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 Free Download Alison L. Joseph, "Portrait of the Kings: The Davidic Prototype in Deuteronomistic Poetics" English | ISBN: 1451465661 | 2015 | 284 pages | EPUB | 3 MB Much of the scholarship on the book of Kings has focused on questions of the historicity of the events described. Alison L. Joseph turns her attention instead to the literary characterization of Israels kings. By examining the narrative techniques used in the Deuteronomistic History to portray Israels kings, Joseph shows that the Deuteronomist in the days of the Josianic Reform constructed David as a model of adherence to the covenant, and Jeroboam, conversely, as the ideal opposite of David. The redactor further characterized other kings along one or the other of these two models.  Free Download Matthew B. Arbo, "Political Vanity: Adam Ferguson on the Moral Tensions of Early Capitalism" English | ISBN: 1451482752 | 2014 | 200 pages | EPUB | 456 KB Political Vanity aims to illuminate the central debates over the historical, moral, and political legitimacy of market capitalism by engaging central theorists of the Scottish Enlightenment, in particular the philosopher and sociologist Adam Ferguson. Ferguson was a contemporary of philosophers and economists David Hume and Adam Smith, and actively questioned many of the pillars of early capitalism on theological grounds. Namely: conjectural histories used to justify economic liberalization reduction of human action to production and consumption the inevitable tendency of capitalist power to undermine political institutionsFerguson argued that far from equalizing and liberating, the unfettered market left to its own devices takes the form of despot, enslaving civil society in bonds of its own making. His ideas continue to have theological, philosophical, and ethical relevance today.  Free Download Cyril Hovorun, "Political Orthodoxies: The Unorthodoxies of the Church Coerced " English | ISBN: 1506431607 | 2018 | 224 pages | EPUB | 4 MB Dispatches on nationalism and religion  Free Download Political Authority in Burma's Ethnic Minority States: Devolution, Occupation, and Coexistence By Mary Callahan 2007 | 112 Pages | ISBN: 9812304630 | PDF | 1 MB This study examines the enormous variation and complexity that characterize relationships between the national state and locally-based, often non-state actors who negotiate and compete for political authority in Burma's ethnic minority-dominated states along the borders. Three patterns of relationships are explored: devolution by the national state to warlord-like local authorities; occupation by the Burmese military; and coexistence (with varying degrees of cooperation and understanding) among actors from the national state and local stakeholders. Throughout these border states, leaders of the Burmese government's armed forces and of past and currently-active armed opposition forces operate within a context that is neither war nor peace, but instead a kind of post-civil-war, not-quite-peace environment. To understand the complex political arrangements that have arisen in this environment, this monograph employs the concept of "emerging political complex" - a set of adaptive networks that link state and other political authorities to domestic and foreign business concerns (some legal, others illegal), traditional indigenous leaders, religious authorities, overseas refugee and diaspora communities, political party leaders, and nongovernmental organizations. All of these players make rules, extract resources, provide protection, and try to order a moral universe, but none of them are able, or even inclined, to trump the others for monolithic national supremacy. Conflict resolution strategies have to recognize that these emerging political complexes are not simply unfortunate bumps in the road to peace but instead constitute intricate and evolving social systems that may continue to be adapted and sustained.  Free Download Michael J. S. Bruno, "Political Augustinianism: Modern Interpretations of Augustine's Political Thought" English | ISBN: 1451482698 | 2014 | 224 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Alongside Saint Thomas Aquinas, the thought of Saint Augustine stands as one of the central fountainheads of not only theology but Western social and political theory. In the twentieth century especially, Augustine has been pivotal to the development of modern and contemporary political and social construction. Schools of Augustinianism proliferated, especially in French, German, and English, and debated critical questions around the relationship of the church and state, war, justice, ethics, virtue, and the life of citizenship, interpreted through a lens provided by Augustine.  Free Download Jr. Evans, James H., "Playing " English | ISBN: 080069726X | 2010 | 99 pages | EPUB | 121 KB "Playing often connotes frivolity. But James Evans, in this insightful reflection, offers another view: playing lies at the heart of Christian faith in the triune God. Through a close examination of African-American literature and experience, and a re-examination of basic doctrinal affirmations, Evans recovers play as a subversive and even revolutionary activity, a practice of faith that gives life in the midst of structures and authorities that suffocate. In this light, Jesus becomes the political, cultural and religious player who redeems by changing the game so that it no longer excludes but instead gives life. God creates us for freedom in a field of play. The Spirit summons us toward God's Reign, where the freedom of play never ends. Playing, in this view, is hardly frivolous, but the pulse of life itself. Evans invites us to play as we live and work" - ✅Publisher description.  Free Download Plant Genomics 2019: Volume II by Frank M. You English | PDF | 2023 | 586 Pages | ISBN : 3036580905 | 104.5 MB  Free Download Plant Genomics 2019: Volume I by Frank M. You English | PDF | 2023 | 592 Pages | ISBN : 3036580883 | 106.8 MB  Free Download Grace Ji-Sun Kim, "Planetary Solidarity: Global Women's Voices on Christian Doctrine and Climate Justice" English | ISBN: 150643262X | 2017 | 392 pages | EPUB | 4 MB Planetary Solidarity brings together leading Latina, womanist, Asian American, Anglican American, South American, Asian, European, and African woman theologians on the issues of doctrine, women, and climate justice. Because women make up the majority of the world's poor and tend to be more dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods and survival, they are more vulnerable when it comes to climate-related changes and catastrophes. Representing a subfield of feminist theology that uses doctrine as interlocutor, this book ask how Christian doctrine might address the interconnected suffering of women and the earth in an age of climate change. While doctrine has often stifled change, it also forms the thread that weaves Christian communities together. Drawing on postcolonial ecofeminist/womanist analysis and representing different ecclesial and denominational traditions, contributors use doctrine to envision possibilities for a deep solidarity with the earth and one another while addressing the intersection of gender, race, class, and ethnicity. The book is organized around the following doctrines: creation, the triune God, anthropology, sin, incarnation, redemption, the Holy Spirit, ecclesiology, and eschatology.  Free Download Piracy in Southeast Asia: Status, Issues, and Responses By Derek Johnson (editor); Mark Valencia (editor) 2005 | 210 Pages | ISBN: 9812305890 | PDF | 1 MB In the Southeast Asian context where the incidence and violence of piracy have been growing and where maritime terrorism is a threat with potentially horrific consequences, there is an urgent need to come up with innovative ways to counter maritime violence. Beyond providing a solid foundation for the analysis of maritime piracy in Southeast Asia, the book also gives considerable attention to the challenges of regional cooperation. It is indeed regional cooperation that can make a major impact on piracy if more effective collaboration can be negotiated. The immediate practical challenge that emerges clearly from the contributions to this book is the need to continue to support initiatives to build trust and cooperation at the regional level in Southeast Asia. |
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