God and the Self in Hegel
God and the Self in Hegel

Author: Paolo Diego Bubbio

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2017-06-29

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1438465262

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God and the Self in Hegel proposes a reconstruction of Hegel's conception of God and analyzes the significance of this reading for Hegel's idealistic metaphysics. Paolo Diego Bubbio argues that in Hegel's view, subjectivism—the tenet that there is no underlying "true" reality that exists independently of the activity of the cognitive agent—can be avoided, and content can be restored to religion, only to the extent that God is understood in God's relation to human beings, and human beings are understood in their relation to God. Focusing on traditional problems in theology and the philosophy of religion, such as the ontological argument for the existence of God, the Trinity, and the "death of God," Bubbio shows the relevance of Hegel's view of religion and God for his broader philosophical strategy. In this account, as a response to the fundamental Kantian challenge of how to conceive the mind-world relation without setting mind over and against the world, Hegel has found a way of overcoming subjectivism in both philosophy and religion.

God, Sexuality, and the Self
God, Sexuality, and the Self

Author: Sarah Coakley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-08-29

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 110743369X

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God, Sexuality and the Self is a new venture in systematic theology. Sarah Coakley invites the reader to re-conceive the relation of sexual desire and the desire for God and - through the lens of prayer practice - to chart the intrinsic connection of this relation to a theology of the Trinity. The goal is to integrate the demanding ascetical undertaking of prayer with the recovery of lost and neglected materials from the tradition and thus to reanimate doctrinal reflection both imaginatively and spiritually. What emerges is a vision of human longing for the triune God which is both edgy and compelling: Coakley's théologie totale questions standard shibboleths on 'sexuality' and 'gender' and thereby suggests a way beyond current destructive impasses in the churches. The book is clearly and accessibly written and will be of great interest to all scholars and students of theology.

New Seeds of Contemplation
New Seeds of Contemplation

Author: Thomas Merton

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1590300491

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A collection of thirty-nine short essays in which Thomas Merton examines what true contemplation is and how it can impact one's spirituality.

Self, God and Immortality
Self, God and Immortality

Author: Eugene Fontinell

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2018-09-18

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0823283135

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Can we who have been touched by the scientific, intellectual, and experimental revolutions of modern and contemporary times still believe with and degree of coherence and consistency that we as individual persons are immortal. Indeed, is there even good cause to hope that we are? In examining the present relationship of reason to faith, can we find justifying reasons for faith? These are the central questions in Self, God, and Immortality, a compelling exercise in philosophical theology. Drawing upon the works of William James and the principles of American Pragmatism, Eugene Fontinell extrapolates carefully from "data given in experience" to a model of the cosmic process open to the idea that individual identity may survive bodily dissolution. Presupposing that the possibility of personal immortality has been established in the first part, the second part of the essay is concerned with desirability. Here, Fontinell shows that, far from diverting attention and energies from the crucial tasks confronting us here and now, such belief can be energizing and life enhancing. The wider importance of Self, God, and Immortality lies in its pressing both immortality-believers and terminality-believers to explore both the metaphysical presuppositions and the lived consequences of their beliefs. It is the author's expressed hope that such explorations, rather than impeding, will stimulate co-operative efforts to create a richer and more humane community.

Discovering Your God Self
Discovering Your God Self

Author: Bruce Bernstein

Publisher: Blb Publishing

Published: 2021-08-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780986153358

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From those curious or beginning their Spiritual journey, to those already advanced, this book contains information everyone needs to know. We tend to question ourselves in moments of confusion, disappointment, or despair, and especially after we've made choices that didn't turn out like we'd hoped. The problem is this: many are missing some critical information. With understanding and application of this information, better choices can be made leading to better outcomes: extraordinary experiences, new levels of awareness, and access to life-altering wisdom. Answers to the deepest questions become available, equipping people to transform their lives. "Discovering Your God Self... The Incredible Secrets of Your Spiritual Nature Revealed" introduces the 'Inner Selves', which includes the God Self. Everyone has this within. It explains the relationship between these vital components and how they can be used consciously to shape one's life and experiences. In fact, these components are shaping these experiences right now but, for most, unconsciously. Wouldn't it be better to have more control over that process - to be able to make better choices and create a better life? Expand the understanding of the God Self and it's presence, and its desire to help. Learn to understand, connect with, and use this unlimited source of creative power to manifest desires and attain inner peace, success, happiness, and authentic love. Awareness... The Key to Higher Consciousness :There are five aspects or Inner Selves inside each of us and they're not always in alignment. One, in particular - the Ego self - can be a self-destructive and sabotaging force. But it doesn't have to be that way. We have control but, sadly, many do not fully understand what that means or how to use it. Awareness is the key to this kingdom. Read This Book and Discover:- The essence and energy of the God Self- We're all Spiritual by nature- The five aspects of your Spiritual essence- How to use these five aspects to make better choices- The foundation for creating dreams and desires- The source of evil in our world- And much more.

