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Book Synopsis Agnostic at the Altar by : John Van Hagen
Download or read book Agnostic at the Altar written by John Van Hagen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Agnostic at the Altar, former Catholic priest and psychologist John Van Hagen engages the voices of the ancient Jewish prophets in an effort to find something of a universal voice that speaks to all people. He builds upon the work of Scripture scholars, religious writers, and his own experiences to pave a path by which readers can engage in religion, while at the same time defending against harmful religious claims and practices. The prophets, who first appeared in Palestine in the Axial Age, translated their experience of the transcendent into magnificent stories that began with a time of intimacy with their God, a later time of betrayal and turmoil, and a future reconciliation at the end of time. Later, Christians adopted these themes as their own. Their stories emphasize justice and right worship as a way toward a meaningful and peaceful future. Their insights into a spiritual dimension of reality brought purpose to millions of lives. In this uncertain time of increasing global tension and strife, they could do the same for us. Agnostic at the Altar makes a compelling case that the ancient prescriptions for a just way of living together are not only historically significant, but in perfect keeping with an evolutionary-based desire that all people live in harmony.
Book Synopsis Altar Boy to Atheist by : Ryan Bedell
Download or read book Altar Boy to Atheist written by Ryan Bedell and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Altar Boy to Atheist: Giving Up God" is as much a random collection of thoughts about the world as it is the story of someone discovering themselves anew throughout different periods of their life. Ryan Bedell grew up Catholic, and now he's not. The book tries to explain why and how Ryan went from youth group leader to an agnostic atheist, and his stories of different religious experiences around the world will resonate with readers from any background.
Book Synopsis REBUILDING A LOST FAITH BY AN AMERICAN AGNOSTIC by : JOHN L. STODDARD
Download or read book REBUILDING A LOST FAITH BY AN AMERICAN AGNOSTIC written by JOHN L. STODDARD and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Why We Need Religion by : Stephen T. Asma
Download or read book Why We Need Religion written by Stephen T. Asma and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Stephen Asma argues that, like art, religion has direct access to our emotional lives in ways that science does not. Yes, science can give us emotional feelings of wonder and the sublime--we can feel the sacred depths of nature--but there are many forms of human suffering and vulnerability that are beyond the reach of help from science. Different emotional stresses require different kinds of rescue. Unlike secular authors who praise religion's ethical and civilizing function, Asma argues that its core value lies in its emotionally therapeutic power. No theorist of religion has failed to notice the importance of emotions in spiritual and ritual life, but truly systematic research has only recently delivered concrete data on the neurology, psychology, and anthropology of the emotional systems. This very recent "affective turn" has begun to map out a powerful territory of embodied cognition. Why We Need Religion incorporates new data from these affective sciences into the philosophy of religion. It goes on to describe the way in which religion manages those systems--rage, play, lust, care, grief, and so on. Finally, it argues that religion is still the best cultural apparatus for doing this adaptive work. In short, the book is a Darwinian defense of religious emotions and the cultural systems that manage them.
Book Synopsis The Faith of an Agnostic by : Sir George Greenwood
Download or read book The Faith of an Agnostic written by Sir George Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The faith of an agnostic; or, First essays in rationalism, by George Forester by : Sir Granville George Greenwood
Download or read book The faith of an agnostic; or, First essays in rationalism, by George Forester written by Sir Granville George Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Intelligent Agnostic's Introduction to Christianity by : Eugene Rolfe
Download or read book The Intelligent Agnostic's Introduction to Christianity written by Eugene Rolfe and published by London : Skeffington. This book was released on 1959 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many people today only a vacuum exists where once there was a reconciling force between Man and God. The result is confusion, and the author of this forceful book places the responsibility as much with the Church as with the skeptics, because the Church still clings to outworn metaphysical tenets which modern man cannot accept. Yet, when seen not as "factual" statements, but as a means of religious communication through images, Christian orthodoxy can be shown to be pragmatically and psychologically true, and essential to balanced living. This, the author maintains, is especially evident in the realms of prayer and the Eucharist.--From publisher description.
