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The Human Quest for Meaning

Autor: Paul T. P. Wong

Número de Páginas: 768

The first edition of The Human Quest for Meaning was a major publication on the empirical research of meaning in life and its vital role in well-being, resilience, and psychotherapy. This new edition continues that quest and seeks to answer the questions, what is the meaning of life? How do we explain what constitutes meaningful relationships, work, and living? The answers, as the eminent scholars and practitioners who contributed to this text find, are neither simple nor straightforward. While seeking to clarify subjective vs. objective meaning in 21 new and 7 revised chapters, the authors also address the differences in cultural contexts, and identify 8 different sources of meaning, as well as at least 6 different stages in the process of the search for meaning. They also address different perspectives, including positive psychology, self-determination, integrative, narrative, and relational perspectives, to ensure that readers obtain the most thorough information possible. Mental health practitioners will find the numerous meaning-centered interventions, such as the PURE and ABCDE methods, highly useful in their own work with facilitating healing and personal growth in their...

Liberal Learning as a Quest for Purpose

Autor: William M. Sullivan

Número de Páginas: 249

What happens when higher education is introduced to the exploration of meaning and purpose? Liberal Learning as a Quest for Purpose analyzes a remarkable experiment--lasting over a decade and encompassing 88 independent campuses--to reconfigure undergraduate education as a journey toward life purpose. It ties together the liberal arts, personal development, and preparation for life all through the exploration of vocation.

The Quest for Purpose

Autor: Perry L. Glanzer , Jonathan P. Hill , Byron R. Johnson

Número de Páginas: 428

While the search for meaning and purpose appears to be a constant throughout human history, there are characteristics about our current time period that make this search different from any other previous time, particularly for college students. In this book, Perry L. Glanzer, Jonathan P. Hill, and Byron R. Johnson explore college students' search for meaning and purpose and the role that higher education plays. To shed empirical light on this complex issue, the authors draw on in-depth interviews with four hundred college students from different types of institutions across the United States. They also analyze three sets of national survey data: the National Study of Youth and Religion, College Students Beliefs and Values, and their own Gallup-conducted survey of 2,500 college students. Their research identifies important social, educational, and cultural influences that shape students' quests and the answers they find. Arguing against a utilitarian view of education, Glanzer, Hill, and Johnson conclude that colleges and universities can and should cultivate and aid students in their journeys, and they offer suggestions for doing so.

Tu sueño hecho realidad

Autor: Chris Guillebeau

Número de Páginas: 169

Al igual que los héroes de antaño se lanzaban a realizar sus sueños y a lomos de un caballo se adentraban en bosques encantados, muchos hombres y mujeres siguen recorriendo un camino para «encontrarse» a sí mismos. Como descubrió don Quijote hace muchos años, una misión no siempre resulta ser como se había planeado. Los viajeros sufren contratiempos inesperados o se pierden porque alguien les ha orientado mal, y algunas situaciones que han de afrontar son un auténtico reto. Sin embargo, por extraño que parezca, las desventuras (y a veces hasta los desastres) generan confianza. Este libro trata sobre esta oportunidad de aprender. Vas a estar en compañía de hombres y mujeres que iniciaron grandes aventuras y dieron un propósito a sus vidas trabajando en pos de algo que para ellos tenía un profundo sentido. Encontrarás aquí sus relatos y las lecciones que aprendieron. Sabrás lo que les sucedió por el camino, pero, sobre todo, sabrás por qué ocurrió y por qué importa. Fabuloso... Bien escrito, entretenido e inspirador. Huffington Post Las increíbles aventuras a las que Chris Guillebeau nos remite en Tu sueño hecho realidad, incluida la suya propia de viajar a ...

