[PDF] Religion Art And Money eBook

Author : Peter W. Williams
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1469626985

GET BOOK

This cultural history of mainline Protestantism and American cities--most notably, New York City--focuses on wealthy, urban Episcopalians and the influential ways they used their money. Peter W. Williams argues that such Episcopalians, many of them the country's most successful industrialists and financiers, left a deep and lasting mark on American urban culture. Their sense of public responsibility derived from a sacramental theology that gave credit to the material realm as a vehicle for religious experience and moral formation, and they came to be distinguished by their participation in major aesthetic and social welfare endeavors. Williams traces how the church helped transmit a European-inflected artistic patronage that was adapted to the American scene by clergy and laity intent upon providing moral and aesthetic leadership for a society in flux. Episcopalian influence is most visible today in the churches, cathedrals, and elite boarding schools that stand in many cities and other locations, but Episcopalians also provided major support to the formation of stellar art collections, the performing arts, and the Arts and Crafts movement. Williams argues that Episcopalians thus helped smooth the way for acceptance of materiality in religious culture in a previously iconoclastic, Puritan-influenced society.

Author : Richard E. Spear
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 10,84 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300070354

GET BOOK

In this highly original study of Italian baroque master Guido Reni (1575-1642), Richard Spear paints a compelling portrait of the artist - his complexities, his formative experiences, his cultural surroundings, and his unique sensibilities. Spear views Reni's career from a wide variety of perspectives and sets his life and works in social, economic, historical, artistic, religious, and psychological contexts. The author focuses first on Reni's peculiar character: a man at once deeply religious, rabidly misogynist, reportedly virginal, neurotically fearful of witches, and addicted to gambling. The author considers the enduring charisma of Reni's Crucifixions, weeping Marys, and repentant saints in the light of the Catholic doctrinal meaning of grace in Reni's time, the Church's attitude toward Mary and women, and the gendered implications of visual grace. Chapters on Reni's pricing policies, selling strategies, use of assistants, and attitude toward what constituted an "original", expose the motivating importance of money for Reni, and the concerns, even among seventeenth-century collectors, about how to distinguish original paintings from studio replicas or copies. The book investigates the ways renaissance and baroque attitudes toward art-making affected Reni and closes with a fresh view of Reni's unfinished canvases and last style, including the Divine Love, the beautiful and unusual painting that remained in Reni's studio at the time of his death.

Author : Philip Goodchild
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0822392550

GET BOOK

Theology of Money is a philosophical inquiry into the nature and role of money in the contemporary world. Philip Goodchild reveals the significance of money as a dynamic social force by arguing that under its influence, moral evaluation is subordinated to economic valuation, which is essentially abstract and anarchic. His rigorous inquiry opens into a complex analysis of political economy, encompassing markets and capital, banks and the state, class divisions, accounting practices, and the ecological crisis awaiting capitalism. Engaging with Christian theology and the thought of Carl Schmitt, Georg Simmel, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, and many others, Goodchild develops a theology of money based on four contentions, which he elaborates in depth. First, money has no intrinsic value; it is a promise of value, a crystallization of future hopes. Second, money is the supreme value in contemporary society. Third, the value of assets measured by money is always future-oriented, dependent on expectations about how much might be obtained for those assets at a later date. Since this value, when realized, will again depend on future expectations, the future is forever deferred. Financial value is essentially a degree of hope, expectation, trust, or credit. Fourth, money is created as debt, which involves a social obligation to work or make profits to repay the loan. As a system of debts, money imposes an immense and irresistible system of social control on individuals, corporations, and governments, each of whom are threatened by economic failure if they refuse their obligations to the money system. This system of debt has progressively tightened its hold on all sectors and regions of global society. With Theology of Money, Goodchild aims to make conscious our collective faith and its dire implications.

Author : Babajide Olowodola
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 2021-02-08
Category :
ISBN : 9789785416039

GET BOOK

The shelves are replete with books on money, ranging from the secular, to the academic, to the philosophical and to the religious. The attempt here is not to add to that very long list but to provide a one-stop shop for believers to appreciate their covenant rights and access those things that have been freely given to them by God. To the intent that they run with the desire to store up their treasures in Heaven where thieves do not break in to steal and where money does not fail. The first thing to do therefore is to agree on basic definition.This book demystifies the fables and fairy tales surrounding money as a tool and a convenience. In this book, we show both the high and the lowly how to work through it - get it, keep it, use it, and hand it over to the generation after you once it has been profitable to you among other objectives.

Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135879702

GET BOOK

Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life," but does that mean that contemporary art is spiritual? What might it mean to say that the art you make expresses your spiritual belief? On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art explores the curious disconnection between spirituality and current art. This book will enable you to walk into a museum and talk about the spirituality that is or is not visible in the art you see.

Author : Art Rainer
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433650312

GET BOOK

This isn’t where you thought you would be. You were meant for more. Your money was meant for more. You and your money are meant for an exciting, adventurous, and satisfying purpose. God designed you, not to be a hoarder, but a conduit through which His generosity flows. In The Money Challenge, Art Rainer takes you on a journey to financial health. But it is not simply for the sake of financial health. The Money Challenge was written to help experience God’s design for you and your finances. Welcome to the adventure. Welcome to The Money Challenge.

Author : Gloria Price
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 2022-11-03
Category :
ISBN :

GET BOOK

This book releases the compelling truth about the root of defeat in the Christian walk concerning 'Binding on earth and binding in heaven and loosing on earth and loosing in heaven.' - Matthew 18:20. How many times have you gone through the motion of touching and agreeing and binding and loosing regarding certain matters only to find that nothing seemed to have changed? Bound up finances have been a major source of strongholds for what seems like centuries in the lives of Christian believers. Will you have yours... Loosed today?

Author : Rico Vitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 26,19 MB
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3319052810

GET BOOK

Descartes’s concern with the proper method of belief formation is evident in the titles of his works—e.g., The Search after Truth, The Rules for the Direction of the Mind and The Discourse on Method of rightly conducting one’s reason and seeking the truth in the sciences. It is most apparent, however, in his famous discussions, both in the Meditations and in the Principles, of one particularly noteworthy source of our doxastic errors—namely, the misuse of one’s will. What is not widely recognized, let alone appreciated and understood, is the relationship between his concern with belief formation and his concern with virtue. In fact, few seem to realize that Descartes regards doxastic errors as moral errors and as sins both because such errors are intrinsically vicious and because they entail notably deleterious social consequences. Reforming the Art of Living seeks to rectify this rather common oversight in two ways. First, it aims to elucidate the nature of Descartes’s account of virtuous belief formation. Second, it aims both (i) to illuminate the social significance of Descartes’s philosophical program as it relates to the understanding and practice not of science, but of religion and (ii) to develop a kind of Leibnizian critique of this aspect of his program. More specifically, it aims to show that Descartes’s project is “dangerous,” insofar as it is subversive not only of traditional Christianity but also of other traditional forms of religion, both in theory and in practice.

Author : Kevin Phillips
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 2006-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1101218843

GET BOOK

An explosive examination of the coalition of forces that threatens the nation, from the bestselling author of American Dynasty In his two most recent bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that rule—and imperil—the United States, tracing the ever more alarming path of the emerging Republican majority’s rise to power. Now Phillips takes an uncompromising view of the current age of global overreach, fundamentalist religion, diminishing resources, and ballooning debt under the GOP majority. With an eye to the past and a searing vision of the future, Phillips confirms what too many Americans are still unwilling to admit about the depth of our misgovernment.