Download or read book An Essay on Divine Authority written by Mark C. Murphy and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book wholly concerned with divine authority, Mark C. Murphy explores the extent of God's rule over created rational beings. The author challenges the view—widely supported by theists and nontheists alike—that if God exists, then humans must be bound by an obligation of obedience to this being. He demonstrates that this view, the "authority thesis," cannot be sustained by any of the arguments routinely advanced on its behalf, including those drawn from perfect being theology, metaethical theory, normative principles, and even Scripture and tradition. After exposing the inadequacies of the various arguments for the authority thesis, he develops his own solution to the problem of whether, and to what extent, God is authoritative. For Murphy, divine authority is a contingent matter: while created rational beings have decisive reason to subject themselves to the divine rule, they are under divine authority only insofar as they have chosen to allow God's decisions to take the place of their own in their practical reasoning. The author formulates and defends his arguments for this view, and notes its implications for understanding the distinctiveness of Christian ethics.

Download or read book The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures written by D. A. Carson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, thirty-seven first-rate evangelical scholars present a thorough study of biblical authority and a full range of issues connected to it. Recognizing that Scripture and its authority are now being both challenged and defended with renewed vigor, editor D.A. Carson assigned the topics that these select scholars address in the book. After an introduction by Carson to the many facets of the current discussion, the contributors present robust essays on relevant historical, biblical, theological, philosophical, epistemological, and comparative-religions topics. To conclude, Carson answers a number of frequently asked questions about the nature of Scripture, cross-referencing these FAQs to the preceding chapters. This comprehensive volume by a team of recognized experts will be the go-to reference on the nature and authority of the Bible for years to come. -- Amazon.

Download or read book The Peculiarities of the Gospel an Evidence of Its Divine Authority An Essay written by Henry W. WILLIAMS (Wesleyan Minister.) and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Waning Authority of Christ in the Churches written by A Tozer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been described by James L. Snyder as Tozer's valedictory. It was his last message ever given to God's people. Written shortly before his death in 1963, it was published two days after his death. It is a challenging message to all who want to walk with Christ. "HERE IS THE BURDEN of my heart; and while I claim for myself no special inspiration I yet feel that this is also the burden of the Spirit. If I know my own heart it is love alone that moves me to write this. What I write here is not the sour ferment of a mind agitated by contentions with my fellow Christians. There have been no such contentions. I have not been abused, mistreated or attacked by anyone. Nor have these observations grown out of any unpleasant experiences that I have had in my association with others. My relations with my own church as well as with Christians of other denominations have been friendly, courteous and pleasant. My grief is simply the result of a condition which I believe to be almost universally prevalent among the churches."

Download or read book An Essay on the Divine Authority of the New Testament written by David Bogue and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Religion and Morality written by William J. Wainwright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and Morality addresses central issues arising from religion's relation to morality. Part I offers a sympathetic but critical appraisal of the claim that features of morality provide evidence for the truth of religious belief. Part II examines divine command theories, objections to them, and positive arguments in their support. Part III explores tensions between human morality, as ordinarily understood, and religious requirements by discussing such issues as the conflict between Buddhist and Christian pacifism and requirements of justice, whether 'virtue' without a love of God is really a vice, whether the God of the Abrahamic religions could require us to do something that seems clearly immoral, and the ambiguous relations between religious mysticism and moral behavior. Covering a broad range of topics, this book draws on both historical and contemporary literature, and explores afresh central issues of morality and religion offering new insights for students, academics and the general reader interested in philosophy and religion.

Download or read book Rationalism in the Church of England An essay reprinted from the Ecclesiastic revised and enlarged with an appendix on Essays and Reviews written by William HOUGHTON (Curate of Sennen and St. Levan.) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Evidences Doctrines and Practical Operation of Christianity written by Joseph John Gurney and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An essay on the ground or formal reason of saving faith To which are added 2 essays illustrative of the subject of justification written by Thomas Halyburton and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Essay on the Ground or formal Reason of Saving Faith To which are added Two Essays by the same Author illustrative of the subject of Justification Originally published in 1714 A new edition carefully revised Edited by R B written by Thomas HALYBURTON and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Evangelical Intelligencer written by William Powell Farrand and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kierkegaard for the Church written by Ronald F. Marshall and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of what is written on Kierkegaard today is for the college classroom and academic conferences. The guiding question of this book is that if Kierkegaard's words about Christianity are true, how do they change the way we learn and practice the Christian faith today? This book is an answer to that question. It does not enter into an extended critical discussion over the truth of Kierkegaard's ideas. Instead it just believes what Kierkegaard said and runs with it. It does that by showing how his ideas change our understanding of Christian identity, suffering and illness, worship and preaching, the Bible, baptism, prayer, marriage and divorce, criticism, and the Christian minister. Interspersed are many quotations from Martin Luther, whose thought significantly shaped Kierkegaard's. At the end of the book is a hefty collection of sermons to show how all of this can be preached in the church. What Kierkegaard for the Church adds to our understanding of Kierkegaard is the place of the church in his thought. Because of his criticisms of the Danish state church and his stress on the need for the single individual to appropriate Christian teachings, it could be imagined that he rejected the church. But that would be to throw the baby out with the bath. The fact is that Kierkegaard remained a loyal son of the church even while he attacked it. And he did this only so he could strengthen what he loved.

Download or read book An Essay on the Essays and Reviews etc written by Joseph BARKER (Preacher.) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays and correspondence chiefly on Scriptural subjects collected and prepared for the press by W Burton With General index written by John Walker and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays and Correspondence Chiefly on Scriptural Subjects Collected and Prepared for the Press by W Burton A General Index By W Burton written by John WALKER (Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays and Correspondence Chiefly on Scriptural Subjects written by John Walker (Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Notion of Authority written by Alexandre Kojeve and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Notion of Authority, written in the 1940s in Nazi-occupied France, Alexandre Kojève uncovers the conceptual premises of four primary models of authority, examining the practical application of their derivative variations from the Enlightenment to Vichy France. This foundational text, translated here into English for the first time, is the missing piece in any discussion of sovereignty and political authority, worthy of a place alongside the work of Weber, Arendt, Schmitt, Agamben or Dumézil. The Notion of Authority is a short and sophisticated introduction to Kojève’s philosophy of right. It captures its author’s intellectual interests at a time when he was retiring from the career of a professional philosopher and was about to become one of the pioneers of the Common Market and the idea of the European Union.