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Book Synopsis Agnostic at the Altar by : John Van Hagen
Download or read book Agnostic at the Altar written by John Van Hagen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Agnostic at the Altar, former Catholic priest and psychologist John Van Hagen engages the voices of the ancient Jewish prophets in an effort to find something of a universal voice that speaks to all people. He builds upon the work of Scripture scholars, religious writers, and his own experiences to pave a path by which readers can engage in religion, while at the same time defending against harmful religious claims and practices. The prophets, who first appeared in Palestine in the Axial Age, translated their experience of the transcendent into magnificent stories that began with a time of intimacy with their God, a later time of betrayal and turmoil, and a future reconciliation at the end of time. Later, Christians adopted these themes as their own. Their stories emphasize justice and right worship as a way toward a meaningful and peaceful future. Their insights into a spiritual dimension of reality brought purpose to millions of lives. In this uncertain time of increasing global tension and strife, they could do the same for us. Agnostic at the Altar makes a compelling case that the ancient prescriptions for a just way of living together are not only historically significant, but in perfect keeping with an evolutionary-based desire that all people live in harmony.
Book Synopsis Altar Boy to Atheist by : Ryan Bedell
Download or read book Altar Boy to Atheist written by Ryan Bedell and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Altar Boy to Atheist: Giving Up God" is as much a random collection of thoughts about the world as it is the story of someone discovering themselves anew throughout different periods of their life. Ryan Bedell grew up Catholic, and now he's not. The book tries to explain why and how Ryan went from youth group leader to an agnostic atheist, and his stories of different religious experiences around the world will resonate with readers from any background.
Book Synopsis Why We Need Religion by : Stephen T. Asma
Download or read book Why We Need Religion written by Stephen T. Asma and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Stephen Asma argues that, like art, religion has direct access to our emotional lives in ways that science does not. Yes, science can give us emotional feelings of wonder and the sublime--we can feel the sacred depths of nature--but there are many forms of human suffering and vulnerability that are beyond the reach of help from science. Different emotional stresses require different kinds of rescue. Unlike secular authors who praise religion's ethical and civilizing function, Asma argues that its core value lies in its emotionally therapeutic power. No theorist of religion has failed to notice the importance of emotions in spiritual and ritual life, but truly systematic research has only recently delivered concrete data on the neurology, psychology, and anthropology of the emotional systems. This very recent "affective turn" has begun to map out a powerful territory of embodied cognition. Why We Need Religion incorporates new data from these affective sciences into the philosophy of religion. It goes on to describe the way in which religion manages those systems--rage, play, lust, care, grief, and so on. Finally, it argues that religion is still the best cultural apparatus for doing this adaptive work. In short, the book is a Darwinian defense of religious emotions and the cultural systems that manage them.
Book Synopsis REBUILDING A LOST FAITH BY AN AMERICAN AGNOSTIC by : JOHN L. STODDARD
Download or read book REBUILDING A LOST FAITH BY AN AMERICAN AGNOSTIC written by JOHN L. STODDARD and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Atheism and Agnosticism by : Graham Oppy
Download or read book Atheism and Agnosticism written by Graham Oppy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element is an elementary introduction to atheism and agnosticism. It begins with a careful characterisation of atheism and agnosticism, distinguishing them from many other things with which they are often conflated. After a brief discussion of the theoretical framework within which atheism and agnosticism are properly evaluated, it then turns to the sketching of cases for atheism and agnosticism. In both cases, the aim is not conviction, but rather advancement of understanding: the point of the cases is to make it intelligible why some take themselves to have compelling reason to adopt atheism or agnosticism.
Book Synopsis Rebuilding the Altar by : Pat Schatzline
Download or read book Rebuilding the Altar written by Pat Schatzline and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2017 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holy Spirit has become a stranger. Many long for a closer walk with God, but He seems far away. They go to church. They read the Bible. But they don't experience His presence. Why? Because many have forsaken the altar--the place where God is found. When we truly encounter Him again, the light and power of God will flow to our homes, then to our houses of worship, then to the nation, and we will never be the same. In Rebuilding the Altar authors Pat and Karen Schatzline passionately challenge you to return to the altar. You see, the altar is not just a physical location or an instrument in a church or synagogue. Through Christ we can experience a daily encounter with Jesus, who became our altar. We must declare this truth to the deceived. We must raise a standard of holiness and no compromise. We must bring hope to the hurting. It's time for change. It's time to return to the altar...and encounter God.
