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Author: Tim Whitmarsh Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571279325 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 300
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How new is atheism? In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean to recover the stories of those who first refused the divinities. Long before the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world. But history is written by those who prevail, and the Age of Faith mostly suppressed the lively free-thinking voices of antiquity. Tim Whitmarsh brings to life the fascinating ideas of Diagoras of Melos, perhaps the first self-professed atheist; Democritus, the first materialist; and Epicurus and his followers. He shows how the early Christians came to define themselves against atheism, and so suppress the philosophy of disbelief. Battling the Gods is the first book on the origins of the secular values at the heart of the modern state. Authoritative and bold, provocative and humane, it reveals how atheism and doubt, far from being modern phenomena, have intrigued the human imagination for thousands of years.
Author: Tim Whitmarsh Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571279325 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 300
Book Description
How new is atheism? In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean to recover the stories of those who first refused the divinities. Long before the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world. But history is written by those who prevail, and the Age of Faith mostly suppressed the lively free-thinking voices of antiquity. Tim Whitmarsh brings to life the fascinating ideas of Diagoras of Melos, perhaps the first self-professed atheist; Democritus, the first materialist; and Epicurus and his followers. He shows how the early Christians came to define themselves against atheism, and so suppress the philosophy of disbelief. Battling the Gods is the first book on the origins of the secular values at the heart of the modern state. Authoritative and bold, provocative and humane, it reveals how atheism and doubt, far from being modern phenomena, have intrigued the human imagination for thousands of years.
Author: Dennis Herman Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc ISBN: 1387482351 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages :
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This book is a collection of 15 visions of the Heavenly Sanctuary recorded in scripture from Psalms through the Book of Hebrews. The visions John saw inside the Sanctuary and recorded in Revelation are too long to include in this book and will be released in another volume to this series. The visions prophets witnessed and recorded in Heaven reflect turning points in earth's history, away from popular conceptions developed over generations, back to God's original plan. Each vision showed those prophets what will happen, and why. In other words, those visions are written proof showing how the Lord's plans are in motion, and no earthly power will delay their fulfillment. Every prophecy and vision will be fulfilled on time, and in perfect order.
Author: Gary Hamer Publisher: Tate Publishing ISBN: 1617777625 Category : Languages : en Pages : 300
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When we whisper a prayer here on earth, God resounds with the answer from Heaven in the form of the thundering voice of our heavenly Father. I know that heaven resounds with the voice of God when we talk to Him in prayer. He waits for us to understand the power of our words. And then He can begin to operate within the spiritual realm to bring about the answers to the prayers that are whispered to Him. God is always ready and able to intercede when we take the time to tell Him about our situation and the situations of others. Have you heard The Thundering Whisper? Prayer is the most powerful tool we have. But like any tool, it must be used properly to get the desired results. Do you forget to pray on a daily basis? Are your prayers self-serving and full of material wants? Is prayer a rushed chore for you? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then join Reverend Gary Hamer in The Thundering Whisper as he shows us how to properly use prayer. By praying correctly, we speak directly to God and share our innermost thoughts with Him. We can fully understand God's intent just by praying to Him the right way! Reverend Hamer will guide you on how to appropriately pray and thus to a better understanding of prayer, yourself, and God in The Thundering Whisper.
Author: Mark H. Munn Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520243498 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 478
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Among maternal deities of the Greek pantheon, the Mother of the Gods was a paradox. Conflict and resolution were played out symbolically, Munn shows, and the goddess of Lydian tyranny was eventually accepted by the Athenians as the Mother of the Gods and a symbol of their own sovereignty.
Author: Tracy Goodwin Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 163575805X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 91
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As Tracy Goodwin was going about living her life, newly married, young and happy, she was stopped dead in her tracks with an illness that came out of nowhere. She knew God, but life was about to take her on many dark, twisty turns, where everything she knew about Him would be put to the test. Everything she knew about herself would be put to the test. This is the story of an incredible journey through illness, death, and eventually, miraculous healing. Tracy, by the grace of an almighty God, survived cardiac arrest, three heart surgeries, and fought her way back to the land of the living. This is her story of surviving and learning to thrive through the deepest lows and the highest highs. Experience God's great power and see the impact of prayer through her story. If you want to see God's character like never before and see scriptures proven true, then grab a cup of coffee, sit down, and begin reading Unstoppable God,
Author: Nicholas Swift Publisher: John Hunt Publishing ISBN: 1846944198 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 189
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The images on the Marseille Tarot cards started out as illustrations of Sumero-Bablyonian myths, preserved through the centuries on cylinder seals. They were copied by people who didn't understand them but who also had access to some form, whether written or oral, of the wisdom encoded in those myths and in Bible stories. That wisdom is identical with Sufi teachings as espoused by teachers like Ibn al 'Arabi, Rumi, and others, including Gurdjieff and his teachings about the enneagram. The myths and stories are decoded in this book using the multiple meanings conveyed by Arabic consonantal word roots and by reference to those doctrines and to modern discoveries about conditioning and the hemispheric specialization of the brain. Arabic is the closest existing descendant of the ancient Protosemitic language. The Kabbalah, long rumoured to be linked to the Tarot, is shown to come from the same sources, and originally had eight, not ten, sefiroth. The visual evidence alone is overwhelming: the mystery of where the Tarot comes from has been definitively solved.
Author: Joel Hodge Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350104981 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 296
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This book traces the trajectory of militant jihadism to show how violence is more intentionally embraced as the centre of worship, social order and ideology. Undertaking an in-depth analysis of militant jihadist groups and utilising the work of René Girard, Joel Hodge argues that the extreme violence of militant jihadists is a response to modernity in two ways that have not been sufficiently explored by the existing literature. Firstly, it is a manifestation of the unrestrained and escalating state of desire and rivalry in modernity, which militant jihadists seek to counter with extreme violence. Secondly, it is a response to the unveiling and discrediting of sacred violence, which militant jihadists seek to reverse by more purposefully valorising sacred violence in what they believe to be jihad. Relevant to anyone interested in Islam, philosophy of religion, theology, and terrorism, Violence in the Name of God imagines new ways of thinking about militancy in the name of Islam in the twenty-first century.
Author: Asa Simon Mittman Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9781472418012 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 604
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The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature, art history, religious studies, history, classics, and cultural and media studies. The companion will offer scholars and graduate students the first comprehensive and authoritative review of this emergent field.
Author: Donald G. Bloesch Publisher: InterVarsity Press ISBN: 9780830814138 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 338
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Covers encoding and binary digits, entropy, language and meaning, efficient encoding and the noisy channel, and explores ways in which information theory relates to physics, cybernetics, psychology, and art. "Uncommonly good...the most satisfying discussion to be found." — Scientific American. 1980 edition.
Author: Tim Whitmarsh
Author: Tim Whitmarsh
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