Two Sermons

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Praise for the book, book description, about the author, free download submitted by dejnozka on July 10, 2015, 1:40pm PRAISE 1:

"It is surprising and wonderful." - Panayot Butchvarov

Panayot Butchvarov has been President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association and was chair of the University of Iowa Department of Philosophy for many years. His books include Resemblance and Identity: An Examination of the Problem of Universals (Indiana University Press), The Concept of Knowledge (Northwestern University Press), Being Qua Being: A Theory of Identity, Existence and Predication (Indiana University Press), Skepticism in Ethics (Indiana University Press), Skepticism about the External World (Oxford University Press), and Anthropocentrism in Philosophy (Walter de Gruyter).

PRAISE 2:

"A very pleasant surprise." - Stewart Umphrey

Stewart Umphrey is Tutor Emeritus of Philosophy at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. His books include Zetetic Skepticism (Longwood Academic Press) and Complexity and Analysis (Lexington Books).

BOOK DESCRIPTION:

In these sermons, the author takes the view that the Bible contains philosophy, not in the sense of academic philosophical argument, but in the sense of presenting a world view which includes many philosophical claims and much thinking on ontological, metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical issues. He explores the general distinction between the letter and the spirit of the Bible in the first sermon, and the philosophy of Paul in the second.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jan Dejnožka (pronounced Yon DAY-no-shka) studied philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and religion, including an honors seminar on Job, at Syracuse University in 1969-1973. There he studied the theological works of Paul Tillich, Martin Buber, Rudolph Bultmann, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Søren Kierkegaard, Teilhard de Chardin, and others. He studied with the Swiss theologian Fritz Buri, and with the anthropologist, Hindu swami, and mystic Agehananda Bharati. He wrote a 71 page paper, "Nietszche's Zarathustra," as a joint project for two religion courses. In the early 1980s, he read the entire Bible except for the genealogies, and studied major works in all of the major world religions, and in eastern and western mysticism. As a Navy officer in 1984, he was an invited lecturer on Hinduism and Buddhism for all Religious Program (RP) Navy enlisted personnel in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. As Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the U.S. Naval Academy in 1985-1988, he taught the philosophy of religion course and was an invited lecturer on Hinduism and Buddhism in the Southeast Asia course. In 1989, his article, "Zeno's Paradoxes and the Cosmological Argument," on St. Thomas Aquinas' infinite regress arguments for God, appeared in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. In 1998, he was invited to assist the D.M. in Ministry doctoral dissertation of Isaac Yong-Cheol Shin, A Wholistic Systems Approach to the Korean United Methodist Church of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and proofread about two thirds of it. Dejnožka earned a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1979 from the University of Iowa and a J.D. in law in 1996 from the University of Michigan. He taught philosophy at the University of Iowa and the U.S. Naval Academy, was a Visiting Scholar in Law and Philosophy in the Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan, and is a Research Fellow in Philosophy at Union College. His books include: The Ontology of the Analytic Tradition and Its Origins (1996 original printing, 2003 corrected printing, Littlefield Adams), Bertrand Russell on Modality and Logical Relevance (1999 first edition, Ashgate, 2015 second edition, CreateSpace), The Concept of Relevance and the Logic Diagram Tradition (CreateSpace), Logical Relevance in English Evidence Law: Its History and Impact on Keynes and Russell (CreateSpace), and The Growth of a Thinker: A Chapbook of Poems (CreateSpace). He has also published over twenty papers in philosophy and law. In 1992 he married Chung Hwa Choi, born in Seoul, South Korea. The Dejnožkas have two daughters, Julie and Marina.

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