Both Buddhism and Vedanta emerging fromthe same soil and talking about the universalphilosophy related to physical andmetaphysical worlds differ apparently so fartheir philosophical outlook, religious angleand social structure is concerned.
iConversations of An Intelligent Kind' deals with some of the deeply personal questions we ask ourselves but rarely find answers to : Does it help to pray?
A unique concept of Samanvaya (harmonious compatibility of the religious and social ethos), flashed into the mind of Swami Satyamitrananda Giri while he was in deep meditation - and he gave voice to it in his teachings.
Religion in Liberal Democracy as a Form of Life advances a theory to deal with the challenges connected to the liberal democratic ideal that all people are free to codetermine the future of their society and equally entitled to their religion and beliefs, given the historical bias towards Christianity in politics and culture within many European societies.
Whereas for the wider public Jan Patocka is known mainly as a defender of human rights and one of the first spokespersons of Charter 77, who died in Prague several days after long interrogations by secret police of the Communist regime, the international philosophical community sees in him an important and inspiring thinker, who in an original way elaborated the great impulses of European thought - mainly Husserl's phenomenology and Heidegger's philosophy of existence.
The concept of religious freedom is the favoured modern human rights concept, with which the modern world hopes to tackle the phenomenon of religious pluralism, as our modern existence in an electronically shrinking globe comes to be increasingly characterised by this phenomenon.
Too often Buddhism has been subjected to the Procrustean box of western thought, whereby it is stretched to fit fixed categories or had essential aspects lopped off to accommodate vastly different cultural norms and aims.
This volume is the first comprehensive and in-depth discussion written in English of the Confucian tradition in the context of the intellectual history of Korea.
The present collection of writings on postcolonial philosophy of religion takes its origins from a Philosophy of Religion session during the 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion held in New Orleans.
Western philosophy has long nurtured the hope to resolve moral controversies through reason; thereby to secure moral direction and human meaning without the need for a defining encounter with God or the transcendent.
Die vorliegende Studie zielt darauf ab, die Metaphysik Meister Eckharts auf systematische Weise darzustellen und das gemeinsame Fundament zu ermitteln, das anzeigt, dass seine spekulativen lateinischen wie auch seine von bildhaften Ausdrucksweisen geprägten deutschen Schriften inhaltlich miteinander vereinbar sind.
Die Philosophie des Barockscotismus war einerseits durch die rückwärtsgewandte Anknüpfung an den mittelalterlichen Denker Johannes Duns Scotus, andererseits durch die Anknüpfung an die Entwicklung in der zeitgenössischen Scholastik, vor allem der Jesuitenscholastik, geprägt.
This book is a new English translation of the two shortest, most controversial and perhaps most vibrant books in the Hebrew Old Testament - Song of Songs (Song of Solomon) and Qohelet (Ecclesiastes).
Humour in the Beginning presents a multidisciplinary collection of fourteen in-depth case-studies on the role of humour - both benign and blasphemous, elitist and ordinary, orthodox and heterodox - in early, formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and (late-antique) Judaism.
Delcor (1919-1992) is responsible for a translation of the Book of Daniel, which is the only Catalan version of a book of the Bible produced by a North Catalan author to be included in Fundacio Biblica Catalana's 1968 Bible.
Today with so many changes in society, stress in our daily lives, and mistrusts among nations it is important to look to the Bible for guidance and inspiration.
Neste magnífico ensaio literário o leitor é presenteado com um texto de opinião repleto de teses bem pessoais, com pensamentos inusitados e bem fundamentados, com perspectiva própria, livre de protocolos e de convenções.
La traducción del Antiguo Testamento de Casiodoro de Reina, revisada por Cipriano de Varela, levantó enorme polémica y provocó que ambos fuesen perseguidos de por vida por la Inquisición.
"He tratado de desarrollar una mirada al Jesús de los Evangelios, un escucharle a Él que pudiera convertirse en un encuentro; pero también, en la escucha en comunión con los discípulos de Jesús de todos los tiempos, llegar a la certeza de la figura realmente histórica de Jesús.
Este es un libro cuya escritura comporta una dificultad extraordinaria, pues en él la autora intenta comunicar los secretos de la experiencia mística unitiva.
La prohibición de representar y adorar imágenes tal como la impone la ley del Antiguo Testamento, invita a reflexionar sobre los motivos de esta ruptura con una tendencia humana ancestral.
Contra la idea de la Santa Sede de que el cristianismo es un dogma monolítico y un corpus cerrado de creencias, existen numerosos fenómenos al margen del dogma, alguno de ellos cercanos a la herejía.
"Los otros mártires" quiere dar a conocer la existencia de otras confesiones más allá del culto oficial asociado al poder político y otorgarles el reconociento a la lucha que han protagonizado y gracias a la cual todas las personas que viven en España pueden hoy gozar plenamente de sus derechos civiles.
Una larga lista de personajes marca la historia de la salvacion de Dios, que es nuestra propia historia: desde las epocas mas antiguas, con Adan y Eva, Abel, Noe, Abrahan y Sara.
