Author: Immanuel Goldstein Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc. ISBN: 1587363488 Category : Languages : en Pages : 150
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The opening sentence of the Old Testament-"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth"-has actually established a mind-boggling enigma for all who would be attracted to the monotheistic proposition of creation. To create a universe with a beginning, God, who is perforce infinite and eternal, would have divided his own existence into two distinct epochs as a result. He would have had to pre-stand forever behind the act before having accomplished the feat! How is this possible? The puzzle would appear beyond the logical, finite mind to explain. Neotheology was designed to address this enigma from a secular perspective and propose a hypothetical solution to the question. Moreover, if an answer to the query is possible to decipher, then it should lead to a confrontation with the grand, underlying conundrum: given the nature of the physical cosmos, which appears to obliterate all of its created forms, why was an act of physical creation undertaken at all?
Author: Sion Cowell Publisher: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 1837642419 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 247
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Written to enable researchers and students to better understand the specialised language of Teilhard's transdisciplinary approach, which he found himself compelled to develop as a means of expressing that extraordinary vision of a universe in process of convergence towards a cosmic centre of unity he identifies with the Cosmic Christ.
Author: Dino Meurs Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1469121875 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 114
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Reality appears dualistic from a logical standpoint. Monism is the picking of one side of the issue as real and the other an illusion. Neomonism is the stance that the answer is not to be found in one or the other but in a nondualistic stance that is a paradoxical unity. I submit there is great confusion over the concept of one. There is the mathematical understanding of one as singular or exclusive and there is the metaphysical understanding of one as manifold or inclusive. Mathematical oneness comes from the language of the mind and metaphysical oneness comes from the language of the heart. This confusion is apparent when we talk about the oneness of -O- (My spelling of the word God.) as we assume a mathematical one that is separate while we are discussing a metaphysical one that is unity. It is true that -O- is one in the mathematical sense of the term, but it is also true that -O- is one in the metaphysical sense of the term. -O- is singular in that there is nothing but -O- and at the same time -O- is unity for the same reason. -O- is not a separate one nor separate manys for the one contains the many while the many contain the one. One of the biggest problems with using the mathematical concept when discussing Metaphysical issues is the idea of separate entities. -O- is separate from Nature. Man is separate from Nature. -O- is separate from Man. These separations are true only in a logical sense for one cannot separate one from the other in an existential sense. The Biblical and Science Literalists are equally hubristic by acting as if they have the authority speak for all of us on these issue of Science vs. Religion. It seems to me this is a false dichotomy with equally unreasonable choices. I find it somewhat amusing to listen to the arguments between the two camps as these people make idols out of images in their attempt to force all people to accept one or the other of the campfire stories as Truth. The Bibleist says only X is true while the Materialist says only Y is true and both fail to realize their respective images are irrelevant when it comes to Reality, which is at least A through Z. Perhaps the most hubristic is this assertion that in order to be considered a -O-image, the qualifier that it must be a being with volition and intent is included. To a Taoist, the concept of the Tao has the same function as the concept of God does to a Christian; why is one a -O-image and the other not? It does not follow that if some parts of one -O-image are shown to be mistaken from a Scientific P.O.V., that all -O-images are thereby invalid for the same reasons. Although they are two aspects of the same enterprise (the understanding of Reality), they occupy different functions in life. Religion is in the sphere of the Intuitive while Science is in the sphere of the Rational. This is why traditional monism misses the point; the One is not a choice between two sides of an issue. Unity is a Reality that encompasses Is and Is Not. We act as if our dictionary daffynitions are the only valid ones, which is certainly not the case, for neither the Biblical nor the Scietheistic images cover the entirety of the Reality. One does not have to give up the idea of -O- just because scientific evidence shows the universe to be self-generating. It seems a bit absurd to me that our Worldview be based on either one or the other when neither option fills the bill by itself. Neomonism questions the assumption of separateness as a fundamental truth. There may be a dichotomy between mind and matter, for example, but is the dichotomy logical or existential? Some take the stance of mind only as reality, some take the body only stance; each mistakes a logical paradox for an existential state of reality. Without body, as we understand it, we would not have mind, as we understand it. Mind only is a partial answer, body only is a partial answer. That any one particular answer is a partial answer does not mean it is a false answer, me
Author: Samim Akgönül Publisher: Transnational Press London ISBN: 1801352372 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 214
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INTRODUCTION.. 5 Samim Akgönül and Anne-Laure Zwilling I NORTHERN EUROPE: REACTIVATION AS POLITICS A Pagan Eco-fascism? The Ecological Thinking of Aleksey ‘Dobroslav’ Dobrovolsky 19 Adrien Nonjon Stereotyping Estonian Pagans: Right-Wing Extremists or Tree Huggers from the Forest? 39 Ringo Ringvee Note on the Romuva Movement in Lithuania. 53 Massimo Introvigne II FRANCE AND TURKEY: REACTIVATION AS REACTIVE IDENTITY Our Longest Memory.” Indo-European Paganism as the Foundation of the Ethnopolitics of the French “Identitarian Movement”. 63 Stéphane François Atheism, Theism, and Reactivation in Turkey Irreligiosity in a Secular State Under an Islamist Conservative Regime. 75 Samim Akgönül Align the “Ancient One” with Our Lives: Analysing the Resurgence of An Ancient Cult to Shed Light on Contemporary Religiosity in Turkey. 87 Kerem Görkem Arslan Comeback of Witchcraft: Thoughts from France. 111 Damien Karbovnik III ART: A NEW COUNTRY FOR REACTIVATION The Search for Spirituality and Beauty: New Ways of Religiosity among Artists and Intellectuals from Dersim/Tunceli 131 Martin Greve Performance Art as a Ritual of Reviving Pagan Religions. 149 Elif Dastarlı and İlkay Canan Okkalı Conclusion. 161 Samim Akgönül and Anne Laure Zwilling
Author: Keith Ferreira Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595482538 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 55
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The eChurch of Zerotropy is a non-Christian eChurch that does not believe in sacred texts of any kind. The eChurch of Zerotropy believes in science, technology, and philosophy. Zerotropy is short for zero entropy.
Author: Anne Rowe Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230277225 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 210
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Iris Murdoch and Morality provides a close focus on moral issues in Murdoch's novels, philosophy and theology. It situates Murdoch within current theoretical debates and develops an understanding of her work as a crucial link between twentieth and twenty-first century writing and theory.
Author: Carl Raschke Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1498203884 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 220
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Postmodern Theology consists in a sharp-edged retrospective and reflection on the forty-year history of the most important movement in contemporary religious thought that is only now passing from the scene. The author, Dr. Carl Raschke, is generally credited with having sparked the movement, even if he did not always happen to be its leading spokesperson. Not only has a comprehensive survey of postmodern theology in all its different phases and complexity not been published prior to the appearance of this book, but it is even more remarkable for someone who both "launched" it and had a central role in shepherding it along to offer what may be termed a "movement memoir." Postmodern Theology surveys and summarizes the major figures and trends that have given currency to such familiar expressions as "deconstruction," "deconstructive theology," "radical theology," "a/theology," "God is dead," and of course, "postmodernism" itself. Dr. Raschke also contextualizes the emergence of these catchy phrases from a frothy soup of new intellectual theories and philosophical innovations, which were international in scope but customized for both academic and popular religious writers--mainly in Britain and America--from the late 1960s onward.
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