Religious

Modernity has radically challenged the assumptions that guide our ordinary lives as persons, in ways we are not normally aware. We live our concrete lives taking for granted that personal decisions, desires, relationships, actions, aspirations, values,...

Homo Mysticus presents three renowned lectures delivered by Wolfgang Struve from 1974 to 1984, translated into English in this volume. The first two were published in German in 1983 and serve to develop the fundamental difference between world and...

From the trues of nature, man reasons his truths, the sum of which is TRUITY. Truity creates all, sustains all, and accounts for all. The Adversity of Diversity Law and Truity's Trinity (subject, function, and object) ground all grammar, reinforce every...

A Philosophy of Sacred Nature introduces Robert Corrington's philosophical thought, "ecstatic naturalism," which seeks to recognize nature's self-transforming potential. Ecstatic naturalism is a philosophical-theological perspective, deeply seated in a...

An impressive study that prompts the reader toward philosophical reflection on the hermeneutics of melancholy in its relation to maturing theological understanding and cultivation of a profound self-consciousness. Melancholy has been interpreted as a...

The essays focus on the work of Vladimir Jankelevitch as a moral philosopher, particularly that aspect of his work dealing with the question of forgiveness. They treat topics such as the place of moral philosophy in relation to his work as a whole, his...

George Santayana (1862-1952) of Spanish descent, and generally claimed to be in the canon of American philosophers, was substantially influenced by his Roman Catholic origins in his philosophical disposition toward the value of tradition, religious...

William L. Newell presents a comprehensive analysis of Rene Girard's work on the origins of culture and the depths of human desire. Girard makes no claim toward a theory of religion, but he lays the groundwork for a postmodern theory of it. Girard's...

Reading the Islamic City offers insights into the implications the practices of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city, the madinah. The problematic term madinah fundamentally indicates a phenomenon of building,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974883656Author Michael R BinderFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Michael R. Binder, M.D.Publisher Michael R. Binder, M.D.Weight(grams)...

Those who anticipated the demise of religion and the advent of a peaceful, secularized global village have seen the last two decades confound their predictions. Rene Girard's mimetic theory is a key to understanding the new challenges posed by our world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592643141Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 137mm * 25mm

Today's overlapping social and ecological crises portend Bernard Lonergan's memorable remark that "the world lies in pieces before us and pleads to be put together again." The calls of Catholic social teaching for a 'humane globalization' and, more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592644254Author Binyamin TaboryFormat HardbackImprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 137mm * 28mm

This book presents an introduction and English translation of five articles from Henry of Ghents Summa of Ordinary Questions; they are on theology as a science itself and in relation to other sciences, on the final and efficient causes of theology, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692251867Author Sheila R VitaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Living Epistles MinistriesPublisher Living Epistles MinistriesWeight(grams)...

The essays in this volume give an account of how the agenda for theology and religious studies was set and reset throughout the twentieth century - by rapid and at times cataclysmic changes (wars, followed by social and academic upheavals in the 1960s),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789061861041Author R. MackenFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 907g

The Nature of God explores a perennial problem in the philosophy of religion. Drawing upon developments in philosophy, most notably those in philosophical logic, Edward R. Wierenga examines the traditional divine attributes of omnipotence, omniscience,...

In the first book wholly concerned with divine authority, Mark C. Murphy explores the extent of God's rule over created rational beings. The author challenges the view-widely supported by theists and nontheists alike-that if God exists, then humans must...

Divine Providence is a remarkable book that should quickly earn its place as the leading authoritative contemporary exposition and defense of Molinism. William Hasker, author of God, Time, and Knowledge Thomas P. Flint develops and defends the idea of...

How porous is the border between life and death? How do the dead influence the living and in what way? What can Heaven, Hell, Purgatory and the two Limbos tell us of our contemporary world today? In The Mirror of Death, Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte explores...

As the third part of a philosophy of Christian life, A Metaphysics of Love builds on a view of Christian life as shaped by the dynamic of call, response, and promise. It argues that love is the ultimate content of this dynamic and considers how far this...

First published in 1952, Man, Creator or Destroyer makes clear that mankind is preeminent both as a creator and as a destroyer. And we are doomed unless creative man can master destructive man. But how gain this mystery? How strengthen the one and weaken...

Michael P. Berman's Merleau-Ponty and God: Hallowing the Hollow examines issues in the philosophy of religion through the phenomenological and existential writings of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961). Merleau-Ponty addressed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856307455Author Rivkah KlugerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 322g

This book explores a central tension in identity politics: how the state, civil society and people in general may want to create and maintain cultural, religious and social cohesion while paradoxically their practices in everyday life often run counter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417229979Author Ernest Yassine BendrissFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint AlmuzaraPublisher AlmuzaraWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 147mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781892112064Author Michael PearlFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint No Greater Joy Ministries, IncorporatedPublisher No Greater Joy Ministries,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587313509Author Germain GrisezFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's PressDimensions(mm) 9mm * 6mm * 1mm

A Hindu-Jewish Conversation: Root Traditions in Dialogue is a historical, theological, and phenomenological engagement of the Hindu and Jewish traditions, two "root" traditions that give rise to other-in some ways very different-types of religious...

Nationalism is a globally resurgent phenomenon. From Britain to India and the United States of America, we find nations vociferously reasserting their own sovereignty, ethnic composition, and intrinsic superiority. Thomas J. Millay demonstrates how...

It is widely accepted that moral education is quintessential to facilitating and maintaining prosocial attitudes. What moral education should entail and how it can be effectively pursued remain hotly disputed questions. In Confucian Ritual and Moral...

During his long, productive life the great English philosopher and exponent of utilitarianism Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) wrote not just on political philosophy but also clandestinely on religion. This thorough analysis of three little-known works by one...

Jesus the Radical: The Parables and Modern Morality connects the lessons of six parables of the New Testament with philosophical issues structured around contemporary morality and the art of leading a good human life. In this manner, Raymond Angelo...

In The Givenness of Desire, Randall S. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan's "concrete subjectivity." Rosenberg engages and integrates two major scholarly developments: the tension between Neo-Thomists and scholars of...

Although vast and complex, the universe is orderly in many ways, and conditions at its beginning were right for the eventual evolution of life on this planet. But with life there is death, and with sentient life there is great pain and suffering, often...

Although vast and complex, the universe is orderly in many ways, and conditions at its beginning were right for the eventual evolution of life on this planet. But with life there is death, and with sentient life there is great pain and suffering, often...

Reading Philosophy of Religion combines a diverse selection of classical and contemporary texts in philosophy of religion with insightful commentaries. Offers a unique presentation through a combination of text and interactive commentaryProvides a mix of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865974944Author Pierre BayleFormat HardbackPage Count 639Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1253g