Although most historians have sought the roots of atheism in the history of "e;free thought,"e; Alan Charles Kors contends that attacks on the existence of God were generated above all by the vitality and controversies of orthodox theistic culture itself.
Studien und Untersuchungen zu Brandverlaufskurven der DGUV (Deutsche Gemeinde Unfallversicherung) zeigen, dass extremes Brandverhalten heute schneller auftritt als noch vor 30 Jahren.
There are many factors that contribute to the formation of our current mental attitudes, including the feedback we receive from others (including our parents and friends), ourselves, and the rest of society.
This true story details Jessica Ann Sherman's childhood and her involvement with the Jehovah's Witness Cult and the Cult's sinister secrets relating to missing persons, child abduction, child abuse and child trafficking.
Called "e;a pioneer work of the first importance"e; by Staughton Lynd, this book traces the history of pacifism in America from colonial times to the start of World War I.
"e;The picture of Hume clinging timidly to a raft of custom and artifice, because, poor skeptic, he has no alternative, is wrong,"e; writes John Stewart.
The Archeology of the New Testament is the authoritative illustrated account of what is presently known about the chief sites and monuments connected with the life of Jesus and the history of the early church.
In this volume Donald Munro, author of important studies on early and contemporary China, provides a critical analysis of the doctrines of the Sung Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200).
In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism.
Founded in 1365, not long after the Great Plague ravaged Europe, the University of Vienna was revitalized in 1384 by prominent theologians displaced from Paris--among them Henry of Langenstein.
The interpreter of Marx's writings faces the task of reconciling, on the one hand, Marx's frequent explicit condemnations and criticisms of morality and, on the other, the obvious way in which his world-view reflects substantive moral judgments.
«El pensamiento en acción» recoge una selección esencial de textos de Francisco Giner de los Ríos, donde se funden pensamiento filosófico y compromiso vital.
Among the various kinds of occultism popular during the Russian Silver Age (1890-1914), modern Theosophy was by far the most intellectually significant.
Descorchados es una guia de vinos, pero tambien nos gusta pensar que es un viaje que nos lleva cada ano - desde 1999- por el vino chileno de norte a sur; desde las laderas de Los Andes hasta las costas del Pacifico.
Studien und Untersuchungen zu Brandverlaufskurven der DGUV (Deutsche Gemeinde Unfallversicherung) zeigen, dass extremes Brandverhalten heute schneller auftritt als noch vor 30 Jahren.
Aristotle noted that "e;equality"e; is the plea not of those who are satisfied but of those who seek change, and the word has long been invoked in the name of social reform.
This is the second of the three volumes of A System of Pragmatic Idealism, a series that will synthesize the life's work of the philosopher Nicholas Rescher.
Una mirada a las fronteras menos exploradas del vino sudamericano: los climas tropicales de Brasil, la consolidacion de Bolivia, el albarino que encontro su hogar en Uruguay, y los nuevos proyectos que emergen en Peru.
Descorchados Argentina 2026 nos lleva este ano a un doble descubrimiento: Cordoba, con sus paisajes y vinos tan distintos a los desiertos del norte y de Mendoza, y una nueva mirada sobre los clasicos.
At the height of the religious ferment of the 1970s, David Van Zandt studied firsthand the most vilified of the new radical religious movements--the Children of God, or the Family of Love.
These are poems expressed by a person who has faced great pain and brokenness, searching for God in their darkness and finally being saved from death itself.
All Christians should know God's good news and in his third book The Gospel, Evan Turner uses scripture to scripture and examines soteriology to decipher what the good news actually is.
Nuestra contemporaneidad (modelada por la técnica) se esfuerza denodadamente por estorbar la comparecencia del acaso en sus múltiples formas, la del azar, la de la ambigüedad o la del error; un intento inevitablemente condenado al fracaso.
Exploring the lively polemics among Jews, Christians, and Muslims during the Middle Ages, Hava Lazarus-Yafeh analyzes Muslim critical attitudes toward the Bible, some of which share common features with both pre-Islamic and early modern European Bible criticism.
The threat to the survival of humankind posed by nuclear weapons has been a frightening and essential focus of public debate for the last four decades and must continue to be so if we are to avoid destroying ourselves and the natural world around us.
Students of the Enlightenment have long assumed that the major movement towards atheism in the Ancien Regime was centered in the circle of intellectuals who met at the home of Baron d'Holbach during the last half of the eighteenth century.
Although John Calvin often likened sacramental confession to butchery, the Council of Trent declared that for those who approached it worthily, it was made easy by its "e;great benefits and consolations.
The acclaimed volumes of Princeton Readings in Religions present the remarkable range of all that is encompassed in the practice of religions, across the centuries and across the world.
Graham Walker boldly recasts the debate over issues like constitutional interpretation and judicial review, and challenges contemporary thinking not only about specifically constitutional questions but also about liberalism, law, justice, and rights.
