Clothing (Compass: Christian Explorations of Daily Living)

Reinhold Niebuhr argued that one of many primary demanding situations to human lifestyles is the anxiousness because of our wish to be excellent and godlike whereas realizing we're constrained and mortal. This ebook explores how human adornment practices negotiate anxieties approximately our finitude. via our garments, we regularly guard ourselves from feeling our human frailty and from having others realize 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 existence, and in turning into greater writers. Lewis stands as the most prolific and influential writers in sleek background. His existence in letters bargains writers necessary 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 used to be this truer than with loss of life. via the start of the 16th century the Medieval Church had demonstrated a cosmopolitan mechanism for facing demise and its results.

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 will be kept. Critics say that makes Balthasar a universalist, and his universalism has turn into a drawback for the evangelical challenge 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 stored?