Here is Ramsey's best-loved book, a luminous meditation on the art of praying and the way prayer shapes the heart of the believer. This book searches out the biblical roots of prayer as they are revealed in New Testament scriptures and makes that wisdom available for contemporary readers.
The purpose of this book is to suggest ways of finding the treasure in what we may consider an unlikely field--ourselves. Through many practical suggestions for heightened prayer, including Ignatian exercises and Jungian exploration, God of Surprises guides readers along the inner journey which reveals to us a God we may not have expected to find.
A collection of essays that addresses the many and diverse aspects of atheistic humanism. It disposes of the perennial charge that a naturalistic world outlook presupposes values which it cannot justify. It criticises sociologists of belief who refute themselves by refusing to admit that there is such a thing as 'objective knowledge'.
'The meaning of life' ...we question it, ponder it, dispute and fret about it, but at some point each of us finds the need to address this fundamental issue of human existence. This book suggests that we must first set aside our comfortable assumptions and try to gain an accurate understanding of this powerful concept known as the meaning of life.
Examines Jesus as an idea of salvation, and not as an individual, gradually constituted and modified over a considerable timespan. This study shows that we know next to nothing about the actual existence of Jesus, all efforts to recover the history of this individual ending in failure.
Offers a look at the history, ethics, and aesthetics of art from the perspective of the specific philosophical concepts of transcendence, metaphysics, subjectivity, and conditionality. This volume questions many philosophical concepts used to justify art, and views their meaning within the perspective of philosophical development.
Although the Bible has been consulted for more than twenty centuries, this title asserts that there remains an extensive degree of common ignorance about it.
Breaking through the quagmire of confusion and obfuscation that often surrounds talk of God, La Croix distinguishes and prioritises the essential questions and relevant side issues that must be confronted if clarity is ever to be achieved in this area. Useful for professionals and laypersons alike, this work features his essays.
Micks takes readers through the Nicene Creed step by step, asking questions that acquaint us with its fourth-century background and help us to discover the creed's theological, corporate, and personal relevance today. Especially useful for adult inquirers' classes.
