Flirting With Universalism

Author : Dennis Jensen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630872151

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Flirting with Universalism by Dennis Jensen Pdf

It's likely the most difficult problem in the Christian faith. It was a major reason that Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill, and countless others rejected Christianity. It was an ax that began to chip away at Charles Darwin's early faith. How could he accept that his closest relatives and loved ones would be spending an eternity in agonizing torment? Yet the Christian doctrine of an everlasting hell has turned out to be a completely unnecessary problem. A close examination of the Bible rejects any form of universalism that trivializes personal obligations to God or denies the possibility of permanent condemnation. Yet Christians can fully affirm the goodness, justice, and love of God. They have no reason to believe in a never-ending hell of excruciating suffering. This study reviews the biblical and philosophical evidence behind the various Christian views of the afterlife for those who reject their God: universalism, eternalism or traditionalism, and annihilationism. It concludes by taking a position between universalism and annihilationism: God will forever honor the final choices of those who reject God, and yet, in the end, all things will be reconciled to God.

Author : Dennis Jensen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625647542

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Flirting with Universalism by Dennis Jensen Pdf

It's likely the most difficult problem in the Christian faith. It was a major reason that Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill, and countless others rejected Christianity. It was an ax that began to chip away at Charles Darwin's early faith. How could he accept that his closest relatives and loved ones would be spending an eternity in agonizing torment? Yet the Christian doctrine of an everlasting hell has turned out to be a completely unnecessary problem. A close examination of the Bible rejects any form of universalism that trivializes personal obligations to God or denies the possibility of permanent condemnation. Yet Christians can fully affirm the goodness, justice, and love of God. They have no reason to believe in a never-ending hell of excruciating suffering. This study reviews the biblical and philosophical evidence behind the various Christian views of the afterlife for those who reject their God: universalism, eternalism or traditionalism, and annihilationism. It concludes by taking a position between universalism and annihilationism: God will forever honor the final choices of those who reject God, and yet, in the end, all things will be reconciled to God.

Author : Michael J. McClymond
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 1376 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493406616

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The Devil's Redemption : 2 volumes by Michael J. McClymond Pdf

Will all evil finally turn to good, or does some evil remain stubbornly opposed to God and God's goodness? Will even the devil be redeemed? Addressing a theological issue of perennial interest, this comprehensive book (in two volumes) surveys the history of Christian universalism from the second to the twenty-first century and offers an interpretation of how and why universalist belief arose. The author explores what the church has taught about universal salvation and hell and critiques universalism from a biblical, philosophical, and theological standpoint. He shows that the effort to extend grace to everyone undermines the principle of grace for anyone.

Author : Dennis Jensen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532643453

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Human Suffering and the Evil of Religion by Dennis Jensen Pdf

Dennis Jensen looks at two very important problems that have led many to reject religious belief generally and Christianity in particular: Why has God allowed the extreme suffering we find in our world? And Can religion be blamed for much of this suffering? He looks at not only the evil so often associated with religions--inquisitions, holy wars, pograms, witch hunts--but also some of the difficulties found specifically in the Bible. Did the God of the Bible command or advocate mass murder, homophobia, slavery? Is the New Testament anti-Semitic? Jensen argues persuasively that a fully biblical teaching does not advocate subservience of women in today's society, church, or family. It does not condemn all same gender sexual relations or transgender identity. It does not teach an eternal hell. As just one of the many fascinating topics he tackles, one of the more important biblical reasons suggested for the existence of evil is that God wants to know whether we will seek to stop or alleviate the suffering we see, whether we will learn to have God's heart, whether we will hate evil and anguish over the hurting as God does.

Author : Joshua R. Brotherton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004681675

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“Grace Abounds More”: Balthasar’s Eschatological Universalism in Dialogue by Joshua R. Brotherton Pdf

The problem of eternal damnation is one that should trouble all believers and impels many to seek answers to fundamental questions outside of the Church. For this reason, theologians with a missionary heart of the last century or more from across the ecclesial spectrum have sought to refashion the gospel in our own estranged image. In dialogue with one of the leading figures of this movement, Joshua Brotherton tackles the question of the plausibility that all will be saved. Sympathetic to their cause, this volume seeks to revise the way in which they envision the reconciliation of divine love and moral evil.

Author : Roger E. Olson
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664224644

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The Westminster Handbook to Evangelical Theology by Roger E. Olson Pdf

The Westminster Handbook to Evangelical Theology is a comprehensive critical survey of the main persons, events, controversies, concepts, and institutions of twentieth-century evangelical theology. It will introduce readers to and be a reference work for the study of evangelicalism's distinctive theological vision in its unity and diversity. Roger Olson explores evangelical theology through five lenses: The Story of Evangelical Theology, Movements and Organizations Related to Evangelical Theology, Key Figures in Evangelical Theology, Traditional Doctrines in Evangelical Theology, and Issues in Evangelical Theology. The Westminster Handbook to Christian Theology series provides a set of resources for the study of historic and contemporary theological movements and Christian theologians. These books are intended to help students and scholars find concise and accurate treatments of important theological terms.

