God Is Undead
The undead are neither alive nor dead. They are animate yet non-living. In God Is Undead, Lorenzo Chiesa and Adrian Johnston contend that true unbelief today sees the divine precisely as exemplifying such undeath. In God Is Undead, Chiesa and Johnston delve into and deepen the insights of both Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis as regards unbelief. This analytic perspective reveals that modern atheisms appealing to a scientific worldview as an antidote to orthodox religious faith end up as heterodox theisms of Nature, Reason, Knowledge, or even the Market itself. They ironically place new gods of their own atop the graves of the traditional gods of old. They likewise forget the religious influences underlying modern science. One of the most important and novel contributions of God Is Undead is its gesture of dignifying unbelief as something that is able to contain multitudes. Far from a unified, homogeneous, and flatly bleak position, irreligiosity can come in many forms whose convergences and divergences contain possibilities for creatively thinking and living differently. This book shows such variegated non-belief in action. We have two unbelievers vigorously disagreeing with each other about fundamental ontological matters, thereby bringing to light critical questions going to the very heart of any unbelief whatsoever: Can an atheism, as thoroughly atheistic, ever believe in or be certain of itself? What is the role of agnosticism, and specifically of an agnosticism strengthening (rather than contrasting with) atheism, in all this? How might different unbelievers become what Freud calls "comrades in unbelief" without erecting new gods in the process?
Systematic Philosophical Theology, Volume 2a
"These volumes are chock full of arguments in a way that stands out in this field. . . . This is a remarkable, generational work that will become the resource in philosophical theology."--J.P. Moreland, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Biola University "An enormous undertaking. However, Craig's past record indicates that he can and will carry it through to completion. Furthermore, his established reputation. . . guarantees that the work will attract wide interest and will have a ready readership."--William Hasker, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Huntington University A transformative journey through Christian doctrine, Volume IIa. On God: Attributes of God William Lane Craig's Systematic Philosophical Theology is a multi-volume explication of Christian doctrine in the classic Protestant tradition of the loci communes as seen through the lens of contemporary analytic philosophy. Uniquely blending the disciplines of biblical theology, historical theology, and analytic theology, these volumes aim to provide readers with a biblical and philosophically coherent articulation of a wide range of Christian doctrines. Volume II treats the locus On God in two parts. The first part, Volume IIa. Attributes of God, explores the coherence of theism. Conceiving of God as an infinite and personal being of maximal greatness, Craig carefully defines and explicates the divine attributes of incorporeality, necessity, aseity, simplicity, eternality, omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence, and goodness. In the second part, Volume IIb. Excursus on Natural theology, The Trinity, Craig examines six arguments for God&'s existence, including the argument from contingency, the kal璽m cosmological argument, the argument from the applicability of mathematics, the argument from cosmic fine-tuning, the moral argument, and the ontological argument, along with the problem of evil. Following the excursus, he transitions to an articulation and defence of Christian theism, formulating a biblical doctrine of the Trinity and offering a model of God as a tripersonal soul.
Christian Life Community and the Spirit of "Fratelli Tutti". On Fraternity and Social Friendship
In God's Time
Life unfolds in seasons, as beautifully expressed in the timeless verses of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. In God's Time: True Stories of Transformation and Answered Prayer brings these beloved words to life through 45 heartfelt stories of faith, hope, and divine intervention.This uplifting collection reveals the beauty of God's perfect timing and how it leads to healing, transformation, and joy. Through real-life stories of births, new love, homes found, and moments of laughter, you'll be reminded that no matter the challenge, God has orchestrated everything for a good outcome.What You'll Love: 45 amazing true stories of everyday miracles that show how perfect God's timing can be. Real-life accounts highlight moments of laughter, new beginnings, and answered prayers to fill your life with newfound hope. Seeing how God is at work in every season of your life bringing about His perfect plan. Chapters are based on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 from the beloved King James Version, with stories tied to each theme. Insightful chapter introductions by award-winning author Shirley Raye Redmond feature stories of historical figures whose faith helped them triumph over challenges. Whether you're experiencing new beginnings, letting go of the past, or seeking peace, let In God's Time remind you of the beauty in every season and the profound truth that God's timing is always right.
