Author: Simone Raudino
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472902687
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
This volume offers a nuanced picture with specific instances of religion and politics in Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu contexts, broadly presenting the phenomenon of religion and politics via country and thematic case studies. Qualitative, quantitative, material, philosophical, and theological analyses draw upon social theory to show how (and why) religion matters deeply in each time and place. The authors and contributors demonstrate that religion is a significant force that drives societies and polities around the world, and that a radical change in the Western understanding of value-driven global politics is needed. Beyond the Death of God offers new, local voices to Western audiences—through essays that suggest the need for an appreciation of Divinity as a quintessence holding a significant place in the hearts, minds, social orders, and political organization of polities around the world.
Beyond the Death of God
Author: Simone Raudino
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472902687
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
This volume offers a nuanced picture with specific instances of religion and politics in Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu contexts, broadly presenting the phenomenon of religion and politics via country and thematic case studies. Qualitative, quantitative, material, philosophical, and theological analyses draw upon social theory to show how (and why) religion matters deeply in each time and place. The authors and contributors demonstrate that religion is a significant force that drives societies and polities around the world, and that a radical change in the Western understanding of value-driven global politics is needed. Beyond the Death of God offers new, local voices to Western audiences—through essays that suggest the need for an appreciation of Divinity as a quintessence holding a significant place in the hearts, minds, social orders, and political organization of polities around the world.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472902687
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
This volume offers a nuanced picture with specific instances of religion and politics in Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu contexts, broadly presenting the phenomenon of religion and politics via country and thematic case studies. Qualitative, quantitative, material, philosophical, and theological analyses draw upon social theory to show how (and why) religion matters deeply in each time and place. The authors and contributors demonstrate that religion is a significant force that drives societies and polities around the world, and that a radical change in the Western understanding of value-driven global politics is needed. Beyond the Death of God offers new, local voices to Western audiences—through essays that suggest the need for an appreciation of Divinity as a quintessence holding a significant place in the hearts, minds, social orders, and political organization of polities around the world.
The Death of God
Author: Gabriel Vahanian
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1606089846
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The death of God began, according to Vahanian, the moment Western man started to compromise with the Biblical concept of God transcendent, and to merge the identity of the Godhead with the identity of humankind. From this compromise evolved the belief in the possibility of heaven on earth, in human perfectibility, in the expectation that man, both individually and collectively, can control his termporal fate. Today, as a consequence, Western society not only exalts all possible material comforts, but requires as well easy, guaranteed, status-assuring religious affiliations. The present search for "inner security" is in direct opposition to the toleration of doubt that tests the strength of genuine religious faith. And Vahanian shows how our spiritual decline is reflected in much of the most important imaginative writing of today.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1606089846
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The death of God began, according to Vahanian, the moment Western man started to compromise with the Biblical concept of God transcendent, and to merge the identity of the Godhead with the identity of humankind. From this compromise evolved the belief in the possibility of heaven on earth, in human perfectibility, in the expectation that man, both individually and collectively, can control his termporal fate. Today, as a consequence, Western society not only exalts all possible material comforts, but requires as well easy, guaranteed, status-assuring religious affiliations. The present search for "inner security" is in direct opposition to the toleration of doubt that tests the strength of genuine religious faith. And Vahanian shows how our spiritual decline is reflected in much of the most important imaginative writing of today.
Theodicy Beyond the Death of 'God'
Author: Andrew Shanks
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351607200
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
True theodicy is partly a theoretical corrective to evangelistic impatience: discounting the distortions arising from over-eager salesmanship. And partly it is a work of poetic intensification, dedicated to faith’s necessary struggle against resentment. This book contains a systematic survey of the classic theoretical-corrective theodicy tradition initiated, in the early Seventeenth Century, by Jakob Böhme. Two centuries later, Böhme’s lyrical thought is translated into rigorous philosophical terms by Schelling; and is, then, further, set in context by Hegel’s doctrine of providence at work in world history. The old ‘God’ of mere evangelistic impatience is, as Hegel sees things, ‘dead’. And so theodicy is liberated, to play its proper role: illustrated here with particular reference to the book of Job, the post-Holocaust poetry of Nelly Sachs, and the thought of Simone Weil. A boldly polemical study, this book is a bid to re-ignite debate on the whole topic of theodicy. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars in religious studies, theology and philosophy.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351607200
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
True theodicy is partly a theoretical corrective to evangelistic impatience: discounting the distortions arising from over-eager salesmanship. And partly it is a work of poetic intensification, dedicated to faith’s necessary struggle against resentment. This book contains a systematic survey of the classic theoretical-corrective theodicy tradition initiated, in the early Seventeenth Century, by Jakob Böhme. Two centuries later, Böhme’s lyrical thought is translated into rigorous philosophical terms by Schelling; and is, then, further, set in context by Hegel’s doctrine of providence at work in world history. The old ‘God’ of mere evangelistic impatience is, as Hegel sees things, ‘dead’. And so theodicy is liberated, to play its proper role: illustrated here with particular reference to the book of Job, the post-Holocaust poetry of Nelly Sachs, and the thought of Simone Weil. A boldly polemical study, this book is a bid to re-ignite debate on the whole topic of theodicy. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars in religious studies, theology and philosophy.
