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A sympathetic critique of Ruether's views which finds a number of significant points of contact but also major disagreements on some topics.
The Woman Will Overcome The Warrior: A Dialogue with the Christian/ Feminist Theology of Rosemary Radford Ruether
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A sympathetic critique of Ruether's views which finds a number of significant points of contact but also major disagreements on some topics.
A Vision with a Task: Christian Schooling for Responsive Discipleship
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A Vision with a Task is a “how to” book for Christian schools, though the “hows” are clearly rooted in the “whys”. Written by a team of teacher-scholars working together for a year at the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship, this is now considered a classic text for Christian educators. Co-authors Gloria Stronks (Coordinator), Doug Blomberg (Editor), Bob Koole, Peter de Boer, Steve Vryhof and Harro Van Brummelen imagined two schools – a well-established suburban one and its newer, downtown annexe – as sites in which to explore practical ways of advancing Christian discipleship formation across the spectrum of learning. Conversations among fictional teachers intersperse more didactic text, mirroring the rhythm of learning espoused in the book, that of “play, problem-posing, purposeful response.” This “rhythm” is also a model for curriculum, and has been employed in a number of locations, including by the Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools. Wisdom and Curriculum is in many respects a sequel to this book.
An abridged version of this book has been published in Mandarin and a Spanish translation is currently being prepared.
Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture, and the Electronic Media
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“Believers of every faith will find Dancing in the Dark a source of revelation and provocation as they try to make sense of contemporary American culture. I daresay even skeptics will find light in its pages, and the beginning point for important conversations about how to create a more humane society.” —Bill Moyers
“This is an outstanding critical examination of the role of the electronic media in packaging popular culture for youthful consumption. By integrating insightful historical, sociological, artistic, and literary analysis, the authors of Dancing in the Dark avoid simplistic judgmental explanations. The relationship between youth and the electronic media is seen instead as a symbiotic one—the media need the youth market for their economic survival, while youth, who are in search for their own identity, need the guidance, nurture, and constructed reality which the media provide…. This book is must reading for youth workers, ministers, teachers, parents, or anyone who wants a better understanding of the effect of popular culture, contained in the electronic media, upon youth today.” —Jack Balswick, Fuller Theological Seminary
Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory: The Redemption of Illusion
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Theodor W. Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory is a vast labyrinth that anyone interested in modern aesthetic theory must at some time enter. Because of his immense difficulty—of the same order as Derrida’s—Adorno’s reception has been slowed by the lack of a comprehensive and comprehensible account of the intentions of his aesthetics. This is the first book to put Aesthetic Theory into context and outline the main ideas and relevant debates, offering readers a valuable guide through this huge, difficult, but revelatory work. Its extended argument is that, despite Adorno’s assumptions of autonomism, cognitivist, and aesthetic modernism, his idea of artistic truth content offers crucial insights for contemporary philosophical aesthetics.
The eleven chapters are divided into three parts: Context, Commentary, and Critique. The first part offers a brief biography, describes Adorno’s debates with Benjamin, Brecht, and Lukács, and outlines his philosophical program. The second is an interpretation of Adorno’s aesthetics, examining how he situates art in society, production, politics, and history and uncovering the social, political, and historical dimensions of his idea of artistic truth. The third part evaluates Adorno’s contributions by confronting it with the critiques of Peter Bürger, Fredric Jameson, and Albrecht Wellmer.
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