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Carl Trueman traces the historical roots of many hot-button issues such as transgenderism and homosexuality, offering thoughtful biblical analysis as he uncovers the profound impact of the sexual revolution on modern human identity.About the AuthorCarl R...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345444196Author Roger AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087752297Format HardbackPage Count 2226Imprint LifeWay Christian ResourcesPublisher LifeWay Christian Resources

Theosis, originally a Greek term for Christian divinisation or deification, has become a vogue word in modern theology. Although recent publications have explored its meaning in a selection of different contexts, this is the first book to offer a...

Hegel's Social Ethics offers a fresh and accessible interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel's most famous book, the Phenomenology of Spirit. Drawing on important recent work on the social dimensions of Hegel's theory of knowledge, Molly Farneth shows how his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640320550Author James AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 26Imprint Innovative Eggz LLCPublisher Innovative Eggz LLCWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Jesus comes to life in this fascinating modern biography excerpted from The Urantia Book. Many of these historical stories are familiar to readers of the New Testament but dozens are new, including the missing years not found in the Bible. Here you...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CATHOLIC HERALD BOOK AWARD FOR RELIGION AND THEOLOGYA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'Wonderful ... one of the few books that I started to reread a couple of minutes after I'd finished it.' - Melvyn Bragg A...

A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087753676Author Henry T BlackabyFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint LifeWay Christian ResourcesPublisher LifeWay Christian Resources

For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous categories-such as religion, science, and art-has collapsed under the weight of postmodern critiques,...

For much of his life Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in its intended form. Instead, he left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These were to become known as the Pensees, and they occupy a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955958281Author Owen BarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Barfield Press UKPublisher Barfield Press UKWeight(grams) 315g

The term ars erotica refers to the styles and techniques of lovemaking with the honorific title of art. But in what sense are these practices artistic and how do they contribute to the aesthetics and ethics of self-cultivation in the art of living? In...

Rethinking the great literary prophets whose ministry ran from the eighth to the sixth centuries BCE-Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Second Isaiah, and Job-Thinking about the Prophets examines their often-shocking teachings in light of...

This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate destination is a plausible, living validation of transcendence. Each of its three parts is like a turn of a spiral, exploring recurring ideas through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994160218Author Adrian AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Threshold PublishingPublisher Threshold PublishingDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 3mm

One of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the history of Western thought, St Thomas Aquinas established the foundations for much of modern philosophy of religion, and is infamous for his arguments for the existence of God. In this...

'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher brother, a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061724947Author Aldous HuxleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Based on 10 years of dedicated research, Dangerous Illusions is a battle cry for the human race to throw off religion in favour of logic and reason. In this committed and passionate book, author Vitaly Malkin - a philanthropist, business man and...

Edith Stein was beatified in 1987 and canonized in 1998 but is still relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. She provides an example of a Christian thinker deeply engaged in the debates of her own day, and her work offers models and insights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635618860Author Robert TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Philosophy and Christianity make truth claims about many of the same things. They both claim to provide answers to the deep questions of life. But how are they related to one another?Four Views on Christianity and Philosophy introduces readers to four...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936594269Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Soho BooksPublisher Soho BooksWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 5mm

This work covers ancient beliefs about life after death from Homer's Hades to ancient Jewish beliefs, from the Bible to the Dead Sea Scrolls and beyond. It examines early Christian beliefs about resurrection in general and that of Jesus in particular,...

Early modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes baffling fusion of theological and scientific ideas in the era, as well as some of its greatest literature, responds to this sense...

Peter Vardy's much acclaimed introduction to the study of ideas about God - now revised and updated. A clear, well-written guide to philosophical thinking about God. Starting with the question of what it means to say we believe in God, and...

This book demonstrates the influence that the philosophical and theological anthropology of Saint Thomas Aquinas had on Nicholas of Cusa's (Cusanus) view of human nature. While Rudolf Haubst suggested that Aquinas had, in fact, influenced several factors...

Erasmus was fascinated by proverbs and prepared a collection of more than 4,000 of them, accompanying each with his comments, sometimes in a few lines and sometimes in full-scale essays. His massive compendium, characterized by his wit, his elegance, his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062510136Author J. KrishnamurtiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A married person falls deeply in love with someone else. A man of average income feels he cannot be truly happy unless he owns an expensive luxury car. A dieter has an irresistible craving for ice cream. Desires often come to us unbidden and unwanted,...

India has a long, rich, and diverse tradition of philosophical thought, spanning some two and a half millennia and encompassing several major religious traditions. This Very Short Introduction emphasizes the diversity of Indian thought, and is...

Thomas Aquinas: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the theology of arguably the greatest theologian and philosopher of the Middle Ages. The sophistication and complexity of his thought can be daunting for those approaching his work for the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732218307Author Shambhavi SarasvatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Jaya Kula PressPublisher Jaya Kula PressWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

New observations on the persistence of God in modern times and why "authentic" atheism is so very hard to come by How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural...

This work is ''a systematic ontology.'' Ontology is the study of being as such, and a systematic ontology is an account of the most fundamental ways of being something or other - of what they are and of how they are related to each other. The questions...

This beautiful presentation of a selection from the Holy Qur'an engages the reader in a moment of daily reflection. Edited for ease of comprehension, English-speaking readers will find this compilation both spiritually enriching and easy to understand...

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, a Muslim jurist-theologian and polymath who lived from the mid-eleventh to the early twelfth century in present-day Iran, is a figure equivalent in stature to Malmonides in Judaism and Thomas Aquinas in Christianity. He is best...

Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Catholic priest in the early thirteeth century, is considered to be one of the great Christian thinkers who had, and who still has, a profound influence on Western thought. He was a controversial figure who was exposed and...