Download or read book God s Meaning in Life Classic Reprint written by Samuel McComb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from God's Meaning in Life They who think with me that, though it is a hard thing for us to believe that we are made in the likeness of God, it is yet a very necessary thing, will not be anxious to deny that an effectual trust in this great truth, a full satisfaction Of this ethical need, are among the natural fruits of a Christian theory of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book God and the Meanings of Life written by T. J. Mawson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some philosophers have thought that life could only be meaningful if there is no God. For Sartre and Nagel, for example, a God of the traditional classical theistic sort would constrain our powers of self-creative autonomy in ways that would severely detract from the meaning of our lives, possibly even evacuate our lives of all meaning. Some philosophers, by contrast, have thought that life could only be meaningful if there is a God. God and the Meanings of Life is interested in exploring the truth in both these schools of thought, seeking to discover what God could and couldn't do to make life meaningful (as well as what he would and wouldn't do). Mawson espouses a version of the 'amalgam' or 'pluralism' thesis about the issue of life's meaning – in essence, that there are a number of different legitimate meanings of 'meaning' (and indeed 'life') in the question of life's meaning. According to Mawson, God, were he to exist, would help make life meaningful in some of these senses and hinder in some others. He argues that whilst there could be meaning in a Godless universe, there could be other sorts of meaning in a Godly one and that these would be deeper.
Download or read book God s Meaning in Life written by Samuel McComb and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Samuel McComb explores the meaning of life from a Christian perspective, arguing that life has a divine purpose and that understanding this purpose is essential for true fulfillment. He offers insights on how Christians can discover God's meaning for their lives. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Meaning of Life Classic Reprint written by William Leonard Courtney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Meaning of Life I3 gs lievelieve its dogmas, all is well. But many per sons cannot believe, either on scientific or philosophical grounds, or because they know something of the history of the Creeds. And if that be the case, then they must face the tremendous dilemma in their own way. Either Death puts an end to conscious life or it does not. In the first case, the constituent elements of our body, which for some few years cohered to form the self, are dispersed and go back again to the bosom of Nature to be worked up possibly into new shapes, but at all events to the utter destruction of the self. In the second case there is something in us which is untouched by physical decay - which leaves the decaying body to rot in its own man ner, while itself survives. Supposing that we assent to the separate existence of the soul, what then? What becomes of it after death? Does its survival mean that our personal con sciousness survives, so that we are recognisable individualities - Tom, Dick and Harry in a new Sphere? Or does our Spirit become merged in a universal spirit, the limited be coming unlimited, the finite infinite, so that Tom, Dick and Harry cease to be distinct and lose themselves in God? You See, it makessuch a difference to us in this world which horn of the dilemma we accept. If our pres ent life be all, if we have just our three-score years and ten to play with, and then nothing ness - well, there will be no little justification for the hedonist and the libertine when he says, Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. But if after this life, there is another one, and possibly a judgment seat, it is a vastly different matter. It behoves us to be careful in view of an unknown future, when the secrets of all hearts will be revealed. Perhaps this haunting dread of the End is the most agonising of all the problems which the Artist of Life has to face. Oh wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from the body of this death? Q3 (v.) And yet, I don't know. It may be the most agonising, but it is not the most im portant of our problems. Much the most momentous and Significant question remains when we ask with intense and breathless anxi ety how this world is governed. Is it by Chance or Fate or Natural Law, or by God? Suppose that we had to change our country and emigrate to a new and Strange one. What is one of the earliest queries we Should make? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book My Religion on Life Thoughts on God on the Meaning of Life Classic Reprint written by Count Lev N. Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Religion on Life Thoughts on God, on the Meaning of Life I have lived in the world for fifty-five years, and, with the exception of fourteen of fifteen years of my childhood, have passed thirty-five years as nihilist in the full sense of the word, that is, not as a socialist and revolutionist, as which this word is generally understood, but as a nihilist in the sense of an absence of every faith. Five years ago I came to believe in Christ's teaching, and my life suddenly became changed: I ceased desiring what I had wished before, and began to desire what I had not wished before. What formerly had seemed good to me, appeared bad, and what had seemed bad, appeared good. What took place with me was what takes place with a man who goes out on some business and suddenly decides on his way that he does not need that business, and returns home. And everything which was on the right is now on the left, and what was on the left is now on the right: the former desire - to be as far as possible away from the house - is now changed to a desire to be as close as possible to it. The direction of my life, my desires, became different: what was good and bad changed places. All this was due to the fact that I came to understand Christ's teaching differently from what I had understood it before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Purpose of Life Classic Reprint written by James A. Walters and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Purpose of Life Without the Spirit of Christ, the individual or world, is lost, and that Spirit is love; and the only times Christ was not all tenderness and com passion, was when dealing with hypocrisy and Pharisaism. This world is a most beautiful home for the human race, the possibilities of which are as yet scarcely suspected. The blessing of God is on it all, and only the ignorance, selfishness, and lazi ness of man have failed to appropriate all of God's bounty to supply every need. A box of flowers in the window, a well-kept yard or lawn, a thrifty, well-tilled garden or farm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Knowledge of God written by Alfred Taylor Schofield and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Knowledge of God: Its Meaning and Its Power The personal knowledge of God of which it speaks is, however, but a means to an end; and so far from leading to selfishness must, in proportion as it is enjoyed, fill the soul with that Divine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Knowledge of God Its Meaning and Its Power written by Alfred Taylor Schofield and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... Compare here 1 Kings x. 5: the Sitt1ng of his (Solomon's) servants. To be saved by Christ Jesus, to believe in Christ Jesus, is much; but to be in Christ Jesus--what can it mean? Surely it is the expression of the greatest nearness to God of which language is capable! The whole sentence, perhaps, may be paraphrased: Placed in a condition of perfect rest, safety, and enjoyment, so near God as to know Him, not as His far-off subjects may, but as the sons of His house, the members of His family. The man who is in this position and knows it, is a delightful person to meet; he is pleasant in manner, he is not tired or hurried or depressed or murmuring. He is seated at home in his own sphere and enjoying it. Hence, with every want supplied, in touch with all-love and all-wisdom, he is naturally utterly unselfish (no praise to him), and is full of strength and courage to fight the good fight, to finish his course, and to keep the faith the warfare, the walk, the witness of the Christian man (2 Tim. iv. 7). But the secret of it all, the source of his strength and untiring zeal, is found in his being seated together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. No murmur is ever heard here, SSnnursin heavenly no doubts are possible here--no dis-p'aces-cords of earth's purblind reasonings. The eye is opened, and the ears; and, the tongue has learned to speak the language of Heaven, so that it calls bitter, sweet; and pain, joy; and all ill, good, --so it be His sweet will. Such, then, is the twofold life of God's child. child, at home now with God in Christ in Heavenly Places, in perfect happiness while fighting the battles of the Lord, or standing at His door and waiting, or treading a lonely path across a wilderness just as it pleases Him. So far we..
Download or read book The Purpose of God Classic Reprint written by Joseph Smith Dodge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Purpose of God N o apology is made for the omission of much which the reader might expect to find. The effort has been to set forth the comprehensive scheme with as little elaboration of detail as might be consistent with clear ness of View; and to comprise all within a volume of unforbidding size. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book God Soul and the Meaning of Life written by Thaddeus Metz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element critically explores the potential relevance of God or a soul for life's meaning as discussed in recent Anglo-American philosophical literature. There have been four broad views: God or a soul is necessary for meaning in our lives; neither is necessary for it; one or both would greatly enhance the meaning in our lives; one or both would substantially detract from it. This Element familiarizes readers with all four positions, paying particular attention to the latter two, and also presents prima facie objections to them, points out gaps in research agendas and suggests argumentative strategies that merit development.
