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Author Talk: Daniel Herman Discusses His Novel, The Feudist
No full textPoster for an event where CWU History professor Daniel Herman discusses his historical novel The Feudisthttps://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/libraryevents/1223/thumbnail.jp
The Impact of the Status of Religion in Contemporary Society upon Interreligious Learning
No full textThe author analyses the growing importance of IRL against the background
of a changing European society. Based on sociological research, the traditional
status of the Christian religion - and the monoreligious education that normally
accompanies it - is seriously being challenged by the process of secularisation
and the growing plurality or religious attitudes and beliefs among people in the
West. Europe has become a complex network of in
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uences that constitute the
actual symbolic
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eld employed by people in their search for truth. The interest for
religion is still very much alive. People are not endlessly indifferent but still hope
to
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nd (religious) truth and meaning, even if this process has become much more
complex today. In this context, interreligious dialogue itself becomes a religious
act. The status given by a religion to other religions is of crucial importance for its
ultimate credibility. In this line of thought, religious education should transcend
both a purely monoreligious approach and a purely objective-comparative
(multireligious) approach, and instead should cultivate in the pupils - at the very
borderlands of the different religious, cultural and geo-political territories - an
attitude of practising interreligious dialogue as a religious event
“The Pondering Repose of If”: Herman Melville’s Literary Exegesis
No full textThis study examines how Herman Melville’s oeuvre interacts with Old Testament (OT) wisdom literature (the Books of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes). Using recent historical findings on the rise of religious skepticism and the erosion of Biblical authority in both Europe and the United States, I read Melville as an author steeped in the theological controversies of the eighteenth-century. Specifically, I am interested in teasing out the surprising disavowals of overt religious skepticism in Melville’s writing. By tracing the so-called Solomonic wisdom tradition throughout Melville’s oeuvre, I argue that Melville had developed an epistemology of contemplation towards that body of Biblical texts. Scholarship has traditionally painted Melville as a subversive if not downright skeptical religious thinker. Most studies have produced authorial readings, using texts as forensic evidence to make assertions about the author’s psychology. Incidentally, such assessments have confirmed the narrative of Herman Melville as a grand failed author of the nineteenth century, while ignoring the ambivalent attitudes toward Biblical authority, textual history, and skepticism that emerge in Melville’s writing. The present study intervenes by re-addressing several procedural questions about Melville’s literary dealings with the Bible: How does Melville deal with the distinct topics of religion, theology, religious skepticism, and doubt? How does he think through the relationship between science and religion as well as that of personal religion and theology? I claim that Melville’s work can be read as a continuous contemplation of Biblical wisdom. His writing, I argue, deals productively rather than a destructive with the Bible, its textual history, and authority. Melville’s thinking on theological and religious subjects was not merely subversive but constructive. In mounting this argument, I contradict current scholarship that reads Melville as trying to invent a new American Bible. In contrast, I show how Melville’s philosophical forays, even when critical, are dependent on the ethics, language, and thinking of the OT.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Englis
Author Herman Wouk with his dog, ca. 1950s
No full textHerman Wouk, author of "The Caine Mutiny" (1951), "Marjorie Morningstar" (1955), "The Winds of War" (1971), "War and Remembrance" (1978) and many other novels. "The Caine Mutiny" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Photo by Angelo Pinto.Digital imageItem is part of an online exhibition "Jews in America: Our Story," maintained by the Center for Jewish History at http://www.jewsinamerica.org
Herman Leicht
No full textNotes - Mr. Herman Leicht's career and education are discussed including his interest and subsequent career in radio and technology. Details are given of his marriage to Doreen Wilkinson and their family life (1 page
Mokslas, menas ir krikščioniškasis identitetas
No full textKrikščionybė reikšmingai prisidėjo ir prie mokslo, ir prie meno raidos. Vis dėlto religijos, mokslo ir meno pokalbis judrus, kai visos trys sritys išsivystė savitą apimtį. Naujos įžvalgos, savisąmonė ir visuomeninė kaita visose religijose bei kultūrose atitolino nuo tradicinio žvilgsnio į mokslą, meną ir religinį gyvenimą. Moderniais laikais pasikeitė ir juslinis pasaulis, vis labiau traktuojamas kaip komunikacija informacijos gausoje. Tiek reformacija, tiek kontrreformacija naudojo tradicinius būdus skleisti savo nuostatas ir dabar drauge susitinka šių dienų pakitusia savisąmone ir bendravimo būdais. Keitėsi ir meno sąvoka – nuo reprezentacinės j simboline, todėl nebėra visuotinių meno supratimo dėsnių, o menas skatina naujas įžvalgas, kurios sukrečia ir išjudina, ugdo vaizduotę ir mąstymą. Tai yra meno šviečiamasis vaidmuo. Labiau imanentinis gyvybės versmės supratimas reiškiamas religine simbolika, kuri nebėra reprezentacinė, tačiau susijusi su žmogaus asmeniniu ieškojimu, klausimais ir atradimais
Krikščioniškos moralinės vertybės ir ugdymo teorijos
No full textVisuomenė pastamosius šimtmečius mainėsi iš nekintamos santvarkos į judrų ir sudėtingą gyvenimo būdą. Amžini ir nekintami dėsniai nebepripažįstami tokie, kokie buvo, o atrodo sąlyginiai, atsižvelgiant į žmogaus ir žmonijos patirtį. Seniau krikščionys savo doros ir etikos nuosprendžius remdavo Bažnyčios mokymu ir dėsniais. Individualistinėje kultūroje, pabrėžiančioje žmogaus laisvę, rinktis, atrodo. nebėra visomis sąlygoms tinkamų visuotinių dėsnių. Keitėsi ne tik vertybių pirmenybės tvarka, bet ir turinys – šeima dabar nebe ta kaip prieš šimtmečius. Tas pats pasakytina apie vertybes - religiją, asmens laisvę, socialinius uždavinius. Tačiau krikščiunybė turi vertybinį branduolį ir pirmenybių tvarką Dievo buvimui tarp žmonių išreikšti. Visos švietimo sistemos ar teorijos pagrįstos savitu žmogaus asmens supratimu, nesvarbu tai – sovietinis kolektyvizmas, technologijos amžiaus samprata ar labai individualistinė. Modernaus gyvenimo sudėtingoje aplinkoje krikščionybės užduotis yra pagrįsti savo paveldo savitumą, reikšmę ir prasmę modernia patirtimi ir suprantamai išreikšti
„World Youth Days. A Testimony to the Hope of Young People”, eds J. Stala & A. Porębski, UPJPII, Kraków 2016
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