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Author : Iain William Provan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781481300223
Comprehensive (re)reading of the Old Testament in light of contemporary issues
Author : Iain William Provan
Publisher :
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781481300247
The true danger of the Old Testament.
Author : Iain Provan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781481300230
The Old Testament is often maligned as an outmoded and even dangerous text. Best-selling authors like Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, and Derrick Jensen are prime examples of those who find the Old Testament to be problematic to modern sensibilities. Iain Provan counters that such easy and popular readings misunderstand the Old Testament. He opposes modern misconceptions of the Old Testament by addressing ten fundamental questions that the biblical text should--and according to Provan does--answer: questions such as "Who is God?" and "Why do evil and suffering mark the world?" By focusing on Genesis and drawing on other Old Testament and extra-biblical sources, Seriously Dangerous Religion constructs a more plausible reading. As it turns out, Provan argues, the Old Testament is far more dangerous than modern critics even suppose. Its dangers are the bold claims it makes upon its readers.
Author : Iain William Provan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 9781602589964
A world rooted in undisturbed myths
Author : Segal
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 1977-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9004667482
In this study of the rabbinic heretics who believed in Two Powers in Heaven, Alan Segal explores some relationships between rabbinic Judaism, Merkabah mysticism, and early Christianity. Two Powers in Heaven was a very early category of heresy. It was one of the basic categories by which the rabbis perceived the new phenomenon of Christianity and one of the central issues over which Judaism and Christianity separated. Segal reconstructs the development of the heresy through prudent dating of the stages of the rabbinic traditions. The basic heresy involved interpreting scripture to say that a principal angelic or hypostatic manifestation in heaven was equivalent to God. The earliest heretics believed in two complementary powers in heaven, while later heretics believed in two opposing powers in heaven. Segal stresses the importance of perceiving the relevance of rabbinic material for solving traditional problems of New Testament and gnostic scholarship, and at the same time maintains the necessity of reading those literatures for dating rabbinic material. Please note that Two Powers in Heaven was previously published by Brill in hardback, ISBN 90 04 05453 7 (no longer available).
Author : Alister McGrath
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 23,86 MB
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830868739
Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath present a reliable assessment of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, famed atheist and scientist, and the many questions this book raises--including, above all, the relevance of faith and the quest for meaning.
Author : Ross Douthat
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 143917833X
Traces the decline of Christianity in America since the 1950s, posing controversial arguments about the role of heresy in the nation's downfall while calling for a revival of traditional Christian practices.
Author : Iain William Provan
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664220907
In this much-anticipated textbook, three respected biblical scholars have written a history of ancient Israel that takes the biblical text seriously as an historical document. While also considering nonbiblical sources and being attentive to what disciplines like archaeology, anthropology, and sociology suggest about the past, the authors do so within the context and paradigm of the Old Testament canon, which is held as the primary document for reconstructing Israel's history. In Part One, the authors set the volume in context and review past and current scholarly debate about learning Israel's history, negating arguments against using the Bible as the central source. In Part Two, they seek to retell the history itself with an eye to all the factors explored in Part One.
Author : Oliver J. McTernan
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN :
A timely exploration of the links between religious faith and global violence--and how to break them.
Author : Mary Eberstadt
Publisher : Harper
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780062454010
Mary Eberstadt, “one of the most acute and creative social observers of our time,” (Francis Fukuyama) shines a much-needed spotlight on a disturbing trend in American society: discrimination against traditional religious belief and believers, who are being aggressively pushed out of public life by the concerted efforts of militant secularists. In It’s Dangerous to Believe, Mary Eberstadt documents how people of faith—especially Christians who adhere to traditional religious beliefs—face widespread discrimination in today’s increasingly secular society. Eberstadt details how recent laws, court decisions, and intimidation on campuses and elsewhere threaten believers who fear losing their jobs, their communities, and their basic freedoms solely because of their convictions. They fear that their religious universities and colleges will capitulate to aggressive secularist demands. They fear that they and their families will be ostracized or will have to lose their religion because of mounting social and financial penalties for believing. They fear they won’t be able to maintain charitable operations that help the sick and feed the hungry. Is this what we want for our country? Religious freedom is a fundamental right, enshrined in the First Amendment. With It’s Dangerous to Believe Eberstadt calls attention to this growing bigotry and seeks to open the minds of secular liberals whose otherwise good intentions are transforming them into modern inquisitors. Not until these progressives live up to their own standards of tolerance and diversity, she reminds us, can we build the inclusive society America was meant to be.