Reasonable Faith For A Post Secular Age

Author : William Greenway
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725270442

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Our global community desperately needs overt awakening to an age of reason and faith. Reasonable Faith for a Post-Secular Age meets this need by interpreting faith not in terms of belief in propositions but in terms of living surrender to having been seized by agape for every Face, including one’s own. Virtually all faith traditions, from Buddhism to Humanism to Wiccan, are rooted in agape and therefore share considerable spiritual and ethical common ground (a truth long veiled). In contrast to ethically feckless secular rationality—over which a devastating, global social Darwinism currently runs roughshod—faith qua living surrender to agape grounds moral realism, awakens us to love for all creatures, and inspires struggles for justice. Inspired by the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and Christian spirituality, Greenway engages, on the one hand, intellectuals like Stanley Hauerwas, Richard Rorty, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jeffery Stout, Charles Taylor, and Bernard Williams, and, on the other, contemporary debates over consciousness, free will, evil, and metaethics. He details the character of secular rationality’s devastating scission from moral reality and clarifies the promise of understanding faith and spirituality in terms of agape.

Author : William Greenway
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725270466

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Reasonable Faith for a Post-Secular Age by William Greenway Pdf

Our global community desperately needs overt awakening to an age of reason and faith. Reasonable Faith for a Post-Secular Age meets this need by interpreting faith not in terms of belief in propositions but in terms of living surrender to having been seized by agape for every Face, including one's own. Virtually all faith traditions, from Buddhism to Humanism to Wiccan, are rooted in agape and therefore share considerable spiritual and ethical common ground (a truth long veiled). In contrast to ethically feckless secular rationality--over which a devastating, global social Darwinism currently runs roughshod--faith qua living surrender to agape grounds moral realism, awakens us to love for all creatures, and inspires struggles for justice. Inspired by the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and Christian spirituality, Greenway engages, on the one hand, intellectuals like Stanley Hauerwas, Richard Rorty, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jeffery Stout, Charles Taylor, and Bernard Williams, and, on the other, contemporary debates over consciousness, free will, evil, and metaethics. He details the character of secular rationality's devastating scission from moral reality and clarifies the promise of understanding faith and spirituality in terms of agape.

Author : Anthony Campolo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : 0850090954

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Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745694702

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An Awareness of What is Missing by Jürgen Habermas Pdf

In his recent writings on religion and secularization, Habermas has challenged reason to clarify its relation to religious experience and to engage religions in a constructive dialogue. Given the global challenges facing humanity, nothing is more dangerous than the refusal to communicate that we encounter today in different forms of religious and ideological fundamentalism. Habermas argues that in order to engage in this dialogue, two conditions must be met: religion must accept the authority of secular reason as the fallible results of the sciences and the universalistic egalitarianism in law and morality; and conversely, secular reason must not set itself up as the judge concerning truths of faith. This argument was developed in part as a reaction to the conception of the relation between faith and reason formulated by Pope Benedict XVI in his 2006 Regensburg address. In 2007 Habermas conducted a debate, under the title ‘An Awareness of What Is Missing', with philosophers from the Jesuit School for Philosophy in Munich. This volume includes Habermas's essay, the contributions of his interlocutors and Habermas's reply to them. It will be indispensable reading for anyone who wishes to understand one of the most urgent and intractable issues of our time.

Author : William Lane Craig
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433501159

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Reasonable Faith by William Lane Craig Pdf

This updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.

Author : William Lane Craig
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0891077642

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Reasonable Faith by William Lane Craig Pdf

An excellent choice for a rational and systematic defense of the Christian faith. Written by one of the top Christian theologians in an easier-to-read style, this expanded edition discusses the relationship between faith and reason, covering important core beliefs. This resource includes a new chapter on the validity of New Testament documents.

Author : Francis Frith,William Edward Turner,William Pollard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020488482

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A Reasonable Faith by Francis Frith,William Edward Turner,William Pollard Pdf

Author : Patrick Gilger
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608334483

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Jesuit Post by Patrick Gilger Pdf

Drawn from the eponymous blog essays on faith, culture, and lives of Christian discipleship by young Jesuit priests and seminarians for young adult seekers.

