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Author: David Bentley Hart Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300248733 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 247
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A stunning reexamination of one of the essential tenets of Christian belief from one of the most provocative and admired writers on religion today “A scathing, vigorous, eloquent attack on those who hold that that there is such a thing as eternal damnation.”—Karen Kilby, Commonweal The great fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea once observed that, in his time, most Christians believed that hell was not everlasting, and that all would eventually attain salvation. But today, this view is no longer prevalent within Christian communities. In this momentous book, David Bentley Hart makes the case that nearly two millennia of dogmatic tradition have misled readers on the crucial matter of universal salvation. On the basis of the earliest Christian writings, theological tradition, scripture, and logic, Hart argues that if God is the good creator of all, he is the savior of all, without fail. And if he is not the savior of all, the Kingdom is only a dream, and creation something considerably worse than a nightmare. But it is not so. There is no such thing as eternal damnation; all will be saved. With great rhetorical power, wit, and emotional range, Hart offers a new perspective on one of Christianity’s most important themes.
Author: David Bentley Hart Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300248733 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 247
Book Description
A stunning reexamination of one of the essential tenets of Christian belief from one of the most provocative and admired writers on religion today “A scathing, vigorous, eloquent attack on those who hold that that there is such a thing as eternal damnation.”—Karen Kilby, Commonweal The great fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea once observed that, in his time, most Christians believed that hell was not everlasting, and that all would eventually attain salvation. But today, this view is no longer prevalent within Christian communities. In this momentous book, David Bentley Hart makes the case that nearly two millennia of dogmatic tradition have misled readers on the crucial matter of universal salvation. On the basis of the earliest Christian writings, theological tradition, scripture, and logic, Hart argues that if God is the good creator of all, he is the savior of all, without fail. And if he is not the savior of all, the Kingdom is only a dream, and creation something considerably worse than a nightmare. But it is not so. There is no such thing as eternal damnation; all will be saved. With great rhetorical power, wit, and emotional range, Hart offers a new perspective on one of Christianity’s most important themes.
Author: Charles Taylor Publisher: Headline Accent ISBN: 1786156393 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 257
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Is God a delusion? Barrister Charles Taylor examines the evidence in this very readable book. His findings will be controversial to some but offer hope and insight to others. We are the only species unable to live in harmony with our environment and each other. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs is nothing compared with our impact on the Earth. We are currently responsible for “The Sixth Great Extinction” of wildlife. Religious terrorism is widespread, though current atrocities are dwarfed by the bloody record of Christianity. The Middle East is destabilised and to East and West we have Presidents Putin and Trump. So called ‘rational’ thinking and the dominance of our left brains have brought us to the brink of disaster. We need a spiritual revolution allowing individuals to reconnect with their right brain, intuition and spirit. Religions have had their day. They contain key truths, but these truths are usually obscured by manmade rules constructed to gain wealth and power. At the other extreme, materialism denies God, the spirit, free will, consciousness and love. Happily, the facts contradict this dispiriting left brained faith that we are deluded robots stumbling through life.
Author: Barry Ross Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781490587981 Category : Languages : en Pages : 90
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The human mind is deceitful above every other part of the human anatomy! Someone said that it is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it? Most people think that when the Bible speaks of the heart of men: it is speaking of the physical heart organ which pomps blood throughout the human body! This is a misconception of the meaning of the word! However, there is one place within the scriptures where it does refer to the physical heart organ and that is where Jesus was talking with his disciples concerning the signs of the end times: he told them that one of the signs would be that men's hearts (physical organ - muscle) would fail them because of the evils that was coming upon the earth! In this book however, I focus on the mind of humans; which in scripture the heart is symbolic to the mind! This fact need to be understood today as many do not comprehend this fact! Just as Jesus explained to his disciples the fact that what a man eat or take within his body cannot defile him as it do not enter his mind: likewise, what comes out of the man, that is his mind: does not come from within his physical heart muscle but from within his mind, his intellect, his innermost being; thus defiling the man! We have been led to believe, that our thoughts and emotions lie within the physical heart muscle but this simply isn't true! The purpose of the physical heart muscle is only to circulate the lifeblood of humans and animals throughout the body as the life of all flesh is the blood thereof!This is why God forbid the eating of meat with the blood still in it! While the opposite is true of Satanist, who drink the blood humans and animals as they know that therein is the life of all flesh! The human mind is so awesome that even science cannot comprehend it! they have studied, dissected, reasoned together with the so called most brillant minds in the world but yet science cannot understand the human mind! God alone knows the human mind for it is he who designed it! The human mind is at enmity aginst God; it is hostile towards God nor can it know the things of God for they are of a spiritual nature! Jesus told a man once that came to him by night: that the human mind must be converted to know the things of God. Humans must be in essence born-again by the Spirit of God. The human mind must be renewed by the word of God that one might find that good, and perfect will of God! Jesus said that from out of the mind of humans proceed every wicked and evil attitude which defile the human! God destroyed the world by water in Noah's lifetime because of the "Wickedness within The Human Heart!" The earth is defiled by the inhabitants thereof, in other words, because of the wickedness of the hearts of humans, which result to wicked acts, which cause violence within the world! It was the cause in the generations of Noah; and likewise it is the cause in our generation! If you pick up any newspaper in any country in the world today, it will be filled with violence and bloodshed: nation fighting against nation, kingdom against kingdom. Wickedness and evil has once again filled this earth with violence because of the heart (mind) of humans! Jesus said that when he returned to this earth the second time that the world would be in the same identical state it was in the days of Noah, before the flood; then he said that the flood came upon the people of that time, suddenly and unexpectedly and took them all away. Only Noah, and his family and two of every clean and unclean beast of the earth, fowl of the air was saved alive, and that, to preseve seed to repopulate the world that we now dwell in! God destroyed the world that then was by water but this time: this present evil world, will be destroyed by fire! It is all because of the evil and wickedness that is within the human heart! God promises all who come to him by faith in Jesus Christ: a new heart, and a new spirit! The human heart must be converted or one will suffer eternal damnation!
Author: Mike D'Virgilio Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 276
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Readers of The Persuasive Christian Parent will learn: - Why parents are the most important influence in their children's lives- That truth should be a consistent topic of conversation with our children- That parents can have confidence in Christian truth and teach that to their kids- Why plausibility is important to a confident faith- How Christianity explains reality far more powerfully than anything else- How a hostile, secular culture can strengthen their children's faithBecause of this hostile, secular culture, many Christian parents fear for their children's faith. The Persuasive Christian Parent offers a powerful panacea to this crisis of confidence with nine foundational concepts parents can teach their children, building in them an enduring, lifelong faith. God has provided Christians everything they need to successfully defend their faith to themselves, and their children. As you engage the arguments in The Persuasive Christian Parent, you will be able to provide answers to the tough questions that daily confront children and parents alike.
Author: Dallas Willard Publisher: Tyndale House ISBN: 1615214550 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 404
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As Christians, we know that we are new creations in Jesus. So we try to act differently, hoping this will make us more like Him. But changing our outward behavior doesn’t change our hearts. Only by God’s grace can we be transformed internally. Renovation of the Heart lays a biblical foundation for understanding what best-selling author Dallas Willard calls the “transformation of the spirit”—a divine process that “brings every element in our being, working from inside out, into harmony with the will of God.” This fresh approach to spiritual growth explains the biblical reasons why Christians need to undergo change in six aspects of life: thought, feeling, will, body, social context, and soul. Willard also outlines a general pattern of transformation in each area, not as a sterile formula but as a practical process that you can follow without the guilt or perfectionism so many Christians wrestle with. Don’t settle for complacency. Accept the challenge Renovation of the Heart offers to become an intentional apprentice of Jesus Christ, changing daily as you walk with Him.
Author: Adrian Bejan Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0307744345 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 306
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In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the constructal law, accounts for the evolution of these and many other designs in our world. Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence of ever-improving designs in order to facilitate flow. River basins, cardiovascular systems, and bolts of lightning are very efficient flow systems to move a current—of water, blood, or electricity. Likewise, the more complex architecture of animals evolve to cover greater distance per unit of useful energy, or increase their flow across the land. Such designs also appear in human organizations, like the hierarchical “flowcharts” or reporting structures in corporations and political bodies. All are governed by the same principle, known as the constructal law, and configure and reconfigure themselves over time to flow more efficiently. Written in an easy style that achieves clarity without sacrificing complexity, Design in Nature is a paradigm-shifting book that will fundamentally transform our understanding of the world around us.
Author: Frederick M. Dolan Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501726234 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 246
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Allegories of America offers a bold idea of what, in terms of political theory, it means to be American. Beginning with the question What do we want from a theory of politics? Dolan explores the metaphysics of American-ness and stops along the way to reflect on John Winthrop, the Constitution, 1950s behavioralist social science, James Merrill, and William Burroughs. The pressing problem, in Dolan's view, is how to find a vocabulary for politics in the absence of European metaphysics. American political thinkers, he suggests, might respond by approaching their own theories as allegories. The postmodern dilemma of the loss of traditional absolutes would thus assume the status of a national mythology—America's perennial identity crisis in the absence of a tradition establishing the legitimacy of its founding. After examining the mid-Atlantic sermons of John Winthrop, the spiritual founding father, Dolan reflects on the authority of the Constitution and the Federalist. He then takes on questions of representation in Cold War ideology, focusing on the language of David Easton and other liberal political "behaviorists," as well as on cold War cinema and the coverage of international affairs by American journalists. Additional discussions are inspired by Hannah Arendt's recasting of political theory in a narrative framework. here Dolan considers two starkly contrasting postwar literary figures—William S. Burroughs and James Merrill—both of whom have a troubled relationship to politics but nonetheless register an urgent need to articulate its dangers and opportunities. Alongside Merrill's unraveling of the distinction between the serious and the fictive, Dolan assesses the attempt in Arendt's On Revolution to reclaim fictional devices for political reflection.
Author: Matt Young Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 0759610886 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 369
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Some of the Praise for No Sense of Obligation . . . fascinating analysis of religious belief -- Steve Allen, author, composer, entertainer [A] tour de force of science and religion, reason and faith, denoting in clear and unmistakable language and rhetoric what science really reveals about the cosmos, the world, and ourselves. Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic Magazine; Author, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science About the Book Rejecting belief without evidence, a scientist searches the scientific, theological, and philosophical literature for a sign from God--and finds him to be an allegory. This remarkable book, written in the laypersons language, leaves no room for unproven ideas and instead seeks hard evidence for the existence of God. The author, a sympathetic critic and observer of religion, finds instead a physical universe that exists reasonlessly. He attributes good and evil to biology, not to God. In place of theism, the author gives us the knowledge that the universe is intelligible and that we are grownups, responsible for ourselves. He finds salvation in the here and now, and no ultimate purpose in life, except as we define it.
Author: David Bentley Hart
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