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Free Download Christopher J. Walker, "Reason and Religion in Late Seventeenth-Century England: The Politics and Theology of Radical Dissent "
English | ISBN: 1780762925 | 2013 | 312 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Reason has always held an uncertain position within Christianity. ""I believe because it is absurd',"" wrote Tertullian in the third century as he dismissed rational thought. For Augustine of Hippo, reason had some merit as a route to faith but otherwise was of limited value, since it could undermine a person's ability to approach God: ""the wisdom of the creature,"" he opined, ""is a kind of twilight."" In seventeenth-century England, reason had come to mean, most usually, a spirit of free enquiry: the exercise of human intelligence upon some form of truth, whether religious or scientific. The notion of revelation, by contrast, indicated the wider accepted divine scheme within which human existence was situated. Christopher J Walker here explores the tensions between the forces of reason and revelation within English religion in the volatile period following the end of the Civil War. Ranging widely across the ideas of The Great Tew Circle, the Cambridge Platonists and dissenters like Paul Best and John Bidle (the ""father of English Unitarianism""), the author shows, controversially, that the rational thinking and politics of many of the most supposedly radical figures of the era were not antipathetic to Christian faith but actually integral to it. His book makes an important contribution to the history of both religion and ideas.

Free Download David M. Kaplan director The Philosophy of Food Project, "Readings in the Philosophy of Technology"
English | ISBN: 0742564002 | 2009 | 602 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Ideal for professors who want to provide a comprehensive set of the most important readings in the philosophy of technology, from foundational to the cutting edge, this book introduces students to the various ways in which societies, technologies, and environments shape one another. The readings examine the nature of technology as well as the effects of technologies upon human knowledge, activities, societies, and environments. Students will learn to appreciate the ways that philosophy informs our understanding of technology, and to see how technology relates to ethics, politics, nature, human nature, computers, science, food, and animals.

Free Download Kevin M. McGeough, "Readers of the Lost Ark: Imagining the Ark of the Covenant from Ancient Times to the Present"
English | ISBN: 019765388X | 2025 | 264 pages | PDF | 17 MB
The sacred chest said to have been built by the Israelites to house the stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written, the Ark of the Covenant has long captured the popular imagination. According to the Bible, the Israelites carried it with them as they wandered in the wilderness and entered the promised land. After the Temple of Solomon was built, the Ark was kept in an inner sanctum where God made his divine presence felt to the Israelites. The Hebrew Bible is unclear about what happened to the Ark after the destruction of the temple and offers vague accounts of its function. Despite (or because of) this ambiguity, the Ark continues to hold an important place in Jewish and Christian tradition, even in its absence, and has led to much popular speculation. Widely imagined and re-imagined, it is perhaps today best known in popular culture as the object sought by Indiana Jones in the 1981 film

Free Download David H. McIlroy, "Ransomed, Redeemed, and Forgiven: Money and the Atonement"
English | ISBN: 1666734519 | 2022 | 150 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Images connected to money are found frequently in the Bible and in the hymns and songs Christians sing. The ideas of ransom, redemption, and forgiveness are a key part of how the work of Jesus on the cross is described. But what do the pictures of ransom, redemption, and forgiveness actually mean? How would they have been understood by the first hearers of the gospel? How do they link to kidnapping, slavery, and debt?

Free Download Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (UK Edition) by David Epstein
English | 27 Jun. 2019 | ISBN: 1509843493, 9781509843510 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 0.9 MB
A powerful argument for how to succeed in any field: develop broad interests and skills while everyone around you is rushing to specialize.

Free Download Ramadan Planner: A Guide to Reflection and Growth During the Holy Month by Dina Aziz
English | 20 February 2024 | ISBN: 1529907144, 9781804952535 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 11.8 MB
An essential guide to devotion and growth in the holy month of Ramadan.

Free Download Cheryl K. Smith, "Raising Goats For Dummies (For Dummies Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1119772583 | 2021 | 384 pages | AZW | 4 MB
No buts: discover the addictive joy of raising goats

Free Download Ellin Sterne Jimmerson, "Rainbow in the Word: LGBTQ Christians' Biblical Memoirs"
English | ISBN: 1532632088 | 2017 | 100 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
LGBTQ Christians read, love, scrutinize, become absorbed with, and find deep spiritual meaning in the Bible. As these testimonies show, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other queer Christians are inaugurating a fresh, exciting, new era in biblical interpretation. It is they whose rare insights into particular Bible stories and characters, told with poignancy and clarity, reveal a gay-friendly Bible and a gay-friendly God who cherishes and needs them just as they are. It is they who are running to the Bible with a longing for the Holy Spirit that far surpasses that of too many straight Christians. If given free rein, these inventive, challenging, and profoundly engaged evangelists may be the ones we have been waiting for to rescue biblical interpretation from those who too often are not only hurtful but dismal and boring. Thank God for them!

Free Download Robert P Vande Kappelle, "Radical Discipleship: Following Jesus in the Twenty-First Century"
English | ISBN: 1666752746 | 2022 | 214 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Discipleship is a universal experience all human beings share. In our lifetime, each of us has had a mentor, tutor, teacher, or role model, someone we admired, respected, and followed. As the central character in the Bible, the world's best-selling book, Jesus is known and revered the world over. What would it be like to be mentored by such an individual? Of course, we can follow the accounts of the historical Jesus and his disciples in the gospels, but what would it mean to be discipled by a contemporary, twenty-first-century Jesus? While people across the world claim to follow Jesus, what would it mean to live in the modern world guided by a modern Jesus on religious issues such as faith, God, and scripture, and on social issues such as poverty, healthcare, social justice, political reform, and caring for the environment? A good place to begin is with compassion, for Christianity and compassion are largely linked. To be apprenticed to Jesus is to follow one whose profound love for the hungry, sick, and dying inspired more compassion than any single person, movement, or force in history. Addressing discipleship as a priority in our lives, Radical Discipleship illustrates its subject with stories and accounts of ordinary Christians living out their discipleship in authentic and inspiring ways. Useful for individual or group study, this volume serves as a resource for people seeking tools necessary to fulfill Jesus' vision for a more vibrant and equitable world, one in which every human being can thrive.

Free Download Denise Eileen McCoskey, "Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy "
English | ISBN: 184885157X | 2019 | 264 pages | PDF | 3 MB
How do different cultures think about race? In the modern era, racial distinctiveness has been assessed primarily in terms of a person's physical appearance. But it was not always so. As Denise McCoskey shows, the ancient Greeks and Romans did not use skin colour as the basis for categorising ethnic disparity. The colour of one's skin lies at the foundation of racial variability today because it was used during the heyday of European exploration and colonialism to construct a hierarchy of civilizations and then justify slavery and other forms of economic exploitation. Assumptions about race thus have to take into account factors other than mere physiognomy. This is particularly true in relation to the classical world. In fifth century Athens, racial theory during the Persian Wars produced the categories 'Greek' and 'Barbarian', and set them in brutal opposition to one another: a process that could be as intense and destructive as 'black and 'white' in our own age. Ideas about race in antiquity were therefore completely distinct but as closely bound to political and historical contexts as those that came later.