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The Fellowship of the Beatific Vision

Author : Norm Klassen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498283691
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book The Fellowship of the Beatific Vision written by Norm Klassen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer asks a basic human question: How do we overcome tyranny? His answer goes to the heart of a revolutionary way of thinking about the very end of human existence and the nature of created being. His answer, declared performatively over the course of a symbolic pilgrimage, urges the view that humanity has an intrinsic need of grace in order to be itself. In portraying this outlook, Chaucer contributes to what has been called the "palaeo-Christian" understanding of creaturely freedom. Paradoxically, genuine freedom grows out of the dependency of all things upon God. In imaginatively inhabiting this view of reality, Chaucer aligns himself with that other great poet-theologian of the Middle Ages, Dante. Both are true Christian humanists. They recognize in art a fragile opportunity: not to reduce reality to a set of dogmatic propositions but to participate in an ever-deepening mystery. Chaucer effectively calls all would-be members of the pilgrim fellowship that is the church to behave as artists, interpretively responding to God in the finitude of their existence together.

God and Humanity

Author : Nathaniel Gray Sutanto
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567709027
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book God and Humanity written by Nathaniel Gray Sutanto and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to apply Bavinck's theological anthropology to contemporary theological issues. Sutanto provides a sustained close reading of Herman Bavinck's contributions to theological anthropology and positions him in conversation with current and historical dialogues on embodiment, revelation, affect theory, phenomenology, the cognitive science of religion, ethics, race, covenant, and the beatific vision. Sutanto explores the holistic character of Bavinck's vision of humanity, suggesting ways in which his theological anthropology cuts across several potential binaries in contemporary discourse, between affect and reason, body and soul, animality and religiosity, unity and diversity, and between a this-worldly or other-worldly eschatology.

Paradise Understood

Author : T. Ryan Byerly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192513044
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Paradise Understood written by T. Ryan Byerly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven systematically investigates heaven, or paradise, as conceived within theistic religious traditions such as Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It considers a variety of topics concerning what life in paradise would, could, or will be like for human persons. The collection offers novel approaches to questions about heaven of perennial philosophical interest, and breaks new ground by expanding the range of questions about heaven that philosophers have considered. The contributors wrestle with questions about human life in paradise that span the spectrum of the major subfields of philosophical enquiry. By employing both historical and contemporary philosophical resources, the volume makes a pioneering contribution toward answering pressing questions about human life in paradise. It will serve as a platform for future research, reinvigorating philosophical investigation into these neglected topics within philosophy of religion.

Grounded in Heaven

Author : Michael Allen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467451266
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Grounded in Heaven written by Michael Allen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eschatology and ethics are joined at the hip, says Michael Allen, and both need theocentric reorientation. In Grounded in Heaven Allen retrieves the traditional concept of the beatific vision and seeks to bring Christ back into the heart of our theology and our lives on earth. Responding to the earthly-mindedness of much recent theology, Allen places his focus on God and the heavenly future while also appreciating ways in which the Reformed tradition provides a unique angle on broadly catholic concerns. Reaching back to classical ethics as well as its reformation by Calvin and other Reformed theologians, Grounded in Heaven offers a distinctly Protestant account of the ascetical calling to be heavenly-minded and to deny one’s self.

Renewing Philosophy of Religion

Author : Paul Draper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191059153
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Renewing Philosophy of Religion written by Paul Draper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is animated by a shared conviction that philosophy of religion needs to change: thirteen new essays suggest why and how. The first part of the volume explores possible changes to the focus of the field. The second part focuses on the standpoint from which philosophers of religion should approach their field. In the first part are chapters on how an emphasis on faith distorts attempts to engage non-western religious ideas; on how philosophers from different traditions might collaborate on common interests; on why the common presupposition of ultimacy leads to error; on how new religious movements feed a naturalistic philosophy of religion; on why a focus on belief and a focus on practice are both mistaken; on why philosophy's deep axiological concern should set much of the field's agenda; and on how the field might contribute to religious evolution. The second part includes a qualitative analysis of the standpoint of fifty-one philosophers of religion, and also addresses issues about humility needed in continental philosophy of religion; about the implausibility of claiming that one's own worldview is uniquely rational; about the Moorean approach to religious epistemology; about a Spinozan middle way between 'insider' and 'outsider' perspectives; and about the unorthodox lessons we could learn from scriptures like the book of Job if we could get past the confessional turn in recent philosophy of religion.The goal of the volume is to identify new paths for philosophers of religion that are distinct from those travelled by theologians and other scholars of religion.

