Download or read book Exploring the God Idea written by Raymond Macdonald Alden Jr and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes a unique image of God and tells how it has led him into his ninety-ninth year, physically and mentally active, in good health, and without stress or conflict. In this view, science and religion are perfectly compatible with each other, and both become consistent with teachings about God by mainstream religions. The human body, brain, and mind can learn to function in harmony with one another, aligned with God’s objectives as they are understood and taught by philosophers, prophets, and saints of old; by ministers, priests, and rabbis today; and by shamans, kahunas, and medicine men of ancient times.
Download or read book Discovering God written by Rodney Stark and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2008 Christianity Today Award of Merit in Theology/Ethics The History of God In Discovering God, award-winning sociologist Rodney Stark presents a monumental history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age and wrestles with the central questions of religion and belief.
Download or read book The Illusion of God s Presence written by John C. Wathey and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential feature of religious experience across many cultures is the intuitive feeling of God's presence. More than any rituals or doctrines, it is this experience that anchors religious faith, yet it has been largely ignored in the scientific literature on religion.Starting with a vivid narrative account of the life-threatening hike that triggered his own mystical experience, biologist John Wathey takes the reader on a scientific journey to find the sources of religious feeling and the illusion of God's presence. His book delves into the biological origins of this compelling feeling, attributing it to innate neural circuitry that evolved to promote the mother-child bond. Dr. Wathey argues that evolution has programmed the infant brain to expect the presence of a loving being who responds to the child's needs. As the infant grows into adulthood, this innate feeling is eventually transferred to the realm of religion, where it is reactivated through the symbols, imagery, and rituals of worship. The author interprets our various conceptions of God in biological terms as illusory supernormal stimuli that fill an emotional and cognitive vacuum left over from infancy. These insights shed new light on some of the most vexing puzzles of religion, like the popular belief in a god who is judgmental and punishing, yet also unconditionally loving; the extraordinary tenacity of faith; the greater religiosity of women relative to men; religious obsessions with sex; the mysterious compulsion to pray; the seemingly irrepressible feminine attributes of God, even in traditionally patriarchal religions; and the strange allure of cults. Finally, Dr. Wathey considers the hypothesis that religion evolved to foster reproductive success, arguing that, in an age of potentially ruinous overpopulation, magical thinking has become a luxury we can no longer afford, one that distracts us from urgent threats to our planet.Deeply researched yet elegantly written in a jargon-free and accessible style, this book presents a compelling interpretation of the evolutionary origins of spirituality and religion.
Download or read book The Idea of God written by Kenneth A. Dobbs and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What holds society together? How does civilization survive from collapsing in on itself? In this work, Kenneth A. Dobbs describes how religion is the cause of civilization’s rise and prosperity. Beginning with psychological theories on human nature, Dobbs establishes that humanity needs the religious values of truth, beauty, and goodness to flourish. He then proves this psychological theory by analyzing religion’s role in the historical developments of civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Jerusalem, Greece, Rome, and Christendom. He also responds to rebuttals and objections against the thesis that religion is still necessary for modern civilization. The Idea of God explores the historical, political, and philosophical implications of both the implementation and rejection of religion within human civilization. Dobbs articulates religion’s necessary role in civilization, while also provocatively predicting Western civilization’s fate for rejecting religion: societal collapse. The book follows a long intellectual tradition of historians and philosophers who have argued a similar thesis including Polybius, St. Augustine, Arnold Toynbee, Russel Kirk, Richard M. Weaver, and Christopher Dawson. Dobbs reintroduces these classical ideas to the modern world.
Download or read book The Idea of God in Early Religions written by F. B. Jevons and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book revolves around the idea of God outside of Judeo-Christian framework. It was written by Frank Byron Jevons, a polymath, academic and administrator of Durham University. Each chapter in the book is dedicated to analyzing the concept of God through the lens of mythology, worship, and prayer.
Download or read book A Kids Book about God written by Paul J Pastor and published by DK Children. This book was released on 2025-02-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps to ask questions about God no matter what you believe. Who is God? Where do I go when I die? Is God even real? This book answers none of these questions, but it asks them all! It is a thoughtful book that enforces no views but stresses the importance of a healthy dialogue, curiosity, love, and wonder.
