Thinkers Saints Heretics

Author : Virginia Sease,Manfred Schmidt-Brabant
Publisher : Temple Lodge Publishing
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781902636900

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Thinkers, Saints, Heretics by Virginia Sease,Manfred Schmidt-Brabant Pdf

The authors embark on a broad historical survey of the culture and historyexoteric and esotericof the Middle Ages. Their journey takes in King Arthur and the Celtic mysteries; Francis of Assisi, the Franciscans and the School of Chartres; Thomas Aquinas, Averroes, and the Dominicans; Cabbala and Jewish mysticism; heretics and the Cathars; Templar secrets; more.

Author : Jeffrey K. McDonough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197563847

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Saints, Heretics, and Atheists by Jeffrey K. McDonough Pdf

"This book offers a historical introduction to fundamental questions in the philosophy of religion. It is divided into twenty-five chapters. The first chapter discusses the nature of piety drawing on Plato's Euthyphro. The next three chapters discuss the nature of evil, free will, foreknowledge, and sin in the context of Augustine's On Free Choice of Will. Chapter Five discusses Anslem's "ontological" argument for the existence of God. Chapter Six explores Ibn Sina's account of the nature of the soul and immortality. The next two chapters explore the foundations of religious belief and mysticism in the company of al-Ghazali's The Rescuer from Error. Chapters nine through eleven discuss Aquinas's arguments for the existence of God as well as his account of God's impersonal and personal attributes. The twelfth chapter explores Marguerite Porete's account of mystical ascent as well as the doctrines of heaven and hell. Chapter Thirteen discusses Pascal's pragmatic argument for belief in the existence of God. Chapters Fourteen through Sixteen discuss Spinoza's understanding of God, our relationship to God, and the foundations of morality. Chapters Seventeen through Nineteen explore the argument from design, the existence of God, deism, and the problem of evil. Chapter Twenty investigates Mary Shepherd's defense of belief in miracles, while Chapter Twenty-One explores Mill's views on the utility of religion. Finally, chapters Twenty-Three through Twenty-Five explore the origins of modern morality and the relationship between religion and nihilism in the company of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality"--

Author : Gil McHattie
Publisher : Temple Lodge Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781906999261

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The Knights Templar by Gil McHattie Pdf

The beginning of the Templar Order is shrouded in mystery. Little is known about its foundation, inner workings, or its rapid growth. Such a lack of knowledge can lead to all sorts of speculation and, at times, bizarre theories. This book--the result of a conference on the theme at Emerson College in England--offers new, well-grounded perspectives that utilize both esoteric and exoteric sources. From varying perspectives, the contributors tackle key questions relating to the formation of the Templar Order, as well as its goals and intentions. The authors explore the spiritual and historical background of the Knights Templar, as well as the Order's significance today and its continuing impulse for the future. With its broad scope, this stimulating anthology encourages independent, open-minded enquiry and research. The Knights Templar features contributions from Peter Tradowsky, Gil McHattie, Horst Biehl, Margaret Jonas, Rolf Speckner, Sylvia Francke, Simon Cade-Williams, Jaap van der Haar, Alfred Kon, David Lenker, Peter Snow, Christine Gruwez, Frans Lutters, Walter Johannes Stein, and Siegfried Rudel.

Author : Frederic Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0674334280

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Heretics, Saints and Martyrs by Frederic Palmer Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.

Author : Jonathan Wright
Publisher : HMH
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780547548890

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Heretics by Jonathan Wright Pdf

