Este rico y profundo libro es para todo aquel que se siente arto de una fe frívola y busca un Dios vivo y real. La obra excava profundamente las grandes verdades de Dios, a la vez que hace entendible lo trascendente. Doctrinalmente da en el blanco, pues desde los primeros párrafos se observa que lo escrito se fundamenta en una amplia referencia a la Palabra de Dios. El contenido de esta obra estimula por su estilo devocional. No es un libro para leer a la ligera, sino pausadamente, para poder absorber la riqueza de sus enseñanzas. El alma del lector se deleitará con la lectura y reflexión de lo expuesto. Sin duda, le conducirá a un andar más agradable e íntimo con Dios.
Richard Swinburne presents a substantially rewritten and updated edition of his most celebrated book. No other work has made a more powerful case for the probability of the existence of God. Swinburne gives a rigorous and penetrating analysis of the most important arguments for theism: the cosmological argument; arguments from the existence of laws of nature and the 'fine-tuning' of the universe; from the occurrence of consciousness and moral awareness; and from miracles and religious experience. He claims that while none of these arguments are deductively valid, they do give inductive support to theism and that, even when the argument from evil is weighed against them, taken together they offer good grounds to support the probability that there is a God. The overall structure of the discussion and its conclusion have been retained for this new edition, but much has been changed in order to strengthen the argumentation and to take account of Swinburne's subsequent work on the nature of consciousness and the problem of evil, and of the latest philosophical and scientific writing, especially in respect of the laws of nature and the argument from fine-tuning. This is now the definitive version of a classic in the philosophy of religion.
The search for God is dictated not from without but from a profound sense of one's own moral being and worthiness to be happy. The core of Immanuel Kant's argument remains relevant to the experience of ordinary men and women. He wished to strengthen, not undermine, belief in God and in the spiritual nature of humankind. This 1763 essay is imporrtant in understanding the development of Kant's thought. It exposed the flaw in the Cartesian argument that the existence of a perfect being could be deduced from an idea or concept of such. Similarly, Kant saw the problem inherent in the Leibnizian view of a philosophical system modeled on mathematics: a philosopher who, like a mathematician, began with an arbitrary definition remained trapped in a circle of words. In The One Possible Basis for a Demonstration of the Existence of God, Kant diverged from the familiar forms of ontological argument. The result was a brilliant approach to divine being that anticipated his mature Critique of Pure Reason. With this Bison Book edition, The One Possible Basis appears in paperback for the first time. Gordon Treash's English translation, the only modern one, faces pages containing the original German. Treash, who is a professor of philosophy at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, edited, with Paul A. Bogaard, Metaphysics as Foundation: Essays in Honor of Ivor Leclerc. Also available as a Bison Book is Kant's last major essay, The Conflict of the Faculties (1992).
No importa quienes somos, todos enfrentámos las mismas preguntas en gran escala. Este es un libro sobre dos de las más grandes y urgentes. ¿Cual es la respuesta a la muerte? ¿Cuál será nuestro destino final? Las respuestas propuestas surgen de dos convicciones básicas: que la Biblia es la única base verdaderamente fidedigna sobre la que se puede contestar estas preguntas, y, que muchas veces la gente ha pasado por alto las respuestas que la Biblia da, o las ha interpretado mal o ha comprendido mal, muchas veces con consecuencias desastrosas.
This contemporary classic by renowned scholar Gordon Fee explores the Spirit's significant role in Pauline life and thought. After Fee published his magisterial God's Empowering Presence, he was asked to write a more accessible volume that would articulate Paul's priorities for experiencing the life of the Spirit in the church. Fee's bestselling introduction to Paul and the Spirit, Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God, went on to sell over 70,000 copies. This book by one of the greatest evangelical and Pentecostal New Testament interpreters of our time argues that the presence of the Spirit is, for Paul and for us, the crucial matter for the Christian life. This repackaged edition features an updated design and packaging, new study questions, and a foreword by Dean Pinter, who commends the book to a new generation of readers.
