Author: Ingolf U. Dalferth
Publisher: Peeters
Keywords: god, studies, philosophical, theology, presence, sense, present, inquiry, christian, becoming
Number of Pages: 291
Published: 2006-04-30
List price: $57.00
ISBN-10: 904291727X
ISBN-13: 9789042917279

Safeguarding the distinction between God and world has always been a basic interest of negative theology. But sometimes it has overemphasized divine transcendence in a way that made it difficult to account for the sense of God’s present activity and experienced actuality. Deconstructivist criticisms of the Western metaphysics of presence have made this even more difficult to conceive. On the other hand, there has been a widespread attempt in recent years to base all theology on (religious) experience; the Christian church celebrates God’s presence in its central sacraments of bapti

Author: Paul D. Murray
Publisher: Peeters
Keywords: theology, studies, philosophical, perspective, pragmatist, truth, reason
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2005-06-30
List price: $51.00
ISBN-10: 9042914521
ISBN-13: 9789042914520

In this work Paul Murray explores which style of rationality is most appropriate to Christian theology in the contemporary pluralist, postfoundationalist, postmodern context. At its heart is a fresh consideration of the American pragmatist tradition, focussing on the writings of Richard Rorty and Nicholas Rescher. Where Rorty correctly diagnoses the failures of foundationalist ""objectivism"", Rescher’s ""pragmatic idealism"" is presented as healing the ills in Rorty’s own neo-pragmatism. The significant resonance between Rescher’s view of rationality and Christian understand

Author: Anneli Aejmelaeus
Publisher: Peeters
Keywords: biblical, exegesis, amp, theology, contributions, essays, septuagint, translators, collected, trail
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2007-09-30
List price: $64.00
ISBN-10: 9042919396
ISBN-13: 9789042919396

The essays of this revised and expanded collection were written by Prof. Anneli Aejmelaeus over a period of 25 years. The thread that runs through all these essays and holds the collection together is translation technique, which is characterized as a central aspect of methodology rather than an object of study. Only by tracing the trail of the Septuagint translators is it possible to gain a reliable picture of the different translators and of the Hebrew Vorlage their work was based on. The themes dealt with in the individual essays range from the study of syntactical features of the Greek lan

Author: Eduard Jordaan
Publisher: Peeters
Keywords: morality, meaning, life, perspective, levinasian, indifference, global, poverty, responsibility
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2006-12-30
List price: $51.00
ISBN-10: 9042918225
ISBN-13: 9789042918221

Consider the fact that thousands of people die daily from preventable, poverty-related causes through no fault of their own. However, despite our failure to prevent more of these preventable deaths, we generally do not seem to consider ourselves particularly guilty, unjust, bad, immoral or irresponsible for our failure to act. This study attempts to understand our continued good conscience amid the suffering of the world’s poorest. In doing so, it draws on Emmanuel Levinas’s ethical philosophy to demonstrate how writings in the principal debate about the extent of our responsibilit

Author: Gisella Ferraresi
Publisher: Peeters
Keywords: orbis, supplementa, gothic, structure, order, phrase, word
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2006-04-30
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 904291694X
ISBN-13: 9789042916944

The book aims at providing a precise description of part of the Gothic syntax in the context of a formal theory of syntax. The following questions are addressed: To what extent can Gothic - despite its limited corpus - be used as data material? Further, which of the ascertained syntactic characteristics does Gothic have in common with other old Indo-European languages? Which of these features can be characterized as typically Germanic? It is shown that - despite a certain Greek influence - the Gothic Bible is indeed a rich source of data which can with some certainty be regarded as typical

Author: Margaret Payne
Publisher: Peeters
Keywords: studies, supplement, eastern, ancient, series, measures, volume, urartian
Number of Pages: 387
Published: 2005-12-01
List price: $138.00
ISBN-10: 9042914831
ISBN-13: 9789042914834

Urartians recorded the volumes of jugs, jars and storerooms, using a variety of symbols and words. In this book, mathematical and statistical models, both geometric and digital, are examined for evaluating the ratio of the different measures of volume to each other and for finding absolute values for these measures. The presence of full mathematical calculations allows for controls to be made and removes the faith element from this branch of Urartian studies. In doing so, it also provides quantitative techniques that can be used in related archaeological ventures.

Authors:Claudia Sagona, Isabelle Vella Gregory, Anton Bugeja
Publisher: Peeters
Keywords: ancient, studies, eastern, supplement, series, collections, private, antiquities, malta, artefacts, punic
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2003-06-30
List price: $113.00
ISBN-10: 9042917032
ISBN-13: 9789042917033

Ancient artefacts that comprise the private collections of Malta came largely from the Phoenician and later Punic burial grounds of the archipelago. In many respects, the perception of the island’s ancient population as depicted in recent historic accounts has suffered from a limited knowledge of what has been found in the islands over the last few centuries. Co-authored with Isabelle Vella Gregory and Anton Bugeja, this book forms a companion volume to Claudia Sagona’s «The Archaeology of Punic Malta (2002, Peeters) and «Punic Antiquities of Malta and Other Ancient Artefacts