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In his contribution to the fragmentary Jewish historians of Hellenistic times and their treatment of the biblical tradition Erich Gruen shows not only that the fragments disclose a remarkable range and diversity of texts, but also that their authors engagement with biblical texts was more light-hearted in tone, deliberately idiosyncratic, and, far from parochial in temperament, tended to connect with Hellenic and Near Eastern cultures in order to set Jewish traditions into a broader context. These historians did not see their mission primarily as setting the record straight. They provided arresting twists on biblical tales, alternative versions, provocative variations, and, almost always, some entertainment value. The sacrality of the Scriptures remained untouched.

Synoptic pericopae is a reliable indicator of literary borrowing by the Synoptic Evangelists. In Oral Tradition and Synoptic Verbal Agreement, T.M. Derico presents a critical assessment of that claim through a consideration of the most recent empirical evidence concerning the kinds and amounts of verbal agreement that can be produced among independent performances of oral traditions.

How do we know God? Can we know God as he is in himself?These longstanding questions have been addressed by Christian theologians throughout the churchs history. Some, such as Thomas Aquinas, have argued that we know God through both natural and supernatural revelation, while others, especially Karl Barth, have argued that we know God only on the basis of the incarnation. Contemporary discussions of these issues sometimes give the impression that we have to choose between a speculative doctrine of God driven by natural theology or metaphysics and a Christ-centered doctrine of God driven by Gods work in the history of salvation.In this Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture volume, Steven J. Duby casts a vision for integrating natural theology, the incarnation, and metaphysics in a Christian description of God in himself.Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture, edited by Daniel J. Treier and Kevin J. Vanhoozer, promotes evangelical contributions to systematic theology, seeking fresh understanding of Christian doctrine through creatively faithful engagement with Scripture in dialogue with church.

Rumors of deception have surrounded claims of Jesus resurrection ever since the soldiers appointed to guard his tomb made their report to the Jewish authorities. But no one has led the philosophic charge against miracles quite as influentially as David Hume with his 1748 essay "Of Miracles." Refined, revised, restated, his arguments still affect philosophic discussions of miracles today.During the twentieth century, strong arguments have been raised by Antony Flew, professor emeritus at Keele University in England. Flew has contributed a fresh statement of his objections to the idea of Gods acting in history just for this volume, which also includes Humes classic critique as a part of the case against miracles.In response, Douglas Geivett and Gary Habermas have assembled a distinguished team of scholars to rebut the objections and set forth the positive case for Gods action in history:Richard Purtill clarifies the word miracle, while Norman Geisler critiques Humes case against miracles. Francis Beckwith and Winfried Corduan assess how we would recognize miracles in the past and in the present. Ronald Nash examines naturalisms exclusion of miracles and shows its self-referential incoherence. J. P. Moreland discusses whether science properly rules out the possibility of miracles. Gods existence and action in history are probed by David Beck and Stephen Davis, while Douglas Geivett argues that within a theistic framework it is reasonable to expect miracles as confirmation of claims to special revelation. David Clark examines miracles within the context of various world religions. Robert Newman, John Feinberg, William Lane Craig and Gary Habermas conclude by investigating fulfilled prophecy, the virgin birth and incarnation of Jesus, the empty tomb, and the resurrection appearances.In Defense of Miracles is a comprehensive, up-to-date discussion that should not be overlooked by anyone concerned with the current debate over miracles.

Solimar Otero ; edición de Gloria J. Morales Osorio ; traducción de Manuel Cuesta ; prólogo de Mayra Santos-Febres ; epílogo de Pedro Pérez Sarduy.Solimar Otero explora cómo espíritus afrolatines guían los trabajos academicos, activistas y espirituales a traves de la colaboracion, los rituales y la creacion y uso de cultura material. La autora demuestra que las divinidades y los ancestros son agentes activos en la conformacion de las experiencias del genero, la sexualidad y la raza en el Caribe. Tras mas de diez años de investigacion archivistica y de trabajo de campo en Cuba y Estados Unidos, Archivos conjurados resalta la importancia de la narracion de practicantes espirituales afrolatines femeninos y LGBTQ+. Otero articula estos ensambles rituales con la literatura, la musica y el performance caribeños y nos invita a escuchar detenidamente estas formas de ser y devenir.Traduccion y actualizacion de la version inglesa publicada en 2020, con un prologo de Mayra Santos-Febres y epilogo de Pedro Perez Sarduy.

