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Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition: A Systematic Introduction
by Craig G. BartholomewAbraham Kuyper was, by any standard, one of the most extraordinary figures in modern Christian history. He was a Dutch Reformed minister, a gifted theologian, a prolific journalist, the leader of a political party, the cofounder of the Free University of Amsterdam (where he was professor of theology), a member of the Dutch Parliament, and eventually prime minister of the Netherlands. Kuyper's remarkable legacy lives on today in the tradition of Dutch Calvinism that he developed. As his writings become more widely available, this tradition continues to find new adherents attracted by his comprehensive vision of Christian faith. But what defines the Kuyperian tradition? Renowned South African theologian and philosopher Craig Bartholomew has written the first systematic introduction to this tradition. Drawing on Kuyper's entire corpus, Bartholomew has identified the key themes and ideas that define this tradition, including worldview, sphere sovereignty, creation and redemption, the public square, and mission. He also goes beyond Kuyper to show how later thinkers developed these ideas. They include, among others, Herman Bavinck, J. H. Bavinck, Gerrit C. Berkouwer, and Herman Dooyeweerd. Widely known but little read, Kuyper is now receiving the global recognition that his fertile and influential thought deserves. Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition is an indispensable guide to one of the most significant schools of thought in the modern age.
Contra el fanatismo religioso (Serie Great Ideas #39)
by Voltaire40 grandes ideas que han cambiado el mundo. Este libro condensa los argumentos clave contra la intolerancia que Voltaire elaboró en su Tratado sobre la tolerancia con motivo del caso Calas. Las razones y conclusiones de Voltaire eran tan válidas entonces como lo son hoy, y la pertinencia de este texto resulta inquietante. A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y también las han destruido. Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilización y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos. La crítica ha dicho sobre la colección «Great Ideas»:«Taurus propone un doble envite con este lanzamiento. Por un ladoaumenta su compromiso con el ensayo; por otro, recupera el gusto por la estética. A los volúmenes se les ha proporcionado una portada delicada y cuidada (copian el original británico) que invita a la lectura.»La Razón
Contra la ignorancia de las mujeres
by Juana Inés de la CruzDe la pluma de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, un extraordinario documento de feminismo avant la lettre que reclama, en el siglo XVII, el acceso de las mujeres al saber. A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y también las han destruido. Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilización y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos. Este extraordinario documento de feminismo avant la lettre se compone de dos cartas que reclaman, ya en el siglo XVII, el acceso de las mujeres al saber. Sor Juana, que usó el hábito para acercarse a las letras, escribe con fuerza y encanto, y estos textos, en parte autobiográficos, son de una riqueza impresionante y sorprenden al conectar con muchas de nuestras preocupaciones actuales.
Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by the Catholic Theologians and Canonists
by John T. Noonan Jr.Originally published in 1965, Contraception received unanimous acclaim from all quarters as the first thorough, scholarly, objective analysis of Catholic doctrine on birth control. More than ever this subject is of acute concern to a world facing serious population problems, and the author has written an important new appendix examining the development of and debates over the doctrine in the past twenty years.
Contract Pastoral Care and Education: The Trend of the Future?
by Larry Van De CreekCreate the Pastoral Care Center that your flock needs!Contract Pastoral Care and Education: The Trend of the Future? provides clergy of all faiths and pastoral care students with insight into the shifting role of chaplains in today's health care environment and explains why many of these positions are disappearing. Examining alternatives to working at hospitals and health care agencies, such as establishing independent contract centers that are commissioned by health care organizations, this book examines the many questions that chaplains are more frequently asking about the stability of their profession. Comprehensive and current, Contract Pastoral Care and Education offers suggestions and models to help you plan your own pastoral care center and continue serving individuals with spiritual care. This honest and informative book contains discussions with chaplains and educators about nine of these care centers in operation, as well as the responses of five chaplains who offer compliments and constructive criticism of these organizations. Exploring the reasons for the decrease in opportunities for pastoral caregivers, such as the decrease of rural populations and the increase of community-based services, Contract Pastoral Care and Education provides you with tips and suggestions that other centers use in order to be effective and successful, including: raising funds from the community, state, and government for operational fees appointing internal, structure-diversified board members who serve without compensation and officers and memberships with specific terms and functions responding to the growing numbers of patients by training lay persons under clinical supervision generating support groups consisting of patients and family members from multiple bereavement groups or organizations to offer comfort and care to othersFull of insight and immediately useful techniques, Contract Pastoral Care and Education will help you keep serving patients and assist you in pursuing a growing facet of the pastoral care field.
