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Author : Norman Pittenger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0567291006
Author : Kathryn E. Helm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494120933
This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
Author : William Norman Pittenger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Process theology
ISBN : 082980370X
Preface. This preface details the lectures and writings of Norman Pittenger which make up the background of this book. Chapter 1: A New Perspective. Process thought makes sense of the kind of world that modern scientific inquiry has disclosed, while at the same time taking seriously the depths of human experience with which the humanities, the religious outlook and the aesthetic enterprise. Chapter 2: The Humanities and the Arts. Despite lending itself to material, scientific and human understanding, process studies has room for the rich resources humanity finds in literature, music and art. Chapter 3: The Scientific Enterprise. Process thought has filled the gap that mechanistic determinism could not fill. A unitary interpretation of existence, human and natural, can make sense of and give sense to all the fields of human inquiry and human enjoyment. Chapter 4: Educational Principles. Dr. Pittenger addresses education from a process perspective and gives nine implications concerning its importance He concludes that education is to be considered as a matter of imaginative and aesthetic response to the human situation and to whatever is supremely worshipful in the cosmos -- that is, to what religion calls "God." Chapter 5: Moral Implications. Dr. Pittenger believes that if there is an absolute, "that absolute is nothing other than love itself, with its corollary in the imperative that we should live in, grow in, express, and share love." Chapter 6: Human Sexuality. There is a mysterious side to human sexuality and the author makes some suggestions about this from the side of Christian faith and Christian morality in terms of process thought. Chapter 7: The Religious Understanding. Since countless masses of humankind have enjoyed some kind of contact with reality greater than humankind or nature, and since process generalizations about how things go in the world have developed, new ways of thinking about God are needed. Chapter 8: Christian Faith in God. Christianity is a faith, not simply an ordered system of ideas, or a behavior that imitates the earthly life and teach of a historical figure, but a commitment of men and women to the supremely worshipful reality called God. Chapter 9: The Self-Expressive Activity of God and the Meaning of Jesus Christ. What is revealed is not compulsion but persuasion, love not force, is at the heart of the creative process of the universe. This is what gives Jesus his central place and role, his continuing impact on successive generations of men and women. Chapter 10: The Spirit and the Divine Triunity. Somehow in God the basic truth of personality is combined with the equally basic truth of sociality -- and this has implications for our view of human nature. The triunity of God can serve as a symbol, offering a hint or intimation into the mystery of God as God is active in the world; and our process conceptuality has made it clear that God is the divine activity. Chapter 11: The Person in Society. Dr. Pittenger gives eight affirmations about human nature from a process perspective. Humans: 1. Are dependent upon God; 2. Have potentialities; 3. Are social; 4. Are compound organisms; 5. Are sexual; 6. Are unable to fulfill proper achievement; 7. Know their possibilities; 8. Find total fulfillment only in God. Chapter 12: The Christian Church and the Sacramental Action of the Church. New Testament Christians were not Christians apart from the fellowship, the church. Dr. Pittenger's "process" approach to the church is more aesthetic than ethical. He defends its sacraments and its rituals. Chapter 13: Destiny and Resurrection. God is the divine creative love epitomized in Jesus, and adding to this God's reception of the good accomplished by the free decisions of humankind, we have a portrayal of human destiny and the understanding of the true significance of resurrection. Chapter 14: Conclusion. Dr. Pittenger concludes with a plea that our new situation requires us to think again, to work through once more, the things that are both human and Christian.
Author : Kathryn E. Helm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Christian life
ISBN : OCLC:814419901
Author : Morny Joy
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0719055237
Religious themes have permeated Luce Irigary's thought from the beginning, but this book is the only major study of this dimension of her work -- both her rejection of traditional western religions, and her recent explorations of eastern religions.
Author : Sally Miller
Publisher : New Hope Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781596699120
Women everywhere—regardless of age or background—want to experience a life-altering, gentle, everyday kind of love. For years now we have looked at bars, yacht clubs, churches, synagogues, casinos, the farmer’s market, dating services, and the Internet trying to find it. Just when we think we have it, we discover that mere mortals—no matter how perfect—cannot offer the kind of love our hearts hunger for. How is it that some women through history and today seem to have found the love we all so desperately seek? Divine Love: Women Who Have It and How You Can Too is a narrative nonfiction that carries women through the pages of history to our streets today to see real women who experienced God’s indescribable love. Through the remarkable stories of women such as Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Pocahontas, the woman of Endor, Harriet Tubman, Xio Min, and more, women will see extraordinary love can be experienced when seeking it from the Divine.
Author : Darrell J. Ahrens
Publisher : ELDERBERRY PRESS, INC.
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781934956236
"What to tolerate; what not to tolerate?" This is perhaps the most important question our nation, as well as other Western nations, must consider today. What gives this question its crucial importance is the fact that how it is answered will determine the moral and ethical character of a nation and its people. It will determine the integrity and virtue, or lack thereof, of a nation's religious, political, educational, and sociological institutions and their policies, laws, beliefs, and practices. Concerning Western nations and societies, it will determine either faithfulness or unfaithfulness to their underlying religious, political, and historical foundations and heritage. In short, it will determine the very identity of a nation and people.
