Author: Thomas R. Birks
Publisher:
Published: 2019-09-07
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9783337828233
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: A. C. Grayling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-04-05
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 0802778380
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the breadth of knowledge, the literary skill, and-yes-the audacity to conceive of a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible. But that is exactly what A.C. Grayling has done by creating a non-religious Bible, drawn from the wealth of secular literature and philosophy in both Western and Eastern traditions, using the same techniques of editing, redaction, and adaptation that produced the holy books of the Judaeo-Christian and Islamic religions. The Good Book consciously takes its design and presentation from the Bible, in its beauty of language and arrangement into short chapters and verses for ease of reading and quotability, offering to the non-religious seeker all the wisdom, insight, solace, inspiration, and perspective of secular humanist traditions that are older, far richer and more various than Christianity. Organized in 12 main sections----Genesis, Histories, Widsom, The Sages, Parables, Consolations, Lamentations, Proverbs, Songs, Epistles, Acts, and the Good----The Good Book opens with meditations on the origin and progress of the world and human life in it, then devotes attention to the question of how life should be lived, how we relate to one another, and how vicissitudes are to be faced and joys appreciated. Incorporating the writing of Herodotus and Lucretius, Confucius and Mencius, Seneca and Cicero, Montaigne, Bacon, and so many others, The Good Book will fulfill its audacious purpose in every way.
Author: B. F. Westcott
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2004-01-29
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1592445128
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The sermons, preached primarily at Westminster Abbey, consider the sure hope in Christ and the consummation of the age that we can reach through patience and through the comfort of scriptures. Westcott's first five sermons focus on the Epistle to the Hebrews. The second half of the book looks at some special aspects of the person and work of Christ.
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Publisher:
Published: 1862
Total Pages: 1070
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Author: Antonella Del Prete
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-13
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9004471952
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An innovative perspective on the relationship between philosophy and the Bible. The early modern philosophers’ interpretations of the Scriptures allow deciphering the breeding ground of the freedom of philosophizing, the theological-political debate, and the new conception of nature.
Author: Sotheran, Henry and Co
Publisher:
Published: 1871
Total Pages: 944
ISBN-13:
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