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Calculating God

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Author : Robert J. Sawyer
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2009-03-03

Calculating God written by Robert J. Sawyer and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-03 with Fiction categories.

The provocative, near-future SF thriller from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author

The Everyday Fantasic

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Author : Michael Berman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-03-26

The Everyday Fantasic written by Michael Berman and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-26 with Literary Criticism categories.

The Everyday Fantastic is an anthology born in love. The love is for science fiction, in all its myriad forms: novels, television, movies, music, art, etc. Many writers from a plurality of disciplines, professions and walks of life share this disposition. This attitude cuts across national boundaries and has even outlasted the vagaries of popular culture fads. This collection of essays draws upon these feelings in terms of the different ways science fiction is engaged in different disciplines, viewing the genre beyond mere entertainment. The papers collected here engage the fundamental questions explored in science fiction. Many of the essays were originally presented at an interdisciplinary conference in October 2005 at Brock University, highlighted by Robert J. Sawyer’s engaging keynote address. Additional chapters were in part inspired by these presentations. These essays represent a wide array of voices from the humanities, social sciences and sciences, and address a comparable range of topics and the media that use the science fiction genre.

Fiction And The Sixth Mass Extinction

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Author : Jonathan Elmore
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2020-04-01

Fiction And The Sixth Mass Extinction written by Jonathan Elmore and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-01 with Nature categories.

Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction is one of the first works to focus specifically on fiction’s engagements with human driven extinction. Drawing together a diverse group of scholars and approaches, this volume pairs established voices in the field with emerging scholars and traditionally recognized climate fiction ('cli-fi') with texts and media typically not associated with Anthropocene fictions. The result is a volume that both engages with and furthers existing work on Anthropocene fiction as well as laying groundwork for the budding subfield of extinction fiction. This volume takes up the collective insistence on the centrality of story to extinction studies. In various and disparate ways, each chapter engages with the stories we tell about extinction, about the extinction of animal and plant life, and about the extinction of human life itself. Answering the call to action of extinction studies, these chapters explore what kinds of humanity caused this event and what kinds may live through it; what cultural assumptions and values led to this event and which ones could lead out of it; what relationships between human life and this planet allowed the sixth mass extinction and what alternative relationships could be possible.

Religion And Science Fiction

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Author : James H. Thrall
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-05-17

Religion And Science Fiction written by James H. Thrall and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-17 with Literary Criticism categories.

Religion and Science Fiction: An Introduction guides students into deeper understanding of how religion and science fiction engage often overlapping questions. This textbook introduces key ideas of religious studies through critical consideration of print and visual media that fall within the general category of science fiction. The goal throughout is to help students move beyond simply identifying points of interrelation between religious studies and forms of what is often called, more broadly, speculative fiction, to considering how the studied texts open new ways of thinking about human (and nonhuman) experience taken to be religious. With discussion questions, lists of key terms, extensive additional resources, and suggestions for projects and essay questions, this book is a foundational text for students and instructors of religion and science fiction.

Reaching For The Invisible God Study Guide

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Author : Philip Yancey
language : en
Publisher: Zondervan
Release Date : 2009-12-15

Reaching For The Invisible God Study Guide written by Philip Yancey and has been published by Zondervan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-15 with Religion categories.

"How do I relate to a God who is invisible when I’m never quite sure he’s there?"--Philip Yancey Life with God doesn’t always work like we thought. High expectations slam against the reality of personal weaknesses and unwelcome surprises. And the God who we’ve been told longs for our company may seem remote, emotionally unavailable. Is God playing games? What can we count on him for? This relationship with a God we can’t see, hear, or touch--how does it really work? The Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide gives you a path in your personal quest for answers. Dovetailing with Philip Yancey’s book Reaching for the Invisible God, the twelve sessions are your opportunity to journey toward insights that affirm and dignify your most pressing questions--even the ones you may have found it hard to ask. Get ready to experience the challenges and rewards of relating to God as he is, not as you’ve thought he is. Yancey shifts your focus from questions to the One who offers himself in answer: the God who invites you to reach for him--and find. Includes: * Bible readings * Discussion questions * Personal reflections and applications * Tips for group leaders * Summary excerpts from Reaching for the Invisible God

The Zoologist S Guide To The Galaxy

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Author : Arik Kershenbaum
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2020-09-24

The Zoologist S Guide To The Galaxy written by Arik Kershenbaum and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-24 with Science categories.

DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE 'A wonderfully insightful sidelong look at Earthly biology' Richard Dawkins 'Crawls with curious facts' Sunday Times _________________________ We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the universe yet we have not moved beyond our perception of 'aliens' as Hollywood stereotypes. The time has come to abandon our fixation on alien monsters and place our expectations on solid scientific footing. Using his own expert understanding of life on Earth and Darwin's theory of evolution - which applies throughout the universe - Cambridge zoologist Dr Arik Kershenbaum explains what alien life must be like. This is the story of how life really works, on Earth and in space. _________________________ 'An entertaining, eye-opening and, above all, a hopeful view of what - or who - might be out there in the cosmos' Philip Ball, author of Nature's Patterns 'A fascinating insight into the deepest of questions: what might an alien actually look like' Lewis Dartnell, author of Origins 'If you don't want to be surprised by extraterrestrial life, look no further than this lively overview of the laws of evolution that have produced life on earth' Frans de Waal, author of Mama's Last Hug

The Predictably Unpredictable God

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Author : James J. Carlin
language : en
Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing
Release Date : 2021-02-15

The Predictably Unpredictable God written by James J. Carlin and has been published by Newman Springs Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-15 with Fiction categories.

