Author: Graeme Finlay
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666748064
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Science is an aspect of modern culture that carries a huge weight of prestige. It operates on a foundation of supporting presuppositions, understandings of reality that people assimilate from infancy. Such presuppositions constitute our worldviews, but we are generally unaware of them. In this book, Graeme Finlay argues that many presuppositions that were essential for the development of science were imbibed from Judeo-Christian faith in the creator God, and they remain vital for the continued vitality of science. Furthermore, theology and science share a feature that points towards their common engagement with reality. New findings catch us by surprise—so much so, that we must conclude that we encounter previously unrecognized realities in genuine experiences of discovery. We don’t invent those surprising phenomena. Both theology and science engage with an objective reality that is not of our construction. The subterranean connection between science and theology at the level of presuppositions and their openness to engage with reality indicate the potential for ongoing fruitful and mutually beneficial dialogue between the two disciplines. The author illustrates this potential through examples from the field of ecological economics.
Self-Organizing Complexity in Psychological Systems
Author: Craig Piers
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN: 1461630657
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
This volume addresses itself to the ways in which the so-called 'new sciences of complexity' can deepen and broaden neurobiological and psychological theories of mind. Complexity theory has gained increasing attention over the past 20 years across diverse areas of inquiry, including mathematics, physics, economics, biology, and the social sciences. Complexity theory concerns itself with how nonlinear dynamical systems evolve and change over time and draws on research arising from chaos theory, self-organization, artificial intelligence and cellular automata, to name a few. This emerging discipline shows many points of convergence with psychological theory and practice, emphasizing that history is irreversible and discontinuous, that small early interventions can have large and unexpected later effects, that each life trajectory is unique yet patterned, that measurement error is not random and cannot be justifiably distributed equally across experimental conditions, that a system's collective and coordinated organization is emergent and often arises from simple components in interaction, and that change is more likely to emerge under conditions of optimal turbulence.
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN: 1461630657
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
This volume addresses itself to the ways in which the so-called 'new sciences of complexity' can deepen and broaden neurobiological and psychological theories of mind. Complexity theory has gained increasing attention over the past 20 years across diverse areas of inquiry, including mathematics, physics, economics, biology, and the social sciences. Complexity theory concerns itself with how nonlinear dynamical systems evolve and change over time and draws on research arising from chaos theory, self-organization, artificial intelligence and cellular automata, to name a few. This emerging discipline shows many points of convergence with psychological theory and practice, emphasizing that history is irreversible and discontinuous, that small early interventions can have large and unexpected later effects, that each life trajectory is unique yet patterned, that measurement error is not random and cannot be justifiably distributed equally across experimental conditions, that a system's collective and coordinated organization is emergent and often arises from simple components in interaction, and that change is more likely to emerge under conditions of optimal turbulence.
God's Gift of Science
Author: Graeme Finlay
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666748064
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Science is an aspect of modern culture that carries a huge weight of prestige. It operates on a foundation of supporting presuppositions, understandings of reality that people assimilate from infancy. Such presuppositions constitute our worldviews, but we are generally unaware of them. In this book, Graeme Finlay argues that many presuppositions that were essential for the development of science were imbibed from Judeo-Christian faith in the creator God, and they remain vital for the continued vitality of science. Furthermore, theology and science share a feature that points towards their common engagement with reality. New findings catch us by surprise—so much so, that we must conclude that we encounter previously unrecognized realities in genuine experiences of discovery. We don’t invent those surprising phenomena. Both theology and science engage with an objective reality that is not of our construction. The subterranean connection between science and theology at the level of presuppositions and their openness to engage with reality indicate the potential for ongoing fruitful and mutually beneficial dialogue between the two disciplines. The author illustrates this potential through examples from the field of ecological economics.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666748064
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Science is an aspect of modern culture that carries a huge weight of prestige. It operates on a foundation of supporting presuppositions, understandings of reality that people assimilate from infancy. Such presuppositions constitute our worldviews, but we are generally unaware of them. In this book, Graeme Finlay argues that many presuppositions that were essential for the development of science were imbibed from Judeo-Christian faith in the creator God, and they remain vital for the continued vitality of science. Furthermore, theology and science share a feature that points towards their common engagement with reality. New findings catch us by surprise—so much so, that we must conclude that we encounter previously unrecognized realities in genuine experiences of discovery. We don’t invent those surprising phenomena. Both theology and science engage with an objective reality that is not of our construction. The subterranean connection between science and theology at the level of presuppositions and their openness to engage with reality indicate the potential for ongoing fruitful and mutually beneficial dialogue between the two disciplines. The author illustrates this potential through examples from the field of ecological economics.
