| | | 
| | | 
Customers who bought this book also bought: | Wisdom at Qumran: A Form-Critical Analysis of the Admonitions in 4QInstruction by Daryl Jefferies
This study provides background on wisdom forms, the key Qumran sectarian texts, and wisdom studies related to the Dead Sea Scrolls. 4QInstruction includes poetic discourses, hymnic material, and short wisdom sayings and admonitions. A major focus is placed on the admonitions, which are discussed in terms of their structure, wisdom forms, and setting. The admonitions are expressed in biblical wisdom forms, showing a familiarity with and acceptance of traditional Hebrew wisdom, including a focus on traditional themes. Yet, when read from the sectarian perspective, 4QInstruction reinforces the guidelines and theology of the key Dead Sea Scroll documents. |
|  | Healing in the Theology of Saint Ephrem by Aho Shemunkasho
Ephrem, the most celebrated writer of the Syriac Church, presents a wide range of theological themes and images that are characteristic of fourth-century Syrian Christianity. A significant theme that no one has yet studied in Ephrem is the concept of sickness and healing. This book presents the significance of healing theology and the ways in which the healing of man - spiritually, mentally, and corporally - is highly valued by Ephrem. The main part of the book deals with the causes of spiritual sickness and the process of healing, and the way in which Ephrem places them in the divine history of salvation. |
|  | How the Codex Was Found by Margaret Gibson
A vibrant tale of two journeys to St. Catharine's Monastery in Mount Sinai that lead to the discovery of an ancient codex containing an old version of the Syriac Gospels. |
|  | The Old Syriac Gospels, Studies and Comparative Translations by Jan Wilson
This is a comparative translation into English of the two earliest versions of the Syriac (or Aramaic) Gospels (codex Sinaiticus and codex Curetonianus), with some interesting differences between the Aramaic and traditional Greek texts. |
|  | Early Syriac Translation Technique & the textual criticism of the Greek Gospels by Peter John Williams
This systematic investigation of the relationship between the Syriac Gospels and their Greek Vorlage, formulates clear rules for the use of Syriac witnesses in textual criticism and also shows the errors that can arise if these rules are ignored. |
|
| |
| previous | up | next
|
Sands, Paul. The Justification of Religious Faith in Soren Kierkegaard, John Henry Newman, and William James
 E-mail this product to a friend
| Author: | Paul Sands |
| Title: | The Justification of Religious Faith in Soren Kierkegaard, John Henry Newman, and William James |
| Subtitle: | |
| Series: | Gorgias Dissertations Religion GD 8, Religion 1 |
| Publisher: | Gorgias Press LLC |
| Publication Date: | 1/1/2004 12:00:00 AM |
| Availability: | In Print |
| ISBN: | 1-59333-126-6 |
| Language: | |
| Format: | Hardback 6 x 9, 1 volume(s), xii+293 pages, illustrations |
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), John Henry Newman (1801-1890), and William James (1842-1910) all defended the right of persons to embrace religious beliefs that are not strictly warranted by empirical evidence and logical argumentation. Faith must not be hampered, they argued, by the demands of reason narrowly conceived. Paul Sands notes, however, important differences in the way each relates faith to reason. Kierkegaard emphasizes discontinuity: faith is a divine gift that opens a sphere of truth inaccessible to objectifying rationality. John Henry Newman stresses continuity: faith ventures beyond evidence, but only as the mind itself bridges the gap between proof and certitude by a subtle and flexible exercise of the "illative sense." William James also emphasizes continuity, but he goes much further than Newman in relativizing reason by exposing its passional nature. Sands examines the religious epistemologies of Kierkegaard, Newman, and James in the context of two "givens" characteristic of early twenty-first century culture, namely, the intellectual hegemony of probabilism and the pluralization of the Western mind. He probes the writings of each author in three key areas: the role of evidence in religious faith, the nature and legitimacy of the so-called "venture" of faith, and the question of how best to adjudicate disputed religious truth claims. In the end, Sands concludes that William James incorporates and transcends the best insights of Kierkegaard and Newman while offering a pragmatic method of verification that provides a modest, but workable approach to the rational adjudication of religious truth claims.
Paul F. Sands is Assistant Professor of Religion at Baylor University. Before joining Baylor, he taught philosophy of religion at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
- Introduction
- Soren Kierkegaard and the Venture of Faith
- John Henry Newman and the Divinatory Mind
- William James and the Will to Believe
- Conclusions
| |
| | Sands, Paul. The Justification of Religious Faith in Soren Kierkegaard, John Henry Newman, and William James | | ISBN: | 1-59333-126-6 | | Weight: | 1 LBS. | | Price: | $98.00 | | To get the 20% Gorgias BiblioPerks™ discount, simply login. | |
|
|
