Books written by Stephen H. Webb
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Blessed Excess: Religion and the Hyperbolic Imagination
Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez ( New York : Paulist Press , 1979 ) , 42. The poetry of excess is , to the saint anyway , the literalism of prose . 34. For a wonderful reading of chaos as a religious symbol , see Frederick J. Ruf ...
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American Providence: A Nation with a Mission
Increasingly , Hitler took the place of God by functioning as the one who cast his blessings on the German volk . Germany needed more room , Hitler argued , because all German - speaking people deserved to be incorporated into the ...
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Dylan Redeemed: From Highway 61 to Saved
INTRODUCTION Hearing Dylan in the History of Sound А lan Lomax ( 1915-2002 ) was a missionary for musicology . He roamed America's backlands in the 1930s recording the forgotten sounds of cowboys , convicts , hobos , and cotton pickers ...
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Jesus Christ, Eternal God: Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter
Drawing on modern physics and ancient metaphysics, Stephen H. Webb constructs a philosophy of Christian materialism based on the unity of matter and spirit in the incarnation.
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Mormon Christianity: What Other Christians Can Learn From the Latter-day Saints
... Diane Timmerman, for her love, patience, discipline, and courage. While I was finishing this book, we welcomed the newest member of our family, my son, Teka. He could not figure out what I was doing at the computer all day, ...
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Re-Figuring Theology: The Rhetoric of Karl Barth
Dan Clark. Clisson Rexford. Linda Margolis. Don Breen. and Victor Vogt. My parents. Carl and Helen Webb. have been more than generous with their support. Finally. Diane Timmerman helped me with the original German text of Th0 Epistle to ...
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On God and Dogs: A Christian Theology of Compassion for Animals
While I was writing this book, my wife, Diane Timmerman, gave birth to our first child, Charis, and I could not have finished it without the caring help of my parents and my parentsinlaw. The arrival of this wonderful gift, ...
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Blessed Excess: Religion and the Hyperbolic Imagination
... taught me much — in personal and practical ways — about the promise and the peril of excess. Diane Timmerman, my wife, has been a close and constructive reader of these pages as well as a source of inspiration and encouragement.
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The Gifting God: A Trinitarian Ethics of Excess
The first draft of this book was written during the weekends of the spring of 1993 and a daily schedule of writing during that summer in Bloomington, Indiana, where my wife, Diane Timmerman, was completing her M.F.A. in theater.
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Mormon Christianity: What Other Christians Can Learn From the Latter-day Saints
An insightful discussion of LDS–Roman Catholic relations can be found in Michael G. Reed, Banishing the Cross: The ... Orson Pratt's scientific and metaphysical speculations is Erich Robert Paul, Science, Religion, and Mormon Cosmology ...
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Mormon Christianity: What Other Christians Can Learn From the Latter-day Saints
Stephen H. Webb's Mormon Christianity: What Other Christians Can Learn from the Latter-day Saints fills this void, as the author writes neither as a critic nor a defender of Mormonism but as a sympathetic observer who is deeply committed to ...
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Catholic and Mormon: A Theological Conversation
Catholic and Mormon is an invitation to the reader to engage in a discussion that makes understanding the goal, and marks a beginning for a dialogue that will become increasingly important in the years to come.
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Jesus Christ, Eternal God: Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter
Perhaps most provocatively, the book argues that Mormonism provides the most challenging, urgent, and potentially rewarding source for metaphysical renewal today.
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Re-Figuring Theology: The Rhetoric of Karl Barth
belong to the parent proper , but to a range of being just beyond that precursor . ... Friedrich Nietzsche , " On Truth and Lying in an Extra - Moral Sense , " in Friedrich Nietzsche on Rhetoric and Language , ed . and trans , with an ...
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Taking Religion to School: Christian Theology and Secular Education
In the modern university, religion is often taken to school--primarily in the sense of being critiqued, disciplined, and domesticated. In this provocative book, Stephen Webb steps into the middle of...
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The Divine Voice: Christian Proclamation and the Theology of Sound
"Freedom begins in the ear before it reaches the mouth." Every once in a while a book comes along that profoundly makes the most original thoughts immediately familiar. The Divine...
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The Divine Voice: Christian Proclamation and the Theology of Sound
David Chidester summarizes the most importantimplication of ancient Greek science for the act of hearing: “There was no presence, no connection, no continuous bond between the subject and the object of [auditory] perception.” Sound thus ...
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Re-Figuring Theology: The Rhetoric of Karl Barth
... authority , and authority itself was increasingly questioned as a source of knowledge." Descartes set out to make knowledge secure ; having formed his ideals of knowledge by reflecting on arithmetic and geometry , he tried to discover ...
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The Divine Voice: Christian Proclamation and the Theology of Sound
... colors and see music . Sometimes they can see the color of words . Or , as in the case of the psalmist , taste them ... seen as well . The spoken word flooded the senses . As a metaphor , synesthesia has long enchanted the literary ...
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The Dome of Eden: A New Solution to the Problem of Creation and Evolution
Finally, this book draws on the work of Karl Barth to advance a new reading of the Genesis narrative and the theology of Duns Scotus to provide the necessary metaphysical foundation for evolutionary thought.