Download or read book The Divine Sense written by A. N. Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. N. Williams examines the conception of the intellect in patristic theology from its beginnings in the work of the Apostolic Fathers to Augustine and Cassian in the early fifth century. The patristic notion of intellect emerges from its systematic relations to other components of theology: the relation of human mind to the body and the will; the relation of the human to the divine intellect; of human reason to divine revelation and secular philosophy; and from the use of the intellect in both theological reflection and spiritual contemplation. The patristic conception of that intellect is therefore important for the way it signals the character of early Christian theology as both systematic and contemplative and as such, distinctive in its approach from secular philosophies of its time and modern Christian theology.
Download or read book Making Sense of the Divine Name in the Book of Exodus written by Austin Surls and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The obvious riddles and difficulties in Exod 3:13–15 and Exod 6:2–8 have attracted an overwhelming amount of attention and comment. These texts make important theological statements about the divine name YHWH and the contours of the divine character. From the enigmatic statements in Exod 3:13–15, most scholars reconstruct the original form of the name as “Yahweh,” which is thought to describe YHWH’s creative power or self-existence. Similarly, Exod 6:3 has become a classic proof-text for the Documentary Hypothesis and an indication of different aspects of God’s character as shown in history. Despite their seeming importance for “defining” the divine name, these texts are ancillary to and preparatory for the true revelation of the divine name in the book of Exodus. This book attempts to move beyond atomistic readings of individual texts and etymological studies of the divine name toward a holistic reading of the book of Exodus. Surls centers his argument around in-depth analyses of Exod 3:13–15, 6:2–8 and Exod 33:12–23 and 34:5–8. Consequently, the definitive proclamation of YHWH’s character is not given at the burning bush but in response to Moses’ later intercession (Exod 33:12–23). YHWH proclaimed his name in a formulaic manner that Israel could appropriate (Exod 34:6–7), and the Hebrew Bible quotes or alludes to this text in many genres. This demonstrates the centrality of Exod 34:6–7 to Old Testament Theology. The character of God cannot be discerned from an etymological analysis of the word yhwh but from a close study of YHWH’s deliberate ascriptions made progressively in the book of Exodus.
Download or read book Theory of Knowledge for the IB Diploma written by Richard van de Lagemaat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by experienced practitioners this resource for Theory of Knowledge for the IB Diploma offers comprehensive coverage of and support for the new subject guide. This edition of Theory of Knowledge for the IB Diploma is fully revised for first examination in September 2015. The coursebook is a comprehensive, original and accessible approach to Theory of Knowledge, which covers all aspects of the revised subject guide. A fresh design ensures the content is accessible and user friendly and there is detailed guidance on how to approach the TOK essay and presentation. This edition supports the stronger emphasis on the distinction between personal and shared knowledge and the new areas of knowledge: religion and indigenous knowledge.
Download or read book Everlasting King God written by Jin BaoZi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were tens of thousands of races, and all of them stood together! Generation after generation of almighty beings had fallen, one after another rising to prominence as a new star had risen to prominence. In this vast world, who was the master of this world? A youth began with an unremarkable service disciple. Relying on the piece of broken beast skin passed down from generation to generation, he cut through all the thorns and thistles, becoming a king god who ruled the world! Close]
Download or read book Perceiving the Divine through the Human Body written by T. Cattoi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cattoi and McDaniel present a selection of articles on the role of the body and the spiritual senses - our transfigured channels of sensory perceptions - in the context of spiritual practice. The volume investigates this theme across a variety of different religious traditions within Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism.
Download or read book The Divine in Acts and in Ancient Historiography written by Scott Shauf and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scott Shauf compares the portrayal of the divine in Acts with portrayals of the divine in other ancient historiographical writings, the latter including Jewish and wider Greco-Roman historiographical traditions. This book explores especially how the divine is represented as involved in history, the nature of divine retribution, the partiality or impartiality of the divine toward different sets of people, and the portrayal of divine control over seemingly purely natural and human events. Acts is shown to be engaging historiographical traditions of the author's own day but also contributing unique historiographical perspectives."--
Download or read book Rebirth Unparalled God Emperor written by Ren ZhenXiaDeWoNiu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to an accident, he was reborn into the body of a useless beggar. He wanted to see how he would change his life, how he would go to the peak, how his life would be like a dream, how his world would be like a painting, he didn't want to be a peerless hero, he didn't want to be a prince on a white horse, he wanted to ask who was a mortal, and he swore to be an adult ...