Contracts and Deals in Islamic Finance
by Mohsin Hayat Hussein KureshiA very accessible and concise guide to Islamic financeContracts and Deals in Islamic Finance provides a clear breakdown of Islamic financial contracts and deal structures for beginners. The embedded requirements within selected Islamic financial contracts, such as risk weightage, capital structures, creations of cash flows, and balance sheets, are explained fully to provide a solid understanding of the backbone of the industry. Aimed primarily at beginners and those with a background in conventional banking, this book guides readers through the major contracts, how they're applied, and how to discern a contract's legitimacy. Case studies and interviews with bankers and global regulators provide real-life examples of contract application, and the author's own experiences provide deep insight into the everyday issues that arise. Ancillary instructor's materials include PowerPoint slides and lecture notes that facilitate use in the classroom.Literature describing the application of Islamic financial contracts is few and far between, and those providing a basic breakdown of these contracts and questioning their validity are rarer still. This book is the first of its kind, offering a basic approach to understanding Islamic contracts, designed for the true beginner.Understand the current contracts applied in Islamic bankingLearn how contracts are applied across different jurisdictionsIdentify illegitimate contracts and those not in the spirit of Shariah lawExamine the current economic realities surrounding Islamic financeBy highlighting the underlying themes in Islamic finance and assessing the current practices, this book gives readers the solid understanding and up-to-date perspective that form a solid foundation upon which successful Islamic finance is practiced. For a solid introduction to the Islamic finance industry, Contracts and Deals in Islamic Finance is an accessible, practical guide.
Contradiction in the Book of Proverbs: The Deep Waters of Counsel (Society for Old Testament Study)
by Peter HattonDespite the welcome revival of scholarly interest in Biblical Wisdom, the Book of Proverbs remains neglected. It continues to be seen as a disorganised repository of traditional banalities, while Job and Qohelet are viewed as more exciting texts, in revolt against Proverbs' conventional wisdom. Contradiction in the Book of Proverbs argues that this misleading consensus owes more to scholarly presuppositions than to the content of Proverbs; it sees Proverbs as a challenging work, one that aims to provoke a critical appropriation of wisdom and in which diverse sources have been skilfully brought together by a creative final editor to form a complex unity. Many divergences from the Hebrew in the Greek witness to the translator's discomfort with his spikey, provocative original. Peter Hatton challenges many existing scholarly assumptions and calls for a re-evaluation of the role and significance of Proverbs in relation to the other biblical wisdom books and the whole canon.
Contradictory Lives: Baul Women in India and Bangladesh
by Lisa I. KnightIn literature and popular imagination, the Bauls of India and Bangladesh are characterized as musical mystics: orange-clad nomads of both Hindu and Muslim backgrounds. They wander the countryside and entertain with their passionate singing and unusual behavior, and they are especiallywell-known for their evocative songs, which challenge the caste system and sectarianism prevalent in South Asia. Although Bauls claim to value women over men, little is known about the individual views and experiences of Baul women. Based on ethnographic research in both the predominantly Hindu context of West Bengal (India) and the Muslim country of Bangladesh, this book explores the everyday lives of Baulwomen. Lisa Knight examines the contradictory expectations regarding Baul women: on the one hand, the ideal of a group unencumbered by societal restraints and concerns and, on the other, the real constraints of feminine respectability that seemingly curtail women's mobility and public performances. Knight demonstrates that Baul women respond to these conflicting expectations in various ways, sometimes adopting and other times subverting local gendered norms to craft meaningful lives. More so than their male counterparts, Baul women feel encumbered by norms. But rather than seeing Baul women'snormative behavior as indicative of their conformity to gendered roles (and, therefore, failures as Bauls), Knight argues that these women creatively draw on societal expectations to transcend their social limits and create new paths.
