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Author : Matthew Zaro Fisher
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Theology and the Entropic Condition written by Matthew Zaro Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helge S. Kragh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317142489
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Entropic Creation written by Helge S. Kragh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entropic Creation is the first English-language book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, from around 1860 to 1920. According to the second law of thermodynamics, as formulated by the German physicist Rudolf Clausius, the entropy of any closed system will inevitably increase in time, meaning that the system will decay and eventually end in a dead state of equilibrium. Application of the law to the entire universe, first proposed in the 1850s, led to the prediction of a future 'heat death', where all life has ceased and all organization dissolved. In the late 1860s it was pointed out that, as a consequence of the heat death scenario, the universe can have existed only for a finite period of time. According to the 'entropic creation argument', thermodynamics warrants the conclusion that the world once begun or was created. It is these two scenarios, allegedly consequences of the science of thermodynamics, which form the core of this book. The heat death and the claim of cosmic creation were widely discussed in the period 1870 to 1920, with participants in the debate including European scientists, intellectuals and social critics, among them the physicist William Thomson and the communist thinker Friedrich Engels. One reason for the passion of the debate was that some authors used the law of entropy increase to argue for a divine creation of the world. Consequently, the second law of thermodynamics became highly controversial. In Germany in particular, materialists and positivists engaged in battle with Christian - mostly Catholic - scholars over the cosmological consequences of thermodynamics. This heated debate, which is today largely forgotten, is reconstructed and examined in detail in this book, bringing into focus key themes on the interactions between cosmology, physics, religion and ideology, and the public way in which these topics were discussed in the latter half of the nineteenth and the first years of the twentieth century.
Author : Robert S. Corrington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139428551
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book A Semiotic Theory of Theology and Philosophy written by Robert S. Corrington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concern of this work is with developing an alternative to standard categories in theology and philosophy, especially in terms of how they deal with nature. Avoiding the polemics of much contemporary reflection on nature, it shows how we are connected to nature through the unconscious and its unique way of reading and processing signs. Spinoza's key distinction between natura naturans and natura naturata serves as the governing framework for the treatise. Suggestions are made for a post-Christian way of understanding religion. Robert S. Corrington's work represents the first sustained attempt to bring together the fields of semiotics, depth-psychology, pragmaticism, and a post-Monotheistic theology of nature. Its focus is on how signification functions in human and non-human orders of infinite nature. Our connection with the infinite is described in detail, especially as it relates to the use of sign systems.
Author : William Lane Craig
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444350854
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology written by William Lane Craig and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the help of in-depth essays from some of the world's leading philosophers, The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology explores the nature and existence of God through human reason and evidence from the natural world. Provides in-depth and cutting-edge treatment of natural theology's main arguments Includes contributions from first-rate philosophers well known for their work on the relevant topics Updates relevant arguments in light of the most current, state-of-the-art philosophical and scientific discussions Stands in useful contrast and opposition to the arguments of the 'new atheists'
Author : Joaozinho Da S.F.A. Martins
