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Author : Saint Augustine
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813215600
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Letters, Volume 3 (131-164) written by Saint Augustine and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No description available
Author : Saint Augustine
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813211204
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Letters, Volume 3 (131-164) (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 20) written by Saint Augustine and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No description available
Author : Eric L Jenkins
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227902130
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Free To Say No written by Eric L Jenkins and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries Augustine's theory of free will has been used to explain why God is not the author of evil and humans are morally responsible for sin. Yet, when he embraced the doctrines of unconditional election and operative grace, Augustine began modifying his theory of free will. His final works claim his evolved notion of free will remained consistent with his early view, but this claim has provoked significant debate. Some scholars take him at his word, interpreting his teachings on free will in light of his later predestination teachings. Others reject his claim of continuity and warn of great inconsistencies between his early and later works. Few have undertaken a thorough study of Augustine's works to compare his early notion of free will with hislater theory of predestination. Free To Say No? is a detailed study of Augustine's work that presents clear evidence in Augustine's own words for a significant discontinuity between his early and later theories - especially the disappearance of the will's freedom to say
Author : Maijastina Kahlos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472502566
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Forbearance and Compulsion written by Maijastina Kahlos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most surveys of religious tolerance and intolerance start from the medieval and early modern period, either passing over or making brief mention of discussions of religious moderation and coercion in Greco-Roman antiquity. Here Maijastina Kahlos widens the historical perspective to encompass late antiquity, examining ancient discussions of religious moderation and coercion in their historical contexts. The relations and interactions between various religious groups, especially pagans and Christians, are scrutinized, and the stark contrast often drawn between a tolerant polytheism and an intolerant Christianity is replaced by a more refined portrait of the complex late antique world.
Author : John Toews
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620323699
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Story of Original Sin written by John Toews and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of the interpretation of the disobedience of Adam and Eve in Genesis 3 through the biblical period and the church fathers until Augustine. It explains the emergence of the doctrine of original sin with the theology of Augustine in the late fourth century on the basis of a mistranslation of the Greek text of Romans 5:12. The book suggests that it is time to move past Augustine's theology of sin and embrace a different theology of sin that is both more biblical and makes more sense in the postmodern West and in the developing world.
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813228883
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Quotable Augustine written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is ideal for those who wish to read some of the wisest and most wonderful sayings of Augustine. It will help all those who wish to pepper a speech, or a sermon, or an essay with the wisdom of Saint Augustine. The book is a valuable resource, too, for anyone who wants to find out "Did Augustine really say that?" and, if he did, in which of his voluminous writings it appeared. Drawn from the internationally acclaimed and successful series, the 'Fathers of the Church,' The Quotable Augustine presents a wide-ranging sample of the writings of a towering figure of the early church.
Author : Joel Beeke
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433559862
Total Pages : 1156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Reformed Systematic Theology, Volume 1 written by Joel Beeke and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church needs good theology that engages the head, heart, and hands. This four-volume work combines rigorous historical and theological scholarship with application and practicality—characterized by an accessible, Reformed, and experiential approach. In this volume, Joel R. Beeke and Paul M. Smalley explore the first two of eight central themes of theology: revelation and God.
Author : John R. Bowlin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691191697
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Tolerance Among the Virtues written by John R. Bowlin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a pluralistic society such as ours, tolerance is a virtue—but it doesn't always seem so. Some suspect that it entangles us in unacceptable moral compromises and inequalities of power, while others dismiss it as mere political correctness or doubt that it can safeguard the moral and political relationships we value. Tolerance among the Virtues provides a vigorous defense of tolerance against its many critics and shows why the virtue of tolerance involves exercising judgment across a variety of different circumstances and relationships—not simply applying a prescribed set of rules. Drawing inspiration from St. Paul, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein, John Bowlin offers a nuanced inquiry into tolerance as a virtue. He explains why the advocates and debunkers of toleration have reached an impasse, and he suggests a new way forward by distinguishing the virtue of tolerance from its false look-alikes, and from its sibling, forbearance. Some acts of toleration are right and good, while others amount to indifference, complicity, or condescension. Some persons are able to draw these distinctions well and to act in accord with their better judgment. When we praise them as tolerant, we are commending them as virtuous. Bowlin explores what that commendation means. Tolerance among the Virtues offers invaluable insights into how to live amid differences we cannot endorse—beliefs we consider false, actions we think are unjust, institutional arrangements we consider cruel or corrupt, and persons who embody what we oppose.
