The Soul's Upward Yearning: Clues to Our Transcendent Nature from Experience and Reason (Happiness, Suffering, and Transcendence-Book 2)
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (532 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1586179551 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 356 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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William P. Cunningham said A fine, intense defense of God's existence. This is a fine and philosophically intense defense of the existence of God. It is well documented and very well written, but it is not a fast read or a page-turner. Have plenty of time to sit with this, and meditate frequently on its message.. Excellent! John M. Palmer Jr Excellent!. Five Stars Beautiful!
Magnificent." --Dean Koontz, #1 New York Times Best-Selling Author . A grand synthesis from the pen of a master." --Michael Augros, Ph.D., Author, Who Designed the Designer?"An intellectual triumph. "Father Spitzer displays a broad range of arguments in favor of the reality and the compelling importance of the transcendent dimension of our existence on the basis of religious literature, our interior awareness of transcendent reality, the cosmic struggle between good and evil, metaphysics, our natural desire to experience perfect goodness, love and beauty, the evidence of near-death experiences, and contemporary science, especially astrophysics." --Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York"Spitzer's brillia
He is the founder and President of the Magis Center, committed to the revitalization of transcendence and virtue through the close connection between science, reason, and faith. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D., is the former president of Gonzaga University. He is also the President of the Spitzer Center of Ethical Leadership. He is the
If we underestimate these truths, we undervalue one another, underlive our lives, and underachieve our destiny.. The problem is, this evidence has not been compiled and made widely available—a challenge Father Spitzer aspires to meet with this book.Father Spitzer's work provides a bright light in the midst of the darkness by presenting traditional and contemporary evidence for God and a transphysical soul from several major sources. Tolkien. The materialist perspective has not only cast its spell on the natural sciences, psychology, philosophy, and literature, it has also enthralled popular culture, which offers very little to encourage the "soul's upward yearning".There are many signs of the widespread loss of confidence in our ability to soar upward, and these have been noted by thinkers as diverse as Carl Jung (psychiatrist), Mircea Eliade (historian of religion), Gab