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Author: Doug K. Reed Publisher: Whitaker House ISBN: 1641233893 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 137
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Embrace God’s Divine Intentions for You Your story began before you were even born. You have existed in God’s loving, wildly creative imagination for all eternity. His plans are perfect and His thoughts about you are not limited by time, space, or any situation. You may have wandered away from God’s plans. You may have suffered soul-level injuries that affect your identity. You may be hurting from past circumstances…or feeling trapped in your current ones. There’s good news: God is still ready to help you realize the wonderful life He has planned for you. Divine Intentions:The Life You’re Supposed to Live, The Person God Meant You to Be takes you on a journey of self-discovery through four key concepts: rescued, restored, relabeled, and redirected. Author Doug K. Reed offers hope and direction for those who are searching for answers to their identities in Christ while struggling with wounds from the past or present. He shares his own personal story of restoration and soul-level healing, leading readers into the light of God’s love.
Author: Doug K. Reed Publisher: Whitaker House ISBN: 1641233893 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 137
Book Description
Embrace God’s Divine Intentions for You Your story began before you were even born. You have existed in God’s loving, wildly creative imagination for all eternity. His plans are perfect and His thoughts about you are not limited by time, space, or any situation. You may have wandered away from God’s plans. You may have suffered soul-level injuries that affect your identity. You may be hurting from past circumstances…or feeling trapped in your current ones. There’s good news: God is still ready to help you realize the wonderful life He has planned for you. Divine Intentions:The Life You’re Supposed to Live, The Person God Meant You to Be takes you on a journey of self-discovery through four key concepts: rescued, restored, relabeled, and redirected. Author Doug K. Reed offers hope and direction for those who are searching for answers to their identities in Christ while struggling with wounds from the past or present. He shares his own personal story of restoration and soul-level healing, leading readers into the light of God’s love.
Author: Larry Shallenberger Publisher: David C Cook ISBN: 1434765601 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 225
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When a group of people practice something for two thousand years, the expectation is that they'd eventually get whatever it was they were committed to doing right. But the fact is that we as individuals and as a corporate community are still struggling with many of the issues that plagued the early church. Larry Shallenberger takes a fresh look at the book of Acts to help you gain a deeper understanding of how God moved in the early church and what that means for you today.
Author: Frederick Michael McLain Publisher: University Press of America ISBN: 9780761814719 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 300
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This collection of thoughtful essays re-examines the notion of human agency from the perspective of the major traditions of Christian belief. Comprehensive in scope and stimulating in subject matter, this volume will be of value to philosophers as well as scholars of religion.
Author: Charlene Embrey Burns Publisher: Fortress Press ISBN: 9781451405019 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 212
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The universally human element of Jesus' incarnation Despite the feverish pace of publishing in historical Jesus studies, biblical scholars and theologians have not notably progressed in addressing the meaning and significance of the figure of Jesus in ways credible for contemporary persons. In this creative and insightful work, Burns seeks to understand the significance of Jesus and his incarnation through the category of participation. The central theological claims in the traditional concept of incarnation are anchored and illumined by Jesus' particular ability for empathy, sympathy, attunement, and entrainment. This notion, derived from the psychological research of Daniel Stern, allows Burns to show that incarnation — the capacity to participate in the life of others — is present not only in Jesus but to some extent in all people and in all religions. It further illumines features of God's trinitarian life and our lifelong journey into God (deification).
Author: Richard E. Creel Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1597522732 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 251
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In this volume, Richard Creel sets forth a thesis that offers a third way to approach divine impassibility. Defining impassibility as imperviousness to causal influence from external factors, Creel sketches a path between Aquinas and Hartshorne, by asserting that once this definition is accepted, one must still distinguish the various respects in which God is or is not impassible. Virtually no one would dispute that the divine nature is impassible. God will never cease to be God, no matter what happens in creation. With respect to the divine knowledge and will, however, there are conflicting views. Creel claims that God's will is impassible because God knows everything that can be accomplished by divine power. Yet, unlike Aquinas, Creel believes that God has this knowledge in virtue of a 'plenum' of possibilities eternally coexistent with the divine being. The absolute is not simply God, but rather God plus the 'plenum'. Creel suggests that God's knowledge is passible with respect to the contingent future actions of creatures. God knows these actions, therefore, not in their presentiality from all eternity, as Aquinas would hold, but only as they happen and become actual. God's will, however, remains immediately impassible because the divine will is ordered to possibilities, not actualities. God never has to wait until after we do something in order to decide his response to it. He has eternally decided his response to all that we might do. Ultimately God's feelings remain impassible, no matter what concrete decisions human beings make, because the basic intent of the divine plan for us is always achieved: we exercise our freedom to choose for or against God. God is impassible with respect to the divine nature, divine will, and divine feelings; but God is passible with respect to the divine knowledge of future contingent events.
