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Rolston, Holmes, III. Genes, Genesis and God: Values and %Eir Ongins in Naturctl Including Science and Religion
"Listening to the Listeners," the author challenges preachers to get into the skin of their audiences and to solicit and covet feedback from them. He rounds out this section with two chapters on preaching about money, providing valuable tips on a sensitive subject around which not a few preachers would rather detour. A strength of this book is the "Questions to Consider" and suggestions for additional reading with which each chapter ends. The questions make excellent fodder for classroom, collegial, or personal reflection, and the reading lists are rich resources for preachers who are sometimes so busy with parish responsibilitiesthat they do not have time to stay abreast of the literature in the field. Another strength of the book is its size. As texts on biblical preaching go, this one is slim. Uzking a Difference in Preaching is only 158 pages. Yet Robinson succeeds in conveying a wealth of information in this brief book, deftly juxtaposing scholarship and his personal experience in the pulpit to provide preachers with useful tools to revive and energize their preaching. His mixture of theory and methodology is refreshingly incisive and instructive. Robinson reveals an understanding of, and resonance with, the concepts he shares, refusing to provide his readers with the pat answers and platitudes that nonpractitioners are prone to proffer. So compelling are the author's ideas and insights, and so cogent and concise his writing, that this reviewer read the book in one sitting. Uctking a Dzfmence in Preaching is a worthy addition to the literature in the field of preaching. Students and practitioners, both lay and paid, should find it immensely helpful as they struggle with the unending task of crafting biblical sermons that hit home. -
Holmes Rolston III Endowed Chair in Environmental Ethics
Holmes Rolston III Endowed Chair in Environmental Ethics AOS: Environmental Ethics/Philosophy. AOC: open; Philosophy of Science (especially Biology), Science and Religion, or Philosophy of Technology desirable. The Department of Philosophy at Colorado State University invites nominations and applications for the newly inaugurated Holmes Rolston III Endowed Chair in Environmental Ethics. Rank: Associate Professor. Required qualifications: Ph.D. in Philosophy; AOS in Environmental Ethics/Philosophy; strong record of research; national and international scholarly recognition and reputation; demonstrated excellence in teaching; demonstrated commitment to service; ability to work collegially with others. Preferred qualifications: AOC in Philosophy of Science, Science and Religion, or Philosophy of Technology; ability to advance the department’s commitment to diversity and multiculturalism through research, teaching, and outreach with relevant programs, goals, and activities. Teaching load currently is 4 courses per academic year (2 courses per semester). Effective starting date is August 2016. Salary is commensurate with qualifications. Funding for research and conference travel will be available annually. To apply, go to http://jobs.colostate.edu/postings/17356 and create an account. Please submit a complete dossier, including a letter of application detailing qualifications, curriculum vitae, evidence of successful teaching (such as sample teaching evaluations or reviews), writing sample, and three current letters of recommendation. Please contact Gaylene Wolfe at [email protected] if you have questions about the application process. To submit a nomination, send a letter detailing the nominee’s qualifications and promise to Katie McShane at [email protected]. Applications and nominations will be accepted until the position is filled; however, to ensure full consideration nominations should be submitted by October 15, 2015 and applications by November 15, 2015. -
Roundtable on Holmes Rolston, III : a New Environmental Ethics : Life on Earth in the Next Millennium
[Expositions 6.1 (2012) 9-10] Expositions (online) ISSN: 1747-5376 Introduction to the Roundtable: Holmes Rolston III’s A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth CHRISTIAN DIEHM University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point In the 1970s, when the contemporary environmental movement was still in its infancy, Holmes Rolston, III began publishing philosophical essays in environmental ethics, and it is no exaggeration to say that his early efforts contributed to establishing this subject as a serious academic field, one in which he has played a leading role ever since. Indeed, over the past five decades Rolston has not only developed and defended one of the most comprehensive and recognizable positions in eco-philosophy, but he has also used it to address some of the most difficult and challenging issues that environmentalism in the modern era has had to face. It should come as no surprise, then, that the appearance earlier this year of his A New Environmental Ethics1 represents both the culmination of a professional lifetime of dedication to the discipline that he helped to create, as well as a guidepost out ahead of those of us who have only recently ventured into the territory that he began to explore so many years ago. Readers familiar with Rolston’s work will quickly recognize that A New Environmental Ethics is at one and the same time both a familiar and a novel text. On the one hand, it straightforwardly presents most of Rolston’s now well-known positions in environmental ethics, positions on things such as the intrinsic value of organisms and the ethical priority of ecological wholes that have changed fairly little over the course of his writing. -