A lively examination of the heretics who helped Christianity become the world’s most powerful religion. From Arius, a fourth-century Libyan cleric who doubted the very divinity of Christ, to more successful heretics like Martin Luther and John Calvin, this book charts the history of dissent in the Christian Church. As the author traces the Church’s attempts at enforcing orthodoxy, from the days of Constantine to the modern Catholic Church’s lingering conflicts, he argues that heresy—by forcing the Church to continually refine and impose its beliefs—actually helped Christianity to blossom into one of the world’s most formidable religions. Today, all believers owe it to themselves to grapple with the questions raised by heresy. Can you be a Christian without denouncing heretics? Is it possible that new ideas challenging Church doctrine are destined to become as popular as Luther’s once-outrageous suggestions of clerical marriage and a priesthood of all believers? A delightfully readable and deeply learned new history, Heretics overturns our assumptions about the role of heresy in a faith that still shapes the world. “Wright emphasizes the ‘extraordinarily creative role’ that heresy has played in the evolution of Christianity by helping to ‘define, enliven, and complicate’ it in dialectical fashion. Among the world’s great religions, Christianity has been uniquely rich in dissent, Wright argues—especially in its early days, when there was so little agreement among its adherents that one critic compared them to a marsh full of frogs croaking in discord.” —The New Yorker

Author : F. Dominic Longo
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823276738

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Spiritual Grammar by F. Dominic Longo Pdf

Spiritual Grammar identifies a genre of religious literature that until now has not been recognized as such. In this surprising and theoretically nuanced study, F. Dominic Longo reveals how grammatical structures of language addressed in two medieval texts published nearly four centuries apart, from distinct religious traditions, offer a metaphor for how the self is embedded in spiritual reality. Reading The Grammar of Hearts (Nahw al-qulūb) by the great Sufi shaykh and Islamic scholar 'Abd al-Karīm al-Qushayrī (d. 1074) and Moralized Grammar (Donatus moralizatus) by Christian theologian Jean Gerson (d. 1429), Longo reveals how both authors use the rules of language and syntax to advance their pastoral goals. Indeed, grammar provides the two masters with a fresh way of explaining spiritual reality to their pupils and to discipline the souls of their readers in the hopes that their writings would make others adept in the grammar of the heart.

Author : Wallace Palmer Rusterholtz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Free thought
ISBN : WISC:89097248066

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American Heretics and Saints by Wallace Palmer Rusterholtz Pdf

Author : A. Zokaei,J. Seddon,B. O'Donovan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230299221

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Systems Thinking: From Heresy to Practice by A. Zokaei,J. Seddon,B. O'Donovan Pdf

Systems Thinking is a topic which is at the forefront of how we think about management in the Public Sector and Service Industries. This collection from leading thinkers in the field takes a case study approach to a variety of issues which encompass topics such as Banking, Electrical Distribution, Manufacturing and Adult Social Care.

Author : St Alphonsus M Liguori
Publisher : St Athanasius Press
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0976911809

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The History of Heresies and Their Refutation by St Alphonsus M Liguori Pdf

The History of Heresies and Their Refutation by St Alphonsus M. Liguori. Unedited Reprint of 1857 edition. Some references in Latin, the rest of the book is in English. In the First part, St Alphonsus M Liguori goes over the History of Heresies. A supplementary chapter was added by the translator of the Heresies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. In the Second Part, the Refutation of Heresies, the Holy Author comprises, in a small space, a vast amount of Theological information; in fact, there is no Heresy which cannot be refuted from it. 648 pages.

Author : Luigi Morelli
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781491781074

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Aristotelians and Platonists by Luigi Morelli Pdf

At the heart of this book is Rudolf Steiner’s “culmination in the twentieth century,” or the convergence of the working of Aristotelians and Platonists for the renewal of culture. And questions arise. Where is the whole of the School of Michael at present? How can we characterize and honor one and the other stream, and avoid stereotypes and misunderstandings? This work approaches the matter in its historical unfolding, in three successive steps, in which Steiner/Aristotle’s and Plato/Schröer’s incarnations form a thread. The first tableau opens up in the previous Age of Michael, in Greece, when Plato and Aristotle inaugurated the work of the two Michaelic streams. The second addresses the Middle Ages, and centers around the contrast between Alain de Lille and Thomas Aquinas, between the School of Chartres and Scholasticism. Steiner’s and Schröer’s life tasks in the nineteenth century form the prelude to the present. The heart of the book, and its longest section, looks at the present. It contrasts the working of Aristotelians and Platonists in the natural sciences, in psychology and in the social sciences. From the ground of extensive observation and characterization, it then turns to pressing questions. What can Platonists learn from Aristotelians? And how about the reverse? Starting from the example of individuals meeting across the streams, how can we extend this understanding so that it becomes an ongoing practice and a cultural concern? How can Michaelic individuals and institutions work in ways that honor the whole of the Michaelic movement?

Author : Lucy J. Sackville
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153567

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Heresy and Heretics in the Thirteenth Century by Lucy J. Sackville Pdf

The first book to deal with all the principal treatments of heresy and anti-heretical writings during their heyday in the thirteenth century. Heresy is always relative; the traces that it leaves to us are distorted and one-sided. In the last few decades, historians have responded to these problems by developing increasingly sophisticated methodologies that help to unravel and illuminate the tangled layers from which the texts that describe heresy are built, but in the process have made our reading of heresy fractured and disconnected. Heresy and Heretics seeks to redress this by reading the different types of anti-heretical writing as part of a wider, connected tradition, considering all the principal orthodox treatments of heresy for the first time. Drawn from the mid-thirteenth century, a time when both medieval heresy and the church's response to it were at their zenith, they describe a spectrum of material that ranges from the theological arguments of some of the greatest thinkers of the age to the homely sermons of the wanderingpreachers. In considering the whole scope of anti-heretical writing from this period, it becomes apparent that, far from being an artificial construct isolated from reality, the church's treatment of heresy in fact had a far morecomplex relationship with its subject matter. Dr L.J. Sackville teaches in the Department of History, University of York.

Author : Robert Inchausti
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438449456

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Thinking through Thomas Merton by Robert Inchausti Pdf

Considers the legacy of Thomas Merton and his relevance for contemporary times. With the publication of The Seven Storey Mountain in 1948, Thomas Merton became a bestselling author, writing about spiritual contemplation in a modern context. Although Merton (1915–1968) lived as a Trappist monk, he advocated a spiritual life that was not a retreat from the world, but an alternative to it, particularly to the deadening materialism and spiritual vacuity of the postwar West. Over the next twenty years, Merton wrote for a wide audience, bringing the wisdom of Christianity, Buddhism, and Sufism into dialogue with the period’s contemporary thought. In Thinking through Thomas Merton, Robert Inchausti introduces readers to Merton and evaluates his continuing relevance for our time. Inchausti shows how Merton broke the high modernist trance so that we might become the change we wish to see in the world by refiguring the lost virtues of silence, contemplation, and community in a world enamored by the will to power, virtuoso performance, radical skepticism, and materialist metaphysics. Merton’s defense of contemplative culture is considered in light of the postmodern thought of recent years and emerges as a compelling alternative. “Inchausti explores Merton’s understanding of Western Christian monasticism and provides new insights into his critique of modernity.” — Curt Cadorette, author of Catholicism in Social and Historical Contexts: An Introduction

Author : Radovan Lovci
Publisher : Sharpless House
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438259598

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Michael Servetus, Heretic Or Saint? by Radovan Lovci Pdf

In 1553, Dr. Michael Servetus was executed by burning at the stake by Swiss Calvinists. John Calvin branded Servetus as a heretic based on correspondence they had. Calvin even said, "If Servetus comes to Geneva, I shall never let him leave alive-if my authority has any weight." Servetus was also denounced as a heretic by French Catholics who questioned him, but had to let him go for lack of evidence. Then, thanks to the submission of 17 of the letters that were part of his correspondence with the Protestant Calvin, the Catholic Inquisition convicted Servetus of heresy and sentenced him to death. He managed to escape only to be arrested by the Protestant City Government in Geneva. For the second time, the Spanish scholar was tried and sentenced to die, this time by Protestants. Why did the gentle Spanish scholar cause such an uproar in his times? Why did he incur the wrath of so many powerful men such as Calvin himself? This book seeks answers to these questions.

Author : Antoine Arnauld,Pierre Nicole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521483948

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Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic Or the Art of Thinking by Antoine Arnauld,Pierre Nicole Pdf

A new translation of the treatise which inspired modern developments in logic and semantic theory.

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Heresies and heretics
ISBN : YALE:39002023319255

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Writings in Connection with the Manichaean Heresy by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf