Download or read book The Faithless Paradox written by Jeffrey Leonard and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The violent death of the disgraced former head of counter espionage in the Australian Federal Police sets the pace for this novel of deceit and betrayal on an international scale. The action races from the Middle East to Australia, from Israel to Russia and back again, at every moment building the sense of tension as people's lives are changed in ways that cannot be imagined. In Israel, we see brother fighting against brother with the intelligence services at war with the government, and the government on the brink of collapse. America, exhausted after a lifetime of being the world's policeman, is looking for a new role, while traditional enemies wait in the wings to take over. The centre of gravity of world power is moving forever away from Europe to the Middle East, but will the final victors be the ones who expect to be? The climax is a masterpiece of tension and labyrinthine in its plot, unpredictable to the end. It is literally "unputdownable!" Originally from post-World War II Liverpool, England, Jeffrey Leonard moved to Australia when he was 18 years old. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/JeffreyLeonard
Download or read book The Great Divide and the Salvation Paradox written by David P. Griffith and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church in its first centuries split on whether Christ saved everyone or a few, Universalism versus Exclusivism. In the sixth century, the church settled the issue seemingly and held that Universalism was heresy. This book reviews this history as well as what provoked it—Scripture, on its face, gives two contradictory accounts of salvation’s extent: everyone is ultimately saved and everyone is not. In contrast to both Exclusivism and Universalism, the book takes Scripture’s two accounts of salvation’s extent as true—that is, as a paradox. This is the approach the church has taken with other scriptural paradoxes. Saying one God is three, or one Son is both God and man, appeared to be contradictory too, but, to embrace Scripture entirely, these were seen as paradoxical. The Trinity modeled how one can be three, and the hypostatic union modeled how one can be two. For the paradox of salvation’s extent, the answer lies in the individual’s divisibility in the afterlife, one can be two. That is, in ultimate salvation, each individual can be both saved and unsaved.
Download or read book Faithless Paradox written by eoff GSharpe and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 997 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The violent death of the disgraced former head of counter espionage in the Australian Federal Police sets the pace for this novel of deceit and betrayal on an international scale. The action races from the Middle East to Australia, from Israel to Russia and back again, at every moment building the sense of tension as people's lives are changed in ways that cannot be imagined. In Israel, we see brother fighting against brother with the intelligence services at war with the government, and the government on the brink of collapse. America, exhausted after a lifetime of being the world's policeman,
Download or read book Paradoxes of Stasis written by Tatjana Gajic and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradoxes of Stasis examines the literary and intellectual production of the Francoist period by focusing on Spanish writers following the Spanish Civil War: the regime’s supporters and its opponents, the victors and the vanquished. Concentrating on the tropes of immobility and movement, Tatjana Gajić analyzes the internal politics of the Francoist regime and concurrent cultural manifestations within a broad theoretical and historical framework in light of the Greek notion of stasis and its contemporary interpretations. In Paradoxes of Stasis, Gajić argues that the combination of Francoism’s long duration and the uncertainty surrounding its ending generated an undercurrent of restlessness in the regime’s politics and culture. Engaging with a variety of genres—legal treatises, poetry, novels, essays, and memoir—Gajić examines the different responses to the underlying tensions of the Francoist era in the context of the regime’s attempts at reform and consolidation and in relation to oppositional writers’ critiques of Francoism’s endurance. By elucidating different manifestations of stasis in the politics, literature, and thought of the Francoist period, Paradoxes of Stasis reveals the contradictions of the era and offers new critical tools for understanding their relevance.
Download or read book The Faith of the Faithless written by Simon Critchley and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant clich of contemporary theory, which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated echo of a political reality dominated by religious war. Somehow, the secular age seems to have been replaced by a new era, where political action flows directly from metaphysical conflict. The Faith of the Faithless asks how we might respond. Following Critchley's Infinitely Demanding, this new book builds on its philosophical and political framework, also venturing into the questions of faith, love, religion and violence. Should we defend a version of secularism and quietly accept the slide into a form of theism-or is there another way? From Rousseau's politics and religion to the return to St. Paul in Taubes, Agamben and Badiou, via explorations of politics and original sin in the work of Schmitt and John Gray, Critchley examines whether there can be a faith of the faithless, a belief for unbelievers. Expanding on his debate with Slavoj Zizek, Critchley concludes with a meditation on the question of violence, and the limits of non-violence.
Download or read book Cicero s three books of offices also his Cato major L lius Paradoxes Scipio s dream and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate tr by C R Edmonds written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Happiness Paradox written by Ziyad Marar and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004-01-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dream of a happy life has preoccupied thinkers since Plato, and in modern times it has become one of the signature tunes of our age – the rise of therapists, gurus, New Age cults and the use of Prozac are familiar indicators of how ubiquitous the pursuit of happiness has become within Western culture. The Happiness Paradox examines how this modern obsession has evolved. Ziyad Marar shows how the state of mind we seek remains highly elusive, and much of the energy devoted to searching for happiness is wasted or even self-defeating. The author argues that happiness is a deceptively simple idea that will always be elusive because it is based on a paradox: the conflict between feeling good while simultaneously being good. It is the conflict, for example, between the desire to break rules, for adventure or self-expression, and the need to follow them to gain the approval of society; these tensions permeate what Freud called the two central parts of a happy life: love and work. Drawing on a wide and varied range of sources – from psychology, philosophy, history, popular novels, television and films – this book will engage all those who are looking for meaning within their lives. It challenges the conventional search for happiness, while suggesting a bolder way to live with one of the central paradoxes of our time.