Book Synopsis Why Christianity Must Change or Die by : John Shelby Spong
Download or read book Why Christianity Must Change or Die written by John Shelby Spong and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important and respected voice for liberal American Christianity for the past twenty years, Bishop John Shelby Spong integrates his often controversial stands on the Bible, Jesus, theism, and morality into an intelligible creed that speaks to today's thinking Christian. In this compelling and heartfelt book, he sounds a rousing call for a Christianity based on critical thought rather than blind faith, on love rather than judgment, and that focuses on life more than religion.
Book Synopsis The Contemporary Agnostic Believer by : Aaron Caldwell
Download or read book The Contemporary Agnostic Believer written by Aaron Caldwell and published by GNP. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The union of classical agnosticism and traditional Christianity has produced a more contemporary "middle of road Christianity." This book presents numerous facts about history and theology in an easy to understand manner. It also re-introduces us to the badly misunderstood theology of agnosticism and introduces us to Contemporary Agnosticism. Presented are Jesus' teachings after intense historical and scientific analysis. Contemporary agnostics consider Jesus a great visionary and wandering sage but no more the son of God than any of us. With that in mind, the reader is urged to appreciate various contemporary religious principles, not because they'll go to a mythical hell if they don't, but because of its positive effect on the individual and society. Christian history and theology are candidly scrutinized providing the reader with a tremendous amount of reference material. TABLE OF CONTENTS PROLOGUE CHRISTIAN HISTORY & DOCTRINE OF THE UNIVERSE The New Testament & Its History Classical Christian Doctrines about God and the Universe Popular Religious Virgin Births Prior to & During Jesus' Lifetime CLASSICAL AGNOSTICISM (History & Definition of) CONTEMPORARY AGNOSTIC PRINCIPLES ANTHROPOMORPHISM & THE FEAR OF GOD LITTLE KNOWN BIBLICAL DEMANDS That It's Important to Respect the Slave Owner Women are to be Submissive Foods You're Not Allowed to Eat Forbidding Marriage to Another Race or Religion How Bad Lending or Borrowing Money With Interest Is Having Sex During A Woman's Menstrual Period PARABLES FROM THE HISTORICAL JESUS PRAYER & THE AGNOSTIC BELIEVER Brief History of the "Black Death" (Worst Ever Plague) LIFE AFTER DEATH Popular Religious Resurrections Prior to & During Jesus' Lifetime Afterlife From the Standpoint of Science JESUS & THE APOCALYPSE Brief Summaries of Famous Apocalyptic Groups The Slaughter of the Cathars of Lanbuedoc USURY OTHER NOTABLE PEOPLE RELATED TO AGNOSTICISM APPENDIX 1: The Inquisitions APPENDIX 2: Persecution of Witches APPENDIX 3: Major World Religions GLOSSARY
Book Synopsis The Faith of an Agnostic by : G. G. Greenwood
Download or read book The Faith of an Agnostic written by G. G. Greenwood and published by Oliphant Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREFACE. THE Author of this very practical treatise on Scotch Loch - Fishing desires clearly that it may be of use to all who had it. He does not pretend to have written anything new, but to have attempted to put what he has to say in as readable a form as possible. Everything in the way of the history and habits of fish has been studiously avoided, and technicalities have been used as sparingly as possible. The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general. This section is interleaved with blank shects for the readers notes. The Author need hardly say that any suggestions addressed to the case of the publishers, will meet with consideration in a future edition. We do not pretend to write or enlarge upon a new subject. Much has been said and written-and well said and written too on the art of fishing but loch-fishing has been rather looked upon as a second-rate performance, and to dispel this idea is one of the objects for which this present treatise has been written. Far be it from us to say anything against fishing, lawfully practised in any form but many pent up in our large towns will bear us out when me say that, on the whole, a days loch-fishing is the most convenient. One great matter is, that the loch-fisher is depend- ent on nothing but enough wind to curl the water, -and on a large loch it is very seldom that a dead calm prevails all day, -and can make his arrangements for a day, weeks beforehand whereas the stream- fisher is dependent for a good take on the state of the water and however pleasant and easy it may be for one living near the banks of a good trout stream or river, it is quite another matter to arrange for a days river-fishing, if one is looking forward to a holiday at a date some weeks ahead. Providence may favour the expectant angler with a good day, and the water in order but experience has taught most of us that the good days are in the minority, and that, as is the case with our rapid running streams, -such as many of our northern streams are, -the water is either too large or too small, unless, as previously remarked, you live near at hand, and can catch it at its best. A common belief in regard to loch-fishing is, that the tyro and the experienced angler have nearly the same chance in fishing, -the one from the stern and the other from the bow of the same boat. Of all the absurd beliefs as to loch-fishing, this is one of the most absurd. Try it. Give the tyro either end of the boat he likes give him a cast of ally flies he may fancy, or even a cast similar to those which a crack may be using and if he catches one for every three the other has, he may consider himself very lucky. Of course there are lochs where the fish are not abundant, and a beginner may come across as many as an older fisher but we speak of lochs where there are fish to be caught, and where each has a fair chance. Again, it is said that the boatman has as much to do with catching trout in a loch as the angler. Well, we dont deny that. In an untried loch it is necessary to have the guidance of a good boatman but the same argument holds good as to stream-fishing...
