Deconverted An Open Minded Reexamination Of The Bible
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Deconverted An Open Minded Reexamination Of The Bible
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Author : Deavon Reye
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-08-28
Deconverted An Open Minded Reexamination Of The Bible written by Deavon Reye and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-28 with categories.
This book discusses the thoughts and feelings I had as I reexamined the text of the christian bible. I look at the bible and the various stories, laws, and actions found therein and discuss my views and critique of these accounts, based upon an open-minded reexamination of what I was raised in. Sometimes, being raised in a church setting, it is easy to allow myopia of doctrine, and total faith of a pastor to rule your life, as I did for around 30 years. Not until I decided to do an indepth study of my own did I find myself no longer able to abide by the content which I found in the christian bible.
Can We Still Believe The Bible
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Author : Craig L. Blomberg
language : en
Publisher: Brazos Press
Release Date : 2014-04-01
Can We Still Believe The Bible written by Craig L. Blomberg and has been published by Brazos Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-01 with Religion categories.
Challenges to the reliability of Scripture are perennial and have frequently been addressed. However, some of these challenges are noticeably more common today, and the topic is currently of particular interest among evangelicals. In this volume, highly regarded biblical scholar Craig Blomberg offers an accessible and nuanced argument for the Bible's reliability in response to the extreme views about Scripture and its authority articulated by both sides of the debate. He believes that a careful analysis of the relevant evidence shows we have reason to be more confident in the Bible than ever before. As he traces his own academic and spiritual journey, Blomberg sketches out the case for confidence in the Bible in spite of various challenges to the trustworthiness of Scripture, offering a positive, informed, and defensible approach.
Welcoming The Stranger
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Author : Matthew Soerens
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2018-07-03
Welcoming The Stranger written by Matthew Soerens and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-03 with Religion categories.
Academy of Parish Clergy Top Ten List Immigration is one of the most complicated issues of our time. Voices on all sides argue strongly for action and change. Christians find themselves torn between the desire to uphold laws and the call to minister to the vulnerable. In this book World Relief immigration experts Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. They put a human face on the issue and tell stories of immigrants' experiences in and out of the system. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths and misconceptions about immigration and show the limitations of the current immigration system. Ultimately they point toward immigration reform that is compassionate, sensible, and just as they offer concrete ways for you and your church to welcome and minister to your immigrant neighbors. This revised edition includes new material on refugees and updates in light of changes in political realities.
Original Sins
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Author : Matt Rowland Hill
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2022-07-07
Original Sins written by Matt Rowland Hill and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An extraordinarily brave memoir about faith, family, shame and addiction - an Observer, New Statesman and Sunday Times Book of the Year Matt Rowland Hill grew up the son of a minister in an evangelical Christian church. It was a childhood fraught with bitter family conflict and the fear of damnation. After a devastating loss of faith in his late teens, Matt began his search for salvation elsewhere, eventually becoming addicted to crack and heroin - an ordeal that stretched over a decade and culminated in a period of hopeless darkness. Recklessly honest, and as funny as it is grave, Original Sins is an extraordinary memoir of faith, family, shame and addiction. It's about looking for answers to life's big questions in all the wrong places, how hope can arrive in the most unexpected forms, and how the stories we tell might help us survive. 'Remarkable, funny, arrestingly well-written... Brings to mind Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels, but is also entirely, exhilaratingly its own thing' The Times 'Electric... Artfully structured with novelistic verve... Hill is a blazing talent' Observer 'A beautifully controlled tale of a life spiralling out of control... One of the best books I've read this year' Sunday Times LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE
Minimal Theologies
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Author : Hent de Vries
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2019-12-01
Minimal Theologies written by Hent de Vries and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-01 with Philosophy categories.
Originally published in in 2004. What, at this historical moment "after Auschwitz," still remains of the questions traditionally asked by theology? What now is theology's minimal degree? This magisterial study, the first extended comparison of the writings of Theodor W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, explores remnants and echoes of religious forms in these thinkers' critiques of secular reason, finding in the work of both a "theology in pianissimo" constituted by the trace of a transcendent other. The author analyzes, systematizes, and formalizes this idea of an other of reason. In addition, he frames these thinkers' innovative projects within the arguments of such intellectual heirs as Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, defending their work against later accusations of "performative contradiction" (by Habermas) or "empiricism" (by Derrida) and in the process casting important new light on those later writers as well. Attentive to rhetorical and rational features of Adorno's and Levinas's texts, his investigations of the concepts of history, subjectivity, and language in their writings provide a radical interpretation of their paradoxical modes of thought and reveal remarkable and hitherto unsuspected parallels between their philosophical methods, parallels that amount to a plausible way of overcoming certain impasses in contemporary philosophical thinking. In Adorno, this takes the form of a dialectical critique of dialectics; in Levinas, that of a phenomenological critique of phenomenology, each of which sheds new light on ancient and modern questions of metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. For the English-language publication, the author has extensively revised and updated the prize-winning German version.
