Holy Luck

Holy Luck
Author: Eugene H. Peterson
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2017-03-07
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1625391773

The renowned Christian pastor and author of The Message and Run with Horses shares his spirituality in a very personal collection of poetry. Eugene H. Peterson had long been known as a pastor, professor, and provocateur. With his first-ever collection of verse, Peterson became known as a poet, too. Holy Luck emerged over many years, initially as individual poems sent to family, friends, and church congregations. Now, the translator of the bestselling Bible paraphrase The Message has collected his poems into three thematic sections of verses—on the Beatitudes, the kingdom of God in the ordinary, and following Jesus everyday—here released as one transcendent volume.

The Holy Book of Luck

The Holy Book of Luck
Author: A. Saed Alzein
Publisher: Ahmad Saed Alzein
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2021-07-28
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1527297659

Have you ever wondered about luck? What is luck? Is it blind force that hits randomly and changes people’s lives for the better or worse? Is it rational energy with conscious purpose? Why hard work is a myth, and why your success depends to a large extent on your luck ? The Holy Book of Luck is ‘’fascinating’’ The first of its kind book challenging the outdated notion that hard work is the only way to success, it is NOT. The Author: A.Saed Alzein who is Harvard University certified sustainable Business Strategist and London Business School Certified Corporate Strategist, based in London, An Economist by study with substantial experience running different enterprises around the world, including prize competitions and luck related business has just published this mind-blowing book with all the old mantras being challenged and put to rest. He argues that luck plays a major role in your success, and you can’t do anything about it. The Holy Book of Luck is the book which takes you on a pleasant journey to really change your perspective forever about luck and hard work.

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck
Author: Ian M. Church
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1028
Release: 2019-02-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351258745

Luck permeates our lives, and this raises a number of pressing questions: What is luck? When we attribute luck to people, circumstances, or events, what are we attributing? Do we have any obligations to mitigate the harms done to people who are less fortunate? And to what extent is deserving praise or blame affected by good or bad luck? Although acquiring a true belief by an uneducated guess involves a kind of luck that precludes knowledge, does all luck undermine knowledge? The academic literature has seen growing, interdisciplinary interest in luck, and this volume brings together and explains the most important areas of this research. It consists of 39 newly commissioned chapters, written by an internationally acclaimed team of philosophers and psychologists, for a readership of students and researchers. Its coverage is divided into six sections: I: The History of Luck II: The Nature of Luck III: Moral Luck IV: Epistemic Luck V: The Psychology of Luck VI: Future Research. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, from the problem of moral luck, to anti-luck epistemology, to the relationship between luck attributions and cognitive biases, to meta-questions regarding the nature of luck itself, to a range of other theoretical and empirical questions. By bringing this research together, the Handbook serves as both a touchstone for understanding the relevant issues and a first port of call for future research on luck.

Problems of Religious Luck

Problems of Religious Luck
Author: Guy Axtell
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2020-07-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1498550185

To speak of being religious lucky certainly sounds odd. But then, so does “My faith holds value in God’s plan, while yours does not.” This book argues that these two concerns — with the concept of religious luck and with asymmetric or sharply differential ascriptions of religious value — are inextricably connected. It argues that religious luck attributions can profitably be studied from a number of directions, not just theological, but also social scientific and philosophical. There is a strong tendency among adherents of different faith traditions to invoke asymmetric explanations of the religious value or salvific status of the home religion vis-à-vis all others. Attributions of good/bad religious luck and exclusivist dismissal of the significance of religious disagreement are the central phenomena that the book studies. Part I lays out a taxonomy of kinds of religious luck, a taxonomy that draws upon but extends work on moral and epistemic luck. It asks: What is going on when persons, theologies, or purported revelations ascribe various kinds of religiously-relevant traits to insiders and outsiders of a faith tradition in sharply asymmetric fashion? “I am saved but you are lost”; “My religion is holy but yours is idolatrous”; “My faith tradition is true, and valued by God, but yours is false and valueless.” Part II further develops the theory introduced in Part I, pushing forward both the descriptive/explanatory and normative sides of what the author terms his inductive risk account. Firstly, the concept of inductive risk is shown to contribute to the needed field of comparative fundamentalism by suggesting new psychological markers of fundamentalist orientation. The second side of what is termed an inductive risk account is concerned with the epistemology of religious belief, but more especially with an account of the limits of reasonable religious disagreement. Problems of inductively risky modes of belief-formation problematize claims to religion-specific knowledge. But the inductive risk account does not aim to set religion apart, or to challenge the reasonableness of religious belief tout court. Rather the burden of the argument is to challenge the reasonableness of attitudes of religious exclusivism, and to demotivate the “polemical apologetics” that exclusivists practice and hope to normalize.

Letters to Young Scholars, Second Edition

Letters to Young Scholars, Second Edition
Author: William Carey Ringenberg
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2018-04-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498242812

Letters to Young Scholars is designed primarily for college students, advanced high school students, and church and parachurch study groups on spiritual development. As a college text, the book introduces beginning students to the general education (or liberal arts) portion of a Christian college education. It gives major emphasis to the humanities and social science disciplines, the integration of the Christian faith with those disciplines, and the application of Christian thought to daily living (applied Christianity). It seeks to challenge the students to become broader in perspective and appreciation, more compassionate toward all of God's creatures, and more confident and committed as they develop their worldviews and personal values.

A Burning in My Bones

A Burning in My Bones
Author: Winn Collier
Publisher: Waterbrook Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2021
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0735291624

"This essential authorized biography offers unique insights into the experiences and spiritual convictions that shaped the unforgettable life of Eugene Peterson, iconic American pastor and beloved translator of bestselling Bible paraphrase The Message"--

The Old Farmer's Almanac 2013

The Old Farmer's Almanac 2013
Author: Old Farmer's Almanac
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2012-09-03
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1571985735

The 2013 edition of the classic annual guide to astronomical and sky sightings, weather forecasts, planting tables, gardening tips, and other ideas and advice on a variety of topics.