Book Synopsis American Agnostic by : Raymond A. Hult
Download or read book American Agnostic written by Raymond A. Hult and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Agnostic argues that the true worth of an American should not be based on an individual's faith or uncertainty in the reality of a biblical God. American Agnostic is an atempt by author Raymond A. Hult to bridge the unfortunate gap of mistrust and disrespect that too often currently exists in America between members of the Christian majority and the agnostic minority. Hult places the responsibility for achieving a mutually respectful understanding equally on the shoulders of both those who fervently believe in the Christian God and those who are as yet still unsure. He tries to show that moral behavior is more often than not unrelated to a person's religious persuasion. American Agnostic engages Christians and agnostics in a frank discussion of the main differences of opinion that separate both groups in regard to the authenticity of the Bible and the reality of the God as presented therein. Drawing on his transformation from a devout Christina leader to a questioning agnostic, the author recounts in detail the thought process that led to his gradual change of belief. He respectively defends this change as reasonable and deserving of serious consideration. He seeks to portray the agnostic in a more favorable light and that there is nothing inherently evil with admitting that a sure knowledge of God may not be so sure after all.
Book Synopsis Taming the Agnostic: Sai Baba and the Irrepressible Lawyer by : M Krishna
Download or read book Taming the Agnostic: Sai Baba and the Irrepressible Lawyer written by M Krishna and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating, true adventure on two planes: physical and spiritual. It is a lawyer's amazing encounter with a succession of events that challenge his world of logic and scientific reasoning. He discovers that dogmatic belief systems are nothing more than historical records of Man's spiritual development, embellished with myths. However, he is unable to dismiss the Invisible Hand that is ever at work re-arranging and directing the affairs of Man advancing him on that plane. He looks back at the events in his life, including the inexplicable, and sees a clear pattern that gives meaning to what seemed like chaos and disasters. Unlike traditional books on the intangible, Taming the Agnostic is down-to-earth and it will challenge, intrigue and enrich even the skeptics. It is a serious challenge to every intelligent being to think outside their customary envelope and grapple with the unknown reality, or forever run from that which their current knowledge cannot cope with.
Book Synopsis The Intelligent Agnostic's Introduction to Christianity by : Eugene Rolfe
Download or read book The Intelligent Agnostic's Introduction to Christianity written by Eugene Rolfe and published by London : Skeffington. This book was released on 1959 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many people today only a vacuum exists where once there was a reconciling force between Man and God. The result is confusion, and the author of this forceful book places the responsibility as much with the Church as with the skeptics, because the Church still clings to outworn metaphysical tenets which modern man cannot accept. Yet, when seen not as "factual" statements, but as a means of religious communication through images, Christian orthodoxy can be shown to be pragmatically and psychologically true, and essential to balanced living. This, the author maintains, is especially evident in the realms of prayer and the Eucharist.--From publisher description.
Book Synopsis Eight Sermons on the Priesthood, Altar, and Sacrifice by : Mayow Wynell Mayow
Download or read book Eight Sermons on the Priesthood, Altar, and Sacrifice written by Mayow Wynell Mayow and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eight Sermons on the Priesthood, Altar, and Sacrifice" were created when, according to the author, the principles of Christianity were freely questioned as the most doubtful and disputed points. The author aimed to defend the Catholic doctrine of the priesthood, the altar, and the sacrifice to close the confusion between what is Catholic and what is Roman in the tradition of the reformed Church of England.
Download or read book The Church Eclectic written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis To Believe Or Not Believe, That Is the Question by : Thomas J. Gorman
Download or read book To Believe Or Not Believe, That Is the Question written by Thomas J. Gorman and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Boy Scout turned gang member, Catholic altar boy turned agnostic, Gorman reflects on his life and the search for answers about God which led him back to a life of Bible-based faith. (Practical Life)
Book Synopsis The Treasury; a Magazine of Religious and Current Thought for Pastor and People by :
Download or read book The Treasury; a Magazine of Religious and Current Thought for Pastor and People written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Altar'd written by Jennifer Kennedy Dean and published by New Hope Publishers (AL). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Kennedy Dean guides readers on a 40-day exploration of what it means to live a life dead to flesh and alive to the Spirit.
Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Download or read book Agnostic written by Lesley Hazleton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A widely admired writer on religion celebrates agnosticism as the most vibrant, engaging--and ultimately the most honest--stance toward the mysteries of existence." -- Amazon.com.
Book Synopsis Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain by : Bernard Lightman
Download or read book Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain written by Bernard Lightman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have tended to portray T.H. Huxley, John Tyndall, and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution, these men of science are often seen as a potent force for the secularization of British intellectual and social life. In this collection of essays Bernard Lightman argues that historians have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain. The essays deal with the evolutionary naturalists, especially the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, the physicist John Tyndall, and the philosopher of evolution, Herbert Spencer. But they look also at those who criticized this influential group of elite intellectuals, including aristocratic spokesman A. J Balfour, the novelist Samuel Butler, and the popularizer of science Frank Buckland. Focusing on the theme of the limitations of the cultural power of evolutionary naturalism, the volume points to the enduring strength of religion in Britain in the latter half of the 19th century.
