Echoes of a Voice: We Are Not AloneWipf and Stock Publishers, 21 apr 2014 - 260 pagina's Early evening, a young boy alone on his pony on the rim of the Nebraska Sandhills. Three darkening thunderclouds rising higher and higher on the horizon. An electric atmosphere, a quickening, light cooling breeze. A slight shiver and the boy wonders, "Am I being pursued by the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost?" These sudden, unbidden, unexpected, strange experiences. We all have them. What are they? Mere plucking on the emotional strings of our material selves? Or do they have a deeper meaning? Do they signal the Presence of something other, maybe some Other, maybe some one Other, some thing or some one, above, below, beyond our normal waking consciousness? James W. Sire has studied a massive number of these accounts. He pairs them with his own experiences and turns to scientists, philosophers, and theologians for explanation. These experiences, he concludes, are signals of transcendence or what N. T. Wright calls echoes of a voice--"the voice of Jesus, calling us to follow him into God's new world." This book is an account of the author's journey to this conclusion. |
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Signals in the Bible | 15 |
Am I Stepping on God? A Philosophical Theology | 37 |
Signals of Transcendence | 60 |
Signals Rejected Naturally | 89 |
The Role of Signals in Conversion | 112 |
Deism Panentheism Romanticism | 137 |
Nirvana as Negative | 167 |
Signals in Apologetics | 200 |
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Alston apologetics argument atheist beauty become believe Berry biblical bird Buddhist C. S. Lewis Camus chapter character Christian faith Comte-Sponville consciousness cosmos death deism divine earth Emerson ence Epistemology existence experienced explain feeling Gary Snyder glory Gospels haiku Havel heaven Holy Spirit Hopkins’s human Ibid imagination immanent infinite intellectual interpreted Isaiah James Jesus Christ Level light live look Lord MacLaine material world meaning mind moral Moses mysterium tremendum mystery mystical N. T. Wright natural signs never nihilism notion numinous ofthe oftranscendence one’s ordinary Otto pantheism Pascal Paul’s Peraino perceive perhaps philosopher poem poet poetry quoted readers reality reason religious experience revelation Rudolf Otto Scripture seems sense Shirley MacLaine signals of transcendence Snyder soul Steven Weinberg Stevens Stevens’s story theism theistic theology things thought tion truth understanding universe voice Wallace Stevens Weinberg Wendell Berry Woolf words Wordsworth worldview Zen Buddhism