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Encountering Reality

Author : Travis M. Stevick
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506412920
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Encountering Reality written by Travis M. Stevick and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encountering Reality argues for a new appreciation of T. F. Torrance on epistemology and reality. According to Torrance's realism, all authentic knowledge involves the nature of the object impressing its inherent rationality on the mind. Consequently, knowledge involves thinking in accordance with the nature of the object. We shall explore the place and function of “ultimate beliefs” in epistemology, as well as the question as to whether such beliefs imply a retreat to either foundationalism or fideism. The inescapability of ultimate beliefs in all human knowledge requires a shift in the traditional notion of objectivity. We find that shift in the account provided by T. F. Torrance, whose epistemological position implies an alternative notion of truth. Drawing on distinctly Christian sources, Torrance emphasizes the distinction between truth and truthfulness thereby reorienting the discussion from a focus on statements to a focus on being. This shift challenges the dichotomy between correspondence and coherence theories of truth and provides one way of transcending the scientific realism/anti-realism debate and gives rise to a practical epistemological tool, disclosure models, which function as self-correcting, self-marginalizing lenses through which we encounter reality, yielding knowledge in accordance to the nature of the thing known.

Encountering Artificial Intelligence

Author : Matthew J. Gaudet
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Encountering Artificial Intelligence written by Matthew J. Gaudet and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to consider the world of AI through a Christian lens? Rapid developments in AI continue to reshape society, raising new ethical questions and challenging our understanding of the human person. Encountering Artificial Intelligence draws on Pope Francis’s discussion of a culture of encounter and broader themes in Catholic social thought in order to examine how current AI applications affect human relationships in various social spheres and offers concrete recommendations for better implementation. The document also explores questions regarding personhood, consciousness, and the kinds of relationships humans might have with even the most advanced AI. Through these discussions, the document investigates the theoretical and practical challenges to interpersonal encounter raised by the age of AI.

Encountering Truth

Author : Pope Francis
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 1101903015
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Encountering Truth written by Pope Francis and published by Image. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the morning homilies of Pope Francis and witness how he continues to change the life of the Catholic Church. Shortly after seven in the morning, Pope Francis gives a brief homily in the little Vatican chapel of Saint Martha, in front of an audience that is always different: gardeners, office workers, nuns and priests, as well as a growing group of journalists. It is a set appointment, and in some ways a revolutionary innovation, where a pope speaks to everyone, off the cuff, without any written text, as he would have done as a parish priest. Encountering Truth is a collection of highlights from these homilies from March 2013 to May 2014. Along with summaries by Radio Vaticana (who recorded and transcribed the homilies) and commentary by Father Antonio Spadaro, SJ, these reflections provide moments of inspiration, simplicity, and a glimpse into the papal world very few ever get to experience.

Jews and Arabs in Israel Encountering Their Identities

Author : Maya Kahanoff
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498504981
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Jews and Arabs in Israel Encountering Their Identities written by Maya Kahanoff and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews and Arabs in Israel Encountering Their Identities reveals the powerful potential of intergroup dialogues to transform both identities and mutually negating relations between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs.

Encountering Truth

Author : Harold E. Hatt
Publisher : Nashville, Abingdon Press 1966
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encountering Truth written by Harold E. Hatt and published by Nashville, Abingdon Press 1966. This book was released on 1966 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encountering the Other

Author : Laura Duhan-Kaplan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532633289
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Encountering the Other written by Laura Duhan-Kaplan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do religious traditions create strangers and neighbors? How do they construct otherness? Or, instead, work to overcome it? In this exciting collection of interdisciplinary essays, scholars and activists from various traditions explore these questions. Through legal and media studies, they reveal how we see religious others. They show that Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Sikh texts frame others in open-ended ways. Conflict resolution experts and Hindu teachers, they explain, draw on a shared positive psychology. Jewish mystics and Christian contemplatives use powerful tools of compassionate perception. Finally, the authors explain how Christian theology can help teach respectful views of difference. They are not afraid to discuss how religious groups have alienated one another. But, together, they choose to draw positive lessons about future cooperation.

