Religious

First published in 1849 under the pseudonym "Anti-Climacus," Soren Kierkegaard's The Sickness unto Death endures as a seminal text in the history of theology and moral philosophy, and an essential companion to his earlier works. Beginning with the...

Mark C. Taylor explores the many variations of silence by considering the work of leading visual artists, philosophers, theologians, writers, and composers. "To hear silence is to find stillness in the midst of the restlessness that makes creative life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211948Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *...

Since its original publication in 1979, The Possibility of Naturalism has been one of the most influential works in contemporary philosophy of science and social science. It is one of the cornerstones of the critical realist position, which is now widely...

This volume includes Hegel's most important early theological writings, though not all of the materials collected by Herman Nohl in his definitive Hegels theologische Jugendschriften (Tuebingen, 1907). The most significant omissions are a series of...

Negative theology is the attempt to describe God by speaking in terms of what God is not. Historical affinities between Jewish modernity and negative theology indicate new directions for thematizing the modern Jewish experience. Questions such as, What...

This book offers a novel account of grace framed in terms of Bruno Latour's "principle of irreduction." It thus models an object-oriented approach to grace, experimentally moving a traditional Christian understanding of grace out of a top-down, theistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838239121Author Jonathan M S PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Onus BooksPublisher Onus BooksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

One of today's most controversial and heated issues is whether or not the conflict between science and religion can be reconciled. In Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?, renowned philosophers Daniel C. Dennett and Alvin Plantinga expand upon the...

This book explores the possibility of a hermeneutics of the Qur'an. It starts from the presupposition that the Qur'an can be studied as a philosophical book. Thus the analysis is theoretical more than historical. Many philosophers commented the Qur'an...

We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life-and the nature of reality. But science is the only means of answering them. So declares philosopher Alex Rosenberg in this bracing, surprisingly sanguine take on a world without god. The...

Philosophical theology is aimed primarily at theoretical understanding of the nature and attributes of God and of God's relationship to the world and its inhabitants. During the twentieth century, much of the philosophical community (both in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865974135Author Charles Norris CochraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1060g

Please note: this book is for students taking the pre-2016 OCR GCE Religious Studies AS and A2 specification. The new book is called Religion and Ethics for OCR: The Complete Resource for the New Specification. Ethics for OCR Religious Studies: The...

The easy way to understand atheism and secular philosophy For people seeking a non-religious philosophy of life, as well as believers with atheist friends, Atheism For Dummies offers an intelligent exploration of the historical and moral case for atheism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101873731Author Martin HagglundFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious. According to Mircea Eliade, they miss the one irreducible element in...

This collection, by leading legal scholars, judges and practitioners, together with theologians and church historians, presents historical, theological, philosophical and legal perspectives on Christianity and criminal law. Following a Preface by Lord...

Catholic philosophical anthropologists have defended views of the human person on which we are not reducible to anything non-personal. For example, it is not the case that we are nothing but matter, souls, or parts of society. Nevertheless, most Catholic...

This introductory text points to some of the diverse tapestries of Hindu worldviews where scriptural revelation, logical argumentation, embodied affectivity, moral reasoning, and aesthetic cultivation constitute densely interwoven conceptual threads. It...

The definitive account of the career and legacy of the most influential Western exponent of violent jihad.Anwar al-Awlaki was, according to one of his followers, "the main man who translated jihad into English." By the time he was killed by an American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852284Author Joseph R. DodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 288gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 153mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609803698Author Slavoj ZizekFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 262g

In 1490/92 Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato, made new translations of, with running commentaries on, two treatises he believed were the work of Dionysius the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874774924Author Kathleen Riordan SpeethFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,USDimensions(mm) 235mm * 155mm *...

This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as...

Ferdinand Ulrich's Homo Abyssus: The Drama of the Question of Being (Humanum, 2018), originally published in 1961, is one of the most groundbreaking works in Christian metaphysics from the 20th Century. But it is also a difficult book, posing unique...

Godsends is William Desmond's newest addition to his masterwork on the borderlines between philosophy and theology. For many years, William Desmond has been patiently constructing a philosophical project-replete with its own terminology, idiom, grammar,...

In his praise for Part I of Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, the eminent Kierkegaard scholar Eduard Geismar said, "I am of the opinion that nothing of what he has written is to such a degree before the face of God. Anyone who really wants to...

Matching pivotal theorists and theories of religion alongside cutting-edge criticism from a team of leading contemporary scholars, this vibrant collection enables students to gain a balanced understanding of the diverse methods, theories, and theorists...

This volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today. What are the assumptions and resources internal to secular conceptions of critique that help or hinder...

In 1969, James Nelson confessed to murder, served a prison sentence, then applied to be ordained as a minster in the Scottish Church (The Kirk). The case split the church in two, and challenged the institution to consider its most basic functions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420960952Author Baltasar GracianFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

The Varieties of Religious Experience, first delivered as the Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh, was published in 1902 and quickly established itself as a classic. It ranks with its great predecessor, The Principles of Psychology, as one of William James's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646048809Author Brittany PolatFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses Press

Aristotle famously maintains in his treatise On the Soul that there are three kinds of living things-- plants, animals, and humans--and he speaks of each kind as having a soul. St. Thomas Aquinas adopts these same views. Nowadays, however, many thinkers...

This book offers a triangular comparative analysis by evaluating three different religious approaches to emptiness. It reveals what emptiness or nothingness mean in different cultural and religious contexts. Further, it assesses each tradition's...

The definitive work on the mystical theology of Jules Monchanin, a luminary of early 20th century religious thought and an integral part of the dialogue between the Catholic Church and Hinduism. Before leaving for India in 1939, Jules Monchanin...

A study of the Christian philosophy of Jacques Maritain (1882-1973), an influential, creative, and prolific writer. He was widely recognized as one of the most prominent Catholic intellectuals during his own lifetime and was widely seen as a spokesman...

Investigates the classical roots of Western culture and its religious sources in order to find its underlying intellectual and spiritual commitments. The essays are written from a single vantage point - one associated with Thomas Aquinas, though their...