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Download or read book Ethics Love and Faith in Kierkegaard written by Edward F. Mooney and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics, Love, and Faith in Kierkegaard collects essays from 13 leading scholars that center on key themes that characterize Kierkegaard's philosophy of religion. With their unique focus on notions of the self, views on the command to love one's neighbor, thoughts on melancholy and despair, and the articulation of religious vision, the essays in this volume cover the breadth and depth of Kierkegaard's philosophical and religious writings. Poised at the intersection of Kierkegaard's moral psychology and its religious significance, they offer vivid testimony to the ongoing power of his unique and fervent religious spirit. Students and scholars alike will find new light shed on questions that define Kierkegaard's philosophy and religion today.
Download or read book The Theory of Literary Criticism written by John Martin Ellis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Budget of Paradoxes written by Augustus De Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted with the Author s Additions from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan written by Augustus De Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paradoxes and Puzzles Historical Judicial and Literary written by John Paget and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Faith of the Faithless written by Simon Critchley and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant cliché of contemporary theory, which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated echo of a political reality dominated by religious war. Somehow, the secular age seems to have been replaced by a new era, where political action flows directly from metaphysical conflict. The Faith of the Faithless asks how we might respond. Following Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding, this new book builds on its philosophical and political framework, also venturing into the questions of faith, love, religion and violence. Should we defend a version of secularism and quietly accept the slide into a form of theism—or is there another way? From Rousseau’s politics and religion to the return to St. Paul in Taubes, Agamben and Badiou, via explorations of politics and original sin in the work of Schmitt and John Gray, Critchley examines whether there can be a faith of the faithless, a belief for unbelievers. Expanding on his debate with Slavoj Žižek, Critchley concludes with a meditation on the question of violence, and the limits of non-violence.
Download or read book The Shape of the Gospel written by Robert C. Tannehill and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most of the following essays reveal my interest in the significance of literary forms--both the short literary forms in the Gospels, such as pronouncement stories, and an entire Gospel as a formed narrative. I am interested in the significance of these forms, not just in literary classification systems . . . . I am interested in literary form as a clue to how the text may engage hearers and readers--impact their thought and life--if they are sensitive respondents. The Gospel stories have been shaped in ways that give them particular potentials for significant engagement. Study of literary form can help us recognize these potentials." --from the Introduction Contents Part I: Gospel Sayings and Stories 1 Tension in Synoptic Sayings and Stories 2 The Pronouncement Story and Its Types 3 Varieties of Synoptic Pronouncement Stories 4 Types and Functions of Apophthegms in the Synoptic Gospels 5 The Gospels and Narrative Literature 6 "You Shall Be Complete"--If Your Love Includes All (Matthew 5:48) Part II: The Gospel of Mark 7 The Disciples in Mark: The Function of a Narrative Role 8 The Gospel of Mark as Narrative Christology 9 Reading It Whole: The Function of Mark 8:34-35 in Mark's Story Part III: Paul's Gospel 10 Paul as Liberator and Oppressor: Evaluating Diverse Views of 1 Corinthians 11 Participation in Christ: A Central Theme in Pauline Soteriology
Download or read book Endstation H H written by John O'Loughlin and published by John O'Loughlin (of Centretruths Digital Media). This book was released on 2022-03-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John O'Loughlin claims he writes to explore and, above all, to learn, to speculate, to hypothesize, and then, gradually, to correct and modify as he progresses his thinking along more logically advanced lines to what he was thinking about in the first place but had no idea, at the time, of just how wrong or misguided or enslaved by convention such thoughts could be! Thus, he claims, is intellectual progress made – as by degrees and with a sense of adventure that what he is embarked upon is akin to an intellectual and spiritual journey into the unknown which it is his duty, as a thinking writer, to make known, and to do so, moreover, in his own fashion, no matter how unorthodox or paradoxically original that fashion may happen to be (for instance, he makes no apology for the use of a variety of colloquial expressions that he happens to find expedient or somehow pertinent, and what some may regard as an overuse of brackets is to him just another excuse to indulge the curvilinear at the expense of mere rectilinear norms). It is not, he believes, in one's professional interest to copy others, but to be true to oneself and, hence, to act as a pioneer in the field of original thought, but one who overhauls his delusions and misconceptions, his crass generalizations, the more progress he makes, eventually arriving at particular conclusions that mark him out as a true intellectual and spiritual leader whose destiny is unique, because no-one else has ever arrived at such a destination before. Hopefully, this title, for all its intermittent stumblings and misguided presumptions along the way, fulfils that ambition to a greater extent than any of his previous ones, original and thought-provoking as they indubitably were! So be warned! It is not how one starts but where one finishes that justifies one's having embarked upon such a hazardous adventure in the first place! – A Centretruths editorial
Download or read book Irony in Mark s Gospel written by Jerry Camery-Hoggatt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important contribution to our understanding of Marcan irony, and combines a literary-critical approach with insights gained from the sociology of knowledge.
