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Theism and Atheism in a Post-Secular Age (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Morteza Hashemi Theism and Atheism in a Post-Secular Age (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Morteza Hashemi
R3,510 Discovery Miles 35 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the post-secular idea of 'religion for non-believers'. The new form of unbelief which is dubbed as 'tourist atheism' is not based on absolute rejection of religion as a 'dangerous illusion' or 'mere prejudice'. Tourist atheists instead consider religion as a cultural heritage and a way of seeking perfection. What are the origins of these new forms of atheism? What are the implications of the emergence of a type of atheism which is more open toward religious teachings, rituals, arts, and world views? Hashemi argues that public intellectuals must consider that it is a sign of a post-secular age in which believers and non-believers go beyond mere tolerance and engage in a creative process of co-practice and co-working.

Theodicy of Culture and the Jewish Ethos - David Koigen's Contribution to the Sociology of Religion (Hardcover, annotated... Theodicy of Culture and the Jewish Ethos - David Koigen's Contribution to the Sociology of Religion (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Martina Urban
R4,977 Discovery Miles 49 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume presents the theory of culture of the Russian-born German Jewish social philosopher David Koigen (1879-1933). Heir to Hermann Cohen's neo-Kantian interpretation of Judaism, he transforms the religion of reason into an ethical Intimitatsreligion. He draws upon a great variety of intellectual currents, among them, Max Scheler's philosophy of values, the historical sociology of Max Weber, the sociology of religion of Emile Durkheim, Ernst Troeltsch and Georg Simmel and American pragmatism. Influenced by his personal experience of marginality in German academia yet the same time unconstrained by the dictates of the German Jewish discourse, Koigen shapes these theoretical strands into an original argument which unfolds along two trajectories: theodicy of culture and ethos. Distinguished from ethics, ethos identifies the non-formal factors that foster a group's sense of collective identity as it adapts to continuous change. From a Jewish perspective, ethos is grounded in the biblical covenant as the paradigm of a social contract and corporate liability. Although the normative content of the covenantal ethos is subject to gradual secularization, its metaphysical and existential assumptions, Koigen argues, continue to inform Jewish self-understanding. The concept of ethos identifies the dialectic of tradition as it shapes Jewish religious consciousness, and, in turn, is shaped by the evolving cultural and axiological sensibilities. In consonance, Jewish identity cannot be reduced to ethnicity or a purely secular culture. Urban develops these fragmentary and inchoate theories into a sociology of religious knowledge and suggests to read Koigen not just as a Jewish sociologist but as the first sociologist of Judaism who proposes to overcome the dogmatic anti-metaphysical stance of European sociology.

A Frightening Love: Recasting the Problem of Evil (Hardcover): Andrew Gleeson A Frightening Love: Recasting the Problem of Evil (Hardcover)
Andrew Gleeson
R1,514 Discovery Miles 15 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A Frightening Love radically rethinks God and evil. It rejects theodicy and its impersonal conception of reason and morality. Faith survives evil through a miraculous love that resists philosophical rationalization. Authors criticised include Alvin Plantinga, Richard Swinburne, Marilyn McCord Adams, Peter van Inwagen, John Haldane, William Hasker.

Heaven and Hell (Hardcover): Emanuel Swedenborg Heaven and Hell (Hardcover)
Emanuel Swedenborg
R1,211 Discovery Miles 12 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Holy Spirit and Spiritual Gifts (Paperback, Reprinted edition): Max Turner The Holy Spirit and Spiritual Gifts (Paperback, Reprinted edition)
Max Turner
R864 Discovery Miles 8 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Questions regarding the role of the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts in the life of the believer and the church today continue to be asked. Professor Max Turner suggests that the place to begin answering such questions is the New Testament. What do the writers of the New Testament say about the work of the Holy Spirit, and how can we understand spiritual gifts for today? Turner looks carefully at the gospels of Luke and John and the writings of Paul and explores how they took over and developed Old Testament and Intertestamental notions of the Spirit. Then he asks how looking at ancient witnesses informs our contemporary understanding. A comprehensive 400 page study that looks at issues such as prophecy, healing, tongues, and a Trinitarian Pneumatology in which Turner moves from the horizon of the original text with balance to the contemporary context. "The author intends to provide a middle way between Pentecostal theology and more traditional forms of Christianity. Readers from both sides will have to decide how much of this ideal Turner has actually achieved. From the perspective of more conservative theology, the book offers little interaction with sources outside of the Pentecostal/ charismatic and Evangelical traditions. From the Pentecostal perspective, the book hardly interacts with the experiential approach of a Pentecostal theology to spiritual gifts. To both sides, the book should therefore be perceived as an invitation to combine the wisdom and insights of the different traditions for a more inclusive and ecumenical perspective in the future. In this sense, The Holy Spirit and Spiritual Gifts has opened the doors to further dialogue and interactions not only on the formal academic level but also among pastors, church leaders, and others who seek to maintain the unity of the Spirit." -Pneuma Review

