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The Divine Virtues: 14 Values to Live By

Author : Richard Rife

Publisher : Cedar Fort Publishing & Media

Page : 183 pages

File Size : 45,87 MB

Release : 2023-04-24

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1599558246

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The Savior lived a life of perfect example, but it's hard to live up to perfection all at once. That's why Richard Rife has written this compelling new guide to becoming more like Christ—one value at a time. In a hopeful and uplifting way, this book examines topics like obedience and submissiveness, kindness and gentleness, temperance, knowledge, mercy, and gratitude. Trying to become like Christ is a tremendous challenge, but God (whose mercy and patience are infinite) will work with us as long as we keep trying. Learn to love the Savior more by following his example and acquiring the divine virtues.



The Divine Virtues

Author : Richard Rife

Publisher : Cedar Fort

Page : 166 pages

File Size : 44,83 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9781599553900

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The Savior lived a life of perfect example, but it's hard to live up to perfection all at once. That's why Richard Rife has written this compelling new guide to becoming more like Christ--one value at a time. In a hopeful and uplifting way, this book examines topics like obedience and submissiveness, kindness and gentleness, temperance, knowledge, mercy, and gratitude. Trying to become like Christ is a tremendous challenge, but God (whose mercy and patience are infinite) will work with us as long as we keep trying. Learn to love the Savior more by following his example and acquiring the divine virtues.



Being Good

Author : Michael W. Austin

Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Page : 293 pages

File Size : 21,74 MB

Release : 2011-12-20

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0802865658

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This volume offers a fresh, timely, practical look at eleven key Christian virtues: faith, open-mindedness, wisdom, zeal, hope, contentment, courage, love, compassion, forgiveness, and humility. Writing from a distinctively Christian perspective, the authors thoughtfully explore and explain these select virtues, seeking to nurture readers in lifelong character growth and to promote the centrality of the virtues to the Christian faith. Grouped under the headings Faith, Hope, and Love, the chapters each conclude with questions for further reflection. Contributors: Michael W. Austin Jason Baehr Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung R. Douglas Geivett David A. Horner William C. Mattison III Paul K. Moser Andrew Pinsent Steve L. Porter James S. Spiegel Charles Taliaferro David R. Turner.



Curing Mad Truths

Author : Rémi Brague

Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess

Page : 183 pages

File Size : 45,18 MB

Release : 2019-06-25

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0268105715

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In his first book composed in English, Rémi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider the created world and humanity as intrinsically valuable. Curing Mad Truths, based on a number of Brague's lectures to English-speaking audiences, explores the idea that humanity must return to the Middle Ages. Not the Middle Ages of purported backwardness and barbarism, but rather a Middle Ages that understood creation—including human beings—as the product of an intelligent and benevolent God. The positive developments that have come about due to the modern project, be they health, knowledge, freedom, or peace, are not grounded in a rational project because human existence itself is no longer the good that it once was. Brague turns to our intellectual forebears of the medieval world to present a reasoned argument as to why humanity and civilizations are goods worth promoting and preserving. Curing Mad Truths will be of interest to a learned audience of philosophers, historians, and medievalists.



Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Aristotle

Publisher : SDE Classics

Page : 268 pages

File Size : 19,72 MB

Release : 2019-11-05

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 9781951570279

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Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe

Author : Erik J. Wielenberg

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 40,39 MB

Release : 2005-02-07

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1139444697

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Suppose there is no God. This might imply that human life is meaningless, that there are no moral obligations and hence people can do whatever they want, and that the notions of virtue and vice and good and evil have no place. Erik J. Wielenberg believes this view to be mistaken and in this book he explains why. He argues that even if God does not exist, human life can have meaning, we do have moral obligations, and virtue is possible. Naturally, the author sees virtue in a Godless universe as different from virtue in a Christian universe, and he develops naturalistic accounts of humility, charity, and hope. The moral landscape in a Godless universe is different from the moral landscape in a Christian universe, but it does indeed exist. Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe is a tour of some of the central landmarks of this under-explored territory.



The Book of Virtues

Author : William J. Bennett

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 2005 pages

File Size : 15,13 MB

Release : 2010-05-11

Category : Education

ISBN : 1439126259

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Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history. William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together.





After Virtue

Author : Alasdair MacIntyre

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 361 pages

File Size : 40,46 MB

Release : 2013-10-21

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1623569818

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Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.



The Christian Life

Author : Francis L. B. Cunningham OP

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers

Page : 852 pages

File Size : 12,4 MB

Release : 2010-02-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1725227312

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"The proper study of mankind," said Alexander Pope, "is man'' -an apt summary of the spirit of his age of rationalism. All of Christian tradition protests against this mockery of the true state of things; divine revelation contradicts it outright; a just philosophy recoils from so limited an approach to reality. That distilled wisdom of Catholicism which is theology knows one subject and one subject only: God. But theology first considers God as he is the cause of all things and their exemplar; in this vision it considers all of reality, which is more true in divine thought than when seen directly in itself. Now the theologian turns to study God as he is the end and perfecting goal of creatures in their return to him from whom they first came forth; in particular he will study the creature who alone holds the reins of his own conduct: man. (from the Introduction) This edition is a scanned facsimile of the original edition published in 1959 by Priory Press