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In recent years, the theological—and, more specifically, Roman Catholic—question of the supernatural has made an astonishing return from seeming oblivion. David Bentley Hart's You Are Gods presents a series of meditations on the vexed theological question of the relation of nature and supernature. In its merely controversial aspect, the book is intended most directly as a rejection of a certain Thomistic construal of that relation, as well as an argument in favor of a model of nature and supernature at once more Eastern and patristic.

The Power of Reconciliation will come to be seen as Archbishop Welby's most important book to date. Welby writes about Reconciliation as seeking to disagree well. It relates to both religious and secular communities, from the household to the international. Conflict is widespread. With the after-effects of Covid, changes in science and technology, inequality, and increasingly polarized political and social strife, moves towards reconciliation are more necessary than ever.

Più di dieci anni fa nelle "Orme del sacro" Umberto Galimberti esplorava la religiosità in Occidente. Da allora la riflessione di Galimberti sul sacro e sulla sua crisi si è approfondita, mentre molte cose cambiavano nel panorama religioso e intellettuale. In questo libro, che riprende solo in alcune parti il testo precedente, Galimberti mira a definire compiutamente la sua visione del cristianesimo, a cui riconosce il merito di aver dato vita e forma all'Occidente, ma che a questo Occidente ha anche strappato il cuore autenticamente religioso.

In Habits of the Mind, James Sire challenges you to avoid one of the greatest pitfalls of intellectual life by resisting the temptation to separate being from knowing. He shows you how to cultivate intellectual virtues and disciplines—habits of mind—that will strengthen you in pursuit of your calling. And he offers assurance that intellectual life can be a true calling for Christians: because Jesus was the smartest man who ever lived, Sire argues, you can and should accept the challenge to think as well as you are able.

Este texto fue escrito en 1938 por uno de los grandes pensadores del siglo XX. Muestra tanto la radicalidad con la que Nietzsche rechazó el cristianismo como las diversas declaraciones totalmente incompatibles con tal rechazo. Karl Jaspers interpreta esta contradicción diciendo que Nietzsche jamás llegó a asumir las ideas cristianas. Por lo tanto, tampoco tuvo necesidad de rechazar nada que previamente hubiera aceptado. Sin embargo, la fuerza de estos impulsos cristianos, aun despojados de contenido, sí que constituyó la base del pensamiento de Nietzsche hasta su filosofía tardía.

 A New Kind of Apologist, edited by Sean McDowell and with contributions from more than 20 leading apologists, is the go-to resource for effectively defending the Christian faith in our changing culture.  

El relato es la continuación del libro escrito doce años antes titulado “El profeta” y cuenta cómo este (sabio e incomprendido) regresa a su tierra y se reúne en su jardín con sus discípulos para dialogar, en inspirado lenguaje poético, de sus profundas intuiciones y reflexiones, a veces paradójicas, sobre la vida y el devenir del ser humano.

What does it take to live a meaningful life? Why are so many people in affluent nations so anxious and unhappy? What difference does believing in God really make? And does belief in the God of the Bible truly make sense today? In this revised edition of The God Question, philosopher J. P. Moreland invites us on a journey to a rich, flourishing life. He digs into the causes of our cultural crisis of unhappiness and considers how the God revealed in Jesus provides the most rational solution to our deepest needs.

Der belgische Literatur-Nobelpreisträger reflektiert im vorliegenden Hörbuch das große Mysterium des Unerklärlichen und Unfassbaren im menschlichen Sein. Er wendet sich vordergründig an aufgeklärte Menschen - jedoch sind auch die Anhänger monotheistischer Wahrheitssysteme eingeladen, ihre angeblich ewigen Bedingungen auf den Prüfstand zu stellen. Die Antworten liegen laut Maeterlinck nicht in der Vergangenheit, sondern in der Zukunft, aber können Antworten, die noch nicht gegeben sind bereits feststehen ohne einen schicksalshaften radikalen Grundtenor mitklingen zu lassen?

