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A Christian Perspective of Postmodern Existentialism

Author : John D. Carter
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725292637
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book A Christian Perspective of Postmodern Existentialism written by John D. Carter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western Humanism originating in classical Greek philosophy—where the capacity of human reason became the dominant means for perceiving a worldview based in reality—reigned in Western philosophy until the onset of Postmodern Existentialism in the mid-twentieth century. Plato’s Theory of Forms prepared the Western gentile mind to accept the rationality of a transcendent ultimate reality, and in so doing steered the gentile mind from its bent to pantheistic deities. The apostle Paul boldly proclaimed to the Athenians that their “unknown god” was indeed the transcendent God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Christianity prevailed in Western philosophy until the Enlightenment—which was the result of the unprecedented success of the scientific method—began to turn the Western mind to the existentialistic idea of the relativity of moral truth.

Above All Earthly Pow'rs

Author : David F. Wells
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802824552
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Above All Earthly Pow'rs written by David F. Wells and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this prophetic call to the evangelical church, Wells stresses that Christians need to confess Christ as the center in a society lacking a center, as the sovereign in a world seemingly ruled by chance, and as the one who can give meaning in a nihilistic culture.

Postmodern Times

Author : Gene Edward Veith (Jr.)
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 0891077685
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Times written by Gene Edward Veith (Jr.) and published by Crossway. This book was released on 1994 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural landscape is now made up of diverse "communities"--feminists, gays, neo-conservatists, African-Americans, pro-lifers--who seem to have no common frame of reference by which to communicate with each other. Veith offers Christians instructions as to how they can respond to these varied groups.

Mapping Postmodernism

Author : Robert C. Greer
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830827336
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Mapping Postmodernism written by Robert C. Greer and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2003-08-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping you navigate the complex debate among Christians over postmodernism, Robert C. Greer maps four different paths marked out by Francis Schaeffer, Karl Barth, John Hick and George Lindbeck. Ultimately, he points to the true Subject who makes knowledge possible through the language of revelation and relationship with God.

The Committed Self

Author : Victor A. Shepherd
Publisher : BPS Books
ISBN 13 : 1772360007
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book The Committed Self written by Victor A. Shepherd and published by BPS Books. This book was released on 2015-01-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committed Self is a clear and compelling introduction to Existentialism, the root of Postmodernism and, according to Victor A. Shepherd, still the most significant philosophy of our times. Focusing on Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Buber, Heidegger, and Sartre and their passionate commitment to the authenticity of the self, Shepherd maintains that Existentialism has much to say to Christians with its understanding of: What it is to be a human being, How diverse forces operative in the world and in the psyche shape human self-awareness, The manner in which radical commitment forges and forms that "self," which is nothing less than a new birth. Shepherd believes that an acquaintance with Existentialism will aid Christians in negotiating the minefield they think life has become. And he persistently draws attention to the manner in which Existentialism recalls theology to its proper vocation whenever theology appears to be in danger of becoming a species of rationalism that uses religious vocabulary

Christianity after Christendom

Author : Martin Koci
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350322644
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Christianity after Christendom written by Martin Koci and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What comes after the end of Christendom? Christianity has ceased to function as the dominant force in society and yet the Christian faith continues. How are we to understand Christianity in this 'after'? Bringing into conversation seven unorthodox or 'heretical' continental philosophers, including Jan Patocka, Jean-Luc Nancy, Gianni Vattimo and John D. Caputo, Martin Koci re-centres the debates around philosophy's so-called return to religion to address the current 'not-Christian, but not yet non-Christian' culture. In the modern context of increasing secularization and pluralization, Christianity after Christendom boldly proposes that Christians must embrace the demise of Christianity as a meta-narrative and see their faith as an existential mode of being-in-the-world. Whilst not denying the religion's history, this 'after' of Christianity emancipates the discourse from the socio-historical focus on Christendom and introduces new perspectives on Christianity as an embodied religious tradition, as a way of being, even as a faithfulness to the world. In dialogue with a broad range of philosophical movements, including deconstruction, phenomenology, hermeneutics and postmodern critiques of religion, this is a timely examination of the present and future of post-Christendom Christianity.

Foundations of Christian Thought

Author : Mark P. Cosgrove
Publisher : Kregel Academic
ISBN 13 : 0825495474
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Christian Thought written by Mark P. Cosgrove and published by Kregel Academic. This book was released on with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a veteran Christian educator, this readable book describes the relationship between the Christian faith and the world of learning by looking at the five modern worldviews competing with Christian theism.