Author : Sheri D. Kling
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793630438
American culture is in a state of critical fragmentation. The author argues that we will solve neither the ecological crisis nor our social estrangement from each until we transform our perception of life as embodied and interconnected, and rediscover what is sacred through transformative lived experiences of wholeness. Using an embodied theological framework supported by comparative, hermeneutical, and constructive methodologies, A Process Spirituality synthesizes theoretical, empirical, and practical resources to construct a hopeful and holistic understanding of God, the world, and the self. Interweaving Alfred North Whitehead’s vision of a relational cosmos with Carl Gustav Jung’s integrated, relational psyche, and a powerful spiritual praxis of dream work creates a generative matrix through which to perceive a God-world reality characterized by value, relationality, and transformation in which individuals matter, belong, and can experience positive change. Such a Christian and transreligious vision of hope offers individuals the possibility and capacity to move from a state of fragmentation to one of psycho-spiritual wholeness and flourishing.
Author : Sukumar Halder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : IOWA:31858046385963
Author : Malcolm Torry
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725266766
Two streams run through the Western philosophical stream: one characterized by Being, beings, the unchanging, the static, and the unitary; and the other by Action, actions, the changing, the dynamic, and the diverse. The former might be represented by Parmenides, Plato, and much of what followed; the latter by Heraclitus, and by rather less of what followed. The book explores the "Action" stream as it wound its way through history, through Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Maurice Blondel, Henri Bergson, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, process philosophy and theology, Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and John Boys Smith. The journey enables us to create the beginnings of an "actology": a way of seeing ourselves, the universe, and God in terms of actions in patterns rather than as beings that change. Such an actology offers a complete alternative narrative far more in tune with the diverse and rapidly changing world in which we live than the ontology that has shaped philosophy, theology, and much else for the past two thousand years.
Author : Savitri L. Bess
Publisher : Wellspring/Ballantine
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-23
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780307558954
"What are the greatest qualities of a Mother? Love, forgiveness, and patience." Much has been written about the feminine faces of God. Now The Path of the Mother introduces us to a divinity more whole than any we have yet encountered--her arms open to men and women of any persuasion or practice. She is at once masculine and feminine, creator and transformer, joy and anguish, the all-loving Mother and the true, realized human Self. Drawing on her most vibrant expression, this inspiring book traces her myriad faces--compassionate, fierce, enchanting, challenging, passionate--in male and female deities of many religions. "As far as Mother is concerned, everyone is her child. . . . Children, did not Mother come when you called? Thus did she not obey you?" The Path of the Mother is a six-stage journey to union with the Great Mother, framed by Savitri Bess's own years of devotion to one of her most famous incarnations--the Hindu mystic Ammachi. Interweaving Hindu myths with her own quest and those of others, Bess reveals this journey as an exodus from aloneness to the wondrous integration of love, worship, and service into life's daily tasks. Practical exercises, meditations, yoga, and prayers will help both novice and veteran seekers to rediscover their innocence, balance their inner masculine and feminine energies, resolve their buried wounds, desires, and talents, and open their hearts to the nurturing guidance of the Mother-God within us all. "Love is Amma's nature. She cannot be otherwise. . . . Amma cannot return our anger, hatred, or abuse. Amma can only bestow boundless compassion and love." From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author : Gordon R. Lewis,Bruce A. Demarest
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 1593 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310872764
Integrative Theology is designed to help graduate students in a pluralistic world utilize a standard method of fruitful research. Each chapter on a major doctrine: (1) states a classic issue of ultimate concern, (2) surveys alternative past and present answers and (3) tests those proposals by their congruence with information on the subject progressively revealed from Genesis to Revelation. Then the chapter (4) formulates a doctrinal conclusion that consistently fits the many lines of biblical data, (5) defends that conviction respectfully, and finally (6) explores the conclusion’s relevance to a person’s spiritual birth, growth and service to others, all for the glory of God. Why the title Integrative Theology? In each chapter, steps 2-6 integrate the disciplines of historical, biblical, systematic, apologetic and practical theology.
Author : Jerry D. Korsmeyer
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0819196894
Educated Western Christians seek to understand the scientific basis of evolution as well as to justify why a God worth worshiping can be responsible -- yet not indictable -- for evil. The author creates an innovative theological framework that addresses these concerns and provides part of a structure for fundamental theology which is based on the neoclassical metaphysics of Charles Hartshorne and the speculative cosmology of Alfred North Whitehead. His model of the divine has three basic principles: God is love, God is the creator, and this creativity is an integral part of divine essence. From this model, he develops a fundamental theology which focuses on the nature of divinity, the interaction between human and the divine, and divine revelation. He attributes much of his own concept of revelation to Whitehead's model in which revelation is indicative of a successful communion between human and divine. This revelation is achieved through symbolic mediation and it is as much inter-personal reconciliation as it is a universal resonance of the creative essence between heaven and earth. This framework shows initial agreement with Christian traditions; it is highly coherent, universal in scope and, most importantly, it has rich potential for future Christian understanding.
Author : Jay B. McDaniel
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606089125
In this innovative volume, Jay McDaniel creatively weaves various strands of contemporary theology into a vibrant pattern for an ecological spirituality. Influenced by process theology, the author synthesizes core insights of feminism, liberation theology, creation theology, and world religions. He focuses this varied knowledge around the central theme of an ecologically sound and nurturing faith. The work is strengthened by provocative study questions, an insightful appendix on the role of silence in ecological spirituality, and a comprehensive, annotated bibliography.
Author : Paul F. Knitter
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608332021
