Philosophy of religion

Explores the continuing and contemporary relevance of the most important, and most controversial, figure of early Christianity.

Addresses the issue of the precarious nature of Davidic sonship in the Gospel of Mark.

Examines friendship as a moral category in the Book of Job through an Aristotelian virtue ethics perspective.

Positions Revelation within an ancient Jewish context and demonstrates how the author used humor to resist Roman power.

Offers a new way of understanding classical Islamic theories holding that divine revelation is necessary for the knowledge of norms.

Explores the continuing and contemporary relevance of the most important, and most controversial, figure of early Christianity.

Reveals Israel''s intense relationship with YHWH: a masochistic dance on an epic scale.

Explores the influence of the sea myth at the structural and conceptual foundations of the Hebrew Bible.

This accessible and comprehensive introduction examines the evidence and offers a coherent picture of Jesus of Nazareth in his context.

Various topics surrounding death, the possibilities of after life, and materialist accounts of resurrection are the focus of this Element.

Examines what theological reading is, and how it shapes the interpretation of Biblical text through explicit focus on the reader.

This Element looks critically at the history and epistemology of religious experience and how the concept can be fruitfully expanded.

Introduces the hiddenness argument, as presented by John Schellenberg, and its up-to-date discussion.

Explores the aesthetic dimensions of biblical poetry, offering close readings of poems across the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

Focusing on the guidance function in scripture and in language generally, this book evaluates scriptural religion in global perspective.

Provides the first full-scale, theoretically informed exploration of the rhetorical function of emotions in a New Testament epistle.

Elucidates the Scriptural moral tradition by subjecting ethically challenging biblical texts to moral philosophical analysis.

How does religious language differ from our ordinary linguistic practices?

Explores the potential relevance of God or a soul for life''s meaning as discussed in recent Anglo-American philosophical literature.

This Element presents the assumptions, ideas, and arguments for philosophical foundation of Asia''s living traditions of spiritual practice.

Discusses a new kind of solution to the problem of belief in God and abstract objects.

Explores the theological responses offered by The Books of Haggai and Zechariah to the people enduring struggles in post-exilic Yehud.

Discusses arguments about the difference God''s existence might make to questions in metaethics.

This Element''s scope extends beyond modern science and Christianity to examine different kinds of science and differing kinds of religion.

This volume examines pantheism as an alternative to traditional theism and explores some conceptual and metaphysical challenges it faces.

A redefinition of the ancient conceptions of god, the relationships between them, and the rhetoric used to exalt them.

Situates a hotly contested section of Isaiah within its historical and cultural contexts, correcting misunderstandings of older scholarship.

Offers a new approach to religious experience and the kind of evidence it provides.

Examines Hebrews'' exposition of Jesus'' death, his self-offering in heaven at his ascension, and the link between them.

Examines the history and key concepts of Christian Platonism, and engages issues such as the environment, natural science and materialism.

A cutting edge introduction to a collection of early Christian writings that stem from a forgotten era in Christian history.

This book traces changing perceptions of Egypt''s monastic landscape through an analysis of archaeological and documentary evidence from late antiquity.

This book shows how Paul''s tight link between resurrection and salvation both raised problems for and profoundly shaped Early Christian theology.

Examines various forms of religious disagreement while persuasively advising against agnosticism regarding all religious matters.

Introduces the subject by thematizing various monotheistic views, and contrast and hypothesizing their role in human social evolution.

Inventing Hebrews uncovers a template of arrangement ubiquitous in antiquity as the key to the conundrum of Hebrews'' structure and purpose.

An essential guide to wisdom texts, and the major changes in the approach to different biblical and non-biblical wisdom books.

Focuses on potential threats to human free will from two divine attributes: God''s foreknowledge and God''s providential control of creation.

Genetic differences can influence differences in our human behaviours, but only occasionally undermine the reality of our free will.

Ontological arguments promise the philosophical jackpot: armchair proof of God!

A cutting edge introduction to a collection of early Christian writings that stem from a forgotten era in Christian history.

Re-examines our relationship to the modern world by providing new perspectives on the influence of medieval, Jewish, and Christian theologies.

Explores the potential relevance of God or a soul for life''s meaning as discussed in recent Anglo-American philosophical literature.

Introduces the subject by thematizing various monotheistic views, and contrast and hypothesizing their role in human social evolution.

Explores past and present arguments for and against divine determinism, presenting balanced discussion of a major philosophical and religious debate.

Shows, with solid reasons, that the Book of Revelation has a literary form, similar to the short story.

Considers physical pain, social bereavement, the origin of evil, theodicy, justice, divine violence, and reward.

Here''s a provocative question: does it matter whether God exists?