The Quest for Meaning

Número de Páginas: 282

The Quest for Meaning: Teaching, Learning and the Arts presents a narrative, arts-based approach to pedagogy and research in higher education. Through narratives of experience, the book offers revealing, poignant examples of the transformative power of the arts and of narrative inquiry in learners’ lives, and of the centrality of story in their ongoing quest for meaning. The Quest for Meaning will be valuable in a wide range of graduate and undergraduate settings. It provides a framework for the development of new pedagogies which integrate the theory and practice of narrative, arts-based approaches to education. The work makes a contribution to the fields of narrative and arts-based inquiry and pedagogy, qualitative research methods, holistic and integrated studies, and self-directed inquiry. It will appeal to a range of audiences who are interested in this creative, integrative approach to education, and who want to gain insights into how students learn, from their own unique perspectives. Grounded in Dr. Beattie’s interconnected approach to research and pedagogy, the book begins with her own story of teaching, learning, research and the arts. This provides the backdrop to...

Science and the Search for Meaning

Autor: Jean Staune

Número de Páginas: 268

Explores the mysteries of reality from a multi-faith, multi-cultural perspective. -- Back cover.

Our Reason for Being

Autor: T. F. Leong

Número de Páginas: 345

Ecclesiastes is a persuasive speech with a rhetoric so unique that it can be easily misunderstood. It speaks powerfully to believers as well as nonbelievers because it addresses the question of the meaning of life in the most satisfying way. The heart of this book is an expositional commentary that interprets Ecclesiastes as authoritative Scripture. It seeks to recover the rhetoric of the speech in terms of its comprehensive message on the meaning of life as well as its compelling force to get the message across. Preceding the expositional commentary is an introduction to Ecclesiastes that presents a new approach to outlining and reading Ecclesiastes as a coherent speech. It also presents an overview of the "forest"--the overall rhetorical flow of the speech from beginning to end. This is to prevent one from getting lost when immersed in the "trees" of the expositional commentary. Following the expositional commentary are two topical studies to give Ecclesiastes the breadth and depth of coverage it deserves. The first is an interdisciplinary exposition on the meaning of life. The second is an interpretive essay to defend exegetically the interpretation of Ecclesiastes as a...

Psychology of Reasoning

Autor: K. I. Manktelow , Man Cheung Chung

Número de Páginas: 400

This collection brings together a set of specially commissioned chapters from leading international researchers in the psychology of reasoning. Its purpose is to explore the historical, philosophical and theoretical implications of the development of this field. Taking the unusual approach of engaging not only with empirical data but also with the ideas and concepts underpinning the psychology of reasoning, this volume has important implications both for psychologists and other students of cognition, including philosophers. Sub-fields covered include mental logic, mental models, rational analysis, social judgement theory, game theory and evolutionary theory. There are also specific chapters dedicated to the history of syllogistic reasoning, the psychology of reasoning as it operates in scientific theory and practice, Brunswickian approaches to reasoning and task environments, and the implications of Popper's philosophy for models of behaviour testing. This cross-disciplinary dialogue and the range of material covered makes this an invaluable reference for students and researchers into the psychology and philosophy of reasoning.

New Being

Autor: Kenan B. Osborne

Número de Páginas: 238

The following study on Ti1lich's theology is based on a doctoral dissertation, presented to the Ludwig-Maximilian University at Munich in December, 1967. Tillich's theology, however, is not a simple structure to analyze, since it is so systematically interrelated. Certainly every major area of his theo logical system involves all other major areas, and even the minor areas have complex ramifications to the total system itself. The following pages, there fore, can only be construed as one among many viewpoints of his system. Tillich's theological structure might be compared to a painting or some other work of art: one must view it now from this direction, now from that, in order to appreciate the total effect. Certain points should, however, be mentioned here. First of all, a key notion in this system is "essentialization. " This concept rounds off and com pletes Ti1lich's entire work. Unfortunately, Ti1lich himself did not write extensively on this topic, nor did he actually correlate it to the beginning and middle of his system, although it expresses the final telos of his entire theo logical work. I have drawn out of the Systematic Theology as much as possi ble on the subject of ...

