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In Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter, Margaret Miles weaves her memoirs together with reflections on Augustine's Confessions. Having read and reread Augustine's Confessions, in admiration as well as frustration, over the past thirty-five years, Miles brings her memories of childhood and youth in a fundamentalist home into conversation with Augustine's effort to understand his life. The result is a fascinating work of autobiographical and theological reflection....

Education is about learning to think. Much of what we call thinking, however, is a hodge-podge of repetitious self-talk, opinion, and cutting and pasting of second-hand ideas. Moreover, thinking in the present has often been alien to scholars who were tempted to think abstractly. But life and thought belong together and require each other, as Plotinus pointed out many centuries ago: «[T]he object of contemplation is living and life, and the two together are one» (Ennead 3.8.8). Presently, many...

Several years before his death, Augustine of Hippo reviewed his published works, commenting on his purpose in writing each, and correcting, from his present perspective, the mistakes he noticed. Inspired by Augustine's Retractationes, Miles's Recollections and Reconsiderations undertakes a similar project, a critical review of almost fifty years of her publications. Rereading and rethinking in chronological order effectively bonds life and thought into a corpus, a body of work with...

The Wendell Cocktail describes a major social problem, exemplified by the journals of a person with coexisting conditions–mental illness and addiction. Although there are resources for people with each of these conditions–psychiatry for mental illness and twelve-step programs for addiction–there are few effective resources for people with both. Since about half of the mentally ill medicate with an addiction, an increasingly large percentage of the American population is left without adequate...

Explores the epistles’ reception history and their effects in sermons, music, art, literature, and politics over time 1, 2 Peter and Jude Through the Centuries considers three small epistles which are often overlooked in controversial discussions of theology, culture, art, music, politics, and literature. This book offers fresh perspectives on the epistles’ effects in numerous theological and cultural contexts such as slavery, the role of women in marriage, the nature of Christology, and how...

Das Begleitheft zur persönlichen Vertiefung sowie für 40-Tage-Kampagnen! Kein einziger Tag in der Geschichte der Menschheit hat mehr Aufsehen erregt als das Leiden und die Kreuzigung von Jesus von Nazareth. In 40 kurzen Andachten lässt Adam Hamilton dessen dramatische letzte 24 Stunden miterleben. Ergänzt wird dieses Heft durch Anregungen für Gruppen und Hauskreise. Somit fungiert es auch als praktisches Begleitheft für eine 40-Tage-Aktion, etwa während der Passionszeit 2015.

In seinem Bestseller 24 Stunden – Der Tag, der die Welt veränderte nimmt der Autor die Leser mit auf eine Reise ins Herz der Passionszeit, um jenen einzigartigen Tag nachzuerleben, der alles veränderte.