How We Came to Believe in Gods, Demons, Miracles, & Magical Rites
Explains the apparently baffling phenomenon that educated people in industrialized countries believe in more than the physical world, just like people in all other times and places. Traces the evolution of the Christian god, man-gods, prophets, communion, and Bible stories. Also includes an survey
A collection of essays, which presents the case against belief in God. It rejects the view that moral values and human purpose require divine sanction. It evaluates the arguments for God's existence, the validity of mystical experience, and the importance of the God concept for the development of morality and meaning in life.
A major work from one of today's leading theologians, Divine Empathy attempts to "think the unthinkable," how God comes forth actively and redemptively to meet the human situation. Apologetic but not polemical, Farley's work sympathetically engages yet moves beyond both the classical tradition as well as contemporary anti-theisms in formulating ......
Along with this first full-scale critique of Christian supersessionism, Soulen's own constructive proposal regrasps the narrative unity of Christian identity and the canon through an original and important insight into the divine-human convenant, the election of Israel, and the meaning of history. (Christian)
The debate about God-language has two opposing extremes. One side maintains that biblical language and masculine pronouns must be retained. The other argues that female imagery for God is preferable. Now Gail Ramshaw presents a third position, urging the inclusion of many images for God, the correction of others, and the total avoidance of any ......
A consensus among many scientists, educators, and members of mainline churches is that 'scientific creationism' does not warrant a place in the public school science curriculum. This book looks behind creationism's mask to provide an understanding of what creationists believe and what strategies they employ to achieve their sectarian goals.
This detailed study of the different rates of growth of parts of the body relative to the body as a whole represents Sir Julian Huxley's great contribution to analytical morphology, and is still the basis for modern investigations in the field.
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.
