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Author | : Leslie D Weatherhead |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781426754333 |
Is it more important to follow Jesus, or to believe all the right doctrines about him? Is it better to forgive people than to judge them? Why do we find Jesus so much more appealing than those who call themselves his disciples? If you've asked these questions, you're not alone; people have been struggling with them for years. Leslie Weatherhead was one of those people. A famous preacher and teacher, he nonetheless worried that Jesus' radical message about loving and accepting others had become buried under a mountain of doctrines and rituals. And so Weatherhead wrote The Christian Agnostic for people who wanted to cut to the heart of the message of Jesus. This classic book looks at the gospel's most essential truths about who God is and how God loves us. It then helps the reader distinguish these truths from all the theological baggage the church has attached to them over the years. If you're searching for an authentic way to understand who Jesus is and how to follow him in today's world, The Chirstian Agnostic is an indispensable guide for your journey.
Author | : Leslie Dixon Weatherhead |
Publisher | : London : Hodder and Stoughton |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Presents the view that loyalty to Christ and to his spirit can go hand in hand with the rejection of theological dogmas.
Author | : Josh Buoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-04-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692710517 |
This is a book about science, religion, and the world in between. I was born into a Christian family, but fell out of religion and in love with the scientific method. I had little need of faith, I thought, when science could tell me so much more about the world, and ask so little of me in return. But as I aged into young adulthood, a new chapter of my story began. Did I really know why I believed what I believed? How could I be so certain of my convictions when I hadn't even honestly considered the evidence? This book traces my journey through the furthest reaches of thought, a journey that took me through the realms of psychology, biology, physics, and belief. Could I find a place for faith in the modern world? Or was I right to cast it off as I did?
Author | : Mark Vernon |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230301444 |
The authentic spiritual quest is marked not by certainties but by questions and doubt. Mark Vernon who was a priest, and left an atheist explores the wonder of science, the ups and downs of being 'spiritual but not religious', the insights of ancient philosophy, and God the biggest question.
Author | : Leslie D. Weatherford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Bryan Frances |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3030733319 |
This book contains a unique perspective: that of a scientifically and philosophically educated agnostic who thinks there is impressive—if maddeningly hidden—evidence for the existence of God. Science and philosophy may have revealed the poverty of the familiar sources of evidence, but they generate their own partial defense of theism. Bryan Frances, a philosopher with a graduate degree in physics, judges the standard evidence for God’s existence to be awful. And yet, like many others with similar scientific and philosophical backgrounds, he argues that the usual reasons for atheism, such as the existence of suffering and success of science, are weak. In this book you will learn why so many people with scientific and philosophical credentials are agnostics (rather than atheists) despite judging all the usual evidence for theism to be fatally flawed.
Author | : Dustin Lawson |
Publisher | : Author House |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012-01-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1468537199 |
Could it be true that Jesus requires his followers to admit room for doubt in him? According to this book, yes. Lawson writes in Christian Agnostic, Greatness, in order to be great, must have a great adversary. Who would Luke Skywalker be without Darth Vadar? Who would Rocky be without Apollo Creed? Who would Winston Churchill be without Hitler? Would we ever have known who David was without Goliath? What would faith be without doubt? Where maybe no other religious book does, the Bible understands that even though faith and doubt are great adversaries, faith loves doubt because faith loves the fight and knows that it could not be great without uncertainty. More than that, the Bible sees doubt as an ally because it knows that if doubt could be eliminated and true certainty attained, then faith, the resource that fuels the Bible's followers, could not exist for there can be no faith where there is no doubt. The majority of the church, and the world at large, views faith as a resource that erases doubt and decides truth. This misconception has caused much of the Christian world, for most of its history, to embrace a method of searching for truth that is weak and lazy. This book shows that despite the church's mistaken belief about the nature of faith, the Bible understands how to search for truth with the legitimacy that only comes from having the courage to be honest about the room for doubt present wherever faith is used to believe and then being open to challenging one's own beliefs wherever that room for doubt exists. In recent decades, millions have walked away from the church because they think the Bible lacks credibility. What they do not realize is that the Bible has credibility, but that the Christian world holds back its legitimacy, instead choosing to unintentionally make the Bible appear weak because it refuses to embrace the more honorable method of searching for truth that the book promotes. Christian Agnostic will show the world many of the Bible's strengths that the church has been unknowingly concealing.
Author | : Paul Horwitz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2011-02-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 019973772X |
"Argues that the fundamental reason for church-state conflict is our aversion to questions of religious truth. By trying to avoid the question of religious truth, law and religion has ultimately reached a state of incoherence. He asserts that the answer to this dilemma is to take the agnostic turn: to take an empathetic and imaginative approach to questions of religious truth, one that actually confronts rather than avoids these questions, but without reaching a final judgment about what that truth is"--Jacket.
Author | : Lesley Hazleton |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Agnosticism |
ISBN | : 1594634130 |
"A widely admired writer on religion celebrates agnosticism as the most vibrant, engaging--and ultimately the most honest--stance toward the mysteries of existence." -- Amazon.com.
Author | : Susan Jacoby |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2013-01-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300137257 |
A biography that restores America's foremost 19th-century champion of reason and secularism to the still contested 21st-century public square.