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A miracle happened that now reveals many secrets of the earth, the
universe. Many great mysteries, never before known, will be told in
this incredible story, a true phenomenal series of spectacular
events. All of mankind is on a well-planned scientific journey. It
is a known fact that the sun is traveling or darting through space
at a constant speed of 700,000 miles per hour. The earth is being
pulled along with the other planets in an exact positioned filing
order. The sun is the engine, which controls these planet
formations. Their destination will surprise you. This story is so
powerful the weak may not be able to follow through to its
conclusion. You will come to know and understand this force. There
are many forces in the universe and they are sometimes referred to
as laws. Such awesome and controlling powers as time, gravity,
perpetual energy, and nature are some of the great controlling
forces that surround man. Logic and reason should impress the
senses that their existence is far more reaching and purposeful
than the mere fact of their existence. The knowledge gained through
the miracle will indeed show a spectacular reason, that all things
have purpose.
About two thousand years ago, a great man who was renowned for
forgiveness and magnanimity was betrayed and slain by his
compatriots who feared he would become their King. To the chagrin
of his murderers, he was soon hailed as a God and the momentous
events that ensued paved the way for the birth of Christianity.The
venue for this drama, however, was not Jerusalem as might be
supposed, but rather the eternal city of Rome. It is a description
of the founder of the Roman Empire. In a work stranger than
fiction, Gary Courtney propounds that the Jesus of Nazareth that
graces the pages of the New Testament is an entirely mythological
personage, and presents a step by step explanation of how the
beloved Saviour of the Christian religion entered the world from
the wings of a stage.
Modern Israel and its relations with its Arab neighbors has been
conspicuously in the daily news ever since World War II. Until that
time, the concept of Israel and a continuing Jewish people had been
hovering in the distant background of Christian thought and
doctrine since the post-apostolic era. In this important work, Dr.
Diprose demonstrates the uniqueness of Israel and its special place
in the divine plan. By carefully reviewing relevant New Testament
and post-apostolic writings, the author traces the origin and
development of Replacement Theology--the concept that the Church
has completely and permanently replaced ethnic Israel in the
outworking of God's plan throughout history--challenging its origin
and role in the development of Christian thought on the future of
ethnic Israel.
Black theology tends to be a theology about no-body. Though one
might assume that black and womanist theology have already given
significant attention to the nature and meaning of black bodies as
a theological issue, this inquiry has primarily taken the form of a
focus on issues relating to liberation, treating the body in
abstract terms rather than focusing on the experiencing of a
material, fleshy reality. By focusing on the body as a physical
entity and not just a metaphorical one, Pinn offers a new approach
to theological thinking about race, gender, and sexuality.
According to Pinn, the body is of profound theological
importance. In this first text on black theology to take embodiment
as its starting point and its goal, Pinn interrogates the
traditional source materials for black theology, such as spirituals
and slave narratives, seeking to link them to materials such as
photography that highlight the theological importance of the body.
Employing a multidisciplinary approach spanning from the sociology
of the body and philosophy to anthropology and art history,
Embodiment and the New Shape of Black Theological Thought pushes
black theology to the next level.
The present book is a sequel to Ephraim Chamiel's two previous
works The Middle Way and The Dual Truth-studies dedicated to the
"middle" trend in modern Jewish thought, that is, those positions
that sought to combine tradition and modernity, and offered a
variety of approaches for contending with the tension between
science and revelation and between reason and religion. The present
book explores contemporary Jewish thinkers who have adopted one of
these integrated approaches-namely the dialectical approach. Some
of these thinkers maintain that the aforementioned tension-the rift
within human consciousness between intellect and emotion, mind and
heart-can be mended. Others, however, think that the dialectic
between the two poles of this tension is inherently irresolvable, a
view reminiscent of the medieval "dual truth" approach. Some
thinkers are unclear on this point, and those who study them debate
whether or not they successfully resolved the tension and offered a
means of reconciliation. The author also offers his views on these
debates.This book explores the dialectical approaches of Rav Kook,
Rav Soloveitchik, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Samuel Hugo
Bergman, Leo Strauss, Ernst Simon, Emil Fackenheim, Rabbi Mordechai
Breuer, his uncle Isaac Breuer, Tamar Ross, Rabbi Shagar, Moshe
Meir, Micah Goodman and Elchanan Shilo. It also discusses the
interpretations of these thinkers offered by scholars such as
Michael Rosenak, Avinoam Rosenak, Eliezer Schweid, Aviezer
Ravitzky, Avi Sagi, Binyamin Ish-Shalom, Ehud Luz, Dov Schwartz,
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, Lawrence Kaplan, and Haim Rechnitzer. The
author questions some of these approaches and offers ideas of his
own. This study concludes that many scholars bore witness to the
dialectical tension between reason and revelation; only some
believed that a solution was possible. That being said, and despite
the paradoxical nature of the dual truth approach (which maintains
that two contradictory truths exist and we must live with both of
them in this world until a utopian future or the advent of the
Messiah), increasing numbers of thinkers today are accepting it. In
doing so, they are eschewing delusional and apologetic views such
as the identicality and compartmental approaches that maintain that
tensions and contradictions are unacceptable.
