Philosophy of religion

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) made profound contributions to many areas of philosophy and cultural understanding, and his thought and methods have inspired numerous inquirers into the forms of our religious life.

What did Christ feel and know during his life on Earth?

Is it possible to think about religious beliefs philosophically?

Well-Being and Theism is divided into two distinctive parts.

The question of whether religious experience can be trusted has been hotly debated in epistemology and philosophy of religion in recent years.

The current religion and science dialogue begs for greater clarity on the relation of God to nature.

The magnificent series of biblical commentaries known as Black's New Testament Commentaries (BNTC) under the General Editorship of Professor Morna Hooker has had a gap for far too long - it has lacked an up to date commentary on the Fourth Gospel.

Atheism: A Guide for the Perplexed moves beyond the polemics to present an overview of atheism that is rigorous but still accessible to the educated layperson as well as to the undergraduate student in philosophy and theology.

Traditionally, religious belief has in the philosophy of religion been understood along more orless epistemological lines.

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This book places the present Creationist opposition to the theory of evolution in historical context by setting out the ways in which, from the seventeenth century onwards, investigations of the history of the earth and of humanity have challenged the biblical views of chronology and human destiny, and the Christian responses to these challenges.

A Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion is an indispensable resource for students and scholars.

Verbin engages with the logical features of the experience of divine abuse and the religious difficulties to which it gives rise.

Contemporary debates on God's emotionality are divided between two extremes.

The phenomenological method in the study of religions has provided the linchpin supporting the argument that Religious Studies constitutes an academic discipline in its own right and thus that it is irreducible either to theology or to the social sciences.

This volume is the first in a series which provides a fundamental resource for feminist biblical scholarship, containing a comprehensive selection of essays, both reprinted and specially written for the series, by leading feminist scholars.

Public interest in religious debate in the UK and USA has recently been fed by a series of books of popular polemic against theism, religion and the discipline of theology itself.

This book brings Aquinas and Heidegger into dialogue and offers an original and comprehensive rethinking of the nature of temporality and the origins of metaphysical inquiry.

The Errors of Atheism is a response to the glaring gap that exists in analytical philosophy on the concept of God.

Religion After Auschwitz is a philosophical approach to the notion of revelation.

Spufford tells the story of her daughter, who was born with a rare metabolic disease, and the story of her own struggle with chronic pain.

Winner of the Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies Prize (2013/2014) from the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies.

After Virtue is a watershed in MacIntyre's career.

Is it merely an accident of English etymology that 'imagination' is cognate with 'image'?

'Metaphor in Educational Discourse is a superb piece of applied linguistics research that integrates Vygotsky's theory of concepts with current work on metaphor into a coherent framework for investigating how teachers and learners negotiate figurative language in order to promote development in the classroom setting.

Honor For Us is the first contemporary philosophical inquiry into the concept of honor.

Should scientists challenge religious beliefs?

Three convictions underlie this book.

The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction is the first available introduction to the group of philosophers sometimes associated with the so-called 'theological turn' in contemporary French thought.

Most contemporary versions of moral realism are beset with difficulties.

This primarily intended for the reader who has no previous knowledge of biblical criticism.

In 1913, Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) left his internationally renowned career as a theologian, philosopher, and organ player to open a hospital in the jungles of Africa.

Well-Being and Theism is divided into two distinctive parts.

A philosophical inquiry into the strengths and weaknesses of theism and naturalism in accounting for the emergence of consciousness, the visual imagination and aesthetic values.

This book maps the relationship between Matthew's Gospel and the Didache.

S ren Kierkegaard was without question one of the most important and influential thinkers of the nineteenth century.

Gadamer and the Question of the Divine uncovers a neglected side of Gadamer's thought, namely his life-long concern with the question of the divine.

Post-Olympic Britain looks like a very different country from the brittle, post-riot Britain of 2011.

Herbert McCabe, who died in 2001, was one of the most intelligent Roman Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century.

Although many scholars consider Luke 17:22-37 to be "e;the most important eschatological passage in Luke-Acts,"e; few agree on the precise meaning of the enigmatic proverb which forms its conclusion (Luke 17:37).

In their study of religion and film, religious film analysts have tended to privilege religion.

MacIntyre is one of the major British philosophers of the post-war years.

Heidegger and Philosophical Atheology offers an important new reading of Heidegger's middle and later thought.

Violence, Desire and the Sacred presents the most up-to-date inter-disciplinary work being developed with the ground-breaking insights of Rene Girard's mimetic theory.