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Book Synopsis Divine Imperatives by : Herbert W. Byrne
Download or read book Divine Imperatives written by Herbert W. Byrne and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Divine Imperative by : Emil Brunner
Download or read book The Divine Imperative written by Emil Brunner and published by James Clarke & Co.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major works of the great German theologian Emil Brunner, The Divine Imperative deals with what we ought to do. People are unconvinced that there is an inviolable moral obligation governing human life because they do not believe that the 'good'can be precisely and clearly known. Haven't some generations called bad what others have called good? Aren't moral standards relative? Doesn't religion lack uniform and practical moral guidance? Brunner discusses the moral confusion we face. He analyses the nature of the Good, showing why the Christian faith as understood by the Protestant Reformers provides the only true approach and answer to the ethical problem. Philosophical ethics, whether ancient or modern, cannot correctly define the Good, becausethe Good is regarded either as too abstract and absolute or as too concrete and relative. Christianity, by contrast, sees the moral problem as one of responsibility between humans who are created so as to respond to God. He created men for responsive fellowship with Him, establishing orderly ways of acting in the world. Correct understanding of the nature of society, family, state, economic life, is needed to discern one's duty. Because Brunner's analysis is at once fundamental and comprehensive, this book remains a fresh and compelling treatment of the moral problem. It offers a provocative discussion and solution of a perennial human problem.
Book Synopsis Past Imperatives by : Louis E. Newman
Download or read book Past Imperatives written by Louis E. Newman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past Imperatives explores the nature and development of Jewish ethics by analyzing three important sets of issues: the relationship between Jewish law and ethics, the relationship between Jewish ethics and theology, and the problems and prospects for constructing a contemporary Jewish ethic. The penetrating and provocative essays are drawn from a number of fields, including legal theory, literary theory, and theory of religion. These studies illuminate many previously uninvestigated aspects of Jewish biomedical ethics, covenant theology, and textual interpretation in Judaism. By exploring these issues within the larger context of historical and theoretical work in religious studies, Past Imperatives moves beyond previous work in Jewish ethics, which has largely sought to offer moral guidance from a Jewish perspective. This volume boldly confronts the fact that Judaism encompasses many, sometimes contradictory, ethical perspectives and investigates their theological underpinnings, how they have developed, and how they differ from other moral and/or religious perspectives.
Book Synopsis Man's imperative duty to God in divine worship set forth, etc. (The word Friend examined and put before men, etc.). by : Abraham Lawton
Download or read book Man's imperative duty to God in divine worship set forth, etc. (The word Friend examined and put before men, etc.). written by Abraham Lawton and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Disturbing Divine Behavior by : Eric A. Seibert
Download or read book Disturbing Divine Behavior written by Eric A. Seibert and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should we understand biblical texts where God is depicted as acting irrationally, violently, or destructively? If we distance ourselves from disturbing portrayals of God, how should we understand the authority of Scripture? How does the often wrathful God portrayed in the Old Testament relate to the God of love proclaimed in the New Testament? Is that contrast even accurate? Disturbing Divine Behavior addresses these perennially vexing questions for the student of the Bible. Eric A. Seibert calls for an engaged and discerning reading of the Old Testament that distinguishes the particular literary and theological goals achieved through narrative characterizations of God from the rich understanding of the divine to which the Old Testament as a whole points. Providing illuminating reflections on theological reading as well, this book will be a welcome resource for any readers who puzzle over disturbing representations of God in the Bible.
Book Synopsis Political Church by : Jonathan Leeman
Download or read book Political Church written by Jonathan Leeman and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the nature of the church as an institution? What are the limits of the church's political reach? Drawing on covenant theology and the "new institutionalism" in political science, Jonathan Leeman critiques political liberalism and explores how the biblical canon informs an account of the local church as an embassy of Christ's kingdom.
Book Synopsis Objective Imperatives by : Ralph C. S. Walker
Download or read book Objective Imperatives written by Ralph C. S. Walker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant held the moral law to be an objective imperative, an entity in its own right. It carries with it prescriptive force, in parallel to other principles of pure reason, like those of logic and mathematics. Objective imperatives therefore do not derive their authority from any other source, such as common consensus or the will of God. In Objective Imperatives, Ralph C. S. Walker seeks to show that this is a highly defensible view: Kant's Categorical Imperative, properly understood, is broadly right. The key to it is rationality, and not universality, which functions only as an approximate test. Often, Kant sets the matter out badly, and most of the common objections to him can be shown to be due to misunderstandings. A morality that gives us an objective imperative does appear incompatible with the determinism to which Kant commits himself, but Walker argues that this appearance is misleading.
Book Synopsis The Minds of Gods by : Benjamin Grant Purzycki
Download or read book The Minds of Gods written by Benjamin Grant Purzycki and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are humans obsessed with divine minds? What do gods know and what do they care about? What happens to us and our relationships when gods are involved? Drawing from neuroscience, evolutionary, cultural, and applied anthropology, social psychology, religious studies, philosophy, technology, and cognitive and political sciences, The Minds of Gods probes these questions from a multitude of naturalistic perspectives. Each chapter offers brief intellectual histories of their topics, summarizes current cutting-edge questions in the field, and points to areas in need of attention from future researchers. Through an innovative theoretical framework that combines evolutionary and cognitive approaches to religion, this book brings together otherwise disparate literatures to focus on a topic that has comprised a lasting, central obsession of our species.