Download or read book Agnosticism written by Robert Flint and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Taming the Agnostic: Sai Baba and the Irrepressible Lawyer by : M Krishna
Download or read book Taming the Agnostic: Sai Baba and the Irrepressible Lawyer written by M Krishna and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating, true adventure on two planes: physical and spiritual. It is a lawyer's amazing encounter with a succession of events that challenge his world of logic and scientific reasoning. He discovers that dogmatic belief systems are nothing more than historical records of Man's spiritual development, embellished with myths. However, he is unable to dismiss the Invisible Hand that is ever at work re-arranging and directing the affairs of Man advancing him on that plane. He looks back at the events in his life, including the inexplicable, and sees a clear pattern that gives meaning to what seemed like chaos and disasters. Unlike traditional books on the intangible, Taming the Agnostic is down-to-earth and it will challenge, intrigue and enrich even the skeptics. It is a serious challenge to every intelligent being to think outside their customary envelope and grapple with the unknown reality, or forever run from that which their current knowledge cannot cope with.
Download or read book Agnostic written by Lesley Hazleton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A widely admired writer on religion celebrates agnosticism as the most vibrant, engaging--and ultimately the most honest--stance toward the mysteries of existence." -- Amazon.com.
Book Synopsis An Agnostic in the Fellowship of Christ by : David K. Goodin
Download or read book An Agnostic in the Fellowship of Christ written by David K. Goodin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Agnostic in the Fellowship of Christ: The Ethical Mysticism of Albert Schweitzer details the theology, ethics, and philosophy of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965). It surveys his entire corpus of religious writings, including his unfinished estate works, and explores the intellectual history behind his distinctive theological synthesis. David K. Goodin traces Schweitzer’s intellectual and spiritual development from childhood to his academic years and throughout his time at the African medical mission. It also places Schweitzer into dialogue with other Protestant theologians including Martin Luther, Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Thomas Altizer, as well as with contemporary philosophers like Jacques Derrida. The aim is to reveal what a living faith and mysticism can mean for the modern world, and where common ground can be found for traditional and liberal Protestant theology today.
Book Synopsis To Believe Or Not Believe, That Is the Question by : Thomas J. Gorman
Download or read book To Believe Or Not Believe, That Is the Question written by Thomas J. Gorman and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Boy Scout turned gang member, Catholic altar boy turned agnostic, Gorman reflects on his life and the search for answers about God which led him back to a life of Bible-based faith. (Practical Life)
Book Synopsis The Origins of Agnosticism by : Bernard Lightman
Download or read book The Origins of Agnosticism written by Bernard Lightman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987. The Origins of Agnosticism provides a reinterpretation of agnosticism and its relationship to science. Professor Lightman examines the epistemological basis of agnostics' learned ignorance, studying their core claim that "God is unknowable." To address this question, he reconstructs the theory of knowledge posited by Thomas Henry Huxley and his network of agnostics. In doing so, Lightman argues that agnosticism was constructed on an epistemological foundation laid by Christian thought. In addition to undermining the continuity in the intellectual history of religious thought, Lightman exposes the religious origins of agnosticism.
Download or read book The Altar written by Jeremiah Johnson and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burning with passion and zeal for Jesus, and driven by a vision to see the church revived, pastor and author, Jeremiah Johnson offers a prophetic plea to the people of God: "Come to the altar! Purify yourselves for the coming Bridegroom!"
