Forbidden Theology
Author : Miles Augustus Navarr
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012-08
ISBN 10 : 9781477117521
Pages : 427 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (477 users)
Download or read book Forbidden Theology PDF or another Format written by Miles Augustus Navarr and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 75% of the people who live on this planet are followers of one of the three major monotheistic religions. They all consider Abraham as the father of their race and religion. They all believe in one singular, all powerful, all knowing benevolent god. The Hebrew call him Yahweh, the Christians refer to him as Father or Lord and Muslims call him Allah, and yet millions and millions of people have been murdered, maimed and tortured by the followers of this single entity to prove that their version of this single god is better than the other two versions. Sounds ridiculous, and yet sadly enough, more people have died in the name of religion than any other cause in the history of humanity. Each and every one of us at one time or another has asked or thought about such fundamental questions as, Is there a God?' Where did humans come from?' Why out of millions of species on earth, only humans reached this level of sophistication?' Is there a life after death?' Is there a purpose to life?' Why are we here?' Are the scriptures truly the words of god?' More importantly, is there any way we could find answers to such questions? The fact is, the answer to most of these questions, and many more, that we thought unanswerable, have been written down on clay tablets by our ancient ancestors who lived in Mesopotamia over 7000 years ago. These records are readily available to those who are willing to step outside the dogmatic belief system of the establishment, and are prepared, mentally and spiritually, to tolerate a totally different rendering of the oldest written historical records about mankind's origin, purpose and the truth about god, our maker. The subject matter of this book is an attempt to investigate the circumstances under which Mankind was made, and to trace the beginning and development of such concerns as the emergence of the concept of god and the formation of what later became known as religion. This is done primarily by relying on our scriptural texts, particularly the Old Testament, as well as other ancient manuscripts such as Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian Creation and Genesis epics. The first chapter begins by examining the behaviour, commands and instructions given by Yahweh to his chosen people. These commands and instructions are then evaluated and compared with basic accepted human rights standards practised and observed by almost all communities and societies, past and present. The question is then asked, "How could an entity, powerful enough to have created the entire universe, issue such cruel and sadistic commands against some of his own creations?" Furthermore, Yahweh's behaviour is decidedly pro Hebrew, and shows no regards or thought about non Hebrew masses. How could the universal god show such bias towards a tiny fraction of his creatures, with total disregard for the rest? Finally the characteristics and personalities of Yahweh is analysed by scrutinising his behaviour, actions and directives as stated in the Old Testament, before examining the god of Christianity. In investigating the role and characteristics of God in Christianity, the first thing that immediately becomes apparent is the absence of a prominent role for God the Father, as we had witnessed in Judaism. The Christians, or more specifically Saint Paul, who was the founder and designer of Christianity as we know it today, in order to distance his creation from the Hebrews and religion of Yahweh, invented a new Godhead and named him Jesus Christ (Ancient Greek: Ἰησοῦς Içsous). Born of a virgin, with powers to heal the sick, give sight to the blind and even raise the dead, who was crucified but resurrected three days later. These were all characteristics borrowed from various religions and cults prevalent at the time in the Levant, from Mithraism to the cult of Apoll
The Forbidden Religion
Author : Jose M. Herrou Aragon
Publisher : José M. Herrou Aragón
Release Date : 2012-07-03
ISBN 10 : 9781471725692
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (471 users)
Download or read book The Forbidden Religion PDF or another Format written by Jose M. Herrou Aragon and published by José M. Herrou Aragón. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gnosis means knowledge. But we are not referring to just any knowledge. Gnosis is knowledge which produces a great transformation in those who receive it. Knowledge capable of nothing less than waking up man and helping him to escape from the prison in which he finds himself. That is why Gnosis has been so persecuted throughout the course of history, because it is knowledge considered dangerous for the religious and political authorities who govern mankind from the shadows. Every time this religion, absolutely different from the rest, appears before man, the other religions unite to try to destroy or hide it again. Primordial Gnosis is the original Gnosis, true Gnosis, eternal Gnosis, Gnostic knowledge in its pure form. Due to multiple persecutions, Primordial Gnosis has been fragmented, distorted and hidden.
