Religious

This book is an exercise in philosophical criticism. What I criticize are some variations on a recurrent theme in religious thought: the theme that faith and reason are so disparate that faith is not undermined, but strengthened, if we judge that reason...

This book critically assesses arguments for the existence of the God of classical theism, develops an innovative account of objects’ persistence, and defends new arguments against classical theism. The authors engage the following classical theistic...

Trentaz proposes an inclusive, complex framework for understanding the creation and maintenance of risk of contracting HIV & AIDS, takes a hard look at dominant theologies and proposes a new way of approaching a theo-ethical response to the pandemic...

Worsley argues that it is rational to believe in a realist, loving God in the face of evil. Beginning with a critique of Alvin Plantinga, he shows that human freedom is highly complex, and so depends upon complex structures in nature. These are both...

Transformative Pastoral Leadership in the Black Church offers practical wisdom from comparative analysis of the experiences of a male pastor and a female pastor in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Church leaders must be transformed themselves as...

This volume offers an in-depth examination of a diverse range of faith-based programs implemented in three different geographical locales: family support in rural Mississippi, transitional housing in Michigan, and addiction recovery in the Pacific...

What does it mean to believe in God? What passes as evidence for belief in God? What issues arise when considering the rationality of belief in God? Debating Christian Religious Epistemology introduces core questions in the philosophy of religion by...

This book offers a philosophical analysis of what it is to be a human being in all her aspects. It analyses what is meant by the self and the I and how this feeling of a self or an I is connected to the brain. It studies specific cases of brain...

Classical Indian schools of philosophy undertake major debates on a variety of issues with the formal aim of attaining a supreme end to existence - liberation from the cycle of lives. This book looks at four conceptions of liberation and the way analytic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589833500Author David T. RuniaFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical LiteratureWeight(grams)...

This book explores the manifold connections between fundamentalism and literature in English. Carefully selected case studies and surveys document an unexpected richness and variety in this unlikely relationshipSpringer Book ArchivesAbout the...

This volume presents interdisciplinary, intercultural, and interreligious approaches directed toward the articulation of a pneumatological theology in its broadest sense, especially in terms of attempting to conceive of a spirit-filled world.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357930260Author Abel J JonesPage Count 60Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357488105Author Padraic ColumFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Double 9 Books LLPPublisher Double 9 Books LLPWeight(grams) 267g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480884397Author Verle D LineFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639821068Author Luigi GiussaniFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Slant BooksPublisher Slant BooksWeight(grams) 245g

This book takes a theoretical enterprise in Christian philosophy of religion and applies it to Buddhism, thus defending Buddhism and presenting it favorably in comparison. Chapters explore how the claims of both Christianity and Theravada Buddhism rest...

This unique Handbook provides a sophisticated, scholarly overview of the most advanced thought regarding the idea of life after death. Its comprehensive coverage encompasses historical, religious, philosophical and scientific thinking. Starting with an...

Deals with today's disputed religious questions - whether religious language refers to a transcendent divine reality or only reflects our own ideals, whether religious experience is a proper ground of religious belief, and whether Jesus was God incarnate...

This book is an attempt to make sense of the tension in Nietzsche's work between the unashamedly egocentric and the apparently mystical. While scholars have tended to downplay one or other of these aspects, it is the author's contention that the two are...

Engaging recent developments within the bio-cultural study of religion, Shults unveils the evolved cognitive and coalitional mechanisms by which god-conceptions are engendered in minds and nurtured in societies. He discovers and attempts to liberate a...

If you thought nothing new could come of the stalled, stale debates in analytic philosophy over the problem of evil, think again. With characteristic elegance and precision, Marilyn McCord Adams decisively advances the discussion by including overlooked...

This volume offers a novel philosophical thesis on the ontology of religion, and proposes a new conceptual repertoire to deal with supernatural religion. Jibu Mathew George offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the source and dynamics of religious...

This volume argues that theistic philosophy should be seen not as an "armchair" enterprise but rather as a critical endeavor to bring philosophy of religion into close contact with emerging sciences of religion. This text engages with the...

In God and Human Freedom: A Kierkegaardian Perspective Tony Kim discusses Soren Kierkegaard's concept of historical unity between the divine and human without disparaging their absolute distinction. Kim's central analysis between the relation of God and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887754611Author J L LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

A fascinating collection of essays by leading scholars in the field engage with the idea of religious pluralism mooted by John Hick to offer incisive insights on religious pluralism and related themes and to address practical aspects such as...

What could Wittgenstein's work contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life's meaning? This book not only examines Wittgenstein's scattered remarks about value and 'sense of life' but also argues that his philosophy and 'way of seeing' has far...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349224920Author Melville Y. StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave Macmillan

This volume contains fresh scholarly contributions to mark the birth centenary of John Hick, the internationally well-known philosopher of religion, whose works continue to have significant global relevance in today’s religiously diverse and...

God is said to be Spirit, but the language of spirit is ignored in contemporary philosophy of religion. As well as exploring the notion of spirit in Hegel, Romanticism and Kierkegaard, participants explore the view that God is a spirit without a body,...

This book lies at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of religion and operates on the assumption that dialogue between the two disciplines can be fruitful. In particular it focuses on how debates in the philosophy of mind regarding the...

Sight is both celebrated and denigrated in religion. In some contexts it is extolled as a source of knowledge and revelation. In others it is demonized as the road to illusion and idolatry. There is no single way that sight functions in religion, nor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349000951Author Huw Parri OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave Macmillan

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789383225668Author O P JhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Diamond BooksPublisher Diamond BooksWeight(grams) 122g

Few reference works in philosophy have articles on hope. Few also are systematic or large-scale philosophical studies of hope. Hope is admitted to be important in people's lives, but as a topic for study, hope has largely been left to psychologists and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349225255Author Jaroslav KrejciFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 271g

Long framed in terms of Christian and secularist concerns, the field of philosophy of religion has recently been attempting to expand to include a wider, more diverse variety of religious phenomena. At the same time, a growing body of literature within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618952912Author John BunyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847600967Author Steven DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Humanities - Ebooks.co.ukPublisher Humanities - Ebooks.co.uk