The Confusion Of Worlds

Author : Heiner Schwenke
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532656026

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The Confusion of Worlds by Heiner Schwenke Pdf

The idea of the resurrection of the physical body and the eternal continuation of life with this body in a future paradisiacal kingdom of God on earth is one of the most enigmatic of religious ideas. It fully contradicts our knowledge of the transitoriness of all things in this universe. According to the author, the origin for this idea lies in certain forms of otherworld experiences, as, for example, reported by people who had near-death experiences: encounters with the dead in brilliantly beautiful bodies and the experience of paradisiacal, seemingly earthly landscapes. He observes that cultures with a pre-modern cosmology sometimes projected such otherworld experiences onto this world, to distant and unknown locations on earth. These experiences were the blueprint for an expectation of paradisiacal conditions on earth. The author establishes parallels between the reports of otherworld experiences and the eschatological ideas of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, and Christianity. He shows that otherworld experiences can indeed foster the expectation of paradisiacal conditions on earth by referring to the Ghost Dance movement of the Lakota people in 1890. He presumes that the confusion of worlds proved fatal not only for the Lakota people but also for Jesus of Nazareth.

Author : Tom Wright
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780281069880

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Creation, Power and Truth by Tom Wright Pdf

In Creation, Power and Truth, Tom Wright invites readers to consider the crucial ways in which the Christian gospel challenges and subverts the intellectual, moral and political values that pervade contemporary culture. In doing so, he asks searching questions about three defining characteristics of our time: neo-gnosticism, neo-imperialism and postmodernity. Employing a robust Trinitarian framework, Wright looks afresh at key elements of the biblical story while drawing out new and unexpected connections between ancient and modern world-views. The result is a vigorous critique of common cultural assumptions and controlling narratives, past and present, and a compelling read for all who want to hear, speak and live the gospel of Christ in a world of cultural confusion.

Author : Heiner Schwenke
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532656040

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The Confusion of Worlds by Heiner Schwenke Pdf

The idea of the resurrection of the physical body and the eternal continuation of life with this body in a future paradisiacal kingdom of God on earth is one of the most enigmatic of religious ideas. It fully contradicts our knowledge of the transitoriness of all things in this universe. According to the author, the origin for this idea lies in certain forms of otherworld experiences, as, for example, reported by people who had near-death experiences: encounters with the dead in brilliantly beautiful bodies and the experience of paradisiacal, seemingly earthly landscapes. He observes that cultures with a pre-modern cosmology sometimes projected such otherworld experiences onto this world, to distant and unknown locations on earth. These experiences were the blueprint for an expectation of paradisiacal conditions on earth. The author establishes parallels between the reports of otherworld experiences and the eschatological ideas of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, and Christianity. He shows that otherworld experiences can indeed foster the expectation of paradisiacal conditions on earth by referring to the Ghost Dance movement of the Lakota people in 1890. He presumes that the confusion of worlds proved fatal not only for the Lakota people but also for Jesus of Nazareth.

Author : Jack Stanfield
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781465321831

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Modernity, a World of Confusion:Causes by Jack Stanfield Pdf

Have you ever wondered why society is getting cruder and ruder, with stress, depression and mental illness rising and little joy felt? Why children behave badly and schools are failing? Why trust has vanished with your identity? And why sex is oozing out of every aspect of the culture? We live in a skeptical age with the country splintering into special interest groups claiming to be victims and requiring special treatment, and a Congress thats deadlocked in partisan bickering. There is anger and tension and really intolerable things being tolerated, placing women and children in danger. If you have such questions, this is your book, an inquiry into the spirit of the age. Examined are root causes for the darkened culture, immoral behavior, and rejection of traditions. The age glorifies science and technical progress, and yet is unhappy and sickly. Individualism surmounts community concerns creating narcissistic people tending toward nihilism, where the self is the center of the universe. The postmodern culture throws away things, relationships, and lives, like it disposes of outdated items. Logic is replaced with how I feel, and reliance on personal experience for making decisions. Relativism is accepted in ethics and for determining truth, so that it is my truth and your truth, and objectivity and common sense are lost. Science is erecting the abstract man, who, in the process, has lost heart and a sense of reality, living in a delusional world. The result is a profusion of confusion.

Author : Bossant Ti Denis
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780997108743

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The End of the World Confusion About the Bible by Bossant Ti Denis Pdf

After you are done reading The End of the World Confusion About the Bible You will have the knowledge to stand comfortably in front of whoever to speak. You will go from a listener to a speaker because you will know what others don’t. You will know the complete and correct meaning of the word “adultery”. You will know the deep hidden mystery beyond mankind achievement on earth. You will know what the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is, for it is finally revealed. You will know the only one entity or thing that God did not create. You will know why God does not know about and see things that happen.

Author : Chris Barton
Publisher : Millbrook Press TM
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728476254

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Dazzle Ships by Chris Barton Pdf

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! A visually stunning look at innovative and eye-popping measures used to protect ships during World War I. During World War I, British and American ships were painted with bold colors and crazy patterns from bow to stern. Why would anyone put such eye-catching designs on ships? Desperate to protect ships from German torpedo attacks, British lieutenant-commander Norman Wilkinson proposed what became known as dazzle. These stunning patterns and colors were meant to confuse the enemy about a ship's speed and direction. By the end of the war, more than four thousand ships had been painted with these mesmerizing designs. Author Chris Barton and illustrator Victo Ngai vividly bring to life this little-known story of how the unlikely and the improbable became just plain dazzling. "[A] conversational, compelling, and visually arresting story . . ."—starred, Publishers Weekly "Barton's lively text is matched by Ngai's engrossing artwork, which employs dazzle techniques throughout her inventive spreads."—The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books New York Public Library Best Books for Kids Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year

Author : Jack Stanfield
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781479773435

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Modernity, a World of Confusion: Reality and Choice by Jack Stanfield Pdf

Do things bring happiness? Do you believe only what you see? What is truth? What can you reliably know? Is death nothingness? Does God exist? This book examines such questions, from which two distinct world views arise and are surveyed. The book examines reality, how our choices determine our character and final destination, knowledge, and limitations of science; surveys relativity, quantum physics, life, evolution, and mans uniqueness; and looks at realitys material and immaterial aspects. Genesis is reviewed and shown to have scientific meaning. The book ends by proposing two very different paths that one can choose to follow.

Author : Jack Stanfield
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781465321848

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Modernity, a World of Confusion: Effects by Jack Stanfield Pdf

This book examines the modern culture and its effects. These include dehumanization and degradation of people, growth of indifferent and legalistic attitudes, arbitrary justice, increased antisocial behavior, and disregard for the sacred, religious, and life itself, as our throwaway society becomes more selfish and prideful. Comfort and pleasure now trump virtue and discipline. This has produced self-centered individuals that reject traditions and who are rebelling against all authority. The culture now condones the seven deadly sins as the norm, causing a decline in the health and spirit of the nation. Technology, legislatures, and courts are progressively limiting parents ability to instill traditional values and to protect their children from predators. The media views freedom as license, and nihilism is rising. Sinuous pleasures, self-indulgence, and feelings over logical thinking are emphasized. Logic is replaced by experiential and inferential thinking that easily misleads. A brave new world is being foisted on the public that, instead of producing happy and healthy citizens, leads to anger, frustration, depression, sickness, and lost hope. A conundrum exists: wanting it all may mean that everything that is important is lost. Hope lies in recapturing our Christian roots, as 80 percent of Americans claim to believe in God. By their actions, these citizens hold the key to moderating the culture by holding firm to their belief in God, country, family, traditions, and honor. To effect change, they must, however, make Jesus love known through charity, and their voices heard in the marketplace of ideas.

Author : Georg Weber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : World history
ISBN : UIUC:30112076267126

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History of the World from the Creation of Man to the Present Day by Georg Weber Pdf

Author : Joseph L. Camp Jr.
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674029170

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Confusion by Joseph L. Camp Jr. Pdf

Everyone has mistaken one thing for another, such as a stranger for an acquaintance. A person who has mistaken two things, Joseph L. Camp argues, even on a massive scale, is still capable of logical thought. In order to make that idea precise, one needs a logic of confused thought that is blind to the distinction between the objects that have been confused. Confused thought and language cannot be characterized as true or false even though reasoning conducted in such language can be classified as valid or invalid. To the extent that philosophers have addressed this issue at all, they take it for granted that confusion is a kind of ambiguity. Camp rejects this notion; his fundamental claim is that confusion is not a mental state. To attribute confusion to someone is to take up a paternalistic stance in evaluating his reasoning. Camp proposes a novel characterization of confusion, and then demonstrates its fruitfulness with several applications in the history of philosophy and the history of science.

Author : Charles Dudley Warner,Hamilton Wright Mabie,Charles Henry Warner,Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Literature
ISBN : SRLF:D0007616022

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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z by Charles Dudley Warner,Hamilton Wright Mabie,Charles Henry Warner,Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle Pdf

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Anthologies
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015699742

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Library of the World's Best Literature by Charles Dudley Warner Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : UOMDLP:abk8395:0001.001

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Report of the President to the Board of Directors of the World's Columbian Exposition by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cindy Gabrielle
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443879767

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The Unharnessed World by Cindy Gabrielle Pdf

Though New Zealand author Janet Frame (1924–2004) lived at a time of growing dissatisfaction with European cultural models, and though her (auto-)biography, fiction and letters all testify to the fact that a direct encounter between herself and Buddhism occurred, her work has, so far, never been examined from the vantage point of its indebtedness to Buddhism. It is of the utmost significance, however, that a Buddhist navigation of Frame’s texts should shed fresh light on large segments of the Framean corpus which have tended to remain obdurately mysterious. This includes passages centering on such themes as the existence of a non-dual world or a character’s sudden embrace of a non-ego-like self. Of equal significance is the conclusion one then draws that this unharnessed world which human beings are often unable to embrace has always been right under their nose, for, whenever the aspect of the intellect that filters perceptions into mutually excluding categories fails to function, he or she finds a place of subjective arrival in, and sees, this supposedly unknowable ‘beyond’. Thus, possibly against the grain of mainstream criticism, this study argues that Janet Frame constantly seeks ways through which the infinite and the Other can be approached, though not corrupted, by the perceiving self, and that she found in the Buddhist epistemology a pathway towards evoking such alterity.

Author : Helmut Thielicke
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718845087

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How the World Began by Helmut Thielicke Pdf

The question of where we come from and where we are going is one of the elementary challenges of life. Perhaps it is the question of life. Only when we get an answer to it do we learn who we are. So begins How the World Began, a book that asks themost fundamental of all questions: who are we? And what did God intend us to be? Despite - perhaps even because of - the immense technological advances of our time, and the frightful consequences for the human race of the misuse of that power, humanity is brought face-to-face time and again with the essential problem that has haunted us since the beginning of time: the mystery of good and evil. Helmut Thielicke's work in these sermons on the first eleven chapters of Genesis is thought-provokingand exceptionally powerful.