Imāmī Thought in Iran During the Ilkhanid Period
Scholars studying the development of Imāmī thought are confronted with a lack of sources. Many pertinent works by Imāmī thinkers who lived in the various centers of Shīʿī learning between the lifetimes of al-Murtaḍā (d. 1044) and Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274) have not come down to us. Muʿtazilite thought, Avicennan notions, and the quest to return to the early doctrines of the imams constituted the principal parameters of Imāmī theological thought over those centuries. The present study, focussing on the Ḥimṣī Rāzī family, which flourished in Iran during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, showcases what can be achieved by gathering and piecing together relevant paratextual material that is preserved in manuscripts, providing insights into the scholarly profiles of its members. It is complemented by an editio princips of Mishkāt al-yaqīn, and a facsimile edition of the Talkhīṣ al-maqāṣid.
Martin Luther, Jews, and Judaism
This book explores Martin Luther's attitudes towards Jews and Judaism, considering his approach in the historical, religious, theological, and cultural context of late Middle Ages Europe. It will be of interest to scholars of religion, theology, history, anti-Semitism, and Jewish-Christian relations.
Religion and its Evolution
This book examines why individuals and communities invest heavily in their religious life through multi-disciplinary perspectives. It pursues philosophical, psychological, deep time historical and adaptive answers to this question. This volume was originally published as a special issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior.
The Noise Silence Makes
For generations, the Ga community in Accra, Ghana, has enforced an annual city-wide ban on noise-making during an important religious festival. This "ban on drumming" became a point of conflict in the 1990s and 2000s between the Ga people and the newly popular Pentecostal/Charismatic churches, who refused to subdue their loud worship during the ban. Although the Ghanaian state constitutionally and institutionally grants superior status to Christianity and Islam, it ruled in favor of the Ga community, who emphasized their "cultural" rather than religious rights. In The Noise Silence Makes, Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, showing how the Ga people have adopted the colonial mechanisms of noise control to counter Pentecostal/Charismatic dominance over Accra's soundscape. Goshadze shows how the drumming ban represents a reversal of the top-down model of noise regulation and illuminates the reality of Ghanaian secularity, where the state unofficially collaborates with indigenous religious authorities to control sound. In so doing, Goshadze counters the tendency to push African "traditional religions" to the margins, demonstrating that they are instrumental players in contemporary African urbanity.
The Good News of the Kingdom
Our world abounds with ideas about God and the Christian faith. So we often struggle to know what is true. Even Christian culture can stray from the integrity of God's truth. The Good News of the Kingdom seeks to provide an accurate understanding of the basics of the Christianity built upon a Biblical foundation. Each short chapter touches upon a specific aspect of the Christian faith and includes an extra section, with suggested Scripture passages, for those who want to go deeper.We recommend this book for new believers, those being water baptized, and anyone seeking to understand what the Christian faith is about. It is so much more than a religion; the God who created our cosmos wants us to know and walk with Him!
The God Desire
From the bestselling author of Jews Don't Count ' A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, human and clever book ' ALAIN DE BOTTON' Magnificent. Breathtaking. And shockingly rare ... another one-sitting wonder' STEPHEN FRYDavid Baddiel would love there to be a God. He has spent a lot of time fantasising about how much better life would be if there actually was such a thing as a Superhero Dad who chased off Death. Unfortunately for him, there isn't. Or at least, that is Baddiel's view in this book, which argues that it is indeed the very intensity of his, and everyone else's, desire for God to exist that proves His non-existence. Anything so deeply wished-for we will, considers Baddiel, make real. The admission of his own divine yearnings makes for a book that is more vulnerable - and more understanding of the value and power of religion - than most atheist polemics. A philosophical essay that utilises Baddiel's trademarks of comedy, storytelling and personal asides, The God Desire offers a highly readable new perspective on the most ancient of debates.
