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"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)...

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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...

No one ever argued more forcefully or with such acerbic wit against the foolish aspects of religion as H. L. Mencken (1880-1956). As a journalist, he gained national prominence through his newspaper columns describing the now-famous 1925 Scopes trial,...

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...

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 *...

A collection of essays - two of them previously unpublished - by Professor Adams, who has been a leader in renewing philosophical respect for the idea that moral obligation may be founded on the command of God.ReviewsAdams is a master of the art of...

Unlike other humanistic disciplines, the academic study of religion must contend with a phenomenon that touches every dimension of human experience. For scholars so engaged, the study of religion often becomes a cross-cultural as well as a necessarily...

Was it mere encyclopedism that motivated Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d.1210), one of the most influential Islamic theologians of the twelfth century, to theorize on astral magic - or was there a deeper purpose? One of his earliest works was The Hidden Secret...

A highly readable introduction to Christian apologetics that joins contemporary analytic philosophy with modern biblical scholarship. In this book, Paul Herrick presents the basics of classical Christian apologetics in the form of an inference to the...

This substantially revised second edition of Revelation and Reconciliation, first published by Cambridge University Press in 1995, gives a fresh account of the intellectual breakdown of Christianity in the West. In contrast to the familiar focus on...

Originally published in 1845, this concise critique formed the basis of thirty later lectures delivered in 1848 by Ludwig Feuerbach, one of Germany's most influential humanist philosophers. In The Essence of Religion Feuerbach applied the analysis...

Who or what comes after God? In the wake of God, as the last fifty years of philosophy has shown, God comes back again, otherwise: Heidegger's last God, Levinas's God of Infinity, Derrida's and Caputo's tout autre, Marion's God without Being, Kearney's...

This Reader brings together primary sources from philosophy, theology and literature to chart the many and changing ways evil has been approached and understood, and to examine the diverse implications it has had for belief and unbelief. Will fill a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830827671Author James F. SennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 510g

In this book, Thomas M. Osborne, Jr., covers an important, but often neglected, aspect of medieval ethics, namely the controversy over whether or not it is possible to love God more than oneself through natural powers alone. In debating this topic,...

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. Under the guidance of a...

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...