Religious

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880103855Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 281Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648766063Author Gwendolyn TauntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Manticore PressPublisher Manticore PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Popular philosopher Jordan Peterson has captured the imagination of Western world. For some, Peterson represents all that is wrong with patriarchal culture; for others, he is the Canadian academic prophet who has come to save civilization from...

One of the great tasks of Mortimer Adler's illustrious life was his search for a watertight proof of the existence of God. Adler believed that his search had been successful. Adler spent years studying the classic proofs of God's existence, especially...

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...

The ethical treatment of non-human animals is an increasingly significant issue, directly affecting how people share the planet with other creatures and visualize themselves within the natural world. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics...

Did the universe begin to exist? If so, did it have a cause? Or could it have come into existence uncaused, from nothing? These questions are taken up by the medieval-though recently-revived-kalam cosmological argument, which has arguably been the most...

Volume Two of The Writings of Charles De Koninck is part of the three-volume series presenting the first English edition of the collected works of the Catholic Thomist philosopher Charles De Koninck (1906-1965). Ralph McInerny is the project editor and...

This book introduces readers to Abu Bakr al-Razi (known in Latin as Rhazes), one of the most innovative and divisive figures of the early philosophical tradition in the Islamic world. Drawing on his extant works on ethics and a range of quotations and...

In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas's Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while making an argument for the role and...

In A Common Faith, eminent American philosopher John Dewey calls for the "emancipation of the true religious quality" from the heritage of dogmatism and supernaturalism that he believes characterizes historical religions. He describes how the...

Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Together they produced a dynamic body of ideas that has had a lasting impact on the study of religion, philosophy, and literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992600099Author MS Jonathan PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Onus BooksPublisher Onus BooksWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

After launching his career with the 1947 publication of his dissertation, Occidental Eschatology, Jacob Taubes spent the early years of his career as a fellow and then professor at various American institutions, including Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553374285Author Barbara Stoler MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm)...

John D. Caputo stretches his project as a radical theologian to new limits in this groundbreaking book. Mapping out his summative theological position, he identifies with Martin Luther to take on notions of the hidden god, the theology of the cross,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979127670Author Blaise PascalFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Suzeteo EnterprisesPublisher Suzeteo EnterprisesWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

The academic study of religion recently has turned to the investigation of emotion as a crucial aspect of religious life. Researchers have set out in several directions to explore that new terrain and have brought with them an assortment of instruments...

Over the course of his twenty-five-year career, Jeffrey J. Kripal's study of religion has had two major areas of focus: the erotic expression of mystical experience and the rise of the paranormal in American culture. This book brings these two halves...

.... compares two theories-Naturalism and Theism-on a wide range of relevant data. It concludes that Naturalism should be preferred to Theism on that data. The central idea behind the argument is that, while Naturalism is simpler than Theism, there is no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619021594Author Andy FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

This book provides an up to date, high-level exchange on God in a uniquely productive style. Readers witness a contemporary version of a classic debate, as two professional philosophers seek to learn from each other while making their cases for their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781889435Author Alex DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Prefaces was the last of four books by Soren Kierkegaard to appear within two weeks in June 1844. Three Upbuilding Discourses and Philosophical Fragments were published first, followed by The Concept of Anxiety and its companion--published on the same...

A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology presents for the first time in English key passages from the Summa Halensis, one of the first major installments in the summa genre for which scholasticism became famous. This systematic work of philosophy and...

Too often the study of philosophical texts is carried out in ways that do not pay significant attention to how the ideas contained within them are presented, articulated, and developed. This was not always the case. The contributors to this collected...

The distinguished Moroccan philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, in this summary of his own work, examines the status of Arab thought in the late twentieth century. Al-Jabri rejects what he calls the current polarization of Arab thought between an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556434679Author Emanuel SwedenborgFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

This book explores the Japanese notion of hakanasa - the evanescence of all things. Responses to this idea have been various and even contradictory: asceticism, fatalism, conformism, hedonism, materialism, and careerism. This book examines the ties...

In this book a group of renowned international scholars seek to discern the ways in which Simone Weil was indebted to Plato, and how her provocative readings of his work offer challenges to contemporary philosophy, theology, and spirituality. This is the...

Religion and science are arguably the two most powerful social forces in the world today. But where religion and science were once held to be compatible, many people now perceive them to be in conflict. This unique book provides the best available...

Dave Websters book is a counter-blast against the culturally accepted norm that spirituality is a vital and important factor in human life. Rejecting the idea of human wellbeing as predicated on the spiritual, the book seeks to identify the toxic impact...

The Nasirean Ethics is the best known ethical digest to be composed in medieval Persia, if not in all mediaeval Islam. It appeared initially in 633/1235 when Tusi was already a celebrated scholar, scientist, politico-religious propagandist. The work has...

The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Humanism presents an edited collection of essays that explore the nature of Humanism as an approach to life, and a philosophical analysis of the key humanist propositions from naturalism and science to morality and meaning...

Philosophies in several ancient traditions aimed to alleviate people's anxieties and improve their lives. In contrast to the contemporay world, in which philosophy is mostly an academic subject and personal concerns are commonly addressed by...

In 1756 a volume of Hume's essays entitled Five Dissertations was printed and ready for distribution. The essays included 'The Natural History of Religion,' 'Of the Passions,' 'Of Tragedy,' 'Of Suicide,' and 'Of the Immortality of the Soul.' The latter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780958134125Author Adrian AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Threshold PublishingPublisher Threshold Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984372935Author Gerald Enrique Del CampoFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Concrescent PressPublisher Concrescent PressWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940220901Author Harold RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint M-Graphics Pub.Publisher M-Graphics Pub.Weight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854482160Author Gary LachmanFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg Society