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In recent decades, powerful telescopes have enabled astrophysicists to uncover startling new worlds and solar systems. An epochal moment came in 1995, when a planet - 51 Pegasi b - was located orbiting a star other than our own sun. Since then, thousands...

The intelligibility of nature was a persistent theme of William A. Wallace, OP, one of the most prolific Catholic scholars of the late twentieth century. This Reader aims to make available a representative selection of his work in the history of science,...

For many centuries philosophers have been discussing the problem of evil - one of the greatest problems of intellectual history. There are many facets to the problem, and for students and scholars unfamiliar with the vast literature on the subject,...

Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real joy in life - or whether a belief in God is a wise...

A rigorous study of the problem of evil in Islamic theology Like their Jewish and Christian co-religionists, Muslims have grappled with how God, who is perfectly good, compassionate, merciful, powerful, and wise permits intense and profuse evil and...

Through close study of Avicenna's statements and major works, Dimitri Gutas traces Avicenna's own sense of his place in the Aristotelian tradition and the history of philosophy in Islam, and provides an introduction to reading his philosophical works by...

Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909-43) contributed to a wide range of subjects, resulting in a rich field of interdisciplinary Weil studies. Yet those coming to her work from such disciplines as sociology, history, political science,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872292397Author Robin AmisFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Praxis Research InstitutePublisher Praxis Research InstituteWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644676448Author The Dark LordsFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Dark LordsPublisher Dark LordsWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993187063Author C. S. NottFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Toward PublishingPublisher Toward Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514003947Author Joshua RasmussenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 1504gDimensions(mm) 9mm * 6mm * 1mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528709804Author Arthur Edward WaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

This remarkable work offers an analytical exploration of the nature of divine eternity and God's relationship to time.About the AuthorWilliam Lane Craig (PhD, University of Birmingham, England; DTheol, University of Munich) is research professor of...

From his vantage point in the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman offers much needed clarity to the twenty-first century, an age characterized by significant tension between science and religion and by a marginalization of the humanities. As a...

Sikhism, one of the major spiritual-philosophical traditions of India, is often missing from discussions of cross-cultural philosophy. In this introduction, Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair, an internationally acknowledged expert in Sikh studies, provides the...

Using yet untapped resources from moral and political philosophy, this book seeks to answer the question of whether an all good God who is presumed to be all powerful is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570626302Author Walter ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

In Do Numbers Exist? Peter van Inwagen and William Lane Craig take opposite sides on whether there are abstract objects, such as numbers and properties. Craig argues that there are no abstract objects, whereas Van Inwagen argues that there are. Their...

Few twenty-first century academics take seriously mysticism's claim that we have direct knowledge of a higher or more "inner" reality or God. But Philosophical Mysticism argues that such leading philosophers of earlier epochs as Plato, G. W. F. Hegel,...

In this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity's tendency to refuse the world. Developing the first seeds of his anthropotechnics, Sloterdijk...

For all the variety of specific religious beliefs, there are fundamentally only two kinds of people: believers and non-believers. In the 20th century, no spokesman was more prominent for non-belief than Sigmund Freud, and nobody argued for belief more...

Is it possible to think about religious beliefs philosophically? Should religious beliefs be viewed as a flight from reason or as capable of rational support? Can theologians learn from philosophers? Can philosophers learn from theologians? Is it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060654771Author Thomas MertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515436577Author Soren KierkegaardFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint A & D PublishingPublisher A & D PublishingWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Tackling a host of myths and prejudices commonly leveled at atheism, this captivating volume bursts with sparkling, eloquent arguments on every page. The authors rebut claims that range from atheism being just another religion to the alleged atrocities...

Barbara Ehrenreich is an acclaimed social critic on both sides of the Atlantic, renowned for her trenchant, witty polemics, her pieces of journalism, and her trademark intelligence. She writes with unparalleled precision, insight and a rationalist's...

Tim Mulgan introduces a new thought experiment: the world will end in two hundred years, and humanity faces imminent and unavoidable (but not immediate) extinction. This book presents imaginary philosophical debates and lectures within this slowly ending...

The Phenomenology of Religious Life presents the text of Heidegger's important 1920-21 lectures on religion. The volume consists of the famous lecture course Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion, a course on Augustine and Neoplatonism, and notes...

Beyond Secular Order is the first of a two-volume work that expands upon renowned theologian John Milbank's innovative attempt to understand both theology and modern thought begun in his previously published classic text Theology and Social Theory. ...

In Sweet and Blessed Country John Saward takes an altarpiece from fifteenth-century Provence as his starting-point for a theological exposition of the Christian hope for Heaven. The altarpiece, Enguerrand Quarton's Coronation of the Virgin, was painted...

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John Finnis has been a central figure in the fundamental re-shaping of legal philosophy over the past half-century. This volume of his Collected Essays shows the full range and power of his contributions to the philosophy of law. The volume collects...

Meditation has flourished in different parts of the world ever since the foundations of the great civilizations were laid. It played a vital role in the formation of Asian cultures that trace much of their heritage to ancient India and China. This volume...

This book contains a collection of the essential readings treating both classic and contemporary issues in philosophy of religion.About the AuthorEleanore Stump, Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at St. Louis University has published widely in the...

Can we talk meaningfully about God? The theological movement known as Grammatical Thomism affirms that religious language is nonsensical, because the reality of God is beyond our capacity for expression. Stephen Mulhall critically evaluates the claims of...

This book considers a movement within Russian religious philosophy known as "full unity" (vseedinstvo), with a focus on one of its main representatives, Pavel Florensky (1882-1937). Often referred to as "the Russian Leonardo," Florensky was an important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628375480Author Sara Ahbel-RappeFormat HardbackPage Count 574Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical LiteratureWeight(grams)...

If science has replaced God, is life necessarily meaningless? This book argues that the advances of science and the retreat of religion in secular society does not have to mean a life without spirituality.About the AuthorMark Vernon began his...

What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we-in the West, at least-largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining...