P R I S M Primal Religious Instruction Serving Mankind

Author : M.B.O OWOLOWO
Publisher : SCOPE MEDIA GROUP
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781838479015

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P.R.I.S.M: Primal Religious Instruction Serving Mankind by M.B.O OWOLOWO Pdf

Religion is an integral part of mankind and affects everybody, regardless of religious inclination or posturing. The reality of our contemporary world is that matters of religion will literally stare you in the face – it’s ineluctable. There exists a wide spectrum of dedication, disinclination and aversion to religion, and the potential extremism among all categories is existential. In certain instances, adopted positions sometimes manifest as an aversion to religion, and by extension God. Historically, great minds, thinkers, philosophers and scientists have tried to decipher the meaning of life, and the matter of religion played a recurring role. In understanding the complexities of religion, the matter should ideally be approached via holistic and historical analysis, with the aim of unravelling its primal objective. The propositions of this project are derived from various academic sources, including theological exegesis – primarily Biblical and Quranic. P.R.I.S.M considers every form of belief and non-belief: from the agnostic to the atheist, Christian to Hindu, Jew to Muslim, and traditionalist to Zoroastrian. Maybe the concept of religion has been misunderstood and misrepresented? P.R.I.S.M is a multidisciplinary and rational approach to the matter of God and religion, from a universal viewpoint. Potentially, a proper understanding of these issues may assist mankind in its quest for peaceful coexistence.

Author : M.B.O OWOLOWO
Publisher : SCOPE MEDIA GROUP
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781838479008

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P.R.I.S.M: Primal Religious Instruction Serving Mankind by M.B.O OWOLOWO Pdf

Religion is an integral part of mankind and affects everybody, regardless of religious inclination or posturing. The reality of our contemporary world is that matters of religion will literally stare you in the face – it’s ineluctable. There exists a wide spectrum of dedication, disinclination and aversion to religion, and the potential extremism among all categories is existential. In certain instances, adopted positions sometimes manifest as an aversion to religion, and by extension God. Historically, great minds, thinkers, philosophers and scientists have tried to decipher the meaning of life, and the matter of religion played a recurring role. In understanding the complexities of religion, the matter should ideally be approached via holistic and historical analysis, with the aim of unravelling its primal objective. The propositions of this project are derived from various academic sources, including theological exegesis – primarily Biblical and Quranic. P.R.I.S.M considers every form of belief and non-belief: from the agnostic to the atheist, Christian to Hindu, Jew to Muslim, and traditionalist to Zoroastrian. Maybe the concept of religion has been misunderstood and misrepresented? P.R.I.S.M is a multidisciplinary and rational approach to the matter of God and religion, from a universal viewpoint. Potentially, a proper understanding of these issues may assist mankind in its quest for peaceful coexistence.

Author : Reza Aslan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780553394733

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God by Reza Aslan Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer explores humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine in this concise and fascinating history of our understanding of God. In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions. In his new book, Aslan takes on a subject even more immense: God, writ large. In layered prose and with thoughtful, accessible scholarship, Aslan narrates the history of religion as a remarkably cohesive attempt to understand the divine by giving it human traits and emotions. According to Aslan, this innate desire to humanize God is hardwired in our brains, making it a central feature of nearly every religious tradition. As Aslan writes, “Whether we are aware of it or not, and regardless of whether we’re believers or not, what the vast majority of us think about when we think about God is a divine version of ourselves.” But this projection is not without consequences. We bestow upon God not just all that is good in human nature—our compassion, our thirst for justice—but all that is bad in it: our greed, our bigotry, our penchant for violence. All these qualities inform our religions, cultures, and governments. More than just a history of our understanding of God, this book is an attempt to get to the root of this humanizing impulse in order to develop a more universal spirituality. Whether you believe in one God, many gods, or no god at all, God: A Human History will challenge the way you think about the divine and its role in our everyday lives. Praise for God “Timely, riveting, enlightening and necessary.”—HuffPost “Tantalizing . . . Driven by [Reza] Aslan’s grace and curiosity, God . . . helps us pan out from our troubled times, while asking us to consider a more expansive view of the divine in contemporary life.”—The Seattle Times “A fascinating exploration of the interaction of our humanity and God.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “[Aslan’s] slim, yet ambitious book [is] the story of how humans have created God with a capital G, and it’s thoroughly mind-blowing.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Aslan is a born storyteller, and there is much to enjoy in this intelligent survey.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Chambers W. and R., ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590216006

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Chambers's etymological dictionary of the English language, ed. by J. Donald by Chambers W. and R., ltd Pdf

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307957337

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Pdf

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Author : Samuel Nathan Gillian
Publisher : Phemore Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Anxiety
ISBN : 0971857881

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The Beauty of Fear by Samuel Nathan Gillian Pdf

Author : George Vaillant
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780767926584

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Spiritual Evolution by George Vaillant Pdf

