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  • Culture Inculturation And Theologians

    $29.95

    “The split between the Gospel and culture is without doubt the drama of our time,” wrote Paul VI in 1975. Since that time there has been an increasingly urgent awareness that inculturation is an indispensable task of the church. But inculturation, the dialogue between church and cultures, demands first of all that we who would enter into the dialogue understand what “culture” itself means and what dialogue entails. To that end, cultural anthropologist Father Gerald Arbuckle gives us this important volume.

    He traces the history of the development of the concept of “culture,” and the too-often negative, rarely positive effects of encounters between church and culture.
    He explores how Jesus Christ approached the cultures of his time, and outlines the current treatment of culture and inculturation in church documents and in Catholic theology.
    He shows that modest progress in understanding has recently stalled, and there are even forces working to turn that progress into regress.
    He concludes with a description of inculturation as it needs to happen-and a sharp critique of those who resist. With a sense of prophetic hope, Arbuckle seeks to help us bridge the lamentable split between Gospel and culture, the drama that continues to unfold in our time.

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  • Why Would Anyone Believe In God

    $40.00

    Preface

    What Does It Mean To “believe”?

    Where Do Beliefs In Gods Come From? Religious Concepts As Minimally Counterintuitive

    Where Do Beliefs In Gods Come From? Finding Agents Everywhere

    Where Do Gods Come From? Additional Factors That Contribute To Gods’ Credibility

    How Religious Actions Enhance Belief In Gods

    The Naturalness Of Belief In God

    The Naturalness Of Believing In Minds: An Analog For Understanding Belief In God

    Why Would Anyone NOT Believe In God?

    In Conclusion

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    Because of the design of our minds. That is Justin Barrett’s simple answer to the question of his title. With rich evidence from cognitive science but without technical language, psychologist Barrett shows that belief in God is an almost inevitable consequence of the kind of minds we have. Most of what we believe comes from mental tools working below our conscious awareness. And what we believe consciously is in large part driven by these unconscious beliefs. Barrett demonstrates that beliefs in gods match up well with these automatic assumptions; beliefs in an all-knowing, all-powerful God match up even better. Barrett goes on to explain why beliefs like religious beliefs are so widespread and why it is very difficult for our minds to think without them. Anyone who wants a concise, clear, and scientific explanation of why anyone would believe in God should pick up Barrett’s book.

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  • Images Of The Human

    $24.95

    Now available in paperback, “Images of the Human” addresses the questions human beings have been asking for centuries. Each chapter focuses on the writings of a different philosopher–from Plato to Nietzsche, St. Augustine to Simone de Beauvior. As a distinctive feature, commentaries explore the unique relationship between what philosophers say and what religion teaches.

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