oeuvre of Gershom Scholem, this book details the beginnings of the Kabbalah in twelfth- and thirteenth-century southern France and Spain, showing its rich tradition of repeated attempts to achieve and portray direct experiences of God. The Origins of the Kabbalah is a contribution not only to the history of Jewish medieval mysticism, but also to the study of medieval mysticism in general. Now with a new foreword by David Biale, this book remains essential reading for students of the history of religion.

Abraham Abulafia. --- Abraham bar Hiyya. --- Abraham ben David. --- Abraham ibn Ezra. --- Aggadah. --- Allusion. --- Amidah. --- Asher. --- Azriel (Jewish mystic). --- Bahir. --- Binah (Kabbalah). --- Book of Deuteronomy. --- Books of Kings. --- Catharism. --- Cherub. --- Conceptions of God. --- Consonant. --- Deity. --- Demiurge. --- Ecclesiastes. --- El Shaddai. --- Eleazar of Worms. --- Elijah. --- Elohim. --- Elyon. --- Epistle. --- Epithet. --- Eschatology. --- Etymology. --- Exegesis. --- Ezekiel. --- Figure of speech. --- Gematria. --- Gnosticism. --- God. --- Hasid (term). --- Hebrew language. --- Hebrew literature. --- Heresy. --- Ibn Tibbon. --- Isaac the Blind. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish mysticism. --- Jewish philosophy. --- Jewish prayer. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Kabbalah. --- Keter. --- Ketuvim. --- Kuzari. --- Literature. --- Maimonides. --- Mandaeism. --- Manichaeism. --- Meister Eckhart. --- Merkabah mysticism. --- Metatron. --- Metempsychosis. --- Midrash. --- Mishnah. --- Mishneh Torah. --- Mysticism. --- Names of God in Judaism. --- Names of God. --- Nazirite. --- Neoplatonism. --- Oral Torah. --- Oral tradition. --- Patriarchs (Bible). --- Perushim. --- Philosophy. --- Physiognomy. --- Pistis Sophia. --- Pleroma. --- Polemic. --- Preface (liturgy). --- Psalms. --- Pseudepigrapha. --- Publication. --- Rabbi. --- Rabbinic literature. --- Redaction. --- Reincarnation. --- Religion. --- Religious text. --- Righteousness. --- Samael. --- Sefer (Hebrew). --- Sefer Yetzirah. --- Shekhinah. --- Solomon ibn Gabirol. --- Tefillin. --- The Other Hand. --- Theology. --- Theosophy. --- Torah. --- Tractate. --- Writing. --- Zohar.

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"Spinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza's Religion, she sets out a bold interpretation of Spinoza through a lucid new reading of his masterpiece, the Ethics. Putting the question of religion centre-stage but refusing to convert Spinozism to Christianity, Carlisle reveals that "being in God" unites Spinoza's metaphysics and ethics. Spinoza's Religion unfolds a powerful, inclusive philosophical vision for the modern age--one that is grounded in a profound questioning of how to live a joyful, fully human life. Like Spinoza himself, the Ethics doesn't fit into any ready-made religious category. But Carlisle shows how it wrestles with the question of religion in strikingly original ways, responding both critically and constructively to the diverse, broadly Christian context in which Spinoza lived and worked. Philosophy itself, as Spinoza practiced it, became a spiritual endeavor that expressed his devotion to a truthful, virtuous way of life. Offering startling new insights into Spinoza's famously enigmatic ideas about eternal life and the intellectual love of God, Carlisle uncovers a Spinozist religion that integrates self-knowledge, desire, practice, and embodied ethical life to reach toward our 'highest happiness'--to rest in God. Seen through Carlisle's eyes, the Ethics prompts us to rethink not only Spinoza but also religion itself."--

