Today, millions of people in the modern West identify as atheists. And even for believers, the intellectual and spiritual temptations to deny the existence of God seem greater than ever. Too often we respond to this pressure by seeking more and more rational proofs of God's existence, but what if a lack of reason to believe is not our main problem? In this volume, Joseph Minich argues that our real challenge is existential and imaginative—a felt absence of God that is more visceral in our modern world than for most generations past, and the sense that if God cannot be sensed, He cannot be there. Why are we so haunted and disoriented today by this sense of God's absence? And how can we learn to sustain and strengthen our faith in the face of it? In these pages, Minich charts a way back to a renewal of our hearts and imaginations that can enable us to embrace the challenge of finding and being found by the hidden God.

Enduring Divine Absence: The Challenge of Modern Atheism (Davenant Engagements)

Religion & Spirituality

Minich, Joseph

Atheism

Davenant Institute, The

How modernity creates atheists―and what the church must do about it.\nMillions of people in the West identify as atheists. Christians often respond to this reality with proofs of God's existence, as though rational arguments for atheism were the root cause of unbelief. In Bulwarks of Unbelief, Joseph Minich argues that a felt absence of God, as experienced by the modern individual, offers a better explanation for the rise in atheism. Recent technological and cultural shifts in the modern West have produced a perceived challenge to God's existence. As modern technoculture reshapes our awareness of reality and belief in the invisible, it in turn amplifies God's apparent silence. In this new context, atheism is a natural result. And absent of meaning from without, we have turned within.\nChristians cannot escape this aspect of modern life. Minich argues that we must consciously and actively return to reality. If we reattune ourselves to God's story, reintegrate the whole person, and reinhabit the world, faith can thrive in this age of unbelief.

Bulwarks of Unbelief: Atheism and Divine Absence in a Secular Age

History

World

Lexham Academic

After an age of original integrity, the doctrine of divine simplicity fell from grace. Once a cornerstone of orthodox Christianity’s doctrine of God, many modern theologians expelled it from the garden for the sin of employing passé Platonic and Aristotelian metaphysics. But was the doctrine of divine simplicity’s fall deserved? Is it unreasonable to hold that God is metaphysically without parts? Is the Lord really one? Rather than dismiss the challenges leveled against divine simplicity, The Lord is One engages them, presenting exegetical, historical, and theological treatments of divine simplicity. This volume argues that the doctrine of divine simplicity is cogent and indispensable while also making space for historically marginalized or idiosyncratic articulations of it. After all, once expelled from paradise, nothing returns exactly as it was.

The Lord is One: Reclaiming Divine Simplicity (Davenant Retrievals)

Peterson, Derrick

Duby, Steven J.

Duguid, James

Haines, David

Rigney, Joe

Greeley, Nathan

Moser, J. David

Wedgeworth, Steven

Christian Books & Bibles

Davenant Press, The

“If we are to witness moral renewal in our societies, Protestants will have a major role to play, and I say that as a convicted Catholic. This volume, Protestant Social Teaching, comes as a revelation—a revelation that there is a coherent tradition of Protestant moral theology that can still offer concrete guidance to doctors and nurses, statesmen and judges, soldiers and policemen today. The essays on marriage, sexuality, life, dying, work, and the home are particularly insightful. Only by looking backward can we gain the perspective needed to move forward, and these essays offer a model of retrieval in service of practical discipleship. The result is a book that will benefit both Catholic and Protestant readers.” 
– Ryan T. Anderson, President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, author of When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment 
For over one hundred years, the Roman Catholic Church has steadily curated a body of papal encyclicals, classic texts, and go-to answers on pressing moral issues of the day, that has come to be known as “Catholic Social Teaching.” Meanwhile, in Protestantism, mainline churches have steadily jettisoned nearly every historic Christian moral teaching in an effort to make the faith more “relevant” and progressive, while evangelicals, though still committed to Scripture, have often done little better in holding fast to the norms that used to guide faithful Christian discipleship when it came to love, war, and everything in between. However, Protestants too have a rich heritage of social teaching, if only they knew their own tradition, a heritage that dovetails on many points with Roman Catholic teaching, but is also inflected by the Reformation’s emphasis on the goods of the family and the nation. 
Now, for the first time, we are planting a flag for “Protestant social teaching,” a coherent, catholic, biblical set of convictions about what it means to love one’s neighbor in both personal and political life. The essays in this volume span the breadth of human life, from birth to death, from work to welfare, while providing a clear moral compass on hot-button issues like abortion, just war, and environmental care. This volume brings together contributions from a dozen authors who have deeply studied these diverse moral issues from a classical Protestant standpoint, distilling their biblical and historical insights into short, accessible chapters that can guide the reflections of every pastor or Christian leader.

