Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download The Act Of Creation full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Act Of Creation ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939438980
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)
Download or read book The Act of Creation written by Arthur Koestler and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published by Hutchinson & Co. 1964"--Page 6.
Author : Stephen C. Schlesinger
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786729708
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Act of Creation written by Stephen C. Schlesinger and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Act of Creation, Stephen C. Schlesinger tells a pivotal and little-known story of how Secretary of State Edward Stettinius and the new American President, Harry Truman, picked up the pieces of the faltering campaign initiated by Franklin Roosevelt to create a "United Nations." Using secret agents, financial resources, and their unrivaled position of power, they overcame the intrigues of Stalin, the reservations of wartime allies like Winston Churchill, the discontent of smaller states, and a skeptical press corps to found the United Nations. The author reveals how the UN nearly collapsed several times during the conference over questions of which states should have power, who should be admitted, and how authority should be divided among its branches. By shedding new light on leading participants like John Foster Dulles, John F. Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, Nelson Rockefeller, and E. B White, Act of Creation provides a fascinating tale of twentieth-century history not to be missed.
Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Hutchinson Radius
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Act of Creation written by Arthur Koestler and published by Hutchinson Radius. This book was released on 1976 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author advances the theory that all creative activities have a basic pattern in common, which he attempts to define.
Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503609278
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Creation and Anarchy written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed Italian philosopher interrogates the concept of creation in art, religion, and economics in this collection of five essays. Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche, or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is always the first principle that governs and decrees. This is as true for theology, where God not only creates the world but governs and continues to govern through continuous creation, as it is for the philosophical and political tradition according to which beginning and creation, command and will, together form a strategic apparatus without which our society would fall apart. The five essays collected here aim to deactivate this apparatus through a patient archaeological inquiry into the concepts of work, creation, and command. Giorgio Agamben explores every nuance of the arche in search of an an-archic exit strategy. By the book’s final chapter, anarchy appears as the secret center of power, brought to light so as to make possible a philosophical thought that might overthrow both the principle and its command.
Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Drinkers of Infinity written by Arthur Koestler and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : New York, MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Insight and Outlook written by Arthur Koestler and published by New York, MacMillan. This book was released on 1949 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley Rosner
Publisher : Penguin Adult HC/TR
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Creative Experience written by Stanley Rosner and published by Penguin Adult HC/TR. This book was released on 1970 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of interviews with outstanding men, in which they recall their experience prior to and during their creative pursuits.
Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Last Century Media
ISBN 13 : 9781939438959
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Janus written by Arthur Koestler and published by Last Century Media. This book was released on 1978-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most adventourous, polymathic - and readable - scientific populariser of the age offers in Janus a summing up of a quarter of a century's study and speculations on the life sciences and their philosophic implications. Koestler has an interesting theme to propose. It is this; the human brain has developed a terrible biological flaw, such that it is working now against the survival of the race. Something has "snapped" inside the brain. It is no longer necessarily a function which will lead us to a better world, but something demonic, possessed, perhaps even evil. The anguished humanity of Koestler's concepts and the lucid energy of his style comman respect. Here is one of the major political "experiencers" an dmost widely informed spirits of the age turning to the crux of human survival on a ravaged planet. The title of the book tells not only of a central allegory of division in the human species. It stands for the rare tension on Koestler's discourses: between desolation and zest, between darkness and noon.
Author : William A. Tiller
Publisher : Pavior Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781929331055
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Conscious Acts of Creation written by William A. Tiller and published by Pavior Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (772 download)
Download or read book The Act of Creation written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047416376
Total Pages : 2811 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Law of Agriculture in the Mishnah and the Tosefta (3 vols) written by Jacob Neusner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 2811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project presents in three volumes the Mishnah’s and the Tosefta’s first division, Zera‘im (Agriculture), organized in eleven topical tractates, together with a systematic history of the law of Zeraim in the Mishnah. To the exposition of the Halakhah on the chosen topic, the Mishnah-tractates are primary but complemented by the Tosefta’s presentation of its collection of glosses of the Mishnah’s law and supplements to that law. The Mishnah’s and the Tosefta’s tractates are integrated, with the Tosefta’s complement given in the setting of the Mishnah’s rules, and the whole is given in English translation. The presentation in each case encompasses an introduction, a form-analytical translation and commentary, a systematic integration of the Tosefta’s compositions into the Mishnah’s laws, an explanation of the details of the law, and an inquiry into how the Halakhah of the Mishnah and that of the Tosefta intersect, item by item.
Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004494146
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Judaism's Story of Creation written by Jacob Neusner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the formative age of Judaism, the first seven centuries CE, the great rabbis thought deeply about beginnings in light of endings. They imposed upon their sequential reading of each passage the accumulated results of their reflection about all passages. Thus, they encompassed Scripture, so as to describe the world as God had intended it to be. This act of intellect resulted in two distinct, ahistorical media of thought and expression, the Halakhah, law, and Aggadah, lore. The author provides three systematic accounts of the Halakhic reading, and two Aggadic accounts. The Halakhic accounts cover [1] Work and Rest, [2] Ownership and Possession, Eden and the Land, and [3] Ownership and Possession in the Household. The Aggadic accounts pertain to [1] the Six Days of Creation, and [2] Adam and Eve.
Author : Gaven Kerr OP
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190941324
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Aquinas and the Metaphysics of Creation written by Gaven Kerr OP and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Gaven Kerr expands on the brief treatment of creation offered in his 2015 volume, Aquinas's Way to God: The Proof in De Ente et Essentia. Aquinas does not offer one cohesive treatment on the issue of creation; Kerr synthesizes discussions from across his works in order to present a unified Thomistic metaphysics of creation. Kerr argues that Aquinas's metaphysics of creation, wherein God is conceived as the absolute source of all that exists, is the backbone of his philosophical theology. Throughout his writings, the framework of the absolute dependence of creatures on God and of the independence of God as existence itself is ever present. Without understanding this aspect of Aquinas's philosophical thought, Kerr suggests, it is impossible to understand his philosophy of God. When it comes to metaphysics, Thomas is committed to thinking through the issues involved therein on the basis of natural reason. Aquinas and the Metaphysics of Creation demonstrates Aquinas's belief that we must arrive at an affirmation of the existence of God on the basis of a wider metaphysical view as to the constitution of reality, a view that does not presuppose divine truths but can indeed establish them.
Author : Joseph WOOD (of Ealing.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Immutability of the Law of Creation, as Applied to the Eternal Continuity of the Whole Terrestrial Universe. Being Chapter XIII. of the “Analogies of Being.” To which is Appended the Sectional Analysis of the Whole of that Work written by Joseph WOOD (of Ealing.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin E. Gunton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056722970X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (672 download)
Download or read book Doctrine of Creation written by Colin E. Gunton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-07-09 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study by leading scholars from around the world engages with central hermeneutical, philosophical and theological dimensions of the doctrine of creation. Particular prominence is given to discussion of creation 'out of nothing'm the relation of eternal creator to temporal creation, the Trinitarian construction of the doctrine and its ethical implications. The essays comprise: -Robert Jenson on the doctrine of creation -Paul Helm on eternal creation -Colin Gunton on Genesis and on the Reformers -Alan Torrance on spatio-temporal dimensions -Daniel Hardy on creation and eschatology -Brian Horne on divine and human creativity -Christoph Schwobel on God, creation and the Christian community These expert contributions open up new dimensions to an important topic currently receiving renewed attention.
Author : John Leybourn Goddard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Treatise on the Law of Easements written by John Leybourn Goddard and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathan J. Chambers
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646021029
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Reconsidering Creation Ex Nihilo in Genesis 1 written by Nathan J. Chambers and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a broad consensus among biblical scholars that creation ex nihilo (from nothing) is a late Hellenistic concept with little inherent connection to Genesis 1 and other biblical creation texts. In this book, Nathan J. Chambers forces us to reconsider the question, arguing in favor of reading this chapter of the Bible in terms of ex nihilo creation and demonstrating that there is a sound basis for the early Christian development of the doctrine. Drawing on the theology of Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas, Chambers considers what the ex nihilo doctrine means and does in classical Christian dogma. He examines ancient Near Eastern cosmological texts that provide a potential context for reading Genesis 1. Recognizing the distance between the possible historical and theological frameworks for interpreting the text, he illuminates how this doctrine developed within early Christian thought as a consequence of the church’s commitment to reading Genesis 1 as part of Christian Scripture. Through original close readings of the chapter that engage critically with the work of Jon Levenson, Hermann Gunkel, and Brevard Childs, Chambers demonstrates that, far from precluding interpretive possibilities, reading Genesis 1 in terms of creation from nothing opens up a variety of interpretive avenues that have largely been overlooked in contemporary biblical scholarship. Timely and innovative, this book makes the case for a new (or recovered) framework for reading Genesis 1 that will appeal to biblical studies scholars and seminarians.
