The Recovery of Belief
Author : Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780837190228
Author : Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780837190228
Author : Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : 9780891075882
According to Carl Henry, many popular defenders of the faith have traded their intellectual birthright for a mess of pseudo-intellectual pottage. Rather than sink in the quicksand of anti-Christian thought systems, Christians must once again stand on the rock of divine revelation, defending it against all corners. Only then will we begin to experience a recovery of Christian belief.
Author : Kate Bowler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0190876735
Gospels -- Faith -- Wealth -- Health -- Victory -- American blessing -- Megachurch table -- Naming names.
Author : Josh Hamilton
Publisher : FaithWords
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2008-10-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0446550728
Josh Hamilton was the first player chosen in the first round of the 1999 baseball draft. He was destined to be one of those rare "high-character " superstars. But in 2001, working his way from the minors to the majors, all of the plans for Josh went off the rails in a moment of weakness. What followed was a 4-year nightmare of drugs and alcohol, estrangement from friends and family, and his eventual suspension from baseball. BEYOND BELIEF details the events that led up to the derailment. Josh explains how a young man destined for fame and wealth could allow his life to be taken over by drugs and alcohol. But it is also the memoir of a spiritual journey that breaks through pain and heartbreak and leads to the rebirth of his major-league career. Josh Hamilton makes no excuses and places no blame on anyone other than himself. He takes responsibility for his poor decisions and believes his story can help millions who battle the same demons. "I have been given a platform to tell my story" he says. "I pray every night I am a good messenger."
Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0268203385
How do we judge whether we should be willing to follow the views of experts or whether we ought to try to come to our own, independent views? This book seeks the answer in medieval philosophical thought. In this engaging study into the history of philosophy and epistemology, Peter Adamson provides an answer to a question as relevant today as it was in the medieval period: how and when should we turn to the authoritative expertise of other people in forming our own beliefs? He challenges us to reconsider our approach to this question through a constructive recovery of the intellectual and cultural traditions of the Islamic world, the Byzantine Empire, and Latin Christendom. Adamson begins by foregrounding the distinction in Islamic philosophy between taqlīd, or the uncritical acceptance of authority, and ijtihād, or judgment based on independent effort, the latter of which was particularly prized in Islamic law, theology, and philosophy during the medieval period. He then demonstrates how the Islamic tradition paves the way for the development of what he calls a “justified taqlīd,” according to which one develops the skills necessary to critically and selectively follow an authority based on their reliability. The book proceeds to reconfigure our understanding of the relation between authority and independent thought in the medieval world by illuminating how women found spaces to assert their own intellectual authority, how medieval writers evaluated the authoritative status of Plato and Aristotle, and how independent reasoning was deployed to defend one Abrahamic faith against the other. This clear and eloquently written book will interest scholars in and enthusiasts of medieval philosophy, Islamic studies, Byzantine studies, and the history of thought.
Author : Peter W. Halligan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Psychology
ISBN :
Examining the influence and power of beliefs in medicine, this text looks at key theories in the context of aetiology, treatment and recovery, for both the clinician and the patient.
Author : C. E. M. Joad
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 1976
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Isaac Levi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 1991-10-25
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521412668
Isaac Levi's new book is concerned with how one can justify changing one's beliefs. The discussion is deeply informed by the belief-doubt model advocated by C. S. Peirce and John Dewey, of which the book provides a substantial analysis. Professor Levi then addresses the conceptual framework of potential changes available to an inquirer. A structural approach to propositional attitudes is proposed which rejects the conventional view that a propositional attitude involves a relation between an agent and either a linguistic entity or some other intentional object such as a proposition or set of possible worlds. The last two chapters offer an account of change in states of full belief understood as changes in commitments rather than changes in performance; one chapter deals with adding new information to a belief state, the other with giving up information. The book builds upon topics discussed in some of Levi's earlier work. It will be of particular interest to discussion theorists, epistemologists, philosophers of science, computer scientists, and cognitive psychologists.
Author : Gianni Vattimo
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804739191
In this highly personal book, one of Europes foremost contemporary philosophers confronts the theme of faith and religion. He argues that there is a substantial link between the history of Christian revelation and the history of nihilism, in particular as the latter appears in the work of Nietzsche and Heidegger, Vattimos philosophical specialty. Tracing the relation between his response to these two thinkers and his own life as a devout Catholic, Vattimo shows how his interpretation of Heideggers work and his conceptions of "weak thought and "weak ontology can be seen as closely linked to a rediscovery of Christianity. Vattimo speaks here in the first person--a risk that results in a disarmingly open exploration of the themes of charity, truth, dogmatism, morality, and sin, viewed through the lens of his own life and his own return to Christianity. While deeply critical of institutionalized religion and the Church, Vattimo discovers in the Christian tradition a voice (not a distinct message) whose interpretation is still being played out around us. Shaped by his readings of Nietzsche and Heidegger, Vattimos decision to affirm his formation within the Christian tradition provides an original and engaging contribution to the contemporary debate on religion. At the center of this book is the enigma of belief. Freed by modernity from its Platonic subordination to knowledge, belief is recovered as a crucial and inevitable feature of our cultural and personal lives. "Do you believe? Vattimo is asked. "I believe so, he replies.
Author : Steve K
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781326061029
"A comprehensive two part essay offering an interpretation of the 12 Step Philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous"--Page 4 of cover.