Philosophy and Religion

Welchen Herausforderungen zum Umgang mit religiöser Vielfalt müssen sich Praktiker*innen in ihrer alltäglichen Arbeit stellen?

How churches can work to stem gun violenceOver 300 Episcopalians came together in Oklahoma City in April 2014 to renew their commitment to the Gospel call to make peace in a world of violence.

Refuting a false dichotomy between “politics” and “religion” in Jesus’ world (and our own), Jesus and the Powers rediscovers Jesus’ response to the imperial power of his day.

This book introduces Christian readers of the Bible to the otherworldly way in which the rabbis of ancient times interpreted sacred texts.

Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998) was one of the seminal theologians of mission in the twentieth century, and perhaps the most important in the English-speaking world.

When Walt Larimore, MD, moved his young family to Kissimmee, Florida, to start a small-town medical practice in 1985, he had no idea he was embarking on an enterprise that would change his life in ways both large and small.

The long tradition of Kierkegaard studies has made it impossible for individual scholars to have a complete overview of the vast field of Kierkegaard research.

Explores the relevance of hermeneutics for modern human sciences, its history and development, and its key philosophical debates.

Should droids be free?

Opening the way for a reexamination of Matthew Arnold's unique contributions to ethical criticism, James Walter Caufield emphasizes the central role of philosophical pessimism in Arnold's master tropes of "e;culture"e; and "e;conduct.

This book focuses on the interaction between practising economists and previous generations of economists.

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Philippe Rochat's FINITUDE is a rumination on time and self-consciousness.

Lutheran tradition has in various ways influenced attitudes to work, the economy, the state, education, and health care.

Research scholars have lamented the fact that most of the extant studies on religious responses to the COVID-19 pandemic focus on a particular religious group, typically Christian.

In the late fourth and early fifth centuries, during a fifty-year stretch sometimes dubbed a Pauline "e;renaissance"e; of the western church, six different authors produced over four dozen commentaries in Latin on Paul's epistles.

Oedipus in Jerusalem begins with the unexpected meeting of the blinded Oedipus and the biblical prophet Nathan outside of Thebes.

The living practice of Daoist ritual is still only a small part of Daoist studies.

Religionsunterricht heute findet faktisch in religiöser Vielfalt statt: Schüler*innen verschiedener Religionen und Weltanschauungen nehmen an ihm teil und bringen ihre Fragen, aber auch ihre Traditionen und Einstellungen mit.

Understanding who you are can be a lonely and difficult process following the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome (AS).

Does life feel futile?

Martin Luther is one of the most studied theologians in the history of the Christian church, so it is difficult to find areas that have been neglected when it comes to this great reformer.

Fully revised, with an updated bibliography and new, relevant illustrative examples based on work inspired by critical realism, this new edition of Explaining Society constitutes an up-to-date resource connecting methodology, theory, and empirical research.

Do you belong to the "e;silent community of the broken,"e; hiding your pain under a veneer of busyness and perfection?

Democracy is not easy.

Spirituality without God is the first global survey of godless spirituality.

The 'end of the world' opens up philosophical questions concerning the very notion of the world, which is a fundamental element of all existential, phenomenological and hermeneutical philosophy.

Drawing on recent research by established and emerging scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, this volume reconsiders the art and architecture produced after 1563 across the conventional geographic borders.

One of the most striking features of contemporary psychology is the return of language of the 'soul' in contemporary discourse.

This volume initiates a series of American University Publications in Phi* losophy.

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle offers one of the most inspiring and influential voices in the global Catholic Church today.

This book gathers a diverse group of leading pastors and preachers and asks them, what is your best advice to colleagues in ministry about preaching and being a pastor?

Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction considers the way in which contemporaryAmerican authors address the subject of belief in the post-9/11 Age of Terror.

Salomo Friedlaender was a prolific German-Jewish philosopher, poet, and satirist.

Shed your surnames of Doubt, Fear, and Shame.

Oriented around the theme of a 'politics of philosophy', this book tracks the phases in which Foucault's genealogy of power, law, and subjectivity was reorganized during the 14 years of his teaching at the College de France, as his focus shifted from sovereignty to governance.

When Plato set his dialogs, written texts were disseminated primarily by performance and recitation.

The Reformed (or Calvinist) universities of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe hosted rich, Latin-language conversations on the nature of politics, the powers of kings and magistrates, resistance, revolution, and religious warfare.

"e;Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying of hands by the council of elders"e; (1Tim.

This book is a distillation of reading Acts for over fifty years, preaching it for twenty-five years, and studying it in-depth for five years.

This book offers a fresh perspective on Paul's use of the Abraham story in Galatians by providing a thorough analysis of its epistolary and rhetorical contexts.

The Hiddenness of God addresses the problem of divine hiddenness which concerns the ambiguity of evidence for God's existence, the elusiveness of God's comforting presence, the palpable and devastating experience of divine absence and abandonment, and more; phenomena which are hard to reconcile with the idea, central to the Jewish and Christian scriptures, that there exists a God who is deeply and lovingly concerned with the lives of humans.

A new look at Rashi''s innovative commentary that sheds unique light on medieval Jewish and Christian learning and Bible interpretation.