Unbelievers - 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 Unbelievers write by Alec Ryrie. This book was released on 2019-11-19. Unbelievers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “How has unbelief come to dominate so many Western societies? The usual account invokes the advance of science and rational knowledge. Ryrie’s alternative, in which emotions are the driving force, offers new and interesting insights into our past and present.” —Charles Taylor, author of A Secular Age Why have societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? We think we know the answer, pointing to science and reason as the twin culprits, but in this lively, startlingly original reconsideration, Alec Ryrie argues that people embraced unbelief much as they have always chosen their worldviews: through the heart more than the mind. Looking back to the crisis of the Reformation and beyond, he shows how, long before philosophers started to make the case for atheism, powerful cultural currents were challenging traditional faith. As Protestant radicals eroded time-honored certainties and ushered in an age of anger and anxiety, some defended their faith by redefining it in terms of ethics, setting in motion secularizing forces that soon became transformational. Unbelievers tells a powerful emotional history of doubt with potent lessons for our own angry and anxious times. “Well-researched and thought-provoking...Ryrie is definitely on to something right and important.” —Christianity Today “A beautifully crafted history of early doubt...Unbelievers covers much ground in a short space with deep erudition and considerable wit.” —The Spectator “Ryrie traces the root of religious skepticism to the anger, the anxiety, and the ‘desperate search for certainty’ that drove thinkers like...John Donne to grapple with church dogma.” —New Yorker
Unbelievers
Unbelievers - 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 Unbelievers write by Stevie Reno. This book was released on 2015-04-06. Unbelievers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Trapped in a Mexican airport, Americans are forced to deal with hidden dangers inside and outside of the airport...
The Bible for Unbelievers
The Bible for Unbelievers - 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 The Bible for Unbelievers write by Guus Kuijer. This book was released on 2016-12-13. The Bible for Unbelievers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of Northern Europe's most popular writers, Guus Kuijer was fascinated with the Bible from an early age, but was never able to believe it, no matter how hard he tried. Now, in prose that is humorous and sometimes irreverent, Kuijer reinterprets the most popular book in the world, making it new again for the twenty-first century and for the first time rendering it accessible to "unbelievers"—that is, to people who are ready to appreciate it as something other than a sacred text. The first volume of The Bible for Unbelievers tells the story of the Book of Genesis as an agnostic novel in which man's curiosity causes creation, not God alone. Kuijer explores the nagging loneliness of the universe before creation. He asks if man and woman are indeed God's handiwork or vice versa. The entire cast of characters in this Bible is imperfect, a little lawless, and at times fumbling and jealous—God included. Kuijer's afterword tells us that no story can "come to life unless the storyteller makes it his or her own." There's a charming invitation in these pages for us all to dare to revisit our founding myths and the roles we play in them. The Bible for Unbelievers is here to draw us into questions that have no answers. It does so not with fear or religiosity, but with joy.
God, Muhammad and the Unbelievers
God, Muhammad and the Unbelievers - 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, Muhammad and the Unbelievers write by David Marshall. This book was released on 2014-04-08. God, Muhammad and the Unbelievers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study of the Qur'an arises from an interest in a pressing contemporary issue, the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims ('the Ummah and the Other'). This text explores how the Qur'an comments on this relationship as it changed in the course of Muhammad's ministry. Particular attention is paid to the portrayal in the Meccan 'punishment-narratives' of a fascinating and complex triangular relationship between God, the powerless and persecuted believing community with Muhammad at its centre, and the unbelieving Meccans who rejected Muhammad's preaching. The text raising questions about the possible contemporary relevance of this analysis, focusing firstly on discussions about the appropriate models for Islamic society today, and secondly on dialogue between Christians and Muslims. This book presents a detailed and illuminating analysis of many important Qur'anic themes and passages, and offers a coherent and original account of significant developments within the thought of the Qur'an as a whole.
Beliefs of the Unbelievers, and Other Discourses
Beliefs of the Unbelievers, and Other Discourses - 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 Beliefs of the Unbelievers, and Other Discourses write by Octavius Brooks Frothingham. This book was released on 2024-05-31. Beliefs of the Unbelievers, and Other Discourses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
