Patrick Sherry
Biographic Data
| ID | 1637077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Sherry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Sherry |
| SIGNATURE | SHERRY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9346-6931 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Trevor Hart, Between the Image and the Word: Theological Engagements with Imagination, Language and Literature
Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West: Volume 2
Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment, and Enchantment
Max Weber described the modern world as disenchanted. By contrast, some contemporary writers have said that postmodernism and other developments are re-enchanting the world. I put Weber and these writers alongside each other, and then undercut the discussion by considering a third possibility raised by some recent writers on theological aesthetics: that the world is still enchanted in certain ways. But this third point of view depends on a wide r…
The Beauty of God the Holy Spirit
The association of beauty, both in nature and in art, with the Holy Spirit goes back to the early church and emerges intermittently in theology, in widely different eras and places. I trace the development of this theme briefly, concentrating on its treatment by Jonathan Edwards. I end by discussing why beauty has been discussed relatively rarely by theologians, especially in connection with the Holy Spirit, and suggest that the topic is of vital…
Tribute to John Powell Clayton (1943-2003)
Saying and Showing: Art, Literature and Religious Understanding
I argue that works of art and literature can be primary expressions of religious ideas, i.e., ones not dependent on other modes of communication like preaching or theology. This does not mean, however, that such works are independent of criticism, for an artist or writer can show something that is untrue, immoral, crude, and so on. I maintain that art and literature may criticize theology, or vice versa; or, thirdly, the relationship between them…
Redeeming the past
I take up Richard Swinburne's point, in his Responsibility and Atonement , Ch. 5, that although the past cannot be changed, wrongdoers may change its significance by ‘disowning’ their actions through atonement, just as their victims may do so through forgiveness. I argue that the point can and should be pressed much more strongly than it is by Swinburne within the terms of his own discussion; and that it has a much wider significance, transcendin…
Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Supervision
The American Psychological Association code of ethics is used to understand the ethical issues present in the conduct of supervision. Because supervision is characterized by goals of behavior change, has many qualities similar to therapy, and by definition requires multiple roles of its participants, it should be considered a psychological intervention particularly vulnerable to ethical misconduct. The ethical issues of responsibility, client and…
Distress and help‐seeking as a function of person‐environment fit and self‐efficacy: A causal model
Self-efficacy, indicators of distress (state anxiety and frequency of physical symptoms), help-seeking (visits to the campus health center, an outside physician, and a counselor), and two measures of person-environment (P-E) fit were assessed on 152 college students and examined in a LISREL model. The two P-E fit measures were perceived discrepancy, the profile difference score between how each student would like their residence floor and how eac…
Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West
Now available in paperback, the successful three volumes of Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West provide a fresh appraisal of the most important thinkers of that time. Some essays centre on major figures of the period; others cover topics, trends and schools of thought between the French Revolution and the First World War. The contributors are among the leading scholars in their field and analyse not only what was said but also why it…
Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West: Volume 3
The successful three volumes of Nineteenth Century Religious Thought in the West provide a fresh appraisal of the most important thinkers of that time. Soames essays centre on major figures of the period; others cover topics, trends and schools of thought between the French Revolution and the First World War.
Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West: Volume 1
This is the first of a set of three volumes which provide a fresh appraisal of the most important thinkers of the nineteenth century in the West. Some essays centre on major figures of the period; others cover topics, trends and schools of thought between the French Revolution and the First World War. The contributors are among the leading scholars in their field in Europe and North America. They seek to engage their subjects not only in order to…
A Neglected Argument For Immortality
The claim has often been made over the centuries that the presence of the spirit of God, seen especially in saintly people, is an anticipation of immortality. My purpose in this paper is to see why this claim is made and to lay bare the structure of the argument which underlies it. Although there has been a renewed interest in the question of immortality, both among philosophers and theologians in recent years, this particular aspect of it has be…
Short review and book note
John McManners, Death and the enlightenment. Changing attitudes to death among Christians and unbelievers in eighteenth-century France, Oxford University Press 1981, vii + 619 pp. £17.50 Richard Swinburne, Faith and reason, Oxford, The Clarendon Press 1981, 206 pp. £16.00 John Coulson, Religion and imagination, Oxford, The Clarendon Press 1981, 193 pp. £12.50 Irving Hexham, The irony of apartheid, the struggle for national independence of Afrikan…
Von HÜgel: Philosophy and Spirituality
One of the striking features of the last few years has been a re-awakening of interest in spirituality. Many new books on prayer have appeared, old classics of the spiritual life have been re-published, prayer groups have sprung up and the Charismatic Movement has become an important factor in many Christian communities. If the 1960s was the decade of secularism and ‘God is dead’, the 1970s may well go down in history as the decade of renascent s…
Learning how to be Religious: The Work of Paul Holmer
Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment, and Enchantment
Max Weber described the modern world as disenchanted. By contrast, some contemporary writers have said that postmodernism and other developments are re-enchanting the world. I put Weber and these writers alongside each other, and then undercut the discussion by considering a third possibility raised by some recent writers on theological aesthetics: that the world is still enchanted in certain ways. But this third point of view depends on a wide r…
Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Supervision
