Get Real - Reality and Mystery

Informationen zum Autor Michael Hickey is a graduate of Northeastern University and a Master Of Divinity Studies graduate of Weston Jesuit, a Boston College theological school. He retired as a successful entrepreneur to become a full time writer and poet. He is the author of Get Wisdom (2006) and Get Goodness: Virtue is the Power to Do Good (2011). Hickey writes a weekly column called "Words Of Wisdom" for The Naples Daily News and teaches courses on religion, philosophy, and poetry at Hodges University, CLL and Florida Gulf Coast University. His wife, Theresa, is a published poet, and in their forty-four years together they have raised four happy and "well-adjusted" children into adulthood. Klappentext From the Preface:"Get real" was a slang term that became popular in the 1960's when Michael Hickey was growing up in East Boston. It implied that someone wasn't in touch with reality and had to change their way of thinking or living. If you put on the television today, all you might find is one of the hundreds of so-called reality TV shows. More often than not, these reality shows are illusions of reality because the "real persons" utilized as actors/performers are seemingly coached to act in certain ways by the directors, judges, or producers who really control the reality. Nonetheless, reality TV is a modern phenomenon; people watch it constantly, and that does indicate a high degree of the public's interest in some concept of reality. As for "mystery," it seems we are approaching an age where there will be the death of mystery, and we will have only reality. Hickey believes this is because the vast majority of the populace doesn't view reality in the context of mystery. They imagine mystery to be something which is just obscure or ambiguous, which given enough time, will be solved by reason and logic and become reality. Hickey's goal is that Get Real will give the reader a fresh understanding of both reality and mystery as seen from a theological and philosophical viewpoint. Ultimately, he intends the reader to move beyond the perceived duality in order to establish that mystery is truly the home of all reality. Zusammenfassung Get Real will give the reader a fresh understanding of both reality and mystery as seen from a theological and philosophical viewpoint. Ultimately! Hickey intends the reader to move beyond the perceived duality in order to establish that mystery is truly the home of all reality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Section One-RealityPrefaceChapter One: Reality of BeingChapter Two: Roles of Truth and BeliefChapter Three: Reality of LifeChapter Four: Imagining the RealChapter Five: The Final Earthly RealityChapter Six: The Ultimate RealityChapter Seven: Self-RealizingSection Two-MysteryChapter Eight: Mystery?Chapter Nine: Ancient Mystery CultsChapter Ten: Early Christianity: Another Mystery CultChapter Eleven: SacramentalityChapter Twelve: Revelation: The Unveiling of GodChapter Thirteen: MythChapter Fourteen: Old Testament MysteryChapter Fifteen: New Testament MysteryChapter Sixteen: Mystery of SufferingChapter Seventeen: Miracles MysteryChapter Eighteen: The Hidden KingdomChapter Nineteen: Those Peculiar ParablesChapter Twenty: MysticismChapter Twenty-One: Two Types of Theological MysteriesChapter Twenty-Two: The Mystery of the FemaleChapter Twenty-Three: A Beginning and End Times MysterySection Three-Reality Meets Mystery/ "This is That"Chapter Twenty-Four: Unity of OppositesChapter Twenty-Five: Personal and UniversalChapter Twenty-Six: Matter and SpiritChapter Twenty-Seven: Nature and GraceChapter Twenty-Eight: Natural and SupernaturalChapter Twenty-Nine: Heaven and EarthChapter Thirty: Time and EternityChapter Thirty-One: Knowing and UnknowingChapter Thirty-Two: Consciousness and UnconsciousnessChapter Thirty-Three: Humanity and Divinity: The Cross +Chapter Thirty-Four: Man the Reality and God the MysteryChapter Thirty-Five: God...

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• Authors: Michael Hickey, Michael a. Hickey
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2012
• EAN: 9780761856597
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-5659-7
• No. of pages: 150
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works