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Author : David B. Burrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781929218059
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Freedom and Creation in the Abrahamic Traditions written by David B. Burrell and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David B. Burrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions written by David B. Burrell and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proposal designed to illustrate the worth of explicitly tradition-directed inquiry, as well as the fruitfulness of comparative inquiries in philosophical theology.
Author : David B. Burrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139490788
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Creation and the God of Abraham written by David B. Burrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creatio ex nihilo is a foundational doctrine in the Abrahamic faiths. It states that God created the world freely out of nothing - from no pre-existent matter, space or time. This teaching is central to classical accounts of divine action, free will, grace, theodicy, religious language, intercessory prayer and questions of divine temporality and, as such, the foundation of a scriptural God but also the transcendent Creator of all that is. This edited collection explores how we might now recover a place for this doctrine, and, with it, a consistent defence of the God of Abraham in philosophical, scientific and theological terms. The contributions span the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and cover a wide range of sources, including historical, philosophical, scientific and theological. As such, the book develops these perspectives to reveal the relevance of this idea within the modern world.
Author : Neil Spurway
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443811823
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Creation and the Abrahamic Faiths written by Neil Spurway and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creation! How we are here. Not just us, of course, but bluetits and Hereford cattle and cabbages and E. coli and deserts and mountains and suns and nebulae … in fact, all that is. So not only “Why are we here?” but “Why is there a ‘here’ for us to inhabit?”. That is this book’s theme. Inevitably it doesn’t answer the question in a mechanistic sense. A telescope cannot look at itself, and neither can an inhabitant of the Universe say how it came to be. But that does not stop those questions haunting us. So where shall we turn? To cosmology? The concept of an initial event, a “Big Bang”, is now almost universally accepted. But what caused that? Most would feel that this is not a question science can answer. The first two contributors to this book are professional cosmologists, yet cosmology is only a background for this book, not its core theme. That theme is the conviction that the Universe owes its existence to a divine Creator – and the specific formulations of this conviction in the three great monotheistic religions, the “Abrahamic” faiths. The scriptures of all three faiths include the creation-accounts in the first two chapters of Genesis. Later developments moved the expressions of the three faiths considerably apart, but the social and political conditions of the 21st C world make it imperative that every effort should be put into a recovery of understanding between their practitioners. The purpose of this book is to contribute to that understanding. Of thirteen chapters, two are by Jewish authors and three by Moslems; several of the Christian authors also are deeply versed in the other traditions. Together, the chapters show that the attitudes of the three faiths to Creation have far more in common than otherwise. In particular, they are noticeably and encouragingly coming together in their endorsements of 21st C concerns for the environment. The book derives from a conference of the Science and Religion Forum in Sept 2006, but all chapters have been rewritten for publication, and carefully edited with linking commentaries.
Author : Veli-Matti Karkkainen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467443093
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)
Download or read book Creation and Humanity written by Veli-Matti Karkkainen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third installment in a wide and deep constructive theology for our time This third volume of Veli-Matti Karkkainen’s ambitious five volume theology project develops a Christian theology of creation and humanity (theological anthropology) in dialogue with the Christian tradition, with contemporary theology in all its global and contextual diversity, and with other major living faiths -- Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. In constructing his theology of creation and humanity, Karkkainen uniquely engages the natural sciences, including physical, cosmological, and neuroscientific theories. He devotes particular attention to the topics of divine action in a world subjected to scientific study, environmental pollution, human flourishing, and the theological implications of evolutionary theory -- with regard to both cosmos and humanity.
Author : Georges Tamer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110561670
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Concept of Freedom in Judaism, Christianity and Islam written by Georges Tamer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of the series "Key Concepts of Interreligious Discourses" investigates the roots of the concept of freedom in Judaism, Christianity and Islam and its relevance for the present time. The idea of freedom in terms of personal freedoms, which include freedom of conscience, freedom of speech and bodily integrity, is a relatively new one and can in some aspects get into conflict with religious convictions. At the same time, freedom as an emancipatory power from outer oppression as well as from inner dependencies is deeply rooted in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It is still a vital concept in religious and non-religious communities and movements. The volume presents the concept of freedom in its different aspects as anchored in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It unfolds commonalities and differences between the three monotheistic religions as well as the manifold discourses about freedom within these three traditions. The book offers fundamental knowledge about the specific understanding of freedom in each one of these traditions, their interdependencies and their relationship to secular interpretations.