Download or read book The God Idea How One Idea Can Change the World written by Musekiwa Samuriwo and published by Musekiwa Samuriwo. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas have shaped the history of humanity. Ideas are shaping the present. Ideas will shape the future. From technology, economics and even in the realm of politics, at the core of our livelihoods ideas are foundational. It is upon this premise that this book looks to explore what the author calls the God Idea. What ideas does God have concerning human existence? What ideas does God have for your life? Open this book and discover the God idea in you.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Exploring God written by Jeffrey B. Webb and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, with religion being talked about more than ever in the United States, and most Americans professing their belief in God, the time is ripe for an exploration of what God means, and has meant, throughout history. In this fascinating guide, Jeffrey Webb explores humanity's ideas of God, from the days of Pantheism through the Hebrew Scriptures and rabbinic tradition, to Christian Trinity and the New Testament, to the Qur an and God in the Sunni and Shi ite traditions, to present-day metaphysics and beyond. The religion category is hugely successful According to a 2003 Harris Poll, while only a quarter of Americans attend a religious service every week, 79% believe there is a God, and 66% are absolutely certain this is true The unbiased tone and coverage makes this book a perfect primer
Download or read book What Is God Like written by Rachel Held Evans and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The late, beloved Rachel Held Evans answers many children's first question about God in this gorgeous picture book, fully realized by her friend Matthew Paul Turner, the bestselling author of When God Made You. Children who are introduced to God, through attending church or having loved ones who speak about God, often have a lot of questions, including this ever-popular one: What is God like? The late Rachel Held Evans loved the Bible and loved showing God’s love through the words and pictures found in that ancient text. Through these pictures from the Bible, children see that God is like a shepherd, God is like a star, God is like a gardener, God is like the wind, and more. God is a comforter and support. And whenever a child is unsure, What Is God Like? encourages young hearts to “think about what makes you feel safe, what makes you feel loved, and what makes you feel brave. That's what God is like.”
Download or read book New Seeds of Contemplation written by Thomas Merton and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirty-nine short essays in which Thomas Merton examines what true contemplation is and how it can impact one's spirituality.
Download or read book The Concept of God written by Ronald H. Nash and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1983 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together for the general reader the intense and wide-ranging discussions now taking place among philosophers on the attributes of God. Because of its clear explanations, numerous examples, brevity, and breadth, "The Concept of God" can be an important supplemental text to theology classes and philosophy or religion classes. *Lightning Print On Demand Title
Download or read book The Emergence of God written by David W. Nelson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a culture firmly grounded in scientific thought, it has become common to think of “God” as the label we use for natural law, the creative, organizational forces in the universe, rather than as a great, omniscient Being. Is it possible to imagine such a God as being conscious? This is the question at the heart of this book. Through an exploration of human consciousness, emergence theory, and Jewish thought and belief, David Nelson constructs an intriguing new model by which we may think about God as a sentient Self without sacrificing our commitment to rationality. This bold, innovative approach will challenge believers and skeptics alike, and will lead readers of all faiths to think deeply about God, community, and the experience of being human.
Download or read book The Evolution of the God Idea written by C. G. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge written by John Fiske and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Fiske in the book "The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge" discusses the influence modern knowledge, predominantly science, has on the idea of God within society today. The author, John Fiske, is an American philosopher and historian, and he shared his knowledge about the idea of God, the view of society about the topic, as well as various conceptions about the philosophy. This book talks about one of the most important concepts or phenomena in the world today.
Download or read book The God Idea written by Annie Wood Besant and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The People s Idea of God Its Effect On Health And Christianity written by Mary Baker Eddy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every step of progress is a step more spiritual. The great element of reform is not born of human wisdom; it draws not its life from human organizations; rather is it the crumbling away of material elements from reason, the translation of law back to its original language,—Mind, and the final unity between man and God. The footsteps of thought, as they pass from the sensual side of existence to the reality and Soul of all things, are slow, portending a long night to the traveler; but the guardians of the gloom are the angels of His presence, that impart grandeur to the intellectual wrestling and collisions with old-time faiths, as we drift into more spiritual latitudes. The beatings of our heart can be heard; but the ceaseless throbbings and throes of thought are unheard, as it changes from material to spiritual standpoints. Even the pangs of death disappear, accordingly as the understanding that we are spiritual beings here reappears, and we learn our capabilities for good, which ensures man's continuance and is the true glory of immortality.
Download or read book Recovery from Distorted Images of God written by Dale Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1990-07 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
