Clothing (Compass: Christian Explorations of Daily Living)

Reinhold Niebuhr argued that one of many basic demanding situations to human lifestyles is the anxiousness brought on by our wish to be ideal and godlike whereas figuring out we're constrained and mortal. This ebook explores how human adornment practices negotiate anxieties approximately our finitude. via our garments, we frequently defend ourselves from feeling our human frailty and from having others become aware of our emotional, actual, and non secular vulnerabilities.

C. S. Lewis and the Art of Writing: What the Essayist, Poet, Novelist, Literary Critic, Apologist, Memoirist, Theologian Teaches Us about the Life and Craft of Writing

C. S. Lewis and the artwork of Writing is written for readers attracted to C. S. Lewis, the writing lifestyles, and in turning into larger writers. Lewis stands as probably the most prolific and influential writers in glossy historical past. His existence in letters bargains writers useful encouragement and guideline within the writing craft.

Reforming the Art of Dying: The ars moriendi in the German Reformation (1519–1528) (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)

The Reformation led those that embraced Martin Luther's teachings to revise almost each point in their religion and to reorder their day-by-day lives in view in their new ideals. Nowhere used to be this truer than with demise. through the start of the 16th century the Medieval Church had tested a worldly mechanism for facing loss of life and its outcomes.

The Eschatological Judgment of Christ: The Hope of Universal Salvation and the Fear of Eternal Perdition in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar

Hans Urs von Balthasar hopes that every one can be kept. Critics say that makes Balthasar a universalist, and his universalism has turn into a quandary for the evangelical venture of the church. Why might a person evangelize and search to transform others to the Christian religion whether it is guaranteed that everybody may be kept?