Philosophy and Religion

While Protestant Christians made up only a small percentage of China's overall population during the Republican period, they were heavily represented among the urban elite.

The Yeti, or Dremo in Tibetan, is a dim-witted mythical beast said to feed only on marmots.

Any visitor to Belgium or the Netherlands is immediately struck by the number of convents and beguinages (begijnhoven) in both major cities and small towns.

A new, enlarged edition of the groundbreaking 'No Women in Holy Orders?

Reprint of the original Latin text Tentamina semiologica, sive quaedam generalem theoriam signorum spectantia (1789), edited, translated and with an Introduction by Robert E.

In Guatemala City today, Christianity isn't just a belief system--it is a counterinsurgency.

Growing from 4 to 400 GenerationsWeve heard stories about disciple-making movements that are sweeping the globe, transforming the way people are coming to Christ in places like Asia, western Africa, and South America.

Central topics in medieval logic are here treated in a way that is congenial to the modern reader, without compromising historical reliability.

Whether you are looking to discover your type for the first time or take a deeper dive into your identity, The Sacred Enneagram Workbook is designed to help you grow in your spiritual life through the understanding of your Enneagram type.

Classical antiquity has become a political battleground in recent years in debates over immigration and cultural identity-whether it is ancient sculpture, symbolism, or even philosophy.

Christians across the spectrum have soured on religious involvement in politics, tempted either to withdraw or to secularize their public engagement.

Der Blick auf den kirchlich Anderen – wovon ist er geprägt?

A man with schizophrenia believes that God is instructing him through the public address system in a bus station.

Die eucharistische Anbetung gehört zu den Frömmigkeitsformen der Kirche, die sich bleibend durchgesetzt haben.

"e;The philosophy of mathematics will naturally be expected to deal with questions at the frontier of knowledge, as to which comparative certainty is not yet attained.

Why did Greek tragedy and "e;the tragic"e; come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity?

Particularism is a justly popular 'cutting-edge' topic in contemporary ethics across the world.

Michael Ende (1929–1995) wird fälschlicherweise oft als »Kinderbuchautor« abgestempelt, dabei richten sich seine Werke nicht (allein) an Kinder und Jugendliche, sondern sind durchdrungen von einer Vielzahl philosophischer Fragestellungen und Reflexionen.

Our relationship to future generations raises fundamental issues for ethical thought, to which a Christian theological response is both possible and significant.

That Christian missionary efforts have long gone hand-in-hand with European colonization and American imperialist expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is well recognized.

This is the second of two volumes containing papers submitted by the invited speakers to the 11th international Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Cracow in 1999, under the auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science.

With a new Introduction by the author'An elegant and sane little book.

Discover a simple yet profound plan for a marriage of depth, warmth, and excitement!

We live in an age of unprecedented access to information.

This book investigates the importance of humour and play in the establishment of individual and group identities among adult language learners on an intensive business English course.

John Calvin (1509-1564) is one of the most important figures in religious history.

Education and Free Will critically assesses and makes use of Spinoza's insights on human freedom to construe an account of education that is compatible with causal determinism without sacrificing the educational goal of increasing students' autonomy and self-determination.

Ausgehend von dem scheinbaren Defizit in Cassirers kulturphilosophischem Werk, dass es zwar als einer der großen Beiträge zur philosophischen Anthropologie gelesen werden muss, sich aber keine Bestimmung des Menschen als biologisches Gattungswesen bei Cassirer findet, stellt sich der Autor die anspruchsvolle, methodisch und sachlich ins Zentrum einer Grundlegungstheorie der menschlichen Kultur führende Aufgabe, Cassirers theoretische Leistung durch die Rekonstruktion der Behandlung, die "die Naturfrage" in seinem Werk erfährt, von dem Vorwurf der Vernachlässigung der natürlichen Dimensionen des menschlichen Wesens und der Einbettung des Menschen in den Kontext des Lebens zu entlasten.

William Sloane Coffin challenged the nation with his passionate calls for social justice.

Secular Theology brings together new writings by some of America's most influential theological and religious thinkers on the viability of secular theology.

Popular author James W.

Islamic Environmentalism examines Muslim involvement in environmentalism in the United States and Great Britain.

This is Volume III of six in a series on the Philosophy of Science.

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Eschatology is generally understood to be the doctrine of last things, but understood rigorously eschatology actually speaks of the inauguration of a new, redeemed world to come and of the coming of God himself.

Provides an original, up-to-date, and systematic account of Aristotle''s views on contemplation''s place in the human good.

'Never before has there been so many and such dreadful weapons in so many irresponsible hands.

From high school cafeterias to the floor of Congress, insult is a truly universal and ubiquitous cultural practice with a long and earthy history.

This book discusses the psychological understanding of, and approach to, various central questions and aspects of psychological reality, in each case critically examining under what conditions one's interpretation qualifies as 'truly psychological', i.

Can social scientific description capture the historically individual?