Author: Thomas G. Plante Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000418006 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 302
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Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased brings together cutting-edge empirical and theoretical contributions from scholars in fields including psychology, theology, ethics, neuroscience, medicine, and philosophy, to examine how and why humans engage in, or even seek spiritual experiences and connection with the immaterial world. In this richly interdisciplinary volume, Plante and Schwartz recognize human interaction with the divine and departed as a cross-cultural and historical universal that continues to concern diverse disciplines. Accounting for variances in belief and human perception and use, the book is divided into four major sections: personal experience; theological consideration; medical, technological, and scientific considerations; and psychological considerations with chapters addressing phenomena including prayer, reincarnation, sensed presence, and divine revelations. Featuring scholars specializing in theology, psychology, medicine, neuroscience, and ethics, this book provides a thoughtful, compelling, evidence-based, and contemporary approach to gain a grounded perspective on current understandings of human interaction with the divine, the sacred, and the deceased. Of interest to believers, questioners, and unbelievers alike, this volume will be key reading for researchers, scholars, and academics engaged in the fields of religion and psychology, social psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and health psychology. Readers with a broader interest in spiritualism, religious and non-religious movements will also find the text of interest.
Author: William P. Alston Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1725283190 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 295
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Divine Nature and Human Language is a collection of twelve essays in philosophical theology by William P. Alston, one of the leading figures in the current renaissance in the philosophy of religion. Using the equipment of contemporary analytical philosophy, Alston explores, partly refashions, and defends a largely traditional conception of God and His work in the world a conception that finds its origins in medieval philosophical theology. These essays fall into two groups: those concerned with theological language (Part 1 of the volume) and those that deal with the nature, status, and activity of God (Parts II and HI). In Part 1, Alston develops a conceptual scheme for discussing the topic of theological language. He also argues that there is a core of literal talk about God and even a core of predicates univocally applicable to God and creatures. Furthermore, he shows that God can be referred to directly as well as descriptively. In Parts II and III, the author sketches out a middle way between a classical conception of God exemplified by Aquinas and the more recent “process” or “panentheist” conception exemplified by Hartshorne. Alston argues that such a God can act so as to have real effects in the world and can enter into genuine dialogue and otherwise interact with human beings. In addition, he defends the idea that God provides a foundation for morality. The first collection of Alston's ground breaking work in the philosophy of religion, Divine Nature and Human Language will be welcomed by scholars and students of the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, theology, and religious studies.
Author: F. LeRon Shults Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9047440234 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 452
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This book introduces and showcases contributions from leading international scholars on the topic of "divine action" in the world, with special attention on the way in which philosophical categories and developments play a role in the dialogue among scientists and theologians.
Author: Mark C. Murphy Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192633872 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 400
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Holiness is the attribute most emphatically ascribed to God in Scripture, but there has been little attention devoted to characterizing and considering the entailments of divine holiness. In Divine Holiness and Divine Action, Mark C. Murphy defends an account of holiness indebted to Rudolf Otto's description of the experience of the holy as that of a mysterium tremendum et fascinans. God's being holy consists in God's being someone with whom intimate union is both extremely desirable for us and yet something for which we—and indeed any limited beings—are unfit. This notion of divine holiness is useful for addressing disputed theological questions regarding divine action. In contrast to standard accounts of divine action that begin with assumptions regarding God's moral perfection or God's maximal love, the appeal to divine holiness supports a rival framework for explaining and predicting divine action—the holiness framework—according to which God is motivated to act in ways that are a response to God's own value by keeping distance from that which is deficient, defective, or in any way limited in goodness. This study exhibits the fruitfulness of a reorientation from the morality and love frameworks to the holiness framework by showing how such a reorientation suggests distinct approaches to perennial problems of divine action regarding creation, incarnation, atonement, and salvation. From the treatment of these perennial problems, a general theme regarding divine action emerges: that God's interaction with the world exhibits a radical sort of humility.
Author: Sarah Lane Ritchie Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108476511 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 387
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Challenges theological models of divine action that locate God's activity in human mind. Emphasizes God's relationship with all of nature.
Author: Doug K. Reed
Author: Doug K. Reed
Author: Larry Shallenberger
Author: Frederick Michael McLain
Author: Charlene Embrey Burns
Author: Richard E. Creel
Author: Thomas G. Plante
Author: William P. Alston
Author: F. LeRon Shults
Author: Mark C. Murphy
Author: Sarah Lane Ritchie