World Views And Perceiving God
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World Views And Perceiving God
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Author : Joseph Runzo
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1994-01-12
World Views And Perceiving God written by Joseph Runzo and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-12 with Philosophy categories.
This collection of essays presents a systematic analysis of some of the foremost issues in the philosophy of religion. The focus is on the epistemology of religion, the most significant area of recent interest in the field. After developing a religious epistemology in the first half of the book, that epistemology is both further expanded, and explicitly applied to salient issues in the contemporary discussion. The central question throughout the essays is how our world-views affect our perception, especially our perception of God. The first essays set out a general epistemology of perception. The next two sets of essays build upon this in assessing the cognitive value of religious experience, and analyzing the proper epistemic foundations for belief in God. Then, in view of the role of faith developed in those essays, the final essays address the dual challenges to traditional theism of theological non-realism and of religious pluralism.
Perceiving God
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Author : William P. Alston
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-24
Perceiving God written by William P. Alston 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 2014-01-24 with Philosophy categories.
In this clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience, William P. Alston argues that the perception of God—his term for direct experiential awareness of God—makes a major contribution to the grounds of religious belief. Surveying the variety of reported direct experiences of God, Alston demonstrates that a person can be justified in holding certain beliefs about God on the basis of mystical experience.
Exploring Earthiness
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Author : Anne Primavesi
language : en
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Release Date : 2014-08-28
Exploring Earthiness written by Anne Primavesi and has been published by Lutterworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-28 with Nature categories.
If we see ourselves as Earth, rather than Earth as existing for us, our perspective is transformed. A variety of religious, philosophical, cultural, and political self-perceptions that dominate our sense of human identity are deeply challenged by this shift in perspective. John Locke's doctrine of Earth as human 'property' has been central to current presuppositions about our selves: justified on the grounds of our possessing unique, divinely bestowed, rational abilities. But today, the effectsof that doctrine on Earth's resource base and on its other-than-human creatures directly challenge such assumptions. At the same time contemporary scientific findings about the evolution of Earthly life demonstrate that while we belong to Earth and nowhere else, Earth does not belong to us. Exploring this role reversal raises fundamental questions about current theological, philosophical, scientific, and economic presuppositions that underpin the 'business as usual' viewpoint and human-centeredaims of contemporary policies and lifestyles. It takes us beyond hierarchical Christian and philosophical doctrines toward a deeper, Earth-focused and peace-based understanding of what it means to be human today.
The Problem Of Perception And The Experience Of God
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Author : Sameer Yadav
language : en
Publisher: Fortress Press
Release Date : 2015-06-01
The Problem Of Perception And The Experience Of God written by Sameer Yadav and has been published by Fortress Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-01 with Religion categories.
Sameer Yadav's central claim in this work is that there is a radical mistake in many contemporary accounts that require grounding a theological story of God's availability to us in experience in a prior general philosophical theory of perception. Instead, it is argued that the philosophical problem of perception is a pseudoproblem. The study concludes with a new reading of Gregory of Nyssa and his theology of the spiritual senses, which is free from the bewitchment of the problem of perception.
Sight Of The Kingdom
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Author : Jb Shreve
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12-06
Sight Of The Kingdom written by Jb Shreve and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-06 with categories.
A worldview represents the frequently unconscious perspective that shapes how we see the world, ourselves, and those around us. There are many (possibly thousands) of worldviews people take hold of to serve as the primary lens through which they perceive life.A Kingdom worldview is uniquely singular in that it places God and His will as primary above all else. Do not mistake a Kingdom worldview for a Christian or religious worldview. A person can attend church and profess faith without adherence to the supremacy of the will of God in their worldview. A Kingdom worldview is biblical. It is the perspective of life which the figures in the Bible adhered to and which the Bible encourages God's people to follow. These daily devotions will jumpstart your mornings with God as you partner with the Holy Spirit to transform your worldview.
The Spiritual Senses
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Author : Paul L. Gavrilyuk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Spiritual Senses written by Paul L. Gavrilyuk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with God (Christianity) categories.
