Religious

Animal suffering constitutes perhaps the greatest challenge to rational belief in the existence of God. Considerations that render human suffering theologically intelligible seem inapplicable to animal suffering. In this book, Dougherty defends radical...

The commonly held view that Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion is fideistic loses plausibility when contrasted with recent scholarship on Wittgenstein's corpus and biography. This book reevaluates the place of Wittgenstein in the philosophy of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349026890Author Bernard M. G. ReardonFormat PaperbackPage Count 147Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 222g

With few exceptions, the field of Eastern Christian studies has primarily been concerned with historical-critical analysis, hermeneutics, and sociology. For the most part it has not attempted to bring Eastern Christian philosophy into serious engagement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349007356Author Kai NielsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave Macmillan

This book examines key issues in Christianity from various philosophical points of view. It brings together European authors with American theologians and philosophers on an interconfessional basis. Coverage combines analytical and continental approaches...

The Hatata Inquiries are two extraordinary texts of African philosophy composed in Ethiopia in the 1600s. Written in the ancient African language of Ge'ez (Classical Ethiopic), these explorations of meaning and reason are deeply considered works of...

This book examines Paul Tillichs theological concept of the abyss by locating it within the context of current postmodern antifoundalist discussions and debates surrounding feminism, gender, and language. Sigridur Gudmarsdottir develops these tropes into...

The volume presents illuminating research carried out by international scholars of Locke and the early modern period. The essays address the theoretical and historical contexts of Locke's analytical methodology and come together in a multidisciplinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781395264Author Blaise PascalFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907523663Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Cathedral ClassicsPublisher Aziloth BooksWeight(grams)...

These studies in religion embrace Hindu, Buddhist and Christian themes and examine the spiritual insights and philosophical reflections of prominent thinkers from different religious traditions. Where appropriate comparisons are drawn between the views...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737671824Author Susanne FolkersFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Solano SunPublisher Solano SunWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585426720Author R.Todd MichaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627345064Author David R TopperFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Brown Walker PressPublisher Brown Walker PressWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 246mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622731695Author Sotiris MitralexisFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515427094Author Epictetus EpictetusFormat HardbackPage Count 26Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532645730Author John D LaingFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Throughout history, compassion has stood at the base of the radical cry to change the world order and remedy injustices. It has also been a political tool for society's power-wielders, who have exploited the sense of calling compassion arouses to hide...

The essays in this volume focus on some of the topics that are shaping recent continental philosophy of religion. These primary topics include self and other, evil and suffering, religion and society and the relation between philosophy and theology. 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555400187Author Wendell S. DietrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 182g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589833999Author David T. RuniaPage Count 268Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical LiteratureWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349048465Author Eric LottFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 301g

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 9781349203321Author J KellenbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave Macmillan

As Anthony Pinn argues in his latest collection, humanism comes in many colors. When more attention is given to issues of race as connected to other forms of oppression, it is easier to see the manner in which humanism has lived and functioned within...

This book brings together prominent voices from the global North and South to present brief analyses of liberation theology's future. It includes leaders in the field along with the newest voices. Each of these pieces was presented in the American...

In Rene Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis, Scott Cowdell provides the first systematic interpretation of Rene Girard's controversial approach to secular modernity. Cowdell identifies the scope, development, and implications of...

Since the nineteenth century, many philosophical and theological commentators have sought to trace lines of continuity between the Trinitarian thought of Augustine of Hippo (354-430) and G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831). Many contemporary Christian theologians...

These original essays offer evidence that a growing number of Anglo-American philosophers are finding in the classical discussion of God's existence and nature fertile sources for the critical reflection on issues in the philosophy of religion. Nelson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268013806Author René DescartesFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame Press

Jacques Maritain was one of the most profound and far-ranging thinkers in the wave of Thomism that gained momentum after World War I and crested just before Vatican II. His career makes manifest the intellectual, cultural, and spiritual liveliness of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800634087Author Peter C. HodgsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

This pioneering study is the first full-length exploration of the relationship between Judaism and the world's religions. After tracing the history of Jewish views of other religious traditions, the author formulates a new Jewish theology of religious...

Whether one agrees with him or not, there is no avoiding the challenge of Hume for contemporary philosophy of religion. The symposia in this stimulating collection reveal why, whether the discussions concern Hume on metaphysics and religion, 'true...

The Record of Linji stands as one of the great classics of the Zen tradition, and modern Zen master and reformer Hisamatsu Shin'ichi offers a lively and penetrating exploration of the religious essence of the text. The Record is a compilation of the...

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

Arguing that a 'new atheism', driven largely by Darwinian objections to God's existence, has limited debate to a scientific framework, The Atheist's Primer reinstates the importance of philosophy in the debate about God's existence and in so doing...

'Negating Negation' critically examines key concepts in the corpus of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite: divine names and perceptible symbols; removal and negation; hierarchy and hierurgy; ineffability and incomprehensibility. In each case it argues that...