Where Science and Religion Meet
Step into a world where the realms of science and religion converge in profound harmony. "Where Science and Religion Meet," now republished by Alpha Editions after decades of being out of print, invites readers on an illuminating journey through the intersection of science and faith. This compelling exploration delves into the philosophical underpinnings of spirituality and scientific inquiry, offering fresh perspectives on the age-old dialogue between belief and empirical understanding. In this timeless work, the author navigates the complexities of the philosophy of religion, encouraging readers to embrace a holistic view of existence. With eloquent prose, the book examines how faith-based science and religious perspectives on science can coexist, providing a rich tapestry of thought for both casual readers and classic literature collectors alike. This edition is not merely a reprint; it has been meticulously restored for today s and future generations, making it a true cultural treasure. As you explore the pages, you'll uncover the profound insights that bridge science and theology, fostering a deeper understanding of spirituality in the modern world. Don t miss your chance to own this collector s item, a vital contribution to the ongoing conversation about understanding science and belief. Rediscover the beauty of "Where Science and Religion Meet" and join the dialogue that continues to inspire and challenge our perceptions of faith and scientific exploration.
Knowledge And Truth
Human knowledge is fundamentally defined as "justified true belief," a definition that has ignited significant debates in epistemology regarding "belief," "justification," and "truth." This work explores the definition of knowledge while addressing contemporary challenges. Part One examines the essence of human knowledge, beginning with an analysis of its etymology and the nature of consciousness. Key issues within epistemology and diverse perspectives that shape our understanding are also highlighted. Part Two focuses on the foundational components of justified true belief, analyzing belief and justification, drawing on Bertrand Russell and the Gettier problem. Subsequent chapters critically assess various theories and critiques concerning truth in the context of human knowledge. Part Three challenges the limitations of the Western epistemological tradition and considers alternatives, examining Indigenous Knowledge Systems through African epistemology and the concept of Akonuche. It also discusses agnotology, the post-truth phenomenon, and the impact of artificial intelligence on knowledge in today's hyper-globalized world. Ultimately, this work synthesizes key insights, offering a deeper understanding of the complexities of knowledge in the modern era.
Christians Are Not Fools
Many believers feel that the Christian faith cannot help them face the challenges of reason and reality, leading them to gradually grow indifferent and withdraw. At the same time, many non-believers think that the Christian faith lacks scientific basis and imposes too many restrictions, thus rejecting it. So, is the Christian faith a foolish superstition, or is it the gospel that truth-seekers long for?We sincerely invite you to examine the Christian faith together and explore why one-third of the world's population chooses to believe in it. Christians are not fools; the Christian faith is rational and well-founded, and the lives of Christians are filled with hope, joy, and blessings!This book explores topics such as: Do modern people, emphasizing science and fortune-telling, no longer believe in religion?Have the Big Bang theory, Abiogenesis, and Evolution disproved creationism?Can a loving and just God exist in a world full of suffering and evil?Are the rational evidences supporting the Christian Faith valid and sufficient?How does the Christian faith reveal goodness and beauty as a gospel for humanity? Is life inherently painful and meaningless, or can it be abundant and fulfilling? Responses to challenges of faith... and much more.
Winning With Christ
You were never created to merely survive. You were created to WIN - in your faith, your mindset, your health, and your purpose.In winning with christ, educator and entrepreneur Gabriel Campos shares his powerful journey from chasing worldly success to discovering true victory through Jesus. With two master's degrees, a thriving career, and the "American Dream" Gabriel had everything - until heartbreak and emptiness revealed that success without Christ is still defeat.Through heartfelt testimony and biblical wisdom, this book introduces the WIN framework - Wealth, Independence, and Nutrition - rooted in God's word and designed to help you: Build wealth with integrity and purposeBreak free from fear, cycles and emotional baggageRenew your mind and body as a temple of the Holy spiritDevelop daily habits that reflect Kingdom livingstop surviving and start thriving -n spiritually, mentally, and physically.Each chapter includes scripture, reflection, and a call to action, guiding you toward a life of wholeness and victory - not by the worlds standards, but through Christ alone.If your ready to reclaim your identity, realign your priorities, and walk badly in the life God destined for you, this book is your roadmap."But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our lord Jesus Christ" - 1 Corinthians 15:57
Experiencing God's Overwhelming Peace During Hard Times
This book is written to encourage readers to know God personally and trust Him before hard times come. Through a personal encounter with lymphoma and chemotherapy, Pearl believes that knowing God in a personal way through His Son, Jesus, made a big difference in how she coped with her situation and the outcome. In this book, she gives a stage-by-stage experience of her health journey and how God was with her every step of the way, granting her peace.
