04143cam a2200469Mu 4500 ocn769344444 OCoLC 20200709055448.0 m d cr |n| 111226s2011 xx o 000 0 eng d EBLCP EBLCP MHW N$T 9781845403416 (electronic bk.) 184540341X (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)769344444 415973 (N$T) BV4501 .S889 2011 REL 012000 bisacsh 248 N$TA Stevenson, Leslie. Open to New Light [electronic resource] : Quaker Spirituality in Historical and Philosophical Context. Luton : Andrews UK, 2011. 1 online resource (217 p.) Description based upon print version of record. Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Preface; Body Matter; A Sevenfold Spiritual Quest; The Philosophy of Socrates; Ancient Athens in the 5th century BCE; The life and death of Socrates; Our sources of knowledge about Socrates; Socrates' philosophy; A few comments on Socrates' philosophy; The Teaching of Jesus; Ancient Jewish history up to the time of Jesus; The sources of our knowledge of Jesus; Jesus's teaching; Some comments on Jesus's teaching; Ancient Philosophies of Life; The world of multicultural empires; Plato; Aristotle; Epicureanism; Stoicism Roman StoicismRationalism or Fundamentalism; Christianity--the first three centuries; The Council of Nicea; The Trinity, the Holy Spirit, and Eastern Orthodox Christianity; Muhammad and the birth of Islam; Medieval Islam; Medieval Judaism; Christian scholastic philosophy; George Fox and the Beginning of the Quakers; The Reformation; 17th-century England; George Fox's Light of Christ Within; The beginning of the Quaker movement; Fox's religious ethics; The growth of Quakerism; Light or Enlightenment?; Inward light?; Robert Barclay's "immediate revelations" and Descartes' "natural light" Fallibilism in identifying the Light or SpiritLocke on "enthusiasm" and "reason"; The Enlightenment; Kant's Philosophy of Religion Compared to Quakerism; Kant's philosophy; Does the Religious Society of Friends exemplify Kant's ethical community?; How far do Quakers and Kant agree on theology?; Do Kant and Quakers differ on the possibility of religious experience?; God as Metaphor; Is it a matter of existence?; Conceptions of God in the Bible and the Qur'an; Personification in the arts; Personification in theology; God-talk without personification; Farrer on poetic truth Metaphorical realism in theology?Resurrection?; Dogma and openness in religion; What is resurrection of the body supposed to be?; The resurrection of Jesus?; Resurrection as spiritual renewal; Wittgenstein and an epistemology of love?; Back Matter; Also Available; This book is about "the meaning of life" or "the spiritual quest". It offers a selective and critical evaluation of some central strands of Western religious and philosophical thought over two and a half thousand years. It starts with Socrates' philosophy of life, and the Greek tradition of philosophy that he initiated. It gives its own "take" on the teaching of Jesus, and on the long and controversial history of Christianity. There is a chapter devoted to George Fox and the beginning of ... Religions Philosophy. Spiritual life Society of Friends. Quakers Conduct of life. RELIGION / Christian Life / General bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Stevenson, Leslie Open to New Light : Quaker Spirituality in Historical and Philosophical Context Luton : Andrews UK,c2011 9781845402303 http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=831751 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=415973 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL831751 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 50872 50872