Philosophy of religion

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.

This book demonstrates that a type of prologue found in ancient Greek literature could be the literary convention behind John 1.

Free Will in Philosophical Theology takes the most recent philosophical work on free will and uses it to elucidate and explore theological doctrines involving free will.

This book offers a welcome solution to the growing need for a common language in interfaith dialogue; particularly between the three Abrahamic faiths in our modern pluralistic society.

John Henry Newman was a great thinker - a seminal theologian and philosopher - but he possessed something more than intellectual brilliance: he possessed wisdom and a profound devotional life.

Peter Hitchens lost faith as a teenager.

When critics study reader-character interaction in Matthew's Gospel, they tend to reach similar conclusions.

This addition to Sheffield's acclaimed Old Testament Guides series introduces students not only to Proverbs but also to the genre of 'wisdom literature' in general (dealing with such questions as the origin and location of 'wisdom' in ancient Israel).

Beattie undertakes a comparative survey of the treatment of women and marriage in three different kinds of text: an authentic Pauline letter (namely 1 Corinthians); the deutero-Pauline literature (Colossians, Ephesians and the Pastoral Epistles); and some tractates from the Nag Hammadi library (giving particular attention to the Gospel of Philip, the Exegesis on the Soul, the Hypostasis of the Archons and the Gospel of Thomas).

This book identifies Cynic philosophers as the opponents addressed by the epistle to the Colossians.

A fascinating, philosophical approach to the concept of divine revelation, exploring the implications this theory may have for generating a new concept of religious truth.

The New Atheist Novel is the first study of a major new genre of contemporary fiction.

Theology of religions has defaulted in the last two decades to an epicyclic inclusivism which seeks to undermine pluralism with claims that it is covertly triumphalistic and that it mirrors the logic of exclusivism.

Among contemporary Anglo-American philosophers and students there is a growing awareness of the need to engage more both with philosophical perspectives of other faith traditions and also the distinctive 'continental' tradition of philosophy.

What does philosophy have to say on the question of the meaning of life?

This multidisciplinary investigation facilitates a new conversation between Ricoeur scholars and those working in a variety of domains.

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

Every commentary on the Book of Psalms has had to face the issue that many of these prayers commemorate and celebrate wrath and vengeance.

Conversion is a main theological theme in the Lukan corpus.

In everyday life, we often suppose ourselves to be free to choose between several courses of action.