This volume articulates one modern trajectory of this appropriation of psychology as the basis for conversation with fundamental questions of human suffering and its remediation in soteriology and eschatology. The work gestures toward a new eschatological vision that relies on the radical otherness of divine transcendence.
What are the biomedical boundaries of acceptable treatment for those not able to give informed consent? Who gets to decide when a patient cannot communicate their desires and needs? This book answers these questions.
What are the biomedical boundaries of acceptable treatment for those not able to give informed consent? Who gets to decide when a patient cannot communicate their desires and needs? This book answers these questions.
In March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a graduation. The author explores the question of why the members of Heaven's Gate committed ritual suicides, and examines the origin and evolution of the religion, its appeal, and practices.
Argues that the failure of theology and science to generate cohesion is the lack of an integrated system of interpretation of the Christian faith that consciously accords with the insights and discoveries of contemporary science.
Trust in the unity of knowledge was initially shaken by Descartes Cartesian dualism. This quake was followed by positivism in the 19th century. On the binary scale, it was ignorance against scientific thought up until positivism replaced it with religious faith and reasoning. From then on, that peculiarity of dualism has been coiling around the ......
Christian Hope in an Age of Technological Enhancement
The timeless human desire to be more beautiful, intelligent, healthy, athletic, or young has given rise in our time to technologies of human enhancement. The author has joined seasoned scholars and younger, emerging voices together to bring fresh insight into the technologies that are already reshaping the future of Christian life and hope.
New Religious Movements and Science in Late Twentieth-Century America
Shows that religious groups had several methods of creatively responding to science, and that the often-assumed conflict-based model of 'science versus religion' must be replaced by a more nuanced understanding of how religions operate in our modern scientific world.
