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Book Synopsis G-d, Rationality, and Mysticism by : Irving Block
Download or read book G-d, Rationality, and Mysticism written by Irving Block and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is aimed at addressing two common misconceptions. The first is that belief in G-d is purely a matter of faith and cannot be supported by rational arguments. The second is that rationality is incompatible with mysticism. The section on relationship to mysticism draws on the literature of Chabad Hasidic philosophy and the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Special attention is devoted to near-death experiences.
Download or read book Rational Mysticism written by John Horgan and published by HMH. This book was released on 2004-03-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The End of Science chronicles the most advanced research into such experiences as prayer, fasting, and trances in this “great read” (The Washington Post). How do trances, visions, prayer, satori, and other mystical experiences “work”? What induces and defines them? Is there a scientific explanation for religious mysteries and transcendent meditation? John Horgan investigates a wide range of fields—chemistry, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, theology, and more—to narrow the gap between reason and mystical phenomena. As both a seeker and an award-winning journalist, Horgan consulted a wide range of experts, including theologian Huston Smith, spiritual heir to Joseph Campbell; Andrew Newberg, the scientist whose quest for the “God module” was the focus of a Newsweek cover story; Ken Wilber, prominent transpersonal psychologist; Alexander Shulgin, legendary psychedelic drug chemist; and Susan Blackmore, Oxford-educated psychologist, parapsychology debunker, and Zen practitioner. Horgan explores the striking similarities between “mystical technologies” like sensory deprivation, prayer, fasting, trance, dancing, meditation, and drug trips. He participates in experiments that seek the neurological underpinnings of mystical experiences. And, finally, he recounts his own search for enlightenment—adventurous, poignant, and sometimes surprisingly comic. Horgan’s conclusions resonate with the controversial climax of The End of Science, because, as he argues, the most enlightened mystics and the most enlightened scientists end up in the same place—confronting the imponderable depth of the universe.
Book Synopsis Deliverance from evil; or, Rational mysticism explained and episcopal insincerity exposed [by J.P. Potter]. by : John Philips Potter
Download or read book Deliverance from evil; or, Rational mysticism explained and episcopal insincerity exposed [by J.P. Potter]. written by John Philips Potter and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Theism by : Charles Taliaferro
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Theism written by Charles Taliaferro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are deep and pervasive disagreements today in universities and colleges, and popular culture in general, over the credibility and value of belief in God. This has given rise to an urgent need for a balanced, comprehensive, accessible resource book that can inform the public and scholarly debate over theism. While scholars with as diverse interests as Daniel Dennett, Terry Eagleton, Richard Dawkins, Jürgen Habermas, and Rowan Williams have recently contributed books to this debate, "theism" as a concept remains poorly understood and requires a more thorough and systematic analysis than it has so far received in any single volume. The Routledge Companion to Theism addresses this need by investigating theism's history as well as its relationship to inquiry in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and to its wider cultural contexts. The contents are not confined within the philosophy of religion or even within the more expansive borders of philosophy. Rather, The Routledge Companion to Theism investigates its subject through the lens of a wide variety of disciplines and explores the ramifications of theism considered as a way of life as well as an intellectual conviction. The five parts of the volume indicate its inclusive scope: I. What is Theism?; II. Theism and Inquiry; III. Theism and the Socio-Political Realm; IV. Theism and Culture; V. Theism as a Way of Life. The result is a well ordered and thorough collection that should provide a wide spectrum of readers with a better understanding of a subject that's much discussed, but frequently misunderstood. As the editors note in their Introduction, while stimulating and informing the contemporary debate, a key aim of the volume is to open new avenues of inquiry into theism and thereby to encourage further research into this vital topic. Comprised of 54 essays by leading scholars in philosophy, history, theology, religious studies, political science, education and sociology, The Routledge Companion to Theism promises to be the most useful, comprehensive resource on an emerging subject of interest for students and scholars.
