Philosophy and Religion

Who decides what counts as history?

This book, explores the conceptual foundations of Einstein's theory of relativity: the fascinating, yet tangled, web of philosophical, mathematical, and physical ideas that is the source of the theory's enduring philosophical interest.

Across seven weeks, readers will walk through one of the most practical and transformative books of the New Testament, discovering that spiritual growth isn't about striving harder but allowing God's Word to shape every part of your life.

Profoundly Christian, Distinctly Methodist is designed to deepen your understanding of our doctrinal and theological foundations.

Who is Christian theology for, what is it for, and what can it do?

In this collection of three beautifully written essays, the distinguished philosopher Jacques Maritain presents his reflections on the role of philosophy in the life of man as a social being.

This is the first major work of the famous mediaeval scholastic theologian John Duns Scotus to be translated into English in its entirety.

Who is Christian theology for, what is it for, and what can it do?

Until recently most scholars have viewed Kierkegaard as a philosopher, a theologian, a psychologist, or a social thinker.

Guy Sircello's analysis of the varieties of expression and his use of them to justify a particular view of the human mind clarify a number of controversial topics in contemporary philosophy, among them the notion of "e;artistic acts,"e; language as expression, the expression of ideas, expressions as "e;natural signs,"e; and the nature of the causal relationship between an expression and what is expressed.

Calvin's eucharistic doctrine has been approached in the past from the standpoint of his polemic with the Lutherans and the Zwinglians, but Father McDonnell believes that Calvin's primary position was determined by his rejection of Roman Catholicism.

Volume IV (bound as two volumes) provides a critical and descriptive bibliography of religion in American life that is unequalled in any other source.

Cliff notes for following God.

This book provides a comprehensive collective biography of the parish priests in one diocese--their origins, education, and careers: their relationship with their parishioners; and the process by which they were politicized prior to 1789.

Stephen Salkever shows that reading Aristotle is a starting point for discussing contemporary political problems in new ways that avoid the opposition between liberal individualism and republican communitarianism, between the politics of rights and the politics of virtues.

Fred Greenstein, an acknowledged authority in this field, lays out conceptual and methodological standards for carrying out personality-and politics inquiries, ranging from psychological case studies of single actors, through multi-case analyses of types of political actors, to aggregative analyses of the impact of individuals and types of individuals on political systems and processes.

Why do we interpret the past as we do, rather than in some other way or not at all?

Patrick Riley traces the forgotten roots of Rousseau's concept to seventeenth-century questions about the justice of God.

Ambitiously undertaking to develop a strategy for making the study of religion "e;scientific,"e; Ninian Smart tackles a set of interrelated issues that bear importantly on the status of religion as an academic discipline.

In this comprehensive study of Voltaire's intellectual development, he provides the first full treatment of the effect of the English experience on Voltaire, the diversity of activity at Cirey, and the relation of Voltaire's thought to 17th- and 18th-century philosophy.

Every soul carries a wound story.

This book enables readers to understand contemporary divisions in Catholic theology.

The doctrines and discipline of the Global Methodist Church for 2024.

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Volume IV (bound as two volumes) provides a critical and descriptive bibliography of religion in American life that is unequalled in any other source.

The author traces the development of the theme of Krishna as butter thief from its earliest appearance in literature and art until the present.

Extracted from Pacifism in the United States, this work focuses on the significant contribution of the Quakers to the history of pacifism in the United States.

While quick to question the claims to knowledge that others make, philosophers have not so readily submitted their own affirmations to the same scrutiny.

The combination of rhetoric and philosophy appeared in the ancient world through Cicero, and revived as an ideal in the Renaissance.

O for a Heart to Praise My God: Hymns of Charles Wesley and Scriptural Liturgies-202 Charles Wesley hymns, sixteen prayers, selected psalter, and selected liturgies and rituals.

The author examines the logical structure of religious inquiry and discourse and the various meanings of religious utterances, and then develops principles of judgment and types of argument by which claims can be supported or challenged.

Most commentators imagine contemporary China to be monolithic, atheistic, and materialist, and wholly divorced from its earlier customs, but Kenneth Dean combines evidence from historical texts and extensive fieldwork to reveal an entirely different picture.

Church leaders today face an urgent challenge: how to connect with a diverse world that is increasingly distant and disconnected from our existing forms of church.

In a post-truth world that celebrates relativism, diversity, and change, the Bible's core message is revolutionary: "e;Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one"e; (Deut.

I believe that God wants Christians to live in prosperity.

In a post-truth world that celebrates relativism, diversity, and change, the Bible's core message is revolutionary: "e;Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one"e; (Deut.

Methodism is on the cusp of an exciting new era.

South India is a land of many temples and shrines, each of which has preserved a local tradition of myth, folklore, and ritual.

By drawing on commentaries and word studies, this book enriches our understanding of God's Word.

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This classic interpretation of Miyamoto Musashi's famous Book of Five Rings is explicitly intended for the martial artistas Miyamoto Musashi originally intended.

The premise of The Tao of Zen is that Zen is really Taoism in the disguise of Buddhisman assumption being made by more and more Zen scholars.

The world we live in places a premium on answers.

A penetrating analysis of the life and doctrines of the Spanish-born Arab theologian.

This book provides a post-positivist theory of deterministic and probabilistic causality that supports both quantitative and qualitative explanations.

This classic study by the eminent Dutch historian of science E.

Most people think evil is rare or incomprehensible.

The author discusses the role of French Catholicism in the internal and foreign affairs of modern France, with a detailed examination of French Catholic groups and their effect on temporal life.