Contradictory Muslims in the Literature of Medieval Iberian Christians (The New Middle Ages)
by Marcelo E. FuentesThis book argues that literary and historiographical works written by Iberian Christians between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries promoted contradictory representations of Muslims in order to advocate for their colonization through the affirmation of Christian supremacy. Ambivalent depictions of cultural difference are essential for colonizers to promote their own superiority, as explained by postcolonial critics and observed in medieval and early modern texts in Castilian, Catalan, and Portuguese, such as the Cantar de mio Cid, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Llibre dels fets, Estoria de España, Crónica geral de 1344, Tirant lo Blanch, and Os Lusíadas. In all these works, the contradictions of Muslim enemies, allies, and subjects allow Christian leaders to prevail and profit through their opposition and collaboration with them. Such colonial dynamics of simultaneous belligerence and assimilation determined the ways in which Portugal, Spain, and later European powers interacted with non-Christians in Africa, Asia, and even the Americas.
Contrapunto de la Realidad
by Lilian G. Selvaggio Stephen John O'ConnorMi viaje personal explorando el camino paralelo que toma nuestro espíritu/alma, escondido detrás del caos de nuestras vidas. La Energía de la Luz nos susurra y nos empuja suavemente en las nuevas direcciones que realizan nuestro camino de vida, dándonos significado y concentración, y permitiéndonos seguir la ruta que hemos elegido antes de nuestros nacimientos. Relato historias personales sobre iniciaciones en órdenes esotéricas, el encuentro con mi guardián, la exploración de vidas pasadas y su influencia y dones, Ayahuasca y la iglesia del Santo Daime de Brasil, y mucho más.
Contrasts in Religion, Community, and Structure at Three Homeless Shelters: Changing Lives (Routledge Studies in Religion)
by Michael Jindra Ines W. Jindra Sarah DeGeneroHow do people in poverty and homelessness change their lives and get back on their feet? Homeless shelters across the world play a huge role in this process. Many of them are religious, but there is a lot of diversity in faith-based non-profits that assist people affected by poverty and homelessness. In this timely book, the authors look at three homeless shelters that take more or less intensive approaches to faith, community, and programming. In one shelter, for instance, residents are required to do a program of classes that includes group Bible study, worship, and self-evaluation. The other two examined are significantly less faith-based, but in different ways and with different structures. The authors show how the three shelters tackle homelessness differently, drawing on narrative biographical interviews and case studies with residents, interviews with staff, and case study research of the three shelters. Entering into significant debates in social theory over religion, agency, cognitive action, and culture, this book is important reading for scholars and students in religious studies, sociology and social work.
Control Girl: Putting God in Charge of My Happy Ending
by Shannon PopkinLittle fights with your husband and kids. Unhappiness when things don't match your version of perfect. Tension, anger, fear--it all begins with a heart that craves control. When your vision of how life should be replaces God's vision, you doom your quest for security, peace, and joy before it even starts. Thankfully, there is a better way.Join Shannon as she shares what she has discovered about her own control struggles and about God from studying Control Girls in the Bible. Learn how you too can lay down this burden and find rest in surrendering to the One who truly is in control."In this funny, tender, and truth-telling book, Shannon Popkin peels back the layers of our control problem."--Erin Davis, author, blogger, and recovering Control Girl"In the style of Liz Curtis Higgs, Control Girl is an easy and entertaining read, yet Shannon Popkin packs a punch where we so need it if we are to be set free from the stressful habit that robs our joy and ruins our relationships!"--Dee Brestin, author of Idol Lies"With personal vulnerability, biblical depth, powerful personal illustrations, and pointed application questions, Shannon Popkin reveals how seven women of the Bible can teach us how to surrender our will to God's design for our future."--Carol Kent, speaker and author of Becoming a Woman of Influence"Control Girl is a penetrating look at how selfishness and self-protectiveness wreck lives--and why surrender and trust are God's life-giving pathways to true freedom and joy."--Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, author and Revive Our Hearts teacher and host
Controla tu actitud en 30 dias
by Deborah Smith PeguesUna poderosa guía para superar esas malas actitudes que pueden hacer fracasar tus relaciones personales y profesionales. La autora utiliza ejemplos clásicos y de la vida moderna para ayudar a los lectores a reconocer y superar comportamientos contraproducentes como anticipar el fracaso, despreciar el éxito de los demás, ser indiferente a las necesidades de otros, y criticar la conducta o las elecciones de otras personas. A powerful guide for conquering those bad attitudes that can derail your personal and professional relationships. The author uses biblical and modern-day examples to help readers recognize and overcome such counterproductive behaviors as expecting failure, putting down someone else's success, and being indifferent to the needs of others.
