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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Brave HeartsA Story-Driven Journey into the Faith for Children Ages 8-12What if children could learn the great truths of the Christian faith not as a list of doctrines, but as a story they could enter, remember, and live?Brave Hearts invites young readers into the story of Scripture through imaginative adventures, memorable characters, biblical truth, and the steady presence of Lightwalker-the Warm, Wise Guide who helps children see what God's Word reveals about the world, themselves, and the God who made them.Written for children ages 8-12, this revised edition takes young readers beyond simple Bible lessons and into the foundations of Christian faith and formation. Each chapter connects a compelling story with a central biblical truth, helping children understand not only what Christians believe, but why those truths matter for the way they see, think, choose, and live.Children will discover: Why God's Word is a trustworthy light in a confusing worldHow the Bible tells one great story centered on JesusWho God is and why His unchanging character can be trustedThe mystery of the Father, Son, and Holy SpiritGod's wisdom, power, and goodnessWhat it means to be made in the image of GodHow sin fractured God's good creation and the human heartWhy God's promise of redemption changes everythingWhat it means to grow in truth, courage, holiness, and faithWhy Christian hope reaches beyond the present world toward God's promised restorationAt the heart of Brave Hearts is a simple conviction: children deserve truth deep enough to form them and beautiful enough to capture their imagination.Each chapter includes: A Story - An imaginative narrative that makes the central truth memorable.The Warm, Wise Guide Speaks - A direct connection between the story and biblical truth.The Truth Behind the Story - Clear, age-appropriate theological teaching grounded in Scripture.What Brave Hearts Believe - A concise statement of the chapter's central truth.Brave Hearts in Action - A practical way for children to begin living what they have learned.Memory Verse - Scripture for lasting formation.Brave Heart Reflection - A question designed to encourage thoughtful conversation.The Brave Heart Core Line - A recurring statement that anchors children in truth, identity, and purpose.Parent and Teacher Note - A practical guide for extending each lesson into family worship, homeschooling, Christian education, or discipleship.The result is more than a children's devotional and more than a theology primer. Brave Hearts is an invitation to see the Christian faith as a coherent and beautiful story-the story of creation, fracture, redemption, restoration, and the God whose light leads His children home.For parents and teachers, it provides a structured framework for meaningful theological conversation. Intentionally left without images or pictures to foster deep reading and mental engagement with the material. For children, it offers something they can carry with them: stories they will remember, truths they can understand, Scripture they can return to, and a mental vision greater than pictures of what it means to live as a Brave Heart in God's world.For families, homeschoolers, Christian schools, churches, Sunday discipleship programs, and young readers seeking a deeper understanding of their faith.The world will offer children countless voices telling them who they are, what is true, and where they should go.The Brave Heart Chronicles hel Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A Theology of Love, Life, and LightBehold the God Who Burns Through Darkness, Lifts the Soul, and Shapes EternityIn an age drowning in confusion, cynicism, and spiritual drift, A Theology of Love, Life, and Light stands as a blazing beacon-anchoring believers to the God who is Love, who gives Life, and who shines Light into a world racing toward its final hour.This is not a tame theological manual.This is a revelation-a cinematic, pastoral, soul-igniting journey into the heart of the Triune God, blending the warmth of devotion with the thunder of prophecy.Drawing deeply from Scripture (especially John and Revelation) and inspired by the clarity of Calvin, the lived theology of William Ames, and the holy gravity of Jonathan Edwards, this book unveils a God who is infinitely beyond us yet astonishingly near-inviting us into awe, intimacy, and transformation.Whether you're a pastor, a student of Scripture, or a Christian longing for more, this book will reshape your vision of God, reorient your identity, deepen your worship, and ignite your mission in this darkening world. What You Will Encounter in These Pages The God Who Is LoveNot sentimental softness-but holy, sovereign, Calvary-shaped love.A love that adopts, purifies, disciplines, restores. and reigns. The God Who Is LifeResurrection power breathing through the believer.Life that confronts death, sustains the weary, and previews the world to come. The God Who Is LightA blazing exploration of divine holiness that exposes, heals, and transforms.Learn how God's light gives