Ethics in the Age of the Spirit

Ethics in the Age of the Spirit
Title Ethics in the Age of the Spirit PDF eBook
Author Howard N. Kenyon
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 375
Release 2019-10-29
Genre Religion
ISBN 1498201741

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What causes us as a people of faith to think and act the way we think and act? Are we motivated by whatever is most practical, by a particular understanding of Scripture, by the influence of the culture around us, or by something more profound? On the premise that Pentecostalism does have much to contribute to the study of ethics, this book explores how one group, the American Assemblies of God, has wrestled with issues of racism, women in ministry, and Christian involvement in war. In the process, readers are invited to examine the connection—or disconnect—between what we believe and how we live out our faith.

Ethics in an Age of Technology

Ethics in an Age of Technology
Title Ethics in an Age of Technology PDF eBook
Author Ian G. Barbour
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 340
Release 2013-01-29
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0062275674

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The Gifford Lectures have challenged our greatest thinkers to relate the worlds of religion, philosophy, and science. Now Ian Barbour has joined ranks with such Gifford lecturers as William James, Carl Jung, and Reinhold Neibuhr. In 1989 Barbour presented his first series of Gifford Lectures, published as Religion in an Age of Science. In 1990 he returned to Scotland to present his second series, dealing with ethical issues arising from technology and exploring the relationship of human and environmental values to science, philosophy, and religion and showing why these values are relevant to technological policy decisions. In examine the conflicting ethics and assumptions that lead to divergent views and technology, Barbour analyzes three social values: justice, participatory freedom, and economic development. He defends such environmental principles as resource sustainability, environmental protection, and respect for all forms of life. He present case studies in agriculture, energy policy, genetic engineering, and the use of computers. Finally, he concludes by focusing on appropriate technologies, individual life-styles, and sources of change: education, political action, response to crisis, and alternative visions of the good life.

An Anxious Age

An Anxious Age
Title An Anxious Age PDF eBook
Author Joseph Bottum
Publisher Image
Pages 285
Release 2014-02-11
Genre Religion
ISBN 0385521464

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We live in a profoundly spiritual age, but not in any good way. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals and conservatives, together with politicians, artists, environmentalists, followers of food fads, and the chattering classes of television commentators: America is filled with people frantically seeking confirmation of their own essential goodness. We are a nation desperate to stand of the side of morality--to know that we are righteous and dwell in the light. In An Anxious Age, Joseph Bottum offers an account of modern America, presented as a morality tale formed by a collision of spiritual disturbances. And the cause, he claims, is the most significant and least noticed historical fact of the last fifty years: the collapse of the mainline Protestant churches that were the source of social consensus and cultural unity. Our dangerous spiritual anxieties, broken loose from the churches that once contained them, now madden everything in American life. Updating The Protestant Ethic and the Sprit of Capitalism, Max Weber's sociological classic, An Anxious Age undertakes two case studies of contemporary social classes adrift in a nation without the religious understandings that gave them meaning. Looking at the college-educated elite he calls "the Poster Children," Bottum sees the post-Protestant heirs of the old mainline Protestant domination of culture: dutiful descendants who claim the high social position of their Christian ancestors even while they reject their ancestors' Christianity. Turning to the Swallows of Capistrano, the Catholics formed by the pontificate of John Paul II, Bottum evaluates the early victories--and later defeats--of the attempt to substitute Catholicism for the dying mainline voice in public life. Sweeping across American intellectual and cultural history, An Anxious Age traces the course of national religion and warns about the strange angels and even stranger demons with which we now wrestle. Insightful and contrarian, wise and unexpected, An Anxious Age ranks among the great modern accounts of American culture.

Missions in the Age of the Spirit

Missions in the Age of the Spirit
Title Missions in the Age of the Spirit PDF eBook
Author John V. York
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2000
Genre Missions
ISBN 9780882434643

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Follows the development of missions throughout Scripture from the Early Church through to the modern church. Includes two appendixes, selected bibliography, Scriputure index, and subject index.

Old Testament Ethics for the People of God

Old Testament Ethics for the People of God
Title Old Testament Ethics for the People of God PDF eBook
Author Christopher J. H. Wright
Publisher InterVarsity Press
Pages 521
Release 2004
Genre Religion
ISBN 0830827781

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Christopher Wright examines a theological, social and economic framework for Old Testament ethics. Then he explores a variety of themes in relation to contemporary issues including economics, the land, the poor, politics, law and justice, and community.

The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life

The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life
Title The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life PDF eBook
Author Karl Barth
Publisher Westminster John Knox Press
Pages 114
Release 1993-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780664253257

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In a rare volume, Barth presents his lecture on "The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life", in which he insists there is no way to get behind or beyond the fact that God is revealed to us in three distinct ways, yet with a unity that cannot be divided.

A Secular Age

A Secular Age
Title A Secular Age PDF eBook
Author Charles Taylor
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 889
Release 2018-09-17
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0674986911

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The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.