Forbidden Religion
Author : J. Douglas Kenyon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2006-09-22
ISBN 10 : 9781591439912
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (591 users)
Download or read book Forbidden Religion PDF or another Format written by J. Douglas Kenyon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the thread that unites the spiritual paths that have opposed orthodox religion over the centuries and the challenge they provide to the status quo • Contains 40 essays by 18 key investigators of heresies and suppressed spiritual traditions, including Steven Sora, Ian Lawton, Jeff Nisbet, P.M.H. Atwater, John Chambers, and Vincent Bridges • Edited by Atlantis Rising publisher, J. Douglas Kenyon Following the model of his bestselling Forbidden History, J. Douglas Kenyon has assembled from his bi-monthly journal Atlantis Rising material that explores the hidden path of the religions banned by the orthodox Church--from the time before Christ when the foundations of Christianity were being laid to the tumultuous times of the Cathars and Templars and the Masons of the New World. Revealed in this investigation of the roots of Western faith are the intimate ties of ancient Egyptian religion to Christianity, the true identities of the three magi, the link forged by the Templars between early Christianity and the Masons, and how these hidden religious currents still influence the modern world. This book serves as a compelling introduction to the true history of the heretical religious traditions that played as vital a role in society as the established faiths that continuously tried to suppress them. Born in the same religious ferment that gave birth to Christianity, these spiritual paths survived in the “heresies” of the Middle Ages, and in the theories of the great Renaissance thinkers and their successors, such as Isaac Newton and Giordano Bruno. Brought to the New World by the Masons who inspired the American Revolution, the influence of these forbidden religions can be still found today in “The Star Spangled Banner” and in such Masonic symbols as the pyramid on the back of the dollar bill.
Theology and the New Histories
Author : Gary Macy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2018-05-17
ISBN 10 : 9781532645938
Pages : 277 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (532 users)
Download or read book Theology and the New Histories PDF or another Format written by Gary Macy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology and the New Histories explores how Christianity, as an historical religion, is responding to the challenge of multiple readings of history—women’s history, history written from the perspective of minority groups, new sources of history, including those that are non-Western, and deconstructionist history. These new histories pose challenges to the assumptions of traditional theology. They also affect our understanding of the history of Christianity and of the development of Christian doctrine. Contributors include: Terrence W. Tilley, Justo L. González, Michael Horace Barnes, Vincent J. Miller, Elizabeth A. Clark, Barbara Green, O.P., Ann R. Riggs, Donna Teevan, James T. Fisher, Pamela Kirk, Ann Coble, Franklin H. Littell, Brian F. Linnane, and Margaret R. Pfeil.
Criminology and Public Theology
Author : Millie, Andrew
Publisher : Policy Press
Release Date : 2020-11-11
ISBN 10 : 9781529207415
Pages : 360 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (529 users)
Download or read book Criminology and Public Theology PDF or another Format written by Millie, Andrew and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when criminal justice systems appear to be in a permanent state of crisis, leading scholars from criminology and theology come together to challenge criminal justice orthodoxy by questioning the dominance of retributive punishment. This timely and unique contribution considers alternatives that draw on Christian ideas of hope, mercy and restoration. Promoting cross-disciplinary learning, the book will be of interest to academics and students of criminology, socio-legal studies, legal philosophy, public theology and religious studies, as well as practitioners and policy makers.
Food Culture and Health in Pre-Modern Muslim Societies
Author : David Waines
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2010-11-01
ISBN 10 : 9789004194410
Pages : 307 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (4 users)
Download or read book Food Culture and Health in Pre-Modern Muslim Societies PDF or another Format written by David Waines and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together edited articles from the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam that are relevant to food culture, health, diet, and medicine in pre-Islamic Muslim societies.
On Understanding Japanese Religion
Author : Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1987-10-21
ISBN 10 : 0691102295
Pages : 380 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (12 users)
Download or read book On Understanding Japanese Religion PDF or another Format written by Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1987-10-21 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Kitagawa, one of the founders of the field of history of religions and an eminent scholar of the religions of Japan, published his classic book Religion in Japanese History in 1966. Since then, he has written a number of extremely influential essays that illustrate approaches to the study of Japanese religious phenomena. To date, these essays have remained scattered in various scholarly journals. This book makes available nineteen of these articles, important contributions to our understanding of Japan's intricate combination of indigenous Shinto, Confucianism, Taoism, the Yin-Yang School, Buddhism, and folk religion. In sections on prehistory, the historic development of Japanese religion, the Shinto tradition, the Buddhist tradition, and the modem phase of the Japanese religious tradition, the author develops a number of valuable methodological approaches. The volume also includes an appendix on Buddhism in America. Asserting that the study of Japanese religion is more than an umbrella term covering investigations of separate traditions, Professor Kitagawa approaches the subject from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Skillfully combining political, cultural, and social history, he depicts a Japan that seems a microcosm of the religious experience of humankind.
