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Changing Christian Paradigms and their Implications for Modern Thought

Changing Christian Paradigms and their Implications for Modern Thought
Author: Knox
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2018-11-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004378804

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Though the Bible and creeds have provided a compass for Christianity from earliest times, the frameworks of thought within which they have been understood have constantly changed, the contribution of Augustine to these changes being fundamental. This book traces, first, these changes chronologically and shows how they have led to the separation of religion and science, faith and reason, supernatural and natural, and so to current materialism: but also to radical alterations to our understanding of God and his relationship to the world. The second part shows in more detail how these changes have altered the significance of major features of Christian faith and led to serious incoherences. And the third part shows, not only how pre-Augustinian and Biblical understandings cohere closely with modern science, but that they have radical implications for our understanding of man, his place in nature and survival of death, for Jesus Christ and for the role of the Churches.


Changing Christian Paradigms and Their Implications for Modern Thought

Changing Christian Paradigms and Their Implications for Modern Thought
Author: Crawford Knox
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004096707

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Though the Bible and creeds have provided a compass for Christianity from earliest times, the frameworks of thought within which they have been understood have constantly changed, the contribution of Augustine to these changes being fundamental. This book traces, first, these changes chronologically and shows how they have led to the separation of religion and science, faith and reason, supernatural and natural, and so to current materialism: but also to radical alterations to our understanding of God and his relationship to the world. The second part shows in more detail how these changes have altered the significance of major features of Christian faith and led to serious incoherences. And the third part shows, not only how pre-Augustinian and Biblical understandings cohere closely with modern science, but that they have radical implications for our understanding of man, his place in nature and survival of death, for Jesus Christ and for the role of the Churches.


Incarnation and Physics

Incarnation and Physics
Author: Tapio Luoma
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2002-08-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0198034652

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Thomas F. Torrance is the most prominent theologian to have taken seriously the challenge posed to theology by the natural sciences. His model for interaction between the two disciplines is based on the theological heart of the Church: the Incarnation. Luoma here offers a thorough overview and critique of Torrance's insights into the theology-science dialogue.


Studies in Modern Religions, Religious Movements and the Bābī-Bahā'ī Faiths

Studies in Modern Religions, Religious Movements and the Bābī-Bahā'ī Faiths
Author: Moshe Sharon
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2018-08-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9047405579

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Twelve comprehensive studies dedicated to messianism, millenniarism and eschatological thought in Judaism Christianity and Islam that underlies the birth of Hassidism, “Mormonism” and the Bahā’ī Faith introduced by the editor’s study of the underlying common source of this religious activity.


Christian Arabic apologetics during the Abbasid period

Christian Arabic apologetics during the Abbasid period
Author: Khalil Samir Samir
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1994
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004095687

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This collection of papers deals with a much-neglected experience of Arabic Christian writings at a time when Muslim and Christian thinkers were engaged in a lively intellectual encounter, which left deep marks on both parties.


Buddha and Christ

Buddha and Christ
Author: Thundy
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2018-09-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004378820

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The infancy narratives of the gospels of Matthew and Luke appear as a magnificent mosaic of allusions not only to the Hebrew Bible but also to Buddhist and Hindu religious traditions. Professor Thundy argues that many details of the infancy gospels as well as the rest of the gospels can be clarified by the Buddhist and Hindu scriptures. In this sense, the gospels are Eastern religious texts. Buddha and Christ covers the following topics in order: methodology of study, priority of Indian texts vis-à-vis Christian gospels, parallels of the birth narratives of Buddha and Jesus, uniqueness of Indian parallels, the Gnostic context of the Christian gospels, and contacts between India and the West in antiquity. Multicultural studies such as this encourage ecumenism and mutual understanding in East-West dialogues as well as reinforcing the view that the gospels should be taken seriously as Eastern religious texts.


New Age Religion and Western Culture

New Age Religion and Western Culture
Author: Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2018-09-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004378936

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Recent years have seen a spectacular rise of the New Age movement and an ever-increasing interest in its beliefs and manifestations. This fascinating work presents the first-ever comprehensive analysis of New Age Religion and its historical backgrounds, thus providing the reader with a means of orientation in the bewildering variety of the movement. Making extensive use of primary sources, the author thematically analyses New Age beliefs from the perspective of the study of religions. While looking at the historical backgrounds of the movement, he convincingly argues that its foundations were laid by so-called western esoteric traditions during the Renaissance. Hanegraaff finally shows how the modern New Age movement emerged from the increasing secularization of those esoteric traditions during the 19th century. This ground-breaking publication is compulsive reading for all those involved or interested in the New Age movement.


Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East

Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East
Author: Kehl-Bodrogi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018-11-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004378987

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This volume deals with Islamic sects in the Near East such as the Alevis (Turkey), Druzes (Libanon), Alawis (Syria), Ahl-i Haqq (Iran, Iraq) and Shabak (Iraq), which have in common a syncretistic system of belief with a strong Shi'ite influence, as well as secrecy and endogamy. The contributions in this volume focus on the present situation of these communities, their relation to mainstream Islam, their involvement in national and ethnic politics, aspects of faith and rituals, the relevance of sacred texts, modes of religious and social transformation, and the recent revival of Alevism. In view of the new visibility of these formerly "hidden" sects and their increasing social and political importance, this volume provides important information for all scholars interested in the religious and political situation of the region.


Apocalyptic Time

Apocalyptic Time
Author: Albert I. Baumgarten
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004118799

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The theme of this volume is the nature and perception of time in millennial movements. The authors adopt a number of disciplinary approaches to the topic, analyzing millennial movements from the three Abrahamic faiths, as well as from the East.


The Pragmatics of Defining Religion

The Pragmatics of Defining Religion
Author: Jan G. Platvoet
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 582
Release: 1999
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004115446

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"The Pragmatics of Defining Religion" is a multidisciplinary volume on the problem of the definition of religion with chapters on the polemics of defining religion in modern contexts, the history of the concept of religion, the methodology of its definition; it includes several definition proposals.