World Views And Perceiving God

Author : Joseph Runzo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349231065

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World Views and Perceiving God by Joseph Runzo Pdf

This collection of essays presents a systematic analysis of some of the foremost issues in the philosophy of religion. The focus is on the epistemology of religion, the most significant area of recent interest in the field. After developing a religious epistemology in the first half of the book, that epistemology is both further expanded, and explicitly applied to salient issues in the contemporary discussion. The central question throughout the essays is how our world-views affect our perception, especially our perception of God. The first essays set out a general epistemology of perception. The next two sets of essays build upon this in assessing the cognitive value of religious experience, and analyzing the proper epistemic foundations for belief in God. Then, in view of the role of faith developed in those essays, the final essays address the dual challenges to traditional theism of theological non-realism and of religious pluralism.

Author : William P. Alston
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780801471254

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Perceiving God by William P. Alston Pdf

In Perceiving God, William P. Alston offers a clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience. He argues that the "perception of God"—his term for direct experiential awareness of God—makes a major contribution to the grounds of religious belief. Surveying the variety of reported direct experiences of God among laypersons and famous mystics, Alston demonstrates that a person can be justified in holding certain beliefs about God on the basis of mystical experience. Through the perception that God is sustaining one in being, for example, one can justifiably believe that God is indeed sustaining one in being. Alston offers a detailed discussion of our grounds for taking sense perception and other sources of belief—including introspection, memory, and mystical experience—to be reliable and to confer justification. He then uses this epistemic framework to explain how our perceptual beliefs about God can be justified. Alston carefully addresses objections to his chief claims, including problems posed by non-Christian religious traditions. He also examines the way in which mystical perception fits into the larger picture of grounds for religious belief. Suggesting that religious experience, rather than being a purely subjective phenomenon, has real cognitive value, Perceiving God will spark intense debate and will be indispensable reading for those interested in philosophy of religion, epistemology, and philosophy of mind, as well as for theologians.

Author : Paul Seungoh Chung
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268100599

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God at the Crossroads of Worldviews by Paul Seungoh Chung Pdf

Debates about the existence of God persist but remain at an impasse between opposing answers. God at the Crossroads of Worldviews reframes the debate from a new perspective, characterizing the way these positions have been defined and defended not as wrong, per se, but rather as odd or awkward. Paul Chung begins with a general survey of the philosophical debate regarding the existence of God, particularly as the first cause, and how this involves a bewildering array of often-incommensurable positions that differ on the meaning of key concepts, criteria of justification, and even on where to start the discussion. According to Chung, these positions are in fact arguments both from and against larger, more comprehensive intellectual positions, which in turn comprise a set of rival "worldviews." Moreover, there is no neutral rationality completely independent of these worldviews and capable of resolving complex intellectual questions, such as that of the existence of God. Building from Alasdair MacIntyre's writings on rival intellectual traditions, Chung proposes that to argue about God, we must first stand at the "crossroads" of the different intellectual journeys of the particular rival worldviews in the debate, and that the "discovery" of such a crossroad itself constitutes an argument about the existence of God. Chung argues that this is what Thomas Aquinas accomplished in his Five Ways, which are often misunderstood as simple "proofs." From such crossroads, the debate may proceed toward a more fruitful exploration of the question of God's existence. Chung sketches out one such crossroad by suggesting ways in which Christianity and scientific naturalism can begin a mutual dialogue from a different direction. God at the Crossroads of Worldviews will be read by philosophers of religion, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and theologians and general readers interested in the new atheism debates.

Author : Sameer Yadav
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451496710

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The Problem of Perception and the Experience of God by Sameer Yadav Pdf

Sameer Yadav's central claim in this work is that there is a radical mistake in many contemporary accounts that require grounding a theological story of God's availability to us in experience in a prior general philosophical theory of perception. Instead, it is argued that the philosophical problem of perception is a pseudoproblem. The study concludes with a new reading of Gregory of Nyssa and his theology of the spiritual senses, which is free from the bewitchment of the problem of perception.