Heaven in the American Imagination

Author : Gary Scott Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199831971
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Heaven in the American Imagination written by Gary Scott Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does heaven exist? If so, what is it like? And how does one get in? Throughout history, painters, poets, philosophers, pastors, and many ordinary people have pondered these questions. Perhaps no other topic captures the popular imagination quite like heaven. Gary Scott Smith examines how Americans from the Puritans to the present have imagined heaven. He argues that whether Americans have perceived heaven as reality or fantasy, as God's home or a human invention, as a source of inspiration and comfort or an opiate that distracts from earthly life, or as a place of worship or a perpetual playground has varied largely according to the spirit of the age. In the colonial era, conceptions of heaven focused primarily on the glory of God. For the Victorians, heaven was a warm, comfortable home where people would live forever with their family and friends. Today, heaven is often less distinctively Christian and more of a celestial entertainment center or a paradise where everyone can reach his full potential. Drawing on an astounding array of sources, including works of art, music, sociology, psychology, folklore, liturgy, sermons, poetry, fiction, jokes, and devotional books, Smith paints a sweeping, provocative portrait of what Americans-from Jonathan Edwards to Mitch Albom-have thought about heaven.

The American Ecclesiastical Review

Author : Herman Joseph Heuser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The American Ecclesiastical Review written by Herman Joseph Heuser and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Changed Aspects of Unchanged Truths

Author : Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changed Aspects of Unchanged Truths written by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Neo-Calvinism

Author : Cory C. Brock
Publisher : Lexham Academic
ISBN 13 : 1683596471
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Neo-Calvinism written by Cory C. Brock and published by Lexham Academic. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the rich theology of Neo-Calvinism. Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck sparked a theological tradition in the Netherlands that came to be known as Neo-Calvinism. While studies in Neo-Calvinism have focused primarily on its political and philosophical insights, its theology has received less attention. In Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction, Cory C. Brock and N. Gray Sutanto present the unique dogmatic contributions of the tradition. Each chapter focuses on a distinct theological aspect, such as revelation, creation, salvation, and ecclesiology. Neo-Calvinism produced rich theological work that yields promise for contemporary dogmatics. This book invites readers into this rich theological trajectory. "This book is the sign that [Neo-Calvinist] theology has now passed beyond the Dutch fairway. It has reached the international waters." —George Harinck

To Gaze upon God

Author : Samuel Parkison
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1514007673
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book To Gaze upon God written by Samuel Parkison and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the doctrine of the beatific vision has woefully been forgotten in the church today, Samuel Parkison argues that the beatific vision is central for the life of the church today. Through close readings of Aquinas, Dante, Calvin, and more, Parkison reminds us of the beatific vision's historical and contemporary significance.

Spiritual Traditions and the Virtues

Author : Mark R. Wynn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192607928
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Traditions and the Virtues written by Mark R. Wynn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritual Traditions and the Virtues develops a philosophical appreciation of the spiritual life. The book shows how a certain conception of spiritual good, one that is rooted in Thomas Aquinas's account of infused moral virtue, can generate a distinctive vision of human life and the possibilities for spiritual fulfilment. Wynn examines the character of the goods to which spiritual traditions are directed; the structure of such traditions, including the connection between their practical and creedal commitments; the relationship between the various vocabularies that are used to describe, from the insider's perspective, progress in the spiritual life; the significance of tradition as an epistemic category; and the question of what it takes for a spiritual tradition to be handed on from one person to another. In his account of the virtues, Aquinas shows how our relations to the everyday world can be folded into our relationship to the divine or sacred reality otherwise conceived. In this sense, he offers a vision of how it is possible to live between heaven and earth. Spiritual Traditions and the Virtues considers how that vision can be extended across the central domains of human thought and experience, and how it can deepen and diversify our understanding of what it is for a human life to be lived well.

