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Confessions of a Recovering Fundamentalist

Author : Keith Ward
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 153269671X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Recovering Fundamentalist written by Keith Ward and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can theology be expounded almost entirely in jokes? This is an attempt to do so. But it is also a record of how one person recovered from fundamentalism, and found a different, more positive spirituality within Christian faith. It seeks to speak to those who only know an exclusive and dogmatic version of Christianity, and who feel the need for something more universally compassionate and friendly to informed scientific thought. Ward argues that we need to escape from the image of a vindictive, wrathful, judgmental God, who saves just a few people from endless torture for no obvious reason. He proposes instead a view of the universe as evolving towards a goal, guided by a supreme cosmic consciousness, which manifests its nature in this historical process. Jesus is the human image of this consciousness, an image of universal self-giving love and a foreshadowing of the transformation of human lives by their union with the divine. The jokes are there because Christian faith should be really joyful, hopeful, and positive good news for everyone—that there is a spiritual basis and goal of the universe which wills everyone without exception to share in its unlimited wisdom and love.

Confessions of a Recovering Fundamentalist

Author : Keith Ward
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532696736
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Recovering Fundamentalist written by Keith Ward and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can theology be expounded almost entirely in jokes? This is an attempt to do so. But it is also a record of how one person recovered from fundamentalism, and found a different, more positive spirituality within Christian faith. It seeks to speak to those who only know an exclusive and dogmatic version of Christianity, and who feel the need for something more universally compassionate and friendly to informed scientific thought. Ward argues that we need to escape from the image of a vindictive, wrathful, judgmental God, who saves just a few people from endless torture for no obvious reason. He proposes instead a view of the universe as evolving towards a goal, guided by a supreme cosmic consciousness, which manifests its nature in this historical process. Jesus is the human image of this consciousness, an image of universal self-giving love and a foreshadowing of the transformation of human lives by their union with the divine. The jokes are there because Christian faith should be really joyful, hopeful, and positive good news for everyone--that there is a spiritual basis and goal of the universe which wills everyone without exception to share in its unlimited wisdom and love.

Stories of a Recovering Fundamentalist

Author : James C. Alexander
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452042225
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Stories of a Recovering Fundamentalist written by James C. Alexander and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Drawing on this notion, Stories of a Recovering Fundamentalist: Understanding and Responding to Christian Absolutism recounts the author’s journey as a member of the fundamentalist subculture as a child and his life among the Jesus Freaks (Jesus Movement)-- a congregation of deserters from the hippie drug culture of the late 1960's and early 1970's. This movement, though of great importance in the culture of the times, now largely goes unrecognized--although the Jesus Movement provided the cover stories for many prominent secular magazines chronicling the youth culture of the late 60's and early 70's. While, not devoted to a history of the Jesus Movement, the book does a service in bringing a discussion of the Jesus Freak phenomenon to the attention of today's readers. The book goes on to recount the author's eventual abandonment of fundamentalism. As the story unfolds, critical research related to the psychology, sociology, and history of the subculture provides a framework for understanding Christian fundamentalism. Stories of a Recovering Fundamentalist recounts a gripping personal pilgrimage—at times both humorous and painful— that is rooted in honest reflection and informed by theory and research. It offers worthwhile reading for mainline Christians, curious evangelicals, recovering fundamentalists or anyone wanting to understand this timely topic.

Stories of a Recovering Fundamentalist

Author : James C. Alexander
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434381323
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Stories of a Recovering Fundamentalist written by James C. Alexander and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a sound and practical view of the missionary world. Dr. Price leads the reader through each step, from the first urgings we feel as God begins to speak to us, to understanding God's call on our lives, and finally the essentials of getting to the field. In this process, Dr. Price insists on maintaining a healthy relationship with the home church and its leadership. This book will strengthen you, as well as deepen and challenge you as you prepare for missionary service.

Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays

Author : Paul Kingsnorth
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979726
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays written by Paul Kingsnorth and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in “an age of ecocide” Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist—an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on “sustainability” rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change. Full of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth’s thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls “dark ecology,” which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. This iconoclastic, fearless, and ultimately hopeful book, which includes the much-discussed “Uncivilization” manifesto, asks hard questions about how we’ve lived and how we should live.

Confessions of a Fundamentalist

Author : Aaron Dunlop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911005070
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Fundamentalist written by Aaron Dunlop and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Addicted to Certainty: The Journey of a Twice Recovering Fundamentalist

Author : Howard C. Mackert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733267946
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Addicted to Certainty: The Journey of a Twice Recovering Fundamentalist written by Howard C. Mackert and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A divorced virgin at twenty-five. Howard Mackert gave up everything he had ever known to escape from an arranged marriage and Mormon fundamentalism, only to find he had gone out of the frying pan and into the fire--with unseen scars that would take years to heal. As one of 31 children in a polygamist family, Howard Mackert's childhood was far from ordinary. Here, he tells his story of growing up as a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints and part of a household with three (and later four) mothers. But Howard's story doesn't end with his departure from FLDS. After his escape, he unintentionally landed in yet another fundamentalist environment, fuelled by a compulsion to find concrete answers to life's eternal questions. It was only by discovering the unconditional acceptance and grace of God that Howard was able to forgive the past, live a life of love, and embrace the mystery of faith--without a fundamentalist addiction to certainty.

Confessions of a Beginning Theologian

Author : Elouise Renich Fraser
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830815197
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Beginning Theologian written by Elouise Renich Fraser and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 1998-03-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elouise Renich Fraser describes her personal journey to become a theologian: confronting the past, befriending the Bible, developing theological imagination and finding an authentic voice.

Sharing in the Divine Nature

Author : Keith Ward
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725266385
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Sharing in the Divine Nature written by Keith Ward and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A defense of the New Testament view that all things are to be united in Christ, which entails that the ultimate destiny of the universe, and of all that is in it, is to be united in God. Keith Ward argues that this conflicts with classical ideas of God as simple, impassible, and changeless—ideas that many modern theologians espouse, and which Ward subjects to careful and critical scrutiny. He defends the claim that the cosmos contributes something substantial to—and in that way changes—the divine nature, and the cosmos is destined to manifest and express the essential creativity and relationality of a God of beatific, agapic, redemptive, and unitive love.

Confessions of a Christian Humanist

Author : John W. De Gruchy
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9780800638245
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Christian Humanist written by John W. De Gruchy and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can one genuinely follow Jesus today, and what does that mean about one's lifestyle, social and political commitments, and ethical stance? In this fine work, internationally renowned theologian John de Gruchy answers that question. Reviving an almost silenced tradition, he lifts the banner of Christian humanism - not secular humanism with a Christian veneer, but a critical retrieval of Christianity's core convictions and values in ways that are both critical of and yet constructively engaged with secular culture in serving the well-being of humanity.

Adventures in Belief

Author : Keith Ward
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666756237
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Belief written by Keith Ward and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keith Ward—philosopher, ethicist, theologian, Anglican priest, cathedral canon, and book-writing addict—has spent his life thinking about “the big questions” (and, what’s more, getting paid for it!). This philosophical pilgrimage led him from jobs at Glasgow and St. Andrew’s Universities in Scotland, to Cambridge University, then on to King’s College, London, followed by Oxford University (by invitation of the Queen!), before moving back to London at Gresham College, Heythrop College, and Roehampton University. Along the way he became a fellow of the British Academy and of a number of academic institutions, gathering up doctorates from various places, and writing more books than your bookshelf can handle. This sounds awfully dull, but according to Keith Ward, it was great fun, and he experienced all these things with a feeling of slight surprise, and with an irrepressible sense of humour. Having retired, exhausted, at eighty-one, Ward could not resist one more book. This is it—a humorous account of his life and thought, especially to show how he developed his own philosophy of personal idealism. It is both a genuinely amusing account of the life of an English academic and a rather profound account of an anti-materialistic and scientifically informed philosophy.