Religious Naturalism: the Current Debate
Religious Naturalism: The Current Debate Leidenhag, M. (2018). Religious Naturalism: The Current Debate. Philosophy Compass, 13(8), [e12510]. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12510 Published in: Philosophy Compass Document Version: Peer reviewed version Queen's University Belfast - Research Portal: Link to publication record in Queen's University Belfast Research Portal Publisher rights © 2018 The Author(s) Philosophy Compass © 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. Please refer to any applicable terms of use of the publisher. General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Queen's University Belfast Research Portal is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Take down policy The Research Portal is Queen's institutional repository that provides access to Queen's research output. Every effort has been made to ensure that content in the Research Portal does not infringe any person's rights, or applicable UK laws. If you discover content in the Research Portal that you believe breaches copyright or violates any law, please contact [email protected]. Download date:02. Oct. 2021 Religious Naturalism: The Current Debate A religious naturalist seeks to combine two beliefs. The first belief is that nature is all there is. There is no “ontologically distinct and superior realm (such as God, soul, or heaven) to ground, explain, or give meaning to this world” (Stone, 2008, 1). Moreover, the natural sciences are the only or at least most reliable source of knowledge about the world. -
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Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism Published on behalf of the American Humanist Association and The Institute for Humanist Studies Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism Editor John R. Shook, American Humanist Association Consulting Editor Anthony Pinn, Rice University, USA Editorial Board Louise Antony, University of Massachusetts, USA; Arthur Caplan, New York University, USA; Patricia Churchland, University of California, USA; Franz de Waal, Emory University, USA; Peter Derkx, University of Humanistics, Netherlands; Greg Epstein, Harvard University, USA; Owen Flanagan, Duke University, USA; James Giordano, Georgetown University, USA; Rebecca Goldstein, USA; Anthony Clifford Grayling, New College of the Humanities, United Kingdom; Susan Hansen, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Jennifer Michael Hecht, USA; Marian Hillar, Houston Humanists, USA; Sikivu Hutchinson, Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, USA; Philip Kitcher, Columbia University, USA; Stephen Law, University of London, United Kingdom; Cathy Legg, University of Waikato, New Zealand; Jonathan Moreno, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Stephen Pinker, Harvard University, USA; Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Purdue University, USA; Michael Shermer, The Skeptics Society, USA; Alistair J. Sinclair, Centre for Dualist Studies, United Kingdom; Stan van Hooft, Deakin University, Australia; Judy Walker, USA; Sharon Welch, Meadville Theological Seminary, USA Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism publishes scholarly papers concerning philosophical, historical, or interdisciplinary aspects of humanism, or that deal with the application of humanist principles to problems of everyday life. EPH encourages the exploration of aspects and applications of humanism, in the broadest sense of “philosophical” as a search for self-understanding, life wisdom, and improvement to the human condition. The topic of humanism is also understood to embrace its thoughtful manifestations across the widest breadth of cultures and historical periods, and non-western perspectives are encouraged. -
Religion-And-The-Challenges.Pdf
