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Price: $10.99
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Sale: $3.99
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Manufacturer: Servant Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mitch Pacwa
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Publisher: Servant Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 261.51
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Publication Date: 1992-02
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Reading Level: 234
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Description: Fr. Pacwa probes the reasons why Catholics are dabbling in the New Age Movement. He shares his experiences and disillusionment with Jungian psychology, the enneagram and astrology. He aslo covers crystals and channelling.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $20.56
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Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John D. Caputo
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 231
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Publication Date: 2006-04-07
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Reading Level: 356
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Description: Applying an ever more radical hermeneutics (including Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology, Derridian deconstruction, and feminism), John D. Caputo breaks down the name of God in this irrepressible book. Instead of looking at God as merely a name, Caputo views it as an event, or what the name conjures or promises in the future. For Caputo, the event exposes God as weak, unstable, and barely functional. While this view of God flies in the face of most religions and philosophies, it also puts up a serious challenge to fundamental tenets of theology and ontology. Along the way, Caputo's readings of the "New Testament", especially of Paul's view of the Kingdom of God, help to support the "weak force" theory. This penetrating work cuts to the core of issues and questions - What is the nature of God? What is the nature of being? What is the relationship between God and being? What is the meaning of forgiveness, faith, piety, or transcendence? - that define the terrain of contemporary philosophy of religion.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $7.45
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Manufacturer: Paulist Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John F. Haught
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Publisher: Paulist Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 231.7652
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Publication Date: 2001-09
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Reading Level: 145
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Description: Esteemed theologian John Haught brings his considerable experience to a controversial and thought-provoking topic: evolution. Writing within the formula of the well-known Responses to 101 Questions series, he gathers here questions that have arisen from conversations over the years with a variety of people--believers and scientific skeptics, those who embrace evolution and those who disdain it, and scholars and the scientifically uneducated. The questions fall into seven categories: Darwin's Revolutionary Idea; Darwin and Theology; Creationism; Darwin and Design; Divine Providence and Natural Selection; Evolution, Suffering and Redemption; and Teilhard de Chardin and Alfred North Whitehead. They range from "Could life have originated by chance? to "What is creationism? and "What does our hope for 'redemption' really mean in the context of evolution?" Haught's responses, while addressed from the perspective of Christian tradition, can be useful to persons of other traditions as well. The questions and answers, while following a progression, can be read separately and in random sequence for ease of use. With this thoughtful and concise book, Haught makes a significant contribution to the ongoing conversation on this controversial and often explosive topic.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $6.55
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Richard Swinburne
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 212.1
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Publication Date: 1997-01-19
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Is There a God? offers a powerful response to modern doubts about the existence of God. It may seem today that the answers to all fundamental questions lie in the province of science, and that the scientific advances of the twentieth century leave little room for God. Cosmologists have rolled back their theories to the moment of the Big Bang; the discovery of DNA reveals the key to life; the theory of evolution explains the development of life--and with each new discovery or development, it seems that we are closer to a complete understanding of how things are. For many people, this gives strength to the belief that God is not needed to explain the universe; that religious belief is not based on reason; and that the existence of God is, intellectually, a lost cause.
Richard Swinburne, one of the most distinguished philosophers of religion today, argues that on the contrary, science provides good grounds for belief in God. Why is there a universe at all? Why is there any life on Earth? How is it that discoverable scientific laws operate in the universe? Swinburne uses these methods of scientific reasoning to argue that the best answers to these questions are given by the existence of God. The picture of the universe that science gives us is completed by God. Powerful, modern, and accessible, Is There a God? is must reading for anyone interested in an intelligent and approachable defence of the existence of God.
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Price: $27.50
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Sale: $14.00
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mircea Eliade
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 1985-01-15
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Reading Level: 580
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Description: In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity—all are encompassed in this volume.
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Price: $10.95
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Sale: $116.62
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Manufacturer: Radiant Summit Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James Allen
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Publisher: Radiant Summit Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 289.98
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Publication Date: 1997-09-08
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: James Allen's classic bestseller, As a Man Thinketh, combined with four of his other titles: The Path to Prosperity, The Mastery of Destiny, The Way of Peace, and Entering the Kingdom.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $7.69
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Manufacturer: Touchstone
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mortimer J. Adler
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Publisher: Touchstone
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200.1
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Publication Date: 1992-04-01
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Reading Level: 180
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Description: Only if, with regard to the diversity of religions, there are questions about truth and falsehood do we have a problem about the pluralism of religions and the unity of truth. That problem is not concerned with preserving religious liberty, freedom of worship, and the toleration, in a particular society or in the world, of a diversity of religious institutions, communities, practices, and beliefs. It is concerned only with the question of where, in that diversity, the truth lies if there is any truth in religion at all.
