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What Are We Doing When We Pray? : On Prayer and the Nature of Faith.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton :
Taylor and Francis,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part I PRAYER; 1 Introduction: Putting prayer to the test; 1.1 ' Whatever you pray for'; 1.2 Prayer and experiment: Elijah and Einstein; 1.3 Prayer and statistical inquiry: Francis Galton; 1.4 Prayer and spiritual strength: Alister Hardy; 1.5 The issues; 2 Therapeutic meditation; 2.1 Prayer as therapeutic meditation; 2.2 Therapeutic meditation and the Christian tradition; 2.3 The coherence of therapeutic meditation; 3 Praying for things to happen; 3.1 Impetratory prayer; 3.2 Asking an omnipotent God; 3.3 Asking an immutable God.
- 3.4 Asking an omniscient God4 Prayer and the goodness of God; 4.1 Asking a God who is perfectly good; 4.2 Asking for the kingdom of God; 4.3 Intercession; 5 Prayer and the agency of God; 5.1 Divine agency and natural law; 5.2 Divine agency and human freedom; 5.3 What counts as an answer to prayer?; 6 Praying and relating to God; 6.1 Petition and establishing a relation with God; 6.2 Penitence and restoring a relation with God; 6.3 Thanksgiving and acknowledging a relation with God; 7 Praying and relating to the world; 7.1 Ora et labora; 7.2 Religious belief and moral discourse.
- 7.3 Prayer and the moral lifePart II FAITH AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF; 8 Prayer and the nature of faith; 8.1 Faith and the mindset of modernity; 8.2 Prayer and the nature of faith; 9 The eyes of faith; 9.1 Discerning the works of God; 9.2 Religious experience and the eyes of faith; 9.3 Evil, suffering and the eyes of faith; 9.4 Metaphors, narratives and the eyes of faith; 10 Faith and the nature of religious belief; 10.1 The constitutive presuppositions of faith; 10.2 Faith and the justification of religious belief; Index.