Dignity And Destiny

Author : John F. Kilner
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802867643

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Dignity and Destiny by John F. Kilner Pdf

Misunderstandings about what it means for humans to be created in God's image have wreaked devastation throughout history -- for example, slavery in the U. S., genocide in Nazi Germany, and the demeaning of women everywhere. In Dignity and Destiny John Kilner explores what the Bible itself teaches about humanity being in God's image. He discusses in detail all of the biblical references to the image of God, interacts extensively with other work on the topic, and documents how misunderstandings of it have been so problematic. People made according to God's image, Kilner says, have a special connection with God and are intended to be a meaningful reflection of him. Because of sin, they don't actually reflect him very well, but Kilner shows why the popular idea that sin has damaged the image of God is mistaken. He also clarifies the biblical difference between being God's image (which Christ is) and being in God's image (which humans are). He explains how humanity's creation and renewal in God's image are central, respectively, to human dignity and destiny. Locating Christ at the center of what God's image means, Kilner charts a constructive way forward and reflects on the tremendously liberating impact that a sound understanding of the image of God can have in the world today.

Author : Solomon Raju Vulamparti
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1797662627

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A New Destiny.: A Movement for Dignity, Prosperity, and Freedom. by Solomon Raju Vulamparti Pdf

Author and Motivational Speaker, Solomon Raju Vulamparti, takes us on a journey as told by Fr. Julian Policetti, across a 30-year span, during which the compassionate priest dedicated his life to eradicating famine and hopelessness to India's most vulnerable people - the villagers. Fr. Julian saw what no-one else wanted to - that the secret to transitioning these people from poverty to dignity had to begin with unity and the empowerment of women - a truly radical concept in a society where females fell to the bottom of the pecking order and were destined to live out their lives in oppression.He began his movement early in the 1980's, with the following objectives: - Bridging the gap between poverty-stricken farmers and money-lenders, to enable farmers to buy quality seeds and other necessities in order to create long-term solutions to a population encumbered by famine.- Providing educational facilities where none were accessible.- Providing clean drinking water and sanitation to ward off life-threatening diseases, to which the under-nourished were most vulnerable.- To tap into the resourcefulness and creativity of a people so gifted, and to provide opportunities for them to flourish.This massive undertaking began three decades ago and still continues. In this book, we'll reveal how it all began, and then bring you straight into the lives of real women, with real faces, and real names, who have stepped forward to tell their inspiring stories of how they rose from the dust of oppression, to conquer the odds-and have succeeded-thanks to the tireless staff and Visionaries at the Mother Teresa Rural Development Society, and their mission of hope.

Author : Joshua R. Farris
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493417988

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An Introduction to Theological Anthropology by Joshua R. Farris Pdf

In this thorough introduction to theological anthropology, Joshua Farris offers an evangelical perspective on the topic. Farris walks the reader through some of the most important issues in traditional approaches to anthropology, such as sexuality, posthumanism, and the image of God. He addresses fundamental questions like, Who am I? and Why do I exist? He also considers the creaturely and divine nature of humans, the body-soul relationship, and the beatific vision.

Author : John Frederic Kilner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1467442712

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Dignity and Destiny by John Frederic Kilner Pdf

Author : Ron Highfield
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830864508

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God, Freedom and Human Dignity by Ron Highfield Pdf

Does God's all-encompassing will restrict our freedom? Does God's ownership and mastery over us diminish our dignity? The fear that God is a threat to our freedom and dignity goes far back in Western thought. Such suspicion remains with us today in our so-called secular society. In such a context any talk of God tends to provoke responses that range from defiance to subservience to indifference. How did Western culture come to this place? What impact does this social and intellectual environment have on those who claim to believe in God or more specifically in the Christian God of the Bible? Professor of religion Ron Highfield traces out the development of Western thought that has led us our current frame of mind from Plato, Augustine and Descartes through Locke, Kant, Blake Bentham, Hegel, Nietzsche--all the way down to Charles Taylor's landmark work Sources of the Self. At the heart of the issue is the modern notion of the autonomous self and the inevitable crisis it provokes for a view of human identity, freedom and dignity found in God. Can the modern self really secure its own freedom, dignity and happiness? What alternative do we have? Highfield makes pertinent use of trinitarian theology to show how genuine Christian faith responds to this challenge by directing us to a God who is not in competition with his human creations, but rather who provides us with what we seek but could never give ourselves. God, Freedom and Human Dignity is essential reading for Christian students who are interested in the debates around secularism, modernity and identity formation.

