God Man And Mortality

Author : Hasan Horkuc
Publisher : Tughra Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597849074

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God, Man, and Mortality by Hasan Horkuc Pdf

God, Man, Mortality is a collection of essays written both by seasoned and by up and coming scholars working the field known as Nursi studies. The aim of these essays is to hold a mirror up to Nursi's teachings on a number of issues, just as Nursi held a mirror up to the teachings of the Qur'an. The scope is broad covering subjects such as Divine immanence and transcendence, human spirituality and man's role as Divine vicegerent. Divine determining and free will, and human conscience as evidence of the existence of God. The topics presented by the authors are unashamedly theocentric in nature: discussions on politics and legal theory are conspicuous by their absence. We benefit from the depth of awareness that the contributors clearly have of Nursi's teachings and his place in the Muslim academe, as well as from their lucid expository styles and strong authorial voices.

Author : J. Todd Billings
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441222909

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Rejoicing in Lament by J. Todd Billings Pdf

At the age of thirty-nine, Christian theologian Todd Billings was diagnosed with a rare form of incurable cancer. In the wake of that diagnosis, he began grappling with the hard theological questions we face in the midst of crisis: Why me? Why now? Where is God in all of this? This eloquently written book shares Billings's journey, struggle, and reflections on providence, lament, and life in Christ in light of his illness, moving beyond pat answers toward hope in God's promises. Theologically robust yet eminently practical, it engages the open questions, areas of mystery, and times of disorientation in the Christian life. Billings offers concrete examples through autobiography, cultural commentary, and stories from others, showing how our human stories of joy and grief can be incorporated into the larger biblical story of God's saving work in Christ.

Author : John Hick
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664255094

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Death and Eternal Life by John Hick Pdf

In this cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study, John Hick draws upon major world religions, as well as biology, psychology, parapsychology, anthropology, and philosophy, to explore the mystery of death. He argues that scientific and philosophical objections to the idea of survival after death can be challenged, and he claims that human inadequacy in facing suffering supports the basic religious argument for immortality.

Author : Clay Jones
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736978286

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Immortal by Clay Jones Pdf

Is There Life After Death? For many, death is terrifying. We try to live as long as possible while hoping that science will soon find a way to allow us to live, if not forever, then at least a very long time. Whether we deny our mortality though literal or symbolic immortality or try to turn death into something benign, our attempts fail us. But what if the real solution is not in denying death’s reality, but in acknowledging it while enjoying a hope for a wonderful forever? Clay Jones, a professor of Christian apologetics, explores the ways people face death and how these “immortality projects” are unsuccessful, even destructive. Along the way, he points to the hope of the only true immortality available to all—the truth that God already offers a path to our hearts’ deepest longing: glorious resurrection to eternal life.

Author : Eric Weiner
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781455505708

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Man Seeks God by Eric Weiner Pdf

Bestselling author of Geography of Bliss returns with this funny, illuminating chronicle of a globe-spanning spiritual quest to find a faith that fits. When a health scare puts him in the hospital, Eric Weiner-an agnostic by default-finds himself tangling with an unexpected question, posed to him by a well-meaning nurse. "Have you found your God yet?" The thought of it nags him, and prods him-and ultimately launches him on a far-flung journey to do just that. Weiner, a longtime "spiritual voyeur" and inveterate traveler, realizes that while he has been privy to a wide range of religious practices, he's never seriously considered these concepts in his own life. Face to face with his own mortality, and spurred on by the question of what spiritual principles to impart to his young daughter, he decides to correct this omission, undertaking a worldwide exploration of religions and hoping to come, if he can, to a personal understanding of the divine. The journey that results is rich in insight, humor, and heart. Willing to do anything to better understand faith, and to find the god or gods that speak to him, he travels to Nepal, where he meditates with Tibetan lamas and a guy named Wayne. He sojourns to Turkey, where he whirls (not so well, as it turns out) with Sufi dervishes. He heads to China, where he attempts to unblock his chi; to Israel, where he studies Kabbalah, sans Madonna; and to Las Vegas, where he has a close encounter with Raelians (followers of the world's largest UFO-based religion). At each stop along the way, Weiner tackles our most pressing spiritual questions: Where do we come from? What happens when we die? How should we live our lives? Where do all the missing socks go? With his trademark wit and warmth, he leaves no stone unturned. At a time when more Americans than ever are choosing a new faith, and when spiritual questions loom large in the modern age, Man Seeks God presents a perspective on religion that is sure to delight, inspire, and entertain.

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781742695198

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Mortality by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers.

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0804736669

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God, Death, and Time by Emmanuel Lévinas Pdf

This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses on ethical relation Levinas delivered at the Sorbonne. In seeking to explain his thought to students, he utilizes a clarity and an intensity altogether different from his other writings.

Author : Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015037504142

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The Shape of Death by Jaroslav Pelikan Pdf

These five chapters, originally delivered as the Laidlaw Lectures at Knox College, Toronto, September, 1959, examine some of the forms that this pessimism about life and optimism about God took during the second and third centuries.