A Manual For Creating Atheists
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Author : Peter Boghossian
language : en
Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
Release Date : 2014-07-01
A Manual For Creating Atheists written by Peter Boghossian and has been published by Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Philosophy categories.
For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as an obligation of their faith—and are trained from an early age to spread their unique brand of religion. The result is a world broken in large part by unquestioned faith. As an urgently needed counter to this tried-and-true tradition of religious evangelism, A Manual for Creating Atheists offers the first-ever guide not for talking people into faith—but for talking them out of it. Peter Boghossian draws on the tools he has developed and used for more than 20 years as a philosopher and educator to teach how to engage the faithful in conversations that will help them value reason and rationality, cast doubt on their religious beliefs, mistrust their faith, abandon superstition and irrationality, and ultimately embrace reason.
The Tree And The Canoe
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Author : Joël Bonnemaison
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1994-01-01
The Tree And The Canoe written by Joël Bonnemaison and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with History categories.
This personal observation of Tanna, an island in the southern part of the Vanuatu archipelago, presents an extraordinary case study of cultural resistance. Based on interviews, myths and stories collected in the field, and archival research, The Tree and the Canoe analyzes the resilience of the people of Tanna, who, when faced with an intense form of cultural contact that threatened to engulf them, liberated themselves by re-creating, and sometimes reinventing, their own kastom. Following a lengthy history of Tanna from European contact, the author discusses in detail original creation myths and how Tanna people revived them in response to changes brought by missionaries and foreign governments. The final chapters of the book deal with the violent opposition of part of the island population to the newly established National Unity government.
Christianity Islam And Nationalism In Indonesia
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Author : Charles E. Farhadian
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-11-17
Christianity Islam And Nationalism In Indonesia written by Charles E. Farhadian and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-17 with Religion categories.
Although over eighty percent of the country is Muslim, Indonesia is marked by an extraordinary diversity in language, ancestry, culture, religion and ways of life. This book focuses on the Christian Dani of West Papua, providing a social and ethnographic history of the most important indigenous population in the troubled province. It presents a fascinating overview of the Dani’s conversion to Christianity, examining the social, religious and political uses to which they have put their new religion. Based on independent research carried out over many years among the Dani people, the book provides an abundance of new material on religious and political events in West Papua. Underlining the heart of Christian-Muslim rivalries, the book questions the fate of religion in late-modern times.
The Oxford Handbook Of Religious Conversion
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Author : Lewis R. Rambo
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-06
The Oxford Handbook Of Religious Conversion written by Lewis R. Rambo 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 2014-03-06 with Religion categories.
The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies, cultures, and individuals throughout the world. Scholars from a wide array of religions and disciplines interpret both the varieties of conversion experiences and the processes that inform this personal and communal phenomenon. This volume examines the experiences of individuals and communities who change religions, those who experience an intensification of their religion of origin, and those who encounter new religions through colonial intrusion, missionary work, and charismatic and revitalization movements. The thirty-two innovative essays provide overviews of the history of particular religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Sikhism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, indigenous religions, and new religious movements. The essays also offer a wide range of disciplinary perspectives-psychological, sociological, anthropological, legal, political, feminist, and geographical-on methods and theories deployed in understanding conversion, and insight into various forms of deconversion.
Experiencing The Gospel
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Author : Thomas W. Seckler
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2020-05-18
Experiencing The Gospel written by Thomas W. Seckler 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 2020-05-18 with Religion categories.
In recent years, increasing numbers of people from Muslim backgrounds have become followers of Jesus. Some of these conversions have occurred in Cambodia. This book explores the experiences and reflections of forty Cambodians from a Muslim background who have chosen to believe in and follow Jesus. It is based on doctoral research utilizing in-depth interviews which sought to answer the following questions: 1) What role did contextualizing the Christian message play in making it more understandable and compelling? 2) What core themes or factors did those interviewed report as central in their own conversions? 3) How was the gospel message itself experienced as personally meaningful? This book probes the answers to those questions, revealing the manner in which forty Cambodians experienced God and the gospel message. The stories and reflections found here not only provide a glimpse into their lives, but also give insight into the way in which Muslim-background individuals come to believe in and embrace Jesus.