Open-mindedness in Philosophy of Religion
Open-mindedness in Philosophy of Religion

Author: Gregory E. Trickett

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-08-22

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1527538877

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In a free society, it is common to hear the request that one ‘keep an open mind.’ Just what exactly is it, however, to keep an open-mind? How does open-mindedness function? How does it square with important personal commitments? These issues are particularly acute when it comes to matters of religious belief in which open-mindedness can sound to the pious a bit too much like doubt. Certainly, in a discipline whose discourse remains rational dialogue, effort should be spent discerning the contours of this virtue, especially in light of its formal role in establishing responsiveness to new inquiries in matters philosophical and religious. This book provides a collection of essays serving to promote conversation about open-mindedness, its virtue (or lack thereof), and its role and application in problems in the philosophy of religion in particular.

Winning the War in Your Mind
Winning the War in Your Mind

Author: Craig Groeschel

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0310362733

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MORE THAN 500,000 COPIES SOLD! Are your thoughts out of control--just like your life? Do you long to break free from the spiral of destructive thinking? Let God's truth become your battle plan to win the war in your mind! We've all tried to think our way out of bad habits and unhealthy thought patterns, only to find ourselves stuck with an out-of-control mind and off-track daily life. Pastor and New York Times bestselling author Craig Groeschel understands deeply this daily battle against self-doubt and negative thinking, and in this powerful new book he reveals the strategies he's discovered to change your mind and your life for the long-term. Drawing upon Scripture and the latest findings of brain science, Groeschel lays out practical strategies that will free you from the grip of harmful, destructive thinking and enable you to live the life of joy and peace that God intends you to live. Winning the War in Your Mind will help you: Learn how your brain works and see how to rewire it Identify the lies your enemy wants you to believe Recognize and short-circuit your mental triggers for destructive thinking See how prayer and praise will transform your mind Develop practices that allow God's thoughts to become your thoughts God has something better for your life than your old ways of thinking. It's time to change your mind so God can change your life.

The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti

Author: Milton Rokeach

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2011-04-19

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1590173848

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On July 1, 1959, at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, the social psychologist Milton Rokeach brought together three paranoid schizophrenics: Clyde Benson, an elderly farmer and alcoholic; Joseph Cassel, a failed writer who was institutionalized after increasingly violent behavior toward his family; and Leon Gabor, a college dropout and veteran of World War II. The men had one thing in common: each believed himself to be Jesus Christ. Their extraordinary meeting and the two years they spent in one another’s company serves as the basis for an investigation into the nature of human identity, belief, and delusion that is poignant, amusing, and at times disturbing. Displaying the sympathy and subtlety of a gifted novelist, Rokeach draws us into the lives of three troubled and profoundly different men who find themselves “confronted with the ultimate contradiction conceivable for human beings: more than one person claiming the same identity.”

Healthy Christian Minds
Healthy Christian Minds

Author: Elmer John Thiessen

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-09-19

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13:

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We live in polarizing times. In this book Elmer Thiessen dares to suggest that the solution to the deep divides in our contemporary world and in the church is not to be found in more information, more education, more rationality, or more critical thinking. Instead, we need to cultivate intellectual virtues, such as the love of knowledge and truth, intellectual humility, and committed openness. The penultimate chapter treats intellectual virtues that are more relational in nature—intellectual forbearance, fairmindedness, and intellectual courage. The book explores the biblical and theological grounding of each intellectual virtue and reveals its practical importance for our fractious times, making use of concrete examples throughout. Each of the central chapters begins with a questionnaire aimed at promoting self-examination and stimulating reflection about the virtues and vices under consideration. This is a book for the thoughtful Christian reader aimed at transforming the way we think.

Teaching for Commitment
Teaching for Commitment

Author: Elmer John Thiessen

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1993-10-05

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0773563954

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Thiessen calls for reconstruction of the Enlightenment ideal of liberal education from which the charge of indoctrination typically arises. He argues that liberal education necessarily builds on nurture and therefore needs to be more sensitive to the traditions into which a child is initiated. The ideals of autonomy, rationality, and critical openness - all closely related to the ideal of liberal education - need to be modified if they are to be both realistic and philosophically defensible. Once this is done it can be seen that confessional religious education without indoctrination is possible. Teaching for Commitment is an interdisciplinary study covering the fields of religion, philosophy, epistemology, ethics, and education. The very practical nature of the problem being examined, and Thiessen's straightforward and non-technical presentation, will be of interest to parochial and public school boards, teachers, and parents, as well as religious institutions, educationalists, and philosophers of education.

