
Open to New Light
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- 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 Stoicism
- Rationalism 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 Spirit
- Locke 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
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