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Pagan Theology

Author : Michael York
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814797083
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Pagan Theology written by Michael York and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pagan Theology, Michael York provides an introduction to, and expansion of, the concept of Paganism and provides an overview of its theological perspective and practice. He demonstrates it to be a viable and distinguishable spiritual perspective found today in such forms as Chinese folk religion, Shinto, tribal religions, and neo-Paganism in the West. While adherents of many of these traditions do not use the word "pagan" to describe their beliefs or practices, York contends that there is an identifiable position possessing characteristics and understandings in common for which the label "pagan" is appropriate. He outlines these characteristics and also explores paganism as a general form of religious behavior which may be found in other religions which are not themselves pagan. In the course of examining such behavior, York provides descriptions of religions in action, including Buddhism and Hinduism.

Living With Honour

Author : Emma Restall Orr
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780999712
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Living With Honour written by Emma Restall Orr and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative,articulate and uncompromising exploration of how Paganism can provide the philosophical guidance to live honourably in a twenty-first Western society.

Pagan Ethics

Author : Michael York
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319189239
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Pagan Ethics written by Michael York and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive examination of the ethical parameters of paganism when considered as a world religion alongside Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism. The issues of evil, value and idolatry from a pagan perspective are analyzed as part of the Western ethical tradition from the Sophists and Platonic schools through the philosophers Spinoza, Hume, Kant and Nietzsche to such contemporary thinkers as Grayling, Mackie, MacIntyre, Habermas, Levinas, Santayana, etc. From a more practical viewpoint, a delineation of applied pagan ethics is then presented in connection with current moral issues such as same-sex union, recreational drugs, environmental awareness, abortion and terrorism. Finally, overviews of sectarian pagan ethics (Shinto, Santeria, Heathenism, Druidry, Romuva, Slavic, Kemeticism, Classical and Wicca) provide both the general and pagan reader with an understanding of the provocative range and differentiation of pagan ethical thought. The book approaches the Western ethical tradition as an historical development and a continuing dialogue. The novelty of this approach lies in its consideration of paganism as a legitimate voice of religious spirituality rather than a satanic aberration or ridiculous childish behavior. The book is aimed at both the contemporary Western pagan and anyone with an interest in the moral dilemmas of our times and the desire to engage in the global ethical discussion. Among the more important features of the book are its presentation of a re-evaluation of idolatry, the notion of the virtue value, the richness of the pagan tradition, and the expansion of Western ethics beyond its Christian heritage.

Pagan Virtue

Author : John Casey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198240037
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Pagan Virtue written by John Casey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Casey argues that the classical virtues of courage, temperance, practical wisdom, and justice, which are largely ignored in modern moral philosophy, centrally define the good for Man. The values of success, pride, and worldliness remain alive, if insufficiently acknowledged, part of ourmoral thinking. The conflict between these values and our equally important Christian inheritance leads to tensions and contradictions in our understanding of the moral life.

Ethics and the Craft

Author : John J. Coughlin
Publisher : Waning Moon Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780982354902
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Ethics and the Craft written by John J. Coughlin and published by Waning Moon Publications. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ethics and the Craft; The History, Evolution, and Practice of Wiccan Ethics" provides ground breaking research into the history of ethics in the Wiccan religion and how they have propagated and changed over time. The book also includes a discourse on ethical thinking for Wiccans and Pagans.

Christian Grace and Pagan Virtue

Author : J. Warren Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195369939
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Christian Grace and Pagan Virtue written by J. Warren Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warren Smith examines the neglected biblical, liturgical and theological foundations of Ambrose's thought on ethics. Earlier studies have found little that was distinctively Christian in Ambrose's image of the virtuous person. Smith shows that, although like the pagans he emphasized moderation, courage, justice, and prudence, for Ambrose these characteristics were shaped by the church's beliefs about God's salvific economy.

Ethics as a Work of Charity

Author : David Decosimo
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781503600607
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Ethics as a Work of Charity written by David Decosimo and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us wonder how to make sense of the apparent moral excellences or virtues of those who have different visions of the good life or different religious commitments than our own. Rather than flattening or ignoring the deep difference between various visions of the good life, as is so often done, this book turns to the medieval Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas to find a better way. Thomas, it argues, shows us how to welcome the outsider and her virtue as an expression rather than a betrayal of one's own distinctive vision. It shows how Thomas, driven by a Christian commitment to charity and especially informed by Augustine, synthesized Augustinian and Aristotelian elements to construct an ethics that does justice—in love—to insiders and outsiders alike. Decosimo offers the first analysis of Thomas on pagan virtue and a reinterpretation of Thomas's ethics while providing a model for our own efforts to articulate a truthful hospitality and do ethics in our pluralist, globalized world.