Protestant Social Teaching: An Introduction

Meador, Jake

Wyatt, John

Littlejohn, Bradford

Roberts, Alastair

Hutchinson, E.J.

Moots, Glenn

LiVecche, Marc

Kamel, Onsi Aaron

Redemer, Colin

Cardinal Newman once stated that to be deep in church history is to cease to be Protestant. These essays argue that, on the contrary, to be Protestant is simply to be a principled catholic. In one sense, the Protestant tradition just is the catholic tradition shorn of excess and reduced to truly “universal” doctrine and principle. We embrace God’s calling to maturity by learning to be active participants in the universal church as it grows into fuller understanding of God's revelation. Openness to reform is not silly submission to the ethos of each age, but is rather the insistence that all of our understanding must submit (in the classic formula of Luther) to the bar of the Scripture and plain reason, which stands above and judges the church in each era. The whole Word stands in judgment over our fractured communities and fragmented understanding.However, it is the whole church which participates in this motion toward maturity, and which must commit to growing together rather than growing apart. This includes both a deference to our learned forefathers and a willingness to be confronted with new insight into God's revelation. Taken together, this collection of essays constitute an invitation into this great project, which has its end in the glory of the Lord Jesus, and the freedom of His chosen saints.

Reforming the Catholic Tradition: The Whole Word for the Whole Church

Davenant Press

¿QUÉ TIENE QUE VER ATENAS CON JERUSALÉN? 
Tertuliano lanzó la famosa pregunta: “¿Qué tiene que ver Atenas con Jerusalén?”. Desde el siglo I, los cristianos han debatido acaloradamente la relación entre la fe y la razón, entre la Escritura y la revelación natural, y entre la doctrina cristiana y la filosofía no cristiana. Sin embargo, con demasiada frecuencia la historia de este conflicto se ha tergiversado y malinterpretado. Por lo tanto, antes de intentar responder a estas preguntas para nuestro propio tiempo, debemos primero enfrentarnos a las respuestas del pasado. ¿Qué significaba la “filosofía” para nuestros antepasados espirituales? Cuando advirtieron en el pasado sobre sus peligros, ¿qué tenían en mente precisamente? Y, lo que es más importante, ¿en qué situación se encuentra la Iglesia de hoy? 
Este volumen analiza cómo los cristianos han navegado por este territorio traicionero -pero inevitable- a lo largo de la historia de la Iglesia cristiana. Mediante una cuidadosa atención y una reflexión crítica sobre sus ejemplos, la Iglesia actual puede equiparse con el discernimiento necesario para continuar la búsqueda de la sabiduría en un mundo que gime por la plena revelación de la luz de Cristo.\n"Este libro abre los libros antiguos para traer a nuestras mentes la brisa refrescante de épocas pasadas. Plantea preguntas importantes y entra en diálogo con el pasado para crear una nueva conversación para el presente sobre la relación entre la teología y la filosofía." 
JOHN V. FESKO\n"Los autores animan aquí a los creyentes a reconsiderar el significado y el papel de la filosofía para el cristiano. El resultado es un libro valioso que invita al lector a compartir ese sentido de asombro sobre el mundo de Dios que está en la raíz de toda verdadera filosofía." 
KEITH MATHISON\n"Estos ensayos, escritos con pasión y gran lucidez, tienden un puente protestante muy necesario entre la teología y la filosofía, uniendo las voces de los paganos virtuosos de Dante con las de las Escrituras, los primeros padres de la Iglesia y los reformadores protestantes. Al aclarar y defender el papel que el humanismo clásico y la ley natural desempeñaron en los escritos de los reformadores, inician un diálogo vital que espero continúe por muchos años." 
LOUIS MARKOS\nSobre el editor: 
Joseph Minich es redactor jefe del Instituto Davenant. Tiene un doctorado en Humanidades por la Universidad de Dallas. Es autor del libro Enduring Divine Absent, y escribe en varias revistas filosóficas.

