Religionsfilosofi

Develops and defends a philosophical account of meaning, purpose, and value in human life and experience that is naturalistic without being reductionistic or scientistic.

Sallie McFague har sin helt egen stemme. Hun taler direkte og insisterende om, at vores overbevisninger har afgørende betydning for vores adfærd. Gennem årtier har hun præget den teologiske tænkning, først gennem sin forskning i metaforernes kraft – og i de seneste år ved at rette søgelyset mod vores måde at behandle verden på.I denne sidste bog, færdiggjort året før hendes død i 2019, opsummerer McFague sit livsværk. Det gør hun med en stærk opfordring til handling, til at vi lægger kursen om til gavn for både mennesket selv og hele vores planet. Hun mener, at verden har brug for det, hun betegner som "en kenotisk fortolkning" af kristendommen.Kenosis er hengivelsens princip, som vi også ser afspejlet i naturen: at noget må dø, for at nyt liv kan vokse frem. Og mennesket befinder sig ikke uden for naturen, men er forbundet med naturen og infiltreret i dens processer. Kenosis er korsets vej: at give afkald på alt for igen at kunne modtage liv, virkeligt liv, og derefter give dette liv videre."Hvor glædeligt, at denne bog udkommer netop på et tidspunkt, hvor den økologiske teologi igen er kommet på dagsordenen i Danmark! Her kan nye læsere begynde, og vi har alle meget at lære af McFague."Professor i systematisk teologi Niels Henrik Gregersen i bogens forord.

Is evil evidence against the existence of God? In this lively discussion, atheists Michael Shermer and Gary Whittenberger debate theist Brian Huffling about this question. James Sterba (atheist) and Richard Howe (theist) provide a commentary on the debate. The existence of God is the most important question that one can ask. In this work, the reader will hear arguments for and against God's existence as it relates to evil and suffering in a way that will appeal to scholars, pastors, and laypeople alike.

Nicht nur Robert Spaemanns Stellungnahmen zu vielfältigen ethischen und gesellschaftlichen Fragen der Zeit haben große Beachtung gefunden, auch seine philosophischen Entwürfe - mehrfach mit dem Untertitel »Versuch« - haben eine für einen Philosophen außergewöhnlich große Leserschaft erreicht und wurden in viele Sprachen übersetzt. Die Originalität seiner Ideen und nicht weniger die Brillanz seines Stils machen diesen hohen Grad an Aufmerksamkeit verständlich. Allerdings lässt sich wie gegenüber manch anderem Philosophen eine gewisse Neigung zur Etikettierung konstatieren. Umso wichtiger ist es, die philosophische Diskussion über Spaemanns Positionen weiter zu inspirieren. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge unternehmen daher den Versuch, seine Intentionen weiterzudenken, insbesondere aber seine Ideen und Argumente gerade nicht nur immanent zu interpretieren, sondern sie kritisch zu untersuchen und mit den gegenwärtigen Diskussionen in der Philosophie zu konfrontieren. Es geht in diesem Band u.a. um Spaemanns Grundlegung der Ethik, seine Kritik am Szientismus und dessen reale Folgen sowie sein Verständnis von Status und Sinn der Philosophie insgesamt. Ein besonderes Gewicht liegt auf der Auseinandersetzung mit den verschiedenen Aspekten von Spaemanns neuer Konzeption der Person.

his insightful study navigates the intricate relationship between special revelation and natural theology in the Christian context. While emphasizing the Church's emphasis on special revelation, the book raises critical questions about the relevance of natural theology today. Delve into foundational concepts, historical perspectives, and major arguments of natural theology, exploring its role in shaping the Christian worldview. Through a thorough literature review and scriptural examination, the author argues for the continued significance of natural theology in evangelism, cultural impact, and the development of believers' relationship with God.