Download or read book Gratry s Philosophy written by and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphonse-Joseph-Auguste Gratry (1805-1872) was born in Lille, northern France, of irreligious parents and lived during a time of endless revolution. As a young man, he underwent a powerful conversion in which he experienced a mystical vision of a world based on truth and justice. This determined the course of his future life. A classically educated scholar, he studied engineering at the outstanding ?cole Polytechnique, completed a doctorate on the scientific method in Strasbourg (1840), was ordained a priest, and later obtained a doctorate in letters and a licentiate in theology. Moved by the events of 1848, he published his first book in the form of a social catechism on the necessity for a systematic response to the needs of society. In a parallel initiative to that of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman in England, he relaunched the Congregation of the Oratory in Paris (1852) with Pierre Petetot to raise intellectual standards among the clergy after the Revolution. A charismatic individual, well known as a distinguished logician, theologian, social thinker, and outstanding educator, preacher, and spiritual director, his major philosophical works appeared in the 1850s. The French Academy recognized his genius with election to the chair held by Voltaire a century earlier. Gratry fell into disfavor for his adhesion to the International Peace League on the eve of France's war with Germany, and for his stand in regard to papal infallibility before Vatican I (a position largely vindicated in Vatican II), but he accepted the much narrower declaration once it was made. His most famous work, Les Sources, widely published until World War II, offers a plan of studies and a plan of life which reflect Gratry's philosophy of the person. The Christian Democratic Parties, the French lay movement Le Sillon, the Young Christian Workers (YCW), and the writings of Peter Maurin, mentor to today's Catholic Worker movement, witness to his foundational and comprehensive influence. For the first time in English, we have Julian Marias's (1914-2005) clear and accessible study (5th ed.) on the core of Alphonse Gratry's philosophy. Although he lived more than a century ago (1805-1872), Gratry addresses issues of concern today: the ontology of the human person with its body/soul unity; the intrinsic relationship of individuals to society and nature; and the problem of God. Recognized as a master in his lifetime with the rapid reprinting of his Logic, The Knowledge of God, and The Knowledge of the Soul, Gratry was relegated to near oblivion less than seventy years later with the rejection of metaphysics and the rise of Positivism. Marias reclaims Gratry's place in the history of philosophy and thoroughly explains Gratry's original logic "written from the point of view of the juncture of philosophy and the human spirit." He shows how Gratry's theory of induction, in Plato's original and foundational sense (Rep. VI), forms the heart of his metaphysics of knowledge-the science of transcendence by which the mind intellectually apprehends all reality: corporeal, psychic, and divine. Gratry thus establishes a complete ontology of the human person-rational, free, and endowed with a three-fold sense: external, intimate (sens intime), and divine-dependent on unlimited being or God. Gratry's original logic and metaphysics stands on its own philosophical basis, but in Chapter 6, "Five Interior Adventures," Marias includes a parallel, existential foundation drawn from Gratry's private journal. This reveals how the young atheist underwent a series of near mystical experiences which gave him an inescapable awareness of God and confronted him with the moral choice for or against this reality. In this extraordinarily lucid study, we now have access to the complete thought of Gratry, giving scholar and student, as Marias observes, a seemingly providential body of work needed in our time.
Download or read book Truth of the Divine written by Lindsay Ellis and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA TODAY BESTSELLER Truth of the Divine is the latest alternate-history first-contact novel in the Noumena series from the instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times bestselling author Lindsay Ellis. The human race is at a crossroads; we know that we are not alone, but details about the alien presence on Earth are still being withheld from the public. As the political climate grows more unstable, the world is forced to consider the ramifications of granting human rights to nonhuman persons. How do you define “person” in the first place? Cora Sabino not only serves as the full-time communication intermediary between the alien entity Ampersand and his government chaperones but also shares a mysterious bond with him that is both painful and intimate in ways neither of them could have anticipated. Despite this, Ampersand is still keen on keeping secrets, even from Cora, which backfires on them both when investigative journalist Kaveh Mazandarani, a close colleague of Cora’s unscrupulous estranged father, witnesses far more of Ampersand’s machinations than anyone was meant to see. Since Cora has no choice but to trust Kaveh, the two must work together to prove to a fearful world that intelligent, conscious beings should be considered persons, no matter how horrifying, powerful, or malicious they may seem. Making this case is hard enough when the public doesn’t know what it’s dealing with—and it will only become harder when a mysterious flash illuminates the sky, marking the arrival of an agent of chaos that will light an already-unstable world on fire. With a voice completely her own, Lindsay Ellis deepens her realistic exploration of the reality of a planet faced with the presence of extraterrestrial intelligence, probing the essential questions of humanity and decency, and the boundaries of the human mind. While asking the question of what constitutes a “person,” Ellis also examines what makes a monster.
