The Morals of the Story

The Morals of the Story
Author: David Baggett
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830886494

For centuries the moral argument—that objective morality points to the existence of God—has been a powerful apologetic tool. In this volume, David and Marybeth Baggett offer a dramatic, robust, and even playful version of the moral argument, showing that it not only points to God's existence but that it also contributes to our ongoing spiritual transformation.

Religious Stories in Transformation: Conflict, Revision and Reception

Religious Stories in Transformation: Conflict, Revision and Reception
Author: Alberdina Houtman
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2016-10-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004334815

In Religious Stories in Transformation: Conflict, Revision and Reception, the editors present a collection of essays that reveal both the many similarities and the poignant differences between ancient myths in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and modern secular culture and how these stories were incorporated and adapted over time. This rich multidisciplinary research demonstrates not only how stories in different religions and cultures are interesting in their own right, but also that the process of transformation in particular deserves scholarly interest. It is through the changes in the stories that the particular identity of each religion comes to the fore most strikingly.