"What is it like to be a pracher who can no longer believe the creed? In confidential interviews, clergy reveal how their lives of service are overshadowed by hypocrisy, as they contemplate taking a leap from their faith. As religious leaders struggle to adapt to the new transparency of the information age, the phenomenon of the non-believing clergy portends suprising developments in the future of religious belief"--Back cover.
To really understand God, you have to understand atheism.Atheism and Christianity are often placed at polar opposite ends of a spectrum, forever in stark conflict with each other. In The Aesthetics of Atheism, Kutter Callaway and Barry Taylor propose a radical alternative: atheism and theism need each other. In fact, atheism offers profound and necessary theological insights into the heart of Christianity itself. To get at these truths, Callaway and Taylor dive into the aesthetic dimensions of a...
The historical achievements of religious belief have been large and well chronicled. But what about the accomplishments of those who have challenged religion? Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century America, Imagine There's No Heaven explores the role of disbelief in shaping Western civilization. At each juncture common themes emerge: by questioning the role of gods in the heavens or the role of a God in creating man on earth, nonbelievers help move science forward. By challengin...
In the era of globalization, change is the order of the day, but the conventional view of the Arab Middle East is that of a rigid and even stagnant region. This book counters the static perception and focuses instead on regional dynamics. The international team of contributors evaluate the development of Arab civil society; examine the opportunities and challenges facing the Arab media; link the debates concerning Arab political thought to the evolving regional and international context; look at...
James Randi, the celebrated magician, has written a damning indictment of the faith-healing practices of the leading televangelists and others who claim divine healing powers. Randi and his team of researchers attended scores of 'miracle services' and often were pronounced 'healed' of the non-existent illnesses they claimed. They viewed first-hand the tragedies resulting from the wide-spread belief that faith healing can cure every conceivable disease. The ministries, they discovered, were rife...
Le Testament de Jean Meslier ...
by Jean Meslier and Rudolf Charles D' Ablai Van Giessenburg
Criteria of Diverse Kinds of Truth as Opposed to Agnosticism
by James McCosh
Bedeutende Lehrerfiguren
Dieser Sammelband geht auf eine Vorlesungsreihe zuruck, welche das Forschungszentrum "Bildung und Religion (EDRIS)" der Universitat Goettingen ausgerichtet hat. In 12 Einzelbeitragen beleuchtet er das Themenfeld von Bildung und Religion anhand bedeutender Lehrer, von denen die meisten wahrend der Zeit des fruhen roemischen Kaiserreichs bis zur klassischen Periode des Islam (1.-13. Jh. n. Chr.) wirkten. Vorgestellt werden Lehrerpersoenlichkeiten wie etwa Platon, Jesus, Plutarch, Flavius Josephus,...
The Blind Atheist: the Unscientific Root of Atheism
by Raymond F Hendrix
Holy Bible - Best God Damned Version - Genesis (Holy Bible - Best God Damned Version - Genesis, #1)
by Steve Ebling
Ordained Minister Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster
by Yeoys Paperbacks