Christian Grace and Pagan Virtue

Author : J. Warren Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199708541
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Christian Grace and Pagan Virtue written by J. Warren Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambrose of Milan (340-397) was the first Christian bishop to write a systematic account of Christian ethics, in the treatise De Officiis, variously translated as "on duties" or "on responsibilities." But Ambrose also dealt with the moral life in other works, notably his sermons on the patriarchs and his addresses to catechumens and newly baptized. There is a vast modern literature on Ambrose, but only in recent decades has he begun to be taken seriously as a thinker, not just as a working bishop and ecclesiastical politician. Because Ambrose was one of the few Latin Christian writers in antiquity who knew Greek, another major area of Ambrose scholarship has been the study of his sources, notably the Jewish philosopher Philo, and Christian writers such as Origen of Alexandria. In this book, Warren Smith examines the neglected biblical, liturgical and theological foundations of Ambrose's thought on ethics. Earlier studies have found little that was distinctively Christian in Ambrose's image of the virtuous person. Smith shows that though, like the pagans, Ambrose emphasized moderation, courage, justice, and prudence, for him these characteristics were shaped by the church's beliefs about God's salvific economy. The courage of a Christian facing persecution, for example, was an expression of faith in Christ's resurrection and the church's eschatological hope. Eschatology, for Ambrose, was not pagan wisdom clothed in pious language, but the very logic upon which virtue rests.

Paganism

Author : River Higginbotham
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738717037
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Paganism written by River Higginbotham and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to a growing religious movement If you want to study Paganism in more detail, this book is the place to start. Based on a course in Paganism that the authors have taught for more than a decade, it is full of exercises, meditations, and discussion questions for group or individual study. This book presents the basic fundamentals of Paganism. It explores what Pagans are like; how the Pagan sacred year is arranged; what Pagans do in ritual; what magick is; and what Pagans believe about God, worship, human nature, and ethics. For those who are exploring their own spirituality, or who want a good book to give to non-Pagan family and friends A hands-on learning tool with magickal workings, meditations, discussion questions, and journal exercises Offers in-depth discussion of ethics and magick

Libertarian Paganism

Author : Logan Albright
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803413611
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Libertarian Paganism written by Logan Albright and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paganism and libertarianism might seem like odd choices to bring together in a single book. One is a broad set of nature-centric religious and spiritual practices, while the other is a fairly narrow political philosophy focusing on personal freedom and responsibility. But as a member of both communities, author Logan Albright has been unable to shake the feeling that they actually have more in common than most people realize. Libertarian Paganism posits that there is a fundamental sympathy between these two apparently unrelated belief systems, and that a set of shared values might attract politically homeless pagans to libertarianism, or spiritually homeless libertarians to paganism. These values include respect for the individual, the importance of consent, the freedom to express views which are out of the mainstream, tolerance and inclusion, and a healthy skepticism towards the powerful. Libertarian paganism is, in Albright's experience, a way of life that is both personally empowering and deeply ethical, two qualities towards which the author likes to think we are all striving. It is the author's hope that readers of any political or spiritual persuasion will find something here of use, or at least thought provoking, in the development of that personal philosophy we all need to work on continually if we are to live lives of meaning and purpose.

Eros and Touch from a Pagan Perspective

Author : Christine Hoff Kraemer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136704736
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Eros and Touch from a Pagan Perspective written by Christine Hoff Kraemer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the past twenty years, contemporary Pagan leaders, progressive Christian and Goddess theologians, advocates for queer and BDSM communities, and therapeutic bodyworkers have all begun to speak forcefully about the sacredness of the body and of touch. Many assert that the erotic is a divinely transformative force, both for personal development and for social change. Although "the erotic" includes sexuality, it is not limited to it; access to connected nonsexual touch is as profound a need as that for sexual freedom and health. In this book, Christine Hoff Kraemer brings together an academic background in religious studies and theology with lived experience as a professional bodyworker and contemporary Pagan practitioner. Arguing that the erotic is a powerful moral force that can ground a system of ethics, Kraemer integrates approaches from queer theology, therapeutic bodywork, and sexual minority advocacy into a contemporary Pagan religious framework. Addressing itself to liberal religious people of many faiths, Eros and Touch from a Pagan Perspective approaches the right to pleasure as a social justice issue and proposes a sacramental practice of mindful, consensual touch.