Kingdom of Heaven
Kingdom of Heaven being the work of professor Hilton. If the Kingdom of God does not include everything, who is the ruler of that part not included? And if we do not live in the Kingdom of God, where are we? That Kingdom mentioned in the John gospel must have been located far off in some secret corner of the Universe, and as unknown to the Jesus of the Matthew and Mark gospels, in which he was made to say: Whereunto shall I liken the Kingdom of God, or with what comparison shall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth, but when sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it (Matthew 13:31; Mark 4:31).
Play of Consciousness in the Web of the Universe
When ideas are based on fundamental truths, their value must remain undiminished with the passing of time. Such is the case with this theosophical classic. Edward L. Gardner, a man of extraordinary sensitivity, offers his views on creation and consciousness. Creation: Why it happened and how it is structured. Consciousness: What it is and how it evolves. This is a book about the web-like fabric which carries within itself all the material forms of the world; bears and supports them eternally. This is a book about life and light, which is consciousness becoming self-conscious, becoming transpersonally conscious. Based closely on 'The Stanzas of Dzyan' from H.P. Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine, Gardner's contribution to truth can be a most valuable tool for all serious seekers into the nature of Reality.
Safeguarding the Institution
When a suburban vicar "did the opposite of a Justin Welby", and raised a historic safeguarding issue with his diocese, he was shocked by their response. The events that followed revealed deep cracks in the Church of England's safeguarding practices, and this book examines how those cracks go to the heart of the Church's culture.Stephen Kuhrt is vicar of a busy church in a thriving South West London parish, yet his treatment by Southwark diocese has hampered his ministry and undermined his professional relationships ... but still Stephen refuses to give up on the church which he has loved all his life: The final section of SAFEGUARDING THE INSTITUION gives suggestions for changes that could transform the prevailing culture of the Church of England and ensure that it is its people who are safeguarded, not its own institution.
The Holy Spirit and Social Justice Interdisciplinary Global Perspectives
Religious Diversity in Australia
This book documents the structure of religious diversity in Australia and examines this diversity in the context of the law, migration, education, policing, the media and interfaith communities. Focusing on Melbourne and Tasmania, it articulates the benefits and opportunities of diversity, alongside the challenges that confront religious and ethnic minorities, including discrimination and structural inequalities generated by Christian and otherforms of privilege. It articulates constructive strategies that are deployed, includingencouraging forms of belonging, structured ways of negotiating disagreement and respectful engagement with difference. While scholars across the West are increasingly attuned to the problems and promises of growing religious diversity in a global age, in-depth empirical research on the consequences of that diversity in Australia is lacking. This book provides a rich, well-researched, and timely intervention.
The Fire Within
There is a fire in you. You feel it in the restless longing, in the quiet ache for more than survival. More than noise. More than a faith that feels thin. You were not made to drift. You were made to burn-with love, purpose, and the presence of Christ himself. The Fire Within is an invitation to return to the way of Jesus-not just in belief, but in practice. This is not a call to do more. It's a call to be formed-to build a life rooted in rhythms that awaken your soul and ignite your God-given passion. In these pages, you'll discover how to: Craft a rule of life that fits your season and your soulPractice rhythms that renew your heart in an anxious and distracted worldRecover your purpose, clarity, and holy fireLive a life that's less frantic and more deeply formedThis is a guide for weary believers, passionate seekers, and anyone longing for a faith that fuels real life. Come. Be shaped by the way of Jesus. Fan the flame. And let the fire within light up the world. 100 percent of the proceeds of this book go towards the Open Door Scholarship, providing funds to at-need students who want to attend Portland Bible College. https: //portlandbiblecollege.org/scholarships/
Atheist
What if belief wasn't about truth, but comfort?Atheist isn't here to argue, it's here to ask.In a world wired for faith, this book dares to pause, reflect, and question what we've been told to never doubt. Through humble reflections and bold honesty, it invites you on a quiet rebellion one where the goal isn't to destroy belief, but to understand what exists beyond it.If you've ever asked, "What if...?" this book is for you.
When In Doubt
There are times our child will get impatient, have doubts when something takes a little too long to come their way. We truly understand their impatience since we were once small children ourselves. There are times our child will get impatient, have doubts when something takes a little too long to come their way. We truly understand their impatience since we were once small children ourselves.
When In Doubt
There are times our child will get impatient, have doubts when something takes a little too long to come their way. We truly understand their impatience since we were once small children ourselves. There are times our child will get impatient, have doubts when something takes a little too long to come their way. We truly understand their impatience since we were once small children ourselves.
