Religious category: 31793 books
by Albert Schweitzer
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Renowned scholar and author Albert Schweitzer’s world-changing study of the true life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth
The Christian religious tradition has shaped much of our world for two millennia. But separate from the practice of Christianity is the factual life of Jesus himself. In...
by Mohit Misra
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
The acclaimed and irresistible truth-telling poetics found in Ponder Awhile is magical. Poet Mohit K. Misra does more than ponder as he contemplates the nature of man and God, he unveils the very essence of humanity. An atheist from a long line of Hindu and Parsi priests, in his mid-twenties the sea...
Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty
Themes and Variations in Kants Moral and Religious Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
In this bold and innovative new work, Adrian Moore poses the question of whether it is possible for ethical thinking to be grounded in pure reason. In order to understand and answer this question, he takes a refreshing and challenging look at Kant’s moral and religious philosophy.
Identifying...
by Kabir, Rabindranath TAGORE
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Kabir (1440 - 1518) was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement.
The name Kabir comes from Arabic Al-Kabir which means 'The Great' - the 37th Name of God in the Qur'an.
Kabir was influenced by the prevailing religious mood of his times, such as...
The Quest
History and Meaning in Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
In The Quest Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown...
by Ambra Moroncini
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Contextualizing Michelangelo’s poetry and spirituality within the framework of the religious Zeitgeist of his era, this study investigates his poetic production to shed new light on the artist’s religious beliefs and unique language of art. Author Ambra Moroncini looks first and foremost at Michelangelo...
Issues in Science and Theology: Are We Special?
Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
This book offers a penetrating analysis of issues raised by the perennial question, ‘Are We Special?’ It brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines, from astronomy and palaeontology to philosophy and theology, to explore this question. Contributors cover a wide variety of issues, including...
Kierkegaard's Writings, VI, Volume 6
Fear and Trembling/Repetition
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Presented here in a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, Fear and Trembling and Repetition are the most poetic and personal of Søren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writings. Published in 1843 and written under the names Johannes de Silentio and Constantine Constantius,...
Religious Platonism
The Influence of Religion on Plato and the Influence of Plato on Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
In Plato’s Laws is the earliest surviving fully developed cosmological argument. His influence on the philosophy of religion is wide ranging and this book examines both that and the influence of religion on Plato.
Central to Plato’s thought is the theory of forms, which holds that there...
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
“This story is the brightest, the most perfect and complicated work of Leo Tolstoy,” - Vladimir Nabokov. Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy , also known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian author was born into a wealthy aristocratic family on August 28, 1828. He primarily wrote novels and short stories....
Expressing the Inexpressible in Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius
Bearing Witness as Spiritual Exercise
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Testimony demands the witness to demonstrate her knowledge—that knowledge that she must have by the fact of being a witness to something, even if this something exceeds the possibility of expression by any means amenable to verification. Expressing the Inexpressible in Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius:...
Like a Waking Dream
The Autobiography of Geshe Lhundub Sopa
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
Among the generation of elder Tibetan lamas who brought Tibetan Buddhism west in the latter half of the twentieth century, perhaps none has had a greater impact on the academic study of Buddhism than Geshe Lhundub Sopa. He has striven to preserve Tibetan religious culture through tireless work as...
Can I Get a Witness?
Thirteen Peacemakers, Community-Builders, and Agitators for Faith and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
How do we transform American Culture through our religious convictions?
Discover here the compelling stories of thirteen pioneers for social justice who engaged in peaceful protest and gave voice to the marginalized, working courageously out of their religious convictions to transform American...
by Brenda Ralph Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the 10th century, being head of the Catholic Church didnt stop Pope John XII from allegedly committing incest with his sisters, calling on pagan gods and goddesses, being an alcoholic and putting his mistress in charge of his brothel. Of course, being pope didnt make popes popular either: in 896AD,...