How Human Is God
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How Human Is God
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Author : Mark S. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date : 2014-07-07
How Human Is God written by Mark S. Smith and has been published by Liturgical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-07 with Religion categories.
Walter Cardinal Kasper has written, “It is time, it is the right time, to speak of God.” This book invites readers to use their God-given ability to work through important questions that many people have about God today: Why is God so angry in the Bible? Is the biblical God male or female (or what)? Who is Satan? Why do people suffer? By exploring the Bible’s answers to these and other biblical questions, people can come to understand better their living and loving God.
God
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Author : Reza Aslan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-11-07
God written by Reza Aslan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-07 with Religion categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer explores humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine in this concise and fascinating history of our understanding of God. In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions. In his new book, Aslan takes on a subject even more immense: God, writ large. In layered prose and with thoughtful, accessible scholarship, Aslan narrates the history of religion as a remarkably cohesive attempt to understand the divine by giving it human traits and emotions. According to Aslan, this innate desire to humanize God is hardwired in our brains, making it a central feature of nearly every religious tradition. As Aslan writes, “Whether we are aware of it or not, and regardless of whether we’re believers or not, what the vast majority of us think about when we think about God is a divine version of ourselves.” But this projection is not without consequences. We bestow upon God not just all that is good in human nature—our compassion, our thirst for justice—but all that is bad in it: our greed, our bigotry, our penchant for violence. All these qualities inform our religions, cultures, and governments. More than just a history of our understanding of God, this book is an attempt to get to the root of this humanizing impulse in order to develop a more universal spirituality. Whether you believe in one God, many gods, or no god at all, God: A Human History will challenge the way you think about the divine and its role in our everyday lives. Praise for God “Timely, riveting, enlightening and necessary.”—HuffPost “Tantalizing . . . Driven by [Reza] Aslan’s grace and curiosity, God . . . helps us pan out from our troubled times, while asking us to consider a more expansive view of the divine in contemporary life.”—The Seattle Times “A fascinating exploration of the interaction of our humanity and God.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “[Aslan’s] slim, yet ambitious book [is] the story of how humans have created God with a capital G, and it’s thoroughly mind-blowing.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Aslan is a born storyteller, and there is much to enjoy in this intelligent survey.”—San Francisco Chronicle
A Human Shaped God
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Author : Charles Halton
language : en
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 2021-10-26
A Human Shaped God written by Charles Halton and has been published by Westminster John Knox Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-26 with Religion categories.
A Human-Shaped God approaches the humanlike accounts of God in the Old Testament as the starting places for theology and uses them to build a picture of the divine. This understanding of God is then brought into conversation with traditional conceptions that depict God as a being who knows everything that happens, is at every place at the same time, is constant and unchanging, and does not ultimately have material form. But instead of pitting the Old Testament's humanlike view of God against traditional theology and assuming that only one of these understandings is correct, A Human-Shaped God posits that theologians should embrace both of these constructions simultaneously. This is a new way of theological inquiry that embraces both the humanlike characteristics of God and the transcendence of God in traditional theology. By seeing and understanding the humanlike depictions of God in the Old Testament and by using the rich language of traditional theology together in tandem, the reader acquires a much deeper and meaningful understanding of God.
The Humanity Of God
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Author : Karl Barth
language : en
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 1960-01-01
The Humanity Of God written by Karl Barth and has been published by Westminster John Knox Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960-01-01 with Religion categories.
These three essays show how Karl Barth's later work moved beyond his revolt against the theology dominant in the first decades of this century.
Being Human In God S World
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Author : J. Gordon McConville
language : en
Publisher: Baker Academic
Release Date : 2016-08-16
Being Human In God S World written by J. Gordon McConville and has been published by Baker Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-16 with Religion categories.
A Biblical Perspective on What It Means to Be Human This major work by a widely respected Old Testament scholar and theologian unpacks a biblical perspective on fundamental questions of what it means to be human. J. Gordon McConville explores how a biblical view of humanity provides a foundation for Christian reflection on ethics, economics, politics, and church life and practice. The book shows that the Old Testament's view of humanity as "earthed" and "embodied" plays an essential part in a well-rounded Christian theology and spirituality, and applies the theological concept of the "image of God" to all areas of human existence.
Who Am I And Why Am I Here
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Author : Bill Hamon
language : en
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Release Date : 2011-07-28
Who Am I And Why Am I Here written by Bill Hamon and has been published by Destiny Image Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-28 with Religion categories.
DISCOVERING EIGHT REASONS WHY GOD CREATED THE HUMAN RACE Would you like to know more about your beginning, your real purpose for being, and your destiny? How did you and the world around you begin? How did we become as we are today? Join me on an exciting journey, before time began, and behold the beginning of all things. Watch your history, present purpose, and future unfold with new elation that will thrill and fulfill the greatest longings of your soul. You will gain new insight on some of the most perplexing questions of life: If God is Love, why does He allow suffering, evil, war, and death? Out of the billions of people on earth, is there a special purpose and place for me? Can my life be meaningful, fulfilling, and even eternal? Why was I created with the freedom to choose good or evil? Why is Jesus Christ declared to be the Son of God and my only door to Heaven? Dr. Bill Hamon has written many powerful books, but this one will especially open your heart to ideas you may never have considered.
The Meaning Of God In Human Experience
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Author : William Ernest Hocking
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
The Meaning Of God In Human Experience written by William Ernest Hocking and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with God categories.
Dignity And Destiny
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Author : John F. Kilner
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2015-01-08
Dignity And Destiny written by John F. Kilner and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-08 with Religion categories.
Misunderstandings about what it means for humans to be created in God's image have wreaked devastation throughout history -- for example, slavery in the U. S., genocide in Nazi Germany, and the demeaning of women everywhere. In Dignity and Destiny John Kilner explores what the Bible itself teaches about humanity being in God's image. He discusses in detail all of the biblical references to the image of God, interacts extensively with other work on the topic, and documents how misunderstandings of it have been so problematic. People made according to God's image, Kilner says, have a special connection with God and are intended to be a meaningful reflection of him. Because of sin, they don't actually reflect him very well, but Kilner shows why the popular idea that sin has damaged the image of God is mistaken. He also clarifies the biblical difference between being God's image (which Christ is) and being in God's image (which humans are). He explains how humanity's creation and renewal in God's image are central, respectively, to human dignity and destiny. Locating Christ at the center of what God's image means, Kilner charts a constructive way forward and reflects on the tremendously liberating impact that a sound understanding of the image of God can have in the world today.
God
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Author : Reza Aslan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-11-07
God written by Reza Aslan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-07 with Religion categories.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In God, Reza Aslan sheds new light on mankind’s relationship with the divine and challenges our perspective on the history of faith and the birth of religion. From the origins of spiritual thought to the concept of an active, engaged, divine presence that underlies all creation, Aslan examines how the idea of god arose in human evolution, was gradually personalized, endowed with human traits and emotions, and eventually transformed into a single Divine Personality: the God known today by such names as Yahweh, Father, and Allah. Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, God challenges everything we thought we knew about the origins of religious belief, and with it our relationship with life and death, with the natural and spiritual worlds, and our understanding of the very essence of human existence.
God Human Animal Machine
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Author : Meghan O'Gieblyn
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2022-07-12
God Human Animal Machine written by Meghan O'Gieblyn and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." —Phillip Lopate “[A] truly fantastic book.”—Ezra Klein For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence—identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself—urgently require rethinking. Meghan O'Gieblyn tackles this challenge with philosophical rigor, intellectual reach, essayistic verve, refreshing originality, and an ironic sense of contradiction. She draws deeply and sometimes humorously from her own personal experience as a formerly religious believer still haunted by questions of faith, and she serves as the best possible guide to navigating the territory we are all entering.