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Revisiting Secularism in Theory and Practice

Author : Seda Ünsar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030374564
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Revisiting Secularism in Theory and Practice written by Seda Ünsar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a philosophical and macro-historical analysis of secularism, supported by an investigation of various contemporary cases. Starting with an in-depth theoretical discussion of the meaning of secularism, it subsequently presents a historical study on the secularization of norms and identities in Europe. The respective case studies cover topics such as the epistemologies of secularism, liberalization and embedded secularism, the relationship between modernity and secularism, the socio-anthropology of secularism, Turkish modernization as a cultural revolution, the political economy of secularism in Turkey, and the secular rationale of the EU neighborhood policy.

Reframing Providence

Author : Simon Maria Kopf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192874985
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Reframing Providence written by Simon Maria Kopf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The doctrine of providence, which states that God guides his creation, has been widely conceived in action terms in recent theological scholarship. A telling example is the so-called Divine Action Debate, which is largely based on two principles: (i) providence is best conceptualised in terms of divine action; and (ii) divine action is best modelled on human action. By examining this debate, and especially the Divine Action Project (1988-2003), which led to the 'scientific turn' of the debate, this study argues that theo-physical incompatibilism, as a corollary of this 'framing' of providence, can be identified as a main reason for the current deadlock in divine action theories - namely, the assumption that just as human (libertarian) free action presupposes causal indeterminism, so, too, does divine action in the world presuppose causal indeterminism. Instead of recalibrating the much-discussed non-interventionist objective divine action (NIODA) approaches, Simon Maria Kopf advocates a 'reframing' of providence in terms of the virtue of prudence. To this end, this book examines the 'prudential-ordinative' theory of Thomas Aquinas and contrasts it with the prevalent 'actionistic', or action-based, model of providence. In this process, Kopf discusses, among other topics, the doctrine of divine transcendence, primary and secondary causation, natural necessity and contingency, and teleology as essential features of this 'prudential-ordinative' theory. How these two approaches fare when applied to the question of biological evolution is the subject of the final part of this book, which revisits the controversy between Stephen Jay Gould and Simon Conway Morris over what would happen if one were to rerun the tape of life.

Eros in Neoplatonism and its Reception in Christian Philosophy

Author : Dimitrios A. Vasilakis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350163872
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis Eros in Neoplatonism and its Reception in Christian Philosophy by : Dimitrios A. Vasilakis

Download or read book Eros in Neoplatonism and its Reception in Christian Philosophy written by Dimitrios A. Vasilakis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showing the ontological importance of eros within the philosophical systems inspired by Plato, Dimitrios A. Vasilakis examines the notion of eros in key texts of the Neoplatonic philosophers, Plotinus, Proclus, and the Church Father, Dionysius the Areopagite. Outlining the divergences and convergences between the three brings forward the core idea of love as deficiency in Plotinus and charts how this is transformed into plenitude in Proclus and Dionysius. Does Proclus diverge from Plotinus in his hierarchical scheme of eros? Is the Dionysian hierarchy to be identified with Proclus' classification of love? By analysing The Enneads, III.5, the Commentary on the First Alcibiades and the Divine Names side by side, Vasilakis uses a wealth of modern scholarship, including contemporary Greek literature to explore these questions, tracing a clear historical line between the three seminal late antique thinkers.

Divine Providence and Human Agency

Author : Alexander S. Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317148878
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Divine Providence and Human Agency written by Alexander S. Jensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divine Providence and Human Agency develops an understanding of God and God's relation to creation that perceives God as sovereign over creation while, at the same time, allowing for a meaningful notion of human freedom. This book provides a bridge between contemporary approaches that emphasise human freedom, such as process theology and those influenced by it, and traditional theologies that stress divine omnipotence.This book argues that it is essential for Christian theology to maintain that God is ultimately in charge of history: otherwise there would be no solid grounds for Christian hope. Yet, the modern human self-understanding as free agent within certain limitations must be taken seriously. Jensen approaches this apparent contradiction from within a consistently trinitarian framework. Jensen argues that a Christian understanding of God must be based on the experience of the saving presence of Christ in the Church, leading to an apophatic and consistently trinitarian theology. This serves as the framework for the discussion of divine omnipotence and human freedom. On the basis of the theological foundation established in this book, it is possible to frame the problem in a way that makes it possible to live within this tension. Building on this foundation, Jensen develops an understanding of history as the unfolding of the divine purpose and as an expression of God's very being, which is self-giving love and desire for communion. This book offers an important contribution to the debate of the doctrine of God in the context of an evolutionary universe.

