Philosophy of religion

Can anyone say anything that has not already been said about the most scrutinized text in human history?

With this profound final work, completed in the days leading up to his death, Michel Serres presents a vivid picture of his thinking about religion-a constant preoccupation since childhood-thereby completing Le Grand Recit, the comprehensive explanation of the world and of humanity to which he devoted the last twenty years of his life.

"e;Kotsko goes beyond the biography of an icon to a provocative investigation of the devil's many lives and effects in cultural and political ideologies.

A guide to meaningful life choices for living an ethical life without theology or religious faith.

A recovery program based on 8 principles from the BeatitudesIn this revised and newly-updated handbook for leaders, there is a way the church can help the wounded move beyond their hurts, hang-ups, and habits to experience the forgiveness of Christ.

Joy is closer than you think because God is better than you may believe!

Der Kommentar von Thomas von Aquin zum Johannes-Evangelium ist ein Meisterwerk christlich-katholischer Exegese.

Travel-Sized Bible Trivia for Every Age and OccasionCreated by a Guinness World Records Puzzle Master, this pocket-sized trivia collection contains not only hundreds of challenging questions drawn from the Bible but also these entertaining bonus materials:· Scripture fill-in-the-blank challenges· "Did You Know" facts· Bible crosswords· Bible word searches Designed to teach, challenge, enlighten, and entertain, this compendium of trivia guarantees hours of fun for all ages.

What makes a courageous girl of God?

Americansespecially young peopleare more un-churched and less affiliated with organized religion than at any other time in our history.

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This collection of essays offers a series of rigorously focused art-historical, historical, and philosophical studies that examine ways in which materiality has posed and still poses a religious and cultural problem.

This edited collection uses a biblical lens to explore how to lead effectively and grow in a crisis situation.

This book presents an original discussion and analysis of epistemic peer disagreement.

This book provides a fresh reading of Aquinas' metaphysics in the light of insights from the works of Frege.

This book examines the nearly 400-year tradition of Quaker engagements with mystical ideas and sources.

Dawkin's militant atheism is well known; his profound faith less well known In this book, atheist philosopher Eric Steinhart explores the spiritual dimensions of Richard Dawkins' books, which are shown to encompass:*       the meaning and purpose of life*       an appreciation of Platonic beauty and truth*       a deep belief in the rationality of the universe*       an aversion to both scientism and nihilism As an atheist, Dawkins strives to develop a scientific alternative to theism, and while he declares that science is not a religion, he also proclaims it to be a spiritual enterprise.

This volume engages in conversation with the thinking and work of Max Charlesworth as well as the many questions, tasks and challenges in academic and public life that he posed.

Since the modern period, the field of biblical studies has relied upon libraries, museums, and archives for its evidentiary and credentialing needs.

The medicalization of death is a challenge for all the world's religious and cultural traditions.

Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine explores the analogy between the self and political society in the thought of St.

How should we understand the relationship between Christian ethics and religious ethics?

This volume contains essays that examine the work and legacy of the Cambridge Platonists.

This book examines the premodern encounter between the three monotheistic religions through the unique prism of a premodern literary work-The Parable of the Three Rings-a poignant and charming tale of a father who had three sons and one precious ring.

This book argues that God can be found within the edifice of the scientific understanding of physics, cosmology, biology and philosophy.

Interrogating Modernity returns to Hans Blumenberg's epochal The Legitimacy of the Modern Age as a springboard to interrogate questions of modernity, secularisation, technology and political legitimacy in the fields of political theology, history of ideas, political theory, art theory, history of philosophy, theology and sociology.

This volume explores the 'Mimetic Theory' of the cultural theorist Rene Girard and its applicability to Islamic thought and tradition.

This book explores how Seventh-day Adventists, like other Christians, can benefit from generating their own version of communio ecclesiology.

Atheism Revisited is a collection of essays that explore the multifaceted nature of atheism.

This book puts radical theology and political theology into an interdisciplinary conversation with sustained and serious readings of resistance.

In this book, Peter Anthony Mena looks closely at descriptions of space in ancient Christian hagiographies and considers how the desert relates to constructions of subjectivity.

This book examines slavery and gender through a feminist reading of narratives including female slaves in the Gospel of Luke, the Acts of the Apostles, and early Christian texts.

Using yet untapped resources from moral and political philosophy, this book seeks to answer the question of whether an all good God who is presumed to be all powerful is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that exists in our world.

In Matthew's passion narrative, the ethnoracial identity of Jesus comes into sharp focus.

This book addresses the different forms that religious belief can take.

With few exceptions, the field of Eastern Christian studies has primarily been concerned with historical-critical analysis, hermeneutics, and sociology.

This book reveals and counteracts the misuse of biblical texts and figures in political theology, in an attempt to decolonialize the reading of the Old Testament.

This book is an attempt to make sense of the tension in Nietzsche's work between the unashamedly egocentric and the apparently mystical.

This book examines the essence of leadership, its characteristics and its ways in Asia through a cultural and philosophical lens.

This volume addresses our global crisis by turning to Augustine, a master at integrating disciplines, philosophies, and human experiences in times of upheaval.

Here, for the first time in English, is Franz Brentano's The Teaching of Jesus, a compendium of texts Brentano assembled for publication shortly before his death that constitute a frank, public settling of accounts with the Christian religion.

This book explores religious epiphanies in which there is the appearance of God, a god or a goddess, or a manifestation of the divine or religious reality as received in human experience.

This book follows a reader's logic of association through a series of overlapping constructs in biblical prescription of things prized and lofty-holy hair, unblemished beasts, sacred edibles, wholesome wombs, pristine precincts, esteemed ethnicities and, as unlikely as it seems, dismembered members.

God and Self in the Confessional Novel explores the question: what happened to the theological practice of confession when it entered the modern novel?

This book provides a coherent and systematic analysis of Miguel de Unamuno's notion of religious faith and the reasoning he offers in defense of it.

This book addresses the place of religious knowledge in religion, particularly within Christianity.

This book contains a unique perspective: that of a scientifically and philosophically educated agnostic who thinks there is impressive-if maddeningly hidden-evidence for the existence of God.

This book examines how the beliefs and practices of each of the major world religions, as well as other belief systems, affect the variables that influence growth and development in the Global South.

What is God?