Chaos To Cosmos

Author : Sidney Greidanus
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 143355500X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Chaos to Cosmos written by Sidney Greidanus and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things." Isaiah 45:7 When God created the world, he brought perfect order out of what was "without form and void." But with human rebellion against God leading to God's curse, disorder was introduced into creation—disorder that we still see all around us today. Tracing the chaos to cosmos theme from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22, pastor-scholar Sidney Greidanus reveals how God is restoring his creation through Jesus Christ, who has already begun to shine light into the darkness and will one day return to bring peace, order, and restoration once and for all. With discussion questions at the end of each chapter and a fourteen-session reading plan, this book is ideal for small groups as well as individual study.

Author : Heidi C. M. Scott
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271065362
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaos and Cosmos written by Heidi C. M. Scott and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chaos and Cosmos, Heidi Scott integrates literary readings with contemporary ecological methods to investigate two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that scientific ecology continues to debate: chaos and balance. Ecological literature of the Romantic and Victorian eras uses environmental chaos and the figure of the balanced microcosm as tropes essential to understanding natural patterns, and these eras were the first to reflect upon the ecological degradations of the Industrial Revolution. Chaos and Cosmos contends that the seed of imagination that would enable a scientist to study a lake as a microcosmic world at the formal, empirical level was sown by Romantic and Victorian poets who consciously drew a sphere around their perceptions in order to make sense of spots of time and place amid the globalizing modern world. This study’s interest goes beyond likening literary tropes to scientific aesthetics; it aims to theorize the interdisciplinary history of the concepts that underlie our scientific understanding of modern nature. Paradigmatic ecological ideas such as ecosystems, succession dynamics, punctuated equilibrium, and climate change are shown to have a literary foundation that preceded their status as theories in science. This book represents an elevation of the prospects of ecocriticism toward fully developed interdisciplinary potentials of literary ecology.

Author : Norman Cohn
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300090888
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come written by Norman Cohn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All over the world people look forward to a perfect future, when the forces of good will be finally victorious over the forces of evil. Once this was a radically new way of imagining the destiny of the world and of mankind. How did it originate, and what kind of world-view preceded it? In this engrossing book, the author of the classic work The Pursuit of the Millennium takes us on a journey of exploration, through the world-views of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India, through the innovations of Iranian and Jewish prophets and sages, to the earliest Christian imaginings of heaven on earth. Until around 1500 B.C., it was generally believed that once the world had been set in order by the gods, it was in essence immutable. However, it was always a troubled world. By means of flood and drought, famine and plague, defeat in war, and death itself, demonic forces threatened and impaired it. Various combat myths told how a divine warrior kept the forces of chaos at bay and enabled the world to survive. Sometime between 1500 and 1200 B.C., the Iranian prophet Zoroaster broke from that static yet anxious world-view, reinterpreting the Iranian version of the combat myth. For Zoroaster, the world was moving, through incessant conflict, toward a conflictless state--"cosmos without chaos." The time would come when, in a prodigious battle, the supreme god would utterly defeat the forces of chaos and their human allies and eliminate them forever, and so bring an absolutely good world into being. Cohn reveals how this vision of the future was taken over by certain Jewish groups, notably the Jesus sect, with incalculable consequences. Deeply informed yet highly readable, this magisterial book illumines a major turning-point in the history of human consciousness. It will be mandatory reading for all who appreciated The Pursuit of the Millennium.

Author : Susan Niditch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaos to Cosmos written by Susan Niditch and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Ray Graham
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802808417
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmos in the Chaos written by Stephen Ray Graham and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Schaff is considered the founder of the discipline of church history in America, and he was the foremost practitioner of that discipline in nineteenth-century America. In this book Stephen R. Graham provides the first in-depth treatment of Schaff's analysis of religion in American and, by means of that study, examines not only Schaff's thought but also the development of religion in the United States in the nineteenth century. Topics covered include the three "threats" to American Christianity as conceived by Schaff -- sectarianism, romanism, and rationalism; Schaff's understanding of the American experiment of separation of church and state; Schaff's conception of America as playing a unique role in world and Christian history; and Schaff's contributions to ecumenism.

Author : Elaine Walker
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1457543583
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matter Over Mind written by Elaine Walker and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matter Over Mind begins with a thought-provoking journey through the Cosmos to illustrate the startling contrast between nature’s chaotic but rich processes, and the human mind’s organized but under performing habits. This book reveals how humanity could achieve even greater heights if we allow ourselves to rethink how we think. Chaos theory, which is wonderfully explained in this book, is a foundational recipe in nature and large group behavior. Abstract thinking is the opposite force that leads to frustrating inconsistencies in society and even limitations in technology. Viewing the world through both lenses illuminates the deeper dynamics of the world and a better way forward for humanity.

Author : Elisabet Sahtouris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gaia written by Elisabet Sahtouris and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first popularly written explanation of the scientific theory galvanizing both New Age and scientific circles: the GAIA Hypothesis.

Author : Edgar Laing Heermance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaos Or Cosmos? written by Edgar Laing Heermance and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barry R. Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781489933713
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaos in the Cosmos written by Barry R. Parker and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sidney Greidanus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781433554995
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Chaos to Cosmos written by Sidney Greidanus and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: