It has never been more important to articulate the wonder and enchantment of the Christian message. Yet the traditional approaches of apologetics are often outmoded in an age of profound disenchantment and distraction, unable to meet this pressing need.
This winsome apologetics book for a new generation makes the case that Christianity offers a compelling explanatory framework for making sense of our world. Pastor and writer Gavin Ortlund believes it is essential to appeal not only to the mind but also to the heart and the imagination as we articulate the beauty of the gospel.
Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't reimagines four classical theistic arguments-cosmological, teleological, moral, and Christological-making a cumulative case for God as the best framework for understanding the storied nature of reality. The book suggests that Christian theism can explain such things as the elegance of math, the beauty of music, and the value of love. It is suitable for use in classes yet accessibly written, making it a perfect resource for churches and small groups.
A billion hours is equivalent to 114,000 years. That's how much good we're going to do together. Just fourteen minutes at a time.
You don't need more money, or time, or even another election cycle to bring transformational change to your community. What you need is to believe that daily microdoses of good over years and years can create a great return. Stop waiting for the big change moment and seize the good that you can do today.
Join Chris in pledging one percent of your time (fourteen minutes a day) to make the world a better place. Learn how to solve old problems in new ways, and walk with Chris as he shows you how he started Mercy Project-a nonprofit committed to ending child trafficking in Ghana. See how compassion and care can serve as rocket fuel for deep courage and untapped creativity.
Our responsibility in a world filled with suffering is to care, show up, and act. Not once, not twice, but a little bit every day for the rest of our lives. Accept this invitation and join a global movement for extraordinary good. Impossible alone. Transformational together.
Con palabras muy cálidas y audaces, este texto presentael amor de María Magdalena por Jesús y de Jesús por ella. María Magdalena encarna la sucesión de estadios del amor humano, lo cual es diferente de lo que representa María de Nazaret. La primera encarna el arquetipo de la amante (en su doble versión transgresora y sublime), mientras que la segunda ensalza el ideal de la virginidad y de la maternidad. María es el nombre de la Madre-Hermana-Esposa, porque,en verdad, se trata de un único ser: la naturaleza humana hipostasiada en una persona. Por ello el autor de nuestro texto asocia hacia el final la figura de María Magdalena con la Iglesia, que es toda la humanidad convocada al encuentro con Dios, a la unión con Él.
A principios del siglo XX, el abad Joseph Bonnet descubrió el sermón El amor de Magdalena, escrito en el siglo XVII y de autor anónimo. Su difusión se dio gracias a Rilke,quien, en 1911, descubrió el texto por azar en la vitrina de un anticuario en París. El poeta quedó fascinado por el contenido de su hallazgo y decidió traducirlo al alemán.
Religion is shown to be distinct from both rationalism and spiritualism but to combine elements of both. It is further shown that modern rationaiism, much like an unregulated economy, collapses into its own antithesis, it being one of the purposes of religion to prevent this collapse.
Spiritualität und Showbusiness – und wie das zusammenpasst!
Guido Cantz zählt ohne Zweifel zu Deutschlands führenden Spaß-Experten. Ob als Comedian, Showmaster, oder Kabarettist – in Sachen Humor macht dem blonden Multitalent kaum jemand etwas vor. Vom Kölner Karneval ging es für ihn direkt in die erste Liga der Samstagabendunterhaltung. Doch in seinem Leben gab es Punkte, an denen ihm Humor nicht weiterhalf. In seiner Biografie gewährt er einen Blick hinter die Kulissen – die des Fernsehens und der Bühne, aber auch hinter die seines Privatlebens.
- »Mit 50 Jahren wollte ich mal zurückschauen.« – die erste Autobiografie von Guido Cantz
- Glauben leben, Kraft schöpfen, Krisen überwinden: Welche Rolle spielt die Religion für den deutschen Komiker?
