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How can Christians committed to the classical Christian tradition
address the issues raised by contemporary Islam? Before a
much-needed dialogue between Christians and Muslims is established,
Christians need to ask themselves how their Scriptures and
traditions might come to bear on such a dialogue. Do the divisions
among Catholic and Evangelical Christians fracture the classical
Christian tradition in ways that undercut Christian-Muslim dialogue
before it has even begun? Or could the classical tradition provide
invaluable resources for resolving divisions between Catholic and
Evangelical Christians in ways that would prepare them for
meaningful conversation with Muslim brothers and sisters? And what
does it have to teach us about what Christians can and must learn
from Muslims about their own traditions? The scholarly essays
compiled in Christian Theology and Islam consider these and further
questions, offering valuable insight for concerned Christians and
academics in the fields of theology and religion.
Provides a broad and deep survey of Roman Catholic life and
thought, updated and expanded throughout The Wiley Blackwell
Companion to Catholicism provides an authoritative overview of the
history, doctrine, practices, and expansion of Catholicism. Written
by a group of distinguished scholars, this comprehensive reference
work offers an illuminating account of the global, historical, and
cultural phenomena of Catholicism. Accessible chapters address
central topics in the practice of Catholic theology and the
development of doctrine, including God and Jesus Christ, creation
and Church, the Virgin Mary, the sacraments, moral theology,
eschatology, and more. Throughout the text, the authors illustrate
the unity and diversity of Catholic life and thought while
highlighting the ways Catholicism overlaps with, and transforms,
other ways of living and thinking. Now in its second edition, The
Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism is fully updated to
include recent developments in the study of Catholicism.
Extensively revised and expanded chapters, many of which written by
new authors, address contemporary issues such as theology and
politics, environmentalism, and the clerical sexual abuse crisis.
Entirely new chapters cover the early modern Church, the Bible in
Catholic theology, the Eastern Catholic churches, liturgy, care for
creation, the consecrated life, challenges for the Catholic Church,
and more. An informed and engaging intellectual journey through the
past and present of Roman Catholicism, The Wiley Blackwell
Companion to Catholicism: Illustrates the diversity of modern
Catholic life and thought Describes Catholics in different lands,
including the Holy Land, India, Africa, Europe, the British Isles,
Asia, Oceania, and the Americas Surveys spirituality and ecumenism,
inter-religious dialog, Catholic schools and hospitals, art and the
sciences, the Holy See, and other central Catholic institutions and
practices Covers major eras in Catholic history, from the
Scriptures and the early Church to Post-Modernity Features new
material on diverse practices of Catholicism across cultures, the
global dimensions of the Catholic Church, race and ethnicity, and
Eastern Catholic Churches The Wiley Blackwell Companion to
Catholicism, Second Edition, is the ideal textbook for surveys
classes on Catholicism and Catholic theology in Catholic,
Protestant, and non-confessional colleges and universities. It is
also an invaluable resource for scholars and general readers
interested in broadening their knowledge of Catholicism.
Simulating Fuzzy Systems demonstrates how many systems naturally
become fuzzy systems and shows how regular (crisp) simulation can
be used to estimate the alpha-cuts of the fuzzy numbers used to
analyze the behavior of the fuzzy system. This monograph presents a
concise introduction to fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic, fuzzy estimation,
fuzzy probabilities, fuzzy systems theory, and fuzzy computation.
It also presents a wide selection of simulation applications
ranging from emergency rooms to machine shops to project
scheduling, showing the varieties of fuzzy systems.
In probability and statistics we often have to estimate
probabilities and parameters in probability distributions using a
random sample. Instead of using a point estimate calculated from
the data we propose using fuzzy numbers which are constructed from
a set of confidence intervals. In probability calculations we apply
constrained fuzzy arithmetic because probabilities must add to one.
Fuzzy random variables have fuzzy distributions. A fuzzy normal
random variable has the normal distribution with fuzzy number mean
and variance. Applications are to queuing theory, Markov chains,
inventory control, decision theory and reliability theory.
