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Book Synopsis The Paradox of Self-denial by : William Artro Evans
Download or read book The Paradox of Self-denial written by William Artro Evans and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Self-Denial by : Stuart T. Rochester
Download or read book Self-Denial written by Stuart T. Rochester and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mark 8:34 and parallels Jesus challenges his disciples to "deny themselves." The concept of "denying the self" seems to be unique to Jesus, for this saying is never quoted or referred to in the New Testament outside the Gospels. What did Jesus mean? What is the "self" or the aspects of the self that must be denied? What would such a denial entail? Can we find similar concepts in Paul's letters? This book examines the self-denial passages in the Gospels and then investigates how this theme is expressed in many other books of the New Testament.
Book Synopsis The Paradox of Hope by : Justin D. Klassen
Download or read book The Paradox of Hope written by Justin D. Klassen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary public discourse, the supposedly comprehensive explanatory power of reason is used to justify a thoroughgoing suspicion of religion. In recent decades, the critiques of postmodernism have generated a different kind of suspicion by construing history as a process that is too arbitrary to be narrated--either by modern reason or by religion. In light of these developments, a question arises regarding the appropriate theological response to such forms of suspicion, both of which threaten not just religion but our sense of human agency as such. Does the retrieval of a meaningful religious subjectivity in a climate of suspicion demand a renewed emphasis upon theology's rhetorical persuasiveness, as Radical Orthodoxy has recently proposed? Or does identifying the believing subject with theology's "grammar" fail to attend to some of the challenges posed by such suspicion? The Paradox of Hope answers these questions in an original and provocative way by clarifying the complex relationship between post-secular theology and the work of Soren Kierkegaard. Ultimately, Klassen argues that Kierkegaard's influence is crucial, albeit obscured, in current post-secular theological imperatives, and that the Dane's eschewal of persuasion in favor of hope's inexplicable resolve provides a more adequate response to the nihilism of contemporary suspicion than do the rhetorical proposals currently on offer. In light of this argument, The Paradox of Hope also rehabilitates some of the voices typically excluded by contemporary theology's rhetoric, including those of Heidegger, Derrida, and Levinas.
Book Synopsis Surprised by Paradox by : Jen Pollock Michel
Download or read book Surprised by Paradox written by Jen Pollock Michel and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Word Guild Awards Shortlist — Apologetics/Evangelism Word Guild Award — Best Book Cover Award Christianity Today's Book of the Year Award of Merit - The Beautiful Orthodoxy What if certainty isn't the goal? In a world filled with ambiguity, many of us long for a belief system that provides straightforward answers to complex questions and clarity in the face of confusion. We want faith to act like an orderly set of truth-claims designed to solve the problems and pain that life throws at us. With signature candor and depth, Jen Pollock Michel helps readers imagine a Christian faith open to mystery. While there are certainties in Christian faith, at the heart of the Christian story is also paradox. Jesus invites us to abandon the polarities of either and or in order to embrace the difficult, wondrous dissonance of and. The incarnation—the paradox of God made human—teaches us to look for God in the and of body and spirit, heaven and earth. In the kingdom, God often hides in plain sight and announces his triumph on the back of a donkey. In the paradox of grace, we receive life eternal by actively participating in death. And lament, with its clear-eyed appraisal of suffering alongside its commitment to finding audience with God, is a paradoxical practice of faith. Each of these themes give us certainty about God while also leading us into greater curiosity about his nature and activity in the world. As Michel writes, "As soon as we think we have God figured out, we will have ceased to worship him as he is." With personal stories and reflection on Scripture, literature, and culture, Michel takes us deeper into mystery and into worship of the One who is Mystery and Love.
Book Synopsis The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland by :
Download or read book The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis International Journal of Ethics by :
Download or read book International Journal of Ethics written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sacrifice and Delight in the Mystical Theologies of Anna Maria van Schurman and Madame Jeanne Guyon by : Bo Karen Lee
Download or read book Sacrifice and Delight in the Mystical Theologies of Anna Maria van Schurman and Madame Jeanne Guyon written by Bo Karen Lee and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling study of two seventeenth-century female mystics, Bo Karen Lee examines the writings of Anna Maria van Schurman and Madame Jeanne Guyon, who, despite different religious formations, came to similar conclusions about the experience of God in contemplative prayer. Van Schurman was born into a Dutch Calvinist family and became a superb scriptural commentator before undergoing a dramatic religious conversion and joining the Labadist community, a Pietistic movement. Guyon was a French layperson whose thought would be identified with Quietism—a spiritual path that was looked upon with suspicion both by the French Catholic Church and by Rome. Lee analyzes and compares the themes of self-denial and self-annihilation in the writings of these two mystics. In van Schurman's case, the focus is on the distinction between scholastic knowledge of God and the intima notitia Dei accessible only by radical self-denial. In Guyon's case, it is on the union with God that is accessible only through a painful self-annihilation. For both authors, Lee demonstrates that the desire for enjoyment of God plays an important role as the engine of the soul's progress away from self-centeredness. The appendices offer facing Latin and English translations of two letters by van Schurman and a selection from her Eukleria.