Author : David B. Burrell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405137606
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Faith and Freedom written by David B. Burrell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, David Burrell, one of the foremost philosophical theologians in the English-speaking world, presents the best of his work on creation and human freedom. A collection of writings by one of the foremost philosophers of religion in the English-speaking world. Brings together in one volume the best of David Burrell’s work on creation and human freedom from the last twenty years. Dismantles the ‘libertarian’ approach to freedom underlying Western political and economic systems. Engages with Islam, Judaism and Christianity, and with modern and pre-modern systems of thought. The author is noted for his rigorous approach, his wry humor, his intellectual subtlety and his generous spirit.
Author : Veli-Matti Karkkainen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467445304
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)
Download or read book Spirit and Salvation written by Veli-Matti Karkkainen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth installment in a wide and deep constructive theology for our time This fourth volume in Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen’s ambitious five-volume systematic theology develops a constructive Christian pneumatology and soteriology in dialogue with the diverse global Christian tradition and with other major living faiths — Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.
Author : Paul Peachey
Publisher : CRVP
ISBN 13 : 9781565181045
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Abrahamic Faiths, Ethnicity, and Ethnic Conflicts written by Paul Peachey and published by CRVP. This book was released on 1997 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study of religions is concerned with the tension which can be generated from these sources and the resources which religions bring to their resolution. Especially it looks to the common Abrahamic roots of the three "religions of the book": Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Throughout it looks for the complex dialects of unity in diversity, and diversity in unity."
Author : Arthur G. Gish
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621893146
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Muslim, Christian, Jew written by Arthur G. Gish and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A major challenge for people of faith is to resist the growing demonization of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism . . . I want to do something to build bridges between the three religions. I feel called to embody in my own life the healing, the reconciliation, the unity I long for between people of different religions." Art Gish became involved in the life and worship of all three religions; he considered himself a Christian, a Muslim, and a Jew, and worked at integrating those three perspectives into his life. Acknowledging that Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all threatened by narrow-minded, violent extremists who put the particular interests of their own people above our common interests, he tells inspiring stories of open-minded Muslims, Jews, and Christians who struggle together for reconciliation and who confront injustices that spawn hostility. Gish looks not only at the disagreements but also at the unity of the three Abrahamic faiths. He writes, "When people cross boundaries, exciting things happen. Each time in Israel/Palestine that I experience Jews, Muslims, and Christians eating, working, laughing, and crying together, I sense a foretaste of the coming kingdom of God, a demonstration of how things could be, and one day will be."
Author : David B. Burrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781589661950
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Learning to Trust in Freedom written by David B. Burrell and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True religious faith cannot be confirmed by any external proofs. Rather, it is founded on a basic act of trust--and the common root of that trust, for Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, is a belief in the divine creation of the universe. But with Learning to Trust in Freedom, David B. Burrell asks the provocative question: How do we reach that belief, and what is it about the universe that could possibly testify to its divine origins? Even St. Augustine, he points out, could only find faith after a harrowing journey through the lures of desire--and it is that very desire that Burrell seizes on as a tool with which to explore the origin and purpose of the world. Delving deep into the intertwinings of desire and faith, and drawing on St. John of the Cross, Edith Stein, and Charles Taylor, Burrell offers a new understanding of free will, trust, and perception.
Author : Philip J. Rossi
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813236266
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Grace and Freedom in a Secular Age written by Philip J. Rossi and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of a long and distinguished academic and civic career, the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor has been, for articulate atheists and learned believers alike, an incisive, insightful, gracious, and challenging conversation partner on issues that arise at the intersection and interaction of religion, society, and culture. Grace and Freedom in a Secular Age offers a concise exposition of key ideas ? contingency, otherness, freedom, vulnerability and mutuality ? that inform his probing analyses of the dynamics of religious belief and religious denial in the pervasive contemporary culture he calls a "a secular age," within which religious belief and practice have, for many, become just an option. Those ideas provide the basis from which Rossi argues that, despite a clear-eyed recognition of the deep fractures of meaning and the pervasive fragmentation of once stable societal connections that a secular age has brought in its wake, Taylor also sees and affirms strong grounds for hope in a healing of our broken and fractured world and for the possibilities?and the importance of?active human participation in that healing. Taylor points to signs indicative of potent re-compositions and renewals taking place in religious belief and practice from its interaction with the dynamics of secular culture, particularly ones that make possible radical enactments of deeper human solidarity and mutuality, of which the one most often potent is the reconciliation of enemies. In pointing out these signs, Taylor suggests a richly expansive reading of the Christian doctrine of Creation, as it marks the radical contingency of all that is upon a freely bestowed divine self-giving: Creation is the ongoing enactment of the divine hospitality of the Triune God.
