| Author | : Christopher Dawson |
| Publisher | : CUA Press |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2012-08-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0813218195 |
Progress and Religion was perhaps the most influential of all Christopher Dawson's books, establishing him as an interpreter of history and a historian of ideas.
| Author | : Philip Doddridge |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 488 |
| Release | : 1861 |
| Genre | : Christian life |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : John Michael Greer |
| Publisher | : New Society Publisher |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2015-05-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1550925865 |
The acclaimed climate futurist examines our unquestioning faith in progress, and its limits in the face of peak oil and climate change. Since the Industrial Age began, scientific and technological progress has been nothing short of miraculous. As a result, progress itself has become the new religion of the West. Our faith in it is so complete that many of us ignore the perils of peak oil and climate change, believing that our lab-coated high priests will surely bring forth yet another miracle to save us all. Unfortunately, progress as we've known it has been entirely dependent on the breakneck exploitation of half a billion years of stored sunlight in the form of fossil fuels. As the age of this cheap, abundant energy draws to a close, progress is grinding to a halt. Unforgiving planetary limits are teaching us that our blind faith in endless exponential growth is a dangerous myth. After Progress addresses this looming paradigm shift, exploring the shape of history from a perspective on the far side of the coming crisis. With a startling examination of the role our belief systems play in our collective fate, John Michael Greer makes a persuasive argument for seeking new sources of meaning, value, and hope for the era ahead.
| Author | : Paul Draper |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2019-04-17 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 131729274X |
While orthodox religion by its very nature is conservative, philosophy at its best is inherently radical. It challenges authority, tradition, and the whole idea of "dogma." For this reason, philosophy of religion can be explosively controversial. It is bound to disturb those who peddle incontrovertible truth and fascinate those who seek spiritual truth and are willing to follow the argument wherever it leads. This volume is designed for such seekers. It brings together an international team of leading philosophers of religion to explore and debate radical new ideas about religion, God, and ultimate reality. Four related questions are addressed: How might religion make progress? Is life after death a real possibility? Must a perfect God be motivated by our well-being? What alternatives are there to traditional theism and materialist atheism? The book begins with a vision for the field of philosophy of religion and ends with a capstone chapter that touches on all of the topics debated in the other chapters. The addition of chapter overviews, annotated suggestions for further reading, and annotated guides to three additional controversies make it an ideal textbook in addition to being an important source for scholars and seekers of all kinds.
| Author | : Christopher 1889-1970 Dawson |
| Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2021-09-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781014382153 |
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| Author | : Princeton University. Library |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 630 |
| Release | : 1920 |
| Genre | : Classified catalogs |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Chandra Muzaffar |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2014-06-03 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1317973518 |
This book discusses issues concerning human rights and religion. Is a more integrated approach to human rights desirable - an approach that transcends the individual-centred orientation of civil and political liberties of the dominant centres of power in the West? How can religious thought contribute to an integrated notion of human rights and human dignity? What sort of transformation should religion itself undergo in order to enable it to come to grips with contemporary challenges? Related to this is a larger question: How can universal spiritual and moral values help to shape politics, the economy and society as a whole?