Given (Hardcover): Kenneth John Given (Hardcover)
Kenneth John
R873 Discovery Miles 8 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Symbols of 'The Way' - Far East and West (Hardcover): E A (Elizabeth Anna) Gordon Symbols of 'The Way' - Far East and West (Hardcover)
E A (Elizabeth Anna) Gordon
R899 Discovery Miles 8 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Dialectic of Enlightenment (Hardcover): Jacob Klapwijk Dialectic of Enlightenment (Hardcover)
Jacob Klapwijk; Foreword by Lambert Zuidervaart; Translated by Colin L. Yallop
R897 R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Save R128 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rudolf Steiner's Esoteric Christianity in the Grail painting by Anna May - Contemplating the sacred in Rosicrucian... Rudolf Steiner's Esoteric Christianity in the Grail painting by Anna May - Contemplating the sacred in Rosicrucian Christianity (Hardcover)
Adrian Anderson
R885 Discovery Miles 8 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Army of Christ - Seventeen Steps to Eternity (Hardcover): Adam Anderson Army of Christ - Seventeen Steps to Eternity (Hardcover)
Adam Anderson
R1,119 Discovery Miles 11 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Words Made Flesh - Formations of the Postsecular in British Romanticism (Hardcover): Sean Dempsey Words Made Flesh - Formations of the Postsecular in British Romanticism (Hardcover)
Sean Dempsey
R3,322 Discovery Miles 33 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Religion is not merely a different way of thinking but is rather an alternative manner of being-it is both a way of attending to the world and a form of embodiment. Literature provides another key to legislating new ways of being in the world. Some of the best Romantic literature can be understood as experimental attempts to access and harness infrasensible energy-affects and dispositions operating beneath the threshold of consciousness-in the hope that by so doing it may become possible to project elusive affects into the practical world of conscious thinking and judgment. Words Made Flesh demonstrates how the Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley and the novelist Jane Austen affect, mediate, and ultimately alter our very sense of embodiment in ways that have lasting effects on readers' affective, political, and spiritual lives. Such works, which unsettle habitual ways of seeing, are perennially valuable because they not only call attention to the dispositions we normally inhabit, but they also suggest ways of forging new patterns and forms of life through the medium of embodiment.Drawing on the work of these writers, Dempsey argues that Romanticism's contribution to our understanding of the postsecular becomes clearer when considered in relation to three timely scholarly conversations not previously synthesized: secular and postsecular studies, affect theory, and media studies. By weaving together these three strands, Words Made Flesh clarifies how Romanticism provides a useful field guide to the new geography of the self ushered in by secular modernity, while also pointing toward potential postsecular futures. Ultimately, Dempsey argues for a view of literature that recognizes it as an essential component to ethical practice.

Between Death and Resurrection - A Critical Response to Recent Catholic Debate Concerning the Intermediate State (Hardcover):... Between Death and Resurrection - A Critical Response to Recent Catholic Debate Concerning the Intermediate State (Hardcover)
Stephen Yates
R4,240 Discovery Miles 42 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Christians look with hope to the resurrection of the dead and the restoration of all things. But what of those who have already died? Do they also await these things, or have they in some sense already happened for them? Within the Catholic theological community, this question has traditionally been answered in terms of the disembodied souls of human beings awaiting bodily resurrection. Since the 1960s, Catholic theologians have proposed two alternatives: resurrection at death into the Last Day and the consummation of all things, or resurrection in death into an interim state in which the embodied dead await, with us, the final consummation of all things. This book critically examines the Scriptural, philosophical and theological reasons for these alternatives and, on the basis of this analysis, offers an account of the traditional schema which makes clear that in spite of these challenges it remains the preferable option.

Perceiving the Divine through the Human Body - Mystical Sensuality (Hardcover): T. Cattoi, J. McDaniel Perceiving the Divine through the Human Body - Mystical Sensuality (Hardcover)
T. Cattoi, J. McDaniel
R3,120 Discovery Miles 31 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cattoi and McDaniel present a selection of articles on the role of the body and the spiritual senses--our transfigured channels of sensory perceptions--in the context of spiritual practice. The volume investigates this theme across a variety of different religious traditions, starting from early and medieval Christianity, addressing a number of Eastern traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism, and finally touching on some modern forms of spirituality and psychotherapy.

Philosophy for A Level - Metaphysics of God and Metaphysics of Mind (Paperback): Michael Lacewing Philosophy for A Level - Metaphysics of God and Metaphysics of Mind (Paperback)
Michael Lacewing
R1,161 Discovery Miles 11 610 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Philosophy for A Level is an accessible textbook for the new 2017 AQA Philosophy syllabus. Structured closely around the AQA specification this textbook covers the two units, Metaphysics of God and Metaphysics of Mind, in an engaging and student-friendly way. With chapters on 'How to do philosophy', exam preparation providing students with the philosophical skills they need to succeed, and an extensive glossary to support understanding, this book is ideal for students studying philosophy. Each chapter includes: argument maps that help to develop students' analytical and critical skills comprehension questions to test understanding discussion questions to generate evaluative argument explanation of and commentary on the AQA set texts 'Thinking harder' sections cross-references to help students make connections bullet-point summaries of each topic. The companion website hosts a wealth of further resources, including PowerPoint slides, flashcards, further reading, weblinks and handouts, all structured to accompany the textbook. It can be found at www.routledge.com/cw/alevelphilosophy.

The Dialogue Between Tradition and History - Essays of the Foundations of Catholic Moral Theology (Paperback): Benedict Ashley The Dialogue Between Tradition and History - Essays of the Foundations of Catholic Moral Theology (Paperback)
Benedict Ashley; Edited by Matthew Mcwhorter
R853 Discovery Miles 8 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Prophet (Deluxe Library Edition) (Hardcover): Kahlil Gibran The Prophet (Deluxe Library Edition) (Hardcover)
Kahlil Gibran
R787 Discovery Miles 7 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Disability and Religious Diversity - Cross-Cultural and Interreligious Perspectives (Hardcover): D. Schumm, M. Stoltzfus Disability and Religious Diversity - Cross-Cultural and Interreligious Perspectives (Hardcover)
D. Schumm, M. Stoltzfus
R1,550 Discovery Miles 15 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited collection of essays critically examines how diverse religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and/or chronic illness. Contributors employ a wide variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, historical, cultural, or textual analysis, personal narrative, and theological/philosophical investigation.

Buddhist Revivalist Movements - Comparing Zen Buddhism and the Thai Forest Movement (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Alan Robert Lopez Buddhist Revivalist Movements - Comparing Zen Buddhism and the Thai Forest Movement (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Alan Robert Lopez
R2,382 Discovery Miles 23 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This text provides a comparative investigation of the affinities and differences of two of the most dynamic currents in World Buddhism: Zen Buddhism and the Thai Forest Movement. Defying differences in denomination, culture, and historical epochs, these schools revived an unfettered quest for enlightenment and proceeded to independently forge like practices and doctrines. The author examines the teaching gambits and tactics, the methods of practice, the place and story line of teacher biography, and the nature and role of the awakening experience, revealing similar forms deriving from an uncompromising pursuit of awaking, the insistence on self-cultivation, and the preeminent role of the charismatic master. Offering a pertinent review of their encounters with modernism, the book provides a new coherence to these seemingly disparate movements, opening up new avenues for scholars and possibilities for practitioners.