La Filosofia y el Cristiano: La busqueda de la sabiduría a la luz de Cristo (Ética y Apologética) (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Teologia para Vivir

DIOS ES SIMPLE: NO TIENE PARTES, NO CAMBIA, Y NO PUEDE SER CAMBIADO POR FACTORES EXTERNOS\nLa doctrina de la simplicidad divina ha sido durante la mayor parte de la historia la piedra angular de la doctrina de Dios. Sin embargo, ha sido en el mejor de los casos ignorada, y en el peor de ellos rechazada. El Señor es Uno presenta tratamientos exegéticos, históricos y teológicos sobre la simplicidad divina, argumentando que esta doctrina es indispensable para una correcta compresión de la teología propia. 
En los últimos tiempos, el trinitarismo social y el teísmo mutualista, entre otros, han afectado y revisado la doctrina clásica de la Trinidad. Este libro también analiza las propuestas trinitarias sociales de teólogos como Jürgen Moltmann y Miroslav Volf, entre otros, y analiza hasta qué punto se han alejado grandemente de la ortodoxia cristiana. Se trata de una lectura obligada para todo estudiante y pastor.\n“A lo largo de los últimos siglos, el concepto vital de la simplicidad divina ha sido marginado, revisado e incluso rechazado; sin embargo, ha sido y es fundamental para la doctrina cristiana de Dios. Es, por tanto, motivo de regocijo que una colección como ésta sea un signo de nuestros tiempos, en los que la ortodoxia respecto al ser de Dios vuelve a salir a la palestra.” 
Carl R. Trueman\n"La doctrina que postula que Dios no está compuesto de partes o propiedades separables no es una abstracción especulativa, sino una muestra del terreno que revela mucho sobre lo que ocurre en todo el campo de la teología. Estos ensayos ofrecen una excelente panorámica del fundamento bíblico, las formulaciones históricas y las cuestiones filosóficas implicadas en la controvertida pero importantísima afirmación teológica de que “el Señor es uno, un todo indiviso”. 
Kevin J. Vanhoozer,\n“La simplicidad divina es un nudo irónicamente espinoso. Resulta emocionante ver una colección de ensayos sagaces que se toman con la misma seriedad el intelectualismo de la literatura bíblica y el desarrollo teológico del cristianismo. Los editores han recopilado obras instructivas que no se limitan a predicar dogmas, sino que más bien invitan a los lectores a reflexionar sobre nuestro enfoque teológico. Felicidades”. 
Dru Johnson\nSobre los editores: 
Joseph Minich es redactor jefe del Instituto Davenant. Tiene un doctorado en Humanidades por la Universidad de Dallas. Es autor del libro Enduring Divine Absent, y escribe en varias revistas filosóficas. 
Onsi A. Kamel es redactor jefe de Ad Fontes y doctor en el Departamento de Religión de la Universidad de Princeton. Sus escritos académicos se han publicado en The Scottish Journal of Theology, y los de divulgación en First Things, Mere Orthodoxy y otros.

El Señor es uno: Recuperando la simplicidad divina (Spanish Edition)

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