The Inklings and Culture

Author : Monika B. Hilder
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527562654
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Inklings and Culture written by Monika B. Hilder and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did five twentieth-century British authors, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and Dorothy L. Sayers, along with their mentors George MacDonald and G. K. Chesterton, come to contribute more to the intellect and imagination of millions than many of their literary contemporaries put together? How do their achievements continue to inform and potentially transform us in the twenty-first century? In this first collection of its kind, addressing the entire famous group of seven authors, the twenty-seven chapters in The Inklings and Culture explore the legacy of their diverse literary art—inspired by the Christian faith—art that continues to speak hope into a hurting and deeply divided world.

The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Reformed Church Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Reformed Church Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Supralapsarianism Reconsidered

Author : Phillip A. Hussey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567714799
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Supralapsarianism Reconsidered written by Phillip A. Hussey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phillip A. Hussey examines the scholarship of Jonathan Edwards and interrogates the relationship between Christ and the decree within Reformed Theology; and reveals the contemporary theological significance of supralapsarian Christology. In a late notebook entry, Jonathan Edwards offered a programmatic statement on the relation between Christ and predestination: “In that grand decree of predestination, or the sum of God's decrees...the appointment of Christ, or the decree respecting his person...must be considered first.” This work unpacks the scope of Edwards's statement, both in terms of setting forth an interpretation of Edwards's own theology on the relation between Christ and the decree, as well as drawing out the larger insights of Edwards's reasoning for current theological reflection.

New Models of Religious Understanding

Author : Fiona Ellis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198796730
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book New Models of Religious Understanding written by Fiona Ellis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to understand the world religiously? How is such understanding to be distinguished from scientific understanding? What does it have to do with religious practice, transfiguring love, and spiritual well-being? New Models of Religious Understanding investigates these questions to set a new and exciting agenda for philosophy of religion. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, the volume cuts across the supposed divide between analytic and continental approaches to the subject and engages the interest of a broad range of philosophical and theological readers.

The Unity of Faith

Author : Weinandy Ofm Cap Thomas G
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813238382
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Unity of Faith written by Weinandy Ofm Cap Thomas G and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2024-07 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, The Unity of Faith, Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap., has compiled a theologically significant medley of essays. The first section deals with the Trinity, ranging from the question of the filioque to the trinitarian thought of Johnathan Edwards. The second section addresses a topic for which Weinandy has become notable - the impassability of God and human suffering. The third takes of the topic of Christology, particularly from within the contemporary theological milieu. For example, what is the relationship between the Incarnation and Soteriology? What is the nature of Christ's human consciousness and knowledge? How does Paul perceive the primacy of Christ within his Christological hymns? The next collection of essays focuses on the relationship between faith and reason. In doing Catholic theology, how do theologians apply reason when contemplating the mysteries of faith? What is the philosophical and theological significance of Pope John Paul II's encyclical, Fides et Ratio? Ecclesiology is the final topic addressed. Weinandy examines the contributions that Henri de Lubac has contributed to our understanding of the Church. He also takes up the very delicate issue of the Jews in relationship to the Church. How important is it that Jews become Christians? The nature of the sacramentality of the Catholic priesthood is investigated. What does it mean that the priest acts in persona Christi? Lastly, Weinandy broaches a topic that has received very little theological attention - the Christian family as a Domestic Church. In what manner are spouses and parents, in imitation of Christ, priests, prophets and kings? Weinandy invariably writes in a clear and engaging manner, so much so that these essays would benefit not only academics, and students of theology, but also the educated laity.