The Interpretation of The Meaning of The Holy Quran Volume 60 - Surah Ghaafir(Al-Mu'min)

Autor: Nasoha Bin Saabin

Número de Páginas: 372

I have written many books and articles on various topics but since 2013, I have devoted myself fully in writing the interpretation of the Holy Quran in English and with the grace of Allah, I have completed the whole Quran on 29th October 2020 with 84 books. I believe there is a great need in the whole world for the correct interpretation of the Holy Quran to be written in English. Currently, there is a great misunderstanding about Islam among Muslims and non-Muslims globally. The misunderstanding of the meaning of the Holy Quran among Muslims will lead to the wrong practice of Islam which leads to the wrong actions of Muslims. The wrong actions of Muslims will lead to misunderstandings about Islam among Muslims and non-Muslims. The wrong actions of the Muslims have led to many miseries and wars among Muslims. The wrong actions of Muslims have also led to many wars and clashes between Muslims and non-Muslims. In order to avoid miseries, wars and clashes from taking place between the whole mankind in the whole world, the whole mankind in the whole world need to understand the true teaching of Islam. There is no other way for the whole mankind to understand the true teaching of Islam ...

Systematic Theology

Autor: Paul Tillich

Número de Páginas: 313

“A great voyage of discovery into a rich and deep, and inclusive...vision and understanding of human life in the presence of the mystery of God.” -- H. Richard Niebuhr, author of Christ and Culture This is the first part of Paul Tillich's three-volume Systematic Theology, one of the most profound statements of the Christian message ever composed and the summation and definitive presentation of the theology of the most influential and creative American theologian of the twentieth century. In this path-breaking volume Tillich presents the basic method and statement of his system—his famous “correlation” of man's deepest questions with theological answers. Here the focus is on the concepts of being and reason. Tillich shows how the quest for revelation is integral to reason itself. In the same way a description of the inner tensions of being leads to the recognition that the quest for God is implied in finite being. Here also Tillich defines his thought in relation to philosophy and the Bible and sets forth his famous doctrine of God as the “Ground of Being.” Thus God is understood not as a being existing beside other beings, but as being-itself or the power of being in ...

Learning for Meaning's Sake

Autor: Stephanie Mackler

Número de Páginas: 146

Universities, and the societies they serve, suffer from a crisis of meaning: We have fanatically developed our ability to produce knowledge, leaving our ability to craft meaning by the wayside. University graduates often have an abundance of knowledge but lack the wisdom to use it meaningfully. Meanwhile, people inside and outside academia are searching for meaning but are imprisoned in a lexicon of clichés and sound bites that stunts their quest. In response, Learning for Meaning’s Sake begins with the assertion that higher education in the 21st century should renounce its obsession with job training and knowledge production and should, instead, turn toward questions of meaning. Drawing upon a diverse range of philosophical thought, Learning for Meaning’s Sake offers the vision and philosophical foundation for a new type of higher learning-one that is devoted to the existential questions at the core of human existence.

Writing That Makes Sense, 2nd Edition

Autor: David S. Hogsette

Número de Páginas: 626

The second edition of Writing That Makes Sense takes students through the fundamentals of the writing process and explores the basic steps of critical thinking. Drawing upon over twenty years of experience teaching college composition and professional writing, David S. Hogsette combines relevant writing pedagogy and practical assignments with the basics of critical thinking to provide students with step-by-step guides for successful academic writing in a variety of rhetorical modes. New in the second edition: -Expanded discussion of how to write effective thesis statements for informative, persuasive, evaluative, and synthesis essays, including helpful thesis statement templates. -Extensive templates introducing students to conventions of academic discourse, including integrating outside sources, interacting with other writers' ideas, and dialoguing with multiple perspectives. -Examples of academic writing from different disciplines illustrating essay titles, abstracts, thesis statements, introductions, conclusions, and voice. -Expanded discussion of voice in academic writing, including an exploration of active and passive voice constructions in different disciplines and tips on...

Faith, Reason, and Philosophy

Autor: George F. Mclean

Número de Páginas: 300

The Quest for Meaning

Autor: Gaurav Sharma

Número de Páginas: 62

"The Quest for Meaning" embarks on an intellectual odyssey through the labyrinth of existential inquiry, unraveling the intricacies of human existence. Authored by a seasoned philosopher, the book navigates the corridors of diverse cultures, religions, and philosophies, inviting readers to ponder the profound questions that define our shared humanity. From the search for purpose to the exploration of morality, the narrative seamlessly weaves together profound insights and thought-provoking anecdotes. As readers traverse the pages, they encounter a tapestry of wisdom, fostering introspection and inspiring a personal journey toward a richer, more meaningful life. This literary expedition beckons those in pursuit of profound truths, offering a compass for navigating the enigmatic landscape of life's ultimate questions.