Transcendence and Self-Transcendence

Author : Merold Westphal
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253216878
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Transcendence and Self-Transcendence written by Merold Westphal and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Westphal's phenomenology of faith sets this book into the main currents of Continental philosophy of religion today.

Transcendence and Spatiality of the Triune Creator

Author : Chan Ho Park
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039108442
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Transcendence and Spatiality of the Triune Creator written by Chan Ho Park and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Augustine many philosophers and theologians have discussed the relation of God to time, whereas the relation between God and space has been rarely discussed. This book deals with the relationship of God to space. Divine transcendence is one important aspect of the Christian God. However, God is also immanent in the world of space and time. The author investigates the concept of divine spatiality and presents case studies of three modern theologians: Torrance, Pannenberg and Moltmann. He also analyses divine spatiality by using Dyrness's three categories: relationship, agency and embodiment.

The Secular City

Author : Harvey Gallagher Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Secular City written by Harvey Gallagher Cox and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

All from One

Author : Pieter d' Hoine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199640335
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book All from One written by Pieter d' Hoine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proclus (412-485 A.D.) was one of the last official "successors" of Plato at the head of the Academy in Athens at the end of Antiquity, before the school was finally closed down in 529. As a prolific author of systematic works on a wide range of topics and one of the most influential commentators on Plato of all times, the legacy of Proclus in the cultural history of the west can hardly be overestimated. This book introduces the reader to Proclus' life and works, his place in the Platonic tradition of Antiquity, and the influence his work exerted in later ages. Various chapters are devoted to Proclus' metaphysical system, including his doctrines about the first principle of all reality, the One, and about the Forms and the soul. The broad range of Proclus' thought is further illustrated by highlighting his contribution to philosophy of nature, scientific theory, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of language. Finally, also his most original doctrines on evil and providence, his Neoplatonic virtue ethics, his complex views on theology and religious practice, and his metaphysical aesthetics receive separate treatments. This book is the first to bring together the leading scholars in the field and to present a state of the art of Proclean studies today. In doing so, it provides the most comprehensive introduction to Proclus' thought currently available.

Transcendence and Non-Naturalism in Early Chinese Thought

Author : Alexus McLeod
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350082554
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Transcendence and Non-Naturalism in Early Chinese Thought written by Alexus McLeod and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary scholars of Chinese philosophy often presuppose that early China possessed a naturalistic worldview, devoid of any non-natural concepts, such as transcendence. Challenging this presupposition head-on, Joshua R. Brown and Alexus McLeod argue that non-naturalism and transcendence have a robust and significant place in early Chinese thought. This book reveals that non-naturalist positions can be found in early Chinese texts, in topics including conceptions of the divine, cosmogony, and apophatic philosophy. Moreover, by closely examining a range of early Chinese texts, and providing comparative readings of a number of Western texts and thinkers, the book offers a way of reading early Chinese Philosophy as consistent with the religious philosophy of the East and West, including the Abrahamic and the Brahmanistic religions. Co-written by a philosopher and theologian, this book draws out unique insights into early Chinese thought, highlighting in particular new ways to consider a range of Chinese concepts, including tian, dao, li, and you/wu.

Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics

Author : Elizabeth Agnew Cochran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567671372
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Book Synopsis Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics by : Elizabeth Agnew Cochran

Download or read book Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics written by Elizabeth Agnew Cochran and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stoics are known to have been a decisive influence on early Christian moral thought, but the import of this influence for contemporary Christian ethics has been underexplored. Elizabeth Agnew Cochran argues that attention to the Stoics enriches a Christian understanding of the virtues, illuminating precisely how historical Protestant theology gives rise to a distinctive virtue ethic. Through examining the dialogue between Roman Stoic ethics and the work of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Jonathan Edwards, Cochran illuminates key theological convictions that provide a foundation for a contemporary Protestant virtue ethic, consistent with theological beliefs characteristic of the historical Reformed tradition.

Educating in the Spirit

Author : Eric J. Kyle
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532673191
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Educating in the Spirit written by Eric J. Kyle and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to address two struggles for “theistic educators” (e.g., those who approach their educational vocation from a religious perspective), whether they are working in secular or faith-based institutions. The first struggle is that, while numerous guidelines on teaching excellence have been compiled, the resulting checklists can contain more than a hundred criteria to consider. This book therefore identifies the evidence-based guidelines that are likely to have the highest impact on student achievement, thereby empowering educators to focus their efforts in more substantial ways. The second struggle is related to the lack of resources, which can help educators to view and approach their vocation from a theistic perspective. While there are texts that discuss the relationship of spirituality and/or theology to education, few to date have sought to bring evidence-based educational literature into dialogue with the western Christian tradition and thereby develop a “bottom-up” theology of education. This book addresses this historical and theological gap. Overall, this book is therefore intended to not only provide theistic educators with high-impact guidelines that can significantly improve the quality of education in their school systems, but it also strives to do so from a thoroughly theistic perspective.

