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[1] [2] Bread was the basic food stuff of the people in Palestine of this era. Rocks were, as today, considered valueless. Rocks were, as today, considered valueless. The basic metaphor of this verse is that a human father would not refuse a basic desire from his son, so God too would not refuse a basic need of one of his followers.
She called the book "something weirder and truer than a mere autobiography" that reaches Herzog's "deepest compulsions and yearnings". [2] Dwight Garner of The New York Times did not think the book is meant to be taken at face value, relating its content to the "ecstatic truth" Herzog says he strives for in his documentary films. Garner wrote ...
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief is a 2006 book by Francis Collins in which he advocates theistic evolution and describes his conversion to Christianity. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Collins is an American physician - geneticist , noted for his discoveries of disease genes, and his leadership of the Human Genome Project (HGP).
In God in Search of Man Heschel articulates a belief in a personal God who sees humankind as partners in creation, forging a world filled with justice and compassion. [2] God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism is a companion volume to Heschel's earlier work Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion where he delineates experiential and ...
The Case for God is a 2009 book by Karen Armstrong. It covers the history of religion, from the paleolithic age to the present day, with a focus on the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and on apophatic theology in various religions. Another theme is intellectual beliefs versus practice.
Avraham Gileadi (born October 24, 1940) is a Dutch-born American scholar specializing in the Hebrew language and analysis of Book of Isaiah.A longtime professor at Brigham Young University, he was one of the "September Six" of prominent scholars excommunicated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1993, but years later Gileadi was formally readmitted into the church.
God and Man at Yale received some mixed or harsh reviews when it was first published, including those of Peter Viereck [1] and McGeorge Bundy. [2] Many American academics and pundits underestimated the ultimate impact that the book and its author would have on American society, thinking that it would quickly fade into the background.
[2] Reviewing the novel in National Catholic Reporter, novelist Valerie Sayers felt that Children of God focuses on the problem of evil. She was critical of the author's tone but praised her prose style. "The steady rate of shouting and imploring is rough indicator of the melodrama level. The minor characters tend to the stereotype."