...Chapter 1 explores fundamental theological arguments related to cultural mediations of the word of God as experienced and interpreted from Latinx perspectives. After focusing on crossing encounters in the Gospel of Mark that are life-giving for Jesus’s interlocutors, this chapter explores...

...This chapter begins by tracing the trajectory of the expression “seeds of the word” through the final documents of the General Conferences of the Latin American Bishops (CELAM) from Aparecida (2007), to Santo Domingo (1992), to Puebla (1979), and Medellín (1968). It was at Medellín...

... and its pleasures. John's gospel is a key site of the Christian emphasis on the flesh. The chapter also presents the idea that Word is also light, so, too, is it flesh. Body Christ Flesh God “Jean Luc Nancy and the Corpus of Philosophy” Shapiro John Gospel Shapiro Gary Word Augustine Saint...

...This chapter shows the tactility of language as both word and touch that remind us of the importance of a limit for expression and desire alike. Both these give evidence of communication that is not merely in the mundane but also in the abstract philosophical sense, the communication...

...Though a new and more vibrant materialism has made its way into theory, the words we use to theorize are treated even now as abstractions, and not rematerialized themselves. We still pretend that meanings live beyond the sounds of words and the movements of flesh. But we give voice...

... was at Georgetown University in Washington, which led to deeper commitment to Christian-Muslim dialogue through the Building Bridges seminar and in response to the “Common Word” Muslim initiative. Throughout this work has been running the theme of the role of women in both Christian and Muslim traditions. McAuliffe...

... of philosophical and theoretical perspectives, but most notably Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological ontology, this chapter characterizes the erotic play in traditional kabbalah in incarnational terms that, in a manner surprisingly similar to Kristeva, revolves about the encircling of flesh and word...

...: the authority of God, the authority of the messengers of the word of God, and the authority of the word of God in terms of the authority of Holy Scripture. Anscombe Elizabeth Schmitt Carl anarchism authority God and decisionist view of God power and healing Ramsey Frank P Augustine Saint Gnostic texts...

.... This statement surveys eleven contemporary approaches to Christology and points out their respective assets and limitations. The discussion summarizes in ten headings the methods that seem most evident in contemporary theology: classical doctrinal approach, biblical theology, spiritual exegesis, word theology...

...“Forming an image of the soul through words” is an idea introduced in passing by Socrates in Plato's Republic that Rapp documents and examines in terms of the word-images of the soul presented in the Phaedrus. Through her close textual study of the “menagerie...

... hand washing ibn Al ‘Assāl Al Mu’taman prayer of Lamp of Darkness The miṣbāḥ al ẓulmah presbyter priest assisting kāhin sharīk prothesis rite Word Liturgy of the bread eucharistic byzantine liturgy candle catechumens clergy consecration eucharistic curtain sanctuary Eucharist reservation...

... Word Liturgy of the ‘Abd al Masīḥ Ṣalīb Euchologion of candle confession sacrament incense confession during the offering of 1 Corinthians Acts Arabization Catholic epistle reader liturgical rank Arabic scriptural readings in Burmester O H E Cyril III ibn Laqlaq Pope lectionary Zanetti...

... and number of syllables in words, such as is common in Pärt’s text-based tintinnabuli compositions, is difficult to find in any other examples of composed music, but the connection is prevalent in liturgical chanting. One parallel comes from Conrad Beissel (1691–1768)—the founder of a pietistic community...

...This chapter presents Islamic teachings about the Book. God's Word, as manifested in all the diversity of creation, was reassembled in the innermost depths of the human self. Undifferentiated, the Word contains all the knowledge of the Self; but differentiated, it comprises all the signs revealed...

..., for example, its orientation to particular audiences or compositional and stylistic choices of sequence, syntax, phrasing, and word type. Plato himself understands rhetoric as part of truth-seeking discussion in the Phaedrus. The ways of maintaining descriptive truth through interventive...

... concepts human rights Beitz Charles R culture and tradition of dissent discourse history of ideas human agency Hunt Lynn Lovejoy Arthur O rights of Adam computational model of mind concepts and their circulation Fodor Jerry neuroscience word and concept move from discursive to conceptual...

..., it is because she has a discursive or linguistic consistency and existence. Helen as “Woman and Word,” is discussed under four headings. First heading: her proper name, with a reading of Aeschylus; second heading: her voice, with a reading of Homer; third heading: the relationship between word and thing...

.... Using archival study of her handwritten charts, tables, and poetic word-counts, this chapter treats Miles less as a thinker ahead of her time than as a central figure of her own time, who speaks to the present moment precisely because she was so much of her own. A staunchly counter-nostalgic figure...

... inscriptions on Mona Island through the documents of the Latin American Bishops (CELAM), this book establishes a solid basis on which to discern the “seeds of the word” in our times....

...This book concludes by reflecting on what can come after the incarnate Word. As Word it precedes world. It considers intercarnation, which has a tenuous grip even on the status of “word,” as a word that comes long after the incarnation but works no supersession. Gesturing ontologically...