Faith in Motion
This book, "Faith in Motion - Journey from Knowledge to Action," by Jean Nshimiyimana, explores the dynamic and transformative journey of faith, beginning with a definition that moves beyond blind belief to an active engagement with God's Word and character. The author emphasizes building a foundation of knowledge through scripture, prayer, and community, highlighting the importance of understanding God's nature, promises, and the integration of reason and revelation. The book addresses overcoming fear and doubt by anchoring oneself in God's promises, practicing spiritual disciplines like prayer and fasting, and seeking support. It also delves into navigating trials and suffering within a Christian context, emphasizing surrender to God's sovereignty, the refining nature of adversity, and the importance of prayer and community support. The latter part of the book focuses on living out one's beliefs through faith in action, encompassing the integration of faith into daily life, serving others, and ethical decision-making in work. It discusses sharing one's faith through witness and evangelism, understanding the relationship between faith and works, and the importance of obedience. The book also explores the role of miracles as tangible evidence of God's power and love, the significance of prayer in seeking divine intervention, and discerning the supernatural. Ultimately, the journey culminates in living a transformed life with purpose, overcoming obstacles, cultivating gratitude, and embracing lifelong growth and discipleship, all for the glory of God.
The Noise Silence Makes
For generations, the Ga community in Accra, Ghana, has enforced an annual city-wide ban on noise-making during an important religious festival. This "ban on drumming" became a point of conflict in the 1990s and 2000s between the Ga people and the newly popular Pentecostal/Charismatic churches, who refused to subdue their loud worship during the ban. Although the Ghanaian state constitutionally and institutionally grants superior status to Christianity and Islam, it ruled in favor of the Ga community, who emphasized their "cultural" rather than religious rights. In The Noise Silence Makes, Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, showing how the Ga people have adopted the colonial mechanisms of noise control to counter Pentecostal/Charismatic dominance over Accra's soundscape. Goshadze shows how the drumming ban represents a reversal of the top-down model of noise regulation and illuminates the reality of Ghanaian secularity, where the state unofficially collaborates with indigenous religious authorities to control sound. In so doing, Goshadze counters the tendency to push African "traditional religions" to the margins, demonstrating that they are instrumental players in contemporary African urbanity.
Globalized wisdom of the XXI century
This book is the result of having searched and investigated in the sacred books of the most popular religions and philosophies, the common and most important points that unite all of them. Trying to order and explain these main ideas in a logical and practical way, and to purge them of the particular dogma of each school, using a simple vocabulary, and without the need to have previous experience in any type of reading, it makes it light but deep at the same time, leading us to personal introspection and meditation, which is the main objective of the book.
Noah and the Flood in Western Thought
In a world beset by climatic emergencies, the continuing resonance of the flood story is perhaps easy to understand. Whether in the tortured alpha male intensity of Russell Crowe's Noah, in Darren Aronofsky's eponymous 2014 film, or other recent derivations, the biblical narrative has become a lightning rod for gathering environmental anxieties. However, Philip C. Almond's masterful exploration of Western cultural history uncovers a far more complex Noah than is commonly recognised: not just the father of humanity but also the first shipbuilder, navigator, zookeeper, farmer, grape grower, and wine maker. Noah's pivotal significance is revealed as much in his forgotten secular as in his religious receptions, and their major impact on such disciplines as geology, geography, biology, and zoology. While Noah's many interpretations over two millennia might seem to offer a common message of hope, the author's sober conclusion is that deliverance now lies not in divine but rather in human hands.
