Escape from God: The Use of Religion and Philosophy to Evade ResponsibilityHope Publishing House, 1991 - 291 Seiten A philosophical study on the high price of life, love & happiness which probes the significance of pain & suffering. By looking at the complex, demanding & compassionate Christianity that Jesus lived & died for, this text examines why the human experience inevitability encompasses both joy & suffering, disappointment & success, heartbreak & achievement. It details how philosophy, theology & psychology have been twisted & subverted to draw believers away from, instead of closer to, God. |
Inhalt
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On Longing | 21 |
On Gods Longing | 30 |
On Lifes Primordial Conditions | 45 |
On Atheism and Agnosticism | 57 |
On Hume | 138 |
On Hinduism Islam and Confucianism | 148 |
On the Hopeless Circle the New Age | 160 |
On Judaism | 186 |
On Christendom | 192 |
On the Myth of Omnipotence | 215 |
On the Myth of Omniscience | 239 |
On Gautama Buddha and Jesus | 245 |
On Having a Rationale | 71 |
On Joy and Motivation | 84 |
On Existentialism | 94 |
On Russell | 111 |
On Camus and Darrow | 122 |
Reference Notes and Library Key | 271 |
Acknowledgments | 281 |
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Escape from God: The Use of Religion and Philosophy to Evade Responsibility Dean Turner Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1991 |
Escape from God: The Use of Religion and Philosophy to Evade Responsibility Dean Turner Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1991 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
absolutely Adeimantus agnostic agnosticism atheists Augustine become behavior believe Buddhist Camus Charles Hartshorne choose Christian claim classical theists commit complete contradiction created creative creatures Darrow Dean Turner deny despair divine entity Erhard escape escapist eternal everything evil existence Existentialism existentialist experience explain fact faith Father feel freedom of choice fulfill God's happen heaven Hinduism human Hume Ibid ideals illusion incompletion individual insisted insofar intellectual intrinsic value Jesus Judaism judgments living Living Bible logical loneliness Lord meaningful means mind moral moral nihilism Morris motivation murder Muslim nature never nihilism nihilist Nirvana nothingness notion object omnipotent one's oneself ourselves pantheism Paul Johnson person philosophy possible Ramtha rational rationale real life need realistic reason relationship religion responsibility Russell Sartre sense Shirley MacLaine simply spirit Stalin suffering theologians things thought tion true truth ultimate reality understand University wrong York