Raimon Panikkar (Barcelona, 1918–Tavertet, 2010) es uno de los representantes más destacados del pensamiento intercultural y el diálogo interreligioso. Al final de su vida emprendió la tarea de selec

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Desde hace una centuria la regeneración de las razas ha sido el bastión del proyecto para construir la República de Colombia. Nuestras grandes personalidades intelectuales, formadas tanto en Europa como en Estados Unidos, se plantearon desde la epoca republicana el mismo problema: regenerar la raza de las taras biologicas inherentes a su especie. Y para ello el falso humanismo, para hablar como Michel Foucault, se hizo presente de inmediato: el mestizaje, las campañas de nutricion, las politicas de higienizacion, la limpieza racial, la formacion educativa y cultural, las misiones religiosas para cambiar las malas costumbres de este pueblo degenerado. El etnografo Jose Maria Samper en 1861 resume bien este proyecto cuando decia que Regenerar era "transformar esta poblacion aletargada y convertirla en una poblacion activa y laboriosa". Esta "es la gran tarea que los poderes publicos y los hombres pensadores estan llamados a resolver en este pais".Las fuentes estan constituidas por documentos de la expedicion botanica, archivos eclesiasticos, casos clinicos, resoluciones higienicas, procesos juridicos y legislativos, iconografias medicas y religiosas, referencias y acontecimientos que proporcionaron una nueva valoracion de los cuerpos y la enfermedad hacia los umbrales del siglo XVIII a traves de la botanica, hasta la implementacion de los grandes paliativos modernos de la salvacion en pleno corazon del siglo xx, en donde las tecnicas de vigilancia y correccion son capturadas por la divina mecanica de la prevencion del proyecto estatal. Nuestros grandes pensadores y dirigentes politicos se preguntaron siempre ¿como transformar los instintos semisalvajes de nuestras razas primitivas en algo viable?, ¿como despertar la falta de ambicion del indio chibcha?, ¿como controlar la embriaguez y amor por el juego del pueblo antioqueño?, ¿como curar la sangre infectada por la fiebre de la barbarie del caucano?, ¿como eliminar la inferioridad animal del zambo? Este libro vale como una arqueologia del sueño eugenesico de muchos de nuestros actuales dirigentes.

Esta imponente obra, referente imprescindible para la filosofía y las ciencias sociales contemporáneas, desarrolla un concepto de razón comunicativa en forma de una compleja reflexión acerca de la dialectica inherente a una modernidad racionalizada que puede muy bien convertirse en un abismo para si misma. En palabras de su autor, la teoria de la accion comunicativa permite una categorizacion de la trama de la vida social con la que se puede dar razon de las paradojas de la modernidad. Apropiacion sistematica de la historia de la teoria sociologica, este libro constituye uno de los mejores analisis de la Europa de posguerra y de su orden politico, economico, social y cultural. Cuando algunos de los supuestos de ese orden empiezan a convertirse en pasado, da las claves de el y permite examinar a fondo, mirandolas al trasluz, las principales cuestiones del presente.

Central to G.W. Leibnizs (16461716) contention that we live in "the best of all possible worlds" is the thesis that we inhabit a harmoniously ordered universe. However, despite Leibnizs numerous remarks on the matter, no consensus exists on what exactly universal harmony entails. This e-book examines Leibnizs writings chronologically and offers a new assessment of the meaning and function of harmony in Leibnizs metaphysics. The author shows that Leibnizs conception of harmony undergoes significant revision in the 1670s. He maintains that understanding this revision is crucial for grasping how Leibniz employs the idea of harmony in arguments for the minds incorporeal nature and its "preestablished harmony" with the body, as well in arguments for the worlds intelligibility and for the privileged moral status of rational agents. The e-book thus aims to broaden our picture of the development of Leibnizs philosophy and to deepen our appreciation for the irreducible role harmony plays in it.