Temporal Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion
How do people make sense of their past, and look forward into their future, through practices - religious, spiritual or otherwise - in places of both modernity and political trauma?This volume investigates how political, social, and individual temporal and historical horizons are generated and reformulated in relation to embodied, material, and ideological contexts. It also considers how this history-making projects itself onto imagined futures or alternative historical lines, creating temporal continuities and discontinuities. This book presents an innovative perspective on the relationship between past and the future, namely, one that shifts the perspective from pure 'history' or pure 'anthropology' to the 'anthropology of history'. Religious and spiritual engagements are fundamental to this exercise, especially ones that have emerged in times of crisis, because they provide conceptual platforms from which the past and the present connect directly to the future and its imagined horizons. Utilising chapters and case studies drawn from Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia, this book shows that the experience of time, including temporal plasticity, emerges from social formations that are cosmological at heart. These include prophetic and messianic thinking, conversion experiences and narratives, spirit possession religions, and the mythical and symbolic dimensions of materialities and memory. This research demonstrates that ideas of cyclicity, repetition and other temporal forms are fundamental as acts of 'ordering' human experience, as well as in other more 織modern織 forms of cosmology, teleological theories of advancement and development, and even post-apocalyptic economic and social realities.
Desde los Cimientos
Ronell Rivera es un emprendedor de mucha experiencia con m獺s de 37 a簽os de trayectoria en mercados nacionales e internacionales. Aunque su pasi籀n por los negocios es profunda, su devoci籀n a Dios y a la familia es su prioridad m獺s alta. Lidera con un estilo no convencional basado en valores y principios b穩blicos, una visi籀n refrescante de un liderazgo con prop籀sito.En Desde los Cimientos, Ronell Rivera comparte un inspirador recorrido de resiliencia, fe y liderazgo basado en valores. A lo largo de una carrera que comenz籀 con or穩genes humildes y creci籀 hasta roles de impacto en mercados globales, Rivera-profundamente inspirado por la historia de Jos矇-narra su propio camino de crecimiento y desaf穩os en el mundo de los negocios, revelando c籀mo la integridad, la fe y la resiliencia pueden construir un legado duradero.Este libro es m獺s que una autobiograf穩a empresarial; es un llamado a liderar con prop籀sito, a elevar a otros y a crear un legado que trascienda el 矇xito personal. Las experiencias de Rivera animan a l穩deres en todos los niveles a navegar las complejidades de la vida con valores firmes, a servir como mentores y a enfrentar cada desaf穩o con la fe como fundamento.Ya sea que est矇s comenzando tu carrera o buscando dejar un legado significativo, Desde los Cimientos ofrece una gu穩a hacia una vida de trascendencia, fundamentada en principios que resisten el paso del tiempo.
The Imam of the Christians
How Christian leaders adapted the governmental practices and political thought of their Muslim rulers in the Abbasid caliphate The Imam of the Christians examines how Christian leaders adopted and adapted the political practices and ideas of their Muslim rulers between 750 and 850 in the Abbasid caliphate in the Jazira (modern eastern Turkey and northern Syria). Focusing on the writings of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, the patriarch of the Jacobite church, Philip Wood describes how this encounter produced an Islamicate Christianity that differed from the Christianities of Byzantium and western Europe in far more than just theology. In doing so, Wood opens a new window on the world of early Islam and Muslims' interactions with other religious communities. Wood shows how Dionysius and other Christian clerics, by forging close ties with Muslim elites, were able to command greater power over their coreligionists, such as the right to issue canons regulating the lives of lay people, gather tithes, and use state troops to arrest opponents. In his writings, Dionysius advertises his ease in the courts of ʿAbd Allah ibn Tahir in Raqqa and the caliph al-Ma'mun in Baghdad, presenting himself as an effective advocate for the interests of his fellow Christians because of his knowledge of Arabic and his ability to redeploy Islamic ideas to his own advantage. Strikingly, Dionysius even claims that, like al-Ma'mun, he is an imam since he leads his people in prayer and rules them by popular consent. A wide-ranging examination of Middle Eastern Christian life during a critical period in the development of Islam, The Imam of the Christians is also a case study of the surprising workings of cultural and religious adaptation.