The Goodness of Home

Autor: Natalia Marandiuc

Número de Páginas: 225

In a modern world characterized by a precarious job market, class inequality, and a global migrant crisis, Natalia Marandiuc asks the question: How does home affect one's identity? In this wide-ranging contribution to Christian theological anthropology, Marandiuc argues that love attachments function as sources of subjectivity and enablers of human freedom. Human loves and the love of God are co-creators of the self and they situate human subjectivity in a relational home. Paradoxically, the depth of human belonging, dependence, is thus directly proportional to the strength of human agency, independence. Building upon Søren Kierkegaard, research in the neuroscience of attachment theory, and contemporary constructions of the self, The Goodness of Home makes original contributions to several central issues in contemporary Christian theological anthropology. Love is understood as central to the building of subjectivity, which is seen as an intersection of desire and need. For Marandiuc, the self is a complex process of becoming rather than a static entity with essentialist features. She looks at human difference in terms of the formation of particular subjectivities through...

Progress and the Quest for Meaning

Autor: John Andrew Bernstein

Número de Páginas: 236

There has been a surprising absence of a general philosophical overview of progress as a method of articulating human meaning. This book attempts to fill this gap.

Faith Finding Meaning

Autor: Byron L. Sherwin

Número de Páginas: 223

Byron Sherwin demonstrates that Jewish theological thinking can be understood as a response to visceral existential issues and argues that human meaning and fulfillment can be discovered in the application of an authentic Jewish way of thinking and living.

Reason and Republicanism

Autor: Gary L. Mcdowell , L. Sharon Noble , Sharon L. Noble

Número de Páginas: 350

An international collection of the world's most distinguished historians and political philosophers takes a fresh look at the political, legal, and philosophical contributions of Thomas Jefferson. The insightful essays analyze and illuminate the sophisticated layers of the political and legal thought of America's most influential and intellectually complex Founder. With contributors that include Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Morton Frisch, Paul Rahe, James Stoner, Robert K. Faulkner, John Zvesper, Howard Temperly, Robert A. Rutland, Raoul Berger, Colin Bonwick, Peter Parish, Jeffrey Sedgwick, J. R. Pole, Richard King, and Jean M. Yarborough, this is essential reading for historians and political philosophers.

The Quest for Meaning

Autor: Tariq Ramadan

Número de Páginas: 286

In The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism, Tariq Ramadan embarks on a journey to uncover the profound truths that bind us together. In a world so full of different beliefs and viewpoints, how can we find peace in our shared humanity? Acclaimed thinker and philosopher Tariq Ramadan explores universal ideas such as love, respect, truth and tolerance, and examines questions such as how can men and women relate to each other? What is the true nature of equality? What does 'civilization' really mean? In doing so, he opens our minds to a new view of humanity. Whether we are Christian or Buddhist, Jewish or Muslim, secularist or believer, he reveals that all traditions of thought spring from the same place, and guides us to see past what divides us and discover the beauty of what we have in common. This book has resonance for all of us, showing why, eventually, all different spiritual paths lead to the human heart. 'A prophetic, passionate and insightful book' Karen Armstrong, Financial Times

The Power of Purpose

Autor: Richard J. Leider

Número de Páginas: 222

Self help.

