The Future Of God

Author : Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307884985

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The Future of God by Deepak Chopra, M.D. Pdf

From the New York Times Bestselling Author. Can God be revived in a skeptical age? What would it take to give people a spiritual life more powerful than anything in the past? Deepak Chopra tackles these issues with eloquence and insight in this book. He proposes that God lies at the source of human awareness. Therefore, any person can find the God within that transforms everyday life. God is in trouble. The rise of the militant atheist movement spearheaded by Richard Dawkins signifies, to many, that the deity is an outmoded myth in the modern world. Deepak Chopra passionately disagrees, seeing the present moment as the perfect time for making spirituality what it really should be: reliable knowledge about higher reality. Outlining a path to God that turns unbelief into the first step of awakening, Deepak shows us that a crisis of faith is like the fire we must pass through on the way to power, truth, and love. “Faith must be saved for everyone’s sake,” he writes. “From faith springs a passion for the eternal, which is even stronger than love. Many of us have lost that passion or have never known it.” In any age, faith is a cry from the heart. God is the higher consciousness that responds to the cry. “By itself, faith can’t deliver God, but it does something more timely: It makes God possible.” For three decades, Deepak Chopra has inspired millions with his profound writing and teaching. With The Future of God, he invites us on a journey of the spirit, providing a practical path to understanding God and our own place in the universe. Now, is a moment of reinvigoration, he argues. Now is moment of renewal. Now is the future.

Author : Don Finto
Publisher : Gospel Light Publications
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830738118

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God's Promise and the Future Israel by Don Finto Pdf

God’s promise and timing have intersected in our day. Witness the Jewish return to Israel, the rise of Messianic Jewish believers and the shifting of the Church’s power center from the West to Asia, Africa and Latin America, the fastest growing segments of the Body of Christ in our day. This has brought about many questions as the Church comes to grips with these sweeping changes. What does Scripture say about the future of the nation of Israel? What is right and wrong about the Messianic Jewish movement? Where do the Arab nations fit into God’s plan? How does this all affect the Church and how can the Church fulfill its role in this end-time scenario? Don Finto explores these questions and shows how to navigate the new landscape in this illuminating book.

Author : Nancy Ellen Abrams
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807075951

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A God That Could be Real by Nancy Ellen Abrams Pdf

A paradigm-shifting blend of science, religion, and philosophy for the agnostic, spiritual-but-not-religious, and scientifically minded reader Many people are fed up with the way traditional religion alienates them, perpetuates conflict, vilifies science, and undermines reason. Nancy Abrams—a philosopher of science, lawyer, and lifelong atheist—is among them, but she has also found freedom in imagining a higher power. In A God That Could Be Real, Abrams explores a radically new way of thinking about God. She dismantles several common assumptions about God and shows why an omniscient, omnipotent God that created the universe and plans what happens is incompatible with science—but that this doesn’t preclude a God that can comfort and empower us. Moving away from traditional arguments for God, Abrams finds something worthy of the name “God” in the new science of emergence: just as a complex ant hill emerges from the collective behavior of individually clueless ants, and just as the global economy emerges from the interactions of billions of individuals’ choices, God, she argues, is an “emergent phenomenon” that arises from the staggering complexity of humanity’s collective aspirations and is in dialogue with every individual. This God did not create the universe—it created the meaning of the universe. It’s not universal—it’s planetary. It can’t change the world, but it helps us change the world. A God that could be real, Abrams shows us, is what humanity needs to inspire us to collectively cooperate to protect our warming planet and create a long-term civilization.

Author : Frank Newport
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781595620620

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God Is Alive and Well by Frank Newport Pdf

Analyzes America's religious beliefs, practices, and prejudices to assess patterns of beliefs as they relate to life status factors, predicting that religion will become increasingly more important in the U.S. in future years.

