Denying Divinity
Title | Denying Divinity PDF eBook |
Author | J. P. Williams |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2000-11-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0191583766 |
The classical texts of Christianity and Zen Buddhism contain resources with potent appeal to contemporary spirituality. The 'apophatic', or 'negative', may offer a means to integrate the conservation of traditional religious practices and beliefs with an openness to experience beyond the limits of doctrine and of rational thought. Denying Divinity argues for a new understanding of what is meant by apophatic theology, supported by extensive analysis of the texts of Dionysius the Areopagite, St Maximus the Confessor, and Zen Master Dogen. It demonstrates how an apophatic spirituality might inform personal and communal spiritual development; and sketches out the contribution it can offer to modern debate on theology and postmodernism, entropy, and interfaith dialogue, and to development of an active theological commitment to humanity.
Denying Divinity
Title | Denying Divinity PDF eBook |
Author | J. P. Williams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Caodong (Sect) |
ISBN | 9780191683855 |
With reference to Christianity and Buddhism, this text argues that negative theology is a form of spirituality with powerful contemporary appeal, offering an integration of traditional religious practices with an openness to experience.
Denying Divinity
Title | Denying Divinity PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Patricia Williams |
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Pages | |
Release | 1997 |
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Spectres of False Divinity
Title | Spectres of False Divinity PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Holden |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 525 |
Release | 2010-03-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0191614750 |
Spectres of False Divinity presents a historical and critical interpretation of Hume's rejection of the existence of a deity with moral attributes. In Hume's view, no first cause or designer responsible for the ordered universe could possibly have moral attributes; nor could the existence (or non-existence) of such a being have any real implications for human practice or conduct. Hume's case for this 'moral atheism' is a central plank of both his naturalistic agenda in metaphysics and his secularizing program in moral theory. It complements his wider critique of traditional theism, and threatens to rule out any religion that would make claims on moral practice. Thomas Holden situates Hume's commitment to moral atheism in its historical and philosophical context, offers a systematic interpretation of his case for divine amorality, and shows how Hume can endorse moral atheism while maintaining his skeptical attitude toward traditional forms of cosmological and theological speculation.
A Complete Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity; Or, a System of Evangelical Truths, Deduced from the Sacred Scriptures. A New Edition
Title | A Complete Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity; Or, a System of Evangelical Truths, Deduced from the Sacred Scriptures. A New Edition PDF eBook |
Author | John GILL (D.D., Baptist Minister, at Horsley Down.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 1795 |
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A Systeme or Body of Divinity: ... wherein the fundamentals ... of religion are opened, the contrary errours refuted, etc
Title | A Systeme or Body of Divinity: ... wherein the fundamentals ... of religion are opened, the contrary errours refuted, etc PDF eBook |
Author | Edward LEIGH (M.A., of Magdalen Hall, Oxford.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 936 |
Release | 1654 |
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Elements of Divinity
Title | Elements of Divinity PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Neely Ralston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 1847 |
Genre | Theology, Doctrinal |
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