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Divine Apology

Author : Brett Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313076944
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Divine Apology written by Brett Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the defense of public image in political, corporate, and celebrity rhetoric has been widely studied, religious image repair has been largely ignored. Divine Apology considers the unique circumstances facing religious figures in need of restoring their reputations by examining a blend of historical and contemporary defenses offered by various figures and groups. The author covers apologia as advanced by the Apostle Paul, Justin Martyr, Martin Luther, Jimmy Swaggart, evangelical opponents of the Jesus Seminar, and conservative leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention. He concludes that strategies used for religious image repair often differ significantly from those employed by politicians, corporations, and other public figures. In this unique volume, Miller demonstrates that religious groups and individuals are as motivated as anyone else to purify their public images. The issues prompting defenses, however, are more likely to focus on epistemological conflicts and clashes of worldviews than on inappropriate behaviors. As a consequence, religious apologists are more likely to associate attacks against their beliefs as assaults against their characters. This causes religious image restoration discourse to manifest itself as more transcendent than defenses in traditional situations involving laypeople. Miller posits that the presence of God and religious antecedents as salient audiences, as well as other factors concerning audience and context, work to shape a form of apology that is characteristically religious.

Apology

Author : Plato Plato
Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1681956942
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Apology written by Plato Plato and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Guide to the Good Life “The unexamined life is not worth living” -Apology, Plato An original account of the speech Socrates makes at the trial in which he is charged with not recognizing the gods recognized by the state, inventing new deities, and corrupting the youth of Athens. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

Socrates' Divine Sign

Author : Nicholas D. Smith
Publisher : Kelowna, BC : Academic Print. & Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9780920980910
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Socrates' Divine Sign written by Nicholas D. Smith and published by Kelowna, BC : Academic Print. & Pub.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religion of Socrates

Author : Mark L. McPherran
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271040325
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Religion of Socrates written by Mark L. McPherran and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study argues that to understand Socrates we must uncover and analyze his religious views, since his philosophical and religious views are part of one seamless whole. Mark McPherran provides a close analysis of the relevant Socratic texts, an analysis that yields a comprehensive and original account of Socrates' commitments to religion (e.g., the nature of the gods, the immortality of the soul). McPherran contends that Socrates saw his religious commitments as integral to his philosophical mission of moral examination and, in turn, used the rationally derived convictions underlying that mission to reshape the religious conventions of his time. As a result, Socrates made important contributions to the rational reformation of Greek religion, contributions that incited and informed the theology of his brilliant pupil, Plato.

Apologizing for God

Author : Mark S. McLeod-Harrison
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608997669
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Apologizing for God written by Mark S. McLeod-Harrison and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If radical postmodernism offers nothing more than arbitrary fictions and modernism is coldly but meaninglessly objective, where is reality? Apologizing for God argues that reality rests in the lives we live in history. In other words, it argues that living as understood on the basis of the incarnational nature of Christianity is an appropriate response to our current cultural situation. Partly philosophical, partly theological, and deeply Christian, Apologizing for God explores the importance of living in the presence of God as revealed in the autobiographies of our lives. Although not autobiographical in the strict sense, this book is an apologetic for the truth of Christianity explained through one Christian philosopher's understanding of our relationship to history in which God is revealed.

The Five Languages of Apology

Author : Gary Chapman
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0802479626
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Five Languages of Apology written by Gary Chapman and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as you have a different love language, you also hear and express the words and gestures of apology in a different language. New York Times best-selling author Gary Chapman has teamed with counselor Jennifer Thomas on this groundbreaking study of the way we apologize, discovering that it's not just a matter of will--it's a matter of how. By helping people identify the languages of apology, this book clears the way toward healing and sustaining vital relationships. The authors detail proven techniques for giving and receiving effective apologies.

God and Moral Obligation

Author : C. Stephen Evans
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191648736
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book God and Moral Obligation written by C. Stephen Evans and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a connection between religion and morality? Ivan Karamazov, in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, famously declares that if God does not exist, then "everything is permitted." Most philosophers reject such a view and hold that moral truths do not depend on God. C.Stephen Evans argues that the truth lies somewhere between these two claims. It is not quite right to say that there would be nothing left of morality if God did not exist, but moral obligations do depend on God ontologically. Such obligations are best understood as God's commands or requirements, communicated to humans in a variety of ways, including conscience. In God and Moral Obligation, Evans also argues that two views often thought to be rivals to a divine command morality, natural law ethics and virtue ethics, are not rivals at all but provide necessary complementary elements of a comprehensive morality. A number of objections to a divine command account of moral obligations are posed and answered. In the concluding chapters Evans points out the advantages such an account has over secular rivals. The authority and objectivity of moral obligations are best explained by seeing them as divine commands.

Encounters with God

Author : Michael J. McClymond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195353439
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Encounters with God written by Michael J. McClymond and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a broad-based study of Jonathan Edwards as a religious thinker. Much attention has been given to Edwards in relation to his Puritan and Calvinist forebears. McClymond, however, examines Edwards in relation to his eighteenth-century intellectual context. In each of six chapters, he contextualizes and interprets some text or issue in Edwards within the emergent post-Lockean, post-Newtonian culture of the English-speaking world of the 1700s. Among the topics considered are spiritual perception, metaphysics, contemplation, ethics and morality, and apologetics.