The Christian Bible
The Christian Bible

Author: DR. MD. Mohiuddin Ahmed M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2022-08-08

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1639374418

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The Christian Bible By: DR. MD. Mohiuddin Ahmed M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. “NEED FOR TRANSFORMATION IN CHRISTIANITY” The substantial and critical objective of the book “The Christian Bible” is to delve penetrably into the most vexatious and frequently raised crucial, undefined, long, indeterminate questions like “What is Christianity,” is it a religion, a philosophy or a Way of Life, “What is Bible,” is it a Word of God? Who founded Christianity, Jesus Christ or Saint Paul or others, if so who? The author Dr. Md. Mohiuddin Ahmed through his in-depth study, systematic research has efficaciously and vividly discussed, considered and placed before Christian priesthood, clergy, preachers, philosophers, scholars and leaders to ponder over his reflections, concerns, conclusions to see, realize and achieve the Truth, the Solemn Truth. Dr. Ahmed says that the present Christian elite feels embarrassed in modifying the ethical, moral, spiritual beliefs systematized as righteous, pure and sacred by the ancient Church and its Ministry. But it is a well-known fact that Christianity has a history of alterations, transmutations and transformations. The author sounds out why another transformation revealing the Solemn Truth, eliminating unresolved beliefs, convictions from the existing obscure confirmities, should not be initiated. In the end pages of the book, the author is raising certain pertinent and qualified issues which need the attention of the concerned spiritual peers, philanthropists, scholars and readers. This is a thought-promoting, contemplative and exciting book, opening the channels for re-looking into the transformational needs in Christianity.

The Two Faces of Christianity
The Two Faces of Christianity

Author: Richard Markham Oxtoby

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2014-08-29

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1782791035

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Applying Eric Fromm's concept of the differences between Humanistic and Authoritarian religions, The Two Faces of Christianity proposes that Christianity consists of two distinctly different religions which co-exist under the same verbal label. The ethical teachings of that inspired Jewish religious genius, Jesus of Nazareth which has traditionally been believed to be the core around which the religion of Christianity has been built, constitute a Humanistic Religion. In many parts of the Christian Church the tenets of that religion have all but disappeared under the spreading influence of the salvation theology of St Paul and his fellow-travellers. Examination of the guilt-ridden mind of St Paul, to whom the authorship of nearly half of the 27 books of the New Testament has been attributed, throws revealing light on how this process has taken place. Paul’s notoriously neurotic anxieties about sex are just one of the more striking manifestations of the psychopathology of his split personality which has been a major influence in the process by which the Humanistic religion of Jesus has been transformed into an oppressive Authoritarian one.

Psychology and Religion within an Ideological Surround
Psychology and Religion within an Ideological Surround

Author: Paul J. Watson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-08-12

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 9004411208

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For over three decades, an Ideological Surround Model (ISM) has pursued theoretical and methodological innovations designed to enhance the ‘truth’ and ‘objectivity’ of research into psychology and religion. The foundational argument of the ISM is that psychology as well as religion unavoidably operates within the limits of an ideological surround. Methodological theism, therefore, needs to supplement the methodological atheism that dominates the contemporary social sciences. Methodological theism should operationalize the meaningfulness of religious traditions and demonstrate empirically that the influences of ideology cannot be ignored. The ISM more generally suggests that contemporary social scientific rationalities need to be supplemented my more complex dialogical rationalities. Beliefs in secularization should also be supplemented by beliefs in trans-rationality.

Storytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and Museum of the Bible
Storytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and Museum of the Bible

Author: Paul Thomas

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-04-16

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 0567687147

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Paul Thomas chronicles a multi-level reception study of the Bible at both the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter in Kentucky, USA. Thomas explores the commercial presentation of biblical narratives and the reception of those narratives by the patrons of each attraction, focusing upon three topics; what do young Creationists believe, how they interpret their beliefs from the Bible, and what is the user experience at the museums? The volume begins by explaining how Answers in Genesis (AiG) use Bible passages to support young-Earth creationist arguments, allowing for the chance to consider the Bible via physical means. Thomas then examines how the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter visitors receive the Bible (as presented by AiG) and how this presentation informs visitors' understanding of the text, exploring concepts such as the most prominent displays of the two attractions, the larger context of museums and theme parks and the case studies of the Methuselah display and The Noah Interview. He concludes with the summary of the user experience generated by the attractions, analyzing the degree to which patrons accept, negotiate, or resist the interpretation of the Bible offered by AiG.

The Invisible War
The Invisible War

Author: Michael Phillips

Publisher: Fidelis Publishing. LLC

Published: 2024-02-28

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1956454330

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What will the political and cultural landscape look like to Christians in 2050? Will progressivism have eliminated Christian values altogether? Will the Christian foundations of America stage a comeback? Will Christians be anticipating the end times? Will the tribulation have come? Beginning with the emergence of the New Left out of the tumultuous 1960s, the first two installments of Tribulation Cult stretch over three generations, climaxing with the election of 2048. Center stage are four college friends who follow divergent life paths— two Christians who become ministers, their liberal counterparts who rise to the summit of world politics.The journeys of the four focus many interconnected themes in the lives of men and women who must decide where they stand as the nation increasingly splits along liberal and conservative lines, and what role the church is meant to play in that divide. Will true Christians be viewed as a cult, ostracized from mainstream society, culture, and politics?These are only two of the questions the characters in Tribulation Cult are forced to grapple with in this deeply challenging spiritual drama written in the style of Phillips' best-selling contemporary page-turner Rift in Time.