Religious

A passionate defence of religious faith by the great seventeenth-century philosopher, mathematician and physicistBlaise Pascal was the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon...

When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it "a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the...

This collection of ground-breaking essays considers the many dimensions of prayer: how prayer relates us to the divine; prayer's ability to reveal what is essential about our humanity; the power of prayer to transform human desire and action; and the...

We live in an age of emergency, exacerbated by a collapse of meaning. Writer and psychotherapist Mark Vernon examines the type of intelligence that, whilst often dismissed and overlooked, is crucial to understand and cultivate if we are to survive and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621381747Author Michael MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Highly creative and interactive, this apologetics resource helps readers identify and evaluate 21 different worldviews through engaging yes-or-no questions and easy-to-understand descriptions. Appendices include answers to common questions and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528770040Author Arthur Edward WaiteFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint Obscure PressPublisher Obscure PressWeight(grams) 140g

Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil taught...

In "Religion and Nothingness" the leading representative of the Kyoto School of Philosophy lays the foundation of thought for a world in the making, for a world united beyond the differences of East and West. Keiji Nishitani notes the irreversible trend...

This book is a long-awaited major statement by a pre-eminent analytic philosopher, Alvin Plantinga, on one of our biggest debates -- the compatibility of science and religion. The last twenty years has seen a cottage industry of books on this divide, but...

This volume introduces the major classical Arabic philosophers through substantial selections from the key works (many of which appear in translation for the first time here) in each of the fields--including logic, philosophy of science, natural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615890255Author St AugustineFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Megalodon Entertainment LLC.Publisher Megalodon Entertainment LLC.Weight(grams)...

A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In...

Many of us, even on our happiest days, struggle to quiet the constant buzz of anxiety in the background of our minds. All kinds of worries--worries about losing people and things, worries about how we seem to others--keep us from peace of mind...

In this book, Ann Ulanov, an accomplished psychiatrist and scholar, draws on the work of renowned psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott to suggest fresh methods for effective pastoral care and counseling.Book InformationISBN 9780664230500Author Ann Belford...

John MacArthur's exhaustive study notes provide access to over 50 years of ministry to aid in a better understanding of God's word.Over 4 million readers around the world have had their spiritual lives enriched and their understanding of God's Word...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946145369Author George HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint CuriosmithPublisher CuriosmithWeight(grams) 188gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German...

First published in 1980, Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely heralded as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an authoritative restatement of natural law doctrine. It has offered generations of students and other readers a thorough...

In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied with the relationship between faith and reason, he was influenced both by Aristotle's rational world view and by...

Simone Weil (1909-1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical minds of the twentieth century. She was also a political activist, worked in the Renault car factory in France in the 1930s and fought briefly as an anarchist...

Samuel Fleischacker defends what the Enlightenment called 'revealed religion': religions that regard a certain text or oral teaching as sacred, as wholly authoritative over one's life. At the same time, he maintains that revealed religions stand in...

Bringing contemporary philosophers, theologians, and psychoanalysts into dialogue with works of art and literature, this work provides a fresh perspective on how humans can make sense of suffering and finitude and how our existence as sexual beings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781966840978Author Mohamed Rashid Abdullahi OsobleFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint RashidPublisher RashidWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884564284Author Muata Abhaya AshbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Cruzian Mystic BooksPublisher Cruzian Mystic BooksWeight(grams)...

'You can only find out the rights and wrongs by Reasoning - never by being rude about your opponent's psychology.' For C. S. Lewis, reason and logic are the sensible way to approach faith and ethics. Much of the 20th century's ills are caused by...

Insight is Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. It aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, a comprehensive view of knowledge and understanding, and to state what one needs to understand and how one proceeds to understand it. In Lonergan's own...

Generations of Christians, Janet Soskice demonstrates, once knew God and Christ by hundreds of remarkable names. These included the appellations 'Messiah', 'Emmanuel', 'Alpha', 'Omega', 'Eternal', 'All-Powerful', 'Lamb', 'Lion', 'Goat', 'One', 'Word',...

Faith and reason, especially in Roman Catholic thought, are less contradictory today than ever. But does the supposed opposition even make sense to begin with? One can lose faith, but surely not because one gains in reason. Some, in fact, lose faith when...

Written against the background of her controversial opposition to the University of Oxford's awarding of an honorary degree to Harry S. Truman, Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention laid the groundwork she thought necessary for a proper ethical evaluation of...

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Why have Western societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? Looking to the feelings and faith of ordinary people, the award-winning author of Protestants Alec Ryrie offers a bold new history of atheism. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250798428Author Clare CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 142mm * 28mm

Mara H. Benjamin contends that the physical and psychological work of caring for children presents theologically fruitful but largely unexplored terrain for feminists. Attending to the constant, concrete, and urgent needs of children, she argues,...

The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe written in the sixteenth century has long been the go-to source for studying the lives and martyrdom of the apostles. While other scholars have written individual treatments on the more prominent apostles such as Peter,...

Discover a new understanding of Kierkegaard's thought and his life, a story filled with romance, betrayal, humor, and riots.Kierkegaard, like Einstein and Freud, is one of those geniuses whose ideas permeate the culture and shape our world even when...

Centuries after his death, al-Ghazali remains one of the most influential figures of the Islamic intellectual tradition. Although he is best known for his Incoherence of the Philosophers, Moderation in Belief is his most profound work of philosophical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865977174Author Robert BellarmineFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 710g

The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success and to concentrate on genuine morality. Ostensibly an enquiry into the value of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353445829Author Saint AugustineFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...