Chaplaincy. Pastoral care. Ministry. The care of souls. What lies beneath that which lies beneath them?Like Virgil, chaplain Stephen Faller guides an unusual tour winding through personal disclosure about ministry, adoption, chaplaincy, and disability. Contextualized within chaplaincy and clinical pastoral education, Faller examines these ""visions from a little-known country."" Within the landscape are the sights of living in a post-9/11 world as they prefigure the change and uncertainty that marked American life and ministry after the pandemic of 2020. A conclusion to ""a dialectical inquiry at the end of the world,"" Faller explores the history of philosophy and religion in order to navigate an already unusual life within strange times. Essential reading for chaplains, and helpful insights for all those within the helping professions. As ministry continues to move beyond the surrounding walls of the institutional building, Faller suggests that chaplaincy can be a meaningful space for ordained ministry as one of the great ""spaces between spaces."" Moreover, this confessor's confession spells a way for storytellers and story collectors to find direction when meaning is lost. Chaplaincy itself is a meaningful response to a world turned upside down.

An Advaitic Modernity?: Raimon Panikkar and Philosophical Theology poses Raimon Panikkar as a stimulating dialogue partner in postmodern philosophical theology who can help us rethink the relationship between transcendence and immanence through an advaitic critique of modernity. Andrew D. Thrasher argues that Panikkar advaitic critique of modernity may transform several discourses, such as how Panikkar's cosmotheandric metaphysics may reshape a theology of religion and offer a religious interpretation of a relational ontology that builds on the Heideggerian ontological tradition and how Panikkar's metaphysics solves problems in Heidegger's ontology.

We are here to help trigger a collective shift in consciousness.We're here to awaken, remember who we are, and shift from 3D to 5D, elevating humanity to its divine inheritance. It isn't a done deal. It's part of a game: a battle between light and dark, and Light Team members must achieve a "higher level" of awakening to activate the shift. Roll up your sleeves, learn this higher level, and experience light-code activations.Alex Marcoux collaborates with Psychic Medium Shauna Kalicki, Connie, and Ethereal Autist Daniel to expand concepts introduced in their earlier book, Destination New Earth. It's your turn to receive messages from Cerian, the collective, Daniel, and Mother Mary on God, Lemuria, and Sophia on the evolutionary shift. In Gods in the Game, learn:You have the potential to access God ConsciousnessThe best gift you can give everyone is to work on your awakeningYou are a compass and can navigate to your Divine Blueprint The open-minded and open-hearted will never view the awakening, global events, and God the same. "Not until all the players wake up does the true game begin." -CerianAuthorAlex Marcoux is a truth-seeker and an award-winning and international author of spiritual nonfiction and visionary fiction. ContributorsDaniel is a nonspeaking autistic man assisting in humanity's evolution. Connie is Daniel's mother and is committed to sharing information on the Autist Collective. Shauna Kalicki channels the Ascended Masters, Cerian, and Ethereal Autists.

We are all haunted by things we fear, repress, and those things of which we have no conscious knowledge. We are thus haunted by a variety of ""ghosts"" in our lives so that, at times, we might notice those things we have ignored, and so too allow the repressed elements of our world a chance to speak more directly to us. Being honest with ourselves means listening better to what haunts us, and to wrestle with our own ghosts, as humans have often claimed throughout history to wrestle with God. Recognizing how we are ceaselessly haunted by that which threatens to undo our representations of ourselves is what draws together a series of reflections in this book on how we will never be able to rid ourselves of such hauntings. By examining a series of ""hauntings,"" this study looks at what continues to haunt the field of continental philosophy, the various things that haunt our sovereign construction of ourselves, the church, our words and language in general, and even how our texts are endlessly haunted by the autobiographical ""I"" we are often taught to exclude from our writings.

Imagine a man straddling both sides of good and evil, struggling to regain his balance. He clutches onto both aspects with his bewildered mind, pondering his own senses. As he stands there, his mind races with questions. What is the meaning of his existence? Why has he been placed in this moment, at this time, with these thoughts and feelings? Is there a purpose to his life, or is it all just a random series of events? 'I know God smells terribly bad, and I'm ready to bury him deep in the ground. But is this really the right thing to do? Is there a better solution? Should I try to make the smell more bearable, or is this the only course of action? I'm torn between doing what's best for God and the reality of the situation,' he thinks.Has he fallen into the river of dilemma and been washed away from his suffering? Will this man unravel the mystery of his existence, or will he be swallowed up by the abyss of his own mind?