Truth Decay

Author : Douglas Groothuis
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083087755X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Truth Decay written by Douglas Groothuis and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-09-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2001 Christianity Today Award of Merit winner! The concept of truth as absolute, objective and universal has undergone serious deterioration in recent years. No longer is it a goal for all to pursue. Rather postmodernism sees truth as inseparable from culture, psychology, race and gender. Ultimately, truth is what we make it to be. What factors have accelarated this decay of truth? Why are people willing to embrace such a devalued concept? How does this new view compare and contrast with a Christian understanding? While postmodernism contains some truthful insights (despite its attempt to dethrone truth), Douglas Groothuis sees its basic tenets as intellectually flawed and hostile to Christian views. In this spirited presentation of a solid, biblical and logical perspective, Groothuis unveils how truth has come under attack and how it can be defended in the vital areas of theology, apologetics, ethics and the arts.

Existentialism and Christian Zen

Author : A William McVey
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780995946
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Existentialism and Christian Zen written by A William McVey and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a small book written for readers without an in depth background in philosophy, especially existentialism. It is an examinnation of the interface between Christian meditation and Zen Buddhism. It is contextual, and as of yet I have not included the meditation workshop book that I use when I am giving workshops on Christian Zen meditation. Presently, it is really in the format of an in depth essay. The style is siminlar to one of your publications that had led me to your site i.e Emotion and Psyche, Marc Jackson.I have presented this workshop also on college campuses in the midwest, and it was received well. It helps greatly clarify the nature o af promising and practical dialogue between Christian existentialism and the practice of Zen. ,

Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought

Author : Merold Westphal
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253213365
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought written by Merold Westphal and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are postmodern philosophy and Christian thought so diametrically opposed that "never the twain shall meet"? Or are various postmodern philosophies, in spite of their secular provenance, open to religious appropriation? These thirteen lively, original essays awaken secular postmodernisms and various modes of Christian thinking from their ideological complacency. An open space for passionate dialogue emerges from conversations that powerfully engage both intellectual and religious points of view.

The One Who Loves Us

Author : Kess Frey
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 1938685121
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book The One Who Loves Us written by Kess Frey and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This far-ranging book presents God, the Ultimate Mystery of non-created Reality, as Christ—the One Who loves us. Spirituality beyond language and in general; the inner mystical meaning of the Cross of Christ; differing Christian windows found in the stages of evolving consciousness identified by Integral Theory; and Centering Prayer’s close relationship to all of this are core themes in this work. An important insight of Integral Theory reveals that when people are unaware of the stages of evolving consciousness, they tend to believe that the perspectives of their own stage(s) are the only true or realistic views—which is actually untrue and leads to needless confusion, conflict and misunderstandings among individuals in different stages of evolving consciousness. Additionally: prayer; the allegorical sense of Scripture; Lectio Divina; grades of evolving love; duality?/?non-duality; and apophatic theology are also major topics discussed. The gift of non-conceptual contemplation, into which Centering Prayer leads us, is shown to be a key to Christian unity and harmony among all religious and spiritual traditions seeking to serve the One Who loves us. Non-conceptual Centering Prayer—as a movement into simplicity and silence—is readily available to people seeking a deeper spirituality in all denominations and in all stages of evolving consciousness.

Christianity and Culture

Author : William Valmyr
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1607919419
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Culture written by William Valmyr and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity & Culture: A Christian Perspective on Worldview Development is a historical, scriptural, and comprehensive examination of the dynamics in secular and Christian education in light of the current cultural philosophy. With transformative, stimulating and revolutionary principles, this book challenges Christians to integrate Judeo-Christian values in an atheistic and pluralistic society. If you have been inundated by humanistic, liberal and secular indoctrination, the redemptive solutions in this book will ensoul the tools necessary to produce a Christian worldview. It will impart a commanding sense of purpose, passion, and appreciation for the teaching profession. Christianity & Culture will enable you to ... - Deepen and broaden your understanding of the core presuppositions of the Christian faith - Effectively face the challenges presented by a hostile world - Take heed to your God-given mandate to influence this world for Christ - Build, stimulate and develop a biblical and theocentric worldview of education - Assume your responsibility as a steward of the mysteries of God - Discover the dynamics of an education that is Christian A practical teacher, minister, college professor, author, speaker, counselor and husband, is the president and founder of Higher Call Ministries International, a multi-faceted ministry with its headquarter in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. William Valmyr is a graduate of Nova Southeastern University (B.S., M.S. and ED.S.), Knox Theological Seminary (M.A.), and South Florida Theological Seminary (Ph.D.), and is a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) candidate at Oral Roberts University. He is a member of the Evangelical Training Association and a member of the American Counseling Association. He serves as Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Fort Lauderdale. His careful research and study over many years has resulted in this scholarly work on Religious Education, Spiritual Formation, Christianity and worldviews in higher education.

