Philosophy and Religion

Scholars of Gregory of Nyssa have long acknowledged the centrality of faith in his theory of divine union.

This book, first published in 1977, aims to present a Muslim view of development and highlights some of the related issues that were being debated in the Muslim world.

This broad and insightful book presents current scholarship in important subfields of philosophy of science and addresses an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary readership.

PrädikantInnen und LektorInnen finden in diesem Band fertige Lesepredigten zu wichtigen Themen und besonderen Anlässen – eine echte Alternative für die, die nicht (immer) der Perikopenordnung folgen wollen.

Professor Margaret Archer is a leading critical realist and major contemporary social theorist.

This book offers a succinct re-examination of Berlin's Cold War liberalism, at a time when many observers worry about the emergence of a new Cold War.

Glimpses of Glory is the second in a three-volume collection of prayers and other resources based on the New Common Worship Lectionary used widely around the world.

"e;A cogent and persuasive plea for a return to the full catholic tradition which would make a critical contribution to the debate about gender in matters of faith.

This book understands, interprets, and critiques the theology of the American Empire that undergirds and bolsters U.

Originally published in 1991.

This book takes stock of political reform in Ethiopia and the transformation of Ethiopian society since the adoption of multi-party politics and ethnic federalism in 1991.

This book, originally entitled Why Men Fight, is generally seen as the fullest expression of Russell's political philosophy.

As with viewing a mosaic, the more closely the reader examines this book, the more it shows forth rich meaning and inspiration for preachers, lay readers, and all who desire to encounter Jesus Christ in the scriptures.

Die Biografie der metaphorischen Stadtfrau Jerusalem in Ezechiel 16 samt der darin enthaltenen Abwertung weiblicher Sexualität und der exzessiven Gewalt, die gegen den weiblich gedachten Körper Jerusalems ausgeübt wird, waren und sind ein beliebter Anknüpfungspunkt feministisch orientierter Exegese.

Ever since the state of Israel was established in 1948, it has been plagued by war, and that has presented religious Zionists with an immense challenge.

Theological conversations about violence have typically framed the discussion in terms of victim and perpetrator.

The Coercion Thesis has been a subject of longstanding debate, but legal positivist scholarship over the last several decades has concluded that coercion is not necessary for law.

After more than seventy years of uninterrupted authoritarian government headed by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Mexico formally began the transition to democracy in 2000.

Keeping God at the Center is informative as well as instructional.

The second edition of Environmental Ethics combines a strong theoretical foundation with applications to some of the most pressing environmental problems.

Critique in a Neoliberal Age brings a critique of ideology to main debates within economic sociology, populism studies, the neoliberal university, therapy culture, contemporary intimacies and feminism.

Well-being occupies a central role in ethics and political philosophy, including in major theories such as utilitarianism.

In Real History, Martin Bunzl brilliantly succeeds in bringing together two schools of thought at the forefront of the philosophy of history: that of realism and objectivity.

William Ferraiolo examines what it means to incorporate Stoicism into 21st century life, adapting classical Stoic philosophy for the modern day.

What do Persian robes of honour, 20th-century still-life painting, fur garments, and 18th-century porcelain all have in common?

This study contextualizes the achievement of a strategically crucial figure in Byzantium's turbulent seventh century, the monk and theologian Maximus the Confessor (580-662).

Do you want to share your faith with others but think you might not know enough?

The Jewish mystic path and its practices to attain God-consciousness.

This book draws upon case studies of the Congolese Christian diaspora in the UK and US and an ethnography of religious urbanization in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to explore the making of religious spaces and moral landscapes in an era of globalization.

In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas.

This title was first published in 2000: Beginning with a sustained argument against the new tenseless theory of time and against McTaggart's A series/B series distinction, the author of this essay goes on to provide a non-paradoxical, tensed, phenomenologically-based account of the 'going on' or 'taking place' of events in time that escapes the paradoxes endemic to 'passage' as understood via the A series/B series distinction.

This book examines four main areas of music in early childhood: the traditions of music for young children, their capacities for music, the way they make music with others, and constructed and mediated musical childhoods.

This book highlights the pivotal roles of individuals in England's complex sixteenth-century reformations.

A short guide to living well by understanding better what you really value-and what to do when your goals conflictWhat do you want out of life?

Frank Herberts Dune is the biggest-selling science fiction story of all time; the original book and its numerous sequels have transported millions of readers into the alternate reality of the Duniverse.

Evils, both large and small, are a constant feature of human life.

1714 was a revolutionary year for Dissenters across the British Empire.