"The concept of participation in a transcendent domain of existence is central to the Platonic and the Judaeo- Christian traditions. The essays in this volume analyse and explore this key concept in the history of Western thought, providing a rigorous and accessible account of participation from antiquity to the modern era"--

This book explores a heretofore unremarked linkage between Bernard Shaw, the twentieth-century French thinker Paul Ricoeur, and Jesus of Nazareth. The ties that bind them are a foundational interest in the social teachings of the Nazarene and their use of a shared dialectics with respect to living the kind of compassionate life that holds out the promise in our contemporary world of achieving something approximating universal wellness on a healthy planet at peace with itself. This work argues that the three principal subjects of the study¿independently of one another¿used the same dialectical method to reach the same dialectically derived conclusion about how humans can live redemptively in a fractured world.

Do you ever wonder what heaven is like? The Bible describes heaven as an enormous, stunningly beautiful city with a foundation of jewels, a river flowing down the middle of Main Street, the tree of life bearing fruit every month, and the constant presence of a God who will wipe every tear from our eye.But are we missing out on the joy of anticipation? Questions we will explore in this study include:What does God look like in heaven?What happens right after I die?Will we receive rewards in heaven?What will we not experience in heaven?What about loved ones who don't believe in God?How do I teach my kids about heaven?How can I keep my eyes fixed on heaven when I go through trials?As you read, you will be encouraged to dream about your future home. Wendy Neill skillfully weaves her own experiences of pain, loss, and hope with thorough research about heaven from the Bible and various scholars. Lift your gaze from your phone, your work, your pain, and even your loved ones for a while. Focus on the glimpses that God has given us of heaven in his Word.This is a six-week study with five days of reading and reflection each week, followed by questions for further meditation or group study on Days 6 and 7.

Addicts are often referred to as fiends, and although we use the word fiend ever so casually, the average person is clueless as to what the word actually means.The dictionary defines the word fiend as a devil, a demon or evil spirit, which raises the question as to how exactly are devils, demons and evil spirits synonymous with the addict. Believe it or not these definitions arose from the idea that the addict is actually an incarnate demon, helplessly possessed by his own evil spirit called the fiend, who tempts him from within to postpone his resolve for recovery, and proceed to feed his insatiable appetite for drugs against his better judgment.Hence, the reason why the relapse rate for addiction is so high, is because as demonically possessed souls, addicts are in need of an exorcism, rather than the ineffective methods of conventional treatment that fails to address the real issue.In a serendipitous turn of events, the addict can now reference The Addiction Experience, where he is instructed by the master exorcist, from whom he receives the authority to cast out his inner demon, and get clean once and for all.

¿This book is the first sustained scholarly account of women and goddesses in presocratic philosophy. It approaches the origin of western philosophy via Nietzsche, Feminism, and Embodied Cognition in order to argue that the presocratics were reviving, within the largely patriarchal and death-glorifying culture of archaic Greece, a paleo/neolithic goddess-centered religiosity that affirmed life and rebirth. By taking readers from prehistoric Europe to classical Athens, Joseph I. Breidenstein Jr. provides a novel narrative of the dawn of western philosophy which is more comprehensive than traditional accounts and which helps us address contemporary problems¿the patriarchal attitudes and ideas that continue to corrupt academic-philosophical culture; the fascist-dominator lifestyle that continues to threaten western democracy and which is encouraged by the patriarchal aspects of academia; and the consumerism that continues to result from a materialistic-secular paradigm that is being increasingly recognized as both intellectually untenable and socially unsustainable.

"The seventeenth-century philosophers known as the Cambridge Platonists were recognised in their time as some of England's most influential and controversial philosophers. In this study, Samuel M. Kaldas explores the intellectual contributions of the group, which serve as the foundation for the modern field of philosophy of religion"--

As the Protestant Reformation identified the pope as Antichrist, the popish church of Rome began to develop alternative eschatologies in order to take the heat off the pope. In this treatise, Downame advances the classic Protestant position against Cardinal Bellarmine's arguments that the Antichrist would rule for 3.5 years, and sit in a material temple in Jerusalem, and that Enoch and Elijah would return to earth physically - ideas that perpetuate in dispensationalism today.

What would the ideal Bible look like, one to educate the nations during the Messianic Millennium? And what is behind Christian Messianic and Hebrew Roots movements many Christians do not grasp? The Future Royal Israel Series explores the start of the Messianic Age, pieced together from Biblical prophecies like a giant jigsaw puzzle. The expectation that stirred Israel's prophets was the gathering of the twelve tribes as a saintly nation and a light to this world. Gathering not only the Jews but also the long-dispersed 'House of Ephraim' and, "because it is too small a thing," also the believing foreigner (Isaiah 49:6, 44:5, 56:3-8).

Being on the road as a Christian is often anything but easy.The diary notes in this book tell of this.And they tell of beautiful, amazing, and precious experiences.It is about becoming realistic in the breadth of everyday life, to practice trust, to learn to love.To discover in everything:To be on the way with Jesus and to hold on to his love is worthwhile, even if it is not always easy.Observations. Encounters. Experiences.Reflections.To think about.

Argues that the modern practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can in many ways be traced back to them.

Offers a unique perspective on the study of religion revolutionized by contemporary continental thinking.

Investigates, through a critical exploration of Derrida's political thought, the foundations of modern secular discourse in relation to issues of race and colonialism.

A comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of one of the Islamic intellectual tradition's most original and profound authors.

Everything centers on life and death. Not one moment arises where we are not in life, or pondering about what happens at death. One leads to the other. One stems from the prior. Both, taken together, teaches us what "hope" really is. Join Rich as he brings all of life's principles together as he presents "hope" in a whole new way ... through the penetrating eyes of both life and death and what it means to see both standing before us!

A case study written by Tom Armentrout on the truth surrounding a popular subject of the End Times events, the Rapture. The first installment of the "Whole Truth" series, intended to reveal the Truth written throughout Scripture. After receiving what he believes to be a dream from the Lord that challenged his beliefs about Prophecy and the Rapture, he began to do a thorough investigation of Scripture for the truth about the Rapture and the End Times. With the Lord guiding him on this study, he is now convinced that Scripture paints a clear picture of the Truth about the Rapture and confirmed what the Lord showed him in his dream. To best present his research, this study is laid out in a complete series of questions covering all the important topics surrounding the Rapture. There are ten major questions covered in this study to reveal the truth about the Rapture, and many other topics surrounding the Rapture, the End Times, and the warnings in Scripture about the Great Tribulation.

An eventful century has passed since the writings, activities, and networks of René Guénon (1886-1951), Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), Julius Evola (1898-1974), and Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) initiated what has come to be known as Traditionalism. Within recent decades, unprecedented attention has been drawn to Traditionalism and Traditionalists, both historical and contemporary, in nearly all possibly categorizable spheres: philosophy, religion, esotericism, politics, literature, art, academia, etc. The legacy of the intellectual current that began with Guénon in interwar France has been continually (re)discovered in diverse domains and forms around the world, and a growing literature has yielded various interpretations of the Traditionalist constellation of ideas, figures, works, influences, intersections, and polemics. In the 21st century, Traditionalists as well as scholars of Traditionalism find themselves at a crossroads of reflection on original, essential questions: What, who, and where is Traditionalism? What does Traditionalism mean? Is Traditionalism a phenomenon of the past, an understanding or misnomer of the present, or part of the future? What is the relationship between Traditionalism and the central notion from which it derives its name: Tradition? Passages: Studies in Traditionalism and Traditions is a hermeneutic agora for perspectives and studies on and in Traditionalism and Traditions.