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For decades, Michael Savage has been preaching his political faith of borders, language and culture to millions on his nationally-syndicated radio show, The Savage Nation. Now, Savage gives his audience a look into his religious faith and his ideas about the Judeo-Christian foundation of the American culture he has fought all his life to preserve.
But rather than a dry, theological treatise, Savage provides something more akin to an...
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Are philosophy and religion - reason and faith - fundamentally at odds? From today's strict division between questions of logic and questions of belief, one might think so. But for 1,000 years during a pivotal era of Western thought, reason and faith went hand-in-hand in the search for answers to the most profound issues investigated by Christianity's most committed scholars: Can God's existence and attributes be established by reason alone? Are there...
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Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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From bestselling, prize-winning author Russell Shorto comes a grand and strange history of the on-going debate between religion and science-seen through the oddly momentous journey of the skull and bones of the great French philosopher Rene Descartes. In this book Shorto brilliantly shows how this argument first started with Descartes and how his ideas (and bones) have remained central to this theoretical struggle for over 350 years. On a brutal winter's...
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K-LOVE Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Believe for It: Passing on Faith to the Next Generation beautifully recounts the pivotal experiences in CeCe's life that have shaped her faith. From her childhood in Detroit and the miracle of motherhood to her award-winning music career, CeCe brings readers along for a story full of heart, passion, and wisdom acquired from her walk with God.
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Looking back to the crisis of the Reformation and beyond, Unbelievers shows how, long before philosophers started to make the case for atheism, powerful cultural currents were challenging traditional faith. These tugged in different ways not only on celebrated thinkers such as Machiavelli, Montaigne, Hobbes, and Pascal, but on men and women at every level of society whose voices we hear through their diaries, letters, and court records. Ryrie traces...
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Picador
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times. "Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."--The New York Times Book Review. -- Back cover.
"Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives...
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Graphic Mundi
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Follows the stories, in graphic novel format, of two twenty-something roommates, one Christian and one atheist, as they seek to find their place in the world. Explores the themes of faith deconstruction, identity, young love, and loss to create an engrossing world in which waking and sleeping dreams collide"--
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Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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An analysis of the classic work Confessions by St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430). Includes Roman history and Christian controversries at the time and background for understanding the book. Also discusses its ongoing usefulness and how it may serve as a guide despite the obvious diffrence between Augustine's world and ours.
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2019.
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English
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"Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart. Charles is destined to succeed his father as an esteemed professor of history at Harvard, until an unorthodox lecture about faith leads him to ministry. How then, can he fall in love with Lily - fiercely...
11) Finding Altamira
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Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this powerful historical drama about the intersection of faith and reason, a Spanish archaeologist Marcelino (Antonio Banderas) and his daughter Maria (Allegra Allen) discover seemingly impossible paintings of galloping bison adorning the walls of a hidden cave. The discovery brings the world together in amazement, drawing people of all types to see the paintings in person. But, Marcelino soon realizes that the art on the walls must be 10,000 years...
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
On the heels of the Scientific Revolution, the "Enlightenment," as Professor Worthen explains, was not one single movement but rather a constellation of ideas and philosophers who debated the relationship between faith and reason. Explore the theories and worldviews of Diderot, Voltaire, Locke, and other Enlightenment thinkers.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Dig into the rise of the modern university and its influence on the history of Christianity. By examining modern biblical scholarship in Germany and Britain as well as advancements in 19th century science and the theory of evolution, you will gain a greater understanding of the battle between faith and reason.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the ongoing clash between faith and reason, some Protestants embraced carefully reasoned arguments, but in the 17th century, another group of thinkers chose to emphasize heart over head. Survey the rise of Pietist communities and see how they responded to the historical context of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The 12th century Jewish scholar Moses Maimonides offers great insight into the relationship among the three Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Delve into the politics of Cordoba in Andalusia, Spain, during the Golden Age, and then consider Maimonides' scholarship - including his philosophy about the relationship between faith and reason.
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