A Sociable God

Author : Ken Wilber
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780834822948
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sociable God written by Ken Wilber and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2005-02-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the first attempts to bring an integral dimension to sociology, Ken Wilber introduces a system of reliable methods by which to make testable judgments of the authenticity of any religious movement. A Sociable God is a concise work based on Wilber's "spectrum of consciousness" theory, which views individual and cultural development as an evolutionary continuum. Here he focuses primarily on worldviews (archaic, magic, mythic, mental, psychic, subtle, causal, nondual) and evaluates various cultural and religious movements on a scale ranging from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric to Kosmic. By using this integral view, Wilber hopes, society would be able to discriminate between dangerous cults and authentic spiritual paths. In addition, he points out why these distinctions are crucial in understanding spiritual experiences and altered states of consciousness. In a lengthy new introduction, the author brings the reader up to date on his latest integral thinking and concludes that, for the succinct and elegant way it argues for a sociology of depth, A Sociable God remains a clarion call for a greater sociology.

Author : Ken Wilber
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781590302248
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sociable God written by Ken Wilber and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how religion has changed as our perception of the world has changed and uses a sociological model to analyze current religious issues and test the authenticity of any religious movement. Reprint.

Author : Ken Wilber
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780877732907
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sociable God written by Ken Wilber and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth Leech
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592444083
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social God written by Kenneth Leech and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-10-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central theme of 'The Social God' is the belief that God is social, and that both Christian prayer and Christian social action are rooted in the nature of God. Christian action in the fields of social justice and the political arena is rooted in Christian doctrine. 'The Social God' stresses the essential unity of doctrine and action, of prayer and politics, examining the Christian understanding of God and his relationship with the world. Kenneth Leech emphasizes the centrality of the Incarnation and reveals the other aspects of Christian spirituality, the dangers of a new fascism, and the need for a renewal of Christian theology.

Author : Stanley J. Grenz
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664222031
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social God and the Relational Self written by Stanley J. Grenz and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the first of a six-volume contribution to systematic theology, Grenz creatively extends the insights of contemporary Trinitarian thought to theological anthropology. "The Social God and the Relational Self" is an example of theological construction as an ongoing conversation involving biblical texts, the theological heritage of the Christian tradition, and the contemporary historical-social context.

Author : Nancy Jean Davis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253002346
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Claiming Society for God written by Nancy Jean Davis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claiming Society for God focuses on common strategies employed by religiously orthodox, fundamentalist movements around the world. Rather than employing terrorism, as much of post-9/11 thinking suggests, these movements use a patient, under-the-radar strategy of infiltrating and subtly transforming civil society. Nancy J. Davis and Robert V. Robinson tell the story of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Shas in Israel, Comunione e Liberazione in Italy, and the Salvation Army in the United States. They show how these movements build massive grassroots networks of religiously based social service agencies, hospitals, schools, and businesses to bring their own brand of faith to popular and political fronts.

Author : Kiyul Chung
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820488219
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Donghak Concept of God/heaven written by Kiyul Chung and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original Scholarly Monograph

Author : William S Sax
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199714673
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God of Justice written by William S Sax and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In God of Justice, anthropologist William S. Sax offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of cursing, black magic, and ritual healing in the Central Himalayas of North India. Based on ten years' ethnographic fieldwork, God of Justice shows how these practices are part of a moral system based on the principle of family unity.

Author : Timothy Keller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525954155
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of God written by Timothy Keller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives? In this thoughtful and inspiring new book, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller invites skeptics to consider that Christianity is more relevant now than ever. As human beings, we cannot live without meaning, satisfaction, freedom, identity, justice, and hope. Christianity provides us with unsurpassed resources to meet these needs. Written for both the ardent believer and the skeptic, Making Sense of God shines a light on the profound value and importance of Christianity in our lives.

Author : George D. McClain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780687004898
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Claiming All Things for God written by George D. McClain and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Christian social activist, George McClain found himself yearning for a sense of integration between his active life and his spiritual life. At one point, not knowing what spiritual direction really was, he enrolled in a training program for spiritual directors. In the inner dialogue between that course and his social activism, he recognized the importance of a focused spiritual life in augmenting one's social witness. McClain surveyed other social activists and found that they too responded as he once had - making decisions in the arena of social witness in terms of what they should do, making personal decisions on the basis of what they discerned that God wanted them to do. This book is McClain's attempt to name this disjuncture in the lives of people of faith, to build on the growing intersection in people's lives of action for justice and the inner journey in the Spirit, and to offer rituals groups can use to begin to be religious together.