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Secular Days Sacred Moments

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Author : Robert Coles
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2013-06-01

Secular Days Sacred Moments written by Robert Coles and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-01 with Philosophy categories.

No writer or public intellectual of our era has been as sensitive to the role of faith in the lives of ordinary Americans as Robert Coles. Though not religious in the conventional sense, Coles is unparalleled in his astute understanding and respect for the relationship between secular life and sacredness, which cuts across his large body of work. Drawing inspiration from figures like Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dorothy Day, and Simone Weil, Coles’s extensive writings explore the tug of war between faith and doubt. As Coles himself admits, the “back-and-forthness between faith and doubt is the story of my life.” These thirty-one thought-provoking essays are drawn from Coles’s weekly column in the Catholic publication America. In them, he turns his inquisitive lens on a range of subjects and issues, from writers and painters to his recent reading and film viewing, contemporary events and lingering controversies, recollections of past and present mentors, events of his own daily life, and ordinary encounters with students, patients, neighbors, and friends. Addressing moral questions openly and honestly with a rare combination of rectitude and authorial modesty, these essays position Coles as a preeminent, durable, and trusted voice in the continuing national conversation over religion, civic life, and moral purpose.

The Secular Mind

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Author : Robert Coles
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2001-01-29

The Secular Mind written by Robert Coles 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 2001-01-29 with Psychology categories.

Does the business of daily living distance us from life's mysteries? Do most Americans value spiritual thinking more as a hobby than as an all-encompassing approach to life? Will the concept of the soul be defunct after the next few generations? Child psychiatrist and best-selling author Robert Coles offers a profound meditation on how secular culture has settled into the hearts and minds of Americans. This book is a sweeping essay on the shift from religious control over Western society to the scientific dominance of the mind. Interwoven into the story is Coles's personal quest for understanding how the sense of the sacred has stood firm in the lives of individuals--both the famous and everyday people whom he has known--even as they have struggled with doubt. As a student, Coles questioned Paul Tillich on the meaning of the "secular mind," and his fascination with the perceived opposition between secular and sacred intensified over the years. This book recounts conversations Coles has had with such figures as Anna Freud, Karen Horney, William Carlos Williams, Walker Percy, and Dorothy Day. Their words dramatize the frustration and the joy of living in both the secular and sacred realms. Coles masterfully draws on a variety of literary sources that trace the relationship of the sacred and the secular: the stories of Abraham and Moses, the writings of St. Paul, Augustine, Kierkegaard, Darwin, and Freud, and the fiction of George Eliot, Hardy, Meredith, Flannery O'Connor, and Huxley. Ever since biblical times, Coles shows us, the relationship between these two realms has thrived on conflict and accommodation. Coles also notes that psychoanalysis was first viewed as a rival to religion in terms of getting a handle on inner truths. He provocatively demonstrates how psychoanalysis has either been incorporated into the thinking of many religious denominations or become a type of religion in itself. How will people in the next millennium deal with advances in chemistry and neurology? Will these sciences surpass psychoanalysis in controlling how we think and feel? This book is for anyone who has wondered about the fate of the soul and our ability to seek out the sacred in our constantly changing world.

Moments Days

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Author : Michelle Van Loon
language : en
Publisher: NavPress
Release Date : 2016-09-01

Moments Days written by Michelle Van Loon and has been published by NavPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-01 with Religion categories.

Michelle Van Loon helps us treasure our time as a gift and a spiritual responsibility, and God as faithfully present in all our moments and days. People rarely slow down to experience their days, and so they feel rushed through life even as they begin to suspect that life lacks significance. By introducing (and reintroducing) us to the feasts and festivals of the Bible, as well as the special celebrations of the Christian calendar, Moments and Days restores a sacred sense of time throughout our year, enriching our experience of each “holy day” and enlivening our experience of even the most “ordinary time.”

God S Method With Man Or Sacred Scenes Along The Path To Heaven

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Author : Barlow Weed Gorham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879

God S Method With Man Or Sacred Scenes Along The Path To Heaven written by Barlow Weed Gorham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with Salvation categories.

Religion On The Battlefield

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Author : Ron E. Hassner
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-18

Religion On The Battlefield written by Ron E. Hassner and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-18 with Political Science categories.