Controla tu enojo en 30 dias: Cómo encontrar la paz cuando estás irritado, frustrado o enojado
by Deborah Smith PeguesDe la pluma de Deborah Pegues, autora del éxito de ventas Controla tu lengua en 30 días, ofrecemos una guía indispensable para superar el enojo y la frustración. Pegues utiliza ejemplos bíblicos y modernos para ayudar a los lectores a identificar los hábitos destructivos que privan a hombres y mujeres de la plenitud de la vida y desbaratan sus relaciones personales y profesionales. Los lectores descubrirán estrategias para controlar el enojo, entre ellas * mostrar gracia hacia los demás * dejar de ser perfeccionista *aprender a reírse de uno mismo Controla tu enojo en 30 días proporciona principios bíblicos, retos personales para el corazón, y oraciones y afirmaciones alentadoras que guiarán a los lectores hacia una nueva sensación de libertad.From Deborah Smith Pegues, popular author of 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue (more than 600,000 sold), comes an indispensable guide for overcoming anger and frustration. Using biblical and modern-day stories, Pegues helps readers identify the destructive habits that rob men and women of life's fullness and derail their personal and professional relationships. Readers will discover anger-taming strategies such as * extending grace to others * conquering perfectionism *learning to laugh at themselves 30 Days to Taming Your Anger provides Scripture-based principles, heart-searching personal challenges, and healing prayers that point readers to a new sense of freedom.
Controla tu mente: Libérate de los pensamientos tóxicos que te limitan
by Jennie AllenEn la lista de los MÁS VENDIDOS de NEW YORK TIMES y USA TODAY La visionaria detrás de IF: Gathering con un millón de personas, desafía a las mujeres cristianas a transformar su perspectiva y sus vidas al interrumpir sus pensamientos en espiral y darse cuenta de su poder dado por Dios para pensar de manera diferente. La oradora y profesora de la Biblia Jennie Allen escucha todo el tiempo a mujeres que se sienten atrapadas en patrones de frustración y derrota. En su búsqueda de una solución, ha aprendido que la mayor batalla espiritual de nuestra generación se está llevando a cabo entre nuestros oídos. Cómo pensamos da forma a cómo vivimos. Por lo tanto, es crucial que aprendamos cómo detener nuestros pensamientos giratorios y rechazar ser víctimas de patrones de pensamiento tóxicos como la victimización, la ansiedad y la distracción. En este libro, Jennie se basa en la verdad bíblica y los descubrimientos recientes en neurociencia para mostrar exactamente cómo podemos luchar contra los enemigos de la mente con la verdad de quién es Dios y quién nos llama a ser. ¿Tus pensamientos te mantienen cautiva? Nunca voy a ser lo suficientemente bueno. Otras personas tienen mejores vidas que yo. Dios realmente no podría amarme. Jennie Allen sabe lo que es girar en una espiral de pensamientos destructivos, pero también sabe que no tenemos que quedarnos atrapadas en patrones de pensamiento tóxicos. Como descubrió en su propia vida, Dios creó una forma para que podamos escapar de esa espiral descendente. La libertad llega cuando nos negamos a ser víctimas de nuestros pensamientos y nos damos cuenta de que ya hemos sido equipados con el poder de Dios para luchar y ganar la guerra para nuestras mentes. En Controla tu mente, Jennie nos inspira y nos equipa para transformar nuestras emociones, nuestra perspectiva e incluso nuestras circunstancias al tomar el control de nuestros pensamientos. Nuestro enemigo está decidido a meterse en nuestras cabezas para hacernos sentir impotentes, abrumadas e incapaces de hacer una diferencia para el reino de Dios. Pero cuando sometemos nuestras mentes a Cristo, las promesas y la bondad de Dios inundan nuestras vidas de manera notable. Comienza en tu mente. Y a partir de ahí, las posibilidades son infinitas.
