[PDF] Towards A Spiritual Humanism eBook

Author : Ronald Modras
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 2010-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0829429867

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"Ignatian Humanism puts into perspective our contemporary search for a spirituality that responds both to our search for meaning and desire for God." -John W. Padberg, S.J., director, Institute of Jesuit Sources "Modras integrates fascinating history, contemporary theology, and inspiring spirituality with consistent focus on central issues for our day." -Joann Wolski Conn, associate professor of religious studies, Neumann College "A stunning book! Modras has profiled a number of Jesuit thinkers and activists as role models for our time-revitalizing humanism as a model for moderns." -Leonard Swidler, professor of Catholic thought and inter-religious dialogue, Temple University Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order, is one of a mere handful of individuals who has permanently changed the way we understand God. In this vividly written and meticulously researched book, Ronald Modras shows how Ignatian spirituality retains extraordinary vigor and relevance nearly five centuries after Loyola's death. At its heart, Ignatian spirituality is a humanism that defends human rights, prizes learning from other cultures, seeks common ground between science and religion, struggles for justice, and honors a God who is actively at work in creation. The towering achievements of the Jesuits are made tangible by Modras's vivid portraits of Ignatius and five of his successors: Matteo Ricci, the first Westerner at the court of the Chinese emperor; Friederich Spee, who defended women accused of witchcraft; Karl Rahner, the greatest Catholic theologian of the twentieth century; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the scientist-mystic; and Pedro Arrupe, the charismatic leader of the Jesuits in the years following Vatican II.

Author : Chanele TheRockStar
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2013-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1304050270

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Humanism is a tradition of values that emphasizes the importance of human dignity, virtue, capabilities, and concerns. It does not directly consider the question of the existence of God, but rather the morality and ethics of human conduct; for humanists, the morality of the individual's conduct remains a crucial consideration whether or not a god exists, hence there are both theist and atheist humanists. Of the ethics which underlay humanist philosophy, rationality is strongly emphasized: those who follow this philosophy strive to base all of their convictions, religious or secular, on sound evidence and reasoning.

Author : Nicholas Berdyaev
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 2021-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780578879215

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Nicholas Alexandrovich Berdyaev (1874-1948) was a Russian philosopher and activist who changed the philosophical, aesthetic and religious landscape of the 20th century. The author of more than 15 books and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times, he spoke in a new way about the centrality of creativity to what it means to be human. In 1922, along with other elite representatives of Russian culture, science and theology, Berdyaev was exiled from Russia by the Soviet authorities on the renown "Philosophers' Ship." For the rest of his life he lived in an expatriate who dreamed of returning to his homeland. In his seminal work, The Meaning of the Creative Act, which contains in raw form all of his dominant and formative ideas, he noted that "the importance and the interesting aspect in humans is connected with the opening up in them of the path towards the Infinite and the Eternal, with the possibility of breaking through. Creativeness is a transition beyond the limits of this world." Creativity Will Save the World presents the most evocative sections of The Meaning... along with excerpts from other Berdyaev books and articles in which he further elucidates his main theme that "God calls us to creative activity and to a creative answer to God's love." To those who aspire to the privileged and terrifying role of "artist," and to the rest of us who simply desire to practice a more humane spirituality and a more spiritual humanism, this book is dedicated. Tom Willett (1950- ) is an American musician, entertainment industry executive, educator and author who has been involved in the creation and marketing of more than 300 award-winning record albums. His work has been cited in "Billboard," "Rolling Stone," the "L.A. Times," "Entertainment Weekly" and Image Journal. He is the creator of Van Gogh to Go, a 3-volume series presenting van Gogh's most evocative quotes and paintings about art, work and spirituality, plus the online project, Into The Mystic. From the Editor "Throughout my career as a musician, booking agent, artist manager, Artist & Repertoire executive, marketing VP, educator, and author I have felt compelled to attempt to fashion, for lack of a better term, a 'Rock and Roll Theological Aesthetic.' By that I do not mean a philosophy of religious art per se, but an exploration into how great art, even popular music, by its sheer originality and excellence, can transport the listener from the here-and-now to what seems another realm, another place, another way of being. To quote The Door's Jim Morrison, I marvel at how compelling expressions of creativity can help us 'break on through to the other side.' To that I would add the wisdom of Mssrs. Jagger and Richards, 'I know it's only Rock and Roll, but I like it.' "For your consideration as 'Patron Saint of the New Spiritual Humanism, ' may I suggest Nicholas Berdyaev."

Author : Louis Carini
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 2001-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1462810845

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Astronomers discarded first hand visual observations, because each observer measured a star's transit as occurring at a different time. Physicists soon followed them, so that now instrumental measurements are the only data that physics and astronomy accept. The theory of evolution followed them in that physicalist mode by accounting only for the physical survival of organisms. That is why their sciences deny the existence of anything of a spiritual nature. This little book examines their theorized big bang beginning, and the physicalist theory of evolution, in the light of the newly measured human consciousness, through whose thinking processes both of those sciences arose. Spiritual humanism aims to provide a nondogmatic faith in humanity, and in principles which place human beings, their values, their thinking, and their enspirited consciousnesses as central to creating all of our sciences. The spiritual aspect arises especially from our consciousness which allows us to reflect upon what is in our awareness. The qualities of our awarenesses and consciousness are explained by the anthropomorphic theory of human perception which attributes human qualities even to our senses. The book suggests that consciousness places us in a realm of being beyond the physical. Though our physical brains are proposed as the basis for that consciousness, the outcome in consciousness creates a spiritual quality in human beings. Spiritual humanism, accordingly, is concerned with human beings, and is centered entirely in this human world rather than in any other. Thus a non dogmatic spiritual humanism for fostering the potentialities in human beings in this world is what this little book means to provide. The experiences of the young Helen Keller show how consciousness becomes the basis for disinterested interests: the ability to be deeply engrossed in something unrelated to our own self interest. That disinterested interest, is what lies behind our engagements with the arts, the sciences and our religious aspirations. The assumption of an entirely physical origin for the physicists' theoretical big bang along with Darwin's physicalist theory of evolution are criticized, because both methodologies preclude finding anything of the spirit. A reinterpretation of what follows from these critiques, and the positive formulation of the humanist science of anthropomorphic optics and its implications, are what the book provides.

Author : Greg Epstein
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0061959499

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A provocative and positive response to Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and other New Atheists, Good Without God makes a bold claim for what nonbelievers do share and believe. Author Greg Epstein, the Humanist chaplain at Harvard, offers a world view for nonbelievers that dispenses with the hostility and intolerance of religion prevalent in national bestsellers like God is Not Great and The God Delusion. Epstein’s Good Without God provides a constructive, challenging response to these manifestos by getting to the heart of Humanism and its positive belief in tolerance, community, morality, and good without having to rely on the guidance of a higher being.

Author : Michael McGhee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107162017

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A non-theistic contribution to the dialogue between religion and secular humanism through the medium of Buddhist spiritual practice.

Author : Weiming Tu
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2020-11-25
Category :
ISBN :

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On Saturday, 2018.08.18 Prof. TU Weiming gave a WANG Yangming keynote lecture during the 24th World Congress of Philosophy. This book has English, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Korean and Russian versions of "Spiritual Humanism: Self, Community, Earth, and Heaven" lecture .