The American Psychological Association code of ethics is used to understand the ethical issues present in the conduct of supervision. Because supervision is characterized by goals of behavior change, has many qualities similar to therapy, and by definition requires multiple roles of its participants, it should be considered a psychological intervention particularly vulnerable to ethical misconduct. The ethical issues of responsibility, client and…
Distress and help‐seeking as a function of person‐environment fit and self‐efficacy: A causal model
Self-efficacy, indicators of distress (state anxiety and frequency of physical symptoms), help-seeking (visits to the campus health center, an outside physician, and a counselor), and two measures of person-environment (P-E) fit were assessed on 152 college students and examined in a LISREL model. The two P-E fit measures were perceived discrepancy, the profile difference score between how each student would like their residence floor and how eac…
Learning how to be Religious: The Work of Paul Holmer
Von HÜgel: Philosophy and Spirituality
One of the striking features of the last few years has been a re-awakening of interest in spirituality. Many new books on prayer have appeared, old classics of the spiritual life have been re-published, prayer groups have sprung up and the Charismatic Movement has become an important factor in many Christian communities. If the 1960s was the decade of secularism and ‘God is dead’, the 1970s may well go down in history as the decade of renascent s…
Short review and book note
John McManners, Death and the enlightenment. Changing attitudes to death among Christians and unbelievers in eighteenth-century France, Oxford University Press 1981, vii + 619 pp. £17.50 Richard Swinburne, Faith and reason, Oxford, The Clarendon Press 1981, 206 pp. £16.00 John Coulson, Religion and imagination, Oxford, The Clarendon Press 1981, 193 pp. £12.50 Irving Hexham, The irony of apartheid, the struggle for national independence of Afrikan…
A Neglected Argument For Immortality
The claim has often been made over the centuries that the presence of the spirit of God, seen especially in saintly people, is an anticipation of immortality. My purpose in this paper is to see why this claim is made and to lay bare the structure of the argument which underlies it. Although there has been a renewed interest in the question of immortality, both among philosophers and theologians in recent years, this particular aspect of it has be…
Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West
Now available in paperback, the successful three volumes of Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West provide a fresh appraisal of the most important thinkers of that time. Some essays centre on major figures of the period; others cover topics, trends and schools of thought between the French Revolution and the First World War. The contributors are among the leading scholars in their field and analyse not only what was said but also why it…
Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West: Volume 3
The successful three volumes of Nineteenth Century Religious Thought in the West provide a fresh appraisal of the most important thinkers of that time. Soames essays centre on major figures of the period; others cover topics, trends and schools of thought between the French Revolution and the First World War.
Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West: Volume 1
This is the first of a set of three volumes which provide a fresh appraisal of the most important thinkers of the nineteenth century in the West. Some essays centre on major figures of the period; others cover topics, trends and schools of thought between the French Revolution and the First World War. The contributors are among the leading scholars in their field in Europe and North America. They seek to engage their subjects not only in order to…
Distress and help‐seeking as a function of person‐environment fit and self‐efficacy: A causal model
Self-efficacy, indicators of distress (state anxiety and frequency of physical symptoms), help-seeking (visits to the campus health center, an outside physician, and a counselor), and two measures of person-environment (P-E) fit were assessed on 152 college students and examined in a LISREL model. The two P-E fit measures were perceived discrepancy, the profile difference score between how each student would like their residence floor and how eac…
Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Supervision
The American Psychological Association code of ethics is used to understand the ethical issues present in the conduct of supervision. Because supervision is characterized by goals of behavior change, has many qualities similar to therapy, and by definition requires multiple roles of its participants, it should be considered a psychological intervention particularly vulnerable to ethical misconduct. The ethical issues of responsibility, client and…
Redeeming the past
I take up Richard Swinburne's point, in his Responsibility and Atonement , Ch. 5, that although the past cannot be changed, wrongdoers may change its significance by ‘disowning’ their actions through atonement, just as their victims may do so through forgiveness. I argue that the point can and should be pressed much more strongly than it is by Swinburne within the terms of his own discussion; and that it has a much wider significance, transcendin…
Saying and Showing: Art, Literature and Religious Understanding
I argue that works of art and literature can be primary expressions of religious ideas, i.e., ones not dependent on other modes of communication like preaching or theology. This does not mean, however, that such works are independent of criticism, for an artist or writer can show something that is untrue, immoral, crude, and so on. I maintain that art and literature may criticize theology, or vice versa; or, thirdly, the relationship between them…
Tribute to John Powell Clayton (1943-2003)
The Beauty of God the Holy Spirit
The association of beauty, both in nature and in art, with the Holy Spirit goes back to the early church and emerges intermittently in theology, in widely different eras and places. I trace the development of this theme briefly, concentrating on its treatment by Jonathan Edwards. I end by discussing why beauty has been discussed relatively rarely by theologians, especially in connection with the Holy Spirit, and suggest that the topic is of vital…
Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment, and Enchantment
Max Weber described the modern world as disenchanted. By contrast, some contemporary writers have said that postmodernism and other developments are re-enchanting the world. I put Weber and these writers alongside each other, and then undercut the discussion by considering a third possibility raised by some recent writers on theological aesthetics: that the world is still enchanted in certain ways. But this third point of view depends on a wide r…
Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West: Volume 2
Trevor Hart, Between the Image and the Word: Theological Engagements with Imagination, Language and Literature
Philosophy (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Theology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works)