Philosophy of religion

For many cultures throughout history, honor and shame have been foundational concepts for understanding and evaluating reality.

Pilgern ist im Trend – die einen wollen ihrem Alltag entfliehen, die anderen möchten auf ihrer Reise Gott begegnen.

In this new analysis of the Gospel of John, Kari Syreeni argues that the gospel is a heavily reworked edition of an earlier Johannine work, and that the original did not include Jesus' passion.

Suffering that is not coupled with any redeeming good is one of our world's more troubling, apparent glitches.

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Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is widely considered to be one of the most important moral philosophers of the twentieth century.

Why do humans who seem to be exemplars of virtue also have the capacity to act in atrocious ways?

Baptists tend to be the "e;problem children"e; of the ecumenical movement.

To read the Bible well, we need to employ our imagination.

The Mowbray Lent Book for 2016.

The orthodox doctrine of the incarnation affirms that Christ is both truly divine and truly human.

This comprehensive volume surveys an important but neglected period of Chinese intellectual history: Xuanxue (Neo-Daoism).

This book provides a significant and insightful exploration of the so-called 'theological turn' in contemporary French thought.

Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion.

This book is about religion, pacifism, and the nonviolence that informs pacifism in its most coherent form.

Kabbalah and Ecology resets the conversation about ecology and the Abrahamic traditions.

One of the keys to effectively preaching and teaching God's Word is a deep understanding of the meaning of biblical words in the original Hebrew and Greek.

Divine Providence and Human Agency develops an understanding of God and God's relation to creation that perceives God as sovereign over creation while, at the same time, allowing for a meaningful notion of human freedom.

Zu den großen Denkern der Subjektivität im 19.

This book presents cutting-edge research and theory in the emerging field of the indigenous psychology of religion.

Who are America's creationists?

*; Examines in depth Enoch's full story of the Watchers, the fallen angels who came to Earth and shared corrupting forbidden knowledge*; Explores how Enoch was a vital component of Second Temple messianic Judaism, speculative Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, and Gnostic mythology*; Investigates the entire history of the Book of Enoch and its important esoteric offshoots, including the later 2 Enoch (the Slavonic ';Book of the Secrets of Enoch') and the so-called Hebrew ';Book of Enoch' (3 Enoch)Said to have been written by the prophet Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, the Book of Enoch disappeared for many centuries, except for one place: the Bible of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which held the book as canonical.

The purpose of this book is to illustrate that reading is a subjective process which results in multivalent interpretations.

Examines the importance of the Nicene Faith for Christian theology, cutting across the divide between East and West and between Catholic and Evangelical, illuminating our understanding of the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

A collection of extraordinary oral histories of American nuns, Habits of Change captures the experiences of women whose lives over the past fifty years have been marked by dramatic transformation.

The Tao of Strategy combines ancient wisdom from the Eastern world's great philosophers and lessons from modern-day business leaders to provide readers innovative approaches to unlock strategic breakthroughs for themselves and their organizations.

This book offers resources for re-imagining the biblical vision of water for a time quickly emerging as "e;the century of water wars.

Wenn Spiritualität etwas taugt, dann hat sie sich mitten im Berufsalltag zu bewähren.

Reveals Israel''s intense relationship with YHWH: a masochistic dance on an epic scale.

By reading "e;The Rosicrucian Quest for Universal Truth,"e; you will be able to learn about the fascinating combination of history and mysticism that surrounds the Rosicrucians.

Over the course of a career of more than forty years, Jonathan Z.

In this brilliant culmination of his seminal Powers Trilogy, now reissued in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Walter Wink explores the problem of evil today and how it relates to the New Testament concept of principalities and powers.

Humour in the Beginning presents a multidisciplinary collection of fourteen in-depth case-studies on the role of humour - both benign and blasphemous, elitist and ordinary, orthodox and heterodox - in early, formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and (late-antique) Judaism.

Why do some strategies for critique of religion seem to be more beneficial for constructive engagement, whereas others increase intolerance, polarization, and conflict?

This study examines how the New Testament scriptures might form and foster intellectual humility within Christian communities.

This interdisciplinary study is the result of an international and ecumenical meeting of nineteen scholars held in New York at Easter 1998: the Trinity Summit.

We live in an age in which economic, ecological, and political crises are not the exception, but the rule.

Argues that 1 John was written to affirm Jesus'' resurrection, in light of Jewish denials that he was the Christ.

To get the most out of studying the Bible usually requires a concordance, a dictionary, a topical Bible, and a handbook.

Meetings sets forth the life of one of the twentieth-century's greatest spiritual philosophers in his own words.

The theology of the sacraments is one of the most contested parts in Barths theology, none more so than the doctrine of baptism.

Existentialism asks some of the most fundamental questions about human existence: What gives our lives meaning and value?