The Transcendence Of God

Author : Merold Westphal
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253344131

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Transcendence and Self-transcendence by Merold Westphal Pdf

The question of the transcendence of God has traditionally been thought in terms of the difference between pantheism, which affirms that God is wholly "within" the world, and theism, which affirms that God is both "within" and "outside" the world, both immanent and transcendent. Against Heidegger's critique of onto-theology and the general postmodern concern for respecting and preserving the difference of the other, Merold Westphal seeks to rethink divine transcendence in relation to modes of human self-transcendence. Touching upon Spinoza, Hegel, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Aquinas, Barth, Kierkegaard, Levinas, Derrida, and Marion, Westphal's work centers around a critique of onto-theology, the importance of alterity, the decentered self, and the autonomous transcendental ego. Westphal's phenomenology of faith sets this book into the main currents of Continental philosophy of religion today.

Author : Paul A Macdonald
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813215778

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Knowledge and the Transcendent by Paul A Macdonald Pdf

Knowledge and the Transcendent advances the provocative claim that the human mind is not "bounded" on the outside but actually remains "open" to the world and to God.

Author : John Gresham Machen
Publisher : Banner of Truth
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0851513557

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God Transcendent by John Gresham Machen Pdf

In these messages, Machen expounds the greatness and the glory of God, the wonder and power of the gospel and the exhilaration of serving Christ in the front line of spiritual warfare.

Author : Bob Kauflin
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433542336

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True Worshipers by Bob Kauflin Pdf

Everyone worships. But Jesus tells us that God is seeking a particular kind of worshiper. In True Worshipers, a seasoned pastor and musician guides readers toward a more engaging, transformative, and biblically faithful understanding of the worship God is seeking. True worship is an activity rooted in the grace of the gospel that affects every area of our lives. And while worship is more than just singing, God’s people gathering in his presence to lift their voices in song is an activity that is biblically based, historically rooted, and potentially life-changing. Thoroughly based in Scripture and filled with practical guidance, this book connects Sunday worship to the rest of our lives—helping us live as true worshipers each and every day.

Author : Martin Davie,Tim Grass,Stephen R. Holmes,John McDowell,Thomas A. Noble
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 2118 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830879625

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New Dictionary of Theology by Martin Davie,Tim Grass,Stephen R. Holmes,John McDowell,Thomas A. Noble Pdf

ECPA 2017 Christian Book Award Finalist This classic one-volume reference work has been appreciated for decades. It is now substantially expanded and revised to focus on a variety of theological themes, thinkers and movements. From African Christian Theology to Zionism, this volume of historical and systematic theology offers a wealth of information and insight for students, pastors and all thoughtful Christians. Over half of the more than eight hundred articles are new or rewritten with hundreds more thoroughly revised. Fully one-third larger than its predecessor, this volume focusing on systematic and historical theology has added entries and material on theological writers and themes in North America and around the world. Helpful bibliographies have also been updated throughout. Over three hundred contributors form an international team of renowned scholars including Marcella Altaus-Reid, Richard Bauckham, David Bebbington, Kwame Bediako, Todd Billings, Oliver Crisp, Samuel Escobar, John Goldingay, Tremper Longman III, John McGuckin, Jennifer McNutt, Michael J. Nasir-Ali, Bradley Nassif, Mark Noll, Anthony Thiselton, John Webster and N. T. Wright. This new edition combines excellence in scholarship with a high standard of clarity and profound insight into current theological issues. Yet it avoids being unduly technical. Now an even more indispensable reference, this volume is a valuable primer and introduction to the grand spectrum of theology.

Author : Edward Farley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532631771

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The Transcendence of God by Edward Farley Pdf

In the varying perspectives of theological thought the contrasting ideas of transcendence and immanence must inevitably be looked at together. To whatever extent they are held to be mutually compatible or mutually exclusive, neither can be considered without at least some cognizance being taken of the other. Nevertheless, in the swinging of the pendulum from era to era, first one and then the other theme receives the greater weight of attention. Thus, nineteenth-century liberalism placed more emphasis on immanence, whereas the twentieth-century revolt against liberalism has concentrated on transcendence. In this book the author studies the transcendent aspect of God as developed by five contemporary theologians. Two of the men whose work Dr. Farley examines, Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich, are thoroughly familiar. The other three, Karl Heim, Charles Hartshorne, and Henry Nelson Wieman, have received less attention in recent studies. The five represent widely divergent traditions, but all of them agree in opposing immanentism. Moreover, they all deal with the tension between the philosophical and the Biblical affirmations of God's transcendence, and attempt to show, in their respective ways, how these types of "beyondness" are related.

Author : Steven Dunn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498508001

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The Sanctuary in the Psalms by Steven Dunn Pdf

The psalms provide multivalent ways by which humans experience the sacred through worship and contemplation. This book explores how psalms use symbols and images to convey the sacred presence as concrete and intimate, yet ephemeral and transcendent—illustrating diverse types of “sanctuaries” where God is mediated.

Author : Jeremy Begbie
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467449397

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Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts by Jeremy Begbie Pdf

How can the arts witness to the transcendence of the Christian God? Many people believe that there is something transcendent about the arts, that they can awaken a profound sense of awe, wonder, and mystery, of something “beyond” this world—even for those who may have no use for conventional forms of Christianity. In this book Jeremy Begbie—a leading voice on theology and the arts—employs a biblical, Trinitarian imagination to show how Christian involvement in the arts can be shaped by the distinctive vision of God’s transcendence opened up in and through Jesus Christ.

Author : Margaret S. Archer,Andrew Collier,Douglas V. Porpora
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134306701

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Transcendence by Margaret S. Archer,Andrew Collier,Douglas V. Porpora Pdf

Atheism as a belief does not have to present intellectual credentials within academia. Yet to hold beliefs means giving reasons for doing so, ones which may be found wanting. Instead, atheism is the automatic default setting within the academic world. Conversely, religious belief confronts a double standard. Religious believers are not permitted to make truth claims but are instead forced to present their beliefs as part of one language game amongst many. Religious truth claims are expected to satisfy empiricist criteria of evidence but when they fail, as they must, religious belief becomes subject to the hermeneutics of suspicion. This book explores religious experience as a justifiable reason for religious belief. It uniquely demonstrates that the three pillars of critical realism - ontological intransitivity, epistemic relativity and judgemental rationality - can be applied to religion as to any other beliefs or theories. The three authors are critical realists by philosophical position. They seek to establish a level playing field between religion and secular ideas, which has not existed in the academic world for some generations, in order for reasoned debate to be conducted.

Author : Louis Roy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725272743

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The Feeling of Transcendence, an Experience of God? by Louis Roy Pdf

In this book, Louis Roy takes account of the fact that, in the last fifty years, numerous people in the secularized West have responded yes to surveys that asked, “Are you aware of having had an experience during which you felt in the presence of a dimension or a reality very different from ordinary human life?” Are such experiences mere illusions? Some thinkers, like Feuerbach and Freud, believed so. Are such experiences encounters with God? Karl Barth, a great Protestant theologian, did not think much of their worth. On this issue, psychologists and theologians are divided. Roy argues that those experiences are valid, that they possess a real potential, and that they can open their recipients to a genuine wisdom. He reports on eight narratives, spells out their constitutive elements, classifies them into four categories—aesthetic, ontological, ethical, and interpersonal—and suggests criteria to assess their concrete authenticity. Thus, this book will appeal to educated readers interested in spirituality, philosophy of religion, psychology, literature, theology, and pastoral ministry.

Author : Davis Hankins
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810130180

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The Book of Job and the Immanent Genesis of Transcendence by Davis Hankins Pdf

Recent philosophical reexaminations of sacred texts have focused almost exclusively on the Christian New Testament, and Paul in particular. The Book of Job and the Immanent Genesis of Transcendence revives the enduring philosophical relevance and political urgency of the book of Job and thus contributes to the recent "turn toward religion" among philosophers such as Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou.

Author : Mayra Rivera
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123343738

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The Touch of Transcendence by Mayra Rivera Pdf

"How far away is God? How different is God from human beings? In this work, Mayra Rivera's answer is that God is not within human grasp but always within human touch. Engaging liberation theology, radical orthodoxy, feminism, and postcolonialism, Rivera produces a concept of God as transcendent within - concentrating on transcendence as a relationship and using it to describe how humans can touch God." --Book Jacket.

Author : Edward Farley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:640932777

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The transcendence of God by Edward Farley Pdf

Author : Michael C. Rea
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192560421

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The Hiddenness of God by Michael C. Rea Pdf

The Hiddenness of God addresses the problem of divine hiddenness which concerns the ambiguity of evidence for God's existence, the elusiveness of God's comforting presence, the palpable and devastating experience of divine absence and abandonment, and more; phenomena which are hard to reconcile with the idea, central to the Jewish and Christian scriptures, that there exists a God who is deeply and lovingly concerned with the lives of humans. Michael C. Rea argues that divine hiddenness is not a problem to be explained away but rather a consequence of the nature of God himself. He shows that it rests on unwarranted assumptions and expectations about God's love for human beings. Rea explains how scripture and tradition bear testimony not only to God's love, but to God's transcendence. He shows that God's transcendence should be understood as implying that all of God's intrinsic attributes—divine love included—elude our grasp in significant ways.

Author : Michael J. Dodds, OP
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813232874

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The One Creator God in Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Theology by Michael J. Dodds, OP Pdf

This book provides a fundamental introduction to Aquinas's theology of the One Creator God. Aimed at making that thought accessible to contemporary audiences, it gives a basic explanation of his theology while showing its compatibility with contemporary science and its relevance to current theological issues. Opening with a brief account of Aquinas’s life, it then describes the purpose and nature of the Summa Theologica and gives a short review of current varieties of Thomism. Without neglecting other works, it then focuses primarily on the discussion of the One God in the first part of the Summa Theologica. God's transcendence and immanence is a recurrent theme in that discussion. Evidence of God's immanent causality in the natural world grounds Aquinas's five arguments for the existence of God (the Five Ways) which then open onto God's transcendence. The subsequent discussion of the divine attributes builds on the modes of God's causality established in the Five Ways. It also shows the need for a language of analogy to preserve God's transcendence and prevent us from reducing God to the level of creatures, even as qualities such as "goodness" and "love," which we first know from creatures, are applied to God. The discussion of God's providence and governance establishes that the transcendent Creator God is most intimately present in creation. God acts in all creatures in a way that does not diminish their proper causality, but is rather its source. As there is no contradiction between God's transcendence and immanence, so there is no competition between the primary causality of God and the secondary causality of creatures. Empirical science, which is limited by its method to the secondary causality of creatures, is shown to be compatible with the broader discipline of theology which also embraces the primary causality of the Creator.