Author : Brian Gast
Publisher : Barnegat Press Company
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0984941908

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The Business of Wanting More by Brian Gast Pdf

The Business of Wanting More: Why Some Executives Move from Success to Fulfillment and Others Dont is written for business professionals and anyone impacted by a culture of seeking more and more success without feeling a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment. The Business of Wanting More contains the astonishing confessions of a serial entrepreneur and a CEO of one of the fastest-growing telecom companies in the world. He thought he had it all, except for that nagging feeling of...wanting more. This book also contains the highly acclaimed Q7 Process, created by Gast to coach executives to previously unimaginable levels of success and happiness. In The Business of Wanting More, readers will get recharged and refreshed as they learn to: Integrate Their Leadership with a Whole-Life View, Tap Unused Skills to Play a Bigger Game, Respond to High-Stress Situations and Generate Powerful Results. Create a Road Map to Success and Fulfillment, Get MORE of What They (Really) Want!

Author : James Porter Moreland,William Lane Craig
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830826940

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Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview by James Porter Moreland,William Lane Craig Pdf

Arguments are clearly presented, and rival theories are presented with fairness and accuracy."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anne Primavesi
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780718842246

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Exploring Earthiness by Anne Primavesi Pdf

If we see ourselves as Earth, rather than Earth as existing for us, our perspective is transformed. A variety of religious, philosophical, cultural, and political self-perceptions that dominate our sense of human identity are deeply challenged by this shift in perspective. John Locke's doctrine of Earth as human 'property' has been central to current presuppositions about our selves: justified on the grounds of our possessing unique, divinely bestowed, rational abilities. But today, the effectsof that doctrine on Earth's resource base and on its other-than-human creatures directly challenge such assumptions. At the same time contemporary scientific findings about the evolution of Earthly life demonstrate that while we belong to Earth and nowhere else, Earth does not belong to us. Exploring this role reversal raises fundamental questions about current theological, philosophical, scientific, and economic presuppositions that underpin the 'business as usual' viewpoint and human-centeredaims of contemporary policies and lifestyles. It takes us beyond hierarchical Christian and philosophical doctrines toward a deeper, Earth-focused and peace-based understanding of what it means to be human today.

Author : Richard H. Jones
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438461199

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Philosophy of Mysticism by Richard H. Jones Pdf

A comprehensive exploration of the philosophical issues raised by mysticism. This work is a comprehensive study of the philosophical issues raised by mysticism. Mystics claim to experience reality in a way not available in normal life, a claim which makes this phenomenon interesting from a philosophical perspective. Richard H. Jones’s inquiry focuses on the skeleton of beliefs and values of mysticism: knowledge claims made about the nature of reality and of human beings; value claims about what is significant and what is ethical; and mystical goals and ways of life. Jones engages language, epistemology, metaphysics, science, and the philosophy of mind. Methodological issues in the study of mysticism are also addressed. Examples of mystical experience are drawn chiefly from Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, but also from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Daoism. “This is a significant extension of the seminal work by Walter Stace, Mysticism and Philosophy. That work has stimulated much literature, all of which Jones manages to review here. He critically extends Stace’s universal core and embeds it in a sophisticated discussion of the extent, range, and metaphysical implications of mysticism.” — Ralph W. Hood, Jr., coauthor of The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach

Author : Robert G. Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : MINN:31951D015894051

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Analytic Philosophy of Religion by Robert G. Wolf Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004442016

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On Theology: Herman Bavinck's Academic Orations by Anonim Pdf

On Theology: Herman Bavinck's Academic Orations presents four previously untranslated works by Herman Bavinck, which offer important insights into his conceptualisation

Author : William P. Alston
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780801471247

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Perceiving God by William P. Alston Pdf

In this clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience, William P. Alston argues that the perception of God—his term for direct experiential awareness of God—makes a major contribution to the grounds of religious belief. Surveying the variety of reported direct experiences of God, Alston demonstrates that a person can be justified in holding certain beliefs about God on the basis of mystical experience.

Author : Hendrik M. Vroom
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004501461

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A Spectrum of Worldviews by Hendrik M. Vroom Pdf

This book is an introduction to philosophy of religion from the perspective of a religiously pluralistic culture. It deals with introductory questions such as whether we can we understand, compare, and judge the insights of others and the ways in which people can speak and think about God. It introduces the classical themes of philosophy of religion - immanent and transcendent ideas of God and (im)personality; transcendence, good, and evil; religion, morality and society - using a distinction between cosmic, acosmic and theistic ideas of the divine. This introduction helps us discover differences and commonalities and thus helps further an emphatic and critical dialogue. This book explores how comparative theology and philosophy of religion can move beyond the dead-end roads of relativism and exclusivism.

Author : Paul L. Gavrilyuk,Sarah Coakley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : God (Christianity)
ISBN : 1107225302

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The Spiritual Senses by Paul L. Gavrilyuk,Sarah Coakley Pdf

"Is it possible to see, hear, touch, smell and taste God? How do we understand the biblical promise that the 'pure in heart' will 'see God'? Christian thinkers as diverse as Origen of Alexandria, Bonaventure, Jonathan Edwards and Hans Urs von Balthasar have all approached these questions in distinctive ways by appealing to the concept of the 'spiritual senses'. In focusing on the Christian tradition of the 'spiritual senses', this book discusses how these senses relate to the physical senses and the body, and analyzes their relationship to mind, heart, emotions, will, desire and judgement. The contributors illuminate the different ways in which classic Christian authors have treated this topic, and indicate the epistemological and spiritual import of these understandings. The concept of the 'spiritual senses' is thereby importantly recovered for contemporary theological anthropology and philosophy of religion"--

Author : Penney Peirce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781439165980

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The Intuitive Way by Penney Peirce Pdf

Penney Peirce—bestselling author and renowned intuitive and visionary—shows you how to trust and develop your intuition to an advanced degree. Intuition is the skill of the future, and it will absolutely give you an advantage in whatever you do. As the first book in Peirce’s groundbreaking Transformation series, The Intuitive Way shows how intuition is an innate human capacity that can easily be enhanced and developed. Synthesizing insights from psychology, East-West philosophy, religion, metaphysics, and business, this hands-on workbook in the tradition of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way can teach anyone to achieve a heightened state of perceptual accuracy and apply it to daily life. Intuition, writes Penney Peirce, is “not the opposite of logic,” but rather “a comprehensive way of knowing life that includes both left-brain analytical thinking and right-brain direct-knowing states.” On a practical level, intuition helps you learn faster and make more inspired decisions. On a deeper level, it “is a powerful tool that can heal the painful split we all feel between our earthly, mundane selves and our divine, eternal selves.” Widely praised and highly popular, The Intuitive Way, with a foreword by Carol Adrienne, continues to bring Penney Peirce’s pioneering work to new generations of people who want a comprehensive course on this most valuable skill.

Author : Cynthia A. Strong,Meg Page
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878084999

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A Worldview Approach to Ministry among Muslim Women by Cynthia A. Strong,Meg Page Pdf

Four years in the making, A Worldview Approach to Ministry Among Muslim Women is a ground-breaking exploration into the way culture and worldview affect ministry among Muslim women. Using original field research from eight different language and culture groups, the book explores a variety of ministries among Muslim women and provides tools to analyze their effectiveness. With contributions from scholars, field workers and agency administrators, readers are encouraged in a holistic Muslim ministry perspective through in-depth studies in Muslim beliefs, anthropological tools, worldview analyses, and explorations in strategic issues and discipleship. The book concludes with case studies and discussion questions to provide a comprehensive training manual for workers and students alike.