Cross
Author: Heather Young-Nichols
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781727317152
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A sexy drummer and a rock god's daughter on tour together for the summer... what could possibly go wrong? Opening for Kissing Cinder is the big break Cross Rhodes and his band need to get to the next level. He needs to stay focused on the tour and their future, yet can't forget about the hot, sassy blonde he tried to kick out of the venue. She's the off limits daughter of the man who could make or break them. Indie Cinderstone spends the summers acting as the unofficial photographer for Kissing Cinder and spending as much time with her father as possible. She didn't plan on falling for the opening act's drummer, Cross. Nor did she expect his bandmate to have an issue with the pictures she takes. When threats and intimidation don't work on her, his aggression escalates until it explodes. When your head and your heart won't listen to each other, how do you know which one to follow?
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781727317152
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A sexy drummer and a rock god's daughter on tour together for the summer... what could possibly go wrong? Opening for Kissing Cinder is the big break Cross Rhodes and his band need to get to the next level. He needs to stay focused on the tour and their future, yet can't forget about the hot, sassy blonde he tried to kick out of the venue. She's the off limits daughter of the man who could make or break them. Indie Cinderstone spends the summers acting as the unofficial photographer for Kissing Cinder and spending as much time with her father as possible. She didn't plan on falling for the opening act's drummer, Cross. Nor did she expect his bandmate to have an issue with the pictures she takes. When threats and intimidation don't work on her, his aggression escalates until it explodes. When your head and your heart won't listen to each other, how do you know which one to follow?
The Courting of Marcus Dupree
Author: Willie Morris
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617031925
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
At the time of Marcus Dupree's birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years, North Toward Home, became a modern classic. In The Courting of Marcus Dupree he turned again home to Mississippi to write about the small town of Philadelphia and its favorite son, a black high-school quarterback. In Marcus Dupree, Morris found a living emblem of that baroque strain in the American character called "southern." Beginning on the summer practice fields, Morris follows Marcus Dupree through each game of his senior varsity year. He talks with the Dupree family, the college recruiters, the coach and the school principal, some of the teachers and townspeople, and, of course, with the young man himself. As the season progresses and the seventeen-year-old Dupree attracts a degree of national attention to Philadelphia neither known nor endured since "the Troubles" of the early sixties, these conversations take on a wider significance. Willie Morris has created more than a spectator's journal. He writes here of his repatriation to a land and a people who have recovered something that fear and misdirected loyalties had once eclipsed. The result is a fascinating, unusual, and even topical work that tells a story richer than its apparent subject, for it brings the whole of the eighties South, with all its distinctive resonances, to life.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617031925
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
At the time of Marcus Dupree's birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years, North Toward Home, became a modern classic. In The Courting of Marcus Dupree he turned again home to Mississippi to write about the small town of Philadelphia and its favorite son, a black high-school quarterback. In Marcus Dupree, Morris found a living emblem of that baroque strain in the American character called "southern." Beginning on the summer practice fields, Morris follows Marcus Dupree through each game of his senior varsity year. He talks with the Dupree family, the college recruiters, the coach and the school principal, some of the teachers and townspeople, and, of course, with the young man himself. As the season progresses and the seventeen-year-old Dupree attracts a degree of national attention to Philadelphia neither known nor endured since "the Troubles" of the early sixties, these conversations take on a wider significance. Willie Morris has created more than a spectator's journal. He writes here of his repatriation to a land and a people who have recovered something that fear and misdirected loyalties had once eclipsed. The result is a fascinating, unusual, and even topical work that tells a story richer than its apparent subject, for it brings the whole of the eighties South, with all its distinctive resonances, to life.
