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This book rethinks Plato's creation and use of myth by drawing on theories and methods from myth studies, religious studies, literary theory and related fields. Individual myths function differently depending on cultural practice, religious context or...

This project engages with scholarship on Paul by philosophers, psychoanalysts, and historians to reveal the assumptions and prejudices that determine the messiah in secularism and its association with the exception.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543745900Author Alexander MaistrovoyFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Partridge Publishing SingaporePublisher Partridge Publishing...

Over three hundred years ago, the paramount modern Catholic exegete, Cornelius a Lapide, S.J., wrote that the 25th of March, 2000, was the most likely date for the world to end. Catholic Millenarianism does not let the day pass without comment. ...

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...

This book deals with the intricate issue of approaching atheism—methodologically as well as conceptually—from the perspective of cultural pluralism. What does ‘atheism’ mean in different cultural contexts? Can this term be applied appropriately to...

This book explores the philosophical and theological thought of Nikos Kazantzakis. Kazantzakis is a well-known and highly influential Greek writer, having authored such works as Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ, among many others. This...

This book contains a unique perspective: that of a scientifically and philosophically educated agnostic who thinks there is impressive-if maddeningly hidden-evidence for the existence of God. Science and philosophy may have revealed the poverty of the...

In this volume, scholars draw deeply on negative theology in order to consider some of the oldest questions in the philosophy of religion that stand as persistent challenges to inquiry, comprehension, and expression. The chapters engage different...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604595697Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361476976Author Jean CalvinPage Count 166Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798891279100Author Hong BuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams) 95g

In discussion with Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Franz Fischer and Emmanuel Levinas, Ephraim Meir outlines a novel conception of a selfhood that is grounded in dialogical thought. He focuses on the shaping of identity in present...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603866798Author Baltasar GracianFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 186g

A discussion of political and religious crisis in Africa, this book covers such topics as democratic transition, good governance, civil society and the African renaissance. Elias K. Bongmba proposes humanistic interventions centred on the recovery of...

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...

While Spinoza is often interpreted as an early secular or liberal thinker, this book argues that such interpretations neglect the senses of order and authority that are at the heart of Spinoza's idea of God. For Spinoza, God is an organized and directed...

The third of a three-volume series, this book contains Eva Jospe's Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen, together with two essays examining Cohen's continuing importance and relevance. As Dov Schwartz suggests in his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781393172581Author James GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint James GreenePublisher James GreeneWeight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666782417Author J Brian HufflingFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357961448Author Johann Georg ZimmermannPage Count 260Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960939937Author William E Thrasher, JrFormat HardbackPage Count 78Imprint Great Writers Media, LLCPublisher Great Writers Media, LLCWeight(grams) 240g

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...

These essays consider the three traditional theological virtues-faith, hope, and love-alongside their opposites-doubt, despair, and hate, from a scholarly perspective. The volume includes contributions not just from philosophers of religion, but also...

What if self-questioning could provoke an extreme attentiveness to a rich inner life? In pursuit of this question, a mixed group of highly fallible thinkers gather together in the north of England. Will they be able to respond to the actual events of...

This book, steeped in the traditions of both postcolonial theory and Continental philosophy, addresses fundamental questions about God and theology in the postcolonial world. Namely, Y.T. Vinayaraj asks whether Continental philosophies of God and the...

Philosophy of Religion A-Z provides an overview of the main themes, key figures, and issues in the subject. Both topical and historical, it examines key concepts from the Absolute and the Afterlife to World Religions and Yoga, as well as thinkers from...

Here, for the first time in English, is Franz Brentano's The Teaching of Jesus, a compendium of texts Brentano assembled for publication shortly before his death that constitute a frank, public settling of accounts with the Christian religion. Originally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592646272Author Jonathan SacksFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Toby Press LLC, ThePublisher Toby Press LLC, The

A prominent issue in many contemporary philosophy of religion debates concerns whether the universe has a Designer. This book moves the discussion ahead in a significant way by devising an original deductive formulation of the Teleological Argument (TA)...

The Chinese Tao and the Western Trinity have a fundamental unity of theme: the unity of opposites. Both are connected with problems as broad and diverse as how to describe the entire universe, how a system can talk about itself, the relationship between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362099990Author Thomas HughesPage Count 244Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480871984Author James Andre BluntFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

The book offers a novel approach to the idea of divinity in guise of a philosophical doctrine called 'Logical Pantheism', according to which the only way to establish the existence of God undeniably is by equating God with Logical Space.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735694726Author Terry L NewbeginFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint NEC PressPublisher NEC PressWeight(grams) 313g

A collection of essays by distinguished scholars in the academic study of religion, The Craft of Religious Studies represents the variety of research and analytical methods that researchers employ when examining religious phenomena, whether personally or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362098399Author Edward T HiscoxPage Count 92Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421832371Author H G WellsFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint 1st World LibraryPublisher 1st World LibraryWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798369495063Author Kazi Zahan MiahFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Xlibris AuPublisher Xlibris AuWeight(grams) 921g