Metaphysics. --- Spinoza, Benedictus de, --- Spinoza, Benedictus de, --- Spinoza, Benedictus de, --- Religion. --- Ethica (Spinoza, Benedictus de) --- Age of Enlightenment. --- Aristotelianism. --- Atheism. --- Baruch Spinoza. --- Calvinism. --- Causality. --- Christian theology. --- Christian tradition. --- Christianity. --- Cognition. --- Conatus. --- Concept. --- Conceptions of God. --- Consciousness. --- Copyright. --- Critique. --- Definition of religion. --- Deism. --- Divine grace. --- Divine law. --- Dogma. --- Epistemology. --- Essence. --- Eternal life (Christianity). --- Ethics (Spinoza). --- Ethics. --- Ex nihilo. --- Existence of God. --- Existence. --- Explanation. --- Four causes. --- God. --- Good and evil. --- Henry Oldenburg. --- Heresy. --- Hermeneutics. --- Humility. --- Idealism. --- Immanence. --- Intelligibility (philosophy). --- Judaism. --- Justification (theology). --- Lecture. --- Love of God. --- Loving-kindness. --- Lutheranism. --- Magis. --- Meditations. --- Mennonite. --- Modernity. --- Morality. --- Multitude. --- Natural philosophy. --- Neoplatonism. --- Obedience (human behavior). --- Omnipotence. --- Omniscience. --- On Religion. --- Ontology. --- Orthodoxy. --- Panentheism. --- Pantheism. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of religion. --- Philosophy. --- Piety. --- Princeton University Press. --- Principle. --- Proslogion. --- Protestantism. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Relationship between religion and science. --- Religio. --- Religion. --- Religious philosophy. --- Religious text. --- Rhetoric. --- Sadness. --- Secularism. --- Self-love. --- Spinozism. --- Spirituality. --- Stoicism. --- Subjectivism. --- Suggestion. --- Summa Theologica. --- Superstition. --- Supreme Being. --- Søren Kierkegaard. --- Teleology. --- The Philosopher. --- Theology. --- Thomas Aquinas. --- Thomism. --- Thought. --- Treatise. --- Understanding. --- World view. --- Writing.

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A compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William JamesWilliam James—psychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seeker—is one of those rare writers who can speak directly and powerfully to anyone about life’s meaning and worth, and whose ideas change not only how people think but how they live. The thinker who helped found the philosophy of pragmatism and inspire Alcoholics Anonymous, James famously asked, “is life worth living?” Bringing together many of his best and most popular essays, talks, and other writings, this anthology presents James’s answer to that and other existential questions, in his own unique manner—caring, humorous, eloquent, incisive, humble, and forever on the trail of the “ever not quite.”Here we meet a James perfectly attuned to the concerns of today—one who argues for human freedom, articulates a healthy-minded psychology, urges us to explore the stream of consciousness, presents a new definition of truth based on its practical consequences, and never forecloses the possibility of mystical transcendence. Introduced by John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle, these compelling and accessible selections reveal why James is one of the great guides to the business of living.

Philosophy, American --- A Matter of Fact. --- Absolute idealism. --- Admiration. --- Allegory. --- Anecdote. --- Awareness. --- Certainty. --- Consciousness. --- Contentment. --- Courage. --- Customer. --- Depression (mood). --- Discernment. --- Disposition. --- Empirical evidence. --- Ethicist. --- Ethics. --- Existence of God. --- Explanation. --- Faith. --- Faithfulness. --- Feeling. --- Fertility. --- Fine art. --- Gloom. --- Gullibility. --- Hatha yoga. --- Health. --- Hegelianism. --- Human Action. --- Human nature. --- Human power. --- Humility. --- Hypothesis. --- Imagination. --- Immutable object. --- Indeterminism. --- Individualism. --- Ineffability. --- Inkling. --- Instant. --- Irrationality. --- Lightness (philosophy). --- Lightness. --- Logic. --- Loyalty. --- Metaphysics. --- Military service. --- Moisture. --- Moral responsibility. --- Motivation. --- Non-human. --- Obedience (human behavior). --- Omniscience. --- On Truth. --- Optimism. --- Originality. --- Our Choice. --- Perception. --- Pessimism. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Physiology. --- Pragmatism. --- Present day. --- Pride. --- Principle of sufficient reason. --- Principle. --- Rationality. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Rebuttal. --- Religion. --- Religious experience. --- Religious text. --- Result. --- Sanity. --- Saving. --- Self-Reliance. --- Sensibility. --- Seriousness. --- Sobriety. --- Social reality. --- Stoicism. --- Subjectivism. --- Subjectivity. --- Suggestion. --- Supporter. --- Term logic. --- The Light of Day (Graham Swift novel). --- The Nature of Truth. --- The Other Hand. --- Thought. --- Tranquillity. --- Transcendental idealism. --- Transcendentalism. --- Truth. --- Uniformitarianism. --- Utilitarianism. --- Utopia.