Author : Deneene A. Collins
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781257962518
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Abstract Poetry 4 Life
Deneene A. Collins
Author : Deneene A. Collins
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781257909001
Abstract Poetry 4 Life by Deneene A. Collins Pdf
Abstract Poetry 4 Life is a robust collection of poems and inspirational writings that are designed to enlighten the mind, strengthen the soul, and liberate the spirit. This abstract and innovative approach to poetic literature has changed lives as it touches the deepest places of the human essence. Escape the chaos of life and embrace symmetrical harmony within the infinite places of imagination and poetic wonder.
Does Heaven Have a Post Office? Letters To My Dearly Departed Mother
Deneene A. Collins
Author : Deneene A. Collins
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781105309908
Does Heaven Have a Post Office? Letters To My Dearly Departed Mother by Deneene A. Collins Pdf
Does Heaven Have A Post Office? Letters To My Dearly Departed Mother is a book that has been scripted to help people deal with the loss of a loved one. It contains wisdom, spiritual insight, beautiful poetry, and methods for dealing with death and healing from such a loss. Anyone who has lost someone near and dear to them can gain comfort and wisdom by reading this book. This piece is full of supernatural testimonies of the hereafter and heart-felt letters to the dearly departed. If you've ever wondered if heaven has a post office or if you've just wanted to tell something to someone you've lost and heal from the pain of losing them, this is the book for you. $1.00 from every copy sold of this book will go to The Griffith Family Foundation to help FUND a CURE for pancreatic cancer. www.griffithfamilyfoundation.org
Secular Faith
Vincent William Lloyd,Elliot A. Ratzman
Author : Vincent William Lloyd,Elliot A. Ratzman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608990764
Secular Faith by Vincent William Lloyd,Elliot A. Ratzman Pdf
Is faith a necessary virtue in the contemporary world? May it be, or must it be, detached from religious commitment? What do genealogies of the secular tell us about faith? Does religion need secular faith? Secular Faith brings together leading and emerging scholars to reflect on the apparent paradox of "secular faith." Ranging over anthropology, religious studies, political science, history, and literature, from Muslims in China to Pentecostals in South Africa to a prison chapel in Texas, this collection of essays is as engaging and accessible as it is penetrating and rigorous. Communism was once labeled "the god that failed." Like Christianity, Communism involves faith in a superhuman endeavor, conversion, myth, discipline, and salvation--and, from the perspective of secular liberalism, both are unjustified and false. In recent years, scholars have begun to investigate whether secularism is itself based on faith in a god that failed, or is failing. Nevertheless, many still embrace such a faith, finding in the spirit of democracy an ethos of eternal renewal. Secular Faith enters and broadens this conversation, interrogating secular faith in a global context, tapping new theoretical resources, and grappling provocatively with the tragedies and opportunities of today's profane pantheon of beliefs. LIST OF ESSAYS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTORS 1 Uncool Passion: Nietzsche Meets the Pentecostals--Jean Comaroff / 21 2 The Secular Bad Faith of Harry Theriault, the Bishop of Tellus--Joshua Dubler / 44 3 Darwin's Dogs: Animals, Animism, and the Problem of Religion--David Chidester / 76 4 "IHave Seen Miracles in My Life": W. E. B. Du Bois and the Religious Limits of Secularism--Edward J. Blum / 102 5 Democracy, Piety, and Faith: AReading of Dewey's Religious Naturalism--Melvin Rogers / 126 6 Faith in the Time of Postsocialism--Cindy Huang / 153 7 Literary Enchantment and Literary Opposition from Hume to Scott--Colin Jager / 168 8 Imagined Communities, Holistic Histories, and Secular Faith--Michael Saler / 197 9 Interreligious Dialogue and Cosmopolitan Faith--Adam K. Webb / 226
America on Trial, Expanded Edition
Robert Reilly
Author : Robert Reilly
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781642291544
America on Trial, Expanded Edition by Robert Reilly Pdf
The Founding of the American Republic is on trial. Critics say it was a poison pill with a time-release formula; we are its victims. Its principles are responsible for the country's moral and social disintegration because they were based on the Enlightenment falsehood of radical individual autonomy. In this well-researched book, Robert Reilly declares: not guilty. To prove his case, he traces the lineage of the ideas that made the United States, and its ordered liberty, possible. These concepts were extraordinary when they first burst upon the ancient world: the Judaic oneness of God, who creates ex nihilo and imprints his image on man; the Greek rational order of the world based upon the Reason behind it; and the Christian arrival of that Reason (Logos) incarnate in Christ. These may seem a long way from the American Founding, but Reilly argues that they are, in fact, its bedrock. Combined, they mandated the exercise of both freedom and reason.
