A God and Humanity Book


Book Description

A God and Humanity Book presents a new outlook about the purposes and the personality of God. This book talks about the many roles that our Supreme Being plays in all our lives. It talks about how God reaches out to us throughout our lives. It talks about the love that God shares for us from the time that we are conceived in our mothers' pregnancies to the time that we achieve parenthood. We come to understand what God's love means to us when we read this book. We also understand how God suffers when we emerge to become a threat to ourselves and/or a threat to our fellow brothers and sisters. We must come to understand that humanity is a family and that God is the patriarch of that family. We all answer to God. We all depend upon God to maintain our daily survival. God supports our existence in his universe. God creates all human and nonhuman life. God is the centerpiece of our daily lives. We owe our lives and our livelihoods to him. A God and Humanity Book helps us to understand how we can reward God for being such a wonderful Supreme Being in our lives. This book helps us to realize how God's love for us invigorates us to achieve wonderful things such as achieving parenthood and to make humanity a better existence for all of us. This book talks about the importance of recognizing the existence of God in our lives. God must play a role in our lives for all of us to achieve success in our endeavors. We must be able to seek help from God to begin to solve the problems that we face in our daily lives. Our relationships with God will eventually lead us away from our pain and suffering and down a path of happiness, prosperity, peace, and eternal life for ourselves and for all our brothers and sisters throughout our human family.




A God and Humanity Book


Book Description

A God and Humanity Book presents a new outlook about the purposes and the personality of God. This book talks about the many roles that our Supreme Being plays in all our lives. It talks about how God reaches out to us throughout our lives. It talks about the love that God shares for us from the time that we are conceived in our mothers' pregnancies to the time that we achieve parenthood. We come to understand what God's love means to us when we read this book. We also understand how God suffers when we emerge to become a threat to ourselves and/or a threat to our fellow brothers and sisters. We must come to understand that humanity is a family and that God is the patriarch of that family. We all answer to God. We all depend upon God to maintain our daily survival. God supports our existence in his universe. God creates all human and nonhuman life. God is the centerpiece of our daily lives. We owe our lives and our livelihoods to him. A God and Humanity Book helps us to understand how we can reward God for being such a wonderful Supreme Being in our lives. This book helps us to realize how God's love for us invigorates us to achieve wonderful things such as achieving parenthood and to make humanity a better existence for all of us. This book talks about the importance of recognizing the existence of God in our lives. God must play a role in our lives for all of us to achieve success in our endeavors. We must be able to seek help from God to begin to solve the problems that we face in our daily lives. Our relationships with God will eventually lead us away from our pain and suffering and down a path of happiness, prosperity, peace, and eternal life for ourselves and for all our brothers and sisters throughout our human family.




God's Human Face


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The principal editor of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, presents the sources of meditation on the mystery of God's human face from the great Masters of early Christianity. Artists and theologians have meditated upon the mystery of God's human countenance and tried to express it. This book seeks to present the great sources of this meditation--sources which today are widely unknown, or have become foreign or obscure. These sources are above all the great masters of early Christianity. In their meditation upon Christ, Bishop Schonborn seeks the sources of the art on the Icon. The reader will find not only an engaging introduction to the meaning and beauty of Icons, but an invitation to draw closer to the One who inspired these Masters of theological expression and holy art. Includes beautiful color Icon illustrations.




God, Humanity and the Cosmos - 3rd edition


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A systematic exploration of contemporary perspectives in physics, evolutionary biology and psychology as they relate to theological descriptions of the universe, humanity and consciousness. Contributors examine such issues as theological responses to the ecological crisis; how science is treated and valued in education; and the development of the science and religion debate in the 21st century. This is a comprehensive textbook for the student, with periodic exercises to test understanding and encourage discussion of the different topics, and suggestions for further reading.




God, Humanity and the Cosmos - 2nd Edition


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Contributors include: Christopher Southgate John Hedley Brooke Celia Deane-Drummond Paul D. Murray Michael Robert Negus Lawrence Osborn Michael Poole Jacqui Stewart Fraser Watts David Wilkinson This fully revised and updated edition of God, Humanity and the Cosmos includes new chapters by John Hedley Brooke, Paul D. Murray and David Wilkinson. In addition to a systematic exploration of contemporary perspectives in physics, evolutionary biology and psychology as they relate to theological descriptions of the universe, humanity and consciousness, the book now provides a thorough survey of the theological, philosophical and historical issues underpinning the science-religion debate. Contributors also examine such issues as theological responses to the ecological crisis and to biotechnology; how science is treated and valued in education; and the relation of science to Islamic thought. Dr Christopher Southgate is Lecturer in Theology at the University of Exeter.'




God, Human, Animal, Machine


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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.




God, Human Nature and Education for Peace


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This title was first published in 2003. What prevents the human species from finally learning the lessons of social justice and global peace in an unreconciled world? Are Christians better off? Presenting new challenges to moral and religious education, this book clarifies the true image of the biblical God around the topics of justice and reconciliation. Rejuvenating interpretations of the most outstanding traditions of the Old and New Testament, Karl Ernst Nipkow's approach of 'elementarization' - well known in German speaking countries - is introduced for the first time in the English language. Theological perspectives are confronted with data from evolutionary ethics and social psychology, through practice-based examples of the roots of aggression, violence, xenophobia and ethno-centrism. The analysis ends with peace and spirituality in the light of different faiths. This book presents a striking blend of theology, education and the social sciences, to explore central issues in moral and religious education.




God, Humanity, and the Universe


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The main objective of this book on cosmology and theology is to reassess the current approach to research in the field of interaction, mediation, and dialogue between modern cosmology and Christian theology (Eastern Orthodox theology in particular). This project was part of wide-ranging cross-disciplinary research undertaken by scientists, philosophers, and theologians across the world within the framework of Science & Orthodoxy around the World, run by the National Hellenic Research Foundation (Athens) from 2019 to 2023. The project and this publication contribute to the large-scale academic activity in the field of science and religion (or science and theology) with a particular accent on the contribution of Eastern Orthodox theology to this dialogue, as well as to the venues of advancement of this theology given the recent breakthroughs in cosmology, physics, and philosophy. The book also underlines the importance of expressing cosmological ideas theologically, symbolically, and scientifically in the wide context of culture and humanity's sociopolitical and environmental predicaments.




Kierkegaard on God’s Will and Human Freedom


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Søren Kierkegaard’s authorship exhibits two different trajectories concerning the relation of responsible human agency to sovereign divine agency: one trajectory stresses free human striving, while the other trajectory emphasizes the dominance of divine agency. The first theme led to the view of Kierkegaard as the champion of autonomous existential “leaps,” while the second led to the construal of Kierkegaard as a devout Lutheran who trusted absolutely in God’s gracious governance. Lee C. Barrett argues that Kierkegaard, influenced by Kant’s critique of metaphysics, did not attempt to integrate human and divine agencies in any speculative theory. Instead, Kierkegaard deploys them to encourage different passions and dispositions that can be integrated in a coherent human life, making use of literary strategies to foster the different passions and dispositions that are associated with the themes of human responsibility and divine governance. Kierkegaard on God’s Will and Human Freedom: An Upbuilding Antinomy offers an incisive account of what makes Kierkegaard’s conception of theology as a matter of edification rather than speculation so distinctive and enduringly worthwhile.




God's Human Speech


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Charles Bartow's stated purpose in this practical theology of preaching is "to encourage confidence in the Bible read and the sermon delivered as a means of grace in an age of radical criticism of Scripture, creed, and confession.