The Amphilochia
"Many times we are presented witha difficulty that lacks any kind ofprefatory contextualization, and so, in the absence of an introduction that lays thegroundwork, the difficulty eludes the solutionthat corresponds to it. This is also how weought to deal with the question that yourintelligence poses, at least according to onedoctrine and theory. Therefore, we must firstlay the foundation and proceed in an orderlymanner to our answer. Otherwise, the thingsthat merely appear to be in conflict will comeinto conflict in actual fact as well. For manythings often appear to contradict one another, when in reality they do not. This is becauseconflicts do not come about in a vacuum andby chance, either in the case of words or in thecase of external realities."- From the Question 1 to The Ampilochia
The Amphilochia
"Many times we are presented witha difficulty that lacks any kind ofprefatory contextualization, and so, in the absence of an introduction that lays thegroundwork, the difficulty eludes the solutionthat corresponds to it. This is also how weought to deal with the question that yourintelligence poses, at least according to onedoctrine and theory. Therefore, we must firstlay the foundation and proceed in an orderlymanner to our answer. Otherwise, the thingsthat merely appear to be in conflict will comeinto conflict in actual fact as well. For manythings often appear to contradict one another, when in reality they do not. This is becauseconflicts do not come about in a vacuum andby chance, either in the case of words or in thecase of external realities."- From the Question 1 to The Ampilochia
Smith's Christian Clergy Professional Rules of Ethics
This treatise is a guide for those who desire to have ethical practices in their ministries of God's law, as well as for Clerics to be found walking upright in the secular world, which includes Clerics participating in all government laws as Christian practitioners. As clerics cannot turn off their clerical hat due to the fact our service is to be performed as unto Christ Jesus in all that we do in life, thus we are to be those who have integrity in our ethical practices always. Therefore, our ethical practices are to transfer to all genres of life. This includes areas such those that require us to be political theologians, which all clergy should be ministering in, which includes ministries inside of the church as well as positions in regard to secular laws, and secular law-making arenas. There are ethical ministers found in God's Church, schools of theology, earthly positions, as well as in the Capitol Cathedrals of secular law-makers. In the Biblical Hebrew tradition of law, the scribes and priest were responsible for interpreting God's law. Thus, being the lawyers so to speak. Further, the priests were basically the same as judges, the chief priest acted as the Chief Justice, and those other priest with higher positions were in the Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin was similar to the Supreme Court of the Hebrew people. The Sanhedrin was responsible for interpreting the law especially in the most complex cases. Thus, the priests were acting as both religious leaders interpreting the law, as well as legal authorities. The duties of the priest in these roles can be found in the book of Deuteronomy in chapter 17 and verses 8 through 13.
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion
The Structure of Revelation
What if Revelation isn't a mystery-but a map?In this powerful continuation of his grandfather's legacy, Gulf War Marine veteran and prophecy teacher Dean McMullen unlocks the precise structure hidden within the Book of Revelation. Drawing from decades of Bible study, military experience, and mathematical precision, McMullen demonstrates how Daniel's 70th week becomes the framework, while the seals, trumpets, and vials fill in every detail-right down to the day.This book will challenge everything you thought you knew about end-time prophecy. With bold clarity, McMullen identifies: The rapture at the 6th seal-not before the tribulationThe voice of the archangel and the true meaning of the 7th sealThe rise of the false Christ during the 5th and 6th trumpetsHow John's testimony may be the final warningThe three voices of 1 Thessalonians 4:16 and how they structure RevelationBacked by Scripture, supported by timeline charts, and grounded in personal experience, The Structure of Revelation is more than a study-it's a call to see the end clearly, prepare wisely, and understand God's plan with mathematical precision.The Revelation is no longer sealed. The countdown has already begun. Are you ready?
The Structure of Revelation
What if Revelation isn't a mystery-but a map?In this powerful continuation of his grandfather's legacy, Gulf War Marine veteran and prophecy teacher Dean McMullen unlocks the precise structure hidden within the Book of Revelation. Drawing from decades of Bible study, military experience, and mathematical precision, McMullen demonstrates how Daniel's 70th week becomes the framework, while the seals, trumpets, and vials fill in every detail-right down to the day.This book will challenge everything you thought you knew about end-time prophecy. With bold clarity, McMullen identifies: The rapture at the 6th seal-not before the tribulationThe voice of the archangel and the true meaning of the 7th sealThe rise of the false Christ during the 5th and 6th trumpetsHow John's testimony may be the final warningThe three voices of 1 Thessalonians 4:16 and how they structure RevelationBacked by Scripture, supported by timeline charts, and grounded in personal experience, The Structure of Revelation is more than a study-it's a call to see the end clearly, prepare wisely, and understand God's plan with mathematical precision.The Revelation is no longer sealed. The countdown has already begun. Are you ready?