"Is it possible to see, hear, touch, smell and taste God? How do we understand the biblical promise that the 'pure in heart' will 'see God'? Christian thinkers as diverse as Origen of Alexandria, Bonaventure, Jonathan Edwards and Hans Urs von Balthasar have all approached these questions in distinctive ways by appealing to the concept of the 'spiritual senses'. In focusing on the Christian tradition of the 'spiritual senses', this book discusses how these senses relate to the physical senses and the body, and analyzes their relationship to mind, heart, emotions, will, desire and judgement. The contributors illuminate the different ways in which classic Christian authors have treated this topic, and indicate the epistemological and spiritual import of these understandings. The concept of the 'spiritual senses' is thereby importantly recovered for contemporary theological anthropology and philosophy of religion"--
Philosophy And The Christian Worldview
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Author : David Werther
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-01-12
Philosophy And The Christian Worldview written by David Werther 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 2012-01-12 with Philosophy categories.
New perspectives on core questions in contemporary philosophy of religion.
The Rationality Of Belief The Plurality Of Faith
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Author : Thomas David Senor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Rationality Of Belief The Plurality Of Faith written by Thomas David Senor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Philosophy categories.
A veritable who's who in the field of contemporary philosophy of religion here considers various issues in the epistemology of religious beliefs. The writings of William P. Alston, the leading figure in the revival of the Anglo-American philosophy of religion, provide the focus of these essays, all but two previously unpublished. Philosophers of religion, epistemologists, metaphysicians, and theologians will find in this volume some of the most important work available in the theory of knowledge and the epistemic status of religious belief. Essays are arranged in three sections: Natural Theology and the Knowledge of God, The Epistemology of Religious Experience, and Religious Pluralism. Collectively they create a dialogue on some of today's urgent issues in religion, including religious diversity.
God At The Crossroads Of Worldviews
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Author : Paul Seungoh Chung
language : en
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Release Date : 2016-10-22
God At The Crossroads Of Worldviews written by Paul Seungoh Chung and has been published by University of Notre Dame Pess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-22 with Religion categories.
Debates about the existence of God persist but remain at an impasse between opposing answers. God at the Crossroads of Worldviews reframes the debate from a new perspective, characterizing the way these positions have been defined and defended not as wrong, per se, but rather as odd or awkward. Paul Chung begins with a general survey of the philosophical debate regarding the existence of God, particularly as the first cause, and how this involves a bewildering array of often-incommensurable positions that differ on the meaning of key concepts, criteria of justification, and even on where to start the discussion. According to Chung, these positions are in fact arguments both from and against larger, more comprehensive intellectual positions, which in turn comprise a set of rival "worldviews." Moreover, there is no neutral rationality completely independent of these worldviews and capable of resolving complex intellectual questions, such as that of the existence of God. Building from Alasdair MacIntyre's writings on rival intellectual traditions, Chung proposes that to argue about God, we must first stand at the "crossroads" of the different intellectual journeys of the particular rival worldviews in the debate, and that the "discovery" of such a crossroad itself constitutes an argument about the existence of God. Chung argues that this is what Thomas Aquinas accomplished in his Five Ways, which are often misunderstood as simple "proofs." From such crossroads, the debate may proceed toward a more fruitful exploration of the question of God's existence. Chung sketches out one such crossroad by suggesting ways in which Christianity and scientific naturalism can begin a mutual dialogue from a different direction. God at the Crossroads of Worldviews will be read by philosophers of religion, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and theologians and general readers interested in the new atheism debates.
The Beauty Of The Lord
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Author : Jonathan King
language : en
Publisher: Lexham Press
Release Date : 2018-05-30
The Beauty Of The Lord written by Jonathan King and has been published by Lexham Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-30 with Religion categories.
Why is God's beauty often absent from our theology? Rarely do theologians take up the theme of God's beauty—even more rarely do they consider how God's beauty should shape the task of theology itself. But the psalmist says that the heart of the believer's desire is to behold the beauty of the Lord. In The Beauty of the Lord, Jonathan King restores aesthetics as not merely a valid lens for theological reflection, but an essential one. Jesus, our incarnate Redeemer, displays the Triune God's beauty in his actions and person, from creation to final consummation. How can and should theology better reflect this unveiled beauty? The Beauty of the Lord is a renewal of a truly aesthetic theology and a properly theological aesthetics.