An Ye Harm None

Author : Shelley Tsivia Rabinovitch
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806525778
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book An Ye Harm None written by Shelley Tsivia Rabinovitch and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two leading writers on all things Wicca offer a warm, practical guide to choosing how to use Wicca ethically and responsibly to enhance one's life. Topics covered include the morals and ethics of using magick; making sexual choices--traditional or alternative--that are comfortable, safe, and fair; and the perils of having money--or not having it.

Warrior Politics

Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375726276
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Warrior Politics written by Robert D. Kaplan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-01-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Warrior Politics, the esteemed journalist and analyst Robert D. Kaplan explores the wisdom of the ages for answers for today’s leaders. While the modern world may seem more complex and dangerous than ever before, Kaplan writes from a deeper historical perspective to reveal how little things actually change. Indeed, as Kaplan shows us, we can look to history’s most influential thinkers, who would have understood and known how to navigate today’s dangerous political waters. Drawing on the timeless work of Sun Tzu, Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, among others, Kaplan argues that in a world of unstable states and an uncertain future, it is increasingly imperative to wrest from the past what we need to arm ourselves for the road ahead. Wide-ranging and accessible, Warrior Politics is a bracing book with an increasingly important message that challenges readers to see the world as it is, not as they would like it to be.

History of Christian Ethics

Author : Christoph Ernst Luthardt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Christian Ethics written by Christoph Ernst Luthardt and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan

Author : Anthony T. Kronman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300224915
Total Pages : 1174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan written by Anthony T. Kronman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this passionate and searching book, Anthony Kronman offers a third way—beyond atheism and religion—to the God of the modern world We live in an age of disenchantment. The number of self-professed “atheists” continues to grow. Yet many still feel an intense spiritual longing for a connection to what Aristotle called the “eternal and divine.” For those who do, but demand a God that is compatible with their modern ideals, a new theology is required. This is what Anthony Kronman offers here, in a book that leads its readers away from the inscrutable Creator of the Abrahamic religions toward a God whose inexhaustible and everlasting presence is that of the world itself. Kronman defends an ancient conception of God, deepened and transformed by Christian belief—the born-again paganism on which modern science, art, and politics all vitally depend. Brilliantly surveying centuries of Western thought—from Plato to Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant, from Spinoza to Nietzsche, Darwin, and Freud—Kronman recovers and reclaims the God we need today.

Pagan Visions for a Sustainable Future

Author : Ly De Angeles
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738708240
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Pagan Visions for a Sustainable Future written by Ly De Angeles and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2005 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of provocative essays on spirtual activism by Starhawk, Ly de Angeles, Emma Restall Orr, and other Pagan writers and scholars explores such diverse topics as magickal ecology, feminism, globalization, sacred communities, and environmental spirituality. This anthology is a call to action-environmental, social, and political. Book jacket.

Pagan Family Values

Author : S. Zohreh Kermani
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814769748
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Pagan Family Values written by S. Zohreh Kermani and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An intriguing, important, and often entertaining look at an under-studied aspect of new religions. Highly recommended." —Douglas E. Cowan, author of Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the Internet For most of its history, contemporary Paganism has been a religion of converts. Yet as it enters its fifth decade, it is incorporating growing numbers of second‑generation Pagans for whom Paganism is a family tradition, not a religious worldview arrived at via a spiritual quest. In Pagan Family Values, S. Zohreh Kermaniexplores the ways in which North American Pagan families pass on their beliefs to their children, and how the effort to socialize children influences this new religious movement. The first ethnographic study of the everyday lives of contemporary Pagan families, this volume brings their experiences into conversation with contemporary issues in American religion. Through formal interviews with Pagan families, participant observation at various pagan events, and data collected via online surveys, Kermani traces the ways in which Pagan parents transmit their religious values to their children. Rather than seeking to pass along specific religious beliefs, Pagan parents tend to seek to instill values, such as religious tolerance and spiritual independence, which will remain with their children throughout their lives, regardless of these children's ultimate religious identifications. S. Zohreh Kermani teaches Religious Studies part time at Youngstown State University. In the New and Alternative Religions series