Clothing (Compass: Christian Explorations of Daily Living)

Reinhold Niebuhr argued that one of many primary demanding situations to human life is the anxiousness attributable to our wish to be ideal and godlike whereas figuring out we're constrained and mortal. This booklet explores how human adornment practices negotiate anxieties approximately our finitude. via our garments, we regularly defend ourselves from feeling our human frailty and from having others observe 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 some of the most prolific and influential writers in sleek background. His existence in letters deals writers beneficial encouragement and guide 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 loss of life. through the start of the 16th century the Medieval Church had verified a cosmopolitan mechanism for facing dying and its effects.

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