Author: Peter Kreeft
Publisher: IVP
ISBN: 9780830823383
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Peter Kreeft imagines what would happen if Socrates woke up today and enrolled in divinity school. Kreeft's new introduction for this edition highlights the inspirations for the book and the key questions of truth and faith it addresses.
Author: Paul W. Gooch
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300066951
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Living more than four centuries apart in very different cultures, Jesus and Socrates wrote nothing themselves, but they inspired their followers to set down words that continue to shape Western consciousness. In this deeply personal and provocative meditation, Paul Gooch reflects on enduring themes that arise from the lives of these two pivotal figures: death and witness, silence as the limit of language, prayer, obedience, and love. Focusing on the Jesus of the Gospels and the Socrates of Plato's dialogues, Gooch does not debate the historical realities of either figure, but seeks to understand their fundamental commitments to philosophy and to God, drawing parallels and contrasts that invite deeper reflection upon our own lives and experiences. Throughout this book, Gooch tells and retells the stories of Socrates and Jesus as he examines perennial human issues: why would anyone willingly die? To what do these two martyrlike deaths bear witness? What are the limits of words in explanation and defense? Why was Jesus silent during his trial? Why did Socrates' most powerful apologia fail? What words, if any, work in prayer? Do words work against the fear of death? Out of this philosophical and religious questioning, Reflections on Jesus and Socrates throws new light on these two compelling figures and on the continuing meanings of their stories for us today.
Author: Michael E. Hattersley
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875867316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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This book argues that the uniquely dynamic and propulsive character of Western Civilization, for better and worse, has been generated by a creative argument between the Socratic Greek rationalist tradition and the Judeo?Christian tradition best personified by Jesus.
Author: Jacob Howland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139452746
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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This volume is a study of the relationship between philosophy and faith in Søren Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments. It is also the first book to examine the role of Socrates in this body of writings, illuminating the significance of Socrates for Kierkegaard's thought. Jacob Howland argues that in the Fragments, philosophy and faith are closely related passions. A careful examination of the role of Socrates demonstrates that Socratic, philosophical eros opens up a path to faith. At the same time, the work of faith - which holds the self together with that which transcends it - is essentially erotic in the Socratic sense of the term. Chapters on Kierkegaard's Johannes Climacus and on Plato's Apology shed light on the Socratic character of the pseudonymous author of the Fragments and the role of 'the god' in Socrates' pursuit of wisdom. Howland also analyzes the Concluding Unscientific Postscript and Kierkegaard's reflections on Socrates and Christ.
Author: Joseph Priestley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Author: Tom Morris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999481356
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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We've all heard the adage: When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. But no one ever says how. Finally, with the inspiration of Plato and the help other great philosophers, Tom Morris has figured it out and here gives us a recipe we all can use. Along the way, he shows us how to move with wisdom from difficulty to delight in everything we do.
Author: Karl Jaspers
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156835800
Category : Buddha (The concept)
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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A part of Jaspers's planned universal history of philosophy, focusing on the four paradigmatic individuals who have exerted a historical influence of incomparable scope and depth. Edited by Hannah Arendt; Index. Translated by Ralph Manheim.
Author: Colin R. Nicholl
Publisher: Crossway Books
ISBN: 9781433542138
Category : Astonomy in the Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Drawing on the biblical text and using the latest astronomical research, this book presents compelling evidence that the historic star of Bethlehem that accompanied Christ's birth was actually a great comet.
Author: Joseph Priestley
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497940666
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1803 Edition.
Author: Peter Kreeft
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 9780877848103
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Peter Kreeft's Socrates enters the debate on abortion, considering the arguments of psychology, medicine and philosophy.