Controla tus emociones en 30 días: Alcanza la paz y tranquilidad interior
by Deborah Smith PeguesDe la pluma de Deborah Pegues, autora del éxito de ventas Controla tu lengua en 30 días, ofrecemos una guía indispensable para superar las barreras emocionales que impiden a las personas vivir en plenitud a la vez que dificultan sus relaciones personales y profesionales. Pegues utiliza ejemplos bíblicos y modernos para ayudar a los lectores a identificar y superar los obstáculos que les impiden avanzar. From Deborah Pegues, popular author of 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue (more than 500,000 sold), comes an indispensable guide for overcoming the emotional barriers that rob men and women of life's fullness and derail their personal and professional relationships. Pegues uses biblical and modern-day examples to help readers identify and overcome the obstacles that hold them back.
Controla tus finanzas en 30 dias
by Deborah Smith Pegues¡Un plan simple y práctico para tomar las riendas de sus excedidos hábitos de gastos en solo treinta días! Este libro en formato pequeño es como tener un consejero a su lado para ayudarlo con sus decisiones financieras. Los temas expuestos en este libro son de fácil lectura y le enseñaran como disminuir sus deudas, ahorrar con propósito y a planificar sus gastos.La combinación perfecta de anécdotas y principios bíblicos llenan los capítulos de esperanza e inspiración para convertir en realidad su sueño de un futuro financiero saludable.A simple, practical plan to rein in unruly spending habits in 30 days! This little book is like having an advisor at your side to help with financial decisions. Easy to follow chapters teach how to diminish your debt, save strategically, and spend smart ly. Personal anecdotes and biblical principles combine to make each chapter full of hope and inspiration so that a healthy financial future will not be a dream but a reality.
Controla tus temores en 30 días: Ayuda práctica para tener una vida más tranquila y productiva
by Deborah Smith PeguesDeborah Smith Pegues, especializa en comportamiento y autora de éxitos de ventas como Controla tu lengua en 30 días (más de 500.000 ejemplares vendidos), arroja luz sobre los miedos racionales e irracionales y ofrece a los lectores un camino de esperanza y seguridad.Con la claridad y la sabiduría práctica que le caracterizan, Deborah Smith Pegues te ofrece esperanza y seguridad a la hora de tratar los temores relativos a las relaciones, la salud, la seguridad, las finanzas y las emociones con unos principios bíblicos y una ayuda práctica. En cada paso del proceso, te da poder sobre el miedo ayudándote a entender*la raíz de tus temores*la perspectiva de Dios sobre tus ansiedades, miedos y fobias*cómo responder a los desencadenantes del temor siendo consciente de ellos y teniendo confianza en ti*las maneras de asumir los temores saludables y resistirte a los que no lo son*cómo neutralizar tus temores puede potenciar al máximo tu vidaSi te encuentras caminando por un campo plagado con las minas de tus constantes temores, este libro te ayudará a convertir el temor en esa clase de paz que sobrepasa todo entendimiento.Deborah Smith Pegues, behavioral specialist and best-selling author of 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue (more than 500,000 copies sold), sheds light on rational and irrational fears and offers readers a path of hope and assurance.With her trademark clarity and practical wisdom, Deborah addresses spiritual, relational, physical safety, financial, and emotional fears with godly principles and straightforward helps. Each step of the way, she gives readers power over fear by helping them understand:*the foundation of their fears*God's perspective on their specific anxiety, fear, or phobia*how to respond to fear triggers with information, awareness, and confidence*ways to embrace healthy fears and to resist unhealthy ones*how neutralizing their fears maximizes their lifeThis will be an invaluable resource for anyone walking the minefield of constant apprehensions that is ready to exchange fear for the peace which passes all understanding.Available in English from Harvest House PUblishers
Controlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy
by Christine ShepardsonFrom constructing new buildings to describing rival-controlled areas as morally and physically dangerous, leaders in late antiquity fundamentally shaped their physical environment and thus the events that unfolded within it. Controlling Contested Places maps the city of Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) through the topographically sensitive vocabulary of cultural geography, demonstrating the critical role played by physical and rhetorical spatial contests during the tumultuous fourth century. Paying close attention to the manipulation of physical places, Christine Shepardson exposes some of the powerful forces that structured the development of religious orthodoxy and orthopraxy in the late Roman Empire.Theological claims and political support were not the only significant factors in determining which Christian communities gained authority around the Empire. Rather, Antioch's urban and rural places, far from being an inert backdrop against which events transpired, were ever-shifting sites of, and tools for, the negotiation of power, authority, and religious identity. This book traces the ways in which leaders like John Chrysostom, Theodoret, and Libanius encouraged their audiences to modify their daily behaviors and transform their interpretation of the world (and landscape) around them. Shepardson argues that examples from Antioch were echoed around the Mediterranean world, and similar types of physical and rhetorical manipulations continue to shape the politics of identity and perceptions of religious orthodoxy to this day.