Reason’s Inquisition

Autor: Christopher A. Colmo

Número de Páginas: 279

Reasons Inquisition: On Doubtful Ground is an exploration in the literature of political philosophy before and after Alfarabi and ranging from Thucydides to Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. These studies, most of them previously unpublished, open inquiries into theory and practice, reason and revelation, and the relation between thinkers ancient and modern. Readers may be surprised to see the Platonist Alfarabi presented as a critic of Plato’s theory in the name of practice, while Alfarabi and Hobbes are shown to have a common interest in a theory commensurate with action. Strauss, Voegelin and Lucien Febvre all explore the problem of reason and revelation in relation to the limits of human knowledge. An ambitious study of Shakespeare’s Macbeth explores the ambiguity of both nature and knowledge in relation to male and female, good and evil, present and future. The contrast between ancients and moderns is explicit in questions of the modern aspects of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and of Rousseau’s reversal of Plato. Kierkegaard and Heidegger bring radical modernity into focus against a Platonic background in the closing essay. These diverse essays attempt to follow the thinkers...

The Power of Purpose (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

Autor: Richard Leider

Número de Páginas: 230

Custom and Reason in Hume

Autor: Henry E. Allison

Número de Páginas: 426

Henry Allison examines the central tenets of Hume's epistemology and cognitive psychology, as contained in the Treatise of Human Nature. Allison takes a distinctive two-level approach. On the one hand, he considers Hume's thought in its own terms and historical context. So considered, Hume is viewed as a naturalist, whose project in the first three parts of the first book of the Treatise is to provide an account of the operation of the understanding in which reason is subordinated to custom and other non-rational propensities. Scepticism arises in the fourth part as a form of metascepticism, directed not against first-order beliefs, but against philosophical attempts to ground these beliefs in the "space of reasons." On the other hand, Allison provides a critique of these tenets from a Kantian perspective. This involves a comparison of the two thinkers on a range of issues, including space and time, causation, existence, induction, and the self. In each case, the issue is seen to turn on a contrast between their underlying models of cognition. Hume is committed to a version of the perceptual model, according to which the paradigm of knowledge is a seeing with the "mind's eye" of...

Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning

Autor: Timothy Pytell

Número de Páginas: 216

★“[T]his is a scholarly, commendable biography and intellectual history. Lay readers will be challenged; psychologists and historians will be grateful.”—Library Journal, starred review First published in 1946, Viktor Frankl’s memoir Man’s Search for Meaning remains one of the most influential books of the last century, selling over ten million copies worldwide and having been embraced by successive generations of readers captivated by its author’s philosophical journey in the wake of the Holocaust. This long-overdue reappraisal examines Frankl’s life and intellectual evolution anew, from his early immersion in Freudian and Adlerian theory to his development of the “third Viennese school” amid the National Socialist domination of professional psychotherapy. It teases out the fascinating contradictions and ambiguities surrounding his years in Nazi Europe, including the experimental medical procedures he oversaw in occupied Austria and a stopover at the Auschwitz concentration camp far briefer than has commonly been assumed. Throughout, author Timothy Pytell gives a penetrating but fair-minded account of a man whose paradoxical embodiment of asceticism, celebrity, ...

Frege's Theory of Sense and Reference

Autor: Wolfgang Carl

Número de Páginas: 236

This book provides a completely new and systematic account of Frege's philosophy by focusing on its cornerstone: the theory of sense and reference.

America and the Political Philosophy of Common Sense

Autor: Scott Philip Segrest

Número de Páginas: 301

From Aristotle to Thomas Jefferson, seminal thinkers have declared “common sense” essential for moral discernment and civilized living. Yet the story of commonsense philosophy is not well known today. In America and the Political Philosophy of Common Sense, Scott Segrest traces the history and explores the personal and social meaning of common sense as understood especially in American thought and as reflected specifically in the writings of three paradigmatic thinkers: John Witherspoon, James McCosh, and William James. The first two represent Scottish Common Sense and the third, Pragmatism, the schools that together dominated American higher thought for nearly two centuries. Educated Americans of the founding period warmly received Scottish Common Sense, Segrest writes, because it reflected so well what they already thought, and he uncovers the basic elements of American common sense in examining the thought of Witherspoon, who introduced that philosophy to them. With McCosh, he shows the furthest development and limits of the philosophy, and with it of American common sense in its Scottish realist phase. With James, he shows other dimensions of common sense that Americans...

