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Author: C. Grey Austin
Publisher: Grey Austin
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780980203806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAustin details his struggle to find a replacement for a personal God who intervenes in human affairs and natural processes. He finds clues for a new concept of God in the sciences, psychology, and the writings of the mystics of eastern and western faiths.
Author: Mitchell Silver
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2009-08-25
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0823226832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA philosopher of religion examines contemporary conceptions of God through close readings of three modern Jewish thinkers. For centuries, the traditional God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam has been under pressure to conform to the scientific worldview, giving rise to a “liberal” conception of God compatible with a naturalism. For many, this liberal “new” God is the only credible God. But is it a useful God? Does belief in so malleable a deity come from, or lead to, different political, moral, psychological, or aesthetic phenomena from atheism? A Plausible God evaluates the new God by analyzing the theology of three recent Jewish thinkers —Mordechai Kaplan, Michael Lerner, and Arthur Green—and compares faith in the new God to disbelief in any gods. Mitchell Silver reveals what is at stake in the choice between naturalistic liberal theology and a nontheistic naturalism without gods. Silver poses the question: “If it is to be either the new God or no God, what does—what should—determine the choice?” Although Jewish thinkers are used as the primary exemplars of new God theology, Silver explores developments in contemporary Christian thought, Eastern religious traditions, and “New Age” religion. A Plausible God constitutes a significant contribution to current discussions of the relationship between science and religion, as well as to discussions regarding the idea of God itself in modern life.
Author: James P. Sterba
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-07-16
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 3030054691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing yet untapped resources from moral and political philosophy, this book seeks to answer the question of whether an all good God who is presumed to be all powerful is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that exists in our world. It is widely held by theists and atheists alike that it may be logically impossible for an all good, all powerful God to create a world with moral agents like ourselves that does not also have at least some moral evil in it. James P. Sterba focuses on the further question of whether God is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that exists in our world. The negative answer he provides marks a new stage in the age-old debate about God's existence.
Author: William Lane Craig
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2001-03-01
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1433517566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis remarkable work offers an analytical exploration of the nature of divine eternity and God's relationship to time.
Author: Gerd Theissen
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780664225377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShould the dissimilarity between Jesus and early Christianity or between Jesus and Judaism be the central criteria for the historical Jesus? Gerd Theissen and Dagmar Winter argue that the criterion of dissimilarity does not do justice to the single most important result of more than two-hundred years of Jesus research: that the historical Jesus belongs to both Judaism and Christianity. The two authors propose a criterion of historical plausibility so that historical phenomenon under question can be considered authentic so long as it can be plausibly understood in its Jewish context and also facilitates a plausible explanation for its later effects in Christian history. This book is a cooperative project between Dagmar Winter and Gerd Theissen and represents the fruit of many years of their research on the historical Jesus.
Author: Ed Shaw
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2015-11-09
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0830899790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Christians have same-sex attraction, how should the church respond? Pastor Ed Shaw experiences same-sex attraction, and yet he is committed to Scripture and the church's traditional position on sexuality. In this honest book, he shares his own experiences and shows us that obedience to Jesus is ultimately the only way to experience life to the full.
Author: William Lane Craig
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1433501155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.
Author: Gregory E. Ganssle
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2001-09-28
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780830815517
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEditor Gregory Ganssle calls on four Christian philosophers to present and defend their views on the place of God in a time-bound universe. The positions taken up here include divine timeless eternity, eternity as relative timelessness, timelessness and omnitemporality, and unqualified divine temporality.
Author: G. Oppy
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-07-23
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1137354143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK.... compares two theories—Naturalism and Theism—on a wide range of relevant data. It concludes that Naturalism should be preferred to Theism on that data. The central idea behind the argument is that, while Naturalism is simpler than Theism, there is no relevant data that Naturalism fails to explain at least as well as Theism does.
Author: William Lane Craig
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0198786883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book is a defense of God's unique status as the creator of all things apart from himself in the face of the challenge of mathematical Platonism. It is based on William Lane Craig's Cadbury Lectures given at the University of Birmingham in March 2015.