The problem of faith and reason is as old as Christianity itself. Todays philosophical, scientific and historical challenges make the epistemic problem inescapable for believers. Can faith justify its claims? Does faith give us confidence in the truth? Is believing with certainty a virtue or a vice?In Theology?s Epistemological Dilemma, Kevin Diller addresses this problem by drawing on two of the most significant responses in recent Christian thought: Karl Barths theology of revelation and Alvin Plantingas epistemology of Christian belief. This will strike many as unlikely, given the common stereotypes of both thinkers. Contrary to widespread misunderstanding, Diller offers a reading of both as complementary to each other: Barth provides what Plantinga lacks in theological depth, while Plantinga provides what Barth lacks in philosophical clarity. Diller presents a unified Barth/Plantinga proposal for theological epistemology capable of responding without anxiety to the questions that face believers today.

This book is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the current understanding of evolution. The second part brings together the scientific picture with various responses to the God question. Science is a powerful discourse; it has unravelled for us the workings of nature, and technology has enabled us to apply the findings in many ways to further knowledge, to perform complex tasks, to further communication, and to make life easier and more exciting. But there are boundaries and limits to science. First, the final models of how nature is working are never the final word: they are always awaiting falsification, never blessed with certain verification. Second, the deeper one goes towards hoped-for truth, the more one is confronted with counter-intuitive models such as quantum theory, spooky-action at a distance, the dark energy of the vacuum, the Big Bang etc. Third, science cannot advance beyond the questions accessible by scientific experiment: questions about purpose and God, right and wrong, good and evil, are not accessible to science. Scientific conclusions, however, can then be subjected to reasonable analysis, philosophical reflection, aided perhaps by religious beliefs. Today a dilemma is often offered for consideration: either evolution by natural selection, or God and purpose. Is this delemma a false one? Can purposeful creation and natural selection both be true? Such are the features of evolution, one can argue strongly the case for a purpose. One can at least say belief in God sits well with evolutionary theory. To come to this conclusion we need to extend and improve our image of the God of Abraham, Moses and Jesus. God is intelligent, subtle, powerful- respectful of the freedom with which the divine will has endowed creation itself and homosapiens.

La obra y el pensamiento de Kant han sido recibidos, estudiados, analizados y desarrollados filosóficamente con gran rigor e incuestionable seriedad académica desde hace ya muchas décadas en el ámbito de la lengua española. Esta Guia se propone fortalecer aun mas su presencia y conocimiento en esta region del mundo, buscando ofrecer una vision de conjunto sobre su vida, obra y pensamiento que sea de utilidad tanto para quien por primera vez se adentra en el conocimiento de este filosofo como para quien lleva ya un camino recorrido en el estudio de su pensamiento. Para ello se han reunido en este libro trabajos de destacado(a)s estudiosos y estudiosas provenientes de uno y otro lado del Atlantico con el proposito de exponer, analizar, problematizar y desarrollar productivamente los diversos aspectos del pensamiento de Kant. Para ello se ha establecido una division en cinco secciones. La primera de ellas se ocupa de la vida de Kant y de los origenes de la filosofia critica, la segunda lo hace de la filosofia teorica mientras que en la tercera se expone y analiza la filosofia practica, comprendiendo dentro de ella tanto a la etica como a la filosofia politica y del derecho y a la de la historia. Posteriormente, la cuarta seccion se dedica a temas relacionados con la estetica, la antropologia, la geografia y la religion, para concluir el espectro tematico de esta Guia con el trazado de las lineas de recepcion por las que ha transitado el pensamiento de Kant. Esta obra se cierra con la presentacion de una tabla cronologica de la vida y obras de este filosofo, asi como con una bibliografia selecta que ha procurado ser lo mas completa posible recogiendo los principales estudios, investigaciones y comentarios sobre el pensamiento del filosofo de Konigsberg poniendo especial atencion a la produccion realizada originalmente en lengua española.