Book Synopsis Covenantal Imperatives by : Walter S. Wurzburger
Download or read book Covenantal Imperatives written by Walter S. Wurzburger and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covenantal Imperatives, a collection of essays selected from the nearly six decades of Rabbi Walter Wurzburger's illustrious career, combines the authors mastery of Halakhah with a deep understanding of Jewish philosophy. Covering topics ranging from cooperation with non-Orthodox branches of Judaism, the Sabbath, and his concept of modern Orthodoxy, Rabbi Wurzburgers essays are a true representation of the work of an original thinker and leader in the American Jewish community.
Book Synopsis Philosopher and Prophet by : Yochanan Silman
Download or read book Philosopher and Prophet written by Yochanan Silman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relates the various strata of Halevi's Book of Kuzari to the different periods of Halevi's philosophical development.
Book Synopsis Record of Christian Work by : Alexander McConnell
Download or read book Record of Christian Work written by Alexander McConnell and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes music.
Book Synopsis Human Nature by : David Jordan Higgins
Download or read book Human Nature written by David Jordan Higgins and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis With God on Our Side by : Steven Felix-Jager
Download or read book With God on Our Side written by Steven Felix-Jager and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock and roll is more than just music. Rock is a culture and an ideology, which carries its own ethos. It is forcefully countercultural and exists as a bane in the sight of dominant Western culture. As rock engages and critiques culture, it invariably encounters issues of meaning that are existential and theological. A transformational theology of rock begins with those existential and theological issues raised by and within rock music. With God On Our Side attempts to respond to these queries in a way that is faithful to the work of the kingdom of God on earth by mining our long theological tradition and seeing what cohesive responses can be made to the issues raised by rock music. At its best, rock acknowledges there is something wrong with the world, raises awareness of marginalized voices, and offers an alternative mode of existence within our present reality. By teasing out the theological issues found in rock music, this book synthesizes the findings to create a distinctive cultural theology that is sensitive to the plight of the marginalized in the West. In this way, the book offers a way forward towards a transformational theology of rock and roll.
Book Synopsis 31 Surprising Reasons to Believe in God by : Rick Stedman
Download or read book 31 Surprising Reasons to Believe in God written by Rick Stedman and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the style of C.S. Lewis, Rick has given us a gift by pointing out the evidence for God's existence that can be found all around us if we know where to look." Dr. Mark W. Baker Could Our Lives Be Surrounded by Surprising Clues to God's Existence? We've all had doubts about God's existence—or we know people who have. What if we could uncover evidence of the reality of God that would bolster our faith or plant seeds of belief in the hearts of skeptics? This 31-day intellectual journey reveals hints of the divine all around us—in what we believe, what we love, what we have, and what we know. Discover how sports, superheroes, science, and dozens of other topics point to unexpected clues of God's existence. This carefully reasoned yet whimsical approach to a perplexing topic paves the way for meaningful dialogue between those who believe in God and those who are skeptical.
Book Synopsis The Quran and the Secular Mind by : Shabbir Akhtar
Download or read book The Quran and the Secular Mind written by Shabbir Akhtar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the rationality and plausibility of the Muslim faith and the Qur'an, and in particular how they can be interrogated and understood through Western analytical philosophy. It also explores how Islam can successfully engage with the challenges posed by secular thinking. The Quran and the Secular Mind will be of interest to students and scholars of Islamic philosophy, philosophy of religion, Middle East studies, and political Islam.
Book Synopsis Covenantal Thinking by : Paul E. Nahme
Download or read book Covenantal Thinking written by Paul E. Nahme and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy and theology of David Novak, one of the most prominent and creative contemporary Jewish thinkers, grapples with Judaism, Christian theology, the tradition of natural law, and the Western philosophical canon. Never shying away from contested ethical and religious themes, Novak’s original insights and intellectual spirit have spanned voluminous publications and inspired Jewish, Christian, and Muslim thinkers to engage concepts such as religious liberty, covenantal morality, and the importance of theological reasoning. Written primarily by scholars in the field of Jewish thought, Covenantal Thinking is a collection of essays dedicated to Novak’s work. The book examines topics such as election, natural law, Jewish political thought, Zionism, and the relation between reason and revelation. This collection is unique because it includes Novak’s replies to his critics, including his clarifications of his philosophical and theological positions. Offering a vital contribution to contemporary Jewish thought, Covenantal Thinking illuminates Novak’s contributions as a scholar who trained, conversed with, and inspired the next generation of philosophical theologians.
Book Synopsis Logic, Rhetoric and Legal Reasoning in the Qur'an by : Rosalind Ward Gwynne
Download or read book Logic, Rhetoric and Legal Reasoning in the Qur'an written by Rosalind Ward Gwynne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslims have always used verses from the Qur'an to support opinions on law, theology, or life in general, but almost no attention has been paid to how the Qur'an presents its own precepts as conclusions proceeding from reasoned arguments. Whether it is a question of God's powers of creation, the rationale for his acts, or how people are to think clearly about their lives and fates, Muslims have so internalized Qur'anic patterns of reasoning that many will assert that the Qur'an appeals first of all to the human powers of intellect. This book provides a new key to both the Qur'an and Islamic intellectual history. Examining Qur'anic argument by form and not content helps readers to discover the significance of passages often ignored by the scholar who compares texts and the believer who focuses upon commandments, as it allows scholars of Qur'anic exegesis, Islamic theology, philosophy, and law to tie their findings in yet another way to the text that Muslims consider the speech of God.