Author : Colin Brown
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830817528
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Christianity & Western Thought written by Colin Brown and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Socrates and the Sophists to Kant, from Augustine to Aquinas and the Reformers, Colin Brown traces the turbulent, often tension-filled, always fascinating story of the thinkers, ideas and movements that have shaped our intellectual landscape. Is philosophy the "handmaiden of faith" or "the doctrine of demons"? Does it clarify the faith or undermine the very heart of Christian belief?Brown writes, "This book is about the changes in preconceptions, world views and paradigms that have affected the ways in which people have thought about religion in general and Christianity in particular in the Western world. . . . It is a historical sketch, written to help students--and anyone else who might be interested--to get a better grasp of the love-hate relationship between philosophy and faith that has gone on for close to two thousand years."Students, pastors and thoughtful Christians will benefit from this rich resource. The first in a proposed three-volume work, Brown's easy-to-read, hard-to-put-down introduction to Christianity and Western thought focuses on developments from the ancient world to the Age of Enlightenment.
Author : J. Brian Bransfield
Publisher : Pauline Books and Media
ISBN 13 : 0819850233
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (198 download)
Download or read book Meeting Jesus Christ written by J. Brian Bransfield and published by Pauline Books and Media. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this spiritual companion, readers are invited to personally encounter Jesus Christ through twenty-one Scriptural meditations which unlock unique perspectives on the mysteries of his life. Highlighting the new in the familiar, each chapter takes up a different Gospel account from pages of the New Testament and draws the reader into meditation. Extending beyond sentimental, self-styled meditations that only focus on the self, this book focuses on Jesus in a way that opens up the mystery and beauty to our everyday lives.
Author : E. Jerome Van Kuiken
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567675564
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)
Download or read book Christ's Humanity in Current and Ancient Controversy: Fallen or Not? written by E. Jerome Van Kuiken and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Christ's human nature fallen, even sinful? From the 18th century to the present, this view has become increasingly prominent in Reformed theological circles and beyond, despite vigorous opposition. Both sides on the issue see it as vital for understanding the nature of salvation. Each side's advocates appeal to or critique the Church Fathers. This book reviews the history and present state of the debate, then surveys the connections, distinctions, and patristic interpretations of five of the modern fallenness view's proponents (Edward Irving, Karl Barth, T. F. Torrance, Colin Gunton, and Thomas Weinandy) and five of its opponents (Marcus Dods the Elder, A. B. Bruce, H. R. Mackintosh, Philip Hughes, and Donald Macleod). The book verifies the views of the ten most-cited Fathers: five Greek (Irenaeus, Athanasius, Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory Nyssen, and Cyril of Alexandria) and five Latin (Tertullian, Hilary of Poitiers, Ambrose, Augustine, and Leo the Great). The study concludes by sketching the implications of its findings for the doctrines of the Immaculate Conception, sin, sanctification, and Scripture.