The issue of debt and how it affects our lives is becoming more and
more urgent. The "Austerity" model has been the prevalent European
economic policies of recent years led by the "German model".
Elettra Stimilli draws upon contemporary philosophy, psychology and
theology to argue that austerity is built on the idea that we
somehow deserve to be punished and need to experience guilt in
order to take full account of our economic sins. Following thinkers
such as Max Weber, Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault, Debt and
Guilt provides a startling examination of the relationship between
contemporary politics and economics and how we structure our inner
lives. The first English translation of Debito e Colpa, this book
provokes new ways of thinking about how we experience both debt and
guilt in contemporary society.
For thousands of years philosophers and theologians have grappled
with the problem of evil. Traditionally, evil has been seen as a
weakness of sorts: the evil person is either ignorant (does not
know the wrong being done), or weak-willed (is incapable of doing
the right thing). But in the most horrifying acts of evil (the
Holocaust, ethnic cleansing, terrorism, serial murder, etc.), the
perpetrators are resolute, deliberate, and well aware of the pain
they are causing. There has never been a better time to re-open
this most difficult of questions, and to inquire whether any
helpful resources exist within our intellectual legacy. David
Roberts has done just this. In taking up the problem of evil as it
is uniquely found in the work of the Danish philosopher, Soren
Kierkegaard, Roberts has uncovered a framework that at last allows
the notion of radical evil to be properly articulated. His book
traces the sources of Kierkegaard's conception from its background
in the work of Kant and Schelling, and painstakingly details the
matrix of issues that evolved into Kierkegaard's own solution.
Kierkegaard's psychological understanding of evil is that it arises
out of despair - a despair that can become so vehement and
ferocious that it lashes out at existence itself. Starting from
this recognition, and drawing on Kierkegaard's view of the self,
Roberts shows how the despairing self can become strengthened and
intensified through a conscious and free choice against the Good.
This type of radical evil is neither ignorant nor weak.
Al-Ghazali (1058-1111 CE) is arguably one of the most influential
thinkers in the history of Islam and his writings have received
greater scholarly attention in the West than those of any other
Muslim scholar. This study explores and important dimension of his
thought that has not yet been fully examined, namely, his polemical
engagement with the Ismailis of the Fatimid and early Alamut
periods. Al-Ghazali's debate with the Ismailis constitutes an
important chapter in the history of Muslim thought and this book
also explores the wider intellectual and political significance of
this encounter, and especially the light it sheds on the central
tensions and questions of the age in which al-Ghazali lived.
This volume examines what it means to proceed in the path of wisdom
by beginning with fear of God, that is, mindfulness always and
everywhere of God's being and presence. Michael Allen describes the
praxis of fearing the Lord, how that posture of contemplative
pursuit marks the theological task and defines our theological
method; in so doing it takes up the significant topics of divine
revelation, theological exegesis, intellectual asceticism, and
retrieval/ressourcement from a distinctly doctrinal perspective. In
each of these conversations, doing theology in the presence of God
functions as a consistent thread. God is not mere object but truly
functions as subject in the process of theological growth, though
God's presence and agency fund rather than negate creaturely
theological responsibility. The Fear of the Lord: Essays on
Theological Method explores some of the most central questions of
contemporary theological method - revelation, Scripture,
theological interpretation, retrieval, intellectual asceticism,
scholastic method - by asking in each and every case what it means
to think fundamentally of the perfect and present God involved and
active in these spheres.
This is the first full-scale, verse-by-verse commentary on 4
Baruch. The pseudepigraphon, written in the second century, is in
large measure an attempt to address the situation following the
destruction of the temple in 70 CE by recounting legends about the
first destruction of the temple, the Babylonian captivity, and the
return from exile. 4 Bruch is notable for its tale about Jeremiah's
companion, Abimelech, who sleeps through the entire exilic period.
This tale lies behind the famous Christian legend of the Seven
Sleepers of Ephesus and is part of the genealogy of Washington
Irving's "Rip Van Winkle." Allison's commentary draws upon an
exceptionally broad range of ancient sources in an attempt to
clarify 4 Baruch's original setting, compositional history, and
meaning.
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