Author : William Lane Craig
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433521188

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Reasonable Faith (3rd edition) by William Lane Craig Pdf

Perfect as a textbook yet excellent for lay readers, this updated edition builds a positive case for Christianity by applying the latest thought to core theological themes. J. Gresham Machen once said, "False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the gospel"-which makes apologetics that much more important. Wanting to engage not just academics and pastors but Christian laypeople and seekers, William Lane Craig has revised and updated key sections in this third edition of his classic text to reflect the latest work in astrophysics, philosophy, probability calculus, the arguments for the existence of God, and Reformed epistemology. His approach-that of positive apologetics-gives careful attention to crucial questions and concerns, including: the relationship of faith and reason, the existence of God, the problems of historical knowledge and miracles, the personal claims of Christ, and the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus. He shows that there is good reason to think Christianity is true. As Craig says, "If you have a sound and persuasive case for Christianity, you don't have to become an expert in comparative religions and Christian cults. A positive justification of the Christian faith automatically overwhelms all competing world views lacking an equally strong case."

Author : Elaine Graham
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334045984

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Elaine Graham Pdf

Public theology is an increasingly important area of theological discourse with strong global networks of institutions and academics involved in it. Elaine Graham is one of the UK's leading theologians and an established SCM author. In this book, Elaine Graham argues that Western society is entering an unprecedented political and cultural era, in which many of the assumptions of classic sociological theory and of mainstream public theology are being overturned. Whilst many of the features of the trajectory of religious decline, typical of Western modernity, are still apparent, there are compelling and vibrant signs of religious revival, not least in public life and politics - local, national and global. This requires a revision of the classic secularization thesis, as well as much Western liberal political theory, which set out separate or at least demarcated terms of engagement between religion and the public domain. Elaine Graham examines claims that Western societies are moving from 'secular' to 'post-secular' conditions and traces the contours of the 'post-secular': the revival of faith-based engagement in public sphere alongside the continuing - perhaps intensifying - questioning of the legi¬timacy of religion in public life. She argues that public theology must rethink its theological and strategic priorities in order to be convincing in this new 'post-secular' world and makes the case for the renewed prospects for public theology as a form of Christian apologetics, drawing from Biblical, classical and contemporary sources.

Author : Anthony Campolo
Publisher : W Publishing Group
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0849930405

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A Reasonable Faith by Anthony Campolo Pdf

Author : Americo Tulipano
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781644629901

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Reasonable Faith by Americo Tulipano Pdf

Christians and non-Christians alike are troubled by powerful questions: Why do innocent people suffer? Why isn't spiritual truth objectively provable? How can evolution be reconciled with belief in God? What is a soul? What is moral truth? How much hard history do the gospels contain? What did Jesus mean when he spoke of perfection? What is evil? Clear, concise answers to these and 265 other questions are offered in Reasonable Faith. Backed by many years of inquiry and research, this book takes on questions that have been avoided or given terse treatment by other "Christian answer" books. In the process of facing such questions, this work provides an honest and reasonable basis for compassionate Christian faith. "Like a breath of fresh air...wonderful." —Dr. Francis Collins Director of the National Institute of Health Author of The Language of God "A masterpiece." —Brother Aelred Reid, Benedictine Monk St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota "Beautifully written and diligently researched." —Reverend Richard A. Santella Retired United Methodist Minister "Wonderful." —Joan Roughgarden Professor of biology, Stanford University Author of Evolution and Christian Faith

Author : Tony Campolo
Publisher : W Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995-02
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : 0849936349

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A Reasonable Faith by Tony Campolo Pdf

Here is Tony Campolo's unblinking look into the cold gaze of unbelief. A Reasonable Faith communicates the Christian faith in understandable terms to secular people steeped in contemporary ideas about the nature of life and helps Christians see how their beliefs make sense in the world in which they live.

Author : Hent de Vries,Lawrence Eugene Sullivan
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823226443

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Political Theologies by Hent de Vries,Lawrence Eugene Sullivan Pdf

What has happened to religion in its present manifestations? Containing contributions from distinguished scholars from disciplines, such as: philosophy, political theory, anthropology, classics, and religious studies, this book seeks to address this question.

Author : John Baker Hopkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590502053

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A Reasonable Faith by John Baker Hopkins Pdf