No Apology Needed

Author : Nathan Byrd
Publisher : Whitaker House
ISBN 13 : 164123122X
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book No Apology Needed written by Nathan Byrd and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathan R. Byrd was inspired to write No Apology Needed: Learning to Forgive as God Does during Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement and forgiveness, in 2012. As he began to research the Jewish perspective of the holiday, he realized that neither Adam nor Eve ever apologized to God for their sin, yet they were forgiven immediately. Byrd offers a new perspective on the concept of forgiveness, with the goal of transforming lives and communities. Exploring the Jewish roots for the Christian faith, he suggests that the practice of Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, can offer Christians a rhythm for forgiveness that will have a positive impact on their whole life. By learning to forgive as God does, without needing any apology from those who have wronged us, we can unlock the keys to healing and healthy relationships. Looking at ancient biblical passages in a new light, Byrd reveals what we have been missing about the teachings of Jesus and the character of our God, as seen in the stories of Adam and Eve, Joseph and his brothers, and King Saul and David. In doing so, Byrd offers incredible insights into how we view relationships and the necessity of adopting a posture of forgiveness, regardless of the circumstances.

Essays in Analytic Theology

Author : Michael C. Rea
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192636669
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Analytic Theology written by Michael C. Rea and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second of two volumes collecting together Michael C. Rea's most substantial work in analytic theology. The first volume focuses on the nature of God and our ability to talk and discover truths about God, whereas this volume contains essays focused more on questions about humanity, the human condition, and how human beings relate to God. Part one of Volume II considers on the doctrines of the incarnation, original sin, and atonement. Part two examines the problem of evil, the problem of divine hiddenness, and a theological problem that arises in connection with the idea God not only tolerates but validates a response of angry protest in the face of these problems.

The Tripersonal God

Author : Gerald O'Collins
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 1587683644
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book The Tripersonal God written by Gerald O'Collins and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a revised edition, this book examines the Old Testament roots of trinitarian thought, the historical developments that gave rise to the doctrine of the trinity and contemporary thinking about trinitarian issues.

I’m so Sorry

Author : Lonnie P. Anderson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669843149
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book I’m so Sorry written by Lonnie P. Anderson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information about the book is not available as of this time.

We Believe

Author : Alexander Irving
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1789742714
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book We Believe written by Alexander Irving and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of ad 381 was a key statement in the context of the theological controversies and confessional atmosphere of the fourth-century church. Alexander Irving explores Christian belief about God, creation and redemption, as it is expressed in the Creed. He thereby contributes to the continuing task of the church's self-examination of its talk about God. Irving shows the importance of tradition and the intrinsic relationship between thought in the church today and thought in the church across time. He sets the Creed in its historical and theological contexts, and connects its theology to some areas of contemporary theological inquiry. The Creed sets out the basic parameters of Christian belief. While the specifics of what is believed within those parameters are not determined, there is an internal logic to the Creed's presentation of the Christian faith. The contrast between God's internal and external relations is the theological motif that gives particular shape to the Creed, which expresses an expansive vision of the generosity of God, with his relation to creation grounded in his being as love.

Sense Perception and Testimony in the Gospel According to John

Author : Sunny Kuan-Hui Wang
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161547355
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Sense Perception and Testimony in the Gospel According to John written by Sunny Kuan-Hui Wang and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Sunny Kuan-Hui Wang explores the relationship between sense perception and testimony in the Gospel of John. While Johannine scholars tend to focus on one or the other, she shows that sense perception and testimony are both significant and are used together with the intention of drawing readers into the narrative so that they become witnesses in an emotionally engaged way. It is argued that John's use of sense perception together with testimony is rooted in Jewish literature. Yet John also employs a Graeco-Roman rhetorical technique, enargeia , which appeals to the persuasive power of sense perception to make his narrative vivid. John does not downplay sense perception. Rather, he uses it in the context of testimony as a means of persuasion to draw the readers, in their imagination, into the experience of the first disciples and thus deeper into faith and witness.

The Saving Righteousness of God

Author : Michael F. Bird
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556352743
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book The Saving Righteousness of God written by Michael F. Bird and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-03-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a series of studies on contentious aspects of Paul's doctrine of justification including the meaning of righteousness, the question of imputation, the role of resurrection in justification, an evaluation of the New Perspective, the soteriological and ecclesiological significance of justification, justification by faith with judgment according to works, and debates over the orthodoxy of N. T. Wright. The burden of this volume is to demonstrate that reformed and new readings of Paul are indispensable to attaining a full understanding of Paul's soteriology. An analysis of Galatians and Romans demonstrates that the covenantal and forensic dimensions of justification go hand in glove. The vertical and horizontal aspects need to be appropriately described and weighted in order to provide a holistic rendering of justification in Paul's letters. According to Paul, faith alone in Jesus Christ is the instrument of eschatological vindication; and faith alone marks out the true people of God.

Among the Gentiles

Author : Luke Timothy Johnson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300156499
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Among the Gentiles written by Luke Timothy Johnson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a fresh inquiry into early Christianity and Greco-Roman paganism, Luke Timothy Johnson begins with a broad definition of religion as a way of life organized around convictions and experiences concerning ultimate power.

Divine Moments for Leaders

Author : Ronald A. Beers
Publisher : NavPress
ISBN 13 : 1496415124
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Divine Moments for Leaders written by Ronald A. Beers and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divine Moments books are designed to help you experience a daily breakthrough with God. Inside each handy book you'll find life application topics such as acceptance, brokenness, calling, comfort, crisis, decisions, doubt, endurance, giving, healing, hurts, loss, love, miracles, mistakes, planning, purpose, risk, romance, stress, temptation, tragedy, and wisdom. Under each topic you'll find a question that we all ask at one time or another about how we relate to God and how our faith relates to everyday life. When we bring our deepest questions to God, we can find answers. Discover today how God's Word provides answers to our deepest questions about life and answers hundreds of the greatest questions of all time.