Author: Havi Carel File Type: pdf What is illness? Is it a physiological dysfunction, a social label, or a way of experiencing the world? How do the physical, social and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? And can there be well-being within illness? In this remarkable and thought-provoking book, Havi Carel explores these questions by weaving together the personal story of her own serious illness with insights and reflections drawn from her work as a philosopher. Carels fresh approach to illness raises some uncomfortable questions about how we all - whether healthcare professionals or not - view the ill and challenges us to become more thoughtful. Illness unravels the tension between the universality of illness and its intensely private, often lonely, nature. It offers a new way of looking at a matter that affects every one of us.

Author: Craig Gardiner File Type: epub The New Monastic Movement is a vibrant source of renewal for the churchs life and mission. Many involved in this movement have quoted Dietrich Bonhoeffers conviction that the church must recover ancient spiritual disciplines if it is to effectively engage the powers that be. Melodies of a New Monasticism adopts a musical metaphor of polyphony (the combination of two or more lines of music) to articulate the way that these early Christian virtues can be woven together in community. Creatively using this imagery, this book draws on the theological vision of Bonhoeffer and the contemporary witness of George MacLeod and the Iona Community to explore the interplay between discipleship, doctrine, and ethics. A recurring theme is the idea of Christ as the cantus firmus (the fixed song) around which people perform the diverse harmonies of God in church and world, including worship, ecumenism, healing, peace, justice, and ecology. This is a work of outstanding originality, a hugely fresh and far-reaching essay on Christian community. . . .Craig Gardiner is someone who will make a serious mark as a theologian of an unusual kind--someone with ample scholarly credentials butable to speak directly into the most pressing concerns of the contemporary church and its ambient society. It is an exhilarating study, whose richness will serve the sharing of the gospel and the vision of the Kingdom in all kinds of ways. --Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge This fine study brings together two outstanding twentieth-century practitioners and theologians of community, its relevance, and its demands for Christianity in a world now tottering, politically and religiously, between authoritarian oppression and fragmenting pluralism. Vital insights emerge on what a new monasticism, of justice and peace no less than prayer, can look like and thanks to Gardiners use of Bonhoeffers metaphor of polyphony it is as much artistic as theological, and a pleasure to read. --Keith Clements, Former General Secretary, Conference of European Churches, author ofDietrich Bonhoeffers Ecumenical Quest Rejecting both the fallacy ofthe single, definitive voice and the cacophony of multiple voices reducing all to noise, this book is a profound theological reflection on polyphony grounded in Christ as a creative and active responseto the greatest challenge facing Christians, and indeed all people of goodwill whether and how we can love each other though we are different,and will remain different. --Kathy Galloway, The Iona Community This is a work of outstanding originality, a hugely fresh and far-reaching essay on Christian community. . . .Craig Gardiner is someone who will make a serious mark as a theologian of an unusual kind--someone with ample scholarly credentials butable to speak directly into the most pressing concerns of the contemporary church and its ambient society. It is an exhilarating study, whose richness will serve the sharing of the gospel and the vision of the Kingdom in all kinds of ways. --Rowan Williams, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge Craig Gardiner is Tutor of Christian Doctrine at the South Wales Baptist College and Honorary Senior Tutor, School of History, Archaeologyand Religion, Cardiff University. He is a Baptist minister, amateur musician, and member of the Iona Community. **About the Author Craig Gardiner is Tutor of Christian Doctrine at the South Wales Baptist College and Honorary Senior Tutor, School of History, Archaeologyand Religion, Cardiff University. He is a Baptist minister, amateur musician, and member of the Iona Community.