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Pre-historical Pre-adamic Biblical Theology written by Joaozinho Da S.F.A. Martins and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-08-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ignored Biblical Hebrew Record relating to the Pre-Historical Past conclusively invalidates all conventional and current theories of creation such as Traditional Six-day Young Earth Creationism, Progressive Creationism, Theistic Evolution and Creation Science. Pre-Historical Pre-Adamic Biblical Theology dares to look back in time through the eyes of the OT/NT Prophets and Teachers and validate overlooked pre-historical realities. Subsequently, it seeks to convincingly figure out the future by attempting to understand pre-historical past realities. Traditional and current views relating to Creation and Origins lack convincing Biblical credibility. Scriptures relating to prehistoric creation, however, advocate Pre-Historical Pre-Adamic realities, that can’t be ignored; hence, the same need to be convincingly accepted as biblical truth a propos God’s pre-historical works of creation; notwithstanding, faulty interpretations of Scriptures relating to Creation. This maiden Treatise, should pose a definite challenge to predisposed Creationists to disprove its assertions. Unbiased readers of this Treatise, who take their time to study and ascertain the truthfulness of what is presented herein will, hopefully, believe convincingly. Nonetheless, those who are biased will perhaps continue to hang on to traditional sacrosanct beliefs no matter how gravely the same diverge from the pattern of Biblical-Hebrew Words relating to Creation and Origins! Joaozinho Da S. F. A. Martins
Author : Keith J White
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718843436
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)
Download or read book The Logic of the Spirit in Human Thought and Experience written by Keith J White and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 2012 a small consultation convened on the campus of Princeton Theological Seminary, where James E. Loder Jr. had served for forty years as the Mary D. Synnott Professor of the Philosophy of Christian Education. Members from the Child Theology Movement had begun to read Loder's work and they wanted to go further. So they invited former students of Loder's to meet with them for conversations about things that really mattered to them and to Loder: human beings (and especially children), the church's witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ, and discerning the work of Spiritus Creator in the postmodern world. The conversations proved rich and rewarding and some would even say they took on a life of their own - serious scholarship set to the music of the Spirit's communion-creating artistry forming new relationships, inspiring new ideas, and sustaining all of it amid much laughter, joy, and hope. These essays, taken from the papers delivered at the consultation, are offered as a means of extending that conversation inspired by Loder's interdisciplinary practical theological science and his discernment of the
Author : Klaus Nürnberger
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825873523
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Theology of the Biblical Witness written by Klaus Nürnberger and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Word of God" emerged and evolved as divine responses to changing human needs in biblical history. By tracing the historical trajectories of six paradigms of salvation, such as ex-odus, kingship and sacrifice, through a millennium of biblical history, Nurnberger reveals a vibrant current of meaning underlying the texts which expresses growing insight into God's redeptive intentions and which can be extrapolated in to the present predicaments of humankind. Klaus Nurnberger is professor emeritus for Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics at the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. His carreer has been devoted mainly to the underlying causes of world-wide socio-economic discrepancies and the relevance of the Christian faith in this regard.Ã?Â?
Author : BJRT GTU
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365511278
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Berkeley Journal of Religion and Theology, Vol. 2, No. 1 written by BJRT GTU and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-06 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berkeley Journal of Religion and Theology, Vol. 2, No. 1. This is the regular issue Journal. Featuring 2015 Distinguished Faculty lecture, the 2016 Readings of the Sacred Texts Lecture, and the 2016 Surjit Singh Lecture, as well as articles by Shin Young Park, Brent Lyons, Wesley Ellis, and Jessica Tinklenberg. Featuring several book reviews as well.
Author : James Walters
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567009890
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Baudrillard and Theology written by James Walters and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Baudrillard was one of the foremost intellectual figures of the late twentieth century and his work is currently reaching a new prominence in the English-speaking world. Known as the "high priest of postmodernity", Baudrillard never directly addressed theological concerns. However, his provocative analysis of the changing nature of reality, subjectivity and agency is of increasing importance to contemporary theology. Furthermore, his mode of cultural analysis (which he himself describes as "mystical") provides fruitful possibilities for theological reasoning in the post-idealist world he describes. James Walters provides the context of Baudrillard's writing and identifies key influences. He then sets out his core ideas, drawing in theological responses and relating them to theological concerns. Finally, he highlights some areas of his work of particular theological interest.
