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| Titre : | Developing a Christian Mind : A Fearless, Happy Ease Amid the Conflicts of Secular Thought |
| Auteurs : | Nancy B. Barcus, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Downers Grove [USA] : Inter-Varsity Press (IVP), 1977 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-87784-732-8 |
| Format : | 103 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | QY/A (Philosophie et religion, philosophie et christianisme) |
| Résumé : |
Every day a dozen different philosophies of life parade before us—in the newspaper, on television, in magazines and books. Rarely do any of them conform to Christian ideas or ideals. Our culture is not only pluralistic but pagan and post-Christian as well.
What are Christians to do? Wall themselves inside their Christian communities? Or face the confused array of beliefs straight on, discover their roots, see the truths they reflect and those they skirt, and then respond with compassion and understanding? The choice is obvious. The question is how to do all this. This book is a place to start. Nancy Barcus does not present a systematic philosophy or a pocket formula for combating secular thinking. Rather she encourages openness to other thought systems without suggesting that we embrace them. After a discussion of key spokesmen for science, nature and humanism, she concludes by considering the rewards and the pain of facing these contemporary challenges. “God made us thinking creatures,” she writes. He wants us “to seek hard after understanding and insight, to endure the pain of the quest and to expect light in the morning.” |
| Note de contenu : |
- 1. The Christian Mind: Introduction: Where the Danger Lies / Not Wings but Weights / That Rigid Orthodoxy / The Exhilaration of Discovery - 2. Meaning and the Shattered Box: Science: The Box That Science Built / Looking at a Hat: Whitehead / Good News for Whom? / Science without Arrogance: Planck / Something about God / The Dark Side of the Data: Monod / From the Laboratory to the Pulpit / Building No Boxes - 3. The Call of the Winds: Nature: From the Ground You Were Taken / A Church to Walk In: Thoreau / The Gift of Ears; the Gift of Eyes / Lessons Learned in the Desert: Krutch / Something Behind / Amazed at the Dream Animal: Eiseley / A Seed Pod, A Grasshopper—and Wonder / The Mute Gospel - 4. A World Come of Age: Humanism: The Second Great Transition: Boulding / Building a New Religion: Huxley / Consciousness III Lives: Reich / Blueprint for a New Society: Skinner / Who Engineers the Engineers? / Ethics Reduced to Survival / The Dimensions of Divine Creaturehood - 5. Knowledge and Pain: Conclusion: The Other Side of Darkness / The Dangers of Faith Apart from Thought / Promises of Understanding / Light in the Morning - For Further Thought - Notes |
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