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Adventures in Belief

Author: Keith Ward

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-11-11

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1666756253

Keith Ward--philosopher, ethicist, theologian, Anglican priest, cathedral canon, and book-writing addict--has spent his life thinking about "the big questions" (and, what's more, getting paid for it!). This philosophical pilgrimage led him from jobs at Glasgow and St. Andrew's Universities in Scotland, to Cambridge University, then on to King's College, London, followed by Oxford University (by invitation of the Queen!), before moving back to London at Gresham College, Heythrop College, and Roehampton University. Along the way he became a fellow of the British Academy and of a number of academic institutions, gathering up doctorates from various places, and writing more books than your bookshelf can handle. This sounds awfully dull, but according to Keith Ward, it was great fun, and he experienced all these things with a feeling of slight surprise, and with an irrepressible sense of humour. Having retired, exhausted, at eighty-one, Ward could not resist one more book. This is it--a humorous account of his life and thought, especially to show how he developed his own philosophy of personal idealism. It is both a genuinely amusing account of the life of an English academic and a rather profound account of an anti-materialistic and scientifically informed philosophy.

Adventures in Belief

Author: Keith Ward

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-11-11

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1666756237

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Keith Ward—philosopher, ethicist, theologian, Anglican priest, cathedral canon, and book-writing addict—has spent his life thinking about “the big questions” (and, what’s more, getting paid for it!). This philosophical pilgrimage led him from jobs at Glasgow and St. Andrew’s Universities in Scotland, to Cambridge University, then on to King’s College, London, followed by Oxford University (by invitation of the Queen!), before moving back to London at Gresham College, Heythrop College, and Roehampton University. Along the way he became a fellow of the British Academy and of a number of academic institutions, gathering up doctorates from various places, and writing more books than your bookshelf can handle. This sounds awfully dull, but according to Keith Ward, it was great fun, and he experienced all these things with a feeling of slight surprise, and with an irrepressible sense of humour. Having retired, exhausted, at eighty-one, Ward could not resist one more book. This is it—a humorous account of his life and thought, especially to show how he developed his own philosophy of personal idealism. It is both a genuinely amusing account of the life of an English academic and a rather profound account of an anti-materialistic and scientifically informed philosophy.

Sharing in the Divine Nature

Author: Keith Ward

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2020-05-22

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1725266385

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A defense of the New Testament view that all things are to be united in Christ, which entails that the ultimate destiny of the universe, and of all that is in it, is to be united in God. Keith Ward argues that this conflicts with classical ideas of God as simple, impassible, and changeless—ideas that many modern theologians espouse, and which Ward subjects to careful and critical scrutiny. He defends the claim that the cosmos contributes something substantial to—and in that way changes—the divine nature, and the cosmos is destined to manifest and express the essential creativity and relationality of a God of beatific, agapic, redemptive, and unitive love.

Adventures in the Spirit

Author: Philip Clayton

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published:

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1451416040

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In Adventures in the Spirit, respected and influential theologian Philip Clayton argues that two major intellectual movements of our day-panentheism and emergence-are converging and that together they offer exciting new vistas for theological reflection. On the one hand, over the last decades many theologians have been re-conceiving the God-world relation panentheistically, affirming a radical indwelling of God within the world and the world within God. On the other hand, scientists have begun to abandon the reductionist ideology that characterized much of the modern period, with a new emphasis on emergence. Their study of how new, novel structures and entities arise throughout the evolutionary process yields a much more open-ended, holistic vision of reality, Clayton argues.

Adventures in Missing the Point

Author: Brian D. McLaren

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0310267137

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Examines how the complex issues of the world's culture has influenced the ministry and message of the Christian church on such topics as salvation, worship, the Bible, and sin.

My Adventures with God

Author: Stephen Tobolowsky

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1476766460

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"Tobolowsky's stories tell of a boy growing up in the wilds of Texas, finding and losing love, losing and finding himself. My Adventures with God not only shines a light into the life of one of America's most beloved actors, but also provides a structure to evaluate our own lives and relationship with God"--

Belief and Beyond

Author: Mukunda Rao

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2019-06-25

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9353028485

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Belief and Beyond delves into the realm of the mystic -- Adi Sankara, Allama Prabhu, Kabir, Nagarjuna, Gaudapada, Akka Mahadevi, Lalleshwari, Anandamayi Ma, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Sri Aurobindo, Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Jiddu Krishnamurti, U.G. Krishnamurti, and the Buddha -- bringing to life their spiritual quests and the philosophical messages they left behind for humanity. The book explores the search for the non-dual state of being -- sahaja sthithi or the natural state -- which is not in the realm of experience at all, but a state of being where the borders and boundaries of the divided self have been transcended. The author also weaves in narratives from many difficult-to-access texts, including the Upanishads, the Ashtavakra Gita and the Avadhuta Gita. Written with depth and simplicity, this book is for the seeker and the curious alike.