Author : David B. Kopel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440832781
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Morality of Self-Defense and Military Action written by David B. Kopel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding new light on a controversial and intriguing issue, this book will reshape the debate on how the Judeo-Christian tradition views the morality of personal and national self-defense. Are self-defense, national warfare, and revolts against tyranny holy duties—or violations of God's will? Pacifists insist these actions are the latter, forbidden by Judeo-Christian morality. This book maintains that the pacifists are wrong. To make his case, the author analyzes the full sweep of Judeo-Christian history from earliest times to the present, combining history, scriptural analysis, and philosophy to describe the changes and continuity of Jewish and Christian doctrine about the use of lethal force. He reveals the shifting patterns of thought in both religions and presents the strongest arguments on both sides of the issue. The book begins with the ancient Hebrews and Genesis and covers Jewish history through the Holocaust and beyond. The analysis then shifts to the story of Christianity from its origins, through the Middle Ages and the Reformation, up the present day. Based on this scrutiny, the author concludes that—contrary to popular belief—the legitimacy of self-defense is strongly supported by Judeo-Christian scripture and commentary, by philosophical analysis, and by the respect for human dignity and human rights on which both Judaism and Christianity are based.
Author : Kari Kloos
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004191291
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Christ, Creation, and the Vision of God written by Kari Kloos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Christians interpreted the biblical theophany narratives as manifestations of Christ, yet Augustine challenged and reconfigured this view. Developing over centuries into two major exegetical strands, the transformation of theophany interpretation reveals the critical and adaptive capacity of patristic exegesis.
Author : Eduardo Neiva
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311089775X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Communication Games written by Eduardo Neiva and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication Games is a new and radical interpretation of the relationship between culture and communication. It explores the idea that culture and communication studies should be seen predominantly in relation to struggles and conflicts within the social arena. It criticizes the conventional heritage of the social sciences and humanities. Culture and communication are conceived not merely as means of integrating social actors, but as semiotic ways of providing fitness indicators that allow for the resolution of competition between individuals. From the perspective of Peircean semiotics and the Darwinian understanding of life processes, Communication Games redefines culture in terms of Darwin's notion of sexual selection. Moving on from the realization that sexual selection creates individual organisms with conflicting interests, Communication Games emphasizes the contribution of game theory to semiotics and communication studies. The book demonstrates how cooperation and shared conventions eventually emerge, and how conflicts are resolved through the display of costly and inflated signs. It is from these inflated signs and the escalation of excessive messages that cultures gain a certain degree of stability. Communication Games proposes a new way of understanding culture, communication, and semiotic exchange in terms of game theory.
Author : Lisa Sowle Cahill
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451413076
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Love Your Enemies written by Lisa Sowle Cahill and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines the theological bases of just war theory and pacifism, espcially in the light of the concept of God, as that motif illuminates Chrsitian discipleship. Differences between the theory of just war and the practice of pacifism are highlighted in the overview of the history of Christian thought on the subject, and the inclusiveness of the ideal of the kingdom for pacifism is emphasized.
Author : Adam J. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056767729X
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)
Download or read book T&T Clark Companion to Atonement written by Adam J. Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The T&T Clark Companion to Atonement establishes a vision for the doctrine of the atonement as a unified yet extraordinarily rich event calling for the church's full appropriation. Most edited volumes on this doctrine focus on one aspect of the work of Christ (for example, Girard, Feminist thought, Penal Substitution or divine violence). The Companion is unique in that every essay seeks to both appropriate and stimulate the church's understanding of the manifold nature of Christ's death and resurrection. The essays are divided into four main sections: 1) dogmatic location, 2) chapters on the Old and New Testaments, 3) major theologians and 4) contemporary developments. The first set of essays explore the inter-relationship between the atonement and other Christian doctrines (for example Trinity, Christology and Pneumatology), opening up yet further avenues of inquiry. Essays on key theologians eschew reductionism, striving to bring out the nuances and breadth of the contribution. The same is true of the biblical essays. The final section explores more recent developments within the doctrine (for example the work of Rene Girard, and the ongoing reflection on "Holy Saturday"). The book is comprised of 18 major essays, and an A-Z section containing shorter dictionary-length entries on a much broader range of topics. The result is a combination of in-depth analysis and breadth of scope, making this a benchmark work for further studies in the doctrine.
Author : Prudentius
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813200521
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Poems, Volume 2 written by Prudentius and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No description available
