Upa imprint: 654 books
Francis of Assisi as Artist of the Spiritual Life
An Object Relations Theory Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Francis of Assisi as Artist of the Spiritual Life applies modern psychological understanding to a historical person. While most such studies have sought a comprehensive personality profile, this work focuses on one aspect — Francis' imagination — and seeks greater insight into the imaginatively...
In My Ever After
Immortality and Its Critics
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
In My Ever After is not a mass media style 'general readership' book on immortality; rather, it is an argument against a current school —- neurophilosophy's virtual equation of consciousness and the world. Without exposing the equation's weaknesses, the question of immortality, Geis argues, is moot....
by James V. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Animal Minds, Animal Souls, Animal Rights explores the thinking of philosophers and theologians about controversies concerning animal consciousness and animal rights. The book presents Bernard Lonergan's theory about consciousness and the operations of the mind-a theory about two types of knowing...
by Robert Geis
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
The existence of God raises many questions. Geis' work addresses queries that arise from the gratuitous claims of empiricism in Hume, unfounded assumptions in Kant, presumptions of science, and the improbabilities it identifies in Darwinism. By focusing on number and proportion as intrinsic to material...
The Emergence of God
A Rationalist Jewish Exploration of Divine Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In a culture firmly grounded in scientific thought, it has become common to think of “God” as the label we use for natural law, the creative, organizational forces in the universe, rather than as a great, omniscient Being. Is it possible to imagine such a God as being conscious? This is the question...
African Mathematics
From Bones to Computers
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This is the first comprehensive text on African Mathematics that can be used to address some of the problematic issues in this area. These issues include attitudes, curriculum development, educational change, academic achievement, standardized and other tests, performance factors, student characteristics,...
by Robert Geis
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Does the resolute defense of their beliefs prove that the Christian proto-communities’ earliest documents about Jesus’ life did not have the discrepancies, contradictions, and conflicts which exegetes argue existed in the four Gospels? Their presence has divided the Gospels into the Synoptics...
Being Is Enough
Collective Self-Help for a Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Being Is Enough emphasizes that America's "have all you can have" economy, which many now regard as unsustainable, is the result of our "be all you can be" culture. And our cultural imperative suggesting that humans must always be more is not only the social root of humanity's environmental crisis, but also the cause of personal stress.
Place Meant
Hermeneutic Landscapes of the Spatial Self
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
What does place mean for human beings? What does it mean to exist in space? How do we place ourselves not only in physical space, but within the interior landscape of consciousness? Place Meant is an interdisciplinary exploration of these and related questions, through the lenses of psychoanalysis,...
Homo Sapiens, A Problematic Species
An Essay in Philosophical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Homo Sapiens, A Problematic Species examines how Western culture has understood and continues to understand what it is to be human. This book features reflections on mythical thoughtand its logic and contrasts it to the Western conception of man as expressed in philosophy from antiquity to the twentieth...
Tuning the Rig
Catholic Schools for a Learning Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
To 'tune the rig' describes adjusting a ship's rigging; the rig of a well-tuned boat allows the sails to function well. This task must be performed to ensure the best performance by the ship. Tuning the Rig takes that metaphor as a guide for Catholic educators and administrators, as well as for the...
Imaging the Other
Essays on Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Imaging the Other: Essays on Diversity emerged from Nancy Porter's essay in Conn and McGuire's second collection of essays, Not Etched in Stone: Essays on Ritual Memory, Soul, and Society. Porter explored the creation of the 'other' as the basis for conflict among humans. In the present collection,...
by Michael A. Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This textbook provides a survey of the Speech and Communication Studies areas of Communication, focusing on human communication through the transactional model of communication. Interpersonal Communication chapters constitute the largest portion of the book, with the Public Speaking chapters the next...
Of Intense Brightness
The Spirituality of Uncommon Christian James Brainerd Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2008
"Be uncommon Christians . . . that is, eminently holy, self-denying, cross-bearing, Bible, everyday Christians." So James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) encouraged others to be, and so he strived to be himself. Of Intense Brightness reveals aspects of Taylor's uncommon Christianity by allowing...