Have you ever questioned why God takes so long at times to answer a prayer? Or why He does things for some people much faster than He does for others? We know that He’s made many promises to us, and we also know that He’s good for His Word. So from that standpoint, answering our requests should be a very predictable thing, shouldn’t it? If you’re like me and so many others who make requests of God and have had to wait long bouts of time for them to be answered, you can get to where you question if your prayer will be answered at all. But in my life, I have had situations where my prayers were answered many years before I knew it and have also seen where many were answered in ways that I would never have suspected. Ways that can make a person shake their head in wonder. However, when we take the time to really look at how things played out from a kingdom perspective, I feel things become more clear and are easier to understand. I feel these types of things as well as others demonstrate just how unpredictable God can be. But they can also show how much thought God puts into remedying our situations. With that said, the intent of this book is to help build faith and at the same time give more hope, by seeing things from a kingdom perspective. It had that effect on me while God was giving it to me, and I hope that all who read it will be blessed in the same or even a greater way.

Reaching For The Invisible God

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Author : Philip Yancey
language : en
Publisher: Zondervan
Release Date : 2009-05-18

Reaching For The Invisible God written by Philip Yancey and has been published by Zondervan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-18 with Religion categories.

Why does God feel so distant so often, and how do I bridge the gap? Does your hunger for God often seem more frustrating than satisfying? Have you sensed a disturbing disparity between God's promises and life's realities? Have you seen God's promises work, but you've stumbled and want to believe again? Award-winning author Philip Yancey articulates the fundamental questions that confront us all: "How do I relate to a God who is invisible when I'm never quite sure he's there?" Reaching for the Invisible God?offers deep, satisfying insights to the questions you’re sometimes afraid to ask. Honest and deeply personal, here is straight talk on Christian living for the reader who wants more than pat answers to life's imponderables. Ultimately, Yancey shifts the focus from your questions to the One who offers himself in answer. "A brilliant book. It is both profound and simple, the best blend, in my view. Simple is neither shallow, nor simplistic. The sections on doubt and God's 'absence' are classics." — Rick Warren, pastor and author,?The Purpose Driven Life

Shades Of Freedom

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Author : A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1998-06-11

Shades Of Freedom written by A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. 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 1998-06-11 with Social Science categories.

Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law--both its practice and its history--as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, he has distinguished himself over the decades both as a professor at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard, and as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals. But Judge Higginbotham is perhaps best known as an authority on racism in America: not the least important achievement of his long career has been In the Matter of Color, the first volume in a monumental history of race and the American legal process. Published in 1978, this brilliant book has been hailed as the definitive account of racism, slavery, and the law in colonial America. Now, after twenty years, comes the long-awaited sequel. In Shades of Freedom, Higginbotham provides a magisterial account of the interaction between the law and racial oppression in America from colonial times to the present, demonstrating how the one agent that should have guaranteed equal treatment before the law--the judicial system--instead played a dominant role in enforcing the inferior position of blacks. The issue of racial inferiority is central to this volume, as Higginbotham documents how early white perceptions of black inferiority slowly became codified into law. Perhaps the most powerful and insightful writing centers on a pair of famous Supreme Court cases, which Higginbotham uses to portray race relations at two vital moments in our history. The Dred Scott decision of 1857 declared that a slave who had escaped to free territory must be returned to his slave owner. Chief Justice Roger Taney, in his notorious opinion for the majority, stated that blacks were "so inferior that they had no right which the white man was bound to respect." For Higginbotham, Taney's decision reflects the extreme state that race relations had reached just before the Civil War. And after the War and Reconstruction, Higginbotham reveals, the Courts showed a pervasive reluctance (if not hostility) toward the goal of full and equal justice for African Americans, and this was particularly true of the Supreme Court. And in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which Higginbotham terms "one of the most catastrophic racial decisions ever rendered," the Court held that full equality--in schooling or housing, for instance--was unnecessary as long as there were "separate but equal" facilities. Higginbotham also documents the eloquent voices that opposed the openly racist workings of the judicial system, from Reconstruction Congressman John R. Lynch to Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan to W. E. B. Du Bois, and he shows that, ironically, it was the conservative Supreme Court of the 1930s that began the attack on school segregation, and overturned the convictions of African Americans in the famous Scottsboro case. But today racial bias still dominates the nation, Higginbotham concludes, as he shows how in six recent court cases the public perception of black inferiority continues to persist. In Shades of Freedom, a noted scholar and celebrated jurist offers a work of magnificent scope, insight, and passion. Ranging from the earliest colonial times to the present, it is a superb work of history--and a mirror to the American soul.

Original Sin And Everyday Protestants

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Author : Finstuen
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2010-07-13

Original Sin And Everyday Protestants written by Finstuen and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-13 with Religion categories.

In the years following World War II, American Protestantism experienced tremendous growth, but conventional wisdom holds that midcentury Protestants practiced an optimistic, progressive, complacent, and materialist faith. In Original Sin and Everyday Protestants, historian Andrew Finstuen argues against this prevailing view, showing that theolog...