Autism and Spirituality

Author : Olga Bogdashina
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 085700591X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Autism and Spirituality written by Olga Bogdashina and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olga Bogdashina argues persuasively that, contrary to popular belief, spirituality plays a vital role in the lives of many people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Drawing on interdisciplinary research from fields as diverse as psychology, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, neuroscience and religion, as well as first-hand experiences of people on the spectrum, she shows how people with ASD experience their inner worlds and sense of self, and how this shapes the spiritual dimension of their lives and vice versa. She presents a coherent framework for understanding the routes of spiritual development and 'spiritual giftedness' within this group, offering insights that will inform understanding of how to support and nurture spiritual wellbeing in people with ASDs. This book gives a voice to both verbal and non-verbal individuals on the autism spectrum whose spiritual experiences, though often unconventional, are meaningful and profound. It is essential reading for all those interested in the spiritual wellbeing of this group, including pastoral carers and counsellors, ministers of religion, spiritual leaders, parents and carers and individuals on the autism spectrum.

Divine Transcendence and the Culture of Change

Author : David H. Hopper
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802865054
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Divine Transcendence and the Culture of Change written by David H. Hopper and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hopper's historical-theological study not only illuminates the past but also sheds light on the tumultuous present, revealing how a recaptured understanding of God's transcendence can confront the thoughtless tolerance and inward-facing spiritual consumerism of our own time and radically transform both theology and culture today. --Book Jacket.

The Providence of God

Author : David Fergusson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108475000
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Providence of God written by David Fergusson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the theology of divine providence that is both critical and constructive in its outcomes.

Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion

Author : Allan Conrad Christensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134237332
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Book Synopsis Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion by : Allan Conrad Christensen

Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion written by Allan Conrad Christensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-04-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing book examines the ways contagion - or disease - inform and shape a wide variety of nineteenth century texts and contexts. Christiensen dissects the cultural assumptions concerning disease, health, impurity and so on before exploring different perspectives on key themes such as plague, nursing and the hospital environment and focusing on certain key texts including Dicken's Bleak House, Gaskell's Ruth, and Zola's Le Docteur Pascal.

The One Creator God in Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Theology

Author : Michael J. Dodds, OP
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
ISBN 13 : 0813232872
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The One Creator God in Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Theology written by Michael J. Dodds, OP and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fundamental introduction to Aquinas's theology of the One Creator God. Aimed at making that thought accessible to contemporary audiences, it gives a basic explanation of his theology while showing its compatibility with contemporary science and its relevance to current theological issues. Opening with a brief account of Aquinas’s life, it then describes the purpose and nature of the Summa Theologica and gives a short review of current varieties of Thomism. Without neglecting other works, it then focuses primarily on the discussion of the One God in the first part of the Summa Theologica. God's transcendence and immanence is a recurrent theme in that discussion. Evidence of God's immanent causality in the natural world grounds Aquinas's five arguments for the existence of God (the Five Ways) which then open onto God's transcendence. The subsequent discussion of the divine attributes builds on the modes of God's causality established in the Five Ways. It also shows the need for a language of analogy to preserve God's transcendence and prevent us from reducing God to the level of creatures, even as qualities such as "goodness" and "love," which we first know from creatures, are applied to God. The discussion of God's providence and governance establishes that the transcendent Creator God is most intimately present in creation. God acts in all creatures in a way that does not diminish their proper causality, but is rather its source. As there is no contradiction between God's transcendence and immanence, so there is no competition between the primary causality of God and the secondary causality of creatures. Empirical science, which is limited by its method to the secondary causality of creatures, is shown to be compatible with the broader discipline of theology which also embraces the primary causality of the Creator.

A Case for Theistic Evolution

Author : Howard J. Van Till
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
ISBN 13 : 0310496500
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book A Case for Theistic Evolution written by Howard J. Van Till and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from Three Views on Creation and Evolution, this digital short argues that Christians need not oppose evolution and that God in fact created the world through evolutionary processes. More specifically, Van Till proposes a position called fully gifted creation, which he defines as the understanding that God created the natural world with a built-in capacity to develop and evolve. With thorough attention paid to the philosophical, scientific, theological, and practical implications of the viewpoint, A Case for Theistic Evolution will be useful both to readers wanting a basic introduction to theistic evolution and to those wanting to more deeply consider their own convictions regarding it.