Spiritual Realism

Author : David A. Gurdjieff Ph. D.
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780595330034

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Spiritual Realism by David A. Gurdjieff Ph. D. Pdf

You are not happy. You may enjoy periods of relative happiness and you may be happier than other people that you know, but you are not as happy as you'd like to be or as happy as you can be. How do I know? First of all, if you were completely satisfied with your life you wouldn't be holding this book in your hands right now. Second, it is very rare to find people that are in touch with certain realities regarding their existence that lead to lasting happiness. Spiritual Realism works in two ways. First, it will challenge the way you think about yourself and your personal reality construct, or in simpler terms, what you think is real. Your illusions need to be shattered in order to achieve the bliss that you desire, yet has been eluding you for so long. Second, this book will teach you a series of techniques that will make you happier and more content with your life if you practice them sincerely over an extended period of time. Spiritual Realism works. It cannot fail to work. Good luck! IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have strong religious beliefs you will likely find views in this book disturbing.

Author : Mervyn Hartwig,Jamie Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134005291

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Critical Realism and Spirituality by Mervyn Hartwig,Jamie Morgan Pdf

Critical Realism and Spirituality contextualizes, delineates, explores and critiques the turn to spirituality and religion in critical realism, which has been under way since the mid-1990s, as well as telling its story. It provides incisive discussion and anaysis of the following broad questions: How does critical realism allow and facilitate the resolution of problems in the area of comparative religion? Can it help you to justify your own faith or belief? What are the implications of the new philosophy of meta-Reality for traditional religious studies and how we organize and conduct our lives? A range of distinguished critical realists, theological critical realists and scholars working with related approaches (Roland Benedikter, Roy Bhaskar, Terry Eagleton, Mervyn Hartwig, Alister McGrath, Markus Molz, Jamie Morgan, Andrew Wright and others) bring their talents to bear on this task. While their personal beliefs span the whole spectrum from theism to atheism, they are united by the desire to open up a space for dialogue of one kind or another (intra-faith, inter-faith and/or extra-faith), promoting mutual understanding, respect and the unity and capability for collective emancipatory action on a global scale that humanity is so sorely in need of. This book is therefore, essential reading for students and academics alike in Religous Studies, Theology and Philosophy.

Author : Alexander Campbell Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101061979900

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Berkeley and Spiritual Realism by Alexander Campbell Fraser Pdf

Author : Father Victor de la Vierge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Christian women saints
ISBN : CUB:P101010109008

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Spiritual Realism of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux by Father Victor de la Vierge Pdf

Author : Rocco Boni
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532686061

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Quantum Christian Realism by Rocco Boni Pdf

Classical Christianity is rooted in a historical event: the Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. This is the central tenet of the Christian Faith. However there are a good number of tenets of Christianity that aren't historical at all. Rather, they are ontological. In other words, they are grounded in the nature of reality itself. In this work Rocco Boni shows how the dozen or so ontologically-based tenets of Christianity derive from the very foundations of reality; being grounded in the theistically-friendly ontology of quantum phenomenon. These tenets seem to have been built into the cosmos at the ground floor, their realization deriving from the indeterministic, immaterial, abstract nature of quantum process. This is not simply a book, it's a discovery. One that shows that the true ontic status of reality is not simply theistic, but Christian. The structure of this theistic ontology is elegant and economic, both hallmarks of scientific truth. If there were such a thing as a Theistic Unification Theory, this would be it.

Author : Andrew Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135236069

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Religious Education and Critical Realism by Andrew Wright Pdf

Religious Education and Critical Realism: Knowledge, Reality and Religious Literacy seeks to bring the enterprise of religious education in schools, colleges and universities into conversation with the philosophy of Critical Realism. This book addresses the problem, not of the substance of our primal beliefs about the ultimate nature of reality and our place in the ultimate order-of-things, but of the process through which we might attend to questions of substance in more attentive, reasonable, responsible and intelligent ways. This book unpacks the impact of modern and post-modern thought on key topics whilst also generating a new critically realistic vision. Offering an account of the relationship between Religious Education and Critical Realism, this book is essential reading for students, scholars and practitioners interested in philosophy, theology and education.

Author : Peter Ball
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819226709

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Anglican Spiritual Direction by Peter Ball Pdf

An overview of the distinctive Anglican tradition of spiritual guidance, looking at five centuries of history alongside an analysis of contemporary practice.

Author : John A. Zukowski
Publisher : The Pilgrim Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780829800456

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100 Spiritual Movies to See before You Die by John A. Zukowski Pdf

Spiritual themes are common in movies: The unconventional savior. The hero’s journey. The redemption tale. The balance of creation. Journalist John A. Zukowski reflects on twelve major spiritual themes in the world of cinema, discussing films from Dead Man Walking to Bruce Almighty, from Groundhog Day to Chariots of Fire, and many more. See them all—read them all—before you die!