The Death of God and the Meaning of Life
Author: Julian Young
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135020906
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
What is the meaning of life? In today's secular, post-religious scientific world, this question has become a serious preoccupation. But it also has a long history: many major philosophers have thought deeply about it, as Julian Young so vividly illustrates in this thought-provoking second edition of The Death of God and the Meaning of Life. Three new chapters explore Søren Kierkegaard’s attempts to preserve a Christian answer to the question of the meaning of life, Karl Marx's attempt to translate this answer into naturalistic and atheistic terms, and Sigmund Freud’s deep pessimism about the possibility of any version of such an answer. Part 1 presents an historical overview of philosophers from Plato to Marx who have believed in a meaning of life, either in some supposed ‘other’ world or in the future of this world. Part 2 assesses what happened when the traditional structures that give life meaning began to erode. With nothing to take their place, these structures gave way to the threat of nihilism, to the appearance that life is meaningless. Young looks at the responses to this threat in chapters on Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, Foucault and Derrida. Fully revised and updated throughout, this highly engaging exploration of fundamental issues will captivate anyone who’s ever asked themselves where life’s meaning (if there is one) really lies. It also makes a perfect historical introduction to philosophy, particularly to the continental tradition.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135020906
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
What is the meaning of life? In today's secular, post-religious scientific world, this question has become a serious preoccupation. But it also has a long history: many major philosophers have thought deeply about it, as Julian Young so vividly illustrates in this thought-provoking second edition of The Death of God and the Meaning of Life. Three new chapters explore Søren Kierkegaard’s attempts to preserve a Christian answer to the question of the meaning of life, Karl Marx's attempt to translate this answer into naturalistic and atheistic terms, and Sigmund Freud’s deep pessimism about the possibility of any version of such an answer. Part 1 presents an historical overview of philosophers from Plato to Marx who have believed in a meaning of life, either in some supposed ‘other’ world or in the future of this world. Part 2 assesses what happened when the traditional structures that give life meaning began to erode. With nothing to take their place, these structures gave way to the threat of nihilism, to the appearance that life is meaningless. Young looks at the responses to this threat in chapters on Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, Foucault and Derrida. Fully revised and updated throughout, this highly engaging exploration of fundamental issues will captivate anyone who’s ever asked themselves where life’s meaning (if there is one) really lies. It also makes a perfect historical introduction to philosophy, particularly to the continental tradition.
Radical Theology and the Death of God
Author: Thomas J. J. Altizer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Death of God theology
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Joint author, William Hamilton, is an alumnus of Evanston Township High School, class of 1940.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Death of God theology
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Joint author, William Hamilton, is an alumnus of Evanston Township High School, class of 1940.
Ethics, repackaged edition
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 0334065887
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This is the last book that Bonhoeffer wrote before he was arrested by the Nazis. Pages of it were on his desk the day he was taken away and it remained unfinished. It is bold, provocative and profound. Based on careful reconstruction of the manuscripts, freshly and expertly translated and annotated, this crown jewel of Bonhoeffer's body of work is the culmination of his theological and personal odyssey. This edition is published with a foreword by Sam Wells.
Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 0334065887
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This is the last book that Bonhoeffer wrote before he was arrested by the Nazis. Pages of it were on his desk the day he was taken away and it remained unfinished. It is bold, provocative and profound. Based on careful reconstruction of the manuscripts, freshly and expertly translated and annotated, this crown jewel of Bonhoeffer's body of work is the culmination of his theological and personal odyssey. This edition is published with a foreword by Sam Wells.
The Lessons of the Age
Author: Frederick W. Grant
Publisher: Irving Risch
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Introductory to The Lessons of the Ages. The Time and Trial of Innocence The Trial of Conscience and of Human Government Abraham and the Age of Law The Times of the Gentiles Christianity
Publisher: Irving Risch
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Introductory to The Lessons of the Ages. The Time and Trial of Innocence The Trial of Conscience and of Human Government Abraham and the Age of Law The Times of the Gentiles Christianity
Beyond Death
Author: Hugh Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eschatology
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eschatology
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Finding God
Author: Russell Henry Stafford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Eberhard Jüngel
Author: John Webster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521423915
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The first introduction in any language to the work of leading contemporary Protestant theologian Eberhard Jüngel.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521423915
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The first introduction in any language to the work of leading contemporary Protestant theologian Eberhard Jüngel.