From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith by Louis Markos
English | August 3rd, 2021 | ISBN: 0830853049 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 1.41 MB
What does Plato have to do with the Christian faith?Quite a bit, it turns out. In ways that might surprise us, Christians throughout the history of the church and even today have inherited aspects of the ancient Greek philosophy of Plato, who was both Socrates's student and Aristotle's teacher.To help us understand the influence of Platonic thought on the Christian faith, Louis Markos offers careful readings of some of Plato's best-known texts and then traces the ways that his work shaped the faith of some of Christianity's most beloved theologians, including Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, Dante, and C. S. Lewis.With Markos's guidance, readers can ascend to a true understanding of Plato's influence on the faith.

Theresa M. Kenney, "All Wonders in One Sight: The Christ Child among the Elizabethan and Stuart Poets"
English | ISBN: 1487509065 | 2021 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In the seventeenth century many leading poets wrote poems about Christ's infancy, though charm and sweetness were not the leading note. Because these poets were university-educated classicists - many of them also Catholic or Anglican priests - they wrote in an elevated style, with elevated language, and their concerns were deeply theological as well as poetic. In an age of religious controversy, their poems had controversial elements, and because these poems were mostly intended for private use and limited circulation, they were not generally singable hymns of public celebration of Christ's birth. However far from dry academic pieces, these poems offer a wide variety of approaches to both their subject, the infant Jesus, and the means of presenting it.

Why Christ Matters: Toward a New Testament Christology By Leander E. Keck
2015 | 188 Pages | ISBN: 1481302973 | PDF | 1 MB
For half a century Leander Keck thought, taught, and wrote about the New Testament. He first served as a Professor of New Testament at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Emory University's Candler School of Theology before becoming Dean and Professor of Biblical Theology at Yale Divinity School. Keck's lifelong work on Jesus and Paul was a catalyst for the emerging discussions of New Testament Christology and Pauline theology in the Society of Biblical Literature and the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. Keck wrote a staggering number of now industry-standard articles on the New Testament. Here, they are all collected for the first time. In Why Christ Matters and Christ's First Theologian, readers will discover how Keck gave new answers to old questions even as he carefully reframed old answers into new questions. Keck's work is a treasure trove of historical, exegetical, and theological interpretation.Editorial ReviewsReviewStudents would do well to disciple themselves to Keck's approach to his subject matter, which is characterized by unusual clarity, independence of judgment, and theological acuity. Pastors and teachers who work through this volume will find in Keck an exemplar of theological reasoning and close engagement with biblical texts.(Joel B. Green Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology)...Keck's essays are solid reminders of important, ongoing debates between historical analysis and theological interpretation of the New Testament writings.(Jeffrey S. Siker Horizons)These essays are creative and valuable for New Testament scholarship.(Wendell Willis Restoration Quarterly)ReviewStellar contributions from one of the outstanding New Testament scholars of the last half-century.(Beverly Gaventa, Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Baylor University)Keck's incisive, magisterial essays are essential reading for all who want to understand New Testament criticism in the twentieth century: its findings, its foibles, and its future prospects.(Richard B. Hays, Dean and George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament, Duke Divinity School)Independent thinking, sound judgment, generous criticism, theological acuity.(Matthew V. Novenson, Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Christian Origins, University of Edinburgh)Decades long in the making...to be welcomed by all.(M. Eugene Boring, I. Wylie Briscoe Professor of New Testament, Emeritus, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University)

Christ Returns - Reveals Startling Truth By Recorder
2010 | 243 Pages | ISBN: 0984457801 | PDF | 2 MB
This is the second edition of a groundbreaking spiritual book which originally appeared under the title Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth. In this astonishing book of letters dictated by the Christ Consciousness in the year 2000, Christ refutes religious dogma and explains in lucid and concrete terms the spiritual and scientific Truth of Existence, and how to connect through daily meditation with Divine Consciousness and overcome the dominance of the ego. The style of writing is accessible to all and gripping. From lay person to spiritual master, the reactions have been strong, and the resulting personal transformations have been widespread and profound. Many have remarked the unusually high vibratory rate of this work. Excerpts from the Letters: Because people are on the threshold of a world crisis of enormous proportions, it is vital for survival that I, the Christ, should reach all who will listen. You know little of the true processes of creation in which you, yourselves,About the AuthorOver 40 years, Christ purified and de-programmed the mind of an Englishwoman who had been educated in a French Catholic convent. In the year 2000 at the age of 80, she began to transcribe under Christ's direction, the teaching she received throughout her years of contact with him. She was told to remain anonymous, and to refer to herself as Recorder. She was told that the Letters should be swiftly publicized and distributed to people seeking Truth. She created a website and self-published her book, but no publicity was done. By word of mouth, the Letters gained recognition, and have been translated into 6 languages. They have found a wide audience particularly in Spain and in May 2009, the book was first published in France by the publisher Interkeltia.

The one Christ : St. Augustine's theology of deification By of Hippo Saint Augustine; Meconi, David Vincent; of Hippo Saint Augustine
2013 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0813221277 | PDF | 2 MB
"Provocative passages on deification abound in St. Augustine of Hippo. He relies on the term 'deification' far more than other Latin fathers do. Even more important, the realilty of the deified life runs throughout every major aspect of Augustine's presentation of Christianity. By tracing how deification and realted metaphors appear throghout Augustine's writing, David Vincent Meconi corrects generations of faulty reading on this crucial patristic theme. For Augustine, the Christian life is essentially an incorporation of the elect into the very person of Christ, forming his mystical body inchoately now in via and perfectly in patria. This is the 'whole Christ, ' the totus Christus, where Christ and Christian become one through the charity of the Holy Spirit and the church's sacraments that elevate and enable men and women to participate in God's own ife. This work opens by showing how the metaphysics of deification are set in principio, as all creation is an imitation of the Logos. Among all creatures, though, the human person alone bears the imago Dei, and emerges as the one called to appropriate God's life freely. For this purpose, the Son becomes human. By treating Augustine's passages on deification both chronologically and constructively, Meconi situates Augustine in a long chorus of Christian pastors and theologians who understand the essence of Christianity as the human person's total and transformative union with God."--Jacket.

Christ and Spirituality in St. Thomas Aquinas By Jean-Pierre Torrell; Bernhard Blankenhorn
2012 | 213 Pages | ISBN: 0813218780 | PDF | 4 MB
Christ and Spirituality in St. Thomas Aquinas: *Takes readers to the heart of St. Thomas Aquinas as a theologian profoundly concerned with the spiritual life*St. Thomas Aquinas's holiness did not flower alongside his endeavor as a theologian or in isolation from it. Rather, it was a fruit of his practice of theology and the asceticism proper to magnanimous souls who dare to examine the mystery of God. Theological affectivity -- charity present through a living faith -- is necessary for an authentic practice of theology. The experience of God, which is essential to the mystical life, is at the heart of Aquinas's study and life. The studies in this volume investigate themes of particular spiritual relevance in Aquinas's theology: friendship, charity, prayer, configuration to Christ, priesthood, preaching. They also reveal Aquinas's entire approach to theology to be guided by the desire to grow spiritually through theologizing. The Angelic Doctor here appears as a Dominican friar whose theology flows from his faith and prayer. Desiring to underscore the Trinitarian character of the Christian life, Aquinas pays careful attention to the human being as created in the image of God. In this light, Aquinas presents Christ as the Exemplar after which we are fashioned and as the model we are to imitate. Christ thus appears in the Summa not only as the way by which the human being must travel toward God but also as the head who leads the rational creature's return to the Creator.