- Das überraschende Ende als »Verstehen Sie Spaß?«-Moderator: Guido Cantz erzählt offen, wie es dazu kam
- Auf der Bühne mit den großen Showmastern unserer Zeit: Anekdoten mit Kurt Felix, Thomas Gottschalk, Frank Elstner u.v.m.
Voll auf die Entertainment-Karte gesetzt – und nun?
»Was ist wichtig im Leben? Wer bist du und wer möchtest du sein?« Seit seine Karriere Fahrt aufgenommen hat, hatte Guido Cantz keine Zeit mehr für solche Fragen. In diesem Buch findet er nicht nur Raum für den Rückblick, sondern auch für Selbstreflexion.
Wann immer der Entertainer vor sein Publikum tritt, helfen ihm Bauchgefühl und Gottvertrauen. Spätestens seit er sich im Alter von 25 Jahren plötzlich für fünf Tage auf der Intensivstation wiederfand, ist »der da oben« seine unverzichtbare Kraftquelle. In seiner Biografie teilt Guido Cantz Momente des Aufbruchs, des Zweifels und der Unsicherheit.
Lernen Sie den deutschen Komiker in all seinen Facetten kennen: den unterhaltsamen und leichten, genauso wie den zweifelnden und schweren!
Em Heróis da Igreja - A Era da Reforma, abre-se uma janela para desbravar um período da Igreja marcado por sérias divisões, muitas das quais ainda permanecem. Neste volume foram reunidos escritos dos séculos 16 e 17, incluindo documentos da época da Reforma Protestante e da Reforma Católica, esta última comumente denominada Contrarreforma.
A Era da Reforma - quarta capa
Catarina de Gênova
Martinho Lutero
Tomás More
João Calvino
Tomás Cranmer
Menno Simons
Teresa de Ávila
João da Cruz
Francisco de Sales
Metrofánes Critopoulos de Alexandria
Jeremy Taylor
François Fénelon
Madame Jeanne Guyon
Johann Arndt
John Owen
Blaise Pascal
Philip Jacob Spener
Henry Scougal
Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning rods for public outrage and debate.
Public Confessions reveals the controversial religious conversions that shaped modern America. Rebecca L. Davis explains why the new faiths of notable figures including Clare Boothe Luce, Whittaker Chambers, Sammy Davis Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, Chuck Colson, and others riveted the American public. Unconventional religious choices charted new ways of declaring an 'authentic' identity amid escalating Cold War fears of brainwashing and coercion. Facing pressure to celebrate a specific vision of Americanism, these converts variously attracted and repelled members of the American public. Whether the act of changing religions was viewed as selfish, reckless, or even unpatriotic, it provoked controversies that ultimately transformed American politics.
Public Confessions takes intimate history to its widest relevance, and in so doing, makes you see yourself in both the private and public stories it tells.
Drawing on a wealth of new evidence, pioneering research psychologist David DeSteno shows why religious practices and rituals are so beneficial to those who follow them—and to anyone, regardless of their faith (or lack thereof).
Scientists are beginning to discover what believers have known for a long time: the rewards that a religious life can provide. For millennia, people have turned to priests, rabbis, imams, shamans, and others to help them deal with issues of grief and loss, birth and death, morality and meaning. In this absorbing work, DeSteno reveals how numerous religious practices from around the world improve emotional and physical well-being.
With empathy and rigor, DeSteno chronicles religious rites and traditions from cradle to grave. He explains how the Japanese rituals surrounding childbirth help strengthen parental bonds with children. He describes how the Apache Sunrise Ceremony makes teenage girls better able to face the rigors of womanhood. He shows how Buddhist meditation reduces hostility and increases compassion. He demonstrates how the Jewish practice of sitting shiva comforts the bereaved. And much more.
DeSteno details how belief itself enhances physical and mental health. But you don't need to be religious to benefit from the trove of wisdom that religion has to offer. Many items in religion's "toolbox" can help the body and mind whether or not one believes. How God Works offers advice on how to incorporate many of these practices to help all of us live more meaningful, successful, and satisfying lives.
