Clothing (Compass: Christian Explorations of Daily Living)

Reinhold Niebuhr argued that one of many basic demanding situations to human life is the nervousness attributable to our wish to be excellent and godlike whereas figuring out we're restricted and mortal. This ebook explores how human adornment practices negotiate anxieties approximately our finitude. via our garments, we frequently protect ourselves from feeling our human frailty and from having others become aware of our emotional, actual, and religious 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 paintings of Writing is written for readers drawn to C. S. Lewis, the writing lifestyles, and in changing into higher writers. Lewis stands as the most prolific and influential writers in glossy historical past. His existence in letters deals writers helpful 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 nearly each element in their religion and to reorder their day-by-day lives in view in their new ideals. Nowhere was once this truer than with demise. by means of 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 could be kept. Critics say that makes Balthasar a universalist, and his universalism has turn into a drawback for the evangelical undertaking of the church. Why might someone evangelize and search to transform others to the Christian religion whether it is guaranteed that everybody could be kept?