Faith Reason And History

Author : Leonard Brand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Intelligent design (Teleology)
ISBN : 1883925630

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Faith, Reason, & Earth History by Leonard Brand Pdf

Faith, Reason, and Earth History presents Leonard Brand¿s argument for constructive thinking about origins and earth history in the context of Scripture, showing readers how to analyze available scientific data and approach unsolved problems. Faith does not need to fear the data, but can contribute to progress in understanding earth history within the context of God¿s Word while still being honest about unanswered questions. In this patient explanation of the mission of science, the author models his conviction that ¿above all, it is essential that we treat each other with respect, even if we disagree on fundamental issues.¿ The original edition of this work (1997) was one of the first books on this topic written from the point of view of an experienced research scientist. A career biologist, paleontologist, and teacher, Brand brings to this well-illustrated book a rich assortment of practical scientific examples. This thoughtful and rigorous presentation makes Brand¿s landmark work highly useful both as a college-level text and as an easily accessible treatment for the educated lay person.

Author : Leonard Brand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Creationism
ISBN : UCSD:31822028594497

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Faith, Reason, and Earth History by Leonard Brand Pdf

Author : Robert Campbell Roberts
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0865542287

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Faith, Reason, and History by Robert Campbell Roberts Pdf

Author : Robert Sokolowski
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0813208270

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The God of Faith and Reason by Robert Sokolowski Pdf

Identifies what is most radically distinctive about Christian belief. Addressed to a non-technical audience, the book helps the reader examine the most basic questions concerning Christian faith.

Author : Samuel Gregg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781621579069

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Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg Pdf

"Gregg's book is the closet thing I've encountered in a long time to a one-volume user's manual for operating Western Civilization." —The Stream "Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization offers a concise intellectual history of the West through the prism of the relationship between faith and reason." —Free Beacon The genius of Western civilization is its unique synthesis of reason and faith. But today that synthesis is under attack—from the East by radical Islam (faith without reason) and from within the West itself by aggressive secularism (reason without faith). The stakes are incalculably high. The naïve and increasingly common assumption that reason and faith are incompatible is simply at odds with the facts of history. The revelation in the Hebrew Scriptures of a reasonable Creator imbued Judaism and Christianity with a conviction that the world is intelligible, leading to the flowering of reason and the invention of science in the West. It was no accident that the Enlightenment took place in the culture formed by the Jewish and Christian faiths. We can all see that faith without reason is benighted at best, fanatical and violent at worst. But too many forget that reason, stripped of faith, is subject to its own pathologies. A supposedly autonomous reason easily sinks into fanaticism, stifling dissent as bigoted and irrational and devouring the humane civilization fostered by the integration of reason and faith. The blood-soaked history of the twentieth century attests to the totalitarian forces unleashed by corrupted reason. But Samuel Gregg does more than lament the intellectual and spiritual ruin caused by the divorce of reason and faith. He shows that each of these foundational principles corrects the other’s excesses and enhances our comprehension of the truth in a continuous renewal of civilization. By recovering this balance, we can avoid a suicidal winner-take-all conflict between reason and faith and a future that will respect neither.

Author : Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199213146

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Thomas Aquinas by Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt Pdf

Thomas Aquinas is widely recognized as one of history's most significant Christian theologians and one of the most powerful philosophical minds of the western tradition. But what has often not been sufficiently attended to is the fact that he carried out his theological and philosophical labours as a part of his vocation as a Dominican friar, dedicated to a life of preaching and the care of souls. Fererick Christian Bauerschmidt places Aquinas's thought within the context of that vocation, and argues that his views on issues of God, creation, Christology, soteriology, and the Christian life are both shaped by and in service to the distinctive goals of the Dominicans. What Aquinas says concerning both matters of faith and matters of reason, as well as his understanding of the relationship between the two, are illuminated by the particular Dominican call to serve God through handing on to others through preaching and teaching the fruits of one's own theological reflection.

Author : Paul Helm
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Faith and reason
ISBN : 9780198238454

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Faith with Reason by Paul Helm Pdf

He argues that the reasonableness of faith depends not only on beliefs about the world but also on beliefs about oneself (for instance about what one wants, about one's hopes and fears) and on what one is willing to trust. Helm goes on to look at the relations between belief and trust, and between faith and virtue, and concludes with an exploration of one particular type of belief about oneself, the belief that one is oneself a believer. This is a book for anyone interested in the basis of religious faith."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : John H. Smith
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801463273

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Dialogues between Faith and Reason by John H. Smith Pdf

