Paul Ungar

The Mystery of Christian Faith

A Tangible Union with the Invisible God

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Produktbeschreibung

Since the time of bloody persecutions right up to the post-modern age, each historical period posed its particular challenge to Christianity. Psychologically, Christians' vitality in overcoming these challenges came primarily from what is perhaps the deepest mystery of faith itself-the believers' union with God. The postmodern positivist questions this mystery, and rejects the possibility of communication with a non-sensorial and therefore "non-existing" God. Agnostics proclaim, "One man's religion, is another's delusion." Therefore, the modern challenge for Christians is to explain how God, despite being invisible, is experientially present in the life of believers. Although the experience of living in a relationship with an invisible God is a profound one for Christians, it seems nonsensical to those who emphasize the primacy of sensory experience. Paul Ungar's extensive scholarly training equips him remarkably well to explore where, when, how, and through which psychological functions communication with the spiritual God factually occur. Ungar's The Mystery of Christian Faith: A Tangible Union with the Invisible God is an apologetic work on the borderline of theology, psychology and philosophy. It is written for Christian intellectuals regardless of their denominational background and rationally demonstrates what François Mauriac's hauntingly poetic expression, "Nothing is more alien than living in a Godless world, and nothing is closer to humans than God."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9780761839576
• ISBN-10: 0761839577
• Artikelnr.: 23428417

Autorenporträt

Paul Ungar holds an M.D., a Ph.D. and graduate degree in Theology. He has taught psychiatry, theology, and psychology at various universities. Currently he is in private practice, specializing in treatment of problems on the borderline of theology and psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface Part 2 Acknowledgement Part 3 Who is God? - What are God's
"Personal Characteristics" as they Emerge from a Biblical Description?
Chapter 4 Introductory Clarifications Chapter 5 Concepts Preceding God's
Self-Revelation Chapter 6 Ideas of God's Personality in the Old Testament
Chapter 7 The Personality of God as Revealed by Jesus Christ Chapter 8
Further Characteristics of God, the "Quite Other" Chapter 9 God's
Personality: Witnessing after Jesus' Ascension Chapter 10 The Definition of
God's Personality Part 11 The Anthropological Characteristics that Enable
Believers' Communication with the Biblical God Chapter 12 The Problem
Arising from God's Transcendence Chapter 13 What Happened to Thomas?
Chapter 14 What Can We Establish from the Biblical Account of Thomas'
Conversion? Chapter 15 How Did Thomas Experience the Reality of Jesus'
Resurrection? Chapter 16 The "Missing Link" between Believers' Conscience
and the Spiritual God Chapter 17 Theologians' and Philosophers'
Explanations Chapter 18 Biblical Revelation about the Spirit, the Soul, and
Conscience Chapter 19 Conscience from an Experiential Perspective Part 20
How Does the Genuine Seeker Psychologically Experience the Reality to Which
the Bible Bears Witness? Chapter 21 An Experiential Discernment of Faith
Chapter 22 Can the Human Mind Register That Which is Scientifically
Immeasurable? Chapter 23 The Concept of Transempirical Discernment Chapter
24 The Epistemology of Faith: How Do We Know that We Have Faith? Chapter 25
The Criteria for the Accuracy of Transempirical Recognition Chapter 26
Transempirical Recognition of the Truth and Values Chapter 27 Plurality in
Discernment, Its Relevance to Faith Questions, and a New Chance for
Ecumenism Chapter 28 The Transempirical and Faith Dynamics in Religious
Fanatics Chapter 29 Are Non-Religious People Really Less Happy than People
of Faith? Chapter 30 Revisiting Thomas' Conversion Part 31 Living in a
Tangible Union with the Invisible God Chapter 32 The Need for New
Apologetics Chapter 33 What Might We Understand by God's Call? Chapter 34
God's Most Paradoxical Calls: Angst and Suffering Chapter 35 A Paradoxical
Pattern in the Personal Calls of Our Lord Chapter 36 The Human Response to
God's Call: When Does Mature Faith Begin? Chapter 37 The Transempirically
Experienced Presence of God in Mature Belief Chapter 38 God's Personal
Characteristics: His Love Chapter 39 God's Personal Characteristics: "The
Almighty, Eternal, and Ultimate" Chapter 40 The Phenomenon of Jesus Christ:
The Common Experience Behind the Biblical and the Transempirical Chapter 41
Conclusion Part 42 Bibliography Part 43 Index Part 44 About the Author