Sermons and Discourses
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Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Pages : 556
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Wall Street Confessional
Author: Wenee Yap
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291774254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Wall Street Confessional is a story of economic espionage, big blinds and dirty deeds. Laid bare to bring the global excess of the last decade home for a bloody reckoning. Inspired by real events and characters, the novel is a legal crime thriller set in high summer of New York City, August 2008. Obama is set to get elected. The world economy is poised for freefall. Isobel Li, one-time law school idealist facing student debt and looming marriage to a helluva sweet guy, flees with packed bags and blank passport to the Empire State. The plan: join the UN, save the world, grace an urban billboard near you, etc, etc. Three months later she's working PR, a professional apologist spinning stories and truths for big tobacco/oil/pharma. A chance meeting with an old friend turned investment banker, a few drinks, bad jokes and wild gambles later... and suddenly, she has a story worth breaking.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291774254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Wall Street Confessional is a story of economic espionage, big blinds and dirty deeds. Laid bare to bring the global excess of the last decade home for a bloody reckoning. Inspired by real events and characters, the novel is a legal crime thriller set in high summer of New York City, August 2008. Obama is set to get elected. The world economy is poised for freefall. Isobel Li, one-time law school idealist facing student debt and looming marriage to a helluva sweet guy, flees with packed bags and blank passport to the Empire State. The plan: join the UN, save the world, grace an urban billboard near you, etc, etc. Three months later she's working PR, a professional apologist spinning stories and truths for big tobacco/oil/pharma. A chance meeting with an old friend turned investment banker, a few drinks, bad jokes and wild gambles later... and suddenly, she has a story worth breaking.
Towards a Political Anthropology in the Work of Gilles Deleuze
Author: Rockwell F. Clancy
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9462700117
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
'Political anthropology' as the major contemporary importance in Deleuze’s work This work explores the significance of two recurring themes in the thought of Gilles Deleuze: his critique of psychoanalysis and praise for Anglo-American literature. Tracing the overlooked influence of English writer D.H. Lawrence on Deleuze, Rockwell Clancy shows how these themes ultimately bear on two competing 'political anthropologies', conceptions of the political and the respective accounts of philosophical anthropology on which they are based. Contrary to the mainstream of both Deleuze studies and contemporary political thought, Clancy argues that the major contemporary importance of Deleuze’s thought consists in the way he grounds his analyses of the political on accounts of philosophical anthropology, helping to make sense of the contemporary backlash against inclusive liberal values evident in forms of political conservatism and religious fundamentalism.
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9462700117
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
'Political anthropology' as the major contemporary importance in Deleuze’s work This work explores the significance of two recurring themes in the thought of Gilles Deleuze: his critique of psychoanalysis and praise for Anglo-American literature. Tracing the overlooked influence of English writer D.H. Lawrence on Deleuze, Rockwell Clancy shows how these themes ultimately bear on two competing 'political anthropologies', conceptions of the political and the respective accounts of philosophical anthropology on which they are based. Contrary to the mainstream of both Deleuze studies and contemporary political thought, Clancy argues that the major contemporary importance of Deleuze’s thought consists in the way he grounds his analyses of the political on accounts of philosophical anthropology, helping to make sense of the contemporary backlash against inclusive liberal values evident in forms of political conservatism and religious fundamentalism.
A Cultural Dictionary of Punk
Author: Nicholas Rombes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441105050
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Neither a dry-as-dust reference volume recycling the same dull facts nor a gushy, gossipy puff piece, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982 is a bold book that examines punk as a movement that is best understood by placing it in its cultural field. It contains myriad critical-listening descriptions of the sounds of the time, but also places those sounds in the context of history. Drawing on hundreds of fanzines, magazines, and newspapers, the book is-in the spirit of punk-an obsessive, exhaustively researched, and sometimes deeply personal portrait of the many ways in which punk was an artistic, cultural, and political expression of defiance. A Cultural Dictionary of Punk is organized around scores of distinct entries, on everything from Lester Bangs to The Slits, from Jimmy Carter to Minimalism, from 'Dot Dash' to Bad Brains. Both highly informative and thrillingly idiosyncratic, the book takes a fresh look at how the malaise of the 1970s offered fertile ground for punk-as well as the new wave, post-punk, and hardcore-to emerge as a rejection of the easy platitudes of the dying counter-culture. The organization is accessible and entertaining: short bursts of meaning, in tune with the beat of punk itself. Rombes upends notions that the story of punk can be told in a chronological, linear fashion. Meant to be read straight through or opened up and experienced at random, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk covers not only many of the well-known, now-legendary punk bands, but the obscure, forgotten ones as well. Along the way, punk's secret codes are unraveled and a critical time in history is framed and exclaimed. Visit the Cultural Dictionaryof Punk blog here.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441105050
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Neither a dry-as-dust reference volume recycling the same dull facts nor a gushy, gossipy puff piece, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982 is a bold book that examines punk as a movement that is best understood by placing it in its cultural field. It contains myriad critical-listening descriptions of the sounds of the time, but also places those sounds in the context of history. Drawing on hundreds of fanzines, magazines, and newspapers, the book is-in the spirit of punk-an obsessive, exhaustively researched, and sometimes deeply personal portrait of the many ways in which punk was an artistic, cultural, and political expression of defiance. A Cultural Dictionary of Punk is organized around scores of distinct entries, on everything from Lester Bangs to The Slits, from Jimmy Carter to Minimalism, from 'Dot Dash' to Bad Brains. Both highly informative and thrillingly idiosyncratic, the book takes a fresh look at how the malaise of the 1970s offered fertile ground for punk-as well as the new wave, post-punk, and hardcore-to emerge as a rejection of the easy platitudes of the dying counter-culture. The organization is accessible and entertaining: short bursts of meaning, in tune with the beat of punk itself. Rombes upends notions that the story of punk can be told in a chronological, linear fashion. Meant to be read straight through or opened up and experienced at random, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk covers not only many of the well-known, now-legendary punk bands, but the obscure, forgotten ones as well. Along the way, punk's secret codes are unraveled and a critical time in history is framed and exclaimed. Visit the Cultural Dictionaryof Punk blog here.
