Gospel Of The Absurd

Author : Robert Scot Miller
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498296472

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Gospel of the Absurd by Robert Scot Miller Pdf

Gospel of the Absurd is a project that originates in the anarchic experiences of a crack cocaine addict who was knocked off his high horse by an experience of Jesus. Having spent years as an enemy of the faith, R. Scot Miller came back to faith with the passion of a new convert infused with a subversive's heart for turning the world upside down. In the process of stumbling every bit as much as he learned to walk in the light, Miller begins to understand that the subversive claims of the gospel of Jesus as the Christ are not only the most meaningful response to the absurdity of the world, but that such absurdity demands a community of action that makes the subversive Christ the credible response to a culture and Christendom run amok with power and greed. Gospel of the Absurd is about an ethic informed by an absurd claim--that being the claim that voluntary sacrifice of privilege is the proper response to human brokenness and the systems of domination that have lured the church into apostasy. Miller then explores whether the church, by prioritizing care ethics over legislative or coercive justice, is the salvific experience Jesus is calling us to engage in.

Author : Russell M. Lawson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532694714

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Metamorphosis by Russell M. Lawson Pdf

This book is the culmination of many years spent addressing two questions: Why did Christ come when He did? And what happened as a result? The first question has exercised the minds of countless theologians, philosophers, and historians, those who assume through faith that the Son of God could determine whence He appeared among humans. Why during the Roman Empire? Why during the reign of Herod the Great or his successor Herod Archelaus? Why not centuries earlier, or centuries later? Why at this particular time, two thousand years ago? Such answers as have been proposed—that He arrived as the Messiah to fulfill God's promise to the Jews; that He arrived when the Pax Romana provided the stability and continuity necessary for the spread of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean region; that He arrived when humans needed Him most—are sufficient, if not wholly satisfactory, answers to the question. One way to approach the question, Why did Christ come when He did?, is to ask the corollary, And what happened as a result?, which provides a host of new possibilities. He came to establish the Church; He came to replace the Old Testament Law, the old covenant, with a new covenant; He came to inaugurate the Great Commission, to spread His Word throughout the world; He came to save the world; He inaugurated the greatest revolution in thought, culture, and society, the world has ever seen before and since. Which one is true? What is the answer?

Author : Peter Francev,Maciej Kałuża
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004526761

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Coming Back to the Absurd: Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus: 80 Years On by Peter Francev,Maciej Kałuża Pdf

A celebration of the importance and significance of The Myth of Sisyphus, this collection of essays, from some of the world’s leading Camus scholars, examines the impact on philosophy that Camus’s The Myth has had in the past 80 years.

Author : Donald A. Crosby
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438400082

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The Specter of the Absurd by Donald A. Crosby Pdf

This book is our century's most comprehensive and wise treatment of nihilism in all of its guises, comparing favorably with Rosen, Cavell, and indeed with Spengler. Crosby argues that our culture is genuinely haunted by nihilism expressing itself in the fideism of fundamentalism as well as in the debilitating alienation from all orientation. This results from a one-sided development of Western culture. Unlike most writers on this topic, Crosby acknowledges many sources colluding to frame the culture of nihilism, including "the death of God," the objectification of nature, the meaninglessness of suffering in a mechanical universe, the ephemerality of time in a world where value does not accumulate, the arbitrariness of historicized reason, the reduction of value to will, and the alienation of the Cartesian ego. These sources are reviewed in the first two parts of the book with the result that the phenomenon of nihilism becomes understandable. In its third and fourth parts, Crosby provides a critical analysis of the religious and philosophical forces leading to nihilism by discussing authors from the early modern period through Dostoyevsky, Sartre, Russell, and Derrida. He shows that these forces are skewed and impoverished and should not be allowed to determine our situation. The comprehensive attention to detail and the multi-perspectival interpretation demonstrates as well as asserts the richness of the culture that puts nihilism in its place. Part Five, finally, rephrases the criticism of the sources of nihilism in positive ways. Part Four in particular is a tour de force of philosophical argument. Its richness of nuance, plurality of views examined, and adroitness of critical interpretation provide cumulatively a powerful, non-nihilistic reading of the philosophic tradition. The force of the argument derives from its comprehensive, cumulative character. Crosby distinguishes and relates five areas of nihilism: political, moral, epistemological, cosmic, and existential. Throughout the book, he illustrates and examines these as they are expressed in literature and art, in daily life and practical affairs, and in philosophy. The book is richly erudite in its marshalling of consciousness from so many domains.

Author : Steve Gray
Publisher : SGM Publishing
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 9781580470445

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My Absurd Religion by Steve Gray Pdf

Author : Walter Richard Cassels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Bible
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU16521404

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Supernatural Religion: Introduction. Miracles. The Synoptic gospels by Walter Richard Cassels Pdf

Author : Charles Grandison Finney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026351858

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Lectures to Professing Christians by Charles Grandison Finney Pdf

Author : Raymond J. Nogar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Theology
ISBN : OCLC:678927

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The Lord of the Absurd by Raymond J. Nogar Pdf

Author : S. Sandaram Iyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : First philosophy
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010633188

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Thoughts on the Metaphysics of Theosophy by S. Sandaram Iyer Pdf

Author : William Sanday
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Apolgetics
ISBN : BML:37001103906017

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The Gospels in the Second Century by William Sanday Pdf

Author : John STOCK (LL.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023328283

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An essay on the mode and subjects of Christian Baptism ... Second edition, ... enlarged by John STOCK (LL.D.) Pdf

Author : Dan Bouchelle
Publisher : College Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0899004997

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The Gospel Unhindered by Dan Bouchelle Pdf

Author : Mike Cosper
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830890767

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Recapturing the Wonder by Mike Cosper Pdf

15th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year - Inspirational Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Top Shelf Book Cover Award 2017 When we're young, it's easy to believe in the supernatural, the mysterious, the enchanted. But as we grow older, we learn to be more "rational" and more confident that reality is merely what we can see. Even as Christians who believe in the resurrection, we live as if miracles and magic have been drained from the world. As Mike Cosper wrestled with his own disillusionment, he found writers, thinkers, and artists like Hannah Arendt, Charles Taylor, James K. A. Smith, and David Foster Wallace whose words and ideas reassured him that he was not alone. And he discovered ancient and modern disciplines that shape a Christian way of life and awaken the possibility of living again in an enchanted world. Exquisitely written with thoughtful practices woven throughout, this book will feed your soul and help you recapture the wonder of your Christian walk.

Author : Thomas MILLS (of Nottingham.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : BL:A0018959853

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The Absurdity of Unbelief in Christianity by Thomas MILLS (of Nottingham.) Pdf

Author : John C. Stuart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590951345

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Ingersoll's 'ghosts'. An examination of R.G. Ingersoll's objections to the Bible; contained in his lectures on 'Ghosts', 'Hell', etc by John C. Stuart Pdf