Philosophy of religion

Central to the lives of the religiously committed are not simply religious convictions but also religious practices.

One way in which Fresh Expressions of church are springing into life is through 'new monastic' or 'intentional' communities, groups of individuals and families living in the same geographic area or connected virtually who share a simple rule of life.

The culmination of a lifetime's preoccupation with crucial human concerns too often curiously marginalized by the history of philosophy, The Expansion of Metaphysics sheds new light on freedom and the will by making the phenomenon of novelty philosophically intelligible.

In this wide-ranging book, Rowan Williams argues that what we say about Jesus Christ is key to understanding what Christian belief says about creator and creation overall.

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A prominent mystic and renowned anti-colonial warrior from Indonesia, Shaykh Yusuf of Macassar (1626-1699), was exiled to South Africa where he played a pioneering role in laying the foundations of Islam.

James Friedman, a retired philosophy professor living in Houston, receives an invitation from a woman, identifying herself only as Shekhinah, who claims she was once God.

This new collection covers a wide range of cutting-edge and timely questions in contemporary philosophy of religion from a rich variety of backgrounds and perspectives.

This book describes and illustrates each plant mentioned in the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha.

Belief in God in the face of suffering is one of the most intractable problems of Christian theology.

Winner of the 2023 ANZATS Award for the Best Monograph by an Emerging ScholarWhat can explain the persistence of gender inequality throughout history?

Dieser Kommentar bietet – wissenschaftlich fundiert, aber in verständlicher Sprache – grundlegende Informationen zu den biblischen Büchern, erschließt den Text abschnittweise und geht auf die Wirkungsgeschichte in Theologie, Kunst, Literatur und Musik ein.

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This guide explores and summarizes scholarship on Philemon, acquainting beginning students with what has been said about Philemon, and equipping them to understand the larger debates and conversations that surround it.

This is a study that combines the insights of historical, literary, and theological approaches to the Gospel of John.

Als theologischer und ethischer Leitterminus ist Barmherzigkeit bei Matthäus ein Beziehungsbegriff: Der Evangelist konzeptualisiert sie als unverdiente und ungeschuldete Zuwendung Gottes zum Menschen bzw.

Why do we think that things happen in the way that they do?

Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie ist die Textgeschichte der Samuel- und Königebücher, die in der Forschung nach wie vor kontrovers diskutiert wird.

This book offers an original perspective on the doctrine of incarnation through a discussion of divine presence and action, arguing for the plausibility of Chalcedonian Christology.

This book, first published in 1977, discusses the Muslim contribution to mathematics during the golden age of Muslim learning from the seventh to the thirteenth century.

The Reformation was one of the defining cultural turning points in Western history, even if there is a longstanding stereotype that Protestants did away with art and material culture.

In der Antike finden sich kulturübergreifend sowohl im jüdischen als auch im griechisch-römischen Bereich seit dem 6.

This book provides an invaluable theological discussion of the concept of salvation in the first letter of Peter.

A theology aims to explicate the nature of God.

The Amplified Cross-Reference Bible offers the full text of the popular Amplified(R) translation along with an extensive center-column cross-reference system to help you get the most out of your Bible-reading experience.

The problem of God's action in the world is at the heart of debates today on the relationship between science and religion.

We're living in a stressed-out world.

George Tyrrell insisted that the quest for the historical Jesus was no more than scholars staring into a well to see their own reflections staring back.

Although the importance of Francisco Suarez has been, for some time already, generally recognized even outside the circles of historians of scholasticism, the wider context of his thought - i.

This clear and user-friendly introduction to the interpretive method called "epistolary analysis" shows how focusing on the form and function of Paul's letters yields valuable insights into the apostle's purpose and meaning.

A Philosophy of Christian Materialism offers a new religious engagement with the public sphere via means of interdisciplinary analysis and empirical examples, developing what the authors call a Relational Christian Realism building upon interaction with contemporary Philosophy of Religion.

Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia is an engaging history of the enlightened liberality of modern Muslim poets, philosophers, educationists, novelists, historians, artists and public intellectuals who drew on a long Muslim intellectual tradition beyond the "e;Western"e; liberalism of empire.

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In recent years there has been a bold revival in the field of natural theology, where natural theology can be understood as the attempt to demonstrate that God exists by way of reason, evidence, and argument without the appeal to divine revelation.

Karl Rahner is one of the great theologians of the twentieth century, known for his systematic, foundationalist approach.

Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984) was a Canadian Jesuit philosopher, theologian, and humanist who taught in Montreal, Toronto, Rome, and Boston.

Religious commitments can be a powerful engine for progressive social change, and in this new book, Raul E.

The Book of Psalms is perhaps the most cherished book in the Old Testament.

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.