In our current era of holy terror, passionate faith has come to seem like a present danger. Writers such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens have been happy to throw the baby out with the bathwater and declare that the danger is in religion itself. God, Hitchens writes, is not great. But man, according to George E. Vaillant, M.D., is great. In Spiritual Evolution, Dr. Vaillant lays out a brilliant defense not of organized religion but of man’s inherent spirituality. Our spirituality, he shows, resides in our uniquely human brain design and in our innate capacity for emotions like love, hope, joy, forgiveness, and compassion, which are selected for by evolution and located in a different part of the brain than dogmatic religious belief. Evolution has made us spiritual creatures over time, he argues, and we are destined to become even more so. Spiritual Evolution makes the scientific case for spirituality as a positive force in human evolution, and he predicts for our species an even more loving future. Vaillant traces this positive force in three different kinds of “evolution”: the natural selection of genes over millennia, of course, but also the cultural evolution within recorded history of ideas about the value of human life, and the development of spirituality within the lifetime of each individual. For thirty-five years, Dr. Vaillant directed Harvard’s famous longitudinal study of adult development, which has followed hundreds of men over seven decades of life. The study has yielded important insights into human spirituality, and Dr. Vaillant has drawn on these and on a range of psychological research, behavioral studies, and neuroscience, and on history, anecdote, and quotation to produce a book that is at once a work of scientific argument and a lyrical meditation on what it means to be human. Spiritual Evolution is a life’s work, and it will restore our belief in faith as an essential human striving.

Author : Benjamin Franklin Underwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Religion
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069705246

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The Index ... by Benjamin Franklin Underwood Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Encyclopaedia
ISBN : UIUC:30112063938432

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Zell's Popular Encyclopedia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew Findlater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : English language
ISBN : UCLA:31158006183429

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Chambers's Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Andrew Findlater Pdf

Author : Charles Smith Morris,Daniel Garrison Brinton,Marcus Benjamin,Amos Emerson Dolbear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433003239880

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The American Educator by Charles Smith Morris,Daniel Garrison Brinton,Marcus Benjamin,Amos Emerson Dolbear Pdf

Author : Timothy Jurgensen,Bertrand du Castel,Timothy M. Jurgensen
Publisher : Midori Press LLC
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780980182118

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Computer Theology by Timothy Jurgensen,Bertrand du Castel,Timothy M. Jurgensen Pdf

Computers are complex tools of the human species. To make them work well for us, we have to specify their actions in very great detail. When properly instructed, networks of computers take on the trappings of human social orders derived from the physiological characteristics and capabilities of our species. To create a social order, we engage in grouping mechanisms through which the actions of the individuals within the group are influenced. From a technical perspective, such grouping mechanisms form the trust environments within which we can effect policy. Historically, the most comprehensive such environments have been formed by religions. Within a specific religion, the policy framework is established by a statement of theology. So, if we connect all the dots, when we want to tell our computers how to act in a manner paralleling human social orders, we must define for them a theology. So goes the rationale explored in great detail by the authors of Computer Theology. Based on their combined tenure of almost a century working in the realms of computer systems and their ubiquitous networks, du Castel and Jurgensen have expressed both social and computer systems through the same concepts. The result offers a unique perspective on the interconnection between people and machines that we have come to understand as the World Wide Web.

Author : Leo de Colange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1154 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOMDLP:ajd6915:0002.001

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Zell's Popular Encyclopedia by Leo de Colange Pdf

Author : Aleister Crowley
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : EAN:8596547793373

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The Book Of Lies by Aleister Crowley Pdf

The Book of Lies was written by English occultist and teacher Aleister Crowley under the pen name of Frater Perdurabo. As Crowley describes it: "This book deals with many matters on all planes of the very highest importance. It is an official publication for Babes of the Abyss, but is recommended even to beginners as highly suggestive." The book consists of 91 chapters, each of which consists of one page of text. The chapters include a question mark, poems, rituals, instructions, and obscure allusions and cryptograms. The subject of each chapter is generally determined by its number and its corresponding Qabalistic meaning.

Author : Tunde Adeleke
Publisher : University of South Carolina Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1643361848

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In the Service of God and Humanity: Conscience, Reason, and the Mind of Martin R. Delany by Tunde Adeleke Pdf

Martin R. Delany (1812-1885) was one of the leading and most influential Black activists and nationalists in American history. His ideas have inspired generations of activists and movements, including Booker T. Washington in the late nineteenth century, Marcus Garvey in the early 1920s, Malcolm X and Black Power in 1960s, and even today's Black Lives Matter. Extant scholarship on Delany has focused largely on his Black nationalist and Pan-Africanist ideas. Tunde Adeleke argues that there is so much more about Delany to appreciate. In the Service of God and Humanity reveals and analyzes Delany's contributions to debates and discourses about strategies for elevating Black people and improving race relations in the nineteenth century. Adeleke examines Delany's view of Blacks as Americans who deserved the same rights and privileges accorded Whites. While he spent the greater part of his life pursuing racial equality, his vision for America was much broader. Adeleke argues that Delany was a quintessential humanist who envisioned a social order in which everyone, regardless of race, felt validated and empowered. Through close readings of the discourse of Delany's humanist visions and aspirations, Adeleke illuminates many crucial but undervalued aspects of his thought. He discusses the strategies Delany espoused in his quest to universalize America's most cherished of values--life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--and highlights his ideological contributions to the internal struggles to reform America. The breadth and versatility of Delany's thought become more evident when analyzed within the context of his American-centered aspirations. In the Service of God and Humanity reveals a complex man whose ideas straddled many complicated social, political, and cultural spaces, and whose voice continues to speak to America today.