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Price: $32.98
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Sale: $21.01
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Manufacturer: Prometheus Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Prometheus Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 212.1
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Publication Date: 2006-02-06
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: A growing number of powerful arguments have been formulated by philosophers and logicians in recent years, demonstrating that the existence of God is improbable. These arguments assume that God's existence is possible, but argue that the weight of the empirical evidence is against God's actual existence. This unique anthology collects most of the important arguments that have been published since the mid 1900s. The editors make each argument clear and accessible by providing a helpful summary arranging the diverse collection into four thematic groups - the cosmological, teleological, inductive evil, and non-belief. The list of distinguished authors offer an indispensable resource in the philosophy of religion.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $27.94
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Mark C. Taylor
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200.903
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Publication Date: 2007-10-15
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: With fundamentalists dominating the headlines and scientists arguing about the biological and neurological basis of faith, religion is the topic of the day. But religion, Mark C. Taylor shows, is more complicated than either its defenders or critics think and, indeed, is much more influential than any of us realize. Our world, Taylor maintains, is shaped by religion even when it is least obvious. Faith and value, he insists, are unavoidable and inextricably interrelated for believers and nonbelievers alike.
Using scientific theories of dynamical systems and complex adaptive networks for cultural and theological analysis, After God redefines religion for our contemporary age. Taylor begins by asking a critical question: What is religion? He then proceeds to explain how Protestant ideas in particular undergird the character and structure of our global information society—the Reformation, Taylor argues, was an information and communications revolution that effectively prepared the way for the media revolution at the end of the twentieth century. Taylor’s breathtaking account of religious ideas allows us to understand for the first time that contemporary notions of atheism and the secular are already implicit in classical Christology and Trinitarian theology. Weaving together theoretical analysis and historical interpretation, Taylor demonstrates the codependence and coevolution of traditional religious beliefs and practices with modern literature, art, architecture, information technologies, media, financial markets, and theoretical biology. After God concludes with prescriptions for new ways of thinking and acting. If we are to negotiate the perils of the twenty-first century, Taylor contends, we must refigure the symbolic networks that inform our policies and guide our actions. A religion without God creates the possibility of an ethics without absolutes that leads to the promotion of creativity and life in an ever more fragile world.
The first comprehensive theology of culture since the pioneering work of Paul Tillich, After God is a radical reconceptualization of religion and Taylor’s most pathbreaking work yet, bringing together various strands of theological argument and cultural analysis four decades in the making.
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $6.95
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Manufacturer: HarperOne
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Rodney Stark
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200
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Publication Date: 2007-10-01
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Reading Level: 496
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Description: Discovering God is a monumental history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age. Sociologist Rodney Stark surveys the birth and growth of religions around the world—from the prehistoric era of primal beliefs; the history of the pyramids found in Iraq, Egypt, Mexico, and Cambodia; and the great "Axial Age" of Plato, Zoroaster, Confucius, and the Buddha, to the modern Christian missions and the global spread of Islam. He argues for a free-market theory of religion and for the controversial thesis that under the best, unimpeded conditions, the true, most authentic religions will survive and thrive. Among his many conclusions: - Despite decades of faulty reports that early religions were crude muddles of superstition, it turns out that primitive humans had surprisingly sophisticated notions about God and Creation.
- The idea of "sin" appeared suddenly in the sixth century BCE and quickly reshaped religious ideas from Europe to China.
- Some major world religions seem to lack any plausible traces of divine inspiration.
- Ironically, some famous figures who attempted to found "Godless" religions ended up being worshiped as Gods.
Most people believe in the existence of God (or Gods), and this has apparently been so throughout human history. Many modern biologists and psychologists reject these spiritual ideas, especially those about the existence of God, as delusional. They claim that religion is a primitive survival mechanism that should have been discarded as humans evolved beyond the stage where belief in God served any useful purpose—that in modern societies, faith is a misleading crutch and an impediment to reason. In Discovering God, award-winning sociologist Rodney Stark responds to this position, arguing that it is our capacity to understand God that has evolved—that humans now know much more about God than they did in ancient times.
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