Unamuno, Berdyaev, Marcel

Author : C. A. Longhurst
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303081999X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Unamuno, Berdyaev, Marcel written by C. A. Longhurst and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to examine the mutual interplay between existentialism and Christian belief as seen through the work of three existentialist thinkers who were also committed Christians - a Spaniard (Miguel de Unamuno), a Russian (Nikolai Berdyaev), and a Frenchman (Gabriel Marcel). They are compared with each other and with leading non-religious existentialists. The major themes studied include reason, freedom, the self, belief, hope, love, suffering, and immortality.

Postmodern Times

Author : Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433529335
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Times written by Gene Edward Veith Jr. and published by Crossway. This book was released on 1994-02-15 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern era is over. Assumptions that shaped twentieth-century thought and culture, the bridges we crossed to this present moment, have blown up. The postmodern age has begun. Just what is postmodernism? The average person would be shocked by its creed: Truth, meaning, and individual identity do not exist. These are social constructs. Human life has no special significance, no more value than animal or plant life. All social relationships, all institutions, all moral values are expressions and masks of the primal will to power. Alarmingly, these ideas have gripped the nation's universities, which turn out today's lawyers, judges, writers, journalists, teachers, and other culture-shapers. Through society's influences, postmodernist ideas have seeped into films, television, art, literature, politics; and, without his knowing it, into the head of the average person on the street. Christ has called us to proclaim the gospel to a culture grappling with postmodernism. We must understand our times. Then, through the power that Christ gives, we can counter the prevailing culture and proclaim His sufficiency to our society's very points of need.

Spiritual Exercises for the Postmodern Christian

Author : Matthew C. Kruger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532619464
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Exercises for the Postmodern Christian written by Matthew C. Kruger and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a challenging spirituality for a world filled with uncertainty and emotional struggle. Drawing from the work of ancient and contemporary thinkers, the author constructs a path to understanding oneself and understanding God in new and profound ways. This end is pursued by the use of spiritual exercises, mental practices which make changing one’s way of life a real possibility. Further, by engaging directly with nothingness, meaninglessness, and the sheer lack of certain knowledge possessed by humans, an alternative form of spirituality is offered, one that prepares the contemporary Christian for all that life will bring.

Events of Grace

Author : Charley D. Hardwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521552206
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Events of Grace written by Charley D. Hardwick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-29 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the liberal theological tradition dating from Schleiermacher, Events of Grace, first published in 1996, demonstrates that the Christian faith can be fully compatible with a scientific world view. Religion and God must be understood valuationally, not ontologically, which permits an existentialist account of faith entirely in terms of modes of existing. Hardwick weds Bultmann's demythologizing programme to Wieman's naturalistic concept of God as creative transformation. Defending a strong doctrine of justification by faith, he shows how both God and the knowledge of God can be conceived in terms of events of grace that transform possibilities of existence toward openness to the future. Events of Grace gives a complete existential and naturalistic account of sin, faith, God, the knowledge of God, Christology and the eschatological symbols that articulate Christian hope in the encounter with suffering and death.

Postmodernism and Christian Philosophy

Author : Roman Theodore Ciapalo
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813208817
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism and Christian Philosophy written by Roman Theodore Ciapalo and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1996-12-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to Postmodernism and Christian Philosophy bring a wealth of philosophical insights and methodological approaches to bear on a common concern, namely, the possibility and extent of a fruitful dialogue between Christian philosophy and postmodern thought. They tackle the timely question of how realism ought to respond to the threat to what Gilson called "the Western Creed" posed by modernity's heir apparent. Enriched and invigorated by the insights of St. Thomas, Jacques Maritain, Yves R. Simon, and others, the articles assembled in this volume offer a provocative vision of the way in which a world bearing the imprint of modernity can nevertheless avoid succumbing to the false alternative proposed by postmodernism. Contributors include: Benedict M. Ashley, O.P., Don T. Asselin, Michael Baur, David B. Burrell, C.S.C., John Deely, Curtis L. Hancock, Thomas S. Hibbs, Gregory J. Kerr, John F.X. Knasas, Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., James L. Marsh, Matthew S. Pugh, Gregory M. Reichberg, Robert Royal, James V. Schall, S.J., Rosalind Smith Edman, Brendan Sweetman, Joseph M. de Torre, Merold Westphal, and Robert E. Wood. ABOUT THE EDITOR: Roman T. Ciapalo is associate professor of philosophy at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa.