Religious Studies
mobi |eng | 2007-09-25 | Author:Alister McGrath

PROTESTANT VIEWS ON MUSIC IN WORSHIP Modern Protestant worship makes extensive use of music, especially hymns, choruses, and worship songs. Indeed, Protestants have become so used to singing hymns as ...
( Category: Christianity December 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:McGrath, Alister E. [McGrath, Alister E.]

But consider my friend Francis, who is fortunate enough to have dual nationality. Francis is British. Francis is Swiss. A logical contradiction exists if, and only if, being British excludes ...
( Category: Christianity December 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 1988-02-01 | Author:David H. Stern [Stern, David H.]

4. New Covenant Laws and Practices In fact, the New Testament does not leave us entirely in the dark on the question of what is the New Covenant halakhah. On ...
( Category: Education December 18,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-02-21 | Author:Chadwick, Henry [Chadwick, Henry]

The rules of discipline were not casually administered. We (once only) hear of corporal punishment being administered to a young monk found chatting with the nuns at an ‘unfitting hour’. ...
( Category: Christianity December 16,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-12-10 | Author:Joseph A. Massad [Massad, Joseph A.]

13 See Leila Ahmed’s discussion of Montagu in Leila Ahmed’s Women and Gender in Islam (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992), 121–22. 14 Quoted in Andrea, “Islam, Women, and ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 14,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-11-26 | Author:Hitchcock, James [Hitchcock, James]

10 Reason and Revolution Religion and Politics Religion never exerted greater influence in Europe than in the period 1500 to 1660, and perhaps at no time in history was it ...
( Category: Christianity December 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-01 | Author:Dinesh D'Souza [D'Souza, Dinesh]

Chapter Eight THE IMMATERIAL SELF How Consciousness Can Survive Death Brains are automatic, rule-governed, determined devices, while people are personally responsible agents, free to make their own decisions.1 —Michael Gazzaniga, ...
( Category: Near-Death Experiences December 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Stephen J. Binz [Binz, Stephen]

This scene demonstrates the fullness of Jesus’ humanity. He is grieved, agitated, distressed, fearful, and worried, needing the supportive companionship of his dearest friends as he prepares for the ordeal ...
( Category: Christianity December 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2000-06-20 | Author:R. C. Sproul

Figure 8.1 Hume’s Illustration from Pocket Billiards We remember that the law of causality simply declares that every effect must have an antecedent cause. This law is analytically true and ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State December 10,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-10-01 | Author:James R. White

Whatever the LORD pleases, He does, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps. (Psalm 135:6) The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of ...
( Category: Exegesis & Hermeneutics December 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-24 | Author:Smith, George D. [Smith, George D.]

Young was named president of the LDS Church on December 5, 1847, near Winter Quarters, where he had returned after investigating the Salt Lake Valley.[103] Colonization had been delayed through ...
( Category: General November 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-14 | Author:Hank Hanegraaff [Hanegraaff, Hank]

From a purely logical point of view it should be self-evident that nothing comes from nothing. In other words, it is illogical to believe that something could come from nothing. ...
( Category: Science & Religion November 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Steven M. Cahn & Christine Vitrano [Cahn, Steven M.]

CHOOSING THE EXPERIENCE MACHINE A central issue about happiness is whether its value depends on how it is achieved. Suppose someone could be made happy by having illusory experiences. Would ...
( Category: Old Testament November 22,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-25 | Author:Steve Cioccolanti

QUESTION & ANSWER Is there a God in Buddhism? Buddha never denied the existence of God. His teachings are deeply rooted in the assumption that there is absolute morality and ...
( Category: Comparative Religion November 21,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-26 | Author:Chet Raymo

NINE Academy in Revolt The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein ELS A EINSTEIN WAS once asked if she understood her famous husband's theory of relativity. She replied, ...
( Category: General November 21,2015 )