moral clarity in an age of shadows. The Triune God in Eternal FellowshipFather, Son, and Spirit-overflowing in joy, unity, and glory-inviting us into their eternal communion. A World on the Brink: Revelation's Urgent CallSee reality as Scripture reveals it: the Lamb, the dragon, Babylon, the Bride, judgment, and the final dawn.Understand why the mission of the church is urgent, prophetic, and unstoppable. Living Unto God (with William Ames)Theology that doesn't live is theology misunderstood.Discover how to walk with God in love, life, and light-now and until the end. Knowing God and Knowing Yourself (with Calvin)True knowledge begins with the face of God and the truth of who we are.This book brings the two together with clarity, reverence, and pastoral warmth. Why Readers Are Calling This Book "A Spiritual Earthquake" Theology that feels like worship. Deep doctrine written with cinematic clarity. Revelation brought down from the clouds and into real life. A rare blend of Edwards' seriousness, Pink's precision, and Begg's pastoral clarity. Not just a book to read-a book to experience.If you want your heart stirred, your mind sharpened, and your soul steadied in an age of shaking, this book will meet you with truth powerful enough to carry you through the night. Who This Book Is For Christians hungry for depth, beauty, and biblical solidity Pastors, teachers, and leaders longing for fresh theological fire Discipleship groups seeking a transformative study Seminary students craving clarity grounded in Scripture, not speculation Any believer who senses the darkness deepening-and longs to shine A Final Word of InvitationThe end of the age draws near.The dawn is rising.The true Light already shines.Now is the time to know your God-in His love, in His life, and in His light-so you may stand radiant in a world racing toward judgment and glory.< Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Brave HeartsA Story-Driven Journey into the Faith for Children Ages 8-12What if children could learn the great truths of the Christian faith not as a list of doctrines, but as a story they could enter, remember, and live?Brave Hearts invites young readers into the story of Scripture through imaginative adventures, memorable characters, biblical truth, and the steady presence of Lightwalker-the Warm, Wise Guide who helps children see what God's Word reveals about the world, themselves, and the God who made them.Written for children ages 8-12, this revised edition takes young readers beyond simple Bible lessons and into the foundations of Christian faith and formation. Each chapter connects a compelling story with a central biblical truth, helping children understand not only what Christians believe, but why those truths matter for the way they see, think, choose, and live.Children will discover: Why God's Word is a trustworthy light in a confusing worldHow the Bible tells one great story centered on JesusWho God is and why His unchanging character can be trustedThe mystery of the Father, Son, and Holy SpiritGod's wisdom, power, and goodnessWhat it means to be made in the image of GodHow sin fractured God's good creation and the human heartWhy God's promise of redemption changes everythingWhat it means to grow in truth, courage, holiness, and faithWhy Christian hope reaches beyond the present world toward God's promised restorationAt the heart of Brave Hearts is a simple conviction: children deserve truth deep enough to form them and beautiful enough to capture their imagination.Each chapter includes: A Story - An imaginative narrative that makes the central truth memorable.The Warm, Wise Guide Speaks - A direct connection between the story and biblical truth.The Truth Behind the Story - Clear, age-appropriate theological teaching grounded in Scripture.What Brave Hearts Believe - A concise statement of the chapter's central truth.Brave Hearts in Action - A practical way for children to begin living what they have learned.Memory Verse - Scripture for lasting formation.Brave Heart Reflection - A question designed to encourage thoughtful conversation.The Brave Heart Core Line - A recurring statement that anchors children in truth, identity, and purpose.Parent and Teacher Note - A practical guide for extending each lesson into family worship, homeschooling, Christian education, or discipleship.The result is more than a children's devotional and more than a theology primer. Brave Hearts is an invitation to see the Christian faith as a coherent and beautiful story-the story of creation, fracture, redemption, restoration, and the God whose light leads His children home.For parents and teachers, it provides a structured framework for meaningful theological conversation. Intentionally left without images or pictures to foster deep reading and mental engagement with the material. For children, it offers something they can carry with them: stories they will remember, truths they can understand, Scripture they can return to, and a mental vision greater than pictures of what it means to live as a Brave Heart in God's world.For families, homeschoolers, Christian schools, churches, Sunday discipleship