Religious

"Relativism "offers a critique of moral relativism and suggests ways Christians can defend their moral beliefs. The authors survey the rising tide of relativism in recent decades, explore its inherent inconsistencies, suggest specific...

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion provides a broad overview of the topics which are at the forefront of discussion in contemporary philosophy of religion. Prominent views and arguments from both historical and contemporary authors are...

Letter to a Priest encapsulates the sharp wit and questioning nature of Simone Weil. Regarded by Susan Sontag as 'one of the most uncompromising and troubling witnesses to the modern travail of the spirit', Weil grips the moral imagination as few others...

Warne's original study provides an insightful analysis of the role of contemplation and creation in the thought of Josef Pieper, illustrating the importance of this practice to earthly happiness and human flourishing. What is the relationship between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400910Author Gary ChartierFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877847120Author Colin BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 401gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought Series Editor: Dr Mark Philp, Oriel College, University of Oxford Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought present critical examinations of the work of major political philosophers and social...

Structured directly around the specification of the OCR, this is the definitive textbook for students of Advanced Subsidiary or Advanced Level courses. The updated third edition covers all the necessary topics for Philosophy of Religion in an enjoyable...

Structured directly around the specification of the OCR, this is the definitive textbook for students of Advanced Subsidiary or Advanced Level courses. The updated third edition covers all the necessary topics for Philosophy of Religion in an enjoyable...

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...

This book comprises a number of important readings offering a wide range of topics in the philosophy of religion.Book InformationISBN 9780198750185Author Basil MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford...

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...