Author : Darwin H. Stapleton,Donna Heckman Stapleton
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : College presidents
ISBN : 0874138337

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Dignity, Discourse, and Destiny by Darwin H. Stapleton,Donna Heckman Stapleton Pdf

Childhood -- Harvard, Oxford, and marriage -- In the Navy -- Return to education : Princeton -- The Woodrow Wilson Program years -- Swarthmore College at mid-century -- Swarthmore looks for Courtney -- Inauguration -- The case for the liberal arts college -- Faculty -- "There is strength-- in having a variety of sources of support" : funding the liberal arts tradition -- Networks of support and service : behind the presidency -- "Nature shaped to advantage" : preserving campus viability -- Student activism : "to care about social justice"--Two decades of student life at Swarthmore -- "Personal things"--Administration of a college -- The final year -- Conclusion

Author : David Marshall,Lucinda Mosher
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781626160309

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Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny by David Marshall,Lucinda Mosher Pdf

Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a rich collection of essays, scriptural analysis, and personal reflections featuring leading Christian and Muslim scholars who explore the meaning of death, resurrection, and human destiny within their religious traditions. Drawn from the 2012 Building Bridges seminar in London and Canterbury, chapters address Biblical and Qur'anic references to resurrection, the notion of "dying well" or "the good death," illuminating religious literature from the medieval period, and contemporary funeral practices in Christianity and Islam.

Author : Rollo May
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393346978

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Freedom and Destiny by Rollo May Pdf

The popular psychoanalyst examines the continuing tension in our lives between the possibilities that freedom offers and the various limitations imposed upon us by our particular fate or destiny. "May is an existential analyst who deservedly enjoys a reputation among both general and critical readers as an accessible and insightful social and psychological theorist. . . . Freedom's characteristics, fruits, and problems; destiny's reality; death; and therapy's place in the confrontation between freedom and destiny are examined. . . . Poets, social critics, artists, and other thinkers are invoked appropriately to support May's theory of freedom and destiny's interdependence."—Library Journal "Especially instructive, even stunning, is Dr. May's willingness to respect mystery. . . .There is, too, at work throughout the book a disciplined yet relaxed clinical mind, inclined to celebrate . . . what Flannery O'Connor called 'mystery and manners,' and to do so in a tactful, meditative manner."—Robert Coles, America

Author : Jonathan Bannon Maher
Publisher : Jonathan Bannon Maher
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780615489513

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The Destiny of Humanity by Jonathan Bannon Maher Pdf

"I am confident this book will surely attract much public attention to the important task of building a peaceful and prosperous world for all." - Norodom Sihamoni, King, Cambodia "I should take this opportunity to wish you success in all you set out to accomplish." - Mohammed VI, King of Morocco "It is the kindness of people like you that continually renew my confidence about what we as Americans can achieve together." - Jill Biden, Office of the Vice President, United States "A pointing of horizons and goals to which we must be aware. The quest for harmony and a blend of attitudes that could reach the heights of the global and total dignity of human beings." - Jose Maria Pereira Neves, Prime Minister, Cape Verde The first book to have ever been written for and sent to all world leaders. Chapters include: War, Privacy, Poverty & Trade; Innovation & Education; Space Exploration & Colonization; Health Technology, Hunger & Disease; Social & Economic Opportunity; Financial Institutions & Capital Markets; Economic Development; Government & Freedom; Environment, Energy & Transportation.