The primary purpose of this book is to present information about
selected topics on the interactions and applications of fuzzy +
neural. Most of the discussion centers around our own research in
these areas. Fuzzy + neural can mean many things: (1)
approximations between fuzzy systems and neu ral nets (Chapter 4);
(2) building hybrid neural nets to equal fuzzy systems (Chapter 5);
(3) using neura.l nets to solve fuzzy problems (Chapter 6); (4)
approximations between fuzzy neural nets and other fuzzy systems
(Chap ter 8); (5) constructing hybrid fuzzy neural nets for certain
fuzzy systems (Chapters 9, 10); or (6) computing with words
(Chapter 11). This book is not intend to be used primarily as a
text book for a course in fuzzy + neural because we have not
included problems at the end of each chapter, we have omitted most
proofs (given in the references), and we have given very few
references. We wanted to keep the mathematical prerequisites to a
minimum so all longer, involved, proofs were omitted. Elementary
dif ferential calculus is the only prerequisite needed since we do
mention partial derivatives once or twice."
Synopsis: At the same time as Catholic and evangelical Christians
have increasingly come to agree on issues that divided them during
the sixteenth-century reformations, they seem increasingly to
disagree on issues of contemporary "morality" and "ethics." Do such
arguments doom the prospects for realistic full communion between
Catholics and evangelicals? Or are such disagreements a new
opportunity for Catholics and evangelicals to convert together to
the triune God's word and work on the communion of saints for the
world? Or should our hope be different than simple pessimism or
optimism? In this volume, eight authors address different aspects
of these questions, hoping to move Christians a small step further
toward the visible unity of the church. Endorsements: "Christians
are often divided by the justification of homosexuality or some
other controversial moral issue rather than the doctrine of
justification. This excellent collection of essays helps us think
through the ways in which moral differences have reshaped the
ecumenical task." --R. R. Reno, Creighton University "This book
identifies the chief cause of internal strife and division
afflicting most mainline Protestant denominations. Separating faith
from works is an old heresy that always breeds schism. The authors
are leading theologians of their respective traditions who write
from a wealth of experience in church service and with profound
knowledge of classical Christianity. Anyone engaged in ecumenical
dialogues and the quest for Christian unity needs to read and heed
the message of this book." --Carl E. Braaten, Lutheran School of
Theology at Chicago "It is a historical fact that moral
disagreement has divided the church. This is not possible unless
certain kinds of moral disagreements are, in fact, doctrinal
disagreements . . . and other kinds of moral disagreements are, in
fact, tolerable divergences owing to context and judgment. The
offerings in this excellent collection go a long way toward
recognizing this difference and sorting it out for us today."
--Paul R. Hinlicky, Roanoke College Author Biography: James J.
Buckley is Professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland. He
has contributed to and edited (with Frederick Bauerschmidt and
Trent Pomplun) The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism (2007). He is
associate director of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical
Theology. Michael Root is Professor of Systematic Theology at The
Catholic University of America and Executive Director of the Center
for Catholic and Evangelical Theology. He was formerly the Director
of the Institute for Ecumenical Research, Strasbourg, France.
In probability and statistics we often have to estimate
probabilities and parameters in probability distributions using a
random sample. Instead of using a point estimate calculated from
the data we propose using fuzzy numbers which are constructed from
a set of confidence intervals. In probability calculations we apply
constrained fuzzy arithmetic because probabilities must add to one.
Fuzzy random variables have fuzzy distributions. A fuzzy normal
random variable has the normal distribution with fuzzy number mean
and variance. Applications are to queuing theory, Markov chains,
inventory control, decision theory and reliability theory.
Monte Carlo Methods in Fuzzy Optimization is a clear and
didactic book about Monte Carlo methods using random fuzzy numbers
to obtain approximate solutions to fuzzy optimization problems. The
book includes various solved problems such as fuzzy linear
programming, fuzzy regression, fuzzy inventory control, fuzzy game
theory, and fuzzy queuing theory. The book will appeal to
engineers, researchers, and students in Fuzziness and applied
mathematics.
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