In Praise Of Meekness

Author : Norberto Bobbio
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745623085
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Meekness written by Norberto Bobbio and published by Polity. This book was released on 2000-11-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important volume, the leading political theorist and philosopher Norberto Bobbio confronts some of the most enduring moral questions of our time. Written over the last two decades of the twentieth century, the essays in this volume develop some of the central themes in Bobbio's moral and political philosophy. They also reflect his longstanding civil commitment to liberty, democracy, peace and equality. The opening essay, 'In praise of meekness', analyses the virtue of meekness in its individual and social aspects. It identifies the meek person with the nonviolent, and meekness with the refusal to exercise violence against anyone. Meekness, therefore, is a non-political virtue - it is the antithesis of politics. The volume also addresses the persistent classical problem of 'reason of state', as well as the more contemporary questions of tolerance and truth, racism, prejudice and ethics. The problem of evil in the modern world is also discussed. All the essays display the sensitivity and depth of understanding that characterize Bobbio's writings on current debates and historical controversies. The book will be invaluable reading for all students and scholars of politics, as well as those who are interested in the debates surrounding morals, ethics and law.

Author : Philip Norton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics of the Holy Ghost; Or Bible Readings on the Fruit of the Spirit ... written by Philip Norton and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Judson Cornwall
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458798127
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let Us Praise written by Judson Cornwall and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Us Praise has sold more than 500,000 copies, and its teaching on praise continues to minister to thousands of believers around the world. Judson Cornwall writes, ''May the ministry of praise that this book teaches find an expression in the Body of Christ far beyond the areas covered in Let Us Praise.'' Praise is an important ministry Praise is vital in every believer's life How should we praise the Lord? What does the Bible teach about praise? Praise focuses our hearts on God - what He has done and who He is.

Author : Dane C. Ortlund
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433566168
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gentle and Lowly written by Dane C. Ortlund and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians know that God loves them, but can easily feel that he is perpetually disappointed and frustrated, maybe even close to giving up on them. As a result, they focus a lot—and rightly so—on what Jesus has done to appease God’s wrath for sin. But how does Jesus Christ actually feel about his people amid all their sins and failures? This book draws us to Matthew 11, where Jesus describes himself as “gentle and lowly in heart,” longing for his people to find rest in him. The gospel flows from God’s deepest heart for his people, a heart of tender love for the sinful and suffering. These chapters take readers into the depths of Christ’s very heart for sinners, diving deep into Bible passages that speak of who Christ is and encouraging readers with the affections of Christ for his people. His longing heart for sinners comforts and sustains readers in their up-and-down lives.

Author : Matthew Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Discourse Concerning Meekness written by Matthew Henry and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aristotle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nicomachean Ethics... written by Aristotle and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kerry Walters
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809141197
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merciful Meekness written by Kerry Walters and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a clear, concise and judicious examination of the bedrock Christian moral principles of mercy and meekness that leads the author, a professor of philosophy, to affirm their essential integration if we are to become complete Christians. Dr. Walters redefines and synthesizes the Christian principles: mercy and meekness together are virtues compatible, complementary, and essential to our pathway to union with Christ, convincingly countering the Nietzschean philosophy that rejects their synthesis (one or the other is possible, but not both), as incompatible, inherently contradictory and "morally repugnant." Intended as a reference work for undergraduate students, this spare book, rooted in Scripture and Christian tradition, the thought of Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Ayn Rand, and Friedrich Nietzsche, including his polemics with the Sermon on the Mount, is also helpful for the general reader in search of spiritual wholeness. It is an effective counterguide to Christianity's naysayers.

Author : Matthew Henry
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556357699
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Meekness and Quietness of Spirit written by Matthew Henry and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the world knows Matthew Henry best for his time-enduring Exposition of the Old and New Testaments, the cultivation of personal piety in himself and others was the great business of his practical life; and his treatises on the godly life, while little known today, are among the finest ever written. Rich in and alert to the things of the spirit, they reveal, as so impressively shown in this volume, a spiritual mind of preeminent degree in the full and deliberate worship of God. The author here pleads with us to avail ourselves of the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, and to apply this precious and comely grace in all our contacts in everyday living. No message could be more practical or fitting for this age, when the world, more than ever, is too much with us. This is a deep and tender, altogether winsome plea. Would you know the nature, excellence, and application of this meekness and quietness? Come then with the author to Him who said, . . . learn of me, for I am meek and lowly. And all the world will see and know that we have been with Jesus. Living and dying, let us be found among the quiet in the land. We all wish to see quiet families, and quiet churches, and quiet neighborhoods, and quiet nations; and it will be so if there be quiet hearts; and not otherwise.

Author : Fred Reinhard Dallmayr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace Talks written by Fred Reinhard Dallmayr and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Complaint of Peace, the great sixteenth-century humanist Erasmus allows "Peace" to talk. Peace speaks as a plaintiff, protesting her shabby treatment at the hands of humankind and our ever-ready inclination to launch wars. Against this lure of warfare, Erasmus pits the higher task of peace-building, which can only succeed through the cultivation of justice and respect for all human life. First articulated in 1517, the complaint of peace has echoed through subsequent centuries and down to our age--an age convulsed by world wars, holocausts, and ethnic cleansings. Distinguished political scientist Fred Dallmayr traces this complaint from the writings of Erasmus through the evolution of the "law of nations" to recent and contemporary co-plaintiffs in the West. He also highlights the role of non-Western thinkers and teachings in giving voice to "Peace." In addition to Erasmus, Dallmayr engages major thinkers such as Francisco de Vitoria, Hugo Grotius, Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Mahatma Ghandi, the Dalai Lama, John Rawls, and Martha Nussbaum. This timely book urgently pleads for greater attentiveness to peace's complaint as an antidote to the prevailing culture of violence and the escalating danger of nuclear catastrophe. Dallmayr offers not only a compelling historical narrative, but powerful ethical and religious arguments vindicating the primacy of peace over violence and war.

Author : Elsie M. Collins
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450262376
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blessed Are the Meek, the Humble, and the Bold written by Elsie M. Collins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elsie Collins is not your normal, everyday college professor in America. In her youth, she started out as Kissia descendent of African slaves, living in Wilsons Mill, North Carolina. Her upbringing brought her face-to-face with racism and discrimination, both subtly and overtly. The lines dividing black and white fascinated young Kissi; as she grew up, she decided to take a deeper look at race relations, nationwide. Blessed Are the Meek, the Humble, and the Bold is the memoir of Dr. Elsie Collins, a woman who spent nearly three-quarters of the twentieth century cutting through the color divide. Although she met with many challenges, Elsie never gave up on goals she had set for herself and her community. She never gave up on building strong relationships across lines of class, race, and culture. Elsie Collins has inspired hundreds on her long journey to personal freedom and success, from small towns in North Carolina to the big city of New York. Through the acquisition of knowledge, friendship, wisdom, she developed the judgment to discern when to be humble and when to be bold. Her story is a snapshot of race relations in America and a commentary on the insignificance of skin color in human relationships and in the search for the meaning of life.