A Very Brief History Of Eternity
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A Very Brief History Of Eternity
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Author : Carlos Eire
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-12
A Very Brief History Of Eternity written by Carlos Eire and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-12 with History categories.
From the author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, a brilliant cultural history of the idea of eternity What is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by priest and scientist alike, and an essential element in all human relations? In A Very Brief History of Eternity, Carlos Eire, the historian and National Book Award–winning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, has written a brilliant history of eternity in Western culture. Tracing the idea from ancient times to the present, Eire examines the rise and fall of five different conceptions of eternity, exploring how they developed and how they have helped shape individual and collective self-understanding. A book about lived beliefs and their relationship to social and political realities, A Very Brief History of Eternity is also about unbelief, and the tangled and often rancorous relation between faith and reason. Its subject is the largest subject of all, one that has taxed minds great and small for centuries, and will forever be of human interest, intellectually, spiritually, and viscerally.
A Brief History Of Eternity
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Author : Roy Peacock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
A Brief History Of Eternity written by Roy Peacock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Apologetics categories.
In The Context Of Eternity
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Author : David J. Arnold
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2017-08-24
In The Context Of Eternity written by David J. Arnold and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-24 with Religion categories.
In the Context of Eternity is a lively and readable one-volume history of the Christian Church, which challenges the view that ancient history came to an end in the fifth century and that nothing of significance then happened until the Renaissance. It explains how an extraordinary intermingling of the Roman Empire, Christianity, and Barbarism produced the most dynamic society the world has ever known, and how the modern world emerged from the interaction of Christianity and Barbarism on the ruins of Rome. There is a prologue explaining the background to the world out of which Christianity developed and an epilogue commenting on the state of the Christian Church at the beginning of the third millennium. The period of two thousand years in between is divided into six sections, each of which is given the same number of pages and each of which is divided into three chapters. Thus, the period from the 330s to the 660s, on "Christendom and the Roman Empire," is given the same attention as the period on "The Era of Reform," from the 1330s to the 1660s. Chapter 18 is an account of the development of Christianity in the United States of America.
The History Of Eternity
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Author : James Winder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-01-15
The History Of Eternity written by James Winder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-15 with categories.
A Brief History Of Eternity
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Author : Roy E. Peacock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
A Brief History Of Eternity written by Roy E. Peacock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Religion categories.
This book has a twofold purpose: the first is to trace the development of cosmology, the study of the universe, and the second is to demonstrate the limitation of science. Dr. Peacock questions the idea that the universe is infinite, showing that science can answer the hows of the universe, but not the whys.
In The Context Of Eternity
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Author : David Arnold
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-05-19
In The Context Of Eternity written by David Arnold and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-19 with Religion categories.
In the Context of Eternity was described by the editorial director of a leading London publishing house as 'a lively and readable one-volume history of Christianity, challenging the view that ancient history came to an end in the fifth century and that nothing of significance then happened until the Renaissance. It explains how an extraordinary intermingling of the Roman Empire, Christianity and Barbarism produced the most dynamic society the world has ever known, and how the modern world of the scientific revolution, capitalism and liberal democracy emerged from the interaction of Christianity and Barbarism on the ruins of Rome.'
Long Story Short
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Author : John Kitchen
language : en
Publisher: CLC Publications
Release Date : 2010-09-01
Long Story Short written by John Kitchen and has been published by CLC Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-01 with Religion categories.
God has written a grand story—His Story. And He wants you to discover your own story in His. Pastor John Kitchen takes you on a unique journey from Genesis to Revelation, unfolding God’s overarching plan so your life can contribute to and move with God’s great, eternal Story.
Eternity
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Author : Yitzhak Y. Melamed
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Eternity written by Yitzhak Y. Melamed and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
This edited volume aims at providing a history of the philosophical explorations of eternity, alongside a series of short essays, called reflections, on the role of eternity and its representations in literature, religion, language, liturgy, science, and music. In doing so, it reveals philosophy to be a discipline in constant conversation with various other domains of human thought and exploration.
Borges Between History And Eternity
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Author : Hernan Diaz
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-08-02
Borges Between History And Eternity written by Hernan Diaz and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Considers the intersection of aesthetics, politics and metaphysics in Borges's texts, and analyzes their interaction with the North American canon.
Eternity
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Author : Yitzhak Y. Melamed
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-01
Eternity written by Yitzhak Y. Melamed and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-01 with Philosophy categories.
Eternity is a unique kind of existence that is supposed to belong to the most real being or beings. It is an existence that is not shaken by the common wear and tear of time. Over the two and half millennia history of Western philosophy we find various conceptions of eternity, yet one sharp distinction between two notions of eternity seems to run throughout this long history: eternity as timeless existence, as opposed to eternity as existence in all times. Both kinds of existence stand in sharp contrast to the coming in and out of existence of ordinary beings, like hippos, humans, and toothbrushes: were these eternally-timeless, for example, a hippo could not eat, a human could not think or laugh, and a toothbrush would be of no use. Were a hippo an eternal-everlasting creature, it would not have to bother itself with nutrition in order to extend its existence. Everlasting human beings might appear similar to us, but their mental life and patterns of behavior would most likely be very different from ours. The distinction between eternity as timelessness and eternity as everlastingness goes back to ancient philosophy, to the works of Plato and Aristotle, and even to the fragments of Parmenides' philosophical poem. In the twentieth century, it seemed to go out of favor, though one could consider as eternalists those proponents of realism in philosophy of mathematics, and those of timeless propositions in philosophy of language (i.e., propositions that are said to exist independently of the uttered sentences that convey their thought-content). However, recent developments in contemporary physics and its philosophy have provided an impetus to revive notions of eternity due to the view that time and duration might have no place in the most fundamental ontology. The importance of eternity is not limited to strictly philosophical discussions. It is a notion that also has an important role in traditional Biblical interpretation. The Tetragrammaton, the Hebrew name of God considered to be most sacred, is derived from the Hebrew verb for being, and as a result has been traditionally interpreted as denoting eternal existence (in either one of the two senses of eternity). Hence, Calvin translates the Tetragrammaton as 'l'Eternel', and Mendelssohn as 'das ewige Wesen' or 'der Ewige'. Eternity also plays a central role in contemporary South American fiction, especially in the works of J.L. Borges. The representation of eternity poses a major challenge to both literature and arts (just think about the difficulty of representing eternity in music, a thoroughly temporal art). The current volume aims at providing a history of the philosophy of eternity surrounded by a series of short essays, or reflections, on the role of eternity and its representation in literature, religion, language, liturgy, science, and music. Thus, our aim is to provide a history of philosophy as a discipline that is in constant commerce with various other domains of human inquisition and exploration.