Religion and the Human Future An Essay on Theological Humanism

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Religion and the Human Future An Essay on Theological Humanism David E. Klemm and William Schweiker 9 9781405155267_1pretoc.indd ...

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Acknowledgments viIntroduction 1Part I The Shape of Theological Humanism 9 1 Ideas and Challenges 2 The Humanist Imagination 3 T ...

This book is the fruit of years of friendship and conversation on matters religious, moral, and personal. The friendship has dee ...

Acknowledgments vii Wissenschaftsforum in Heidelberg, Germany for support in the writing of this book. We express profound grati ...

Debates about religion and the human future rage around the world. From the highest seats of government to local mosques, church ...

Introduction 2 In our global times there is a sense about deep flaws in religious heritages and also in the core of modern Weste ...

Introduction 3 life on the planet? Our insistence on being both “theological” and “humanist” seems to be excluded by the terms o ...

Introduction 4 We have entitled the book Theological Humanism, and it appears, happily, in the Blackwell Manifesto Essays and Ma ...

Introduction 5 of skepticism dictated that we write an essay. As a kind of trial, one does not accept reigning ideas and beliefs ...

Introduction 6 of liferepresentatives of other traditions will undertake an analogous adventure of thought in their own communit ...

Introduction 7 enhance the human future within its integral relations to other forms of life, natural and divine. That is the ch ...

Introduction 8 ideals and our own dignity rather that to follow the seduction of powers, desires, and “gods” that demean the sou ...

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Ideas and Challenges^1 This book outlines theological humanism as a way to think about the human project economic, or technologi ...

The Shape of Theological Humanism 12 there are many ways to define religion. Religion is belief in a god. Religion is the “cult ...

Ideas and Challenges 13 unsurpassably important and real causal force, an agent. Theism is an orientation in life in which reali ...