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The title of Charles Taliaferro's book is derived from poems and stories in which a person in peril or on a quest must follow a cord or string in order to find the way to happiness, safety, or home. In one of the most famous of such tales, the ancient...

Did post-Enlightenment philosophers reject the idea of original sin and hence the view that life is a quest for redemption from it? In Philosophical Myths of the Fall, Stephen Mulhall identifies and evaluates a surprising ethical-religious dimension in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409289Author James FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

After the challenges of the Enlightenment from philosophers such as David Hume, contemporary philosophers of religion tend to think that proof is not possible and that at best humans have arguments for the probability or plausibility of belief in God...

How can suffering and injustice be reconciled with the idea that God is good, that he loves humans and is merciful to them? Job's question runs through the history of the three monotheistic religions. Time and again, philosophers, theologians, poets,...

Indonesia, like many other countries around the world, is currently experiencing the process of democratic backsliding, marked by a toxic mix of religious sectarianism, polarization, and executive overreach. Despite this trend, Indonesians have become...

In this controversial book, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills argues that God does not exist; and more provocatively, that God cannot exist as anything but an idea. Put concisely, God is a psychological creation signifying ultimate ideality. Mills...

Over the past decade, there has been a growing interest among analytic philosophers in the topic of life's meaning. What is striking about this surge of work is that nearly all of it is by naturalists theorizing from non-theistic starting points. ...

This clear, readable introduction to philosophy presents a traditional theistic view of the existence of God. There are many fine introductions to philosophy, but few are written for students of faith by a teacher who is sensitive to the intellectual...

Late antiquity is increasingly recognised as a period of important cultural transformation. One of its crucial aspects is the emergence of a new awareness of human individuality. In this book an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars...

This book is the first treatment at length of negative, or apophatic, theology within the analytic tradition. Apophatic theology holds that there is a significant sense in which we cannot say what God is. Important negative theological elements are...

Jung and Kierkegaard identifies authenticity, suffering and self-deception as the three key themes that connect the work of Carl Jung and Soren Kierkegaard. There is, in the thinking of these pioneering psychologists of the human condition, a fundamental...

"Radical theology" and "political theology" are terms that have gained a lot of currency among philosophers of religion today. In this visionary new book, Jeffrey W. Robbins explores the contemporary direction of these movements as he charts a course for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532654046Author Junsoo ParkFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849024570Author Soren KierkegaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789670526553Author Mohamed El-Tahir El-MesawiFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint Islamic Book TrustPublisher Islamic Book TrustWeight(grams)...

Taking into consideration analytical, continental, historical, post-modern and contemporary thinkers, Insole provides a powerful defence of a realist construal of religious discourse. Insole argues that anti-realism tends towards absolutism and hubris...

Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking explores the relationship among geopolitics, religion, and social theory. It argues that during the postcolonial and post-Holocaust era, Jewish thinkers in different parts of the world were...

Kierkegaard, a poet of ideals and practitioner of the indirect method, also had a direct and polemical side. He revealed this in several writings throughout his career, culminating in The Moment, his attack against the established ecclesiastical order...

John Foster presents a clear and powerful discussion of a range of topics relating to our understanding of the universe: induction, laws of nature, and the existence of God. He begins by developing a solution to the problem of induction - a solution...

This book provides a fresh reading of Aquinas' metaphysics in the light of insights from the works of Frege. In particular, Ventimiglia argues that Aquinas' doctrine of being can be better understood through Frege's distinction between the 'there is'...

This Element offers the first detailed study of Catharine Trotter Cockburn's philosophy and covers her contributions to philosophical debates in epistemology, metaphysics, moral philosophy, and philosophy of religion. It not only examines Cockburn's view...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940447155Author David Ray GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Riverhouse LLCPublisher Riverhouse LLCWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This is one of the first textbooks to try to set the entire discipline of Jewish philosophy in its proper cultural and historical contexts. In so doing, it introduces the vibrant Jewish philosophical tradition to students while also making a significant...

From the dawn of Western thought to the present day, The Love of Wisdom tells the story of philosophy as something intensely theological, both in its insights and its wrong turns. The book will be invaluable for any student of theology or intellectual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556054242Author Stephen J CostelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Wyndham Hall PressPublisher Wyndham Hall PressWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm)...

In the beginning, says the ancient Hindu text the Rg Veda, was man. And from man's sacrifice and dismemberment came the entire world, including the hierarchical ordering of human society. The Head Beneath the Altar is the first book to present a...

Christian Discourses contains some of Kierkegaard's most constructive religious and social thought, founded on his deepening appreciation of the ambiguity of our common human situation before a loving yet commanding God. ""Christian Discourses"" is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666723861Author Rudolf OttoFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm)...

This is the first critical edition of Epistles 15-21 of the Brethren of Purity, which explore the natural sciences and correspond to Aristotle's great works on philosophy of nature. Along with Epistle 22, 'On Animals', Epistles 15-21 correspond to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987593863Author Andrew LohreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Rishi PublishingPublisher Rishi PublishingWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888152558Author Andree TroostFormat HardbackPage Count 410Imprint Paideia PressPublisher Paideia PressWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The search for God is dictated not from without but from a profound sense of one's own moral being and worthiness to be happy. The core of Immanuel Kant's argument remains relevant to the experience of ordinary men and women. He wished to strengthen, not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877853404Author DOUGLAS TAYLORFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Swedenborg FoundationPublisher Swedenborg FoundationWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm)...

The common Western understanding of Buddhism today envisions this major world religion as one of compassion and tolerance. But as Roger-Pol Droit reveals, this view bears little resemblance to one broadly held in the 19th century European philosophical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991988068Author Michael ChaberekFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Chartwell MinistriesPublisher Chartwell MinistriesWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

This collection of essays is an attempt to capture the drama of the encounter, of the 'facing' of Levinas and the biblical text. It seeks to link Jewish experience and Levinasian themes such as responsibility, substitution, hospitality, suffering and...

Emmanuel Levinas conceives of our lives as fundamentally interpersonal and ethical, claiming that our responsibilities to one another should shape all of our actions. While many scholars believe that Levinas failed to develop a robust view of political...

This book completes a landmark six-volume translation of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher and historian of culture who continues to have a significant influence on philosophy, hermeneutics, and the theory of the human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999634929Author Ray W LincolnFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Apex PublicationsPublisher Apex PublicationsWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...