Teeth And Talons Whetted For Slaughter

Author : Piet Slootweg
Publisher : Summum Academic
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789492701428

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Teeth and Talons Whetted for Slaughter by Piet Slootweg Pdf

Is a life cycle that depends on eating or being eaten compatible with a creation in which 'the heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims His handiwork'? Are animal death and extinction manifestations of a good God's majesty and power? When creating the world, did God use animal death and extinction as a means to realize his intentions? This study challenges the view that the emergence and acceptance of the theory of evolution brought a break in thinking about animal suffering in a good creation. Even before Darwin, people thought about animal suffering, about how God's goodness and good creation related to this, and about whether animals were already subject to death in paradise. Historically, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution did not form a watershed in the debate about animal suffering, nor did concerns about animal suffering only emerge with the Darwinian theory of evolution.

Author : Piet Slootweg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9492701367

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Teeth and Talons Whetted for Slaughter. Divine Attributes and Suffering Animals in Historical Perspective (1600-1961). by Piet Slootweg Pdf

Een onderzoek naar de historische visie op God en dierenleed. Relevant voor de bezinning op evolutie en christelijk geloof. Piet Slootweg is emeritus hoogleraar pathologie aan het Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.

Author : Charles Birch
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biology
ISBN : 0868407852

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Biology and the Riddle of Life by Charles Birch Pdf

Annotation. "What is life? What does it means to be alive? Is the Earth a super-organism? Is God necessary? In Biology and the Riddle of Life Charles Birch confronts these fundamental questions at a time when such topics as genetic engineering, cloning and ecology have been prominent in the news. Birch confronts the impression that modern biology has answers to all that there is to be known about life. We need to move towards an understanding of living creatures as subjects, and not only as objects, in order to probe life's hidden secrets - what it is to be alive, what it is to experience pain, and what it is to be in love. The answer must include the meaning of life for us as individuals. Birch proposes a new perspective to bring subject and object together. This is the black box he has opened."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Author : Gregory A. Boyd
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830898442

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Satan and the Problem of Evil by Gregory A. Boyd Pdf

Where does evil come from? If there is a sovereign creator God, as Christian faith holds, is this God ultimately responsible for evil? Does God's sovereignty mean that God causes each instance of sin and suffering? How do Satan, his demons and hell fit into God's providential oversight of all creation and history? How does God interact with human intention and action? If people act freely, does God know in particular every human decision before the choice is made? In this important book Gregory A. Boyd mounts a thorough response to these ages-old questions, which remain both crucial and contentious, both practical and complex. In this work Boyd defends his scripturally grounded trinitarian warfare theodicy (presented in God at War) with rigorous philosophical reflection and insights from human experience and scientific discovery. Critiquing the classical Calvinist solution to the problem of evil, he advocates an alternative understanding of the sovereignty of the trinitarian God and of the reality of Satan that sheds light on our fallen human condition. While all may not agree with Boyd's conclusions, Satan and the Problem of Evil promises to advance the church's discussion of these critical issues.

Author : M. Roston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230597174

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The Search for Selfhood in Modern Literature by M. Roston Pdf

The scientific achievements of the modern world failed to impress the leading writers of this century, leaving them instead profoundly disturbed by a sense of lost values and of the insignificance of the individual in a universe seemingly indifferent to human concerns. In The Search for Selfhood in Modern Literature Roston explores the strategies adopted by such mid-century authors as Greene, Salinger, Osborne, Baldwin and others in their attempt to cope with the spiritual vacuity - strategies including the emergence of the anti-hero and of literary existentialism - and offer in the course of the investigation fascinatingly new insights into their work.

Author : George John Romanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Religion
ISBN : NYPL:33433068181407

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Thoughts on Religion by George John Romanes Pdf

Author : Murray Roston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349139866

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Victorian Contexts by Murray Roston Pdf

Examines how both artist and writer in the Victorian era responded to the shared challenges, assumptions, and dilemmas of their time, often unaware that the same problems were being confronted in the kindred media. The placing of such writers as Dickens, G.Eliot, Hopkins, and Henry James within the context of Victorian painting, architecture, and interior design offers fresh insights into their works, as well as reassessments of such themes as the mid-century representation of the Fallen Woman or the impact of commodity culture upon contemporary aesthetic standards.