Author : John M. Murrin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190870539

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Rethinking America by John M. Murrin Pdf

For five decades John M. Murrin has been the consummate historian's historian. This volume brings together his seminal essays on the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, and the early American Republic. Collectively, they rethink fundamental questions regarding American identity, the decision to declare independence in 1776, and the impact the American Revolution had on the nation it produced. By digging deeply into questions that have shaped the field for several generations, Rethinking America argues that high politics and the study of constitutional and ideological questions--broadly the history of elites--must be considered in close conjunction with issues of economic inequality, class conflict, and racial division. Bringing together different schools of history and a variety of perspectives on both Britain and the North American colonies, it explains why what began as a constitutional argument, that virtually all expected would remain contained within the British Empire, exploded into a truly subversive and radical revolution that destroyed monarchy and aristocracy and replaced them with a rapidly transforming and chaotic republic. This volume examines the period of the early American Republic and discusses why the Founders' assumptions about what their Revolution would produce were profoundly different than the society that emerged from the American Revolution. In many ways, Rethinking America suggests that the outcome of the American Revolution put the new United States on a path to a violent and bloody civil war. With an introduction by Andrew Shankman, this long-awaited work by one of the most important scholars of the Revolutionary era offers a coherent interpretation of the complex period that saw the breakdown of colonial British North America and the founding of the United States.

Author : Steven Watts
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0801839416

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The Republic Reborn by Steven Watts Pdf

Serving as a vehicle for change and offering an outlet for the anxieties of a changing socity, Watts writes, the War of 1812 ultimately intensified and sanctioned the imperatives of a developing world-view

Author : Roger E. Olson
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0334040116

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The SCM Press A-Z of Evangelical Theology by Roger E. Olson Pdf

"The SCM Press A-Z of Evangelical Theology" is a comprehensive critical survey of the main persons, events, controversies, concepts, and institutions of twentieth-century evangelical theology. It will introduce readers to and be a reference work for the study of evangelicalicalism's distinctive theological vision in its unity and diversity. Olson explores evangelical theology through five lenses: The Story of Evangelical Theology; Movements and Organisations Related to Evangelical Theology; Key Figures in Evangelical Theology; Traditional Doctrines in Evangelical Theology; and Issues in Evangelical Theology. Here is a unique, compact narrative description of the origins, rise and significance of evangelical theology today. About the Author Roger E Olson is Professor of Theology at George W Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University, USA.

Author : Simon Shepherd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781316546130

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The Cambridge Introduction to Performance Theory by Simon Shepherd Pdf

What does 'performance theory' really mean and why has it become so important across such a large number of disciplines, from art history to religious studies and architecture to geography? In this introduction Simon Shepherd explains the origins of performance theory, defines the terms and practices within the field and provides new insights into performance's wide range of definitions and uses. Offering an overview of the key figures, their theories and their impact, Shepherd provides a fresh approach to figures including Erving Goffman and Richard Schechner and ideas such as radical art practice, performance studies, radical scenarism and performativity. Essential reading for students, scholars and enthusiasts, this engaging account travels from universities into the streets and back again to examine performance in the context of political activists and teachers, countercultural experiments and feminist challenges, and ceremonies and demonstrations.

Author : Andrey Rosowsky
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527524064

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Aspects of Performance in Faith Settings by Andrey Rosowsky Pdf

What is the role of performance in faith practices? How is performance understood in and across a range of faith settings? How are performance and faith conceptualised through different academic disciplines? This collection of essays addresses these questions, and others, as it explores the complex relationship present in the nexus between faith and performance. A naturally inter-disciplinary work, this book contains contributions from a diverse group of scholars representing a wide range of methodologies and theoretical perspectives. As sociolinguists explore how language performance shapes and is shaped by faith, social anthropologists and psychologists examine how identity performance is crucial in negotiating faith identities, and scholars from theatre and performance studies engage with ways material settings are performatively transfigured to create sacred spaces (to mention but a few approaches covered in this book), the reader is taken on a journey of the world’s faiths and their diverse practices.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Universalism
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6L1M

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The Universalist Miscellany by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Universalism
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6K8U

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The Universalist and Ladies' Repository by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015055107588

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The New Interpreter's Bible: Acts, introduction to epistolary literature, Romans, 1 Corinthians by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025961520

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The New Interpreter's Bible by Anonim Pdf

Full texts and critical notes of the New International Version and the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible in parallel columns.