Bøger af J Stanley McQuade

THINKING ABOUT GOD and our Christian beliefs helps us to understand them better and can produce a profound deepening of our faith. Far from diminishing or weakening a believer's commitments, the gift of reason can in act as a strengthening and stabilizing influence upon them. Stanley McQuade in THINKING ABOUT GOD thinks through the major topics and themes of the Christian tradition. Written with the interested lay person in mind this book will be of value to the expert and novice alike due to the range of knowledge and variety of fields the author here applies and engages. It challenges all comers to see thinking about God as a rich and rewarding spiritual discipline. STANLEY McQUADE was born and educated in Northern Ireland and is an ordained minister of the Methodist Church in Ireland. He holds degrees in Law, Philosophy, Theology, and Medicine, and he is a board certified anesthesiologist. He is the current Lynch Professor of the Philosophy of Law at Campbell University School of Law, in Raleigh North Carolina. His first love and continuing interest is theology, especially Biblical theology.

The story of how the McQuades came to North Carolina. A collection of stories about life, family, friends, work, and thoughts.

The present work aims at helping ordinary Christians explain their faith to interested persons who are somewhat puzzled by what they know of it

It is difficult to be skeptical about reason since you cannot avoid it unless you are prepared to support your conclusions by tossing a coin. In short I think Dr. Beet has a lot to say to the present generation and this book is an attempt of introduce him to our contemporaries. I plan to edit at least two of his other books: his little book on the Church. The Churches and the Sacraments, which has been wide praised, and his earlier work 'From Christ to God: an essay in scientific theology

The ambition for this book is that the reader might develop a taste for the history of law and graduate to the great books on this subject such as Theodore Plucknett's Conciaw History of the Common Law and Lawrence Friedman's History of the American Law.