Monotheism, Intolerance, and the Path to Pluralistic Politics
Author: Christopher A. Haw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108896340
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Discussions of monotheism often consider its bigotry toward other gods as a source of conflict, or emphasize its universality as a source of peaceful tolerance. Both approaches, however, ignore the combined danger and liberation in monotheism's 'intolerance.' In this volume, Christopher Haw reframes this important argument. He demonstrates the value of rejecting paradigms of inclusivity in favor of an agonistic pluralism and intolerance of absolutism. Haw proposes a model that retains liberal, pluralistic principles while acknowledging their limitations, and he relates them to theologies latent in political ideas. His volume offers a nuanced, evolutionary, and historical understanding of the biblical tradition's emergence and its political consequences with respect to violence. It suggests how we can mediate impasses between liberal and conservative views in culture wars; between liberal inclusivity and conservative decisionism; and, on the religious front, between apologetics for exclusive monotheism and critiques of its intolerance.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108896340
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Discussions of monotheism often consider its bigotry toward other gods as a source of conflict, or emphasize its universality as a source of peaceful tolerance. Both approaches, however, ignore the combined danger and liberation in monotheism's 'intolerance.' In this volume, Christopher Haw reframes this important argument. He demonstrates the value of rejecting paradigms of inclusivity in favor of an agonistic pluralism and intolerance of absolutism. Haw proposes a model that retains liberal, pluralistic principles while acknowledging their limitations, and he relates them to theologies latent in political ideas. His volume offers a nuanced, evolutionary, and historical understanding of the biblical tradition's emergence and its political consequences with respect to violence. It suggests how we can mediate impasses between liberal and conservative views in culture wars; between liberal inclusivity and conservative decisionism; and, on the religious front, between apologetics for exclusive monotheism and critiques of its intolerance.
Digital Reflections: Poems on the Rise of AI
Author: B.B. Inkwell
Publisher: Arc Owl Publishing
ISBN: 1738969312
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Digital Reflections: Poems on the Rise of AI by B.B. Inkwell is not just a collection of poems—it’s a journey through the pulse of the digital world, where technology and humanity intertwine. This thought-provoking anthology delves into the questions and wonders technology brings to our lives. Each poem is a gateway, inviting you to ponder: As machines grow smarter, will we grow wiser? Crafted with vivid imagery and timeless questions, Digital Reflections examines the allure and challenges of our digital age—its beauty, its tension, its promise. Whether you're captivated by technology or simply curious about the road ahead, this collection offers an experience that’s both moving and thought-provoking. If you’re looking for poetry that speaks to our present and imagines our future, Digital Reflections is the book that belongs on your shelf. Open its pages and discover a world where human thought and artificial intelligence meet, inviting you to reflect deeply on the journey we’re all a part of.
Publisher: Arc Owl Publishing
ISBN: 1738969312
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Digital Reflections: Poems on the Rise of AI by B.B. Inkwell is not just a collection of poems—it’s a journey through the pulse of the digital world, where technology and humanity intertwine. This thought-provoking anthology delves into the questions and wonders technology brings to our lives. Each poem is a gateway, inviting you to ponder: As machines grow smarter, will we grow wiser? Crafted with vivid imagery and timeless questions, Digital Reflections examines the allure and challenges of our digital age—its beauty, its tension, its promise. Whether you're captivated by technology or simply curious about the road ahead, this collection offers an experience that’s both moving and thought-provoking. If you’re looking for poetry that speaks to our present and imagines our future, Digital Reflections is the book that belongs on your shelf. Open its pages and discover a world where human thought and artificial intelligence meet, inviting you to reflect deeply on the journey we’re all a part of.