Bioethics has become an important part of everyday dynamics, encompassing both clinical and research ethics. This edited collection aims to challenge some critical cornerstones of todays contemporary bioethical concerns and issues. The individual chapters were prepared by esteemed scholars with international background in their specialties. Nowadays technological revolution is reaching a whole new level, continuously challenging us to define what is human. Keeping this in mind, the authors provided comprehensive and thoughtful views on different bioethical issues, including cultural and social influences on contemporary bioethics, posthumanism and transhumanism, death, the critical importance of informed consent, prenatal genetic testing, gene and cell therapy, mandatory vaccinations, cannabis use, antidoping concerns, treatment of rare diseases and pain management, and finally educational and legislative lines of reasoning.

The critical question of the relationship between Jesus and Paul has been well established in New Testament studies for over 150 years and it needs to be addressed with all the tools of historical criticism that scholarship has developed. So states GerrySchoberg at the beginning of this new and important work that does just that. By coupling comparative instances in the gospels and the works attributed to Paul, Schoberg invites the reader to enquire more profoundly than in past studies as to the nature of the relationship between Jesus and the most dramatic of Christian converts. At the heart of this study is not only the question of whether the New Testament truly gives a unified vision of the Christian movement, but also how the early followers of Jesus felt able to draw such insightful conclusions about him? Answering such questions through the study of Jesus and Paul offer an insight as to how one is to make theological sense of the many details experienced from day to day and thereby live a life inChrist.

This collection of essays from established scholars and rising stars offers fresh perspectives in eschatology for the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements. The fresh readings of eschatology in this volume are valuable because they demonstrate that Pentecostals no longer need to look to others to interpret their theology for them but can stand as scholars and thinkers in their own right.

As can beseen from this volume, the Australian Lonergan Workshop aims to encourage a diversity of contributions from across many disciplines and fields, from emerging young voices and those who continually value Lonergans work to inform, to bring to birth insights stirred by what Frederick Crowe, sj, called a profundity we have dimly glimpsed in Lonergans work; we have a sense of an enormous potential to develop. The result is a collection ranging from the eclectic, stirring and practical, to the richly theological, and scholarly. Nonetheless, each contribution adds to the valuable ongoing exploration of ideas necessary for conversation and progress. To this end, the Australian Lonergan Workshop while a modest publication, remains an invaluable vehicle for developing Lonergan scholarship in Oceania.

This book contains reflections on the Sunday Bible Readings for Year A in the Roman Catholic Lectionary. They are intended to assist those preparing homilies or talks on the readings, as well as others whose curiosity and questions have been aroused by these readings. Reflections on Year B and Year C in the the liturgical cycle will appear in subsequent volumes. Sunday matters or should matter to Christians. It is the Lords day and so the most important day of the week, a time for us to acknowledge God as the source, centre and goal of our lives. Because Sunday is a matter of importance there are important matters to consider on this day, such as time for prayer, worship and being nourished by the Word of God. Sunday also matters because it is a limited amount of time and these days there are a host of other things competing for our time and attention: sport, shopping, TV, travel, etc. Deciding what to do on Sundays and other major days of the Christian calendar has become something of a challenge for contemporary Christians, some would say even a crisis.

The book is aimed at senior high school and college students as a textbook, a book to be used in a classroom setting in course in science and religion, religion, and philosophy. It deals with topics such as: 1) The importance of science and religion; methods of science; the method of religion; the birth of modern cosmology; the evelopment of cosmology; the Big Bang; the Book of Genesis; the Stars; the Anthropic universe-science at its limits; the resurrection; and the fruits of a useful conversation between science and religion. The book has 10 chapters and has questions and comes with a CD that has many power points for us in the classroom as and adjunct to teaching with the accompanying the text.