Book Synopsis Christianity and Society by : Everett Ferguson
Download or read book Christianity and Society written by Everett Ferguson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Become What You Are by : Alan W. Watts
Download or read book Become What You Are written by Alan W. Watts and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2003-03-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever. . . . You may believe yourself out of harmony with life and its eternal Now; but you cannot be, for you are life and exist Now."—from Become What You Are In this collection of writings, including nine new chapters never before available in book form, Watts displays the intelligence, playfulness of thought, and simplicity of language that has made him so perennially popular as an interpreter of Eastern thought for Westerners. He draws on a variety of religious traditions, and covers topics such as the challenge of seeing one's life "just as it is," the Taoist approach to harmonious living, the limits of language in the face of ineffable spiritual truth, and the psychological symbolism of Christian thought.
Book Synopsis The Religion of Existence by : Noreen Khawaja
Download or read book The Religion of Existence written by Noreen Khawaja and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was existentialism? At its heart, Noreen Khawaja argues, existentialism was an effort to translate Protestant piety into a secular philosophy. While there have been many attempts to define existentialism from within as a coherent philosophical program and even as a movement, Khawaja s book is the first study of existentialism from the standpoint of intellectual history and the first to look systematically at the role that Christianity played in the development of existential thought. Focusing on Soren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Khawaja illuminates the key moments in existentialism s reconstruction of Protestant piety within the confines of secular philosophy. Heidegger once described his work as an exercise in the piety of thinking. Khawaja s book shows the historical and systematic truth behind this metaphor. Notwithstanding Heidegger, thinking has not always been a pious act. But for a certain group of European intellectuals in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it became so. "The Religion of Existence "will appeal to scholars of modern Christianity, philosophers, and historians of European philosophy, as well as those engaged with the theoretical and historical problems of secular and post-secular modernity. "
Book Synopsis Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering by : M. Peters
Download or read book Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering written by M. Peters and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering explores how the works of both philosophers revolve around an entwinement of pessimism and optimism, which links statements regarding the wrongness of the world to analyses of the human capability to experience compassion with bodily suffering and to the redeeming qualities of the arts.
Book Synopsis A God Entranced Vision of All Things by : John Piper
Download or read book A God Entranced Vision of All Things written by John Piper and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2004-08-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Useful men are some of the greatest blessings of a people. To have many such is more for a people's happiness than almost anything, unless it be God's own gracious, spiritual presence amongst them; they are precious gifts of heaven." Certainly one of the most useful men in evangelical history was the man who preached those words, pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards. Commemorating his 300th birthday, general editors John Piper and Justin Taylor chose ten essays that highlight different aspects of Edwards's life and legacy and show how his teachings are just as relevant today as they were three centuries ago. Even within the church, many people know little more about Edwards than what is printed in American history textbooks-most often, excerpts from his best-known sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." They unjustly envision Edwards preaching only fire and brimstone to frightened listeners. But he knew and preached God's heaven as much as Satan's hell. He was a humble and joyful servant, striving to glorify God in his personal life and public ministry. This book's contributors investigate the character and teachings of the man who preached from a deep concern for the unsaved and a passionate desire for God. Studying the life and works of this dynamic Great Awakening figure will rouse slumbering Christians, prompting them to view the world through Edwards's God-centered lens.
Book Synopsis The Denial of Self by : Leland Benton
Download or read book The Denial of Self written by Leland Benton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-11 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Denial of Self - Do You Want to Have or Do You Want to Be is a most compelling book that answers the causes of life's problems. Dr. Leland Benton “nails it” when it comes to defining a person's responses to life and how they get into trouble and problems. But then he shows his readers how to overcome a person's inherent nature to shoot themselves in the foot and demonstrates how to correct a person's problematic lifestyle. You have seen nothing like this; and Dr. Benton's 31-years as a behavioral scientist qualifies him to teach these important lessons. This book is a must read for anybody facing problems and stress. Parents, in teaching your children, need to ensure that they understand that they are not made just for consumption and self gratification. This book is a real eye opener. Narcissism denial of the true self is a topic that is a must read in this book. Self denial psychology stems from self denial in the bible. Self denial meaning is the antonym of self control and is also self abnegation in a sentence.
Book Synopsis The Paradoxical Breakthrough of Revelation by : Uwe Carsten Scharf
Download or read book The Paradoxical Breakthrough of Revelation written by Uwe Carsten Scharf and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1999 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Reinhold Niebuhr; His Religious, Social, and Political Thought by : Charles W. Kegley
Download or read book Reinhold Niebuhr; His Religious, Social, and Political Thought written by Charles W. Kegley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, by world scholars of different faiths and fields of study, eloquently documents the importance and continuing influence of Niebuhr's extensive body of work. Following an "intellectual autobiography" by Niebuhr are twenty essays forming a candid and vigorous discussion spanning the range of Niebuhr's thought. Since Niebuhr first came to the world's attention as a critic of social conditions, the book begins with an examination of his social thought, especially as a Christian ethicist, proceeding from this to the political sphere. Further essays offer critical exposition, criticism, and questions on such topics as Niebuhr's philosophy of history, his role in American political thought and life, his theology, and the historical roots of his thought. For this new edition, there are updated essays by John Bennett, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and Kenneth Thompson, plus new interpretations by Ronald Stone and Richard Fox. Other contributors include Paul Tillich, Emil Brunner, and Abraham I. Heschel. A bibliography of Niebuhr's work has been brought up to date by D. B. Robertson.
Book Synopsis Does Civilization Need Religion? by : Reinhold Niebuhr
Download or read book Does Civilization Need Religion? written by Reinhold Niebuhr and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: