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Publisher | : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Liberalism (Religion) |
ISBN | : 9781558965997 |
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This book lays out the basic characteristics of liberal theology, delving into historical and philosophical sources as well as social and intellectual roots. Ideal for readers who want a better understanding of liberal theology, a religious tradition that is rooted not in authority but in one's own experience and conscience.
Author | : Francis John McConnell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Apologetics |
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Author | : Jeremy Young |
Publisher | : Cowley Publications |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2006-01-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1461707641 |
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This book critically explores the Christian teaching of God's unconditional love. The author argues for the recovery of a spirituality of uncertainty and unconditional love as a basis for a renewal of contemporary Christian faith and practice.
Author | : Wendy James |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780415107907 |
Download The Pursuit of Certainty Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An exploration of the effect of anthropology's inherited tradition of tolerance and cross-cultural understanding has on the new pursuits of truth.
Author | : Peter Enns |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0062272101 |
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The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me So explains how Christians mistake “certainty” and “correct belief” for faith when what God really desires is trust and intimacy. With compelling and often humorous stories from his own life, Bible scholar Peter Enns offers a fresh look at how Christian life truly works, answering questions that cannot be addressed by the idealized traditional doctrine of “once for all delivered to the saints.” Enns offers a model of vibrant faith that views skepticism not as a loss of belief, but as an opportunity to deepen religious conviction with courage and confidence. This is not just an intellectual conviction, he contends, but a more profound kind of knowing that only true faith can provide. Combining Enns’ reflections of his own spiritual journey with an examination of Scripture, The Sin of Certainty models an acceptance of mystery and paradox that all believers can follow and why God prefers this path because it is only this way by which we can become mature disciples who truly trust God. It gives Christians who have known only the demand for certainty permission to view faith on their own flawed, uncertain, yet heartfelt, terms.
Author | : Neil Gascoigne |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2019-07-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3030254542 |
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This book asks whether there any limits to the sorts of religious considerations that can be raised in public debates, and if there are, by whom they are to be identified. Its starting point is the work of Richard Rorty, whose pragmatic pluralism leads him to argue for a politically motivated anticlericalism rather than an epistemologically driven atheism. Rather than defend Rorty’s position directly, Gascoigne argues for an epistemological stance he calls ‘Pragmatist Fideism’. The starting point for this exercise in what Rorty calls ‘Cultural Politics’ is an acknowledgement that one must appeal to both secularists and those with religious commitments. In recent years ‘reformed’ epistemologists have aimed to establish a parity of epistemic esteem between religious and perceptual beliefs by exploiting an analogy in respect of their mutual vulnerability to sceptical challenges. Through an examination of this analogy, and in light of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty, this book argues that understood correctly the ‘parity’ argument in fact lends epistemological support to the argument that religious considerations should not be raised in public debate. The political price paid—paying the price of politics—is worth it: the religious thinker is provided with a good reason for maintaining that their practices and beliefs are not undermined by other forms of religious life.
Author | : Robert Towler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1000228207 |
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Originally published in 1984, The Need for Certainty explores the different ways in which people can be religious within the conventional traditions of the main Christian denominations. Based on in-depth analysis of letters sent to John Robinson, then Bishop of Woolwich, after the publication of his book Honest to God, The Need for Certainty describes five contrasting ways of being religious and explores how, despite being mutually incompatible, they are able to coexist in the churches. In doing so, it argues that a proper grasp of this wide variation in styles of religiousness is a prerequisite for quantitative surveys of religion. Each contrasting religious style is explored in turn and illustrated with quotations from the original letters. The intense desire for religious certainty is extensively explored and presented as a debased, but common, form of religious aspiration that often leads to the degeneration of faith. The Need for Certainty is ideal for those with an interest in Christianity, the sociology of religion, and theology.
Author | : Mark A. Schaefer |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2018-08-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 153265345X |
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The world is full of people who are very certain--in politics, in religion, in all manner of things. In addition, political, religious, and social organizations are marketing certainty as a cure all to all life's problems. But is such certainty possible? Or even good? The Certainty of Uncertainty explores the question of certainty by looking at the reasons human beings crave certainty and the religious responses we frequently fashion to help meet that need. The book takes an in-depth view of religion, language, our senses, our science, and our world to explore the inescapable uncertainties they reveal. We find that the certainty we crave does not exist. As we reflect on the unavoidable uncertainties in our world, we come to understand that letting go of certainty is not only necessary, it's beneficial. For, in embracing doubt and uncertainty, we find a more meaningful and courageous religious faith, a deeper encounter with mystery, and a way to build strong relationships across religious and philosophical lines. In The Certainty of Uncertainty, we see that embracing our belief systems with humility and uncertainty can be transformative for ourselves and for our world.
Author | : Francis John McConnell |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-05-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781357478698 |
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Author | : Frederick Storrs Turner |
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Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) |
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