RELIGION AND THE CHALLENGES OF SCIENCE Does science pose a challenge to religion and religious belief? This question has been a matter of long•standing debate • and it continues to concern not only scholars in philosophy, theology, and the sciences, but also those involved in public educational policy. This volume provides background to the current ‘science and religion’ debate, yet focuses as well on themes where recent discussion of the relation between science and religion has been particularly concentrated. The first theme deals with the history of the interrelation of science and religion. The second and third themes deal with the implications of recent work in cosmology, biology and so•called intelligent design for religion and religious belief. The fourth theme is concerned with ‘conceptual issues’ underlying, or implied, in the current debates, such as: Are scientific naturalism and religion compatible? Are science and religion bodies of knowledge or practices or both? Do religion and science offer conflicting truth claims? By illuminating contemporary discussion in the science•religion debate and by outlining the options available in describing the relation between the two, this volume will be of interest to scholars and to members of the educated public alike. This page intentionally left blank Religion and the Challenges of Science Edited by WILLIAM SWEET St Francis Xavier University, Canada and RICHARD FEIST Saint Paul University, Canada © William Sweet and Richard Feist 2007 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. -
Religious Naturalism
Religious Naturalism Michael BarreƩ wonders whether religious naturalism might be ‘a beƩer mouse- trap’. What does ‘religious naturalism’ Rather than trace the burgeoning of modern religious naturalism all through the enlightenment mean? era, it is more useful to focus on the development of this way of thinking in late 19th and early 20th The nineteenth century American thinker Emerson, century USA and Britain. Around that time seen by some as a precursor of modern religious religious naturalism diverged down two parallel naturalism, wrote: ‘If a man builds a better mouse- paths: a non-theistic mainstream approach, trap, the world will beat a path to his door.’ expressed for example by agnostic pragmatist However, if religious naturalism is an example, as I George Santayana, and a theistic approach in which, suggest, of his ‘better mousetrap’, why aren’t more as suggested earlier, Emerson is often cited as an people beating a path to that door? Why isn’t important influence. Some of Emerson’s religious naturalism more widely known? transcendentalist ideas, such as his notion of a ‘universal soul’ within or behind life, would today The term ‘religious’ is used here not to refer to a rule him out as a mainstream religious naturalist. cultural system or to any particular faith or philosophy, but to suggest the kind of affective In the mid-20th century modern religious experience – emotional or ‘spiritual’ feeling – of naturalism flourished among thinkers in the United awe, wonder, at-one-ness, respect, and reverence, States. Henry Nelson Wieman, professor of which can be evoked by nature. philosophy of religion at Chicago University in the 1930s-40s, adopted what he called ‘a theistic stance, ‘Naturalism’ is a view of the world and man’s but without a supernatural God’. -
Vicarious Lulu5 FINALEST VAN NIEUWE DEFINITIVE2 Allerbest …
Envoy When in the Spring of 2015 I started on the editing of this book, it was out of dissatisfaction. The definitive book on my life-long Nkoya research (‘Our Drums Are Always On My Mind’, in press (a)) only required some tedious up- dating for which I lacked the inspiration, and my ongoing ‘Sunda’ empirical research on ‘Rethinking Africa’s transcontinental continuities in pre- and pro- tohistory’, recently enriched by a spell of field-work on the Bamileke Plateau, Cameroon, had reached a break-through. The models of transcontinental inter- action which I had hitherto applied, had turned out to need more rethinking than I had bargained for, and the prospects of bringing out the Nkoya or the Sunda book by the end of the year were thwarted. I thought to remedy this unpleasant situation by quickly compiling a book of my many articles on inter- cultural philosophy. Most of these had already been published and therefore could be expected to be in an accomplished state of textual editing. But I had totally misjudged, both the amount of work involved (given my current stan- dards of perfection), and the centrality this new project was to occupy within the entire scope of my intellectual production. Only gradually did I come to realise what I was really doing: writing my philosophical and Africanist testa- ment, by bringing to bear, upon the original arguments conceived for a phi- losophical audience, the full extent of my comparative empirical research over the last two decades. In this way, what emerged was increasingly a coherent statement on empirically-grounded intercultural philosophy, greatly inspired and intellectually equipped by my philosophical adventure around the Rotter- dam chair of Foundations of Intercultural Philosophy, yet revisiting and reviv- ing the methods and theories of my original training, research and teaching as an anthropologist. -
Darwinism, Disvalues and Design Taylor & Francis. Not for Distribution