Author : Frederick Turner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135150343X
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Natural Religion written by Frederick Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is widespread belief that the world's religions con- tradict each other. It follows that if one religion is true, the others must be false--an assumption that implies, and may actually create, religious strife. In Natural Religion, acclaimed poet, critic and essayist Frederick Turner sets out to show that the natural world offers grounds for stating that all religions are, in some respect, true. Through the ages, various ways have been proposed to resolve religious differences. Some argue for the destruction of all religions but one's own. Others substitute an abstract principle for the real ritual and moral practice of religion. Still others doubt all religious truth and, consequently, all truth. Others accept a kind of pluralistic relativism. This book explores syncretism, whereby all religions are seen as grasping the same strange and complex reality, but by very different means and handles. The idea that all religions are true raises a supervening question: if so, what must the real physical universe be like? Turner approaches these questions in terms of scientific inquiry. There is not enough room in space itself to fit in all theologies; but there may be enough room in time if new scientific descriptions of time's nature are to be believed. Turner argues that in the time-models of contemporary cosmological and evolutionary science all times may be connected and time may be infinitely branched and causally looped so that both forward-in-time and backward-in-time factors may be in operation in the same event. Thus, the fundamental substance of the universe may be information rather than matter or energy. The universe is more like a vast living organism than a vast machine. Turner argues that all existing religions can be shown to fit into this model, which in turn points to deeper implications of religious doctrines, languages and practices. There would be plenty of "room" in such a view of time for a tree of different yet linked religious w
Author : Clayton Crockett
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227902807
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Theology after Lacan written by Clayton Crockett and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume highlights the continuing relevance of Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst whose linguistic reworking of Freudian analysis radicalised both psychoanalysis and its approach to theology. The book's fi rst section, Part I: Lacan, Religion, and Others, explores the application of Lacan's thought to the development and phenomena of religion. Part II: Theology and the Other Lacan moves through the physical world and into the metaphysical, probing theological issues and ideas of today's world with curiosity and in the light of Lacan. In both parts I and II, a central place is given to Lacan's exposition of the real, thereby refl ecting the impact of his later work. Topics traverse culture,art, philosophy and politics, as well as providing critical exegesis of Lacan's most gnomic utterances on theology, including The Triumph of Religion. Contributors include some of the most renowned readers and influential academics in their respective fields: Tina Beattie, Lorenzo Chiesa, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Adrian Johnston, Katerina Kolozova, Thomas Lynch, Marcus Pound, Carl Raschke, Kenneth Reinhard, Mario D'Amato, Noelle Vahanian and Slavoj Zizek.
Author : Lawrence E. Burkholder
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498299954
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book The Leviathan Factor written by Lawrence E. Burkholder and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Leviathan Factor tells the incredible story of how Satan, created as Lucifer the morning star, self-transformed into Leviathan, God's serpentine arch foe. When he tried to achieve immortality by tweaking creation's lowest-level laws (a sophisticated computer/automaton) he created death instead. As the serpent he reappeared in the Genesis tree of good and evil, where he seduced humans to attempt immortality apart from covenant with God. Leviathan is responsible for the false belief that we each have an inner divine spark which, when reconnected to our ego, awakens our true inherent divinity. Unfortunately he and his demonic spirits also impact our minds, bodies, and environment as psi. A few of the many markers of these demonic psi are levitation, telepathy, telekinesis, deja vu, emotional oppressions, poltergeist activities, past lives' "memories," voices and visions, near death and out-of-body experiences, and trance channeling. Many of these psi phenomena are co-factors in mind disorders such as schizophrenia or epilepsy. Manifestations in Christian circles include false tongues and "holy" laughter. The Leviathan Factor is not a healing how-to. It is the first book to place demonic evil into the context of creation's basic structures and laws.