Download or read book 宗教与科学 written by 关启文 and published by 文桥传播中心. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 宗教与科学可说是人类文明的两个巨人，都对人类社会和文明的发展产生不能替代的影响与广泛的贡献。 然而，常听到坊间在传说它们是势不两立的，所以在不断争斗！真的吗？有没有宗教与科学和平共处之道呢？两者能否和衷共济，握手言和，携手为人类文明贡献呢？特别在充满危机的21世纪（如突然爆发的新冠病毒瞬间就把“文明必然不断进步”的神话粉碎），以上的问题尤其重要。这些问题的重要性在卷一有进一步解释，就不赘述了。 本书不单有助宗教信徒反思，对一切爱阅读、爱思考和关怀文化的读者而言，也应该感到有趣味的。本书的特色是深入浅出，我要处理跨科际的课题（历史、哲学、科学和宗教），也难免有些较深奥或技术性的内容，但我相信我已尽量用大多数人都能懂的方式去解释。本书的大部分内容曾包含在我1998年出版的《我信故我思》中（当然它们在这里也已更新、修订）；但卷四论到的“科学与人的独特性”，基本上是全新的。在那里，我指出科学发现并不能否定人的独特性──特别是他的灵性。我论证科学决定论的不足，自由意志的可信，和灵魂的存在。特别在第十二章，我探讨濒死经验对唯物论的挑战，在那里你可以看到不少真实的故事，讲述昏迷而濒临死亡的人，竟然经历灵魂离体，看到医生为他们急救，进入隧道，遇到光体和人生回顾等等，相当有趣。都是幻觉吗？还是揭示“彼岸”的存在？让我们一同思考这些饶有趣味的问题吧！ ▌作者简介 关启文博士 早年毕业于香港大学电机工程系，后取得苏格兰阿伯丁大学道学学士，和牛津大学的神学硕士与博士学位，曾任香港基督徒学生褔音团契训练部主任，及中文大学崇基神学组讲师，现任浸会大学宗教及哲学系教授，浸会大学公共伦理学硕士课程主任（Director of MA in Ethics and Public Affairs, HKBU），及浸会大学中华基督宗教研究中心主任（Director of Centre for Sino-Christian Studies, HKBU）。研究兴趣包括宗教哲学、科学哲学、系统神学、宗教与科学的对话、政治哲学、伦理学等。着有 The Rainbow of Experiences, Critical Trust, and God: A Defense of Holistic Empiricism（New York: Continuum, 2011）； 《是非曲直——对人权、同性恋的伦理反思》《上帝、世俗社会与道德的基础》等。
Download or read book Great Awakening written by Bilgin Bennett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the journey of a Mystic from mysticism to rationalism and scientific realism. The author tells how it reaches to to the great awakening and real enlightenment after living an illusion for six and half years in the sea of irreplaceable bliss of divine love and nirvana. At the same time, she tells us that can be reached the truth in the light of science and true knowledge is science. It should not be forgotten; human lives at the zenith of technology and comfort thanks to modern science in the twenty-first century. On the one hand, while benefiting from the opportunities provided by science, on the other side we must abandon the hypocrisy of rejecting science because of our beliefs.
Book Synopsis Jewish Mysticism by : Marvin A. Sweeney
Download or read book Jewish Mysticism written by Marvin A. Sweeney and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of how the divine presence is understood and interacts within the world have been around since the time of the biblical prophets. The Jewish mystical tradition conceives God as active, just, powerful, and present while allowing for divine limitation so as to understand the relationship between G-d and the Jewish people in their history. Jewish Mysticism surveys Jewish visionary and mystical experience from biblical and ancient Near Eastern times through the modern period and the emergence of modern Hasidism. Marvin Sweeney provides a comprehensive treatment of one of the most dynamic fields of Jewish studies in the twenty-first century, providing an accessible overview of texts and interpretative issues. Sweeney begins with the biblical period, which most treatments of Jewish mysticism avoid, and includes chapters on the ancient Near East, the Pentateuch, the Former Prophets and Psalms, the Latter Prophets, Jewish Apocalyptic, the Heikhalot Literature, the Sefer Yetzirah and early Kabbalistic Literature, the Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah and the Shabbetean Movement, and the Hasidic Movement. Placing Jewish apocalyptic literature into the larger development of ancient Jewish visionary and mystical experience, Sweeney fills gaps left by the important but outdated work of others in the field. Ideal for the scholar, student, or general reader, Jewish Mysticism provides readers with a fresh understanding of the particular challenges, problems, needs, and perspectives of Judaism throughout its history.
Book Synopsis Turning Judaism Outward by : Chaim Miller
Download or read book Turning Judaism Outward written by Chaim Miller and published by Kol Menachem. This book was released on 2014 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994), the Lubavitcher Rebbe, took an insular Chasidic group that was almost decimated by the Holocaust and transformed it into one of the most influential and controversial forces in world Jewry. This superbly crafted biography draws on recently uncovered documents and archives of personal correspondence, painting an exceptionally human and charming portrait of a man who was well known but little understood. With a sharp attention to detail and an effortless style, Chaim Miller takes us on a soaring journey through the life, mind and struggles of one of the most interesting religious personalities of the Twentieth Century. --
Book Synopsis The Rationality of Theism by : Godehard Brüntrup
Download or read book The Rationality of Theism written by Godehard Brüntrup and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1998, a distinguished group of philosophers met in Munich to discuss the rationality of theism. This volume is a collection of the papers read at that conference. While in recent years the rationality of theistic belief has been widely discussed, the Munich conference was an event of some moment in the history of philosophical dialogue: for the first time German- and English-speaking philosophers of religion, representatives of both the Continental and the Anglo-Saxon traditions, joined together to grapple with a common philosophical theme. This multiplicity of perspectives brought a unique richness to the analysis of rationality that no one tradition by itself could provide. Readers will find that richness displayed in the pages of this book. Professional philosophers will find here a great deal to stimulate and challenge them; but graduate students, capable undergraduates, and all others with a serious interest in the philosophy of religion will be well rewarded for their efforts to come to grips with these thought-provoking papers.
