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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Theology
The scriptures of the Faiths use models to depict what God is like;
namely Father, Mother, Husband, Judge, Lover, Friend, shepherd and
so on. Science also uses models to advance its knowledge, and in a
scientific age a model of God as the Cosmic Scientist interacting
with the traditional could communicate well. It would imply that
the world is a laboratory created by God in order to test whether
humanity will obey his laws and live up to the values which he
embraces. Using material drawn from science and six world faiths,
the book shows the difference and similarity between divine and
human experiments and argues that God will bring the experiment to
a successful conclusion.
Entrance
Introduction to Worship in Islam
Allah, the creator of the world could have made us believe and
forced us to worship Him but He wants us to worship Him by our free
will. He created this sense of freedom in our minds. He loves the
people who out of their own free will chose to believe and worship
Him. It feels as if we are choosing but actually He is choosing.
The fortunate are the chosen ones They are granted the wisdom to be
aware of Him and worship Him. Only when we identify our creator we
may identify ourselves and our destiny. Where do we fit in His
grand scheme of things.
The book is an introduction to Islam for new Muslims. Non-Muslims
may certainly benefit from it because here we have collected all
the basic information about the practice and the spirit of Islam.
Our effort is to inspire without euphoria. Here we present the
simple facts of Islam. We focused on providing information in
enough detail to be useful. Yet we kept an inspirational tone to
encourage further study. We tried to narrate in an interesting
course rather than cut and dry facts. We added several short
stories to give an inside feel for the spirit of Islam. We took
guidance from other books. Particularly, the old books and
presented the information in a similar way.
The stories from old time of ignorance may be sad. The real tragedy
of ignorance is our own era. What we have become even after
enormous knowledge He has given us. Human feelings do not change
with technical progress. In past, life was difficult and easy in
different ways as compare to life of today. We can still feel the
same hunger, pain, and suffering. We can still experience
injustice, corruption, and consequent upheavals.
The book is about recognizing Him and knowing our own place with
respect to Him. He wants us to worship Him, making our best effort
to please Him. The knowledge of religion is like any other
knowledge you have to struggle to learn it. Yet, this knowledge is
very different than the knowledge of other worldly sciences. The
true religion is not invented or discovered by hearsay,
calculation, or observation. He designed the knowledge of religion
to be delivered by His selected Prophets. He granted them knowledge
of unseen what is beyond this world. He sent them to show us what
we can never learn by research and development. He delivered His
message in a real life drama. The whole lives of the prophets are
examples for us. He prepared the scene before they were born. He
protected them, trained them, and brought them to full power. He
let them deliver the message, loud and clear. He did it not just
once but many times to prove to us that without His corrective
message we will soon get corrupted.
In this enormous theater of time and space, our life span is just a
moment. His message is directed towards us as a nation and also as
an individual. He is directly calling you. He knows you, He loves
you. He promised if you walk towards Him, He will run towards you.
He knows, you recall Him and one day you shall return to submit. He
waited for you for a million years. He can wait for another million
but He selected this moment to be your turn on the stage.
You may enter now
May Allah (SWT) accept your worship and enter you in His
protection. Ameen
Sohail
Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology explores the role that the singular plays in the theories of science of Robert Grosseteste, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Marsilius of Inghen, and Pierre d’Ailly. Confronting the scientific status of theology, Lee argues that the main issue is how to provide a “rational ground” for existing singulars. The book exposes how, on the eve of modernity, existing singulars were freed from the constraints of rational ground.
The "Key Issues" series aims to make available the contemporary
responses that met important books and debates on their first
appearance. These take the form of journal articles, book extracts,
public letters, sermons and pamphlets which provides an insight
into the historical relevance and the social and political context
in which a publication or particular topic emerged. Each volume
brings together some of the key responses to the works. This is the
second volume of a two-volume set containing important secondary
literature on Hume on religion. This text focuses on general
remarks on Hume's life and philosophy, his "Natural History of
Religion", "Dialogues Concerning Natural religion", and his work on
the immortality of the soul and suicide, containing material
ranging from 1755 to 1907. Authors include: William Warburton,
Henry O'Connor and George Giles.
This work demonstrates the significance of Karl Barth's Christology
by examining it in the context of his orientation toward the
classical tradition - an orientation that was both critical and
sympathetic. To compare this Christology with the doctrine's
history, Sumner suggests first that the Chalcedonian portrait of
the incarnation is conceputally vulnerable at a number of points.
By recasting the doctrine in actualist terms - the history of
Jesus' lived existence as God's fulfillment of His covenant with
creatures, rather than a metaphysical uniting of natures - Barth is
able to move beyond problems inherent in the tradition. Despite a
number of formal and material differences, however, Barth's
position coheres with the intent of the ancient councils and ought
to be judged as orthodox. Barth's great contribution to Christology
is in the unapologetic affirmation of 'the humanity of God'.
Using a method of critical correlation, the author recommends an
interaction between clinical psychology and liberal theology which
preserves their unique sources, methodologies, and content, while
engaging in a mutually enriching dialogue. This work illustrates a
constructive interaction between these disciplines by applying the
concept of reconciliation derived from the Judeo-Christian
tradition as a foundation for a normative and empirical theory of
psychotherapy. Linguistic and phenomenological analyses of the
cognitive, affective, behavioral, and conative dimensions provide
an understanding of the experience of reconciliation compatible
with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
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