How does religion shape the modern battlefield? Ron E. Hassner proposes that religion acts as a force multiplier, both enabling and constraining military operations. This is true not only for religiously radicalized fighters but also for professional soldiers. In the last century, religion has influenced modern militaries in the timing of attacks, the selection of targets for assault, the zeal with which units execute their mission, and the ability of individual soldiers to face the challenge of war. Religious ideas have not provided the reasons why conventional militaries fight, but religious practices have influenced their ability to do so effectively. In Religion on the Battlefield, Hassner focuses on the everyday practice of religion in a military context: the prayers, rituals, fasts, and feasts of the religious practitioners who make up the bulk of the adversaries, bystanders, and observers during armed conflicts. To show that religious practices have influenced battlefield decision making, Hassner draws most of his examples from major wars involving Western militaries. They include British soldiers in the trenches of World War I, U.S. pilots in World War II, and U.S. Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hassner shows that even modern, rational, and bureaucratized military organizations have taken—and must take—religious practice into account in the conduct of war.

Holidays And Holy Days

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Author : Susan E. Richardson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-09

Holidays And Holy Days written by Susan E. Richardson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with Church year categories.

Originally written and published for the Christian market, this updated and expanded version includes everything from the first edition plus more! Holidays and Holy Days seeks to offer balanced information on the history of holidays and holiday customs, focusing primarily on American holidays and celebrations. Rather than tell you whether or not you should celebrate, the material gives you the information to make your own choice. Christian parents will find Holidays and Holy Days an excellent resource for various questions. Ministers, teachers, and anyone interested in the how and why of various celebrations will enjoy this book.

The Catholic Periodical And Literature Index

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

The Catholic Periodical And Literature Index written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Catholic literature categories.

Reflections On Perseverance

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Author : Jean Burden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-26

Reflections On Perseverance written by Jean Burden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-26 with categories.

Reflections on Perseverance: Growing Righteousness In Trials is a Christian women's 40 day daily devotional. The author, Jean B, Burden writes, "There's a thought that rolls around in my brain quite often these days: why do we separate life's actions and events into the secular and the sacred? Don't you think we do that? Sunday is sacred, but work is secular. Prayer time is sacred, but house cleaning is secular. Well, I want to call this the secular-sacred antithesis, and it really has no place in the Christian journey. An antithesis is a set of ideas that go against each other, and yet, if Jesus is our model, nothing about Him went against any other part of Himself. Everything He did and said and thought and taught was sacred. Isn't it time in this challenging world that we, as His followers, realized that everything we do should be approached from a sacred perspective? Persevering against obstacles must be a sacred experience, and every day should hold sacred moments, even those that we have traditionally deemed secular. It's all about perspective. Through this book I challenge you to rethink your daily journey . . . the challenging days and the ordinary ones. Look at each one through the purple lens of the royalty of Jesus Christ. Let this beautiful lens color everything you think and therefore, everything you do with the lens of King Jesus.

The Religious Dimension

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Author : Donald Broadribb
language : en
Publisher: Donald Broadribb
Release Date : 2006

The Religious Dimension written by Donald Broadribb and has been published by Donald Broadribb this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.

An examination of various world and ethnic religions, with special attention to their historical development and to the psychology underlying them.

How Not To Be Secular

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Author : James K. A. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-01

How Not To Be Secular written by James K. A. Smith 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 2014-05-01 with Philosophy categories.

How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present" -- it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times. Taylor's landmark book A Secular Age (2007) provides a monumental, incisive analysis of what it means to live in the post-Christian present -- a pluralist world of competing beliefs and growing unbelief. Jamie Smith's book is a compact field guide to Taylor's insightful study of the secular, making that very significant but daunting work accessible to a wide array of readers. Even more, though, Smith's How (Not) to Be Secular is a practical philosophical guidebook, a kind of how-to manual on how to live in our secular age. It ultimately offers us an adventure in self-understanding and maps out a way to get our bearings in today's secular culture, no matter who "we" are -- whether believers or skeptics, devout or doubting, self-assured or puzzled and confused. This is a book for any thinking person to chew on.