Anxiety, Guilt and Freedom

Religious Studies Perspectives (Essays in Honor of Donald Gard)

Benjamin J. Hubbard, Bradley E. Starr (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

1990
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-8191-7683-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Discusses three concepts crucial to an understanding of the nature of religion: anxiety, guilt, and freedom. The various essays examine these from the viewpoint of several different religious traditions, movements and thinkers. Contents: Editor's Preface. Donald Gard: A Personal Perspective. Part I. Guiltless Morality; The Family of Changing Woman: Nature and Women in Navaho Thought; The Sacraments as "Fear-provoking" and "Awe-inspiring" Rites in the Greek Fathers; The Doctrine of Karma; Two Concepts of Predestination in Current Islamic Thought. Part II. The Spirit of Medieval Penitents; The Evolution of Freedom as Catholicity in Catholic Ethics; Agape and the Liberation Movements. Part III. Calvin's Idea of Freedom in the Ethics of Schleiermacher and Barth; Creativity and Freedom in the Thought of Martin Buber; The Liberating Visions of C. G. Jung; 'The World's Most Perverse Habit'; Appendix: Study Questions.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.1990
• Verlagsort: Lanham, MD
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 454 g
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• ISBN-10: 0-8191-7683-4 / 0819176834
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8191-7683-7 / 9780819176837
• Zustand: Neuware