I must be born again
A journey through scriptures in order to gain a thorough understanding of what is meant by the statement, "you must be born again"
105 Esoteric Traditions of the World, Book V
Some traditions burn like beacons, drawing seekers from across centuries. Others flicker unseen, buried under exile, ridicule, or fear. Prophecy and Extinction enters the shadowed threshold where those two destinies meet - where a lineage carries visions of the future even as its present fades into silence.This fifth volume of the seven-part Esoteric Traditions of the World series gathers fifteen endangered or prophetic spiritual systems from across continents and centuries. Some stand on the edge of disappearance - their keepers aging, their initiations unpassed, their sacred geographies vanishing under flood or fire. Others endure in fragments, encoded in symbols, dreams, or half-remembered rites. Each bears a warning, not only for its own survival, but for the fate of the human spirit itself.From the prayer caves of Athonite Hesychasts to the calabash rattles of African spirit midwives; from the lightning-born laughter of the sacred clowns to the guarded plumeros of Amazonian curanderos; from the Alef crowns of Kabbalistic ordination lines to the triple-sheltered flames of Zoroastrian fire temples; from the drowned chants of Samoan ocean-priests to the rose-and-circle cosmologies of vanishing Sufi orders - these are not quaint anthropological remnants. They are living technologies, honed to align breath, body, and cosmos.Each chapter follows a fivefold lens: Core Teaching - the distilled essence of the path.Spiritual Condition - the present state of the lineage and the world it inhabits.Inner Technology - the precise practices that carry its fire.Symbol - the object or image that embodies its soul.Key Danger - the forces that distort, commodify, or erase it.The tone is initiatory, not touristic; the intention is not preservation alone, but transmission. Sources are honored, history is traced, but intuition and living presence guide the telling. These are not academic case studies - they are encounters with living mysteries, presented so the reader might not only understand them, but feel their gravity.At the heart of Prophecy and Extinction lies a paradox: traditions that foresaw their own diminishment may yet seed their return. Prophetic warnings speak of silences that will one day break, of flames that will rekindle in unexpected hands. Some chapters end with a closed door; others leave it ajar.In a time when spiritual attention is scattered and novelty devours depth, this book stands as both ark and beacon. It remembers those who carried the fire when no one else would, and asks the reader a quiet, unsettling question: What will you do with what is left?
Media, Religion and Culture
Religion has always been shaped by the media of its time. Religious individuals, communities and institutions use media as tools to communicate, but also as locations where they construct and express identity, practice religion, and build community. This lively book offers a comprehensive introduction to the contemporary field of religion, media, and culture. It explores the religious content of media texts and the reception of those texts by religious consumers who appropriate and reuse them in their own religious work. it considers how new forms of media provide fresh locations for new religious voices and identities to emerge. Thoroughly updated throughout, the book features case study examples from both established and new religions, and each chapter is followed by insightful reflections from leading scholars in the field. Illustrated throughout, the book also contains discussion questions and a glossary of key terms.
Media, Religion and Culture
Religion has always been shaped by the media of its time. Religious individuals, communities and institutions use media as tools to communicate, but also as locations where they construct and express identity, practice religion, and build community. This lively book offers a comprehensive introduction to the contemporary field of religion, media, and culture. It explores the religious content of media texts and the reception of those texts by religious consumers who appropriate and reuse them in their own religious work. it considers how new forms of media provide fresh locations for new religious voices and identities to emerge. Thoroughly updated throughout, the book features case study examples from both established and new religions, and each chapter is followed by insightful reflections from leading scholars in the field. Illustrated throughout, the book also contains discussion questions and a glossary of key terms.
Thoughts on the Study of the Holy Gospels
In "Thoughts on the Study of the Holy Gospels" and "Devotional Commentary on the Gospel Narrative", Isaac Williams offers a profound and contemplative exploration of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Through thoughtful reflections and devotional insights, he invites readers to deepen their understanding of the Gospel stories, emphasizing their spiritual significance and relevance for personal faith. Williams's work encourages a heartfelt engagement with Scripture, blending scholarly observation with devotional practice to inspire a more intimate and transformative connection to the divine message. Thoughts on the Study of the Holy Gospels - Devotional Commentary on the Gospel Narrative is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1876.
The Five Theological Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus
Arthur James Mason's "The Five Theological Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus" offers a compelling translation and insightful commentary on Gregory's profound sermons that articulate his theological vision. These orations delve into core doctrines such as the nature of the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and the relationship between God and humanity, showcasing Gregory's mastery in balancing doctrinal precision with poetic eloquence. Mason's work not only makes these centuries-old texts accessible to modern readers but also highlights their enduring relevance for Christian theology, emphasizing Gregory's role in shaping Nicene orthodoxy and his passionate defense of the faith amidst theological controversy. The Five Theological Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899.