The Unpersuadables

Author: Will Storr

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2014-03-06

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1468309811

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“A tour de force . . . [Storr’s] dogged approach to nailing many of the most celebrated skeptics in lies and misrepresentations is welcome.” —Salon Why, that is, did the obviously intelligent man beside him sincerely believe in Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden and a six-thousand-year-old Earth, in spite of the evidence against them? It was the start of a journey that would lead Storr all over the world—from Texas to Warsaw to the Outer Hebrides—meeting an extraordinary cast of modern heretics whom he tries his best to understand. Storr tours Holocaust sites with famed denier David Irving and a band of neo-Nazis, experiences his own murder during “past life regression” hypnosis, discusses the looming One World Government with an iconic climate skeptic, and investigates the tragic life and death of a woman who believed her parents were high priests in a baby-eating cult. Using a unique mix of highly personal memoir, investigative journalism, and the latest research from neuroscience and experimental psychology, Storr reveals how the stories we tell ourselves about the world invisibly shape our beliefs, and how the neurological “hero maker” inside us all can so easily lead to self-deception, toxic partisanship and science denial. “The subtle brilliance of The Unpersuadables is Mr. Storr’s style of letting his subjects hang themselves with their own words.” —The Wall Street Journal “Throws new and salutary light on all our conceits and beliefs. Very valuable, and a great read to boot, this is investigative journalism of the highest order.” —The Independent, Book of the Week

Wheelz on the Moon

Author: Aaron Wheelz Fotheringham

Publisher: Adventures of Mike Believe

Published: 2018-03-14

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9781976994913

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Welcome to the Adventures of Mike Believe. This children's book series will change your child's life by igniting the part of their imagination that helps to create the future of their dreams. The first book, "Wheelz On The Moon," will show them how to activate their imagination through visualization. The next book will show them how to turn that visualization into feelings that will shape their actual reality through love and an unbreakable belief in themselves. Aaron Fotheringham and Mike Dolman are on a mission to change the way kids use their thoughts and feelings to create their future, support one another, and not let anything stop them on their journey to making their dreams come true. KIDS ARE THE ILLUSTRATORS OF THIS BOOK! They can draw right inside the book!Join us in changing the world. If you think being in a wheelchair isn't fun, you've never met Aaron Fotheringham, a.k.a Wheelz. Wheelz is a 'Professional' WCMX (Wheelchair Motocross) athlete. He was born with Spina bifida, a birth defect of the spinal chord that causes limited usage of his legs. But that doesn't stop Wheelz from showing the world that a wheelchair is not just a medical device, but rather, an extreme sports machine! Synopsis: Mike Believe reveals his dream of becoming the first kid to ever skateboard on the moon! But Mike's mom want's him to skateboard less and focus more on school. Mike's best friend, Aaron Dreams, a.k.a. "WHEELZ," is living proof that anything is possible. Born with Spina Bifida, a birth defect of the spinal cord, Wheelz has limited usage of his legs, but this doesn't stop him from using his wheelchair every day to chase his dreams!Wheelz starts to see that there are no limits to what he can achieve in life when his father teaches him the power of his imagination. When Mike Believe's classmate, Perscilla Pout, doubts his ability to get to the moon, Mike loses faith in himself. But Wheelz won't let him give up on his dream. Wheelz teaches Mike how to activate his imagination, and suddenly, getting to the moon seems possible after all! Will Mike Believe's imagination be strong enough to visualize a way to the moon? Or will his dream be crushed by his doubts and fears...On their incredible journey to the moon, the boys learn that they aren't alone. Someone is leading them to discover what an open mind is truly capable of. But first, they must let go of their limiting beliefs of whats possible, and strengthen their imaginations. Join Mike Believe, and Wheelz, on their journey to unlocking limitless imagination, true friendship, and maybe even other worlds!

Beyond Belief

Author: V. S. Naipaul

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2018-08-21

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0307401456

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Beyond Belief is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time: the effects of the Islamic conversion of Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia. It is not a book of opinion. It is - in the Naipaul way - a very rich and human book, full of people and stories. Islam is an Arab religion, and it makes imperial Arabizing demands on its converts. In this way it is more than a private faith, and it can become a neurosis. What has this Arab Islam done to the histories of these converted countries? How do the converted peoples, non-Arabs, view their past - and their future? In a follow-up to Among the Believers, his classic account of his travels through these countries, V. S. Naipaul returns after seventeen years to find out how and what the converted preach. In Indonesia he finds a pastoral people who have lost their history through a confluence of Islam and technology. In Iran he discovers a religious tyranny as oppressive as the secular one of the Shah, and he meets people weary of the religious rules that govern every aspect of their lives. Pakistan - in a tragic realization of a Muslim re-creation fantasy - inherited blood feuds, rotting palaces, antique cruelty; then President Zia installed religious terror with $100 million of Saudi money. In Malaysia, the Muslim Youth organization is alive and growing, and the people are mentally, physically, and geographically torn between two worlds, struggling to live the impossible dream of a true faith born out of a spiritual vacancy. A startling and revelatory addition to the Naipaul canon, Beyond Belief confirms the author's reputation as a masterly observer, a "finder-out" of stories, as well as a magnificent teller of them.