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Militant atheism is on the rise. In recent years, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have produced a steady stream of best-selling books denigrating religious belief. These authors are merely the leading edge of a larger movement that includes much of the scientific community. In response, mathematician David Berlinski, himself a secular Jew, delivers a biting defense of religious thought.

In Thoreau’s God, Richard Higgins invites seekers—religious or otherwise—to walk with the great Transcendentalist through a series of meditations on his spiritual life. Thoreau offers us no creed, but his writings encourage reflection on how to live, what to notice, and what to love. Though his quest was deeply personal, Thoreau devoted his life to communicating his experience of an infinite, wild, life-giving God.

In questo libro di Evolvenza sono raccontati il pensiero umano e il pensiero superumano, durante un amichevole confronto tra Roberta, appassionata del pensiero umano e Giulio, appassionato del pensiero dei maestri definitivamente disincarnati, che hanno comunicato per decenni e continuano a comunicare, attraverso, ad esempio, il Punto F. Al lettore, la scelta tra il pensiero umano e il pensiero superumano. Noi crediamo che solo il pensiero superumano abbia il potere di spiegare la vita.

Gli amici di Evolvenza si sono riuniti per molti anni in "agapi" in cui leggevano vari insegnamenti dei maestri immateriali e, insieme, cercavano di applicare questi insegnamenti alle loro vite. Era una ginnastica spirituale che a molti di noi ha fatto bene, perché ci ha permesso d'intuire la perfezione della Legge che, oltre a governare le nostre vite, governa il Tutto. Le ricerche di Evolvenza sono riportate, oltre che sui libri, giornalmente su YouTube. Attualmente chi scrive frequenta lo storico Cerchio Esseno, il cui strumento difende da quarantacinque anni il suo anonimato.

In his reflections on God, Jesus, suffering, and liberation, James H. Cone relates the gospel message to the experience of the Black community. But a wider theme of the book is the role that social and historical context plays in framing the questions we address to God as well as the mode of the answers provided.

Through his own writings and inspiration of Aristotle and countless others, Plato continues to influence every area of philosophic thought, to say nothing of his enormous influence on Christian theology. His dramatic dialogues, including Republic, the monumental treatise on the ideal state, render him one of the greatest of Greek literary geniuses. In this concise analysis, eminent Plato scholar A. E. Taylor examines the philosopher's theory of knowledge and doctrine of ideas; the ideal of the philosopher-king; the social system advocated in Republic; judgments on democracy; and belief in the immortality of the soul. Also considered: Plato's relationship with his master, Socrates; contribution to the idea of university education; attack on art; abstention from public life; anticipation of Copernicus. Taylor also mentions historical misunderstandings of the one he deems the most original and influential of all philosophers.

Written between A.D. 413 and 426, The City of God is one of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian thought, a book which is vital to the understanding of modern Western society. Augustine originally intended it to be an apology for Christianity against the accusation that the Church was responsible for the decline of the Roman Empire, which had occurred just three years earlier. Indeed, Augustine produced a great amount of evidence to prove that paganism was responsible for this event. However, by the time the work was finished, the book had taken on a larger theme.

Anthropologists have invariably engaged in their discipline as a form of redemption, whether to escape from social restriction, nourish their souls, reform their home polities, or vindicate "the natives". Redeeming Anthropology explores how in pursuit of a secular science sired by the Enlightenment, adherents to a "faith in mankind" have vacillated between rejecting and embracing theology, albeit in concealed and contradictory ways.