Book Synopsis The Philosophical Review by : Jacob Gould Schurman
Download or read book The Philosophical Review written by Jacob Gould Schurman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international journal of general philosophy.
Book Synopsis The Collected Letters of Charles G.D. Roberts by : Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
Download or read book The Collected Letters of Charles G.D. Roberts written by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts and published by Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions. This book was released on 1989 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Exploring Spirituality from a Post-Jungian Perspective by : Ruth Williams
Download or read book Exploring Spirituality from a Post-Jungian Perspective written by Ruth Williams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from Ruth Williams’ more than 40-year immersion in spiritual practice, as well as her clinical experience as a Jungian analyst, this thought-provoking volume explores the nature of spiritual paths and trajectories in practical ways, incorporating personal anecdote and ground-breaking academic research and providing a window into how Jungian practitioners work with soul and spirit. Williams explores the nature of being a human using the Yiddish idea of a person being a ‘mensch’, which means being a decent human being, having humanity and living ethically with integrity. The idea of ‘grace’ is the thread that runs through the book—the mystery that binds things together and makes life meaningful, purposeful, potentially joyful and spiritually fulfilling. Williams sees ‘grace’ as being that which underpins and lies behind synchronicity and divinatory practices and as a force by which we can learn to be guided. Rooted in clinical work, Exploring Spirituality from a Post-Jungian Perspective is fascinating reading for Jungian analysts, therapists and academics, as well as for general readers interested in a spiritual journey, both personally and for clinical purposes.
Download or read book Maimonides written by Israel Drazin and published by Gefen Publishing House Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the remarkable penetrating mind of Moses Maimonides and to his rational eye-opening thoughts on many subjects. It includes ideas that are not incorporated in the usual books about this great philosopher because they are so different than the traditional thinking of the vast majority of people. It contrasts the notions of other Jewish thinkers, somewhat rational and others not rational at all. The reader will be surprised, if not shocked, to learn that a host of beliefs that are prevalent among the Jewish masses have no rational basis. This does not suggest that Judaism itself is irrational and absurd. Just the opposite. But many Jews have opted to believe the unreasonable and illogical conventional ideas what Maimonides would label non-Jewish sabian notions because they have not been acquainted with Maimonides correct rational alternatives and taken the time to reflect upon it.
Book Synopsis The Significance of Religious Experience by : Howard Wettstein
Download or read book The Significance of Religious Experience written by Howard Wettstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume of essays, Howard Wettstein explores the foundations of religious commitment. His orientation is broadly naturalistic, but not in the mode of reductionism or eliminativism. This collection explores questions of broad religious interest, but does so through a focus on the author's religious tradition, Judaism. Among the issues explored are the nature and role of awe, ritual, doctrine, religious experience; the distinction between belief and faith; problems of evil and suffering with special attention to the Book of Job and to the Akedah, the biblical story of the binding of Isaac; the virtue of forgiveness. One of the book's highlights is its literary (as opposed to philosophical) approach to theology that at the same time makes room for philosophical exploration of religion. Another is Wettstein's rejection of the usual picture that sees religious life as sitting atop a distinctive metaphysical foundation, one that stands in need of epistemological justification.
Book Synopsis God's Voice from the Void by : Shaul Magid
Download or read book God's Voice from the Void written by Shaul Magid and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav was one of the most celebrated masters of late Jewish mysticism and Hasidism, and his writings have become classics. This volume brings together translations of three seminal studies on Rabbi Nahman in German, Hebrew, and Yiddish with six new studies from scholars in various fields of Jewish studies. The presentation of new scholarly work widens the conversation about Hasidism in general and Rabbi Nahman in particular by viewing his ideology from the perspective of contemporary hermeneutic, philosophical, and literary perspectives incorporating the insights of postmodernism, gender theory, and literary criticism. New ground is covered in essays on Rabbi Nahman's attitude toward death, his approach to gender, his interpretation of circumcision, the impact of his tales on Yiddish literature, and his hermeneutic theory. The combination of classic and new studies in God's Voice from the Void offers a window into the trajectory of scholarship on Hasidism, including ways in which contemporary scholars of Hasidism and Hasidic literature both continue and develop the work of their predecessors.
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Book Synopsis Yearning to Belong by : Dr John Paul Healy
Download or read book Yearning to Belong written by Dr John Paul Healy and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting across three areas of interest within New Religious Movements - insider perspectives, sociology of religion and the helping professions - this book explores insiders' experience of the Indian Guru-disciple Yogic tradition and is authored by a former member of that tradition. Highlighting the rich spiritual experience of devotees of Guru-disciple Yoga, and broadening the understanding of Guru-disciple Yoga Practice, this book also adds considerably to knowledge of conversion to New Religious Movements and to issues of affiliation and disengagement. Exploring participants' experience of attraction, affiliation and disengagement, these themes highlight individuals' personal experience of Guru-disciple Yoga Practice.
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