Author : George John Romanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Theism
ISBN : WISC:89072336068

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A Candid Examination of Theism by George John Romanes Pdf

Author : Hans Madueme
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493446148

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Defending Sin by Hans Madueme Pdf

The conflict between the natural sciences and Christian theology has been going on for centuries. Recent advances in the fields of evolutionary biology, behavioral genetics, and neuroscience have intensified this conflict, particularly in relation to origins, the fall, and sin. These debates are crucial to our understanding of human sinfulness and necessarily involve the doctrine of salvation. Theistic evolutionists have labored hard to resolve these tensions between science and faith, but Hans Madueme argues that the majority of their proposals do injustice both to biblical teaching and to long-standing doctrines held by the mainstream Christian tradition. In this major contribution to the field of science and religion, Madueme demonstrates that the classical notion of sin reflected in Scripture, the creeds, and tradition offers the most compelling and theologically coherent account of the human condition. He answers pressing challenges from the physical sciences on both methodological and substantive levels. Scholars, pastors, students, and interested lay readers will profit from interacting with the arguments presented here.

Author : George John Romanes
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368504960

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A Candid Examination of Theism by George John Romanes Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1878.

Author : Donald R. Forsdyke
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780773569621

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Origin of Species Revisited by Donald R. Forsdyke Pdf

The trail led first to Joseph Hooker and Thomas Huxley, who had been both the theory's strongest supporters and its most penetrating critics, and eventually to Darwin's young research associate, the Victorian Georges Romanes, and to the Victorian-Edwardian, William Bateson. Although these men were well-known, their resolution of the origin of species paradox has either been ignored (Romanes), or ignored and reviled (Bateson). Four years after Darwin's death, Romanes published a theory of the origin of species by means of "physiological selection" that resolved the inconsistencies in Darwin's theory and introduced the idea of a "peculiarity" of the reproductive system that allowed selective fertility between "physiological complements." Forsdyke argues that the chemical basis of the origin of species by physiological selection is actually the species-dependent component of the base composition of DNA, showing that Romanes thus anticipated modern biochemistry. Using this new perspective Forsdyke considers some of the outstanding problems in biology and medicine, including the question of how "self" is distinguished from "not-self" by members of different species. Finally he examines the political and ideological forces that led to Romanes' contribution to evolutionary biology which has remained unappreciated until now.

Author : Harry Emerson Fosdick
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547243601

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The Meaning of Faith by Harry Emerson Fosdick Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Meaning of Faith" by Harry Emerson Fosdick. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Dennis J. Richardson,Peter J. Krause
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461511236

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North American Parasitic Zoonoses by Dennis J. Richardson,Peter J. Krause Pdf

North American Parasitic Zoonoses provides a concise and useful review of essential information about parasitic zoonotic diseases. North American Parasitic Zoonoses, volume six of "World Class Parasites", is written for researchers, students, veterinarians, physicians and scholars who enjoy reading research that has a major impact on human health, or agricultural productivity, and against which we have no satisfactory defense. It is intended to supplement more formal texts that cover taxonomy, life cycles, morphology, vector distribution, symptoms and treatment. It integrates vector, pathogen and host biology and celebrates the diversity of approach that comprises modern parasitological research.

Author : Dhirendra P. Singh
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : 8176487589

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Female Psychology and Mysticism by Dhirendra P. Singh Pdf

Author : Christopher Southgate
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108956710

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Monotheism and the Suffering of Animals in Nature by Christopher Southgate Pdf

This Element concerns itself with a particular aspect of the problem posed to monotheistic religious thought by suffering, namely the suffering of non-human creatures in nature. It makes some comparisons between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and then explores the problem in depth within Christian thought. After clarification of the nature of the problem, the Element considers a range of possible responses, including those based on a fall-event, those based on freedom of process, and those hypothesising a constraint on the possibilities for God as creator. Proposals based on the motif of self-emptying are evaluated. Two other aspects of the question concern God's providential relationship to the evolving creation, and the possibility of resurrection lives for animals. After consideration of the possibility of combining different explanations, the Element ends its discussion by looking at two innovative proposals at the cutting-edge of the debate.