Author : Andrew Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136196096

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Christianity and Critical Realism by Andrew Wright Pdf

One of the key achievements of critical realism has been to expose the modernist myth of universal reason, which holds that authentic knowledge claims must be objectively ‘pure’, uncontaminated by the subjectivity of local place, specific time and particular culture. Wright aims to address the lack of any substantial and sustained engagement between critical realism and theological critical realism with particular regard to: (a) the distinctive ontological claims of Christianity; (b) their epistemic warrant and intellectual legitimacy; and (c) scrutiny of the primary source of the ontological claims of Christianity, namely the historical figure of Jesus of Nazareth. As such, it functions as a prolegomena to a much needed wider debate, guided by the under-labouring services of critical realism, between Christianity and various other religious and secular worldviews. This important new text will help stimulate a debate that has yet to get out of first gear. This book will appeal to academics, graduate and post-graduate students especially, but also Christian clergy, ministers and informed laity, and members of the general public concerned with the nature of religion and its place in contemporary society.

Author : Alexander Campbell Fraser
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924076044613

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Berkeley and Spiritual Realism by Alexander Campbell Fraser Pdf

Author : Alpesh Maisuria,Grant Banfield
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000804614

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Working with Critical Realism by Alpesh Maisuria,Grant Banfield Pdf

This international and interdisciplinary collection gathers stories from researchers and research students about their methodological encounters with critical realism. Whether the contributors are experienced or novice researchers, they are predominantly new to critical realism. For various reasons, as the contributors’ detail, they have all been drawn to critical realism. It is well known that critical realism can be bewildering and even overwhelming to newcomers, especially to those unfamiliar with language of, and without a grounding in, philosophy. While there are now numerous and important introductory and applied critical realist texts that make critical realism more accessible to a broader audience, stories from newcomers have been absent – especially as part of a single collection. The significance and uniqueness of this collection lies in its documentation of first-hand reflective insights on the practical use and implementation of critical realism. The contributors feature critical realist inspired research journeys in Australia, England, Scotland, Belgium, Sweden, and Spain. The hope of this book is that the stories and accounts presented in it will inspire – or at least sufficiently arouse – the curiosity of others to explore critical realist possibilities, which we believe offer enormous value to serious researchers across and within all disciplines and subjects who are interested in rigorous intellectual work with a socially progressive purpose.

Author : Brian Douglas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004221260

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A Companion to Anglican Eucharistic Theology by Brian Douglas Pdf

Anglican eucharistic theology varies between the different philosophical assumptions of realism and nominalism. This book presents case studies from the 20th Century to the Present and avoids the hermeneutic idealism of particular church parties by critically examining the Anglican eucharistic tradition.

Author : Haiyan Xie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000836738

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Ideology and Form in Yan Lianke’s Fiction by Haiyan Xie Pdf

Xie analyzes three novels by the international award-winning Chinese writer Yan Lianke and investigates how his signature “mythorealist” form produces textual meanings that subvert the totalizing reality prescribed by literary realism. The term mythorealism, which Yan coined to describe his own writing style, refers to a set of literary devices that incorporate both Chinese and Western literary elements while remaining primarily grounded in Chinese folk culture and literary tradition. In his use of mythorealism, carrying a burden of social critique that cannot allow itself to become “political,” Yan transcends the temporality and provinciality of immediate social events and transforms his potential socio-political commentaries into more diversified concerns for humanity, existential issues, and spiritual crisis. Xie identifies three modes of mythorealist narrative exemplified in Yan’s three novels: the minjian (folk) mode in Dream of Ding Village, the allusive mode in Ballad, Hymn, Ode, and the enigmatic mode in The Four Books. By positioning itself against an ambiguous articulation of social determinants of historical events that would perhaps be more straightforward in a purely realist text, each mode of mythorealism moves its narrative from the overt politicality of the subject matter to the existential riddle of negotiating an alternative reality. A groundbreaking study of one of contemporary China’s most important authors that will be of great value to scholars and students of Chinese literature.

Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521296285

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Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 1, Realism and Naturalism by J. L. Styan Pdf

This 1981 volume begins with the French revolt against naturalism in theatre and then covers the European realist movement.

Author : Sean Creaven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134009138

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Against the Spiritual Turn by Sean Creaven Pdf

The argument presented in this book is that the recent ‘spiritual’ trajectory of Roy Bhaskar’s work, upon which he first embarked with the publication of his From East to West, undermines the fundamental achievements of his earlier work. The problem with Bhaskar’s new philosophical system (Transcendental Dialectical Critical Realism or simply Meta-Reality), from the critical-realist Marxist perspective endorsed here, is that it marks both a departure from and a negation of the earlier concerns of Bhaskar to develop a realist philosophy of science and under-labour for an emancipatory materialist socio-historical science. The end-result is a meta-philosophy which is irrealist, speculative, under-theorized, internally self-contradictory, and which cannot provide philosophical guidance to liberatory social practices. In opposition to theist ontological logics more generally (including the rather more rational theism presented by Margaret Archer, Andrew Collier and Doug Porpora), the argument of this book is that the earth-bound materialist dialectics of the classical Marxist tradition, and the naturalistic humanism these dialectics under-labour on the terrain of socio-historical being, offer a much more promising way forward for critical realist theory and for liberatory politics and ethics.