A brilliant distillation of the key ideas behind successful self-improvement practices throughout history, showing us how they remain relevant today
Self-help today is a multi-billion-dollar global industry, one often seen as a by-product of neoliberalism and capitalism. Far from being a recent phenomenon, however, the practice of self-improvement has a long and rich history, extending all the way back to ancient China. For millennia, philosophers, sages, and theologians have reflected on the good life and devised strategies on how to achieve it.
Focusing on ten core ideas of self-improvement that run through the world's advice literature, Anna Katharina Schaffner reveals the ways they have evolved across cultures and historical eras, and why they continue to resonate with us today. Reminding us that there is much to learn from looking at time-honed models, Schaffner also examines the ways that self-improvement practices provide powerful barometers of the values, anxieties, and aspirations that preoccupy us at particular moments in time and expose basic assumptions about our purpose and nature.
While the Bible is enough to take us to heaven, knowing history helps us live more wisely on our way.
George Orwell observed in Nineteen Eighty-Four that those who pay attention to history have the potential to influence the future. Stuck in the Present offers a grounding in historical consciousness that allows us to better navigate the daily bombardment of information. Amnesia about the past makes us vulnerable to the shackles of modern-day hucksters who try to convince us that the present is all that matters.
With wit and grace, Moore encourages listeners to avoid common historical fallacies and better understand the significance of the past. Through interviews conducted with leading historians, Moore invites listeners to better understand relevant topics like the living legacy of the Puritans, slavery and the Civil War, and the current struggles for Civil Rights. Stuck in the Present motivates listeners to be lifelong learners of history. By doing so, we are enriched and better equipped to engage the complexities of our world.
Is your worldview enlightened enough to accommodate both science and God at the same time?
Dr. Michael Guillen, a best-selling author, Emmy award-winning journalist and former physics instructor at Harvard, used to be an Atheist―until science changed his mind. Once of the opinion that people of faith are weak, small-minded folks who just don't understand science, Dr. Guillen ultimately concluded that not only does science itself depend on faith, but faith is actually the mightiest power in the universe.
In Believing Is Seeing, Dr. Guillen recounts the fascinating story of his journey from Atheism to Christianity, citing the latest discoveries in neuroscience, physics, astronomy, and mathematics to pull back the curtain on the mystery of faith as no one ever has.
Is it true that "seeing is believing?" Or is it possible that reality can be perceived most clearly with the eyes of faith―and that truth is bigger than proof? Let Dr. Guillen be your guide as he brilliantly argues for a large and enlightened worldview consistent with both God and modern science.
Beautifully written, passionately argued and frequently controversial, God: An Anatomy is cultural history on a grand scale.
Three thousand years ago, in the Southwest Asian lands we now call Israel and Palestine, a group of people worshipped a complex pantheon of deities, led by a father god called El. El had seventy children, who were gods in their own right. One of them was a minor storm deity, known as Yahweh. Yahweh had a body, a wife, offspring and colleagues. He fought monsters and mortals. He gorged on food and wine, wrote books, and took walks and naps. But he would become something far larger and far more abstract: the God of the great monotheistic religions.
But as Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou reveals, God’s cultural DNA stretches back centuries before the Bible was written, and persists in the tics and twitches of our own society, whether we are believers or not. The Bible has shaped our ideas about God and religion, but also our cultural preferences about human existence and experience; our concept of life and death; our attitude to sex and gender; our habits of eating and drinking; our understanding of history. Examining God’s body, from his head to his hands, feet and genitals, she shows how the Western idea of God developed. She explores the places and artefacts that shaped our view of this singular God and the ancient religions and societies of the biblical world. And in doing so she analyses not only the origins of our oldest monotheistic religions, but also the origins of Western culture.