Author : Gabriel Vahanian
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725226708

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The Death of God by Gabriel Vahanian Pdf

"The death of God" began, according to Vahanian, the moment Western man started to compromise with the Biblical concept of God transcendent, and to merge the identity of the Godhead with the identity of humankind. From this compromise evolved the belief in the possibility of heaven on earth, in human perfectibility, in the expectation that man, both individually and collectively, can control his termporal fate. Today, as a consequence, Western society not only exalts all possible material comforts, but requires as well easy, guaranteed, status-assuring religious affiliations. The present search for "inner security" is in direct opposition to the toleration of doubt that tests the strength of genuine religious faith. And Vahanian shows how our spiritual decline is reflected in much of the most important imaginative writing of today.

Author : John S. Dunne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39076006838473

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The City of the Gods by John S. Dunne Pdf

In The City of the Gods, John S. Dunne traces humanity's political and social mythologies from ancient Sumer to the present, showing how they reflect the diverse responses of each era to the inevitability of death.

Author : Ephraim Radner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Life
ISBN : 1481309463

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A Time to Keep by Ephraim Radner Pdf

The miracle of birth and the mystery of death mark human life. Mortality, like a dark specter, looms over all that lies in between. Human character, behavior, aims, and community are all inescapably shaped by this certainty of human ends. Mortality, like an unwanted guest, intrudes, becoming a burden and a constant struggle. Mortality, like a thief who steals, even threatens the ability to live life rightly. Life is short. Death is certain. Mortality, at all costs, should be resisted or transcended. In A Time to Keep Ephraim Radner revalues mortality, reclaiming it as God's own. Mortality should not be resisted but received. Radner reveals mortality's true nature as a gift, God's gift, and thus reveals that the many limitations that mortality imposes should be celebrated. Radner demonstrates how faithfulness--and not resignation, escape, denial, redefinition, or excess--is the proper response to the gift of humanity's temporal limitation. To live rightly is to recognize and then willingly accept life's limitations. In chapters on sex and sexuality, singleness and family, education and vocation, and a panoply of end of life issues, A Time to Keep plumbs the depths of the secular imagination, uncovering the constant struggle with human finitude in its myriad forms. Radner shows that by wrongly positioning creaturely mortality, these parts of human experience have received an inadequate reckoning. A Time to Keep retrieves the most basic confession of the Christian faith, that life is God's, which Radner offers as grace, as the basis for a Christian understanding of human existence bound by its origin and telos. The possibility and purpose of what comes between birth and death is ordered by the pattern of Scripture, but is performed faithfully only in obedience to the limits that bind it.

Author : R. E. Hough
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802488534

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The Christian After Death by R. E. Hough Pdf

Though dreaded, there is no topic which people are so reticent to speak about as death--and nothing in life which is more certain. Man cannot postpone what he ignores nor remove the terror from what he persists in forgetting. This is perhaps the last fear that is overcome in the heart of the child of God. In an effort to help the believer face death with frankness, understanding and purpose, the author answers such pertinent questions as: What is death? Will the dead live again? What and where is heaven? Shall we know each other there? What is the resurrection, the nature of the resurrected body, and the believer's judgment? And most important--How do we prepare? While reference is made to spiritual death, physical death is the primary subject of this study. Factual, scriptural, and well-organized, The Christian After Death offers hope, assurance, promise, and a challenge.

Author : David Horowitz
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781621578130

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Mortality and Faith by David Horowitz Pdf

Mortality and Faith is the second half of an autobiography of David Horowitz whose first installment, Radical Son, was published more than twenty years ago. It completes the account of his life from where the first book left off to his seventy-eighth year. In contrast to Radical Son whose focus was his political odyssey, Mortality and Faith was conceived as a meditation on age, and on our common progress towards an end which is both final and opaque. These primal facts affect all we see and do, and force us to answer the questions as to why we are here and where we are going with conjectures that can only be taken on faith. Consequently, an equally important theme of this work is its exploration of the beliefs we embrace to answer these questions, and how the answers impact our lives.

Author : Sergii Bulgakov
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780227178997

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The Sophiology of Death by Sergii Bulgakov Pdf

Author : Richard Beck
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620327777

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The Slavery of Death by Richard Beck Pdf

According to Hebrews, the Son of God appeared to "break the power of him who holds the power of death--that is, the devil--and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death." What does it mean to be enslaved, all our lives, to the fear of death? And why is this fear described as "the power of the devil"? And most importantly, how are we--as individuals and as faith communities--to be set free from this slavery to death?In another creative interdisciplinary fusion, Richard Beck blends Eastern Orthodox perspectives, biblical text, existential psychology, and contemporary theology to describe our slavery to the fear of death, a slavery rooted in the basic anxieties of self-preservation and the neurotic anxieties at the root of our self-esteem. Driven by anxiety--enslaved to the fear of death--we are revealed to be morally and spiritually vulnerable as "the sting of death is sin." Beck argues that in the face of this predicament, resurrection is experienced as liberation from the slavery of death in the martyrological, eccentric, cruciform, and communal capacity to overcome fear in living fully and sacrificially for others.