Power, Love and Evil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power, Love and Evil write by Wayne Cristaudo. This book was released on 2008. Power, Love and Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Love and evil are real they are substances of force fields which contain us as constituent parts. Of all the powers of life they are the two most pregnant without meaning, hence the most generative of what is specifically human. Love and evil stand in the closest relationship to each other: evil is both what destroys love and what forces more love out of us; it is, as Augustine astutely grasped, privative (requiring something to negate) but it is also born out of misdirected love. Breaking with naïve realist and post-modern dogmas about the nature of the real, this book provides the basis for a philosophy of generative action as it draws upon examples from philosophy, literature, religion and popular culture. While this book has a sympathetic ear for ancient and traditional narratives about the meaning of life, it offers a philosophy appropriate for our times and our crises. It is particularly directed at readers who are seeking for new ways to think about our world and self-making, and who are as dissatisfied with post-Nietzschean and post-Marxian 20th century social theory as they are by more traditional philosophical and naturalistic accounts of human being.
Of Love and Evil
Of Love and Evil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Of Love and Evil write by Anne Rice. This book was released on 2010-11-30. Of Love and Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anne Rice's magnificent Songs of the Seraphim series continues with a lyrical and haunting new novel of angels and assassins set in dark and dangerous worlds — in our time and in centuries past. Toby O'Dare, former government assassin, is summoned by the angel Malchiah to fifteenth-century Rome — the city of Michelangelo and Raphael, of Leo X and the Holy Inquisition — to solve a terrible crime of poisoning and to uncover the secrets of an earthbound restless spirit, a diabolical dybbuk. Toby is plunged into this rich age as a lutist sent to charm and calm this troublesome spirit. In the fullness of the high Italian Renaissance, Toby soon discovers himself in the midst of dark plots and counterplots, surrounded by a still darker and more dangerous threat as the veil of ecclesiastical terror closes in around him. And as he once again embarks on a powerful journey of atonement, he is reconnected with his own past, with matters light and dark, fierce and tender, with the promise of salvation and with a deeper and richer vision of love.
Love, Freedom, and Evil
Love, Freedom, and Evil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love, Freedom, and Evil write by Thaddeus J. Williams. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Love, Freedom, and Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The defining premise of the Relational Free Will Defense is the claim that authentic love requires free will. Many scholars, including Gregory Boyd and Vincent Brümmer, champion this claim. Best-selling books, such as Rob Bell’s Love Wins, echo that love “cannot be forced, manipulated, or coerced. It always leaves room for the other to decide.” The claim that love requires free will has even found expression in mainstream Hollywood films, including Frailty, Bruce Almighty, and The Adjustment Bureau. The analysis shows convincingly that the claim that authentic love requires free will, does not meet the criteria of consistency, compatibility with Scriptural sources, and the demands of concrete encounter with problems of moral evil.
God, Power, and Evil
God, Power, and Evil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God, Power, and Evil write by David Ray Griffin. This book was released on 2004-01-01. God, Power, and Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The baffling age-old question, if there is a good God, why is there evil in the world? has troubled ordinary people and great thinkers for centuries. God, Power, and Evil illuminates the issues by providing both a critical historical survey of theodicy as presented in the works of major Western philosophers and theologians--Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Spinoza, Luther, Calvin, Leibniz, Barth, John Hick, James Ross, Fackenheim, Brunner, Berkeley, Albert Knudson, E. S. Brighton, and others--and a brilliant constructive statement of an understanding of theodicy written from the perspective of the process philosophical and theological thought inspired primarily by Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne.
Evil and the God of Love
Evil and the God of Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evil and the God of Love write by J. Hick. This book was released on 2010-04-09. Evil and the God of Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When first published, Evil and the God of Love instantly became recognized as a modern theological classic, widely viewed as the most important work on the problem of evil to appear in English for more than a generation. Including a foreword by Marilyn McCord Adams, this reissue also contains a new preface by the author.
