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The Blue Parakeet is author Scot McKnight's deeply reasoned, compelling statement of how to read the Bible in a new evangelical generation. In re-examining the Bible, McKnight provides an exciting "Third Way" that appeals to the millions in today's church who long to be authentic Christians, but don't consider themselves theologically conservative or liberal.

Written in the 12th century in Arabic by a faithful Jewish man, "The Guide for the Perplexed" is a work that explores the contradiction a very intelligent mind clearly saw between the tradition in which he was raised to believe and the growing philosophy of Arabian and Western culture. In Maimonides' time, there was an emerging disparity between the Law and a new level of philosophical sophistication, which he attempts to bridge in this work, primarily...

En esta obra, el problema ontológico se presenta bajo la visión renovada de Heidegger, quien busca destruir la metafísica del ente, proponiendo una revitalización dinámica que este filósofo trae hasta los límites de la poesía. Pero el primer poeta del ser fue Parménides, por lo que esta investigación presenta, en seguida, el ejercicio de conversar con aquel maestro de la ontología griega. Se inicia el camino de comprensión de lo ontológico...

El Meta Secreto por Dr. Mel Gill La película EL SECRETO nos reveló LA LEY DE LA ATRACCIÓN. Esta Ley de Atracción no es sino UNA de siete antiguas Leyes Herméticas. El META SECRETO revela ¡LAS SIETE LEYES ANTIGUAS! Junto con estrategias prácticas y métodos para manifestar sistemáticamente tus deseos y finalmente ¡VIVIR TUS SUEÑOS! El META SECRETO ha sido descrito por algunos como un rápido Video Manual paso a paso de "Como hacerlo" de las...

We tell one another to accept reality, not to fight for something that doesn't exist or might never be. Gianni Vattimo pushes back against this false wisdom, which lends tacit support to the status quo. Instead, Vattimo urges us to never stop questioning, contrasting, or overcoming reality, which is not natural, inevitable, or objective. Reality is a construct, reflecting, among other things, our greed, biases, and tendencies toward violence. Drawing...

In this little volume, Anthony Thiselton makes an impassioned appeal for closer attention to the philosophy of hermeneutics. Emilio Betti provocatively observes that hermeneutics ought to constitute an obligatory course for most degrees in the humanities. Hermeneutics, he insists, teaches patience, tolerance, respect for other views, understanding, and humility, while holding one's own views with firmness and generosity. Yet many teaching institutions...

In A New Model of the Universe, P. D. Ouspensky analyzes certain of the older schools of thought-those of both the East and the West. He connects them with modern ideas and explains them in the light of recent discoveries and speculations in the realm of physics and philosophy. He explores relativity, the fourth dimension, Christian symbolism, the tarot, yoga, dreams, hypnotism, eternal recurrence, and various psychological theories.

What gives life its meaning? This question stands behind every philosophical inquiry, and philosophy itself arises from it. Confronting the problem of meaning is, as Camus says, the fundamental task of human life. Yet at bottom, meaning is an aesthetical category. Meaning hinges on interpretation. It makes sense then to turn to art-and in particular the art form which deals most explicitly with meaning, the novel-if we are to attempt to address it. Inspired...

Expository Hermeneutics invites the student on a journey to a life and ministry based on exposition of the Bible. Hermeneutics provides a guide to understand the message and apply that message in its original setting and then in a comparative way in the contemporary day. We adopt the Scriptures' view of itself as God's word. As a result, we believe the Bible has a truth value as reflected in the canon of Scripture. The goal of hermeneutics defines...

In debates about the authority of the Bible, people commonly argue that the Bible is inspired, even inerrant, and therefore that it has authority. Is this argument valid? Dr. Edward W. H. Vick argues that it is not, that authority does not derive from inspiration, and that terms like 'inspiration' and 'inerrancy' do not contribute to a belief in, or the authority of the Scriptures at all. Using the example of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and...