See Yourself as God Sees You
See Yourself as God Sees You

Author: Josh McDowell

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780842318327

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Because of the author's profound shift in his understanding of identity issues, this bestselling book has been revised to help readers find victory over faulty views of the self and help them align their view of who they are with God's view.

The Self-Disclosure of God
The Self-Disclosure of God

Author: William C. Chittick

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2015-03-26

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 0791498964

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The Self-Disclosure of God offers the most detailed presentation to date in any Western language of the basic teachings of Islam's greatest mystical philosopher and theologian. It represents a major step forward in making available to the Western reading public the enormous riches of Islamic teachings in the fields of cosmology, mystical philosophy, theology, and spirituality. The Self-Disclosure of God continues the author's investigations of the world view of Ibn al-ʿArabī, the greatest theoretician of Sufism and the "seal of the Muhammadan saints." The book is divided into three parts, dealing with the relation between God and the cosmos, the structure of the cosmos, and the nature of the human soul. A long introduction orients the reader and discusses a few of the difficulties faced by Ibn al-ʿArabī's interpreters. Like Chittick's earlier work, The Sufi Path of Knowledge, this book is based primarily on Ibn al-ʿArabī's monumental work, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkīyah "The Meccan Openings." More than one hundred complete chapters and subsections are translated, not to mention shorter passages that help put the longer discussions in context. There are detailed indices of sources, Koranic verses and hadiths. The book's index of technical terminology will be an indispensable reference for all those wishing to delve more deeply into the use of language in Islamic thought in general and Sufism in particular.

God, Science, and Self
God, Science, and Self

Author: Nauman Faizi

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2021-08-15

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0228007305

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Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) was one of the most influential modernist Islamic thinkers of the early twentieth century. His work as a poet, politician, philosopher, and public intellectual was widely recognized in his lifetime and plays a major role in contemporary conversations about Islam, modernity, and tradition. God, Science, and Self examines the patterns of reasoning at work in Iqbal's philosophic magnum opus, arguably the most significant text of modernist Islamic philosophy, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. Since its initial publication in 1934, The Reconstruction has left scholars in a quandary: its themes appear eclectic, and its arguments contradictory and philosophically perplexing. In this groundbreaking study, Nauman Faizi argues that the keys to demystifying the contradictions of The Reconstruction are two competing epistemologies at play within the work. Iqbal takes knowledge to be descriptive, essential, foundational, and binary, but he also takes knowledge to be performative, contextual, probabilistic, and vague. Faizi demonstrates how these approaches to knowledge shape Iqbal's claims about personhood, God, scripture, philosophy, and science. God, Science, and Self offers an original approach to interpreting Islamic thought as it crafts relationships between scriptural texts, philosophic thought, and scientific claims for modern Muslim subjects.

Transcendence and Self-transcendence
Transcendence and Self-transcendence

Author: Merold Westphal

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780253344137

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The question of the transcendence of God has traditionally been thought in terms of the difference between pantheism, which affirms that God is wholly "within" the world, and theism, which affirms that God is both "within" and "outside" the world, both immanent and transcendent. Against Heidegger's critique of onto-theology and the general postmodern concern for respecting and preserving the difference of the other, Merold Westphal seeks to rethink divine transcendence in relation to modes of human self-transcendence. Touching upon Spinoza, Hegel, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Aquinas, Barth, Kierkegaard, Levinas, Derrida, and Marion, Westphal's work centers around a critique of onto-theology, the importance of alterity, the decentered self, and the autonomous transcendental ego. Westphal's phenomenology of faith sets this book into the main currents of Continental philosophy of religion today.

Kierkegaard and the Self Before God
Kierkegaard and the Self Before God

Author: Simon D. Podmore

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2011-02

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0253222826

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Simon D. Podmore claims that becoming a self before God is both a divine gift and an anxious obligation. Before we can know God, or ourselves, we must come to a moment of recognition. How this comes to be, as well as the terms of such acknowledgment, are worked out in Podmore's powerful new reading of Kierkegaard. As he gives full consideration to Kierkegaard's writings, Podmore explores themes such as despair, anxiety, melancholy, and spiritual trial, and how they are broken by the triumph of faith, forgiveness, and the love of God. He confronts the abyss between the self and the divine in order to understand how we can come to know ourselves in relation to a God who is apparently so wholly Other.