Encountering Rudolf Steiner

Author : Christopher Bamford
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 1621482782
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Encountering Rudolf Steiner written by Christopher Bamford and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The deep aim, or intention, of an introduction (understood esoterically) is a 'living understanding,' or, as the poet William Blake put it, the ability 'to catch the bird in flight and fly with it.' If successful, this makes it possible for any reader to hear or translate, into his or her own understanding, what Rudolf Steiner is offering, within and beyond his words, in these texts of The Collected Works." --Christopher Bamford Rudolf Steiner's writings and lectures comprise a collection of more than 350 volumes, which can overwhelm anyone hoping to gain an understanding of the vast range of their content. Beginning in the 1990s, as editor in chief of Anthroposophic Press (SteinerBooks), Christopher Bamford wrote introductions to more than fifty books in the English translations, each one offering readers significant context and keys to open up many areas of Steiner's works. This volume presents fifteen of those introductions to some of Steiner's most essential books and lectures on anthroposophic practices, Western esoteric streams, religious renewal, and inner development, as well as practical applications of anthroposophic principles for a threefold society and contributions to modern holistic medicine. Taken together, these introductions provide one of the best possible means of encountering Rudolf Steiner by revealing the background, significance, and relevance of his philosophy and insights for humanity today and in the future. This book is for anyone seeking a way into Steiner's worldview, as well as for those who are already familiar with the work of Rudolf Steiner and wish to delve more deeply into the many aspects of the anthroposophic path of knowledge.

Encountering ETI

Author : John Hart
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610978803
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Encountering ETI written by John Hart and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encountering ETI weaves together scientific knowledge and spiritual faith in a cosmic context. It explores consequences of Contact between terrestrial intelligent life (TI) and extraterrestrial intelligent life (ETI). Humans will face cosmic displacement if there are other complex, technologically advanced intelligent beings in the universe; our economic structures and religious beliefs might need substantial revision. On Earth or in space, humans could encounter benevolent ETI (solicitous of our striving for maturity as a species) or malevolent ETI (seeking our land and goods to benefit themselves, claiming that their "superior civilization" gives them the right)--or meet both types of species. Earth Encounters of the Third Kind described by credible witnesses (including American Indian elders) suggest that both have arrived already: some shut down U.S. and U.S.S.R. ICBM missiles to promote peace; others mutilated cattle or abducted people, perhaps to acquire physiological data on biota for scientific study or for other, unknown purposes. Sci-fi movies such as Avatar and novels like The Martian Chronicles describe humans as malevolent ETI aliens: we do to others what we fear others will do to us. A shared and evolving spiritual materiality could enable humanity to overcome cosmic displacement, and guide TI and ETI in a common quest for meaning and wellbeing on cosmic common ground.

Encountering Althusser

Author : Katja Diefenbach
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441119159
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Encountering Althusser written by Katja Diefenbach and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French philosopher Louis Pierre Althusser (1918 -1990) helped define the politico-theoretical conjuncture of pre- and post-1968. Today, there is a recrudescence of interest in his thought, especially in light of his later work, published in English as Philosophy of the Encounter (Verso, 2006). This has led to renewed debates on the reformulation of conflicting notions of materialism, on the event as both philosophical concept and political construction, and on the nature of politics and the political. These original essays by leading scholars aim to provide a new assessment of Althusser's thought, especially in relation to contemporary debates. Organized in four sections that represent the main currents in Althusser's scholarship, the book discusses materialism and the different formulations of the relationship between politics and philosophy, Althusser's interpretations of political thinkers (including Machiavelli, Deleuze and Gramsci), the resources he provides to critique political economy and politics in post-Marxist thought, and the theorization of ideology and politics. Encountering Althusser is a groundbreaking resource that highlights Althusser's continuing relevance to contemporary radical thought.

Encountering Ensemble

Author : John Britton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408155184
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Encountering Ensemble written by John Britton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encountering Ensemble, is a text for students, teachers, researchers and practitioners who wish to develop a deeper understanding of the history, conceptual foundations and practicalities of the world of ensemble theatre. It is the first book to draw together definitions and practitioner examples, making it a cutting edge work on the subject. Encountering Ensemble combines historical and contemporary case studies with a wide range of approaches and perspectives. It is written collaboratively with practitioners and members from the academic community and is divided into three sections: 1. Introduction and an approach to training ensembles 2. Practitioner case studies and analysis of specific practical approaches to training ensembles (or individuals in an ensemble context) 3. Succinct perspectives from practitioners reflecting on a range of questions including: What is an ensemble?; the place of ensemble in the contemporary theatre landscape; and training issues.

