Philosophy of religion

Though considered one of the most important informants about Judaism in the first century CE, the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus's testimony is often overlooked or downplayed.

The book compares modern Jewish and Hindu thought through discussing selected writers with reference to common issues treated by them, issues which are still relevant today.

This book explores the theology and philosophy of the distinguished modern Muslim scholar and theologian Bediuzzaman Said Nursi [d.

Annie Besant is primarily remembered as the international president of the Theosophical Society.

What is history and how does it impact biblical interpretation and theology?

This book offers an in-depth study of the female experience in one Mormon polygynous community, the Apostolic United Brethren.

This volume poses the question of the relationship between the two main influences on the thought of John D.

Robert Holmes is one of the leading proponents of nonviolence in the United States, and his influence extends to the rest of the world.

Recent interest in the person and work of James of Jerusalem and in the community he led has sometimes put the apostle Paul in a negative light—a reversal of the more usual pattern in Protestantism, where Paul is the shining light and James is thrust into the shadows.

This study explores the dynamics of violence within John's Gospel, focusing on the portrayal of the character of Jesus.

We can have a sense that when we try to do right by one another, we aren't merely striving against ourselves.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Existentialism was one of the most important influences on twentieth-century thought, especially in the period between the 1920s and early 1960s.

The Gospel and Epistles of John are often overlooked in discussions of New Testament ethics; indeed, it has been asserted that the Fourth Gospel is of only limited value to such discussions--even that John is practically devoid of ethical material.

The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths explores and compares the most influential sets of divine myths in Western culture: the Homeric pantheon and Yahweh, the God of the Old Testament.

This volume presents a detailed case for the plausible literary dependence of the Gospel of Mark on select letters of the apostle Paul.

Find academic sophistication, pastoral sensitivity, and accessibility in the award-winning BECNT seriesIn this addition to the award-winning BECNT series, a respected New Testament scholar offers a substantive evangelical commentary on 2 Corinthians.

How can we know about God?

This exciting new study examines Coleridge's understanding of the Pantheism Controversy - the crisis of reason in German philosophy - revealing the context informing Coleridge's understanding of German thinkers.

A landmark new translation of the most significant text in medieval Jewish thought.

How can impure, earthbound humans gain access to God, who is holy and in heaven?

Winner of the Jewish Book Council Nahum M.

What is the apostle Paul's message in his Letter to the Romans?

This collection of essays explores the philosophy of human knowledge from a multitude of perspectives, with a particular emphasis upon the justification component of the classical analysis of knowledge and with an excursion along the way to explore the role of knowledge in Texas Hold 'Em poker.

This volume engages with the relative absence and underrepresentation of female voices in the field of science and religion, which tends to be dominated by male academics who are in the later stages of their careers.

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Demonstrates how quotations are used in Hebrews to develop its characterization of God - Father, Son, and Spirit.

This book debates the values and ideals of Confucian politics-harmony, virtue, freedom, justice, order-and what these ideals mean for Confucian political philosophy today.

What is this thing called Philosophy?

Die Froschauerbibel von 1531 stellt ein besonderes Zeitdokument der schweizerisch-deutschen Sprache zur Reformationszeit dar.

Christianity is often viewed in Asia as a Western imposition.

The Radha Tantra is an anonymous 17th century tantric text from Bengal.

Philosophy is often seen as anything but practically relevant to everyday life.

This book challenges the widespread assumption of the incompatibility of evolution and the biological design argument.

This book addresses several dimensions of the transformation of English Nonconformity over the course of an important century in its history.

A guide to learn the skills you need to understand and apply God's Word.

Helps Christian leaders understand how to provide effective leadership by highlighting five qualities that characterized the leadership style of Jesus.

The Bhagavad Gita is a unique literary creation but deciphering its meaning and philosophy is not easy or simple.

Animal suffering constitutes perhaps the greatest challenge to rational belief in the existence of God.

Various historians, philosophers, and social scientists have attempted to provide convincing explanations of the roots of violence, with mixed and confusing results.

"e;The greatest authors of atheism did more to push me toward belief in God than any Christian apologist writer.

Hunt examines the apparent paradox that Jesus' earthly existence and post resurrection appearances are experienced through consummately physical actions and attributes yet some ascetics within the Christian tradition appear to seek to deny the value of the human body, to find it deadening of spiritual life.

Important essays on Gnosis and Gnosticism.

What tensions arise between philosophy of religion and theology?

The works of Emmanuel Levinas, a survivor of the Nazi horror, are striking in the constancy of their thought and the strength of their appeal.

Outrageous, unfashionable, politically incorrect though many of Plato's opinions undoubtedly are, we should not just dismiss them as thoughts now unthinkable, but think through them, recognising the force of the arguments that led Plato to enunciate them and consider the counter-arguments he might have marshalled to meet contemporary objections.