Making Sense of Death

Autor: Gerry Cox , Robert Bendiksen , Robert Stevenson

Número de Páginas: 170

The editors of "Making Sense of Death: Spiritual, Pastoral, and Personal Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement" provide stimulating discussions as they ponder the meaning of life and death.This anthology explores the process of meaning-making in the face of death and the roles of religion and spirituality at times of loss; the profound and devastating experience of loss in the death of a spouse or a child; a psychological model of spirituality; the dimensions of spirituality; humor in client-caregiver relationships; the worldview of modernity in contrast to postmodern assumptions; the Buddhist perspective of death, dying, and pastoral care; meaning-making in the virtual reality of cyberspace; individualism and death; and the historical context of Native Americans, the concept of disenfranchised grief, and its detailed application to the Native American experience.It also explores: a qualitative survey on the impact of the shooting deaths of students in Colorado; a team approach with physicians, nursing, social services, and pastoral care; a study of health care professionals, comparing clergy with other health professionals; marginality in spiritual and pastoral care for the...

Ways of Meeting and the Theology of Religions

Autor: Dr David Cheetham

Número de Páginas: 241

Exploring the different points of view and 'tones of voice' adopted in theology for the meeting of religions, this book presents a contemporary philosophical and theological engagement with key issues of how different faiths might meet, of comparative philosophy of religion, of the use of aesthetics, of inter-religious ethics and issues relating to the self. Providing a critical evaluation of contemporary liberal, post-liberal and conservative voices, and an engagement with movements such as Radical Orthodoxy and Scriptural Reasoning to mention a few, this book highlights the use of the creative imagination and explores new ideas for the meeting of religions.

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Número de Páginas: 1368

Scientific Approach to the Meaning of Life

Autor: Arturas Vaitaitis

Número de Páginas: 161

In "Scientific Approach to the Meaning of Life," science and spirituality intertwine through the captivating narrative of the author's personal journey. This compact yet profound book draws upon a spectrum of scientific fields, while also charting the complex and mixed paths of religion and science through history, aiming to shed light on one of humanity's most profound questions – What is the meaning of life? Personal experiences are beautifully melded with insights from particle physics, evolutionary biology, and historical analyses, crafting an intimate yet lighthearted account of the search for life's purpose. Perfect for readers seeking a personal and intellectually stimulating exploration of life's most significant question, "Scientific Approach to the Meaning of Life" offers a compelling intersection of science, history, and personal discovery. This book promises a unique journey through the dimensions of existence, shaped by the author's scientific insight and personal journey.

Painted Windows: Studies in Religious Personality

Autor: Harold Begbie

Número de Páginas: 171

Painted Windows: Studies in Religious Personality by Harold Begbie is a fascinating exploration of the lives, thoughts, and personalities of some of the most influential religious figures of the early 20th century. Through a series of biographical sketches, Begbie provides an intimate look at the individuals who shaped modern religious thought and practice, examining their beliefs, struggles, and contributions to the spiritual landscape. Begbie's work is characterized by its deep empathy and insight into the human condition, offering readers a nuanced understanding of the complexities of faith and the diversity of religious experience. Each portrait is a "painted window," revealing the unique light and color of each figure’s spiritual journey and their impact on society. Painted Windows is celebrated for its thought-provoking commentary on religion and its ability to delve into the psychological and spiritual dimensions of its subjects. Harold Begbie’s engaging style and his ability to bring his subjects to life make this book a compelling read for those interested in theology, spirituality, and the study of religious leaders. Readers are drawn to Painted Windows for its...

The Law of Attraction: How to Manifest Abundance and Success

Autor: Shu Chen Hou

Número de Páginas: 84

Unlock the Secrets of the Universe and Transform Your Life with "The Law of Attraction: How to Manifest Abundance and Success." Are you ready to manifest the life you've always dreamed of? Do you want to harness the incredible power of the universe to create abundance, prosperity, and happiness? Look no further – "The Law of Attraction" is your ultimate guide to unlocking your full potential and achieving the success you deserve. Discover the Science Behind Manifestation: Dive deep into the scientific principles that underpin the Law of Attraction. Understand how your thoughts, emotions, and intentions emit energy vibrations that interact with the universe to shape your reality. Practical Tools for Real Results: This book provides you with practical tools and exercises to put the Law of Attraction into action. From creating vision boards and affirmations to taking inspired action and maintaining a high energy frequency, you'll have a step-by-step roadmap to manifest your desires. Overcome Obstacles and Stay Positive: Learn how to identify and overcome common obstacles to manifestation, including limiting beliefs and negative self-talk. Discover the power of positive thinking and ...