Author : Abdul B. Shaikh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783862880966
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Medieval and Modern Concepts of Creation in the Abrahamic Faiths written by Abdul B. Shaikh and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725276674
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book I Believe. Help My Unbelief! written by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book introduces main Christian doctrines and beliefs for thoughtful Christians and seekers in a manner understandable and meaningful for people living in a religiously pluralistic, complex, and secular world. Different from any other titles available, it engages not only Christian tradition and Bible but also the insights from natural sciences and four living faiths and their teachings: Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. It also includes global and contextual voices such as those of women, minorities, and testimonies of the global church. Based on wide and comprehensive academic research--including the author's groundbreaking five-volume A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World (2013-17), this book is meant for a general audience, interested laypeople, lay leaders, ministers without formal academic training, and beginning theology and religion students. It is also highly useful for pastors and theologians who often find overly technical presentations less useful. The style of writing is conversational and inviting for dialogue and discussion.
Author : José Francisco Morales Torres
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793637490
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Wonder as a New Starting Point for Theological Anthropology written by José Francisco Morales Torres and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wonder as a New Starting Point for Theological Anthropology: Opened by the World, José Francisco Morales Torres constructs a new theological anthropology that begins with wonder. He contends that the visceral experience of wonder is an opening up of the human by an excess that saturates the world. This opened-by-ness points to a transforming receptivity as the basis of the person and to an extravagant Generosity that grounds all creation. Thus, wonder, which is grounded in generous Excess, is not only a gift but a demand: it calls for a liberative praxis that resist the forces that flatten the fullness of life into what is ‘useful’ and profitable and that reduce the limitless worth of fellow humans to mere commodities to be exploited and exchanged at the altar of the idolatrous ‘Market’. Wonder reveals a primordial receptivity in the human person, which demands of us an ethic of sustainability that does not reduce the other to commodity, a vulnerability that risks being opened by the other, a commitment to solidarity and liberation that resist the forces of an insatiable, idolatrous Market that seeks “only to steal and kill and destroy.”
Author : Janet Soskice
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108999077
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Naming God written by Janet Soskice and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of Christians, Janet Soskice demonstrates, once knew God and Christ by hundreds of remarkable names. These included the appellations 'Messiah', 'Emmanuel', 'Alpha', 'Omega', 'Eternal', 'All-Powerful', 'Lamb', 'Lion', 'Goat', 'One', 'Word', 'Serpent' and 'Bridegroom'. In her much-anticipated new book, Soskice argues that contemporary understandings of divinity could be transformed by a return to a venerable analogical tradition of divine naming. These ancient titles – drawn from scripture – were chanted and sung, crafted and invoked (in polyphony and plainsong) as they were woven into the worship of the faithful. However, during the sixteenth century Descartes moved from 'naming' to 'defining' God via a series of metaphysical attributes. This made God a thing among things: a being amongst beings. For the author, reclaiming divine naming is not only overdue. It can also re-energize the relationship between philosophy and religious tradition. This path-breaking book shows just how rich and revolutionary such reclamation might be.
Author : Karl W. Giberson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190277173
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Abraham's Dice written by Karl W. Giberson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us believe everything happens for a reason. Whether it is "God's will","karma", or "fate," we want to believe that nothing in the world, especially disasters and tragedies, is a random, meaningless event. But now, as never before, confident scientific assertions that the world embodies a profound contingency are challenging theological claims that God acts providentially in the world. The random and meandering path of evolution is widely used as an argument that God did not create life. Abraham's Dice explores the interplay between chance and providence in the monotheistic religious traditions, looking at how their interaction has been conceptualized as our understanding of the workings of nature has changed. This lively historical conversation has generated intense ongoing theological debates, and provocative responses from science: what are we to make of the history of our universe, where chance and law have played out in complex ways? Or the evolution of life, where random mutations have challenged attempts to find purpose within evolution and convinced many that human beings are but a "glorious accident"? The enduring belief that everything happens for a reason is examined through a conversation with major scholars, among them holders of prestigious chairs at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and the University of Basel, as well as several Gifford lecturers, and two Templeton prize winners. Organized historically, Abraham's Dice provides a wide-ranging scientific, theological, and biblical foundation to address the question of providence and divine action in a world shot through with contingency.