Author : Benton Fazzolari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692085637

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Google Is God by Benton Fazzolari Pdf

God died in 1882. Nietzsche declares Him dead. Who replaces God when God dies? The answer to this question requires a look into who murdered God and by what means. Did Philosophy murder God? Was it Science that murdered God? Was it both? The Death of God opens a space for a new God to reign over the earth. This new God is Google. Google is God! But since God died, will Google eventually meet its own death? Will God die again? This book aims to answer these questions through an analysis of the psychological drives to create God and then subsequently murder Him, only to create a new one. A careful examination of the death of God and the advent of the New God illuminates the prospect of the eventual second death of God. A close reading of contemporary Google media illustrates Google¿s efforts to cover the globe with its image and thereby create a homogenized global population of Google people. What Christianity could not do, Google can do. Then one day when humans are pushed to absolute irrelevancy, no one will be there to sense Google.

Author : Jacob Shatzer
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780830865789

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Transhumanism and the Image of God by Jacob Shatzer Pdf

We're constantly invited to think about the future of technology as a progressive improvement of tools: our gadgets will continue to evolve, but we humans will stay basically the same. In the future, perhaps even alien species and intelligent robots will coexist alongside humans, who will grapple with challenges and emerge as the heroes. But the truth is that radical technological change has the power to radically shape humans as well. We must be well informed and thoughtful about the steps we're already taking toward a transhuman or even posthuman future. Can we find firm footing on a slippery slope? Biblical ethicist Jacob Shatzer guides us into careful consideration of the future of Christian discipleship in a disruptive technological environment. In Transhumanism and the Image of God, Shatzer explains the development and influence of the transhumanist movement, which promotes a "next stage" in human evolution. Exploring topics such as artificial intelligence, robotics, medical technology, and communications tools, he examines how everyday technological changes have already altered and continue to change the way we think, relate, and understand reality. By unpacking the doctrine of the incarnation and its implications for human identity, he helps us better understand the proper place of technology in the life of the disciple and avoid false promises of a posthumanist vision. We cannot think about technology use today without considering who we will become tomorrow.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781624191534

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Does God Know the Future? by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leonardo Wolfe
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781664220607

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Evolution of God by Leonardo Wolfe Pdf

This debut book boldly seeks to argue competitively in the same intellectual field as famous atheists such as RICHARD DAWKINS, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, and BERTRAND RUSSELL, and to do so in the spirit and style of such famous Christian apologists as C.S. Lewis and RAVI ZACHARIAS, drawing heavily on basic science, history, physics, psychology, paleontology, anthropology, archeology, neurology, child development and even science fiction. It describes the evolution of the human brain in ancient hominids allowing humans to eventually conceive a non-physical realm (the spirit world), and as the mind evolved intellectually from primitive animism to Christology, God revealed himself gradually as the developing hominid brain became able to comprehend new ideas. For Believers, the author presents a new, intellectually satisfying way to understand and defend the Bible. For both Skeptics and Believers, a worldview is offered that is spiritually meaningful and scientifically sound.

Author : Deepak Chopra
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : God
ISBN : 9781846044168

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The Future of God by Deepak Chopra Pdf

What has God done for you lately? Faith is in crisis. Are God and faith still useful in the modern world? If God is to have a future, Deepak Chopra argues, we must find a new approach to spirituality. For this we don't need better belief systems or scriptures - we need to rethink our place in the universe itself. Chopra reveals how God is about much more than religion. If God stands for absolute goodness, love and truth, and we are part of God, we have a connection to those things. Chopra explains the logic of faith, while providing an incisive critique of militant atheism. If God has a future, Chopra reasons, the results will be for the betterment of us all.