A New History of Christianity
Author : Vivian Hubert Howard Green
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2000-03-03
ISBN 10 : 0826412270
Pages : 476 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (412 users)
Download or read book A New History of Christianity PDF or another Format written by Vivian Hubert Howard Green and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-03-03 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from an objective historical perspective, A New History of Christianity provides the best readable yet scholarly one-volume account of Christianity from its origins to the present day.Chapters cover Christian beginnings, the growth of the early Christian communities, the character of the medieval Church, popular religion, the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Reformation, the early modern Church, the Church in the nineteenth century, the Church in war and peace, and the crisis of the modern Church>
Changing the Goalpost of New Testament Textual Criticism
Author : Abidan Paul Shah
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2020-10-02
ISBN 10 : 9781725278714
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (725 users)
Download or read book Changing the Goalpost of New Testament Textual Criticism PDF or another Format written by Abidan Paul Shah and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the 1960s, the goal of New Testament Textual Criticism was singular: to retrieve the "original text" of the New Testament. Since then, the goalpost has incrementally shifted away from the "original text" to retrieving "any text" or "many texts" of the NT. Some scholars have even concluded that the "original text" is hopelessly lost and cannot be retrieved with any confidence or accuracy. Other scholars have gone a step further to claim that the idea of an "original text" itself is a misconception that needs to be abandoned. If this new approach in NTTC is correct, then the authority of Scripture is weakened or no longer valid. It will be shown in this book that such is not the case. Furthermore, emphasis will be placed on the need to return to the traditional goalpost of NTTC, i.e., to retrieve the original text. Without a generally definitive text, the door will be left wide open to recreate any desired text of the NT. An unsettled original text will result in an unsettled biblical theology due to a lack of any authoritative and standard text. Consequently, it will lead to an unsettled Christian faith and practice.
The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830
Author : Donald Keene
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1969-06-01
ISBN 10 : 0804774161
Pages : 276 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (774 users)
Download or read book The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 PDF or another Format written by Donald Keene and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1969-06-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of the growth and uses of Western learning in Japan from 1720 to 1830. These are the dates of the beginning of official interest in Western learning and of the expulsion of Siebold from the country, the first stage of a crisis that could be resolved only by the opening of the country of the West. The century and more included by the two dates was a most important period in Japanese history, when intellectuals, rebelling at the isolation of their country, desperately sought knowledge from abroad. The amazing energy and enthusiasm of men like Honda Toshiaki made possible the spectacular changes in Japan, which are all too often credited to the arrival of Commodore Perry. The author chose Honda Toshiaki (1744-1821) as his central figure. A page from any one of Honda's writings suffices to show that with him one has entered a new age, that of modern Japan. One finds in his books a new spirit, restless, curious and receptive. There is in him the wonder at new discoveries, the delight in widening horizons. Honda took a kind of pleasure even in revealing that Japan, after all, was only a small island in a large world. To the Japanese who had thought of Chinese civilization as being immemorial antiquity, he declared that Egypt's was thousands of years older and far superior. The world, he discovered, was full of wonderful things, and he insisted that Japan take advantage of them. Honda looked at Japan as he thought a Westerner might, and saw things that had to be changed, terrible drains on the country's moral and physical strength. Within him sprang the conviction that Japan must become one of the great nations of the world.
