Religious

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

The essays in Theological Tractates were published between 1925 and 1937, during which time Erik Peterson converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. They deal with a range of theological topics-from the thought of Protestant theologian Karl...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983486992Author Robert E ColwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Latte Media GroupPublisher Latte Media GroupWeight(grams) 127g

In Plato's Laws is the earliest surviving fully developed cosmological argument. His influence on the philosophy of religion is wide ranging and this book examines both that and the influence of religion on Plato.Central to Plato's thought is the theory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617207983Author Epictetus EpictetusFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 2mm

Lively debates on controversial and compelling questions in the philosophy of religion - an updated edition of the bestselling title Building upon the reputation of the first edition, the extensively revised second edition of Contemporary Debates in...

This substantial anthology is a comprehensive, authoritative collection of the classical and contemporary readings in the philosophy of religion, providing a survey and analysis of the key issues, figures and concepts. Comprises the most comprehensive...

Moses Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed is the greatest philosophical text in the history of Jewish thought and a major work of the Middle Ages. For almost all of its history, however, the Guide has been read and commented upon in translation--in...

The Re-enchantment of the World is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science. Gordon Graham takes as his starting point Max Weber's idea that contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955958236Author Owen BarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Barfield Press UKPublisher Barfield Press UKWeight(grams) 143gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This remarkable posthumous work by one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century engages Augustine's Confessions, one of the major canonical works of world literature and the very paradigm of autobiography as a definable genre of writing. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780958134156Author Adrian AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 334Imprint Threshold PublishingPublisher Threshold Publishing

Richard Swinburne presents a new edition of the final volume of his acclaimed trilogy on philosophical theology. Faith and Reason is a self-standing examination of the implications for religious faith of Swinburne's famous arguments about the coherence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420961812Author ErasmusFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996810197Author Damien Ba'alFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint SkepticPublisher SkepticWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

Paul Helm presents a new, expanded edition of his much praised 1988 book Eternal God , which defends the view that God exists in timeless eternity. This is the classical Christian view of God, but it is claimed by many theologians and philosophers of...

Caroline Franks Davis provides a clear, sensitive, and carefully argued assessment of the value of religious experiences as evidence for religious beliefs. Much more than an 'argument from religious experience', the inquiry systematically addresses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789562914796Author Robert CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)...

German theologian F. D. E. Schleiermacher's doctrine of God-the first to be developed in the post-Kantian era-fundamentally changed the course of Christian theology. The degree to which his doctrine of God was influenced by the philosophy of Benedict de...