"Der Antichrist" - Friedrich Nietzsche. Der sehr religiös aufgezogene Friedrich Nietzsche ging in die Geschichte ein als großer Kritiker christlicher Moral, aber auch Moral per se. In seinem Werk Der Antichrist wendet sich Friedrich Nietzsche offen gegen die Kirche, die seiner Meinung nach das geistige Erbe der Antike zerstört habe, aber auch gegen die christliche Glaubenslehre per se. Er lehnt die gepredigte Mitleidsethik ab und zeigt deutlich seine Verachtung für das Schwache und alles, was nicht nach Höherem strebt.

Une contribution au débat sur la laïcité en France dans laquelle l'auteur montre que ce concept, loin d'évacuer la question du sacré et de la reléguer dans le seul espace privé, peut être mieux compris qu'il ne l'a été majoritairement depuis un siècle, à travers la reconnaissance de son sens renvoyant à une spiritualité ouverte ainsi qu'au geste de la destruction des idoles.

Das Wort "Gott" ist den einen heilig, den anderen ein Ärgernis und wieder anderen total gleichgültig. Ein Umstand, der damit zu tun hat, dass wir nicht wissen, was in diesem Wort zur Sprache kommt, was damit eigentlich gemeint ist. Egal ob man "religiös" ist oder nicht; ist es gut zu verstehen, was mit dem Wort "Gott" gemeint sein könnte. Es weist auf etwas, das uns alle angeht: das Geheimnis des Lebens.

Mit tiefem Kenntnisreichtum bringt uns Hegel den Geist der Völker des alten Orients, der Antike und des christlichen Abendlandes nahe und verbindet sie zu einer Stufenfolge der Entwicklung der Freiheit. Alle Umwälzungen, aller Schmerz und alles Leid in der Geschichte sind der Idee geschuldet, dass der Mensch als Mensch frei ist. Sie ist der "Angelpunkt, um den sich die Weltgeschichte dreht". Hegels Weltgeschichte ist bis heute eine historische, philosophische und theologische Herausforderung.

El anticristo propugna la superación del nihilismo y del cristianismo.

Lo studioso di antropologia troverà nelle leggende, nei costumi e nella storia di tutti i popoli le testimonianze delle guarigioni ottenute per mezzo di qualche forma di pratiche occulte. Queste forme di terapia hanno molto differenziato fra esse: dalle ripugnanti pratiche delle più barbare superstizioni fino alle più raffinate forme di procedura che si trovano in alcuni dei più moderni culti metafisici d'oggi.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by the English poet William Blake consists of a series of texts written in the style of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own beliefs. Composed between 1790 and 1793, the book makes reference to Milton and Swedenborg, and adopts a device from Dante's Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost: a visit to hell. Blake expresses a deliberately depolarized and unified vision of the cosmos in which the material world and physical desire are both part of the divine order.

The 55 minutes you spend listening to this audiobook can be magical. Some of these stories and ponderings will be understood clearly, while others may elude you, but not to worry, you will want to listen several times, and the meaning will come to you. Like all great writing, these stories will remain with you.

An essay in which Mark Twain destroys the pretensions of the interpretation of divine will in the world. He argues against the apparent ease and certainty of interpreting divine communications.

Phillip E. Johnson pries the lid off public debate about questions of ultimate concern - questions often suppressed by our society’s intellectual elite. Moving far beyond matters of creation and evolution, Johnson outlines the questions we all ought to be asking about the meaning of human history, the limits of scientific inquiry, religion and education in a pluralistic society, truth, liberty and moral choices, and God and his word, Jesus Christ.

Nathan the Wise, a play published by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in 1779, is a fervent plea for religious tolerance. It was first performed in 1783 at the Döbbelinsches Theatre in Berlin. The narrative is set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade and describes how the wise Jewish merchant Nathan, the enlightened sultan Saladin, and a Templar Knight bridge the differences between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Its major themes are friendship, tolerance, the relativism of God, a rejection of miracles and a need for communication.