Encountering the Secular

Author : J. Heath Atchley
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813930413
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Encountering the Secular written by J. Heath Atchley and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2009-02-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Encountering the Secular, J. Heath Atchley proposes an alternative to the understanding of the secular as that which opposes the religious, and he turns to American and Continental philosophy to support his critique. Drawing from thinkers as disparate as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Gilles Deleuze, and engaging with contemporary literature and film, Atchley shows how the division of experience (individual, cultural, political) into the distinct realms of the religious and the secular overlooks the subtle ways in which value can emerge. Far from arguing that the religious and the secular are the same, he means instead to suggest that the dogmatic separation between these two realms gets in the way of experiencing an immanent value, a kind of value tied neither to a transcendent reality (e.g., a god or an ideal) nor to a self-centered reality (e.g., pleasure or knowledge). Each chapter cultivates a particular concept that challenges the breach between the secular and the religious, rendering that breach ambiguous. Such ambiguity, the author affirms, is relevant to a time when rigid and simplistic notions of religion and secularity are used to justify thoughtlessness and even violence. All too often the secular is thought of either as a triumph in "overcoming" the presumed irrationality and oppression of religion, or as lament in "losing" the meaning religion is thought once to have offered. Atchley suggests a view of the secular as an opportunity to experience an immanent value that is neither controlled by the human self nor conferred by a divine entity. Written in a prose that is lucid, lively, and provocative, Encountering the Secular shows how a philosophical endeavor might be understood as a spiritual practice.

Encountering the Suffering of the Other

Author : Francesco Ferrari
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 364756737X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Encountering the Suffering of the Other written by Francesco Ferrari and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh" (Ezechiel 36:26). This biblical image, particularly significant for Jews, Christians, and Muslims, gives insight into the central issues of this book: how a greater readiness to reconcile can take place among individuals and groups who experience the "suffering of the other," even in the midst of a protracted conflict such as the Israeli-Palestinian one. This book offers a collection of essays written by the team members of a transdisciplinary DFG project between Jena University, Ben Gurion University, Tel Aviv University, and the Wasatia Academic Institute.

Encountering Christ in the Suffering Humanity (Mt 25:31-46)

Author : Cynthia Pinto
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643800959
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Encountering Christ in the Suffering Humanity (Mt 25:31-46) written by Cynthia Pinto and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encountering God

Author : Andrew Purves
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664222420
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Encountering God written by Andrew Purves and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purves and Partee discuss theology's relevance to personal life and Christian faith from an evangelical perspective and through the lens of the Reformed tradition. "Encountering God" focuses on basic issues of Christian faith as they are filtered through contemporary experience: the merits of doctrine, God, Jesus, faith, justification, sanctification, salvation, sin, predestination, lamentation, hope and joy.

Encountering Ability: On the Relational Nature of (Human) Performance

Author : Scott DeShong
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004326537
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Encountering Ability: On the Relational Nature of (Human) Performance written by Scott DeShong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Encountering Ability, Scott DeShong considers the philosophical and political implications of how ability and its correlative, disability, come into being in thought, culture, and literature, revealing how the discourse of ability unsettles the very foundations of discourse and ability.

Encountering Christ Textbook

Author : Sophia Institute for Teachers
Publisher : Sophia Institute for Teachers
ISBN 13 : 1622827716
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Encountering Christ Textbook written by Sophia Institute for Teachers and published by Sophia Institute for Teachers. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encountering Palestine

Author : Mark Griffiths
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496238036
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Encountering Palestine written by Mark Griffiths and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence, edited by Mark Griffiths and Mikko Joronen, sits at the intersection of cultural and political geographies and offers innovative reflections on power, colonialism, and anti-colonialism in contemporary Palestine and Israel. Organized around the theme of encountering and focusing on the ways violence and struggle are un/made in the encounter between the colonizer and colonized, the essays focus on power relations as they manifest in cultural practices and everyday lives in anti/colonial Palestine. Covering numerous sites in Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel, Encountering Palestine addresses a range of empirical topics—from marriage and queer aesthetics to policing, demolition, armament failure, and violence. The contributors utilize diverse theoretical frameworks, such as hyperreality, settler capitalism, intimate biopolitics, and politics of vulnerability, to help us better understand the cultural making and unmaking of colonial and anti-colonial space in Palestine. Encountering Palestine asks us to rethink how colonialism and power operate in Palestine, the ways Palestinians struggle, and the lifeways that constantly encounter, un/make, and counter the spaces of colonial violence.