programs, and young readers seeking a deeper understanding of their faith.The world will offer children countless voices telling them who they are, what is true, and where they should go.The Brave Heart C Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Many thoughtful adults today are not confused because they lack intelligence, conviction, or faith. They are confused because the cultural conditions that once supported clear thinking, responsible speech, and moral formation have quietly eroded.Language feels unstable. Speech carries unpredictable consequences. Cynicism often passes for wisdom. Parents, mentors, and educators sense the weight of responsibility, yet feel uncertain how to carry it without capitulating, overreacting, or withdrawing altogether.Staying Oriented is not a self-help manual, a political argument, or a parenting system. It is a calm, disciplined work of orientation for a disoriented age.This book helps readers: - think clearly without mistaking certainty for wisdom- speak responsibly without courting unnecessary destruction- form the next generation toward responsibility rather than fragility- endure cultural pressure without surrendering to cynicismWritten for serious adults who care about truth, formation, and legacy, Staying Oriented offers a framework for remaining intellectually grounded and morally upright in a time of confusion-without fear, bitterness, or retreat.This is a book for those who refuse both panic and apathy, and who understand that orientation precedes action.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Faith did not always feel this risky.For many today, belief no longer feels like a refuge-it feels exposed, contested, and fragile. Questions that once felt manageable now carry the fear of collapse. Churches meant to offer shelter have sometimes caused harm. Cultural pressure makes conviction feel arrogant, while doubt feels unsafe. And beneath it all lingers a quiet anxiety: What if I'm wrong Why Faith Feels Dangerous Now is written for readers who want an honest, livable faith-without pretending, performing, or rushing themselves into answers they do not yet have.This is not a book of debates, slogans, or religious bravado. It is a sober, steady guide for navigating doubt, grief, spiritual trauma, and institutional disappointment while remaining oriented toward God rather than drifting into cynicism or collapse.Inside, readers will explore: - Why fear and doubt often arise from integrity rather than rebellion- How distorted images of God intensify shame, anxiety, and withdrawal- The difference between healthy discernment and corrosive cynicism- Why leaving unsafe religious spaces can be an act of faith, not failure- How to live faithfully amid doctrinal disagreement without demanding total certainty- What hope looks like when it no longer relies on denial or emotional intensityWritten with pastoral clarity and psychological awareness, this book offers space to breathe. It names pain honestly without weaponizing it. It affirms questions without glorifying confusion. And it invites readers into a slower, more durable faith-one grounded in trust, patience, and perseverance rather than fear or performance.There are no ultimatums here.No pressure to resolve everything now.Only an invitation to stay, to listen, and to walk forward with a faith that can bear weight-even when it remains unfinished. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A Theology of Love, Life, and LightBehold the God Who Burns Through Darkness, Lifts the Soul, and Shapes EternityIn an age drowning in confusion, cynicism, and spiritual drift, A Theology of Love, Life, and Light stands as a blazing beacon-anchoring believers to the God who is Love, who gives Life, and who shines Light into a world racing toward its final hour.This is not a tame theological manual.This is a revelation-a cinematic, pastoral, soul-igniting journey into the heart of the Triune God, blending the warmth of devotion with the thunder of prophecy.Drawing deeply from Scripture (especially John and Revelation) and inspired by the clarity of Calvin, the lived theology of William Ames, and the holy gravity of Jonathan Edwards, this book unveils a God who is infinitely beyond us yet astonishingly near-inviting us into awe, intimacy, and transformation.Whether you're a pastor, a student of Scripture, or a Christian longing for more, this book will reshape your vision of God, reorient your identity, deepen your worship, and ignite your mission in this darkening world. What You Will Encounter in These Pages The God Who Is LoveNot sentimental softness-but holy, sovereign, Calvary-shaped love.A love that adopts, purifies, disciplines, restores. and reigns. The God Who Is LifeResurrection power breathing through the believer.Life that confronts death, sustains the weary, and previews the world to come. The God Who Is LightA blazing exploration of divine holiness that exposes, heals, and transforms.Learn how God's light gives moral clarity in an age of shadows. The Triune God in Eternal FellowshipFather, Son, and Spirit-overflowing in joy, unity, and glory-inviting us into their