Philosophy of religion

This volume offers an in-depth examination of a diverse range of faith-based programs implemented in three different geographical locales: family support in rural Mississippi, transitional housing in Michigan, and addiction recovery in the Pacific Northwest (Washington-Oregon).

Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) is by any measure the single most influential philosopher in Tibetan history.

Ashrams in Europe twenty-five hundred years ago?

This brief treatise explores the common threads to psychoanalytic thought and theological theory.

Despite the resurgence of scholarly interest in the Book of Tobit in recent years, an important aspect of this deuterocanonical book has been largely overlooked.

Mit besonderem Stolz blickte Abaelard zeitlebens auf seine »Theologia Summi boni«, in der er die dogmatischen Sätze der Trinitätslehre mit Analogien aus der menschlichen Vernunft erläutert und gegen 'Mißbrauchdialektiker' verteidigt hatte.

A short, definitive account of Keith Ward's theology, based on the philosophy of personal idealism, this book records his views about God, revelation, the kingdom of God, life after death, the incarnation, atonement, and the Trinity.

This book investigates the methodological issues raised by the encounter between Islamic thought and contemporary philosophical hermeneutics.

What can the incredible life of Moses teach us about modern Christianity?

Hellenistic Greek society offered many advantages to the Jew who was willing to relax Torah for the sake of easier relations with the dominant culture.

Nishihira Tadashi, one of Japan's leading philosophers, introduces the deeply experiential philosophy of no-mind (mushin).

This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia.

Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.

This book discusses various aspects of God's causal activity.

Offers a state-of-the-art contribution by providing critical analyses of and creative insights to the nature of religious experience.

The Quantum of Explanation advances a bold new theory of how explanation ought to be understood in philosophical and cosmological inquiries.

Das Gebot der Liebe bezieht sich auf Gott, auf den Nächsten und sogar auf den Feind.

Life is a constant search for meaning, and reflective minds need to find deeper and more comprehensive meaning than that normally proffered by the orthodox teaching of any creedal religion.

Philosophers, theologians, physicists, and psychologists join their efforts to reflect on the crucial issues of limit and infinity, time and eternity, empty space and material space.

Andrew Steane reconfigures the public understanding of science, by drawing on a deep knowledge of physics and by bringing in mainstream philosophy of science.

Reflects on the central mystery of faith: how new life springs from death.

This book deals with an old conundrum: if God knows what we will choose tomorrow, how can we be free to choose otherwise?

Pleasing God is a practical resource for Christian living that inspires believers to seek the greatest honor of anyone's lifetime--to have the privilege of pleasing God.

One Word Can Inspire Unending GratitudeThere is power in words.

Collection contains short works that span Lonergan's work from 1943 to 1965.

This book revisits Paul Ricoeur's classification of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud as the masters of suspicion , and provides a thought-provoking critique for critical religious studies scholars, as well as anyone working in critical theory more broadly.

Although Christians have well-developed responses to other religions, the counterpart scholarship from Buddhists has thus far lagged behind.

Augustine was one of the West's first public philosophers.

This volume brings together for the first time some of the world's leading authorities on the German mystic Jacob Boehme, to illuminate his thought and its reception over four centuries for the benefit of students and advanced scholars alike.

In the late eighteenth century, German Jews began entering the middle class with remarkable speed.

This book explores the relational dynamic of religious and nonreligious positions as well as the tensions between competing modes of nonreligion.

Originally published in 1957 and written by one of the 20th Century's leading botanists and a fierce advocate of organicism, this book explores concepts about man and his relation to life and the universe, and about the great creative and spiritual powers within and around him.

Religious capacity is a highly elaborate, neurocognitive human trait that has a solid evolutionary foundation.

Philosophers of religion and theologians have long wrestled with the concept of revelation.

This work deals with the thought of a major Muslim intellectual of the 19th century Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (1838-1897), better known in the West as the author of Pan-Islamism.

An original and broad-ranging reassessment of Spinoza''s intellectual legacy.

This is Volume VIII of none in a studies in Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion.

If the secular university by definition is non-sectarian or non-denominational, then how can it accommodate a discipline like Christian theology?

The letters of the Apostle Paul changed the world like no others before or since, and they continue to strike us afresh with their panoramic vision of human history and destiny.

The interpretation of certain key texts in the Bible by two Dominican Friars: the celebrated author Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe and Biblical scholar Lukasz Popko.

The Muslim thinker al-Ghazali (d.

As Matthew Fox notes, when an aging Albert Einstein was asked if he had any regrets, he replied, "e;I wish I had read more of the mystics earlier in my life.