Religious

In over 78 newly-commissioned essays, this outstanding volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the philosophy of religion. Written by many of today's leading figures, the volume surveys philosophical issues in the religions of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532656637Author Thomas J MillayFormat HardbackPage Count 94Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

The Hegel Lectures Series Series Editor: Peter C. Hodgson Hegel's lectures have had as great a historical impact as the works he himself published. Important elements of his system are elaborated only in the lectures, especially those given in...

Homo Abyssus is one of the most significant works of Catholic philosophy in the twentieth century. In this speculative appropriation of Aquinas, Ferdinand Ulrich lays out a vision of being as an image of divine goodness, drawing out as-yet-undiscovered...

The description for this book, Parables of Kierkegaard, will be forthcoming.Reviews"[D]iscover a world bursting with both humor and pathos, a world in which despair and hope, doubt and belief, God and self collide in passionate encounter."--Religious...

Celebrated Catholic Press Award-winner, Fr. Ronald Rolheiser knows how to make faith real and tangible for the contemporary reader. The Shattered Lantern invites us to rediscover that while not all seems well, or just, faith truly can make sense of it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994160270Author Adrian AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Threshold PublishingPublisher Threshold PublishingWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781889466Author Alex DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

A prominent issue in many contemporary philosophy of religion debates concerns whether the universe has a Designer. This book moves the discussion ahead in a significant way by devising an original deductive formulation of the Teleological Argument (TA)...

The question of faith today is more urgent than ever. Gary Gutting interviews prominent philosophers of religion to discuss the place of God and faith in modern society. Expanding on interviews originally published on The New York Times philosophy blog...

Theopoetics names the notion that the divine (theos) manifests itself as creative making (poiesis). Anatheism expresses the attendant claim that this making takes the form of a second creation - re-creation or creation again (ana) - where humanity and...

"An Introduction to Kierkegaard" is an accessible introduction to one of the most influential philosophers of the nineteenth century. Peter Vardy is an internationally known scholar with several bestselling titles. Soren Kierkegaard died in...

Susannah Ticciati draws on Augustine to address the question of truth in the public sphere. In the face of the degeneration of public normative discourse, the book finds in Augustine the resources for the repair of a series of (post)modern oppositions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648129318Author Traleg KyabgonFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Shogam PublicationsPublisher Shogam PublicationsWeight(grams) 320g

For Self-Examination and its companion piece Judge for Yourself! are the culmination of Soren Kierkegaard's "second authorship," which followed his Concluding Unscientific Postscript. Among the simplest and most readily comprehended of Kierkegaard's...

Ours is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead-an age that claims mastery over the world but also claims to find the world as a whole absurd or unintelligible. In The Vision of the Soul, James Matthew...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830855124Author James K. Dew Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 234gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm *...

Based on the Wilde Lectures in Natural Religion given in Oxford in 1970-72.ReviewsIngeniously and closely argued. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Book InformationISBN 9780198249689Author Anthony KennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint...

Emmanuel Falque's The Wedding Feast of the Lamb represents a turning point in his thought. Here, Falque links philosophy and theology in an original fashion that allows us to see the full effect of theology's "backlash" against philosophy. By attending...

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)...

What does it mean to be truly happy? In Philosophies of Happiness, Diana Lobel provides a rich spectrum of arguments for a theory of happiness as flourishing or well-being, offering a global, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary perspective on how to...

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...

The Confessions of Augustine have long both demanded and eluded the sustained and serious attention to detail that a scholarly commentary can provide. The present work, which is in three volumes, seeks to supplement that lack. A revised Latin text of the...

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 *...

Heidegger's Eschatology is a ground-breaking account of Heidegger's early engagement with theology, from his beginnings as an anti-Modernist Catholic to his turn towards an undogmatic Protestantism and finally to a resolutely a-theistic philosophical...

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...