Controlling Interest
by Elizabeth WhiteBack Cover There's TROUBLE IN RIVER CITY Matt Hogan's Memphis detective agency has been on the skids since a recent attack of conscience cost him an important case. When a wealthy investor steps in and saves River City Investigations, Matt thinks all his prayers have been answered-until he finds out that with the investor comes a new partner. Fresh out of criminal justice school and a two-year stint in the Tunica County Sheriff's Department, Natalie Tubberville is out to prove she can cut it in the world of private investigations. But her reluctant partner is just as determined to have nothing to do with her-until Natalie makes him an offer he can't refuse! If Matt solves the next case before she does, she will return her share of the company. And the race is on. As two strong personalities compete, mutual attraction grows... while a simple case of a runaway bride threatens to become an international incident. Will Matt and Natalie call off the competition-or discover an entirely new arrangement?
Controlling Interest
by Elizabeth WhiteTHERE'S TROUBLE IN RIVER CITY Matt Hogan's Memphis detective agency has been on the skids since a recent attack of conscience cost him an important case. When a wealthy investor steps in and saves River City Investigations, Matt thinks all his prayers have been answered—until he finds out that with the investor comes a new partner. Fresh out of criminal justice school and a two-year stint in the Tunica County Sheriff's Department, Natalie Tubberville is out to prove she can cut it in the world of private investigations. But her reluctant partner is just as determined to have nothing to do with her—until Natalie makes him an offer he can’t refuse! If Matt solves the next case before she does, she will return her share of the company. And the race is on. As two strong personalities compete, mutual attraction grows…while a simple case of a runaway bride threatens to become an international incident. Will Matt and Natalie call off the competition—or discover an entirely new arrangement?
Controlling Interests
by Tracie PetersonDenali Deveraux longs to know why her grandfather hates her. She seeks answers, while winning her place in the family business.
Controlling Soviet Labour: Experimental Change From Brezhnev To Gorbachev
by ArnotWith a growing population, deteriorating economic conditions, and an unstable imperial centre, Soviet Central Asia would seem destined to become a trouble spot. Instead Islamic traditionalism has survived and flourished in Central Asia. This book looks at the reasons why.
Controlling the Tongue: Mastering the What, When, and Why of the Words You Speak
by R.T KendallThe words we speak have power. Often the consequences of our careless words are far reaching and eternal. At one time or another we all have experienced saying something in a moment that takes hours (or weeks or a lifetime) to make right. In his engaging teaching style, Dr. R. T. Kendall helps you learn how to take control of the words you speak. He brings you straight to the Bible to identify characters who spoke without thinking as examples of how not to do things, demonstrating conclusively through their lives that, even when you fail, God will use you as He used them.,
Controversies
by Desiderius Erasmus Denis L. DrysdallAmong the most important of Erasmus' contributions to Christian humanism were his Greek text, new Latin translation, and annotations of the New Testament, an implicit challenge to the authority of the Vulgate and one that provoked numerous responses. This volume of the Collected Works contains translations of four of Erasmus' responses to his critics, written between 1520 and 1532 and directed primarily to his Franciscan and Dominican contemporaries at the university in Louvain. Three are connected to his Annotations on the New Testament. The fourth, a letter to Christopher von Utenheim, bishop of Basel, deals with pastoral questions such as fasting, abstinence, and the celibacy of priests.Though they mostly deal with philological rather than doctrinal matters, these debates were no less important to Erasmus' work. Carefully and extensively annotated by the translator, Denis L. Drysdall, volume 73 of the Collected Works invites the reader to examine Erasmus' own explanations of his philological method and its theological significance.