Changing Christian Paradigms and their Implications for Modern Thought
Changing Christian Paradigms and their Implications for Modern Thought

Author: Knox

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 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.

Incarnation and Physics
Incarnation and Physics

Author: Tapio Luoma

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2002-08-15

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 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

Published: 2018-08-14

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9047405579

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In this book leading scholars contribute comprehensive studies of the religious movements in the late 18th and 19th centuries: the Hassidic movements in Judaism, the Mormon religion, in Christianity, and the Bābī-Bahā’ī faiths in Shī‘te Islam. The studies, introduced by the editor’s analysis of the underlying common source of this religious activity, lead the reader into a rich world of messianism, millenniarism and eschatological thought fueling the intense modern developments in the three major monotheistic religions.

Christian Arabic apologetics during the Abbasid period
Christian Arabic apologetics during the Abbasid period

Author: Khalil Samir Samir

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 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

Published: 2018-09-24

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 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

Published: 2018-09-24

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 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

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 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

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 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

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 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.

Religion in the Making
Religion in the Making

Author: Arie L. Molendijk

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9004379037

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This volume explores the ways in which religion became the object of scientific research in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most obvious is the development of an increasingly autonomous science of religion (with founding fathers like Max Müller and C.P. Tiele). However, within anthropology (Tylor, Frazer), sociology (Durkheim, Max Weber), and psychology (William James), religion also came to be seen as a separate entity to be studied comparatively. To capture this wide field this book focuses on the emergence of the discourse on religion in a broad academic context, among different disciplines. The emphasis is on general socio-historical developments, rather than on individual biographies. Part I deals with the institutionalization of science of religion in France, Britain, and the Netherlands. Part II focuses on boundary disputes between the emerging "sciences of religion". Part III examines new conceptualizations of religion underlying the new endeavour ("ritual", "magic", "survival").