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The Fellowship of the Beatific Vision

Author : Norm Klassen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498283691
Total Pages : 250 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 250 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.

The Fellowship of the Beatific Vision

Author : Norm Klassen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498283683
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Seeing God

Author : Hans Boersma
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802876048
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Seeing God written by Hans Boersma and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Christianity Today Book Award in Theology/Ethics (2019) To see God is our heart's desire, our final purpose in life. But what does it mean to see God? And exactly how do we see God--with our physical eyes or with the mind's eye? In this informed study of the beatific vision, Hans Boersma focuses on "vision" as a living metaphor and shows how the vision of God is not just a future but a present reality. Seeing God is both a historical theology and a dogmatic articulation of the beatific vision--of how the invisible God becomes visible to us. In examining what Christian thinkers throughout history have written about the beatific vision, Boersma explores how God trains us to see his character by transforming our eyes and minds, highlighting continuity from this world to the next. Christ-centered, sacramental, and ecumenical, Boersma's work presents life as a never-ending journey toward seeing the face of God in Christ both here and in the world to come.

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.

Paradise Understood

Author : T. Ryan Byerly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192513044
Total Pages : 352 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 352 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.

Heavenly Participation

Author : Hans Boersma
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467434426
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Heavenly Participation written by Hans Boersma and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the barriers that contemporary thinking has erected between the natural and the supernatural, between earth and heaven, Hans Boersma issues a wake-up call for Western Christianity. Both Catholics and evangelicals, he says, have moved too far away from a sacramental mindset, focusing more on the "here-and-now" than on the "then-and-there." Yet, as Boersma points out, the teaching of Jesus, Paul, and St. Augustine -- indeed, of most of Scripture and the church fathers -- is profoundly otherworldly, much more concerned with heavenly participation than with earthly enjoyment. In Heavenly Participation Boersma draws on the wisdom of great Christian minds ancient and modern -- Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, C. S. Lewis, Henri de Lubac, John Milbank, and many others. He urges Catholics and evangelicals alike to retrieve a sacramental worldview, to cultivate a greater awareness of eternal mysteries, to partake eagerly of the divine life that transcends and transforms all earthly realities.

Renewing Philosophy of Religion

Author : Paul Draper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191059153
Total Pages : 272 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 272 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 : 9780199830701
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 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 360 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

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 Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository

Author :
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

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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.

Four Views on Heaven

Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
ISBN 13 : 0310093899
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Four Views on Heaven written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover and understand the different Christian views of what heaven will be like. Christians from a variety of denominations and traditions are in middle of an important conversation about the final destiny of the saved. Scholars such as N. T. Wright and J. Richard Middleton have pushed back against the traditional view of heaven, and now some Christians are pushing back against them for fear that talk about the earthiness of our final hope distracts our attention from Jesus. In the familiar Counterpoints format, Four Views on Heaven brings together a well-rounded discussion and highlights similarities and differences of the current views on heaven. Each author presents their strongest biblical case for their position, followed by responses and a rejoinder that model a respectful tone. Positions and contributors include: Traditional Heaven - our destiny is to leave earth and live forever in heaven where we will rest, worship, and serve God (John S. Feinberg) Restored Earth - emphasizes that the saved will live forever with Jesus on this restored planet, enjoying ordinary human activities in our redeemed state. (J. Richard Middleton) Heavenly Earth - a balanced view that seeks to highlight both the strengths and weaknesses of the heavenly and earthly views (Michael Allen). Roman Catholic Beatific Vision - stresses the intellectual component of salvation, though it encompasses the whole of human experience of joy, happiness coming from seeing God finally face-to-face (Peter Kreeft). The Counterpoints series presents a comparison and critique of scholarly views on topics important to Christians that are both fair-minded and respectful of the biblical text. Each volume is a one-stop reference that allows readers to evaluate the different positions on a specific issue and form their own, educated opinion.