Let's Be Reasonable
Jonathan Marks
Author : Jonathan Marks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691207728
Let's Be Reasonable by Jonathan Marks Pdf
A conservative college professor's compelling defense of liberal education Not so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as William F. Buckley Jr. believed universities were worth fighting for. Today, conservatives seem more inclined to burn them down. In Let's Be Reasonable, conservative political theorist and professor Jonathan Marks finds in liberal education an antidote to this despair, arguing that the true purpose of college is to encourage people to be reasonable—and revealing why the health of our democracy is at stake. Drawing on the ideas of John Locke and other thinkers, Marks presents the case for why, now more than ever, conservatives must not give up on higher education. He recognizes that professors and administrators frequently adopt the language and priorities of the left, but he explains why conservative nightmare visions of liberal persecution and indoctrination bear little resemblance to what actually goes on in college classrooms. Marks examines why advocates for liberal education struggle to offer a coherent defense of themselves against their conservative critics, and demonstrates why such a defense must rest on the cultivation of reason and of pride in being reasonable. More than just a campus battlefield guide, Let's Be Reasonable recovers what is truly liberal about liberal education—the ability to reason for oneself and with others—and shows why the liberally educated person considers reason to be more than just a tool for scoring political points.
Why Liberalism Failed
Patrick J. Deneen
Author : Patrick J. Deneen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300240023
Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen Pdf
"One of the most important political books of 2018."—Rod Dreher, American Conservative Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism, communism, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism’s proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions: it trumpets equal rights while fostering incomparable material inequality; its legitimacy rests on consent, yet it discourages civic commitments in favor of privatism; and in its pursuit of individual autonomy, it has given rise to the most far-reaching, comprehensive state system in human history. Here, Deneen offers an astringent warning that the centripetal forces now at work on our political culture are not superficial flaws but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure.
Abortion Policy and Christian Social Ethics in the United States
Mako A. Nagasawa
Author : Mako A. Nagasawa
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725271890
Abortion Policy and Christian Social Ethics in the United States by Mako A. Nagasawa Pdf
Today’s Christian pro-life movement has misplaced its priorities. The issue of abortion is more complex than the movement often appreciates. For a start, Scripture is less clear about the moral weight of the fetus than we often think. In fact, early Christians took different positions on abortion because they also relied on different scientific sources about the unborn. Furthermore, Christian conservatives today do not acknowledge that in American history, as today, Christian stances on abortion were motivated by other political fears: White Protestant Americans developed different state laws on abortion to accomplish anti-immigrant goals in the North, but anti-black racism in the South. That messiness impacts U.S. constitutional law, including Roe v. Wade. Meanwhile, Scripture commissions God’s people to confront socio-economic factors that push abortion rates higher: male privilege and the disempowerment of women; the high cost of child raising; the causes of birth defects; the desire to care narrowly for just “my children”; mistaken views about contraception and “the culture wars”; and most of all, poverty. This book incorporates biblical studies, church history, science, social science, history, and public policy to argue that we must not approach abortion policy primarily from a criminal justice standpoint, as modern conservatives do, but from a broad social and economic standpoint meant to benefit and bless all children.
Trust in a Polarized Age
Kevin Vallier
Author : Kevin Vallier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190887247
Trust in a Polarized Age by Kevin Vallier Pdf
Americans today don't trust each other and their institutions as much as they once did. The collapse of social and political trust has arguably fueled our increasingly ferocious ideological conflicts and hardened partisanship. But is today's decline in trust inevitable or avoidable? Are we caught in a downward spiral that must end in institutional decay or even civil war, or can we restore trust through our shared social institutions? In Trust in a Polarized Age, political philosopher Kevin Vallier offers a powerful counter-narrative to the prevailing sense of hopelessness that dogs the American political landscape. In an unapologetic defense of liberalism that synthesizes political philosophy and empirical trust research, Vallier restores faith in our power to reduce polarization and rebuild social and political trust. The solution is to strengthen liberal democratic political and economic institutions--high-quality governance, procedural fairness, markets, social welfare programs, freedom of association, and democracy. These institutions not only create trust, they do so justly, by recognizing and respecting our basic human rights. Liberal institutions have safeguarded trust through the most tumultuous periods of our history. If we heed the arguments and data in this book, trust could return.
Far-Right Newspeak and the Future of Liberal Democracy
A. James McAdams,Samuel Piccolo
Author : A. James McAdams,Samuel Piccolo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781040022221
Far-Right Newspeak and the Future of Liberal Democracy by A. James McAdams,Samuel Piccolo Pdf
This book is the first systematic, multicountry exploration of far-right Newspeak. The contributors analyze the ways in which contemporary far-right politicians, intellectuals, and pundits use and abuse traditional liberal concepts and ideas to justify positions that threaten democratic institutions and liberal principles. They explore cases of both far-right and right-wing thought in eastern and western Europe, the United States, and Canada. Subjects include well-known figures, such as Marine Le Pen, Tucker Carlson, Peter Thiel, Nick Griffin, Thierry Baudet, Jordan Peterson, Russell Brand, and Viktor Orbán, and lesser-known names, such as the Czech politician Tomio Okamura and the Internet personality "Raw Egg Nationalist." The contributors examine these figures’ claims about hot-button issues, including immigration, Islam, race, Covid-19 policies, feminism, monetary policy, and free speech. The book demonstrates that mainstream politicians and intellectuals are at risk of losing control over the definitions of the very concepts, including equal rights, racial and ethnic diversity, and political tolerance, that undergird their vision of liberal democracy. It will be of interest to scholars, journalists, policymakers, political scientists, historians, political theorists, sociologists, and general audiences concerned about the sophisticated efforts of far-right and right-wing politicians and pundits to undermine the foundations of liberal democracy.
Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy
Richard Boyd,Ewa Atanassow
Author : Richard Boyd,Ewa Atanassow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107009639
Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy by Richard Boyd,Ewa Atanassow Pdf
This collection of essays uses Alexis de Tocqueville's writings to explore the dilemmas of democratization in the twenty-first century.
Created Freedom under the Sign of the Cross
David E. DeCosse
Author : David E. DeCosse
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666711103
Created Freedom under the Sign of the Cross by David E. DeCosse Pdf
The United States is in a crisis of freedom. Influenced by neoliberal economics, the concept of freedom has become identified with an abstract, radical individualism disdainful of responsibility to others and to the past. Signs of this crisis crop up everywhere. Some invoke freedom as justification for refusing to wear a mask in a pandemic. Others argue that freedom is an empty word if it’s celebrated apart from an honest engagement with the country’s history of racism. Created Freedom under the Sign of the Cross offers a Catholic theological response to this crisis of freedom. Catholic social ethics may be better known for its emphasis on social principles like the common good and solidarity. But developments in Catholic theologies of freedom in the last decades provide fertile ground from which to develop a bold, creative response to this American crisis of freedom. In this book, theologian David DeCosse draws on thinkers ranging from philosopher Amartya Sen to Black Catholic theologian Shawn Copeland to twentieth-century theological giant Karl Rahner in order to reimagine American freedom in light of classic Catholic emphases on embodiment, relationship, history, the good, and God. The result is a Catholic public theology that provides a redemptive path forward in an age of crisis.
UFO's: The Great Last Days Deception
Billy Crone
Author : Billy Crone
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : End of the world
ISBN : 9781948766012
UFO's: The Great Last Days Deception by Billy Crone Pdf
Mention the topic of UFO's and Aliens and not only have most people already formed their opinions about them, but virtually everyone on the planet now believes in them. More people believe in Aliens than in the existence of God and more people believe that Aliens have visited planet earth than that Jesus is the Son of God. Ufology has become a new religion for 21st century where people now believe that Aliens will save them, not God. The problem is hardly anyone recognizes the true identity of UFO's let alone how they are being used to usher in one of the darkest, most deceptive times in the history of mankind. Therefore, this book, UFO's: The Great Last Days Deception seeks to equip you with the truth concerning so-called extraterrestrial visitors and their hidden demonic agenda. One of the biggest lies in the history of mankind is about to be foisted upon the whole world. The Rapture of the Church is going to happen, but it won't be from a liftoff in UFO's like we are being told. Don't fall for the lie!
Politics on a Human Scale
Jeff Taylor
Author : Jeff Taylor
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739175767
Politics on a Human Scale by Jeff Taylor Pdf
In Politics on a Human Scale, Jeff Taylor examines political decentralization in the United States, including agrarianism, states’ rights, the abandonment of the decentralist impulse by the national leadership of the Democratic and Republican parties, and the dissident tradition on the contemporary political scene.
Out of Many, One
George W. Bush
Author : George W. Bush
Publisher : Crown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780593136973
Out of Many, One by George W. Bush Pdf
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this powerful new collection of oil paintings and stories, President George W. Bush spotlights the inspiring journeys of America’s immigrants and the contributions they make to the life and prosperity of our nation. The issue of immigration stirs intense emotions today, as it has throughout much of American history. But what gets lost in the debates about policy are the stories of immigrants themselves, the people who are drawn to America by its promise of economic opportunity and political and religious freedom—and who strengthen our nation in countless ways. In the tradition of Portraits of Courage, President Bush’s #1 New York Times bestseller, Out of Many, One brings together forty-three full-color portraits of men and women who have immigrated to the United States, alongside stirring stories of the unique ways all of them are pursuing the American Dream. Featuring men and women from thirty-five countries and nearly every region of the world, Out of Many, One shows how hard work, strong values, dreams, and determination know no borders or boundaries and how immigrants embody values that are often viewed as distinctly American: optimism and gratitude, a willingness to strive and to risk, a deep sense of patriotism, and a spirit of self-reliance that runs deep in our immigrant heritage. In these pages, we meet a North Korean refugee fighting for human rights, a Dallas-based CEO who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico at age seventeen, and a NASA engineer who as a girl in Nigeria dreamed of coming to America, along with notable figures from business, the military, sports, and entertainment. President Bush captures their faces and stories in striking detail, bringing depth to our understanding of who immigrants are, the challenges they face on their paths to citizenship, and the lessons they can teach us about our country’s character. As the stories unfold in this vibrant book, readers will gain a better appreciation for the humanity behind one of our most pressing policy issues and the countless ways in which America, through its tradition of welcoming newcomers, has been strengthened by those who have come here in search of a better life.