eBook: See No Evil: Secularization versus Sacred Scriptures (DRM PDF)
 
電子書格式: DRM PDF
作者: Jonathan E. Leightner 
系列: Religion and Society
分類: Religion & beliefs ,
Religion: general  
書城編號: 21529098


售價: $2535.00

購買後立即進貨, 約需 1-4 天

 
 
製造商: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
出版日期: 2021/02/17
頁數: 259
ISBN: 9781536193152
 
>> 相關實體書

商品簡介
The subjective depends on the situation, the people involved, the time, and the environment. The objective is true for all situations, all people, all times, and in all environments. Many issues are uncontrovertibly subjective. However, is anything objective? Current intellectual secular culture (which includes Post-Modernism, Post- Modernity, Atheistic Existentialism, Pragmatism, and Post-Structuralism) claims that there are no objective truths (everything is subjective) and that each individual can pick his or her own goals and values. This book investigates the inadequacies of this secular approach when dealing with the purpose of life and the problem of evil by contrasting the behavioral imperatives of secular culture with what the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Theravada Buddhism say. If everything is subjective then each individual does not have inherent worth. "Inherent worth" implies an objective value - a value that is not determined by the situation. The notion that everyone has inherent worth is the foundation on which lying, stealing, murder, rape, adultery, and genocide are judged as "wrong." If everything is subjective then we cannot condemn Adolf Hitler for wanting to kill all the Jews or for one group of people for wanting to enslave all of another group. There are two important consequences of current intellectual secular culture's rejection of all objective values. First, by interpreting everything as subjective and self-centered, current intellectual secular culture cannot provide purpose to life that is bigger than the individual. In contrast, the five religions considered in this book demand that people embrace goals that are bigger than their self-centered desires. Second, current intellectual secular culture's rejection of all objective values makes it impossible to condemn some acts as evil. When evil is not condemned, it thrives. The five religions examined do condemn evil and provide answers to the following "problem of evil."If God is all good than He would not want the innocent to suffer. If God is all powerful, He could prevent the innocent from suffering. We notice that many innocent people suffer in this worldThus God must either not be all good or not all powerful. This is a particularly difficult problem for the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) because they affirm an all-powerful and all-good God. This is less of a problem for Hinduism and Buddhism because these eastern religions believe in reincarnation. Under reincarnation, what may look like an innocent suffering is actually a guilty person paying for his or her evil deeds from this or a previous life. However, the sacred texts for all five religions provide answers to this problem, but not the answers that we often hear from theologians. This book aims at satisfying some of humanity's greatest needs - the need for purpose and the need for an answer to why innocents often suffer.
Religion and Society

eBook: Eternal Values and the Constantly Changing World (DRM PDF)

eBook: Religious Freedom in Italy: An Impossible Paradigm? (DRM EPUB)

eBook: Religious Freedom in Italy: An Impossible Paradigm? (DRM PDF)

eBook: Destabilizing Forces and Resilience in the Current World Crisis: Comparisons of Global Opinion Data and a Middle East Analysis (DRM PDF)

eBook: Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750-1960): A Study on Scientific Culture, Religion, and Secularisation in Latin America (DRM EPUB)

eBook: Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750-1960): A Study on Scientific Culture, Religion, and Secularisation in Latin America (DRM PDF)

eBook: Rituals of Initiation and Consecration in Premodern Japan: Power and Legitimacy in Kingship, Religion, and the Arts (DRM EPUB)

eBook: Resonating Sacralities: Dynamics between Religion and the Arts in Postsecular Netherlands (DRM PDF)

eBook: Resonating Sacralities: Dynamics between Religion and the Arts in Postsecular Netherlands (DRM EPUB)

eBook: Rituals of Initiation and Consecration in Premodern Japan: Power and Legitimacy in Kingship, Religion, and the Arts (DRM PDF)

eBook: Media and Religion: The Global View (DRM EPUB)

eBook: Media and Religion: The Global View (DRM PDF)

eBook: Hammira: Chapters in Imagination, Time, History (DRM PDF)

eBook: Hammira: Chapters in Imagination, Time, History (DRM EPUB)

eBook: See No Evil: Secularization versus Sacred Scriptures (DRM PDF)

eBook: Religion and Public Life (DRM PDF)

eBook: Islamism: Global Surveys and Implications for the Future of the Arab Countries (DRM PDF)

eBook: Analogy of Religion to the Constitution and Course of Nature (DRM PDF)

eBook: Ho: Living in a World of Plenty: Of Social Cohesion and Ritual Friendship on the Chota Nagpur Plateau, India (DRM PDF)

eBook: Freethinkers in Europe: National and Transnational Secularities, 1789-1920s (DRM PDF)

... [顯示此系列所有商品]

Jonathan E. Leightner 作者作品表

See No Evil: Secularity versus Sacred Scriptures (Hardcover)

eBook: See No Evil: Secularization versus Sacred Scriptures (DRM PDF)

* 以上資料僅供參考之用, 香港書城並不保證以上資料的準確性及完整性。
* 如送貨地址在香港以外, 當書籍/產品入口時, 顧客須自行繳付入口關稅和其他入口銷售稅項。

 

 

 

  我的賬戶 |  購物車 |  出版社 |  團購優惠
加入供應商 |  廣告刊登 |  公司簡介 |  條款及細則
 
  香港書城 版權所有 私隱政策聲明
 
  顯示模式: 電腦版 (改為: 手機版)