Meaning and Relevance

Autor: Pasquale De Marco

Número de Páginas: 174

The 21st century has been a time of unprecedented change and progress, as well as challenges and uncertainty. From the rise of the digital age to the ongoing quest for meaning, the past few decades have reshaped our world in profound ways. In **Meaning and Relevance**, we explore some of the most significant trends and issues that have defined the 21st century thus far, and consider their implications for the future. We examine the impact of technology on our lives, work, and relationships; the search for purpose and meaning in a rapidly changing world; and the challenges of climate change, economic inequality, and political polarization. This thought-provoking book is not meant to provide easy answers, but rather to stimulate discussion and critical thinking about the complex issues that we face. We hope that by understanding the past and present, we can better prepare for the future and create a world that is worthy of our aspirations. **Meaning and Relevance** is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the defining trends and issues of our time. It is a book that will challenge your assumptions, broaden your perspective, and inspire you to think deeply about the future...

In Search of Meaning and Purpose Through Living, Structure and Function

Autor: Edy P. Pierre

Número de Páginas: 459

Is a story about the humanity living with a natural mind that possess by endless needs, wants and desires. The book explains how we become so intimately connected with life through our mind and by which we are conscious of all of life’s pain, suffering and disappointments it brings. In the process, we become a problem-oriented world as we individually intertwine with a time perception world, construed with the notion of future, opportunities and hope for better tomorrows. As our living continue to revolve around our desires and perceptions, the least of all the choices we will make or want is to become free from fear, free from pain and sufferings and pursuit unhappiness. Fear that if we are not happy, this will mean we have lost ourselves in emptiness and eventually become hopeless. To be hopeful, is to feeding the never ending desire for a better future from the past. In clear, straightforward language, complemented by well-designed mental functioning desire for peace, love, joy and happiness every aspect of this integrative is systematically address the perception that life will get better. From strategies, to family conveys this powerful message of empathy, hope for...

The Harleian miscellany: or, a collection of scarce, curious, and entertaining pamphlets and tracts, as well in manuscript as in print, found in the late Earl of Oxford's library. Interspersed with historical, political, and critical notes. With a table of the contents, and an alphabetical index. ...

Número de Páginas: 638

Because God Is Real

Autor: Peter Kreeft

Número de Páginas: 244

Atheistic and agnostic writers are aggressively attacking traditional religious beliefs. Philosopher and prolific writer Peter Kreeft is up to the challenge in this work of popular apologetics aimed at both teens and adults. The masterful Kreeft tackles sixteen crucial issues about the deeper meaning of life. The questions that Kreeft explores range from, "Is faith reasonable?," Can you prove there is a God?", and "Why is Jesus different?," to "Why is sex so confusing?," "Why is there evil?", and "Why must we die?" Kreeft provides thoughtful, lucid, and persuasive answers for believers, unbelievers, and seekers to consider. As always, Kreeft is insightful, inspiring, and entertaining. This book is ideal for those exploring faith for the first time, as well as for confirmation and religious education classes. It's an intellectual and spiritual feast! This is vintage Kreeft. "The good news of the Gospel is as exciting as a murder mystery. For at its heart there is a murder: the murder of God two thousand years ago in Jerusalem. And this God is the greatest of mysteries: who He is and why He put us here, and why He came here and what His plans are for us. The story is literally a...

Disordered Violence

Autor: Caron Gentry

Número de Páginas: 217

'Disordered Violence' looks at how gender, race and heteronormative expectations of public life shape Western understandings of terrorism as irrational, immoral and illegitimate. Caron Gentry examines the profiles of eight well-known terrorist actors and looks at the gendered, racial, and sexualised assumptions in how their stories are told.