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Divinations
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Daniel M. Bell
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This inspirational diary of insights and reflections by the
artist/bookseller/conservator Leo Madrigal (Lorenzo de la Paz)
addresses logically and with compassion every topic vital to an
overall philosophy of life.
Tracing a dialectical path, The Maturing of Monotheism emphasises
the plausibility of Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and kindred forms of
monotheism and responds to anti-theistic challenges of our day.
These include materialism, determinism, the denial of objective
value, the pervasiveness of evil, and predictions of human
individual and collective extinction. The book reviews traditional
metaphysical ways of arguing for monotheism but employs a
cumulative, more experiential approach. While agnosticism affects
humanity's most basic beliefs, Garth Hallett demonstrates that
there remains ample room for rational, theistic faith. Of keen
interest to students and researchers alike, The Maturing of
Monotheism offers new insights and approaches in this steadily
advancing field.
In Orthodoxy, Gilbert K. Chesterton explains how and why he came to
believe in Christianity and more specifically the Catholic Church's
brand of orthodoxy. In the book, Chesterton takes the spiritually
curious reader on an intellectual quest. While looking for the
meaning of life, he finds truth that uniquely fulfills human needs.
This is the truth revealed in Christianity. Chesterton likens this
discovery to a man setting off from the south coast of England,
journeying for many days, only to arrive at Brighton, the point he
originally left from. Such a man, he proposes, would see the
wondrous place he grew up in with newly appreciative eyes. This is
a common theme in Chesterton's works, and one which he gave
fictional embodiment to in Manalive. A truly lively and
enlightening book!
In today's world, the boundaries within which Christian theologians
operate are becoming ever more permeable, and Christian theology is
increasingly influenced and challenged by multiple "outside"
factors. In Western Europe, two such factors stand out in
particular: the so-called "turn to religion" in continental
philosophy and religious diversity. Theologians working with
contemporary continental philosophers and theologians engaging the
multireligious world tend to work quite separately from one
another. The aim of the present book is therefore to initiate a
conversation between these two groups of theologians. The question
of truth was chosen because it is both a key issue in
contemporary-philosophical debates (in the continental and analytic
traditions) and one that arises in complex and problematic ways in
the praxis of, and theoretical reflection on, interreligious
dialogue. Some of the pressing questions that are addressed by the
contributors to this volume are: What is truth? What is theological
truth? How does the issue of truth arise from interreligious
encounter? To what extent can or should the nature of truth be
discussed explicitly during interreligious dialogue? Or should the
question of truth be rather postponed in the interest of successful
interreligious encounter? Is there a hermeneutical concept of truth
and, if so, how can it be of help for theological reflection on the
question of truth and on the role and place of truth in the context
of dialogue between religions?
In recent decades a new movement has arisen, bringing the
conceptual tools of analytic philosophy to bear on theological
reflection. Called analytic theology, it seeks to bring a clarity
of thought and a disciplined use of logic to the work of
constructive Christian theology. In this introduction to analytic
theology for specialists and nonspecialists alike, Thomas McCall
lays out what it is and what it isn't. The goal of this growing and
energetic field is not the removal of all mystery in theology. At
the same time, it insists that mystery must not be confused with
logical incoherence. McCall explains the connections of analytic
theology to Scripture, Christian tradition and culture, using case
studies to illuminate his discussion. Beyond mere description,
McCall calls the discipline to a deeper engagement with the
traditional resources of the theological task.
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Abba's Way
(Hardcover)
Stephen C Rose
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In "Abba's Way, " Jesus returns to set the world's religions
straight.
Abba is the shockingly-familiar Aramaic name for God that Jesus
uses in the Lord's Prayer. Jesus argues that this very Abba is
within each of us, ready to change our lives for the better. If we
only have eyes to see.
In 70 brief poetic essays, Jesus explains how we can move the
world from its present violent precipice to a global society built
around negotiation, individual achievement and openness to the
presence of Abba in each person.
On the occasion of the publication of Stephen C. Rose's 'The
Grass Roots Church," "The New York Times" called the author a new
Martin Luther whose theses might change today's world.
Cosmology and Self in the Apostle Paul challenges the traditional
reading of Paul. Troels Engberg-Pedersen argues that the usual,
mainly cognitive and metaphorical, ways of understanding central
Pauline concepts, such as 'being in Christ', 'having God's pneuma
(spirit), Christ's pneuma, and Christ himself in one', must be
supplemented by a literal understanding that directly reflects
Paul's cosmology.
Engberg-Pedersen shows that Paul's cosmology, not least his
understanding of the pneuma, was a materialist, bodily one: the
pneuma was a physical element that would at the resurrection act
directly on the ordinary human bodies of believers and transform
them into 'pneumatic bodies'. This literal understanding of the
future events is then traced back to the Pauline present as
Engberg-Pedersen considers how Paul conceived in bodily terms of a
range of central themes like his own conversion, his mission, the
believers' reception of the pneuma in baptism, and the way the
apostle took the pneuma to inform his own and their ways of life
from the beginning to the projected end.
In developing this picture of Paul's world view, an explicitly
philosophically oriented form of interpretation ('philosophical
exegesis') is employed, in which the interpreter applies categories
of interpretation that make sense philosophically, whether in an
ancient or a modern context. For this enterprise Engberg-Pedersen
draws in particular on ancient Stoic materialist and monistic
physics and cosmology - as opposed to the Platonic, immaterialist
and dualistic categories that underlie traditional readings of Paul
- and on modern ideas on 'religious experience', 'self', 'body' and
'practice' derived from Foucault and Bourdieu. In this way Paul is
shown to have spelled out philosophically his Jewish, 'apocalyptic'
world view, which remains a central feature of his thought.
The book states the cosmological case for the author's earlier
'ethical' reading of Paul in his prize-winning book, Paul and the
Stoics (2000).
David S. Cunningham offers a sustained account of the relationship
between rhetoric and Christian theology. He addresses various kinds
of deconstructionist and literary interests, and discusses the
grammatical, probabilistic, audience-centred concerns of
Christianity's oldest theologians.
Success by Choice Not By Chance gives a road map which clearly
shows the potential for any one to succeed in life whether they
came from Tupelo, Mississippi or was born on Wall Street. This book
is about Ernie Tucker who defied the laws of success and has lived
a charmed life by following the principles of having faith,
repetition, imagination and above all persistence. He says "success
has no room for excuses - it is all up to you." It is a choice one
makes not a chance one takes, because chances is gambling and
depends on the roll of the dice. It shows you that if you have a
clearly defined objective and is willing to make the necessary
sacrifices, in the long run your dream will become your reality.
The book entails what he had faced, handled and triumphed over to
become the success that he is. It is his dream to leave a legacy to
the coming generations of whomsoever wishes to succeed be it
family, friend or stranger. Embedded in the pages are elements of
the will, wit and determination it took to get him there. It says
that success is accessible but it is all up to you. To embrace the
principles that took him there, you must follow his proven method
for success. It shows you that success is a constant pursuit not an
overnight affair. It is in fact for Ernie a true fulfillment of
Martin Luther's dream that black men and white men could work
together in unity. Since success is not a respecter of persons when
Ernie's principles of faith are enacted, regardless of your color,
creed, race or national origin, success will be attained when you
step out in faith and have a vision of your goals.
This collection of papers represents a wide range of opinions concerning the mental health implications of religious belief and practice.
This substantial anthology is a comprehensive, authoritative
collection of the classical and contemporary readings in the
philosophy of religion, providing a survey and analysis of the key
issues, figures and concepts.
Comprises the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of
the classical and contemporary readings in the philosophy of
religion.
Provides a survey and analysis of the key issues, figures and
concepts.
Examines religious identity, theism and divine attributes,
explanations of religion, and theistic arguments.
Includes readings concerned with nontheistic religions, evils and
goods, religious values, personal identity, and death.
Scepticism has been the driving force in the development of
Greco-Roman culture in the past, and the impetus for far-reaching
scientific achievements and philosophical investigation. Early
Jewish culture, in contrast, avoided creating consistent
representations of its philosophical doctrines. Sceptical notions
can nevertheless be found in some early Jewish literature such as
the Book of Ecclesiastes. One encounters there expressions of doubt
with respect to Divine justice or even Divine involvement in
earthly affairs. During the first centuries of the common era,
however, Jewish thought, as reflected in rabbinic works, was
engaged in persistent intellectual activity devoted to the laws,
norms, regulations, exegesis and other traditional areas of Jewish
religious knowledge. An effort to detect sceptical ideas in ancient
Judaism, therefore, requires a closer analysis of this literary
heritage and its cultural context. This volume of collected essays
seeks to tackle the question of scepticism in an Early Jewish
context, including Ecclesiastes and other Jewish Second Temple
works, rabbinic midrashic and talmudic literature, and reflections
of Jewish thought in early Christian and patristic writings.
Contributors are: Tali Artman, Geoffrey Herman, Reuven Kiperwasser,
Serge Ruzer, Cana Werman, and Carsten Wilke.
It has long been thought that Edwards's polemical arguments were aimed against Arminianism -- a doctrine that denied the Calvinist idea of predestination. In this book, Gerald McDermott shows that Edwards's real target was a larger and more influential one, namely deism -- the belief in a creator God who does not intervene in His Creation. To Edwards's mind, deism was the logical conclusion of most, if not all, schemes of divinity that appropriated Enlightenment tenets. McDermott argues that Edwards was an inclusivist who came to realize that salvation was open to peoples beyond the hearing of the Christian gospel.
This complete work unites two of Roman philosopher Boethius's
finest works; his Theological Tracts regarding Christianity, and
his Consolation of Philosophy which concerns the nature of fortune
and dying. The works of Boethius emerged at the symbolic conclusion
of the classical era, and the beginning of post-Roman Europe. As
such they draw deeply upon extant classical traditions and the
religious significance of Christianity; the chaos and upheaval of
the author's time colors his writing in a fashion vibrant and
compelling. Venerated in Catholicism for his theological studies,
it was the philosophical ideas of Boethius that saw his popularity
endure for ages. Given his compelling life story - Boethius was
among the final Roman politicians to serve as a senator before the
collapse of the Western Empire - the author's writings gain an
additional, historic context. The famous Consolation was written
while Boethius was in jail awaiting what transpired as the death
sentence.
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