Book Description
An exploration of the effect of anthropology's inherited tradition of tolerance and cross-cultural understanding has on the new pursuits of truth.
Author : Wendy James
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780415107907
An exploration of the effect of anthropology's inherited tradition of tolerance and cross-cultural understanding has on the new pursuits of truth.
Author : Francis John McConnell
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Apologetics
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Author : John Clifford
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 10,81 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Apologetics
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Author : Peter Enns
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0062272101
The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me So explains how Christians mistake “certainty” and “correct belief” for faith when what God really desires is trust and intimacy. With compelling and often humorous stories from his own life, Bible scholar Peter Enns offers a fresh look at how Christian life truly works, answering questions that cannot be addressed by the idealized traditional doctrine of “once for all delivered to the saints.” Enns offers a model of vibrant faith that views skepticism not as a loss of belief, but as an opportunity to deepen religious conviction with courage and confidence. This is not just an intellectual conviction, he contends, but a more profound kind of knowing that only true faith can provide. Combining Enns’ reflections of his own spiritual journey with an examination of Scripture, The Sin of Certainty models an acceptance of mystery and paradox that all believers can follow and why God prefers this path because it is only this way by which we can become mature disciples who truly trust God. It gives Christians who have known only the demand for certainty permission to view faith on their own flawed, uncertain, yet heartfelt, terms.
Author : Frederick Storrs Turner
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
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Author : John Clifford
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 1893
Category :
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Author : D. Brian Austin
Publisher : Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781573122627
Austin defines a vision for uniting the aims of science and Christian faith by examining the retreat from certainty that characterizes contemporary science and philosophy.
Author : Neil Gascoigne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 12,34 MB
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3030254542
This book asks whether there any limits to the sorts of religious considerations that can be raised in public debates, and if there are, by whom they are to be identified. Its starting point is the work of Richard Rorty, whose pragmatic pluralism leads him to argue for a politically motivated anticlericalism rather than an epistemologically driven atheism. Rather than defend Rorty’s position directly, Gascoigne argues for an epistemological stance he calls ‘Pragmatist Fideism’. The starting point for this exercise in what Rorty calls ‘Cultural Politics’ is an acknowledgement that one must appeal to both secularists and those with religious commitments. In recent years ‘reformed’ epistemologists have aimed to establish a parity of epistemic esteem between religious and perceptual beliefs by exploiting an analogy in respect of their mutual vulnerability to sceptical challenges. Through an examination of this analogy, and in light of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty, this book argues that understood correctly the ‘parity’ argument in fact lends epistemological support to the argument that religious considerations should not be raised in public debate. The political price paid—paying the price of politics—is worth it: the religious thinker is provided with a good reason for maintaining that their practices and beliefs are not undermined by other forms of religious life.
Author : Anthony C. Thiselton
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1467447145
Doubt, faith, certainty. In this book celebrated theologian Anthony Thiselton provides clarity on these complicated, long-misunderstood theological concepts and the practical pastoral problems they raise for Christians. He reminds us that doubt is not always bad, faith can have different meanings in different circumstances, and certainty is fragile. Drawing on his expertise in the fields of exegesis and hermeneutics, biblical studies, and the history of Christian thought, Thiselton works his way through the labyrinth of past definitions while offering better, more nuanced theological understandings of these three interrelated concepts. The result is a book that speaks profoundly to some of our deepest existential concerns.
Author : Jeremy Young
Publisher : Cowley Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2006-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1461707641
This book critically explores the Christian teaching of God's unconditional love. The author argues for the recovery of a spirituality of uncertainty and unconditional love as a basis for a renewal of contemporary Christian faith and practice.