Early Christianity in South-West Britain
Author : Elizabeth Rees
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2020-03-30
ISBN 10 : 9781911188582
Pages : 440 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (911 users)
Download or read book Early Christianity in South-West Britain PDF or another Format written by Elizabeth Rees and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new assessment of early Christianity in south-west Britain from the fourth to the tenth centuries, a rich period which includes the transition from Roman to native British to Saxon models of church. The book will be based on evidence from archaeological excavations, early texts and recent critical scholarship and cover Wessex, Devon and Cornwall. In the south-west, Wessex provides the greatest evidence of Roman Christianity. The fifth-century Dorset villas of Frampton and Hinton St Mary, with their complex baptistery mosaics, indicate the presence of sophisticated Christian house churches. The fact that these two Roman villas are only 15 miles apart suggests a network of small Christian communities in this region. The author uses evidence from St Patricks fifth-century Confessions to describe how members of a villa house church lived. Wessex was slowly Christianised: in Gloucestershire, the pagan healing sanctuary at Chedworth provides evidence of later use as a Christian baptistery; at Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire, a baptistery was dug into the mosaic floor of an imposing villa, which may by then have been owned by a bishop. In Somerset a number of recently excavated sites demonstrate the transition from a pagan temple to a Christian church. Beside the pagan temple at Lamyatt, later female burials suggest, unusually, a small monastic group of women. Wells cathedral grew beside the site of a Roman villas funeral chapel. In Street, a large oval enclosure indicates the probable site of a Celtic monastery. Early Christian cemeteries have been excavated at Shepton Mallet and elsewhere. Lundy Island, off the Devon coast, provides evidence of a Celtic monastery, with its inscribed stones that commemorate early monks. At Exeter, a Saxon anthology includes numerous riddles, one of which describes in detail the production of an illuminated manuscript in a south-western monastery. Oliver Padels meticulous documentation of Cornish place-names has demonstrated that, of all the Celtic regions, Cornwall has by far the highest number of dedications to a single, otherwise unknown individual, typically consisting of a small church and a farm by the sea. These small monastic cells have hitherto received little attention as a model of church in early British Christianity, and the latter part of the text focuses on various aspects of this model, as lived out in coastal and in upland settlements, on islands, and in relation to larger Breton monasteries. Study of 60 Breton sites has demonstrated possible connections between larger Breton monasteries and smaller Cornish cells.
TRANSFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN SOCIETY:
Author : Robert Munthali
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2014-10-31
ISBN 10 : 9781499091304
Pages : 244 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (499 users)
Download or read book TRANSFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN SOCIETY: PDF or another Format written by Robert Munthali and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the promovendus investigates the critical role a preacher and his/her homilies have in bringing transformation, development and healing in the human society. The investigation shows how a preacher has been sidelined on issues of progress, when from time immemorial he/she has been a critical and pivotal component in the phenomenon. The study is an attempt to reclaim a preacher’s role in bringing progress and healing in underdeveloped communities through homilies, particularly, in Venda, rural South Africa. This book proposes a preacher as the transformer, developer and healer of the people.
Protestantism
Author : Edward Preston Usher
Publisher :
Release Date : 1897
ISBN 10 : COLUMBIA:CR59878126
Pages : 448 pages
Rating : 4.A/5 ( users)
Download or read book Protestantism PDF or another Format written by Edward Preston Usher and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
History of the Christian Church to the Pontificate of Gregory the Great, A.D. 590; intended for general readers as well as for students in theology. vol. 1, 2
Author : James Craigie Robertson
Publisher :
Release Date : 1867
ISBN 10 : BL:A0018837460
Pages : 640 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (1 users)
Download or read book History of the Christian Church to the Pontificate of Gregory the Great, A.D. 590; intended for general readers as well as for students in theology. vol. 1, 2 PDF or another Format written by James Craigie Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Evidence on Her Own Behalf
Author : Elizabeth A. Say
Publisher :
Release Date : 1990
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015019641557
Pages : 200 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (39 users)
Download or read book Evidence on Her Own Behalf PDF or another Format written by Elizabeth A. Say and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most theological language which is available is based on men's stories-stories told about men's lives, and interpreted from a distinctly masculine perspective. In such stories women, by and large, are marginal characters. When they occasionally do figure in a more central role, the meaning of their actions is explained from a male viewpoint. Before women can begin to ask questions about the meaning of their experience, they must understand what this experience has been, and this requires the telling of their own stories, in their own voice. Say's book draws on women's history, literary theory, and narrative theology to create a foundation for a critique of contemporary communitarian ethics. It incorporates a refinement of the theory of the feminization of religion and education in nineteenth-century Britain.