eternal communion. A World on the Brink: Revelation's Urgent CallSee reality as Scripture reveals it: the Lamb, the dragon, Babylon, the Bride, judgment, and the final dawn.Understand why the mission of the church is urgent, prophetic, and unstoppable. Living Unto God (with William Ames)Theology that doesn't live is theology misunderstood.Discover how to walk with God in love, life, and light-now and until the end. Knowing God and Knowing Yourself (with Calvin)True knowledge begins with the face of God and the truth of who we are.This book brings the two together with clarity, reverence, and pastoral warmth. Why Readers Are Calling This Book "A Spiritual Earthquake" Theology that feels like worship. Deep doctrine written with cinematic clarity. Revelation brought down from the clouds and into real life. A rare blend of Edwards' seriousness, Pink's precision, and Begg's pastoral clarity. Not just a book to read-a book to experience.If you want your heart stirred, your mind sharpened, and your soul steadied in an age of shaking, this book will meet you with truth powerful enough to carry you through the night. Who This Book Is For Christians hungry for depth, beauty, and biblical solidity Pastors, teachers, and leaders longing for fresh theological fire Discipleship groups seeking a transformative study Seminary students craving clarity grounded in Scripture, not speculation Any believer who senses the darkness deepening-and longs to shine A Final Word of InvitationThe end of the age draws near.The dawn is rising.The true Light already shines.Now is the time to know your God-in His love, in His life, and in His light-so you may stand radiant in a world racing toward judgmen Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Artificial intelligence can generate prose indistinguishable from that of skilled human authors. It can produce furniture designs that exceed the best human craftsman by every measurable standard. It can outperform expert clinicians in pattern recognition across millions of records. These capabilities are real, impressive, and growing. They are also, philosophically speaking, beside the point.In The Order of Making: Technology, Participation, and the Human Good, philosopher and cultural thinker Jamie Thornberry advances a rigorous and timely thesis: that the natural and the artificial are not inherently opposed, but that technology becomes destructive under specifiable conditions and for identifiable reasons, namely, when it substitutes representations of human participatory activity for the participation itself.The book is organized in four disciplined movements. The first establishes, through Augustine's illumination theory and Aquinas's account of embodied cognition, a participatory epistemology in which the human person knows by genuine engagement with a prior intelligibility, not by the accumulation of data. The second diagnoses the deformation, drawing on Heidegger's analysis of Gestell and Mumford's account of the megamachine, and identifying four specific mechanisms by which digital environments produce what Thornberry calls the disincarnation of making: the progressive abstraction of human activity away from the embodied, resistant encounter with reality through which genuine formation occurs. The third develops the book's central conceptual distinction, between extension and substitution, as a practically useful criterion for evaluating any given technology. The fourth draws the constructive conclusion: a positive account of human prosperity adequate to the technological condition, grounded in the triadic framework of Light (knowing truly), Love (desiring rightly), and Life (living genuinely).This is not a book against technology. It is a book against the confusion of capability with flourishing, of output with formation, and of the representation of human activity with the activity itself. It argues that no increase in technical capability can answer the question of what human beings are for, and that civilizations that mistake the map for the territory eventually lose the ability to read either.The Order of Making is essential reading for philosophers, theologians, cultural theorists, educators, and all who sense that the most consequential questions raised by artificial intelligence are not technical but anthropological, and who want an intellectually serious framework for engaging them.Get your copy and receive a rigorous framework for the most consequential cultural question of our time.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Many thoughtful adults today are not confused because they lack intelligence, conviction, or faith. They are confused because the cultural conditions that once supported clear thinking, responsible speech, and moral formation have quietly eroded.Language feels unstable. Speech carries unpredictable consequences. Cynicism often passes for wisdom. Parents, mentors, and educators sense the weight of responsibility, yet feel uncertain how to carry it without capitulating, overreacting, or withdrawing altogether.Staying Oriented is not a self-help manual, a political argument, or a parenting system. It is a calm, disciplined work of orientation for a disoriented age.This book helps readers: think clearly without mistaking certainty for wisdomspeak responsibly without courting unnecessary destructionform the next generation toward responsibility rather than fragilityendure cultural pressure without surrendering to cynicismWritten for serious adults who care about truth, formation, and legacy, Staying Oriented offers a framework for remaining intellectually grounded and morally upright in a time of confusion-without fear, bitterness, or retreat.This is a book for those who refuse both panic and apathy, and who understand that orientation precedes action. