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A Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross
The Cruciform Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
What does the cross, both as a historical event and a symbol of religious discourse, tell us about human beings? In this provocative book, Brian Gregor draws together a hermeneutics of the self—through Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Taylor—and a theology of the cross—through Luther, Kierkegaard,...
Mapping Apologetics
Comparing Contemporary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Everyone believes something. But how and why do people believe? What counts as evidence? How much can be assumed or believed by faith alone? When it comes to religious faith, the questions become at once more difficult and more important. Over the centuries, Christians have offered different approaches...
Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics and the Discourse of Mark 13
Appropriating the Apocalyptic
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
The apocalyptic discourse of Mark 13 predicts that cataclysmic events will occur within the generation of Jesus’ contemporaries, but readers today know these events have not taken place. Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics enables a reader to understand this text as a presentation of truth rather than...
The Philosophy of Religion
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019
For over twenty years, Beverley Clack and Brian R. Clack's distinctive and thought-provoking introduction to the philosophy of religion has been of enormous value to students and scholars, providing an approach to the subject that is bold and refreshingly alternative.
This revised and updated...
God Owes Us Nothing
A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
God Owes Us Nothing reflects on the centuries-long debate in Christianity: how do we reconcile the existence of evil in the world with the goodness of an omnipotent God, and how does God's omnipotence relate to people's responsibility for their own salvation or damnation. Leszek Kolakowski approaches...
by H. S. Olcott
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (2 August 1832 – 17 February 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer and the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society. Olcott was the first well-known American of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism. His subsequent...
by Annie Besant
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
« Let us see in detail why we should not quarrel, apart from these general principles. It can be put in a sentence: Because all the great truths of religion are common property, do not belong exclusively to any one Faith. That is why nothing vital is gained by changing from one religion to another....
The Stillborn God
Religion, Politics, and the Modern West
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
A brilliant account of religion's role in the political thinking of the West, from the Enlightenment to the close of World War II.The wish to bring political life under God's authority is nothing new, and it's clear that today religious passions are again driving world politics, confounding expectations...
The Myth of Disenchantment
Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have...
The Faith of the Faithless
Experiments in Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant cliché of contemporary theory, which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated echo of a political reality dominated by religious war. Somehow, the secular age seems to have been replaced by a new era, where political action flows directly...
by Chirag Patel
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Philosophy is a strange mistress. My love affair with her began accidentally, when an interest in comparative theology led me towards Aquinas. I went on to do my BA in English, at a university where there was a heavy focus on critical theory and the use of philosophy to understand literature.
From...
Goddess and the Guru
A Spiritual Biography of Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Nearly four decades ago, an intense series of spiritual visions led one of India's top nuclear physicists, until then a religious skeptic and man of science, to walk away from his prestigious post at the heart of the country's missile-defense complex. Retreating into the remote jungles of eastern...
by Edith Stein, Marianne Sawicki
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Any state exists only for the benefit of human beings. This basic tenet of Edith Stein's political thought rests on her conviction that humanity is fundamentally one community, precious beyond measure. Differences of race, culture, and language offer us means to grasp the values of life...
A Treatise on Tolerance (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
And Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. On March 10, 1762, Jean Calas, a Protestant merchant, was publicly executed in Toulouse, France. This punishment had been prescribed by the regional parliament, with hopes that Calas would confess to murdering his adult...