Author : Nathan Schwartz-Salant
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623171172
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)
Download or read book The Order-Disorder Paradox written by Nathan Schwartz-Salant and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing order in a system also creates disorder: this seemingly paradoxical idea has deep roots in early cultures throughout the world, but it has been largely lost in our modern lives as we push for increasing systematization in our world and in our personal lives. Drawing on nearly five decades of research as well as forty-five years working as a psychoanalyst, Nathan Schwartz-Salant explains that, in a world where vast amounts of order are being created through the growing success of science and technology, the concomitant disorder is having devastating effects upon relationships, society, and the environment. As a Jungian analyst with training in the physical sciences, Schwartz-Salant is uniquely qualified to explore scientific conceptions of energy, information, and entropy alongside their mythical antecedents. He analyzes the possible effects of created disorder, including its negative consequences for the creator of the preceding order as well as its potentially transformative functions. With many examples of the interaction of order and disorder in everyday life and psychotherapy, The Order-Disorder Paradox makes new inroads into our understanding of the wide-ranging consequences of the order we create and its effects on others and the environment.
Author : Elizabeth L. Throesch
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783086254
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Before Einstein written by Elizabeth L. Throesch and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Before Einstein’ brings together previous scholarship in the field of nineteenth-century literature and science and greatly expands upon it, offering the first book-length study of not only the scientific and cultural context of the spatial fourth dimension, but also the literary value of four-dimensional theory. In addition to providing close critical analysis of Charles Howard Hinton’s Scientific Romances (1884–1896), ‘Before Einstein’ examines the work of H. G. Wells, Henry James and William James through the lens of four-dimensional theory. The primary value of Hinton’s work has always been its literary and philosophical content and influence, rather than its scientific authority. It is certain that significant late nineteenth-century writers and thinkers such as H. G. Wells, William James, Olive Schreiner, Karl Pearson and W. E. B. Du Bois read Hinton. Others, including Henry James, Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford, were familiar with his ideas. Hinton’s fourth dimension appealed to scientists, spiritualists and artists, and – particularly at the end of the nineteenth century – the interests of these different groups often overlapped. Truly interdisciplinary in scope, ‘Before Einstein’ breaks new ground by offering an extensive analysis of four-dimensional theory's place in the shared history of Modernism.
Author : Alan M. Laibelman
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820495286
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Discreteness, Continuity, & Consciousness written by Alan M. Laibelman and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the third in elaboration of a self-consistent and comprehensive philosophical system comprising the areas of metaphysics (volume one), ethics (volume two), and epistemology (volume three). Consciousness is conceived as the principal transcendental agency bringing all of manifestation into existence. The current work focuses on methods of cognition: sensory representations, ratiocination, intuition, mystical revelation, and the parapsychological skills pertaining to telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition. The discipline of psychophysics is conceived as the unifier for all modalities. There is developed both a qualitative and a quantitative mechanism for gaining knowledge. Knowledge accumulation was proposed in volume two to be the ethical goal of all lifeforms. The purpose toward which that goal is placed in service is in resolution of the metaphysical crisis detailed in volume one.
Author : Mårten Björk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350228249
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Immortality in Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg written by Mårten Björk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting the central importance of theological configurations of immortality and eternal life from 1914-1945, Mårten Björk explores the key writings of Franz Rosenzweig, Karl Barth and Oskar Goldberg to situate their ideas in relation to the political turmoil of the period, including the rise of social Darwinism, nationalism and fascism. The conversations happening among Christian and Jewish theologians and philosophers on the nature of immortality and eternal life during the period constitute what Björk calls a 'politics of immortality'. The speculative question of eternal life became a way to address the meaning of 'a good life' in a period when millions of lives were lost to war, camps and prisons. This book shows how theology was related to central political concepts and ideas of the era, revealing how the question of immortality pursued by Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg became a way to resist the reduction of life to race, blood and soil. By situating the exact political consequences of theological and metaphysical theories of immortality and eternal life, Björk's discussion of Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg confronts the perennial question on the relation between life and death and exposes the important connections between political theology and philosophical posthumanism.
Author : Rudolf Arnheim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520266005
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Entropy and Art written by Rudolf Arnheim and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay is an attempt to reconcile the disturbing contradiction between the striving for order in nature and in man and the principle of entropy implicit in the second law of thermodynamics - between the tendency toward greater organization and the general trend of the material universe toward death and disorder.