Mind, Value, and Cosmos

Author : Andrew M. Davis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793636400
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Mind, Value, and Cosmos written by Andrew M. Davis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy is an investigation into the nature of ultimacy and explanation, particularly as it relates to the status of, and relationship among Mind, Value, and the Cosmos. It draws its stimulus from longstanding “axianoetic” convictions as to the ultimate status of Mind and Value in the western tradition of philosophical theology, and chiefly from the influential modern proposals of A.N. Whitehead, Keith Ward, and John Leslie. What emerges is a relational theory of ultimacy wherein Mind and Value, Possibility and Actuality, God and the World are revealed as “ultimate” only in virtue of their relationality. The ultimacy of relationality—what Whitehead calls “mutual immanence”—uniquely illuminates enduring mysteries surrounding: any and all existence, necessary divine existence, the nature of the possible, and the world as actual. As such, it casts fresh light upon the whence and why of God, the World, and their ultimate presuppositions.

The Priority of Mind

Author : Keith Ward
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0227178971
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book The Priority of Mind written by Keith Ward and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Confessions of a Recovering Evangelical

Author : Daniel Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781957007274
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Recovering Evangelical written by Daniel Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Re-thinking Christianity

Author : Keith Ward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 178074465X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Re-thinking Christianity written by Keith Ward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian faith is often charged with being outmoded and anachronistic. A monolithic institution rooted in the past, many critics have claimed that it lacks the resources to adapt to modern society's needs and advances. In "Rethinking Christianity", Keith Ward argues persuasively that this view is not only uncharitable, but refuted by historical evidence. Mapping the evolution of six major beliefs, from the Hellenistic restatement to the challenged of evolutionary theory, Ward demonstrates that Christianity has always been expressed in constantly changing ways in response to new knowledge and understandings of the world. Controversial, liberal, and confronting the principal questions facing Christianity today, Ward uses this basis to support the construction of his own ground-breaking theology: a 'systematic theology' for the post-scientific age.

Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter

Author : Margaret R. Miles
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608997596
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter written by Margaret R. Miles and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter, Margaret Miles weaves her memoirs together with reflections on Augustine's Confessions. Having read and reread Augustine's Confessions, in admiration as well as frustration, over the past thirty-five years, Miles brings her memories of childhood and youth in a fundamentalist home into conversation with Augustine's effort to understand his life. The result is a fascinating work of autobiographical and theological reflection. Moreover, this project brings together a rare combination of insights on fundamentalists' convictions and habits of mind, as well as on differences among fundamentalists. Such reflections are especially urgent in this time in which fundamentalism is prominent in political and social discourse.

Tax, Lies and Red Tape

Author : Dawie Roodt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781770224810
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Tax, Lies and Red Tape written by Dawie Roodt and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Find out why: It''s wrong to blame Wall Street bankers for the global financial crisis; The rhino-horn trade should be legalised; Exempting anything from VAT is a bad idea, even for the poor; Job creation is a fruitless exercise; South Africa's problem is not poverty. Tax, Lies and Red Tape is an insightful, easy-to-understand, very opinionated book about economics by one of South Africa's most experienced and controversial economists. Dawie Roodt argues that economics is not about numbers, graphs and statistics; it is about people, and about how they react to incentives. Unfortunately, our politicians seem to have forgotten this. Using simple concepts and thought-provoking anecdotes, the book explains how 'the market' evolved with humanity, what was wrong with communism, what the global financial crisis is really about, the ways in which the state spends your money (and the ways in which it actually should), how tax is collected, how money and nflation really work, the ins and outs of trade, and the ups and downs of labour. In the process, Roodt debunks politically correct thinking and current government policy, and suggests alternatives for a more effective system. Whether you agree with him or not, Tax, Lies and Red Tape will get you thinking about economics in a completely new way."--Publisher description.