Signifying God
Title | Signifying God PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Beckwith |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 313 |
Release | 2001-11 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0226041344 |
In Signifying God, Sarah Beckwith explores the most lavish, long-lasting, and complex form of collective theatrical enterprise in English history: the York Corpus Christi plays. First staged as early as 1376, the plays were performed annually until the late 1500s and involved as much as a tenth of the city in multiple performances at a dozen or more locations. Introducing a radical new understanding of these plays as "sacramental theater," Beckwith shows how organizing the plays served as a political mechanism for regulating labor, and how theater and sacrament combined in them to do important theological work. She argues, for instance, that the theology of Corpus Christi in the resurrection plays can only be understood as a theatrical exploration of eucharistic absence and presence. Beckwith frames her study with discussions of twentieth-century manifestations of sacramental theater in Barry Unsworth's novel Morality Play and Denys Arcand's film Jesus of Montreal, and the connections between contemporary revivals of the York Corpus Christi plays and England's heritage culture.
Signifying God
Title | Signifying God PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Beckwith |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0226041336 |
In Signifying God, Sarah Beckwith explores the most lavish, long-lasting, and complex form of collective theatrical enterprise in English history: the York Corpus Christi plays. First staged as early as 1376, the plays were performed annually until the late 1500s and involved as much as a tenth of the city in multiple performances at a dozen or more locations. Introducing a radical new understanding of these plays as "sacramental theater," Beckwith shows how organizing the plays served as a political mechanism for regulating labor, and how theater and sacrament combined in them to do important theological work. She argues, for instance, that the theology of Corpus Christi in the resurrection plays can only be understood as a theatrical exploration of eucharistic absence and presence. Beckwith frames her study with discussions of twentieth-century manifestations of sacramental theater in Barry Unsworth's novel Morality Play and Denys Arcand's film Jesus of Montreal, and the connections between contemporary revivals of the York Corpus Christi plays and England's heritage culture.
The Pleasures of God
Title | The Pleasures of God PDF eBook |
Author | John Piper |
Publisher | Multnomah |
Total Pages | 401 |
Release | 2000-06-26 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1576736652 |
The author of Desiring God reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Includes a study guide for individual and small-group use. Isn’t it true—we really don’t know someone until we understand what makes that person happy? And so it is with God! What does bring delight to the happiest Being in the universe? John Piper writes, that it’s only when we know what makes God glad that we’ll know the greatness of His glory. Therefore, we must comprehend “the pleasures of God.” Unlike so much of what is written today, this is not a book about us. It is about the One we were made for—God Himself. In this theological masterpiece—chosen by World Magazine as one of the 20th Century’s top 100 books, John Piper reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Then we will be able to drink deeply—and satisfyingly—from the only well that offers living water. What followers of Jesus need now, more than anything else, is to know and love—behold and embrace—the great, glorious, sovereign, happy God of the Bible. “This is a unique and precious book that everybody should read more than once.” —J.I. PACKER, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia
Jesus the Christ
Title | Jesus the Christ PDF eBook |
Author | James Edward Talmage |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 832 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Christian biography |
ISBN |
Retrieving Nicaea
Title | Retrieving Nicaea PDF eBook |
Author | Khaled Anatolios |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2011-08-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1441231951 |
Khaled Anatolios, a noted expert on the development of Nicene theology, offers a historically informed theological study of the development of the doctrine of the Trinity, showing its relevance to Christian life and thought today. According to Anatolios, the development of trinitarian doctrine involved a global interpretation of Christian faith as a whole. Consequently, the meaning of trinitarian doctrine is to be found in a reappropriation of the process of this development, such that the entirety of Christian existence is interpreted in a trinitarian manner. The book provides essential resources for this reappropriation by identifying the network of theological issues that comprise the "systematic scope" of Nicene theology, focusing especially on the trinitarian perspectives of three major theologians: Athanasius, Gregory of Nyssa, and Augustine. It includes a foreword by Brian E. Daley.
Excellent Encouragements Against Afflictions, Containing David's Triumph Over Distress, on Psalm XXVII, David's Heart's Desire, on Psalm LXXXIV, the Church's Exercise Under Affliction, on Psalm LXXXV, the Great Charter of the Church, on Psalm LXXXVII
Title | Excellent Encouragements Against Afflictions, Containing David's Triumph Over Distress, on Psalm XXVII, David's Heart's Desire, on Psalm LXXXIV, the Church's Exercise Under Affliction, on Psalm LXXXV, the Great Charter of the Church, on Psalm LXXXVII PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Pierson (Preacher of God's Word.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 198 |
Release | 1868 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Unitarian Principles Confirmed by Trinitarian Testimonies
Title | Unitarian Principles Confirmed by Trinitarian Testimonies PDF eBook |
Author | John Wilson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 530 |
Release | 1884 |
Genre | Trinity |
ISBN |