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Faith did not always feel this risky.For millions today, belief no longer feels like a sanctuary-it feels like standing exposed on unstable ground. Questions that once seemed manageable now carry the terrifying weight of potential collapse. Sacred spaces meant to offer shelter have too often inflicted deep, unspoken harm. Meanwhile, cultural pressures frame conviction as arrogance, while honest doubt feels spiritually unsafe. Beneath the noise of modern life lingers a quiet, exhausting question: What if I am wrong about all of it?Why Faith Feels Dangerous Now is written for those who refuse to choose between intellectual integrity and spiritual devotion. It is an unhurried, sober guide for anyone exhausted by religious performance, institutional disappointment, and the pressure to manufacture certainty in an age of fragmentation.This is not a book of defensive debates, superficial slogans, or theological bravado. It does not ask you to abandon your mind to preserve your soul, nor does it invite you to weaponize your pain into cynicism. Instead, it offers a steady, grounded compass for navigating spiritual trauma, grief, and institutional betrayal-without losing your orientation toward God.Inside, you will explore: The Integrity of Doubt: Why profound spiritual questions often stem from a commitment to truth, not a spirit of rebellion.Untangling the Divine Image: How distorted, punitive representations of God feed internal shame, chronic anxiety, and quiet withdrawal.Discernment vs. Cynicism: How to guard your mind against betrayal without allowing bitterness to corrode your capacity for faith.Leaving as Faithfulness: Why stepping away from unsafe or coercive religious spaces can be an act of spiritual survival rather than moral failure.Conviction Without Absolutism: How to live faithfully amid deep doctrinal disagreement without demanding total intellectual control.Durable Hope: What quiet, enduring hope looks like when it no longer relies on emotional intensity or defensive denial.Written with pastoral clarity, historical depth, and psychological precision, this book gives you room to breathe. It names pain honestly without exploiting it. It honors questions without romanticizing confusion. Above all, it invites you into a slower, more resilient faith-one capable of bearing the heavy weight of reality.There are no ultimatums here. No forced timelines. No pressure to resolve every mystery before nightfall.Only a steady invitation to stay, to listen, and to walk forward with a faith that can bear weight-even while it remains unfinished. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What if the problem with theological education is not what Christians are taught-but what they are taught first Christian theology has spent centuries developing sophisticated systems for organizing revelation. Those systems are valuable, necessary, and often remarkably precise. But they are not revelation itself. The Divine Architecture argues that theological formation has often begun one level too late: with the categories used to organize divine revelation rather than with the revealed reality those categories describe. Beginning with the Johannine declarations that God is love, God is light, and in him is life. Jamie Thornberry develops a structural argument for putting revealed reality before the theological architecture built around it. The book tests this proposal against seven questions every theological system must answer: How is God defined How is creation explained How is evil accounted for How are human nature and corruption explained How is salvation explained How is revelation distinguished from speculation >The result is not a replacement for systematic theology. It is a challenge to its order. The traditional loci are treated as real, useful, and indispensable-but also as derived structures. The councils, scholastics, Reformed theologians, and Puritans are examined seriously, and the book explicitly identifies places where the traditional arrangement does work the proposed framework cannot. The practical proposal is deliberately modest: one course, one semester, placed before or alongside the first systematic theology course-not as a replacement for systematics, but as its preface. At the center of the argument is a simple movement: Light discloses. Love reorders. Life embodies. The Divine Architecture is for readers who want to think seriously about Scripture, systematic theology, theological education, Christian formation, and the relationship between theological categories and the reality they were created to describe. The question is ultimately simple: What came first-the map, or the country For pastors, professors, seminary students, theologians, and serious Christian readers, this is an invitation to reconsider not simply what theology teaches, but how theological formation begins. Grab your copy and be transformed by the Reality of LOVE LIFE and LIGHT.