Immortality Defended
Immortality Defended

Author: John Leslie

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1405181389

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Might we be parts of a divine mind? Could anything like anafterlife make sense? Starting with a Platonic answer to why theworld exists, Immortality Defended suggests we could well beimmortal in all of three separate ways. Tackles the fundamental questions posed by our very existence,among them, "why does the cosmos exist?", "is there a divine mindor God?", and "in what sense might we have afterlives?" Defends a belief in immortality, without the need for areligious affiliation or rejection of modern science Explores the ideas of "Einsteinian immortality", the divineafterlife, and the theory of an infinite and divine mind Draws from the work of a wide-range of philosophers, fromancient Greece to the present day, and incorporates up-to-datescientific findings Written in a thought-provoking and engaging manner, accessibleto anyone intrigued by the wonder of our being

Immortality and the Philosophy of Death
Immortality and the Philosophy of Death

Author: Michael Cholbi

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-12-02

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1783483857

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Death comes for us all – eventually. Philosophers have long been perplexed by how we ought to feel about death. Many people fear death and believe that death is bad for the person who dies. But is death bad for us, and if so, how is its badness best explained? If we do not survive death –if death is simply a state of nothingness – how can death be bad for us? If death is bad for us, do we have good reason to live as long as possible? Would an immortal life really be a good human life – or would even an immortal life eventually become tedious and make us long for mortality? This volume presents fourteen philosophical essays that examine our attitudes toward mortality and immortality. The topics addressed have become more urgent as scientists attempt to extend the human lifespan, perhaps even indefinitely. This book invites the reader to critically appraise his or her own attitudes toward death and immortality by exploring the ethical, metaphysical, and psychological complexities associated with these issues.

Defending Sin
Defending Sin

Author: Hans Madueme

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2024-05-28

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1493446142

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The conflict between the natural sciences and Christian theology has been going on for centuries. Recent advances in the fields of evolutionary biology, behavioral genetics, and neuroscience have intensified this conflict, particularly in relation to origins, the fall, and sin. These debates are crucial to our understanding of human sinfulness and necessarily involve the doctrine of salvation. Theistic evolutionists have labored hard to resolve these tensions between science and faith, but Hans Madueme argues that the majority of their proposals do injustice both to biblical teaching and to long-standing doctrines held by the mainstream Christian tradition. In this major contribution to the field of science and religion, Madueme demonstrates that the classical notion of sin reflected in Scripture, the creeds, and tradition offers the most compelling and theologically coherent account of the human condition. He answers pressing challenges from the physical sciences on both methodological and substantive levels. Scholars, pastors, students, and interested lay readers will profit from interacting with the arguments presented here.

The Politics of Immortality in Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg
The Politics of Immortality in Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg

Author: Mårten Björk

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-04-21

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1350228249

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Highlighting the central importance of theological configurations of immortality and eternal life from 1914-1945, Mårten Björk explores the key writings of Franz Rosenzweig, Karl Barth and Oskar Goldberg to situate their ideas in relation to the political turmoil of the period, including the rise of social Darwinism, nationalism and fascism. The conversations happening among Christian and Jewish theologians and philosophers on the nature of immortality and eternal life during the period constitute what Björk calls a 'politics of immortality'. The speculative question of eternal life became a way to address the meaning of 'a good life' in a period when millions of lives were lost to war, camps and prisons. This book shows how theology was related to central political concepts and ideas of the era, revealing how the question of immortality pursued by Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg became a way to resist the reduction of life to race, blood and soil. By situating the exact political consequences of theological and metaphysical theories of immortality and eternal life, Björk's discussion of Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg confronts the perennial question on the relation between life and death and exposes the important connections between political theology and philosophical posthumanism.

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Immortal Defender
Immortal Defender

Author: Lisa Hendrix

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1101575131

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Return to the realm of the Immortal Brotherhood with a new paranormal romantic adventure featuring a crew of Viking warriors condemned to live out eternity as were-creatures… In her Defender's strong arms, she has no defense… Part of a band of Viking warriors cursed by an evil sorceress, Torvald has searched for years for a magic that can free him from his fate—to live forever as a were-creature, a man by night, a stallion by day. While studying with the alchemist to Queen Elizabeth, Torvald meets the lovely widow Josian Delamere and hopes she might be the one woman who can save him. Unwilling to give up the independence of her widowhood, Josian expects to become merely lovers, but Torvald's tender seductions make her yearn for more. Just as she’s poised to surrender her heart, a hidden enemy reveals Torvald’s secret to her—and she flees the dark magic that surrounds him, in fear for her very soul. The proud warrior can win any battle, but he cannot surmount the pain of losing Josian. Yet when her life is threatened, he will risk it all to come to the defense of the one woman who means more to him than his own salvation… Praise for Lisa Hendrix and the Immortal Brotherhood Novels “Lisa Hendrix does Vikings right! I can’t get enough of this delicious series!” —Megan Crane, USA Today Bestselling Author of Edge of Obsession “Lisa Hendrix creates a captivating world and an intense romance.”—USA Today bestselling author Maisey Yates “A talented storyteller.”—Susan Wiggs “Filled with action.”—Midwest Book Review “Lisa Hendrix has a great talent and Immortal Outlaw is one book that will have readers riveted.”—Fresh Fiction “A sizzling and engrossing romance from the pen of Lisa Hendrix, Immortal Warrior should not be missed.”—Romance Reviews Today

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death

Author: Ben Bradley

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 0190271450

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This Handbook consists of 21 new essays on the nature and value of death, the relevance of the metaphysics of time and personal identity for questions about death, the desirability of immortality, and the wrongness of killing.

From Force to Persuasion
From Force to Persuasion

Author: Andrew M. Davis

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-08-01

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1666784443

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At the heart of process-relational theology in the tradition of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000) is the rejection of coercive omnipotence and the embrace of divine persuasion as the patient and uncontrolling means by which God works with a truly self-creative world. According to Whitehead, Plato's conviction that God is a persuasive agency and not a coercive agency constitutes "one of the greatest intellectual discoveries in the history of religion." According to Hartshorne, omnipotence is a "theological mistake." What is behind these claims? Why do process-relational philosophers and theologians reject divine omnipotence? How have they justified a commitment to divine persuasion, and what kind of theoretical and practical implications are involved? Featuring contributions from key process-relational thinkers, this book situates a shift "from force to persuasion" across multiple thresholds of discourse, from philosophy and theology to spirituality and politics to pluralism, axiology, and apocalypse. It aims to reawaken attention to the operations of divine persuasion as ever-loving and inherently noncoercive, but always at risk in an open and relational universe.

Godforsaken
Godforsaken

Author: Dinesh D'Souza

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2012-02-17

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1414351623

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Examines the issue of human suffering and explores why a good God allows it.