Divine Deception

Divine Deception
Title Divine Deception PDF eBook
Author Marcia Lynn McClure
Publisher Distractions Ink
Pages 80
Release 2011
Genre Fiction
ISBN 098352503X

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Young Fallon Ashby -- abused, neglected, and disheartened -- marries the mysterious Trader Donavon, a wealthy landowner and respected denizen of the town who conceals his face within the shadows of a black cowl. Then Fallon's malicious uncle, intent on avenging his own losses at Trader Donavon's hand, sets out to destroy Trader. Will Fallon's wicked uncle succeed and perhaps annihilate the man that his niece secretly loves above all else?

Jacob and the Divine Trickster

Jacob and the Divine Trickster
Title Jacob and the Divine Trickster PDF eBook
Author John Edward Anderson
Publisher
Pages 210
Release 2011
Genre Bible
ISBN 9781575062198

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Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Baylor University, 2010.

Theological Commentary

Theological Commentary
Title Theological Commentary PDF eBook
Author Michael Allen
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 231
Release 2011-10-13
Genre Religion
ISBN 0567068730

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The burgeoning "theological interpretation of Scripture" movement has gained much notoriety, but it has yet to demonstrate consistently that dogmatic reflection both aids and flows from exegesis of biblical texts. This volume includes essays on critical passages related to a number of key doctrinal loci (e.g. Genesis 1, Exodus 3, Proverbs 8, John 1). It also intentionally offers examples of theological commentary on various genres of Scripture (on biblical narrative, poetry, wisdom, gospels, and epistles), showing how the whole Bible can be read theologically for the church. The volume includes essays by notable scholars conversing with the canon, the creed, and our contemporary culture: including Kevin Vanhoozer, Michael Horton, Henri Blocher, R. W. L. Moberly, and D. A. Carson.

Skeptical Theism

Skeptical Theism
Title Skeptical Theism PDF eBook
Author Trent Dougherty
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 369
Release 2014-07-04
Genre Religion
ISBN 0191637114

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Given that we meet evils in every quarter of the world, could it be governed by an all-good and all-powerful deity? Whilst some philosophers argue that the problem of evil is strong evidence for atheism, others claim that all of the evils in our world can be explained as requirements for deeper goods. On the other hand, skeptical theists believe in God, but struggle with the task of explaining the role of evils in our world. Skeptical theism tackles the problem of evil by proposing a limited skepticism about the purposes of God, and our abilities to determine whether any given instance is truly an example of gratuitous evil. This collection, of 22 original essays, presents cutting-edge work on skeptical theistic responses to the problem of evil and the persistent objections that such responses invite. Divided into four sections, the volume discusses the epistemology of sceptical theism, conditions of reasonable epistemic access, the implications for theism, and the implications for morality.

Lying and Poetry from Homer to Pindar

Lying and Poetry from Homer to Pindar
Title Lying and Poetry from Homer to Pindar PDF eBook
Author Louise H. Pratt
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 198
Release 1993
Genre Deception in literature
ISBN 9780472104178

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A suggestive study of an elemental aspect of fiction

After Certainty

After Certainty
Title After Certainty PDF eBook
Author Robert Pasnau
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 393
Release 2017
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0198801785

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No part of philosophy is as disconnected from its history as is epistemology. After Certainty offers a reconstruction of that history, understood as a series of changing expectations about the cognitive ideal that beings such as us might hope to achieve in a world such as this. The story begins with Aristotle and then looks at how his epistemic program was developed through later antiquity and into the Middle Ages, before being dramatically reformulated in the seventeenth century. In watching these debates unfold over the centuries, one sees why epistemology has traditionally been embedded within a much larger sphere of concerns about human nature and the reality of the world we live in. It ultimately becomes clear why epistemology today has become a much narrower and specialized field, concerned with the conditions under which it is true to say, that someone knows something. Based on a series of lectures given at Oxford University, Robert Pasnau's book ranges widely over the history of philosophy, and examines in some detail the rise of science as an autonomous discipline. Ultimately Pasnau argues that we may have no good reasons to suppose ourselves capable of achieving even the most minimal standards for knowledge, and the final chapter concludes with a discussion of faith and hope.

Future of Hope and Present Reality

Future of Hope and Present Reality
Title Future of Hope and Present Reality PDF eBook
Author Andrew Chester
Publisher Mohr Siebeck
Pages 416
Release 2012
Genre Religion
ISBN 9783161521966

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This book is the first of a two-volume work with the overall title "Future Hope and Present Reality . These volumes had their origin in the Speaker s Lectures that Andrew Chester gave in Oxford; their main focus is central themes in biblical eschatology, and especially the apparent contradictions between what is hoped for in the future and what is experienced in the present: the stark discrepancy, that is, between the world as it is and the world as it should be. In this first volume, as the subtitle "Eschatology and Transformation in the Hebrew Bible indicates, the author is concerned with the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament; the second will be on the New Testament). He deals, successively, with central eschatological themes and the deep tensions they involve: divine threats of an absolute end (to human life and to the world itself), and divine promises of blessing and transformation, along with the theological questions inevitably raised by these - both in themselves and in relation to each other; the whole phenomenon of prophecy, and the problems it involves - not least, whether it can be taken seriously, in face of the contradictions and failures it manifests. He discusses the sheer discrepancy between ideal and reality in traditions relating to kingship, along with the tensions inherent in the emergence of messianic hope; death, as representing the end of any relationship with God, along with hope that goes beyond death - in relation both to the individual and also the nation; and, finally, visions of a transformed and paradisal world, and whether these can bear any relation to reality. It is argued that the Hebrew Bible can be seen to offer genuine grounds for hope, but that these can have any cogency only if the problems involved are really engaged with."