Download or read book Liberty Wisdom and Grace written by John P. Hittinger and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2002-12-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth-century French philosophers Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon pioneered new approaches to understanding and defending political democracy in the wake of two world wars. Rather than break from a religious tradition that seemed to struggle against modernity and certain forms of democratic theory and practice, these thinkers instead looked back to the philosophy of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas to propel Catholic political philosophy forward. The profound influence of Maritain and Simon is manifest in the dramatic achievements of Vatican II and in the work of the scholars of political philosophy who learned from them. John P. Hittinger, one of the finest of these scholars, provides in Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace a comprehensive survey of the Thomists' contributions to contemporary political thought as well as a detailed analysis of their approach to democracy. Hittinger treats criticism of Maritain, including the work of Catholic political writer Aurel Kolnai, and discusses the alternative democratic visions of John Locke and David Richards. His portraits of thinkers who have wrestled with democracy in the Thomist tradition, such as Leo Strauss and John Paul II, are sensitive and engaging. Addressing questions of religion and philosophy broadly understood, the essays collected here offer a searching examination of democratic theory in the modern age.

Download or read book Exploring the World of Human Practice written by Zoltan Balazs and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aurel Kolnai was born in Budapest, in 1900 and died in London, in 1973. He was, according to Karl Popper and the late Bernard Williams, one of the most original, provocative, and sensitive philosophers of the twentieth century. Kolnai's moral philosophy is best described in his own words as intrinsicalist, non-naturalist, non-reductionist", which took its original impetus from Scheler's value ethics, and was developed by using a natural phenomenologist method. The unique combination of linguistic analysis and phenomenology yields highly original ideas on classical fields of moral theory, such as responsibility and free will, the meaning of right and wrong, the universalisability of ethical norms, the role of moral emotions, internalism vs externalism, to mention a few. The volume presents a selection of essays by Kolnai, including his main political theoretical work, "What is Politics About", available in English here for the first time. The second half of the book Kolnai's work is analyzed in a series of essays by eminent scholars

Download or read book The Power of the Spirit written by Percy Dearmer and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Christian Liberty written by Terri Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In My Father's house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you." These are the words of Jesus to His church. No doubt He has some awesome plans for "you," but who is you? We need to understand something: God is. And He doesn't change who He is because of what we believe about Him. The fact is, He is holy, and He wants us to be holy, too. Now the Bible says "Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom." And this perplexes us. How can God say, "Be ye holy for I am holy," in one breath, and then, "All things are lawful," in another? This is a question we need to answer in these last days, because with the end comes judgment. Now if we truly have freedom of conduct, the church is in good shape. But what if we've misunderstood? What if liberty refers not to freedom to live as we please but rather liberty from sin? That could change things. There's only one judgment. One chance. We can't afford to get this wrong.

Download or read book Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians written by Chris R. Armstrong and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Christians today tend to view the story of medieval faith as a cautionary tale. Too often, they dismiss the Middle Ages as a period of corruption and decay in the church. They seem to assume that the church apostatized from true Christianity after it gained cultural influence in the time of Constantine, and the faith was only later recovered by the sixteenth-century Reformers or even the eighteenth-century revivalists. As a result, the riches and wisdom of the medieval period have remained largely inaccessible to modern Protestants. Church historian Chris Armstrong helps readers see beyond modern caricatures of the medieval church to the animating Christian spirit of that age. He believes today's church could learn a number of lessons from medieval faith, such as how the gospel speaks to ordinary, embodied human life in this world. Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians explores key ideas, figures, and movements from the Middle Ages in conversation with C. S. Lewis and other thinkers, helping contemporary Christians discover authentic faith and renewal in a forgotten age.