The contemporary theologian Hans Küng has asked if the "death of God," proclaimed by Nietzsche as the event of modernity, was inevitable. Did the empowering of new forms of rationality in Western culture beginning around 1500 lead necessarily to the reduction or privatization of faith? In Dialogues between Faith and Reason, John H. Smith traces a major line in the history of theology and the philosophy of religion down the "slippery slope" of secularization—from Luther and Erasmus, through Idealism, to Nietzsche, Heidegger, and contemporary theory such as that of Derrida, Habermas, Vattimo, and Asad. At the same time, Smith points to the persistence of a tradition that grew out of the Reformation and continues in the mostly Protestant philosophical reflection on whether and how faith can be justified by reason. In this accessible and vigorously argued book, Smith posits that faith and reason have long been locked in mutual engagement in which they productively challenge each other as partners in an ongoing "dialogue." Smith is struck by the fact that although in the secularized West the death of God is said to be fundamental to the modern condition, our current post-modernity is often characterized as a "postsecular" time. For Smith, this means not only that we are experiencing a broad-based "return of religion" but also, and more important for his argument, that we are now able to recognize the role of religion within the history of modernity. Emphasizing that, thanks to the logos located "in the beginning," the death of God is part of the inner logic of the Christian tradition, he argues that this same strand of reasoning also ensures that God will always "return" (often in new forms). In Smith's view, rational reflection on God has both undermined and justified faith, while faith has rejected and relied on rational argument. Neither a defense of atheism nor a call to belief, his book explores the long history of their interaction in modern religious and philosophical thought.

Author : Grant Kaplan
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813235837

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Faith and Reason Through Christian History by Grant Kaplan Pdf

It is impossible to understand the history of Christian theology without taking into account the relationship between faith and reason. Many works give an overview of faith and reason, or outline key principles, while others put forward a thesis about how one should understand the relationship between faith and reason. In this theological essay, Grant Kaplan revisits the key figures and debates that shape how faith and reason relate. Divided into three parts, Kaplan invites readers into a conversation rather than a drive-by. Readers will encounter the words and arguments of some of Christianity’s greatest thinkers, some well-known (Augustine, Aquinas, Newman) and others nearly forgotten. Readings of these figures bring them to life in an accessible manner. In Faith and Reason through Christian History, the roughly fifty figures treated are given sufficient room to breathe. Rather than simply summarizing their thought, Kaplan traces their arguments through key texts. This book will appeal to a range of audiences: theologians and philosophers, instructors, graduate students, seminarians, lay study groups, and undergraduate theology majors. No book today accomplishes what this book does!

Author : Paul M. Roddick
Publisher : Author House
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781449073343

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Faith, Reason and Common Sense: by Paul M. Roddick Pdf

Have you ever wondered where religion is concerned, what you really believe? In FAITH, REASON & COMMON SENSE the interdependence of religion and culture is examined with care and insight. Readers with strong religious convictions may be surprised to discover that the history of religion - every religion - is both a chronicle of heresy and a reconfiguration of belief. In his examination of the relationship between Faith and Reason, the author rejects the familiar premise that a life guided by one must exclude the other. Although he stresses the importance of examining `the faith of our fathers' he is respectful of those who, in a world dominated by science, find guidance and reassurance in their religion. Far ranging and insightful, drawing on a wealth of sources and opinions, there is something for everyone in this challenging and though-provoking study.

Author : Harold Joseph Laski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000116328

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Faith, Reason, and Civilization by Harold Joseph Laski Pdf

Author : Maureen Junker-Kenny
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110746679

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"The Bold Arcs of Salvation History" by Maureen Junker-Kenny Pdf

This book offers the first in-depth treatment in English language of Habermas’s long-awaited work on religion, Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie, published in 2019. Charting the contingent origins and turning points of occidental thinking through to the current "postmetaphysical" stage, the two volumes provide striking insights into the intellectual streams and conflicts in which core components of modern self-understanding have been forged. The encounter of Greek metaphysics with biblical monotheism has led to a theology of history as salvation, expanding in bold arcs from Adam’s Fall to Christ and the Last Judgement. The reconstruction of key turns in the relationship between faith and knowledge ends, however, with locating the uniqueness of religion in "ritual" and defining reason as inherently secular. The book exposes the sources and trajectories, analysed by Habermas with great erudition, to different assessments in biblical studies, theology, and philosophy of subjectivity. Apart from Paul and Augustine, key lines of continuity are identified in the Gospels, early patristic theology, Duns Scotus and Schleiermacher that retain the internal connection of faith to autonomous freedom.

Author : Martin C. Albl
Publisher : Saint Mary's Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884899822

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Reason, Faith, and Tradition by Martin C. Albl Pdf

Is religious belief reasonable? Specifically, is the doctrine of the Catholic faith consistent with reason? Drawing on Catholic and Christian theological traditions, Martin Albl engages readers in theological thinking on various topics including the Trinity, Christology, ecclesiology, human nature, sin, salvation, revelation, and eschatology. Clear and focused, the text links traditional teaching with contemporary issues to show the relevance of faith to contemporary issues. A glossary, cross-referencing system, text and discussion questions, and footnotes with information about Internet resources provide more in-depth information. --Publisher description.

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300155501

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Reason, Faith, and Revolution by Terry Eagleton Pdf

On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the "superstitious" view of God held by most atheists and agnostics and offers in its place a revolutionary account of the Christian Gospel. On the other hand, he launches a stinging assault on the betrayal of this revolution by institutional Christianity. There is little joy here, then, either for the anti-God brigade -- Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in particular -- nor for many conventional believers. --Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author : Maria Rosa Antognazza
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199744725

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The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz by Maria Rosa Antognazza Pdf

This volume provides a uniquely comprehensive, systematic, and up-to-date appraisal of Leibniz's thought thematically organized around its diverse but interrelated aspects. By pulling together the best specialized work in the many domains to which Leibniz contributed, its ambition is to offer the most rounded picture of Leibniz's endeavors currently available.