Download or read book The Natural Evidence on the Being of God and the Immortal Life Classic Reprint written by Elihu Goodwin Holland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Natural Evidence on the Being of God, and the Immortal Life I have often used the words Nature and Universe, where I should have nseti the name of the Creator, but for the purpose of meeting the spirit of doubt npon its own grounds. Placing hut little value upon the points which divide sects, and regarding them more as apparent than as real antagonists, l have deemed it more important to write upon princi ples which lie at the foundation of Morals and Religion, which unite, rather than divide mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Experience of God in Modern Life Classic Reprint written by Eugene William Lyman and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Experience of God in Modern Life This book consists of lectures delivered last autumn at Union Theological Seminary. The subject discussed is much more difficult than it was when it first occurred to me several years ago, but it is correspondingly more important. There should be no moratorium for theological and religious thinking during the period of the war. The relation of such thinking to the morale of the forces of the Kingdom of God is too vital for that. We should not expect valor without vision, nor steadfastness without faith. The democracy, social and world-wide, which so many of us increasingly feel to be our true and only hope is itself a matter of religion, and religion can fulfil its mission only as it issues in such a democracy; but this reciprocal relation will not be clearly grasped without the aid of earnest thinking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Meaning and Value of Life Classic Reprint written by Rudolf Eucken and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Meaning and Value of Life In treating the question of life's meaning and value, our aim is to press home on the individual consciousness the spiritual problems of the present day, and enlist the individuals co-operation in regard to them. This conception of our task has imposed certain limitations on our philosophical programme; but that within these limits there is still room for enlightenment should become apparent as the work proceeds. To some the first and more critical portion of the discussion may seem too long drawn-out. But the main - thesis the vindication of which brings with it as a possibility the re-establishing of life and the rebirth of culture - could not be convincingly developed until shown to be the only road to the goal. And to this end the critical treatment was indispensable. It is not an accessory, but an essential. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Spiritual Life Classic Reprint written by Leonidas Lydwell Nash and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Spiritual Life Hold, the kingdom of God is within you, they were still far from apprehending his meaning. T 0 see this kingdom we must be born again. Although this kingdom is within us, we cannot realize it without spiritual life. The spiritual king dom is the most real and substantial part of God's creation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Scenes of Clerical Life Classic Reprint written by George Eliot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 1900 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scenes of Clerical Life Litany, only to feel with more intensity my burst into the conspicuousness of public life when I was made to stand up on the seat during the psalms or the singing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Truth of Life Classic Reprint written by Iness Arnold and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Truth of Life We will study carefully the Bible as We go along and we find the Bible embraces all. We of today do not. Study our Bibles from the Spiritual standpoint and that is why we find many who disbelieve in this spiritual power, and they do not under stand the fundamental principles of life. As God created Adam and Eve, so did he create us, likewise we all take God's life into our bodies and become a living animated man. The Spiritual powers have wonderful means and system through which they Operate for the good and welfare of man. Gonse quently we must not lose sight of the great Spiritual-power if we want to have an intelligent awakening as living, thinking beings. Men of today can be selected for instructors if they would live so their minds could be attuned to the Spiritual vi bration. The fact remains that the Bible was written and it contains historical facts and spiritual truths from the begin ning of the book to the end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book You Are Gods written by David Bentley Hart and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Bentley Hart offers an intense and thorough reflection upon the issue of the supernatural in Christian theology and doctrine. In recent years, the theological—and, more specifically, Roman Catholic—question of the supernatural has made an astonishing return from seeming oblivion. David Bentley Hart’s You Are Gods presents a series of meditations on the vexed theological question of the relation of nature and supernature. In its merely controversial aspect, the book is intended most directly as a rejection of a certain Thomistic construal of that relation, as well as an argument in favor of a model of nature and supernature at once more Eastern and patristic, and also more in keeping with the healthier currents of mediaeval and modern Catholic thought. In its more constructive and confessedly radical aspects, the book makes a vigorous case for the all-but-complete eradication of every qualitative, ontological, or logical distinction between the natural and the supernatural in the life of spiritual creatures. It advances a radically monistic vision of Christian metaphysics but does so wholly on the basis of credal orthodoxy. Hart, one of the most widely read theologians in America today, presents a bold gesture of resistance to the recent revival of what used to be called “two-tier Thomism,” especially in the Anglophone theological world. In this astute exercise in classical Christian orthodoxy, Hart takes the metaphysics of participation, high Trinitarianism, Christology, and the soteriological language of theosis to their inevitable logical conclusions. You Are Gods will provoke many readers interested in theological metaphysics. The book also offers a vision of Christian thought that draws on traditions (such as Vedanta) from which Christian philosophers and theologians, biblical scholars, and religious studies scholars still have a great deal to learn.