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. After Meaning is a philosophical examination of Viktor Frankl's witness in the concentration camps and what it reveals about the human person when stripped of comfort, identity, and control.Rather than offering inspiration or therapeutic application, this work asks a more difficult question: What remains of the human being when meaning itself becomes a demand rather than a comfort?Frankl is often remembered for hope.This book reads him more carefully.Drawing from Frankl's own testimony, After Meaning explores the anthropological implications of life under radical deprivation-where freedom is no longer experienced as power, choice, or self-expression, but as burden and responsibility.The camps did not simply test psychological resilience.They exposed something deeper: a human capacity to remain answerable to meaning even when all external supports are removed.This work does not attempt to explain suffering away, resolve existential tension, or prescribe techniques for coping. Instead, it bears witness to a reality modern thought struggles to name-the persistence of moral obligation and interior freedom when identity, narrative, and agency collapse.This book is written for readers who approach Viktor Frankl not as a motivational figure, but as a philosophical witness.It will appeal to those interested in: Philosophical anthropologyExistential moral responsibilityThe limits of psychological explanationFreedom understood as obligation rather than preferenceMeaning as something discovered and demanded, not constructedAfter Meaning is not a book that persuades.It is a book that stands where explanation ends-and asks what kind of being the human person must be for Frankl's testimony to be true. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Artificial intelligence can generate prose indistinguishable from that of skilled human authors. It can produce furniture designs that exceed the best human craftsman by every measurable standard. It can outperform expert clinicians in pattern recognition across millions of records. These capabilities are real, impressive, and growing. They are also, philosophically speaking, beside the point.In The Order of Making: Technology, Participation, and the Human Good, philosopher and cultural thinker Jamie Thornberry advances a rigorous and timely thesis: that the natural and the artificial are not inherently opposed, but that technology becomes destructive under specifiable conditions and for identifiable reasons, namely, when it substitutes representations of human participatory activity for the participation itself.The book is organized in four disciplined movements. The first establishes, through Augustine's illumination theory and Aquinas's account of embodied cognition, a participatory epistemology in which the human person knows by genuine engagement with a prior intelligibility, not by the accumulation of data. The second diagnoses the deformation, drawing on Heidegger's analysis of Gestell and Mumford's account of the megamachine, and identifying four specific mechanisms by which digital environments produce what Thornberry calls the disincarnation of making: the progressive abstraction of human activity away from the embodied, resistant encounter with reality through which genuine formation occurs. The third develops the book's central conceptual distinction, between extension and substitution, as a practically useful criterion for evaluating any given technology. The fourth draws the constructive conclusion: a positive account of human prosperity adequate to the technological condition, grounded in the triadic framework of Light (knowing truly), Love (desiring rightly), and Life (living genuinely).This is not a book against technology. It is a book against the confusion of capability with flourishing, of output with formation, and of the representation of human activity with the activity itself. It argues that no increase in technical capability can answer the question of what human beings are for, and that civilizations that mistake the map for the territory eventually lose the ability to read either.The Order of Making is essential reading for philosophers, theologians, cultural theorists, educators, and all who sense that the most consequential questions raised by artificial intelligence are not technical but anthropological, and who want an intellectually serious framework for engaging them.Get your copy and receive a rigorous framework for the most consequential cultural question of our time. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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