Actors Choice Acts Of God

"Collection of monologues from the Playscripts, Inc. catalog of plays, representing a variety of American playwrights. The source material for each monologue may be found on the Playscripts website, where nearly the entire text of every play can be read for free. Intended for female actors"--Provided by publisher.

Acting on Principles, the product of over thirty years of teaching, gives a comprehensive overview of the Moral Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas, placing it in dialogue with contemporary ethical theory and developments in Catholic theology since the Second Vatican Council. Suitable for students of ethics and moral theology, and general readers seeking Christian guidance in the formation of conscience and moral decision making, it presents the classical Catholic ethical tradition in a clear and lively style.

The topic tackled in this book is Philo's account of the complex, double-sided nature of God's acting - the two-sided coin of God as transcendent yet immanent, unknowable yet revealed, immobile yet creating - and also the two sides of acting in humans - who, in an attempt to imitate God, both contemplate and produce. In both contexts, divine and human, Philo considers that it would not be proper to give precedence to either side - the result would be barren. God's acting and man's acting are at the same time both speculative and practical, and it is precisely out of this co-presence that the order of the world unfolds. Philo considers this two-sided condition as a source of complexity and fertility. Francesca Calabi argues that, far from being an irresolvable contradiction, Philo's two-fold vision is the key to understanding his works. It constitutes a richness that rejects reduction to apparently incompatible forms and aspects.

In Divine Causality and Human Free Choice, R.J. Matava explains the idea of physical premotion defended by Domingo Báñez, whose position in the Controversy de Auxiliis has been typically ignored in contemporary discussions of providence and freewill. Through a close engagement with untranslated primary texts, Matava shows Báñez’s relevance to recent debates about middle knowledge. Finding the mutual critiques of Báñez and Molina convincing, Matava argues that common presuppositions led both parties into an insoluble dilemma. However, Matava also challenges the informal consensus that Lonergan definitively resolved the controversy. Developing a position independently advanced by several recent scholars, Matava explains how the doctrine of creation entails a position that is more satisfactory both philosophically and as a reading of Aquinas.

Participation in religious liturgies and rituals is a pervasive and remarkably complex form of human activity. This book opens with a discussion of the nature of liturgical activity and then explores various dimensions of such activity. Over the past fifty years there has been a remarkable surge of interest, within the analytic tradition of philosophy, in philosophy of religion. Most of what has been written by participants in this movement deals with one or another aspect of religious belief. Yet for most adherents of most religions, participation in the liturgies and rituals of their religion is at least as important as what they believe. One of the aims of this book is to call the attention of philosophers of religion to the importance of religious practice and to demonstrate how rich a topic this is for philosophical reflection. Another aim is to show liturgical scholars who are not philosophers that a philosophical approach to liturgy casts an illuminating light on the topic that supplements their own approach. Insofar as philosophers have written about liturgy, they have focused most of their attention on its formative and expressive functions. This book focuses instead on understanding what liturgical agents actually do. It is what they do that functions formatively or expressively. What they do is basic.

Everyone has a story, and that story has an author—God. He is the author of our lives, the scriptwriter of our days—the one who has written a great purpose for us. When we fall off the rails and do not follow the script God has written, that is when things go haywire. Our plans fall apart, things do not go as we plan, and we hit rock bottom. This book is about acknowledging God as your guiding light, leading you to uncover your life’s purpose. Life is a series of unforeseeable events, and it is crucial to learn how to respond to them.-Act the Script of your life. It’s about learning to live a quality life that is fulfilling and purposeful. But how can you tap into your purpose when distracted by the world’s matters? Allow this book to serve as a beacon of hope and direction. If you find yourself at a point in your life where you feel lost, on the verge of quitting, and in need of encouragement, this is it. The moment you realize that your steps to success have already been written is the day that you will pursue the one who wrote those steps. We all want success and sometimes follow the wrong path to attain it, not realizing the high cost we pay long-term. There is good news! You can turn your life around, gain heavenly wisdom, and get back on track by the hand of God. All you have to do is turn your life to Jesus Christ, surrender to God’s plans, and uncover the book He has written for your life. Once you discover what you are destined to do and whom you are destined to be, the sky is the limit! Nothing will have the power to hold you back. With God on your side and your mind consecrated to the Lord, you can overcome anything and achieve unimaginable feats.

Explores the philosophy of Mulla Sadra Shirazi.