The Call to be Human

The Call to be Human
Author: Vincent MacNamara
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN:

MacNamara goes to the heart of the matter of morality and situating it in the call to be human. He displays a sympathetic understanding of the human condition and the demands of modern life.

God's Call

God's Call
Author: J. E. Hare
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802849970

There has been a debate between modern ethicists who see moral judgments as objectively corresponding to a moral reality independent of human opinion and those who insist that moral judgments are essentially expressions of our will. In this excellent philosophical work John Hare outlines a theory that combines the merits of both views, arguing that what makes something right is that God calls us to it. In the first chapter Hare gives a selective history of the sustained debate within Anglo-American philosophy over the last century between moral realists and moral expressivists. Best understood as a disagreement about how objectivity and subjectivity are related in value judgment, this debate is of particular interest to Christians, who necessarily feel pulled in both directions. Christians want to say that value is created by God and exists whether we recognize it or not, but they also want to say that when we value something, our hearts' fundamental commitments are also involved. Hare suggests "prescriptive realism" as a way to bring both perspectives together. The second chapter examines the divine command theory of John Duns Scotus, looking particularly at the relationship that Scotus established between God's commands, human nature, and human will. Hare shows that a Calvinist version of the divine command theory of obligation can be defended via Scotus against natural law theory as well as against contemporary challenges. A significant theme treated here is the view that the Fall disordered our natural inclinations, rendering them useless as an authoritative source of guidance for right living. In the last chapter Hare moves to the key philosophical juncture between the medieval period and our own time -- the moral theory of Immanuel Kant in the late eighteenth century. Modern moral philosophy has largely taken Kant's work as a refutation of divine command theory and a refocusing of the discussion on human autonomy. Hare shows that Kant was in fact not arguing against the kind of divine command theory that Hare supports. He discusses what Kant meant by saying that we should recognize our duties as God's commands, and he defends a notion of human autonomy as appropriation. Featuring original moral theory and fresh interpretations of the thought of Duns Scotus and Kant, God's Call is valuable both for its overview of the history of moral debate and for its construction of a sound Christian ethic for today.

Please Don't Call Me Human

Please Don't Call Me Human
Author: Shuo Wang
Publisher: No Exit Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Olympics
ISBN: 9781842431627

Wang Shuo imagines an Olympics where nations compete not on the basis of athletic prowess, but on their citizens' capacity for humiliation. China is determined to win at any cost. Enter a slacker pedicab driver from Beijing, a degenerate nihilist who rips off his own face in order to win the gold for his country.

The Call of Human Nature

The Call of Human Nature
Author: Dieter Rollfinke
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1986
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

The Call of Human Nature documents and analyzes the wide use of scatological themes and metaphors in an equally wide range of writings. The Rollfinkes' claim that the obscene expressions used by Americans emphasize sexual elements, whereas Germans stress the scatological. For many modern German authors, scatalogical images, metaphors, and motifs serve their purposes more effectively than would other metaphors.

The Call

The Call
Author: Toni Petrinovich
Publisher: Xlibris
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-12-24
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781401078775

Are there angelic humans? Is the search for the angelic a call from your soul to fulfill an interconnectedness that knows no physical bounds, but opens you to the discovery that this angelic "spirit" is already within you? The Call reveals why this is the time of unfolding consciousness, how you can manifest this consciousness; what purpose Angelic Humans serve in the design of humanity's evolution. This a book of self-discovery; a primer for the soul remembering a calling to this time and space providing a portal through their ever-awakening consciousness for light, truth, and divinity to flow.

Voices of the Wild

Voices of the Wild
Author: Bernie Krause
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2015-08-25
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0300216440

Since 1968, Bernie Krause has traveled the world recording the sounds of remote landscapes, endangered habitats, and rare animal species. Through his organization, Wild Sanctuary, he has collected the soundscapes of more than 2,000 different habitat types, marine and terrestrial. With powerful illustrations and compelling stories, Krause provides a manifesto for the appreciation and protection of natural soundscapes. In his previous book, The Great Animal Orchestra, Krause drew readers’ attention to what Jane Goodall described as “the harmonies of nature . . . [that are being] one by one by one, snuffed out by human actions.” He now explains that the secrets hidden in the natural world’s shrinking sonic environment must be preserved, not only for our scientific understanding, but for our cultural heritage and humanity’s physical and spiritual welfare. Krause’s narrative—supplemented by exclusive access to field recordings from the wild—draws on a compelling range of personal anecdotes, histories, and examples to document his early exploration of this field and to lay the groundwork for future generations.

A Call to Action

A Call to Action
Author: Jimmy Carter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2014-03-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1476773971

In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world’s most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: the ongoing discrimination and violence against women and girls. President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths. His urgent report covers a system of discrimination that extends to every nation. Women are deprived of equal opportunity in wealthier nations and “owned” by men in others, forced to suffer servitude, child marriage, and genital cutting. The most vulnerable and their children are trapped in war and violence. A Call to Action addresses the suffering inflicted upon women by a false interpretation of carefully selected religious texts and a growing tolerance of violence and warfare. Key verses are often omitted or quoted out of context by male religious leaders to exalt the status of men and exclude women. And in nations that accept or even glorify violence, this perceived inequality becomes the basis for abuse. Carter draws upon his own experiences and the testimony of courageous women from all regions and all major religions to demonstrate that women around the world, more than half of all human beings, are being denied equal rights. This is an informed and passionate charge about a devastating effect on economic prosperity and unconscionable human suffering. It affects us all.

Old Testament Theology

Old Testament Theology
Author: John Kessler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9781602587373

Old Testament Theology provides a foundational tool for a theological reading of the Old Testament. In the book's central chapters, John Kessler delineates six differing representations of the divine-human relationship, with special emphasis on the kind of response each one evokes from the people of God. He traces these representations through the Old Testament, into the New Testament, and reflects on their significance for the values and character formation of the people of God today. Old Testament Theology combines elements of Old Testament history, exegesis, hermeneutics, and theology, and situates them within the social, cultural, and intellectual world of ancient Israel and Israelite religious institutions. The result is a comprehensive and readable introduction to Old Testament theology for students in seminaries and colleges.

The Inflated Self

The Inflated Self
Author: David G. Myers
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1984
Genre: Belief and doubt
ISBN: 9780816423262

Human illusions and the Biblical call to hope

The Gospel of Life

The Gospel of Life
Author: Pope John Paul II
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1995
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780679758648