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Returning to Reality
Author | : Paul Tyson |
Publsiher | : Lutterworth Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2015-02-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780718843540 |
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Could it be that we have lost touch with some basic human realities in our day of high-tech efficiency, frenetic competition, and ceaseless consumption? Have we turned from the moral, the spiritual, and even the physical realities that make our lives meaningful? These are metaphysical questions -questions about the nature of reality- but they are not abstract questions. These are very down to earth questions that concern power and the collective frameworks of belief and action governing our daily lives. This book is an introduction to the history, theory, and application of Christian metaphysics. Yet this book is not just an introduction, it is also a passionately argued call for a profound change in the contemporary Christian mind. Paul Tyson argues that as Western culture's Christian Platonist understanding of reality was replaced by modern pragmatic realism, we turned not just from one outlook on reality to another, but away from reality itself. This book seeks to show that if we can recover this ancient Christian outlook on reality, reframed for our day, then we will be able to recover a way of life that is in harmony with human and divine truth.
Returning to Reality
Author | : Phillip M. Thompson |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2012-11-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781620322529 |
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This book synthesizes the diverse reflections on technology by monk and spiritual writer Thomas Merton to develop a compelling contemplative critique of the threats and challenges of nuclear war, communication technologies, and biotechnologies that may alter what it means to be human. At the core of his critique, Merton opposes a technological mentality that favors processes of efficiency and utility at the expense of our ultimate purpose, a quest for the wisdom to guide us to the divine source of our being and reality. To counter this modern idolatry, Merton's insights offer a path of reflection, balance, and community. More specifically, Merton offers some constructive approaches and healing possibilities through a balanced approach to work, a careful and intentional managing of technology, and an accessing of the recuperative dimensions of nature. In its conclusion the book brings the insights of these chapters together for a final reflection on how to maintain our humanity and our spiritual integrity in a technological world.
The Return to Reality
Author | : Reinhard Clifford Kuhn |
Publsiher | : Librairie Droz |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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Returning to Reality
Author | : Phillip M. Thompson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-11-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1498215580 |
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This book synthesizes the diverse reflections on technology by monk and spiritual writer Thomas Merton to develop a compelling contemplative critique of the threats and challenges of nuclear war, communication technologies, and biotechnologies that may alter what it means to be human. At the core of his critique, Merton opposes a technological mentality that favors processes of efficiency and utility at the expense of our ultimate purpose, a quest for the wisdom to guide us to the divine source of our being and reality. To counter this modern idolatry, Merton's insights offer a path of reflection, balance, and community. More specifically, Merton offers some constructive approaches and healing possibilities through a balanced approach to work, a careful and intentional managing of technology, and an accessing of the recuperative dimensions of nature. In its conclusion the book brings the insights of these chapters together for a final reflection on how to maintain our humanity and our spiritual integrity in a technological world.
Playing and Reality
Author | : Donald Woods Winnicott |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0415036895 |
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Winnicott is concerned with the springs of imaginative living and of cultural experience in every sense, with whatever determines an individual's capacity to live creatively and to find life worth living.
Reason Truth and Reality
Author | : Daniel Goldstick |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780802095947 |
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Basing consideration upon a characterization of reason in its deductive, inductive, and ethical functioning, Goldstick asks what must hold good for reason so characterized to be a dependable guide to truth.
Christian Platonism
Author | : Alexander J. B. Hampton,John Peter Kenney |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 875 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781108676472 |
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Platonism has played a central role in Christianity and is essential to a deep understanding of the Christian theological tradition. At times, Platonism has constituted an essential philosophical and theological resource, furnishing Christianity with an intellectual framework that has played a key role in its early development, and in subsequent periods of renewal. Alternatively, it has been considered a compromising influence, conflicting with the faith's revelatory foundations and distorting its inherent message. In both cases the fundamental importance of Platonism, as a force which Christianity defined itself by and against, is clear. Written by an international team of scholars, this landmark volume examines the history of Christian Platonism from antiquity to the present day, covers key concepts, and engages issues such as the environment, natural science and materialism.
Quantum Reality
Author | : Nick Herbert |
Publsiher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011-09-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780307806741 |
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This clearly explained layman's introduction to quantum physics is an accessible excursion into metaphysics and the meaning of reality. Herbert exposes the quantum world and the scientific and philosophical controversy about its interpretation.