Author : George Kateb
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674264977

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Human Dignity by George Kateb Pdf

We often speak of the dignity owed to a person. And dignity is a word that regularly appears in political speeches. Charters are promulgated in its name, and appeals to it are made when people all over the world struggle to achieve their rights. But what exactly is dignity? When one person physically assaults another, we feel the wrong demands immediate condemnation and legal sanction. Whereas when one person humiliates or thoughtlessly makes use of another, we recognize the wrong and hope for a remedy, but the social response is less clear. The injury itself may be hard to quantify. Given our concern with human dignity, it is odd that it has received comparatively little scrutiny. Here, George Kateb asks what human dignity is and why it matters for the claim to rights. He proposes that dignity is an “existential” value that pertains to the identity of a person as a human being. To injure or even to try to efface someone’s dignity is to treat that person as not human or less than human—as a thing or instrument or subhuman creature. Kateb does not limit the notion of dignity to individuals but extends it to the human species. The dignity of the human species rests on our uniqueness among all other species. In the book’s concluding section, he argues that despite the ravages we have inflicted on it, nature would be worse off without humanity. The supremely fitting task of humanity can be seen as a “stewardship” of nature. This secular defense of human dignity—the first book-length attempt of its kind—crowns the career of a distinguished political thinker.

Author : Richard L. Pratt
Publisher : P & R Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0875525083

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Designed for Dignity by Richard L. Pratt Pdf

You are in for a very pleasant surprise as you read Designed for Dignity, Here is a book -- written with great humility, simplicity, and honesty -- about people like you and me..., If you are one of those Christians who study 'wormology' and think that the essence of the Christian faith is your worthlessness, this book will set you free. Read it. You'll be glad.

Author : Katie Engelhart
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781250201478

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The Inevitable by Katie Engelhart Pdf

“A remarkably nuanced, empathetic, and well-crafted work of journalism, [The Inevitable] explores what might be called the right-to-die underground, a world of people who wonder why a medical system that can do so much to try to extend their lives can do so little to help them end those lives in a peaceful and painless way.”—Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker More states and countries are passing right-to-die laws that allow the sick and suffering to end their lives at pre-planned moments, with the help of physicians. But even where these laws exist, they leave many people behind. The Inevitable moves beyond margins of the law to the people who are meticulously planning their final hours—far from medical offices, legislative chambers, hospital ethics committees, and polite conversation. It also shines a light on the people who help them: loved ones and, sometimes, clandestine groups on the Internet that together form the “euthanasia underground.” Katie Engelhart, a veteran journalist, focuses on six people representing different aspects of the right to die debate. Two are doctors: a California physician who runs a boutique assisted death clinic and has written more lethal prescriptions than anyone else in the U.S.; an Australian named Philip Nitschke who lost his medical license for teaching people how to end their lives painlessly and peacefully at “DIY Death” workshops. The other four chapters belong to people who said they wanted to die because they were suffering unbearably—of old age, chronic illness, dementia, and mental anguish—and saw suicide as their only option. Spanning North America, Europe, and Australia, The Inevitable offers a deeply reported and fearless look at a morally tangled subject. It introduces readers to ordinary people who are fighting to find dignity and authenticity in the final hours of their lives.

Author : Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781596983014

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Oration on the Dignity of Man by Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola Pdf

An ardent treatise for the Dignity of Man, which elevates Humanism to a truly Christian level, making this writing as pertinent today as it was in the Fifteenth Century.

Author : Rankin Wilbourne
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781434710871

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Union with Christ by Rankin Wilbourne Pdf

Winner of the 2017 Christian Book Award for New Author Named one of the top books of 2016 by John Piper's Desiring God ministry To experience why the gospel is good news and answer life’s most foundational questions about identity, destiny, and purpose, we must understand what it means to be united to Christ. If you are a Christian, the Bible says that Christ has united his life to yours, that you are now in Christ and Christ is in you. This almost unfathomable truth is the central theme of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Yet few Christians today experience or enjoy this reality. Union with Christ reveals the transformational power of this ancient doctrine while addressing the basic questions of the human heart: Who Am I? Why Am I Here? Where Am I Headed? How Will I Get There? Nothing is more practical for living the Christian life than union with Christ. The recovery of this reality provides the anchor and engine for your life with God—for your destiny is not only to see Christ, but to actually become like him.

Author : Philip Edgcumbe Hughes
Publisher : Wipf & Stock Publishers
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Image of God
ISBN : 1579102859

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The True Image by Philip Edgcumbe Hughes Pdf