Religion in Colonial America
Author : George Capaccio
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2014-08-01
ISBN 10 : 9781627128889
Pages : 82 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (627 users)
Download or read book Religion in Colonial America PDF or another Format written by George Capaccio and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion was a driving force in the founding of the United States. Learn how it affected each of the states and the development of the country.
The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology
Author : Sabine Schmidtke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
ISBN 10 : 9780199696703
Pages : 833 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (199 users)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology PDF or another Format written by Sabine Schmidtke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1. Islamic theolog(ies) during the formative and the early middle period. Origins of kalām / Alexander Treiger -- The early Qadariyya / Steven C. Judd -- Jahm b. Ṣafwān (d. 128/745-6) and the 'Jahmiyya' and Ḍirār b. ʻAmr (d. 200/815) / Cornelia Schöck -- Early Shīʻī theology / Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi -- Excursus I: Christian theological thought during the first ʻAbbāsid century / Sidney H. Griffith -- Excursus II: Ungodly cosmologies / Patricia Crone -- The Muʻtazilite movement (I): the origins of the Muʻtazila / Racha el-Omari -- The Muʻtazilite movement (II): the early Muʻtazilites / David Bennett -- The Muʻtazilite movement (III): the scholastic phase / Sabine Schmidtke -- The Shīʻī reception of Muʻtazilism (I): Zaydīs / Hassan Ansari -- The Shīʻī reception of Muʻtazilism (II): Twelver Shīʻīs / Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke -- The predecessors of Ashʻarism: Ibn Kullāb, al-Muḥāsibī and al-Qalānisī / Harith Bin Ramli -- Between Cordoba and Nīsābūr: the emergence and consolidation of Ashʻarism (fourth-fifth/tenth-eleventh century) / Jan Thiele -- Early Ibāḍī theology / Wilferd Madelung -- Karrāmiyya / Aron Zysow -- Scripturalist and traditionalist theology / Binyamin Abrahamov -- Ḥanafī theological tradition and Māturīdism / Ulrich Rudolph -- Philosophical theology / Peter Adamson -- Ismāʻīlī theology / Daniel De Smet -- Sufi theological thought / Martin Nguyen -- Part 2. Intellectual interactions of Islamic theolog(ies) : four case studies. Occasionalism / Ulrich Rudolph -- Abū Hāshim al-Jubbāʼī's (d. 321/933) theory of 'states' (aḥwāl) and its adaption by Ashʻarite theologians / Jan Thiele -- Theories of ethical value in kalām: a new interpretation / Ayman Shihadeh -- Theology and logic / Khaled El-Rouayheb -- Part 3. Islamic theology(ies) during the later middle and early modern period. Theology engages with Avicennan philosophy: al-Ghazālī's Tahāfut al-falāsifa and Ibn al-Malāḥimī's Taḥfat al-mutakallimīn fī l-radd ʻalā l-falāsifa / Frank Griffel -- Twelver Shīʻī theology / Reza Pourjavady and Sabine Schmidtke -- Zaydī theology in Yemen / Hassan Ansari, Sabine Schmidtke, and Jan Thiele -- Handbooks in the tradition of later eastern Ashʻarism / Heidrun Eichner -- Later Ashʻarism in the Islamic West / Delfina Serrano Ruano -- Egypt and the later Ashʻarite school / Aaron Spevack -- Excursus III: The Coptic and Syriac receptions of neo-Ashʻarite theology / Gregor Schwarb -- Theology in the Ottoman lands / M. Sait Özervarlı -- Theology in Central Asia / Nathan Spannaus -- Theology in the Indian subcontinent / Asad Q. Ahmed and Reza Pourjavady -- Ḥanbalī theology / Jon Hoover -- Part 4. Political and social history and its impact on theology : four case stueis. al-Maʼmūn (r. 198/813-218/833) and the Miḥna / Nimrod Hurvitz -- The Miḥna of Ibn ʻAqīl (d. 513/1119) and the Fitnat Ibn al-Qushayrī (d. 514/1120) / Livnat Holtzman -- The religious policy of the Almohads / Maribel Fierro -- Interpretations of Ashʻarism and Māturīdism in Mamluk and Ottoman times / Lutz Berger -- Part 5. Islamic theological thought from the end of the early modern period to the modern period. Main trends of Islamic theological thought from the late nineteenth century to present times / Rotraud Wielandt -- Striving for a new exegesis of the Qurʼān / Johanna Pink.