Author : Carl E. Braaten
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532612718

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The Future of God by Carl E. Braaten Pdf

A recent movement in modern religious thought believes that the place to start in theology is at the end--eschatology. At a critical time in history, when many are unsure of the future of faith in a secular age, here is a call for believers to participate in God's activity in the future tense. The basic theme in these pages is the idea of the future--in the language of Christian hope and in the interpretation of history. The rediscovery of the role of eschatology in the preaching of Jesus and of early Christians, says Dr. Braaten, has been one of the most important events of recent theological history. Eschatology has not al­ways been taken seriously. Theologians have often defined it so that the dimension of the future was allowed to slip into an eternal present. God was thus viewed only in vertical terms--as being "above us." The author feels that this loss of hope in the future precipitated the crisis known as the death-of-God movement. In this book Dr. Braaten joins those thinkers who are looking to eschatology as a point of departure for a total recasting of the Christian message. He presents a constructive and systematic outline of the theology of the future, and puts forth an understanding of God--shared with early Christianity--as being "ahead of us." The thrust of this theology of the future is an ethic of revolutionary change, derived from the Christian vision of the kingdom of God. Christianity's eschatological faith is shown to be closely connected to the revolutionary concerns of the modern world, both as the sponsor of its driving images and as a companion in the struggle for its realization. The final chapter turns to an ethic of revolution, based on the politics of hope.

Author : Richard Rice
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830839384

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The Future of Open Theism by Richard Rice Pdf

Open theism has reached its adolescence. How did it get here? And where does it go from here? Since IVP's publication of The Openness of God in 1994, evangelical theology has grappled with the alternative vision of the doctrine of God that open theism offers. Responding to critics who claim that it proposes a truncated version of God that fails to account for Scripture and denies many of the traditional attributes of God, open theism's proponents contend that its view of God is not only biblically warranted but also more accurate—with a portrayal of God that emphasizes divine love for humanity and responsiveness to human free will. No matter what one's assessment, open theism inarguably has made a significant impact on recent theological discourse. Now, twenty-five years later, Richard Rice recounts in this volume the history of open theism from its antecedents and early developments to its more recent and varied expressions. He then considers different directions that open theism might continue to develop in relation to several primary doctrines of the Christian faith.

Author : Andrew Perriman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606087879

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The Future of the People of God by Andrew Perriman Pdf

At a time when the Western church is having to come to terms--painfully and often reluctantly--with its diminished social and intellectual status in the world following the collapse of Christendom, we find ourselves, as interpreters of Paul, increasingly impressed by the need to relocate his writings in their historical context. That is not a coincidence. The Future of the People of God is an attempt to make sense of Paul's letter to the Romans at the intersection of these two developments. It puts forward the argument that we must first have the courage of our historical convictions and read the text before Christendom, from the limited, shortsighted perspective of an emerging community that dared to defy the gods of the ancient world. This act of imaginative, critical engagement with the text will challenge many of our assumptions about Paul's "gospel of God," but it will also put us in a position to reconstruct an identity and purpose for the people of God after Christendom that is both biblically and historically coherent.

Author : Thomas R. McFaul
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781463423476

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The Future of God in the Global Village by Thomas R. McFaul Pdf

In the long trek of human history, the adage that there will never be peace among the nations until there is peace among the religions has never been truer. The growing trend toward spiritually inspired violence throughout the emerging global village of the twenty-first century has taken a terrible toll on the lives of thousands of innocent victims. The primary purpose of this book is to address this issue head-on by examining the role that the earth's diverse faith communities can play in stopping the needless hatreds and hostilities that all too often arise from the search for spiritual fulfillment. At this stage of human evolution, nothing is more urgent.

Author : Markus Bockmuehl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521796784

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The Cambridge Companion to Jesus by Markus Bockmuehl Pdf

This Companion offers an integrated introduction to the study of Jesus.

Author : Daniel Colucciello Barber
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748686384

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Deleuze and the Naming of God by Daniel Colucciello Barber Pdf

Deleuze and the Naming of God addresses the intersection between Deleuze's thought and the notion of religion to proposes an alliance between immanence and the act of naming God. In doing so, Barber gives us a way out of the paralysing debate between reli