Existentialism For Dummies

Existentialism For Dummies
Author: Christopher Panza
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2009-03-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0470436891

Have you ever wondered what the phrase “God is dead” means? You’ll find out in Existentialism For Dummies, a handy guide to Nietzsche, Sartre, and Kierkegaard’s favorite philosophy. See how existentialist ideas have influenced everything from film and literature to world events and discover whether or not existentialism is still relevant today. You’ll find an introduction to existentialism and understand how it fits into the history of philosophy. This insightful guide will expose you to existentialism’s ideas about the absurdity of life and the ways that existentialism guides politics, solidarity, and respect for others. There’s even a section on religious existentialism. You’ll be able to reviewkey existential themes and writings. Find out how to: Trace the influence of existentialism Distinguish each philosopher’s specific ideas Explain what it means to say that “God is dead” See culture through an existentialist lens Understand the existentialist notion of time, finitude, and death Navigate the absurdity of life Master the art of individuality Complete with lists of the ten greatest existential films, ten great existential aphorisms, and ten common misconceptions about existentialism, Existentialism For Dummies is your one-stop guide to a very influential school of thought.

A Layman's Guide to Religion

A Layman's Guide to Religion
Author: V. P. Canton
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0759667020

A Layman's Guide to Religion is a provocative, factual often-humorous personal study of evolution and religion. The author is unsparing in his contempt for all religions and cults and for the hypocritical rascals, the pied pipers who sidetrack their innocent victims, robbing many of them of their most productive years. The author finds those who claim to speak for God while defrauding the elderly of their life's savings especially loathsome. One scholar, who prefers anonymity, remarked after reading the manuscript, that when published, this one thin volume would contain more common sense than the hundred of thousand dusty works by so called theologians over the past several millennia. The comment was most gratifying as the author world rather have the admiration of one intelligent person whom the author highly regards than the admiration and even reverence of a billion fools! Bold, blunt and unflinching, this thin volume, cuts through millenia of B.S.! The author's purpose is not offend one religion but to denigrate all of them and, hopefully, replace religion with reason and common sense. Targeting historical unpleasant facts in an engaging and humorous manner, and the role of evolution, the author shows where religion has today become a compost of hypocrisy and pretense and the root cause of all evil! Plainly, this volume contains "All You Ever Wanted To Know About Religion Before You Put The Subject To Rest And Get On With Your Life!"

Existential Theology

Existential Theology
Author: Hue Woodson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532668422

Existential Theology: An Introduction offers a formalized and comprehensive examination of the field of existential theology, in order to distinguish it as a unique field of study and view it as a measured synthesis of the concerns of Christian existentialism, Christian humanism, and Christian philosophy with the preoccupations of proper existentialism and a series of unfolding themes from Augustine to Kierkegaard. To do this, Existential Theology attends to the field through the exploration of genres: the European traditions in French, Russian, and German schools of thought, counter-traditions in liberation, feminist, and womanist approaches, and postmodern traditions located in anthropological, political, and ethical approaches. While the cultural contexts inform how each of the selected philosopher-theologians present genres of "existential theology," other unique genres are examined in theoretical and philosophical contexts, particularly through a selected set of theologians, philosophers, thinkers, and theorists that are not generally categorized theologically. By assessing existential theology through how it manifests itself in "genres," this book brings together lesser-known figures, well-known thinkers, and figures that are not generally viewed as "existential theologians" to form a focused understanding of the question of the meaning of "existential theology" and what "existential theology" looks like in its varying forms.

A Study Guide for "Existentialism"

A Study Guide for
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2016
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410345475

A Study Guide for "Existentialism," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Movements for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Movements for Students for all of your research needs.

Existential Reasons for Belief in God

Existential Reasons for Belief in God
Author: Clifford Williams
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2020-03-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725264692

Lived faith involves doctrines, evidences and rational coherence—but it includes much more. Philosopher Clifford Williams puts forth an argument as to why certain needs, desires and emotions have a legitimate place in drawing people into faith in God. Addressing the strongest objections to these types of grounds for faith, he shows how the personal and experiential aspects of belief play an important part in coming to faith and in remaining a believing person.

A Layman's Introduction to Religious Existentialism

A Layman's Introduction to Religious Existentialism
Author: Eugene B. Borowitz
Publisher: Philadelphia, Westminster P
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1965
Genre: Christianity and existentialism
ISBN:

“A LAYMAN’S INTODUCTION TO RELIGIOUS EXISTENTIALISM presents the philosophy of one of the most influential movements of thought in the twentieth century. In language that is exceptional for its clarity, it explains and assesses the important Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant contributors to modern theology: Soren Kierkegaard, Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Jacques Maritain, Nicholas Berdyaev, Gabriel Marcel, Reinhold Niebuhr, Rudolf Bultmann, Martin Buber, and Paul Tillich”- Publisher

How To Read Kierkegaard

How To Read Kierkegaard
Author: John D. Caputo
Publisher: Granta Books
Total Pages:
Release: 2014-04-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1783780649

Soren Kierkegaard is one of the prophets of the contemporary age, a man whose acute observations on life in nineteenth-century Copenhagen might have been written yesterday, whose work anticipated fundamental developments in psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology and the critique of mass culture by over a century. John Caputo offers a compelling account of Kierkegaard as a thinker of particular relevance in our postmodern times, who set off a revolution that numbers Martin Heidegger and Karl Barth among its heirs. His conceptions of truth as a self-transforming 'deed' and his haunting account of the 'single individual' seemed to have been written with us especially in mind. Extracts include Kierkegaard's classic reading of the story of Abraham and Isaac, the jolting theory that truth is subjectivity and his ground-breaking analysis of the concept of anxiety.

The Religious Existentialists and the Redemption of Feeling

The Religious Existentialists and the Redemption of Feeling
Author: Anthony Malagon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2019-06-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1498584772

Traditional philosophizing has generally depended upon reason as its primary access to truth. Subjective experiences such as feelings, the passions, and emotions have typically been viewed as secondary to reason, untrustworthy, or both. The Religious Existentialists and the Redemption of Feeling revisits how the movement of existentialism, via the religious existentialists, has contributed to a rethinking of the role of subjective experience, in contrast to the rationalist and idealist traditions, thus reframing the importance of feelings in general for the philosophical enterprise as a whole. Through the considerations of a variety of thinkers, this collection provides a fresh look at the contributions of twentieth-century existentialists, thereby re-contextualizing the very notion of existentialism, offering a powerful and genuine re-evaluation of the significance of subjectivity, and underscoring the continued relevance of the religious existentialists.