Download or read book Immortal in Wonderland written by Zai XuXianYuan and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ordinary city worker accidentally entered the "Forbidden Land of the Gods" on a journey to ease his mind
Download or read book History of Philosophy written by Juli n Mar¡as and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1967-06-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys key figures and schools of thought in the evolution of philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the existentialists
Download or read book Peerless Evil God written by Han Mo and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gu Letian had transmigrated. After waking up, he sadly discovered that he had become the cannon fodder of his sect. It wasn't easy for him to accept the truth, start a new life, and be beaten to death by a divine beast ... A mysterious book allowed him to use the blood essence of a divine beast to revive. From then on, his physique was tyrannical to the point of being a complete mess. More importantly, he could actually absorb damage and increase his cultivation! So fighting became his special hobby. They had to fight, even if there was no fight, they had to fight even if they had to create conditions! That's right, he's beating this group of geniuses that boasts of their extraordinary talents!
Download or read book Peerless Immortal Mansion written by Wang ShiRuFeng and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-07-18 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cultivator Clan's Lin Hao had obtained the jade bracelet by chance. Within the jade bracelet, there were several acres of spirit farmland and several batches of immortal pills. From then on, Lin Hao embarked on the road of becoming an expert.
Download or read book The Divine Imperative written by Emil Brunner and published by James Clarke & Co.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major works of the great German theologian Emil Brunner, The Divine Imperative deals with what we ought to do. People are unconvinced that there is an inviolable moral obligation governing human life because they do not believe that the 'good'can be precisely and clearly known. Haven't some generations called bad what others have called good? Aren't moral standards relative? Doesn't religion lack uniform and practical moral guidance? Brunner discusses the moral confusion we face. He analyses the nature of the Good, showing why the Christian faith as understood by the Protestant Reformers provides the only true approach and answer to the ethical problem. Philosophical ethics, whether ancient or modern, cannot correctly define the Good, becausethe Good is regarded either as too abstract and absolute or as too concrete and relative. Christianity, by contrast, sees the moral problem as one of responsibility between humans who are created so as to respond to God. He created men for responsive fellowship with Him, establishing orderly ways of acting in the world. Correct understanding of the nature of society, family, state, economic life, is needed to discern one's duty. Because Brunner's analysis is at once fundamental and comprehensive, this book remains a fresh and compelling treatment of the moral problem. It offers a provocative discussion and solution of a perennial human problem.
Download or read book Devil Killer written by , Zhenyinfang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ye Feng longed for cultivation since childhood, but he had no cultivation resources. Just when I thought I couldn't enter the cultivation world, I suddenly saw the meteor falling down and got the miraculous celestial stele, and then I embarked on the cultivation road. He knew Li Xianer and joined Shenmen. In the United ratio, it won the first place. It is learned that the demon will invade. Enter the realm of illusion to practice and achieve the body of the true God. After coming out, fight the great devil. In this war, the sky will be destroyed and the earth will be destroyed. Ye Feng, with his absolute strength, kills the great demon and protects the whole continent from the invasion of the demon. Finally, it can fly to the divine world, leaving endless legends.
Download or read book God in His World written by Henry Mills Alden and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Macarian Legacy written by Marcus Plested and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004-09-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Macarian writings are among the most important and influential works of the early Christian ascetic and mystical tradition. Marcus Plested deals both with their immediate historical and theological context and with their later influence and circulation - their 'legacy'. His book constitutes the first attempt to examine in detail and in the round the nature of that legacy within the Eastern Christian tradition. This is undertaken not so much as an exercise in source criticism as an exploration of the very nature and dynamic of the Christian paradosis. In short, Plested offers a timely reassessment of the 'place' of the writings in the Eastern Christian tradition, thereby clearing away some of the pre-conceptions that have hindered due appreciation of these remarkable works."--BOOK JACKET.
