Man Made God

Author : Barbara G. Walker
Publisher : Stellar House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0979963141
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man Made God written by Barbara G. Walker and published by Stellar House Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary independent scholar of comparative religion and mythology Walker examines a time when the Goddess and her consort/son ruled supreme and forward into the era when the patriarchy usurped Her worship.

Author : Luc Ferry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226244857
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man Made God written by Luc Ferry and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-05-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the meaning of life based on a divine revelation no longer makes sense? Does the quest for transcendence end in the pursuit of material success and self-absorption? Luc Ferry argues that modernity and the emergence of secular humanism in Europe since the eighteenth century have not killed the search for meaning and the sacred, or even the idea of God, but rather have transformed both through a dual process: the humanization of the divine and the divinization of the human. Ferry sees evidence for the first of these in the Catholic Church's attempts to counter the growing rejection of dogmatism and to translate the religious tradition into contemporary language. The second he traces to the birth of modern love and humanitarianism, both of which demand a concern for others and even self-sacrifice in defense of values that transcend life itself. Ferry concludes with a powerful statement in favor of what he calls "transcendental humanism"—a concept that for the first time in human history gives us access to a genuine spirituality rooted in human beings instead of the divine.

Author : Selina O'Grady
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250016827
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And Man Created God written by Selina O'Grady and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of Jesus' birth , the world was full of gods. Thousands of them jostled, competed and merged with one another. In Syria ecstatic devotees castrated themselves in the streets to become priests of Atargatis In Galilee, holy men turned oil into wine, healed the sick, drove out devils, and claimed to be the Messiah. Every day thousands of people were leaving their family and tribes behind them and flocking into brand new multi-ethnic cities. The ancient world was in ferment as it underwent the first phase of globalisation, and in this ferment rulers and ruled turned to religion as a source of order and stability. Augustus, the first emperor of Rome (though he never dared officially to call himself so) was maneuvering his way to becoming worshipped as a god – it was one of the most brilliant makeovers ever undertaken by a ruler and his spin doctors. In North Africa, Amanirenas the warrior queen exploited her god-like status to inspire her armies to face and defeat Rome. In China the usurper Wang Mang won and lost his throne because of his obsession with Confucianism. To explore the power that religious belief has had over societies through the ages, Selina O'Grady takes the reader on a dazzling journey across the empires of the ancient world and introduces us to rulers, merchants, messiahs, priests and holy men. Throughout, she seeks to answer why, amongst the countless religious options available, the empires at the time of Jesus ‘chose' the religions they did? Why did China's rulers hitch their fate to Confucianism, a philosophy more than a religion? And why was a tiny Jewish cult led by Jesus eventually adopted by Rome's emperors rather than the cult of Isis which was far more popular and widespread? The Jesus cult , followed by no more than 100 people at the time of his death, should, by rights, have disappeared in a few generations. Instead it became the official religion of the Roman Empire. Why did Christianity grow so quickly to become the predominant world religion? What was it about its teachings that so appealed to people? And Man Created God looks at why and how religions have had such an immense impact on human history and in doing so uncovers the ineradicable connection between politics and religion - a connection which still defines us in our own age. This is an important, thrilling and necessary new work of history.

Author : Robert Banks
Publisher : Lion Books
ISBN 13 : 0745955436
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And Man Created God written by Robert Banks and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God made everything, who made God? this question has intrigued thinkers from the earliest times and provided opponents of religion with some of their strongest ammunition. In And Man Created God renowned scholar Robert Banks explores the history of this question from its earliest vocalisation in the ancient world to its most famous historical proponents. In the process he reveals the many ways in which men have made gods, and the many reasons why--Back cover.

Author : Brandon Varnell
Publisher : Man Made God
ISBN 13 : 9781951904098
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man Made God 001 written by Brandon Varnell and published by Man Made God. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam is convinced to enter the newest VRMMORPG Age of Gods. Now he has to become the first person to reach level 10.

Author : John F. Brain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1413487610
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Created God written by John F. Brain and published by . This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under his pseudonym John F Brinster, noted author of science, philosophy, and religion, has produced an important satirical novel directed to imaginative beliefs in an anthropomorphic god with explanations of the emotional mind and filled with lively characters. It pits the most respected logical mind of Oxford Professor Jeremiah B Cackelry III against the emotional minds of traditional believers. A mysterious Cackelry abduction results in attempts to identify perpetrators through a mathematical code. The religious world challenges Cackelry to a Paris Summit to present his religion, patterned after concepts of the author's former neighbor, Albert Einstein. His loyal assistant, Dr Anne Duchin, a neuroscientist and attractive tennis star, goes to his rescue. Dr Elaine Price, a disturbed lesbian assistant of equal beauty and of pathological belief, attempts to defend her god. Fiendish Dr Anton Schicter enters into an arrangement on the side of religions and plans an untraceable prefrontal leucotomy todestroy the professor's creativity . Meanwhile, a militant Transylvanian cult takes advantage of the fear of Dracula vampires and Frankenstein monsters to protect membership. Cackelry is not atheistic but determined to replace imaginative notions with reality, notions that he believes deter neural development of reason essential for peaceful coexistence. He succeeds in creating his god and the ultimate religion for Man. The setting is Switzerland decades beyond the present. Requested by the new Third Millennium U N with expanded power, Cackelry builds the World University to lead the world out of stagnation. He marries Anne but, upon his mysterious death, she abandons her narrow life to marry his eldest son, Jeremiah Cackelry IV, a banker in Basel. In a society, torn with religious conflict, replete with prejudices, and with beliefs and practices that challenge human reason, this book presents a breath of fresh air.

Author : Brandon Varnell
Publisher : Kitsune Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1951904311
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man Made God 004 written by Brandon Varnell and published by Kitsune Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAME ON! The time has come for Fayte to create a guild—the first one in Age of Gods. But creating a guild is a lot easier said than done, especially when the place Fayte wants to create hers is the most dangerous location currently within the game. Stampede. The term refers to an event that happens when humans leave the city and a horde of monsters gathers to attack them. It’s guaranteed to happen while their sect is being built, which means it is up to Adam, Aris, Fayte, Kureha, Lilith, Susan, and Titania to defend the construction workers while they build it. But how can they defend anything when faced with hundreds of monsters all above level 30? Explicit Content Warning: This series contains content that may not be suitable for anyone under the age of 18.

Author : David Clark Done
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781674858395
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And Man Made God In His Image written by David Clark Done and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores the history of human sexuality in poetic language. Why do we have so much ignorance and fear running rampant in our society concerning human sexuality? Where are the roots causes of these fears? The author grapples with these questions by examining events and convictions that have been embedded in our culture.

Author : David E. Comings
Publisher : Hope Press
ISBN 13 : 1878267736
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Did Man Create God? : is Your Spiritual Brain at Peace with Your Thinking Brain? : Including Intelligent Answers to Intelligent Design written by David E. Comings and published by Hope Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. David Comings, an internationally renowned physician, human geneticist and neuroscientist, proposes that spirituality is genetically hardwired into a specific part of the brain, is pleasurable, is critical to the evolution and survival of man, and will never go away. It strives to allow readers to develop a rational spirituality in which the fact-based rational brain and the faith-based spiritual brain can live in peace. In an era when politicians are judged on the basis of the strength of their belief in God, when schools are urged to teach Intelligent Design, and when religious terrorists threaten the existence of Western civilization it is critical to dispassionately examine the question - Did man create God? A wide range of issues are examined including intelligent answers to intelligent design; the relevance of modern cosmology to the existence or non-existence of god; the role of genes in spirituality; innate morality, the problem of evil, and many others. Michael Shermer called this the most detailed and up-to-date science ever generated on the subject of religion and suggested it will be the definitive scientific reference on religion for some time to come. This book is for those who have also questioned any part of their faith but treasure their spirituality and want answers that are not hostile to spirituality or religion.

Author : Anthony A. Hoekema
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802808509
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Created in God's Image written by Anthony A. Hoekema and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1994-09-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ccording to Scripture, humankind was created in the image of God. Hoekema discusses the implications of this theme, devoting several chapters to the biblical teaching on God's image, the teaching of philosophers and theologians through the ages, and his own theological analysis. Suitable for seminary-level anthropology courses, yet accessible to educated laypeople. Extensive bibliography, fully indexed.