Chapter Six Darwinism, Disvalues and Design Section 1: Darwinism It is time to say more about Darwinism, partly to explain its coherence and cogency, partly to introduce its implications for the Teleological Argument, and partly to illustrate and appraise the problem of natural evil which, as we have seen, contributed to Darwin’s own loss of belief in God. Darwinism will be discussed in the current section, together with some of its grounds and some of its varieties, to which we revert in later chapters. Its possible implications in the area of sociobiology will also be considered. In later sections of this chapter its bearing will be considered on the Design Argument, as will subsequently its compatibility with belief in God’s goodness. The theory of evolution by natural selection provides the backdrop for contemporary environmental concern, and several of the themes of this chapter will thus prove relevant to the scope and limits of environmental stewardship, discussed in the final two chapters of this book. Darwin’s theory asserts, in part, that life on Earth has evolved from a common ancestry1 and from relatively simple to relatively complex forms of life.2 Michael Ruse summarizes Darwin’s evidence as including grounds from palaeontology (the fossil record), bio-geography (for evolution best explains the distribution of bird and reptile species in places such as the Galapagos Islands), anatomical similarities across diverse species (for evolution from common ancestors best explains such ‘homologies’), and from systematics, for common ancestry best explains the way species can be ordered in a hierarchy of groups, which seem to call for an explanation of such a nature.3 In view of this and additional evidence (like that from embryology), the evolution of species was soon recognized as a fact.4 Darwin further argued that a major cause of the adaptedness of organisms that facilitates their evolution was natural selection. -
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Din Vikipedi, özgür ansiklopedi Dîn ile karıştırılmamalıdır. Din, genellikle doğaüstü, kutsal ve ahlakî öğeler taşıyan, çeşitli ayin, uygulama, değer ve kurumlara sahipinançlar ve ibâdetler bütünü. Zaman zaman inanç sözcüğünün yerine kullanıldığı gibi, bazen de inanç sözcüğü din sözcüğünün yerinde kullanılır. Dinler tarihine bakıldığında, farklı kültür, topluluk ve bireylerde din kavramının farklı biçimlere sahip olduğu, dinlerin müntesipleri tarafından her çağda, coğrafya ve kültür değerlerine göre yeniden tasarlandığı görülür. Arapça kökenli bir sözcük olan din sözcüğü, köken itibarıyla "yol, hüküm, mükafat" gibi anlamlara sahiptir. İçindekiler Tanımlar Çeşitli dini semboller, soldan sağa: Dinle İlgili Bazı Konu ve Anlayışlar 1. sıra: Hristiyanlık, Musevilik, Hinduizm Din ve Bilim 2. sıra: İslam, Budizm, Şintoizm Din, Felsefe ve Metafizik 3. sıra: Sihizm, Bahailik, Jainizm Ezoterizm ve Mistisizm Çeşitli Dünya Dinleri Nüfus Oranları Ayrıca bakınız Dipnotlar Kaynakça Notlar Dış bağlantılar Tanımlar Din kavramı Encyclopedia.com'da şöyle tanımlanır: Çeşitli çağdaş Pagan inanışlarının "Din üyelerine bir bağlılık amacı, bireylerin simgeleri: eylemlerinin kişisel ve sosyal sonuçlarını Slav • Keltik • Cermenik • Letonya yargılayabilecekleri bir davranış kuralları bütünü ve Helenizm • Ermeni • Romen • Kemetizm bireylerin gruplarını ve evreni bağlayabilecekleri Vika • Macar • Litvanya (açıklayabilecekleri) bir düşünce çerçevesi veren bir [1] Estonya • Çerkez • Semitik • Tanrıça düşünce, his ve eylem sistemidir." tapınması Türk Dil Kurumu sözlüğünde: -
Liberty University Mere Christian Theism And
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Liberty University Digital Commons LIBERTY UNIVERSITY MERE CHRISTIAN THEISM AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL: TOWARD A TRINITARIAN PERICHORETIC THEODICY A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF LIBERTY UIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DIVINITY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY BY RONNIE PAUL CAMPBELL JR. LYNCHBURG, VA JUNE 2015 Copyright © 2015 Ronnie P. Campbell Jr. All Rights Reserved ii APPROVAL SHEET MERE CHRISTIAN THEISM AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL: TOWARD A TRINITARIAN PERICHORETIC THEODICY Ronnie Paul Campbell Jr. Read and approved by: Chairpersons: David J. Baggett Reader: C. Anthony Thornhill Reader: Leo R. Percer Date: 6/29/2015 iii To my dad, Paul Campbell Thank you for first introducing me to Jesus so many years ago. I owe you much gratitude for setting an example of Christ-like service. To my wife, Debbie, and children, Abby, Caedmon, and Caleb It was your kindness, encouragement, and love that gave me great joy and kept me going. You deserve much more than my words could ever express. To my father-in-law, Bob Bragg Though you’ve had your bout with suffering, I will see you again one day, my friend, in the renewed heavens and earth, where we shall experience no more sickness, pain, or sorrow. We will dwell together in that country—Sweet Beulah Land! iv CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...................................................................................................... viii ABSTRACT .................................................................................................................................