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Philosophy of Religion

Thinking About Faith

By: C. Stephen Evans,R. Zachary Manis

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Philosophy of Religion

Thinking About Faith

By: C. Stephen Evans,R. Zachary Manis

With over 40,000 copies in print since its original publication in 1982, Steve Evans's Philosophy of Religion has served many generations of students. In this new edition Zach Manis joins Evans in a thorough revamping of arguments and information, while maintaining the qualities of clarity and brevity that made the first edition so appreciated.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830879331

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9780830879335

Fanaticism

A Political Philosophical History

By: Zachary R. Goldsmith

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Fanaticism

A Political Philosophical History

By: Zachary R. Goldsmith

As the post-WWII liberal democratic consensus comes under increasing assault around the globe, Zachary R. Goldsmith investigates a timely topic: the reemergence of fanaticism. His book demonstrates how the concept of fanaticism, so often flippantly invoked with little forethought, actually has a long history stretching back to ancient times. Tracing this history through the Reformation and the Enlightenment to our present moment of political extremism run amok, Goldsmith offers a novel account of fanaticism, detailing its transformation from a primarily religious to a political concept around the time of the French Revolution. He draws on the work of Immanuel Kant, Edmund Burke, and Fyodor Dostoevsky—all keen observers of fanaticism, and especially its political variant—in order to explore this crucial moment in the development of political fanaticism. Examining conceptualizations of fanaticism from different geographical, political, temporal, and contextual backgrounds, Goldsmith reveals how the concept has changed over time and resists easy definition. Nevertheless, his analysis of the writings of key figures from the tradition of political thought regarding fanaticism yields a complex and nuanced understanding of the concept that allows us to productively identify and observe its most salient characteristics: irrationality, messianism, the embrace of abstraction, the desire for novelty, the pursuit of perfection, a lack of limits in politics, the embrace of violence, certainty, passion, and its perennial attraction to intellectuals. Goldsmith’s political-philosophical history of fanaticism offers us an argument and warning against fanaticism itself, demonstrating that fanaticism is antidemocratic, illiberal, antipolitical, and never necessary.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812298624

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9780812298628

Thinking Through the Problem of Hell

The Divine Presence Model

By: R. Zachary Manis

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Thinking Through the Problem of Hell

The Divine Presence Model

By: R. Zachary Manis

The Christian tradition teaches that some people will suffer eternally in hell. But why? Doesn't an all-powerful God have the ability to prevent this from happening to anyone? Wouldn't a perfectly good and loving God want to prevent it? And doesn't the traditional teaching about hell function as a threat, coercing those who truly believe it? These questions convey the problem of hell, the most disturbing of all theological problems and one of the most difficult to solve. Thinking Through the Problem of Hell is a rigorous yet accessible treatment of the issue. The solution that it develops, called the divine presence model, is that heaven and hell are the various ways that the righteous and the wicked experience the presence of God after the final judgment. In its fully developed form, the divine presence model addresses a whole host of theological issues: the purpose of suffering, the meaning of salvation, the nature of free will and self-deception, and the reason that God remains partially hidden in this life, even to those who earnestly seek Him. This is a book for those who refuse pat, simplistic answers to the hardest questions of the Christian faith.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666771457

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9781666771459

Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God

An Essay on the Problem of Hell

By: R. Zachary Manis

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Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God

An Essay on the Problem of Hell

By: R. Zachary Manis

Why would a perfectly good and loving God consign anyone to eternal suffering in hell? In Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God, R. Zachary Manis examines in detail the various facets of the problem of hell, considers the reasons why the usual responses to the problem are unsatisfying, and suggests how an adequate solution to the problem can be constructed. Historically, there are four standard explanations of the nature and purpose of hell: traditionalism, annihilationism, the choice model, and universalism. In Manis's assessment, all are deficient in some crucial respect. The alternative view that he develops and defends, the divine presence model, stands within the tradition that understands hell to be a state of eternal conscious suffering, but, Manis contends, avoids the worst problems of its competitors. The key idea is that the suffering of hell is not the result of a divine act that aims to inflict it, but rather is the way in which a sinful creature necessarily experiences the unmitigated presence of a holy God. Heaven and hell are not two "places" to which the saved and damned are consigned, respectively, but rather are two radically different ways in which different persons will experience the same reality of God's omnipresence once the barrier of divine hiddenness is finally removed.

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Oxford University Press

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019092926X

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9780190929268

The Theory of Entrepreneurship

Creating and Sustaining Entrepreneurial Value

By: Chandra S. Mishra,R. Zachary

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The Theory of Entrepreneurship

Creating and Sustaining Entrepreneurial Value

By: Chandra S. Mishra,R. Zachary

The Theory of Entrepreneurship examines the interiors of the entrepreneurial value creation process, and offers a new unified and comprehensive theory to afford empirical investigations as well as delineate a broader view of the entrepreneurial contextual milieu.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1349477699

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9781349477692

Book's by R. Zachary

Philosophy of Religion

Philosophy of Religion

Fanaticism

Fanaticism

Thinking Through the Problem of Hell

Thinking Through the Problem of Hell

Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God

Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God

The Theory of Entrepreneurship

The Theory of Entrepreneurship

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