Download or read book Grace Like A Garden written by Tom Battle and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What People Say About "Grace Like A Garden""In Grace Like a Garden Pastor Battle has shown with simple illustrations how to operate in the grace of God and the results it produces in our lives. As we understand the grace of God it brings freedom and liberty to help us walk out the plans and purposes that God has for our lives. As we walk out that grace we can extend it to others and bring freedom and liberty to them."Pastor Mark Brown, Abundant Waters Fellowship, Houston, Texas"Tom Battle has done a phenomenal job of tucking some tremendous truths in his book. As you read it you will find blessings and encouragement on how to grow in grace and then share that blessing with others."Pastor Oliver Stillwell, Dayspring Church, Porter Texas"Grace Like a Garden gives clear understanding of salvation for yourself and others, your need for God's presence, and His seeds that produce - multiply exponentially - and open the windows of heaven in both directions. This book provides rivers of living water through God's Word and His Holy Spirit. You will see how Jesus' light will shine through you to a lost and hurting world, as you stay yoked together with Him who is the Author and Finisher of your faith. As you press toward the prize through His growing and pruning processes, as you follow His compassion that moves you in all seasons, as you are filled with His grace, His strength will be made perfect in your weakness, and you will overcome every challenge the enemy puts in your path."Rev. Renee Branson, Mountain Top Ministries, Houston, Texas "In his book Grace Like a Garden, Tom Battle offers vivid examples and teaching that move the reader to discover and experience the operation of God's Grace. For 30 years, I've witnessed Tom's and Schar's character, love, and daily venture of caring for the needs of others. Undoubtedly, this is reflected in Tom's exceptional ability to convey God's grace in this practical guide for Christian living."Rev. Carl Alan Luepnitz, Eternal Love Ministries, Saltillo and Oaxaca, Mexico"Thoughtful and timely. As I read it, my mind was challenged, my heart was warmed, my faith was strengthened and my focus was sharpened on God's grace. Praise God for giving us Jesus Christ and this book."Pastor Jerry G. Martin, The Light of the World Christian Fellowship, Humble, TexasAbout the Author - Tom BattleTom Battle is a graduate of Georgia Tech (1969) and Lakewood Bible Institute (1988). During his business career, he held prominent positions with several oil companies. He reached executive levels of President and CEO before leaving the business world to enter full-time ministry. He was ordained in 1990 by Lakewood Church (Houston, Texas) which was his home church from 1985 to 1995. During that time, he was mentored by Dr. John Osteen and traveled extensively in the United States and abroad as an evangelist and teacher. In 1995 he and his family founded The Lord's Glory Church where he is currently the Senior Pastor. He is the author of many Christian books and songs.

Download or read book Liberty written by Glenn Tinder and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-28 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Liberty is a dangerous concept. It's sure to be misused and, if left unchecked, will likely bring not social harmony and happiness but their opposites. Nonetheless, liberty is absolutely necessary: without it there can be no authentic community. People are not free to do the right thing unless they are free to do the wrong thing; if they can't be wrong, they can't be right." "Thus does Glenn Tinder argue emphatically for "negative liberty" - the liberty that wants primarily to be left alone, with the authorities interfering as little as possible in the lives of people - and against "positive liberty" - a liberty that seeks to guide people into a "fulfilling" life." "The substance of Tinder's book lies at the intersection of several major themes - communication, human fallenness, the necessity of liberty, standing alone, and eschatology - each considered in light of learning what liberty truly is and how it affects the world at large."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Many Thoughts of Many Minds written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Passing the Torch of Liberty to a New Generation written by and published by American Vision. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book CONTROL YOUR INNER CONVERSATIONS Neville Goddard Lectures written by Neville Goddard Goddard and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The whole manifested world goes to show us what use we have made of God's gift. Receiving a gift does not mean that we are going to use it wisely, but we have the gift. Everyone has the gift; and the world simply reflects the use of that gift.In "The Merchant of Venice," Shakespeare puts these words into the mouth of Portia: "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes palaces. It is a good divine who follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching."So you and I have been given a gift. To what use have we put it? In a book written in the First Century, written at the time of our Gospel, -- it's called the Hermetica, and this is a translation by Walter Scott. It is a wonderful series of four volumes; and in this he says: "There are two gifts that God has given to man alone, and to no other mortal creature, and these two gifts are Mind and Speech. And the gifts of Mind and Speech are essential and identical with Immortality. If they are used rightly, man will not differ in any respect from the immortals; and when he quits the body, these two will be his guides and they will lead him into the troop of the gods and. to the souls that have attained to bliss."

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations written by Ulinka Rublack and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first Handbook of the Reformations to include global Protestantism, and the most comprehensive Handbook on the development of Protestant practices which has been published so far. The volume brings together international scholars in the fields of theology, intellectual thought, and social and cultural history. Contributions focus on key themes, such as Martin Luther or the Swiss reformations, offering an up-to-date perspective on current scholarly debates, but they also address many new themes at the cutting edge of scholarship, with particularly emphasis on the history of emotions, the history of knowledge, and global history. This new approach opens up fresh perspectives onto important questions: how did Protestant ways of conceiving the divine shape everyday life, ideas of the feminine or masculine, commercial practices, politics, notions of temporality, or violence? The aim of this Handbook is to bring to life the vitality of Reformation ideas. In these ways, the Handbook stresses that the Protestant Reformations in all their variety, and with their important "radical " wings, must be understood as one of the lasting long-term historical transformations which changed Europe and, subsequently, significant parts of the world.

Download or read book Four Sermons on the Wisdom of God in the Permission of Sin written by Joseph Bellamy and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 42 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. 1804 edition. Excerpt: ...a situation, would not have produced the desired effects. Nothing could teach them like experience: And, indeed, this is evidently the case so universally, that it is even become a proverb, that experience is the best schoal-master; so that it seems plain that intelligences, as they were at first created, were not in proper circumstances to be confirmed: nor could God have confirmed them, with that honor to himself that was desirable and fit. For, if God, the only immutable Being, of his own. infinite goodness and sovereign grace, should shew Buch a kindness to any of his creatures, it was fit and desirable that they should be thoroughly sensible of the greatness and freeness of his grace. The kindness done to a mutable, peccable creature, in such a case, as to the matter of it, must be of infinite worth--it being a confirmation in everlasting happiness. And aa the kindness in confirming a peccable creature must be infinitely great, so the grace must be absolutely free. God had done so much for all intelligences in their first creation, that he was under no obligations to do any more: He was absolutely at liberty i tie looked up-. Si on it in this light-And had he, to what he had originally done for them as their Creator, super-added confirming grace, i.e. undertaken, as their guardian, to have been their constant keeper, and engaged his own immutability to have rendered them immutably good, the favor had been quite over and above what was due from the Creator to his creature; and so had been, in a peculiar sense, free. Now, for a favor, infinitely great, and so absolutely free, to be conferred in such a manner as that the greatness andfreeness of it should never have been seen by intelligences, was neither for the honor of God, nor for...

Download or read book Law Liberty written by R. J. Rushdoony and published by Chalcedon Foundation. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concise volume, R. J. Rushdoony expounds on the central themes of the application of Biblical law to every area of life. This book is a great starting point to understanding Rushdoony's larger expositions on Biblical law.

Download or read book Guidelines for Singleness and Marriage written by John MacArthur and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Battles of Wisdom and Humility written by Martin Luther and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 8048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this unique collection of fundamental religious works presenting the theology, philosophy and spirituality of Christianity: The Philosophy of Religion: The Confessions of St. Augustine (Saint Augustine) On the Incarnation (Athanasius of Alexandria) On the Soul and the Resurrection (Gregory of Nyssa) On the Holy Spirit (Basil the Great) Pastoral Care (Pope Gregory I) An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (John of Damascus) Summa Theologica (Saint Thomas Aquinas) The Imitation of Christ (Thomas à Kempis) A Treatise on Christian Liberty (Martin Luther) The Interior Castle (St. Teresa of Ávila) The Practice of the Presence of God (Brother Lawrence) The Age of Reason (Thomas Paine) The Natural History of Religion (David Hume) Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (David Hume) The Religious Affections (Jonathan Edwards) The Essence of Christianity (Ludwig Feuerbach) Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche) All of Grace (Charles Spurgeon) Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness (Andrew Murray) Orthodoxy (G. K. Chesterton) The Everlasting Man (G. K. Chesterton) The Sovereignty of God (Arthur Pink) The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Leo Tolstoy) Three Essays on Religion (John Stuart Mill) The Spirituality of a Man: The Conduct of Life (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Lessons in Truth (Emilie Cady) As a Man Thinketh (James Allen) Thoughts are Things (Prentice Mulford) The Game of Life and How to Play It (Florence Scovel Shinn) A New Christ (Wallace D. Wattles) The Swamp Angel (Prentice Mulford)