Cascade Companion to Evil (Hardcover): Charles Taliaferro Cascade Companion to Evil (Hardcover)
Charles Taliaferro
R876 R749 Discovery Miles 7 490 Save R127 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Agamben and Theology (Hardcover, New): Colby Dickinson Agamben and Theology (Hardcover, New)
Colby Dickinson
R3,548 Discovery Miles 35 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a view of the work of philosopher Giorgio Agamben in relation to his own most basic theological premises and the discipline of theology. Though the work of Italian theorist Giorgio Agamben has been increasing in popularity over the last several years in the English-speaking world, little work has been done directly on the theological legacy which actually dominates the overall force of his critical analyses, a topic which has intrigued his readers since the publication of his short book on Saint Paul's 'Letter to the Romans'. "Agamben and Theology" intends to illuminate such a connection by examining the theologically inflected terms that have come to dominate his work over time, including the messianic, the sacred, sovereignty, glory, creation, original sin, redemption and revelation. "The Philosophy and Theology" series looks at major philosophers and explores their relevance to theological thought as well as the response of theology.

The Emergence of a Scientific Culture - Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685 (Hardcover, New): Stephen Gaukroger The Emergence of a Scientific Culture - Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685 (Hardcover, New)
Stephen Gaukroger
R3,247 Discovery Miles 32 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly the cognitive and cultural standing of science was contested in its early development. Rejecting the traditional picture of secularization, he argues that science in the seventeenth century emerged not in opposition to religion but rather was in many respects driven by it. Moreover, science did not present a unified picture of nature but was an unstable field of different, often locally successful but just as often incompatible, programmes. To complicate matters, much depended on attempts to reshape the persona of the natural philosopher, and distinctive new notions of objectivity and impartiality were imported into natural philosophy, changing its character radically by redefining the qualities of its practitioners. The West's sense of itself, its relation to its past, and its sense of its future, have been profoundly altered since the seventeenth century, as cognitive values generally have gradually come to be shaped around scientific ones. Science has not merely brought a new set of such values to the task of understanding the world and our place in it, but rather has completely transformed the task, redefining the goals of enquiry. This distinctive feature of the development of a scientific culture in the West marks it out from other scientifically productive cultures. In The Emergence of a Scientific Culture, Stephen Gaukroger offers a detailed and comprehensive account of the formative stages of this development--and one which challenges the received wisdom that science was seen to be self-evidently the correct path to knowledge and that the benefits of science were immediately obvious to the disinterested observer.

Alienated Wisdom - Enquiry into Jewish Philosophy and Scepticism (Hardcover): Giuseppe Veltri Alienated Wisdom - Enquiry into Jewish Philosophy and Scepticism (Hardcover)
Giuseppe Veltri
R3,402 Discovery Miles 34 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The present study addresses problems of an epistemological nature which hinge on the question of how to define Jewish thought. It will take its start in an ancient question, that of the relationship between Jewish culture, Greek philosophy, and then Greco-Roman (and Christian) thought in connection with the query into the history and genealogy of wisdom and knowledge. Our journey into the history of the denomination 'Jewish philosophy' will include a leg that will lead us to certain declarations of political, moral, and scientific principles, and then on to the birth of what is called philosophia perennis or, in Christian circles, prisca theologia. Our subject of inquiry will thus be the birth of the concept of Jewish philosophy, Jewish theology and Jewish philosophy of religion. A special emphasis will fall on the topic treated in the last part of this study: Jewish scepticism, a theme that involves a philosophical attitude founded on dialectical "enquiry", as the etymology of the Greek word skepsis properly means.

The Free System Corollary - Responding to Abductive Problems of Evil (Hardcover): Peter J. Morgan The Free System Corollary - Responding to Abductive Problems of Evil (Hardcover)
Peter J. Morgan
R1,088 R916 Discovery Miles 9 160 Save R172 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (Hardcover): Muata Ashby Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (Hardcover)
Muata Ashby
R1,049 R911 Discovery Miles 9 110 Save R138 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

I Know myself, I know myself, I am One With God -From the Pert Em Heru "The Ru Pert em Heru" or "Ancient Egyptian Book of The Dead," or "Book of Coming Forth By Day" as it is more popularly known, has fascinated the world since the successful translation of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic scripture over 150 years ago. The astonishing writings in it reveal that the Ancient Egyptians believed in life after death and in an ultimate destiny to discover the Divine. The elegance and aesthetic beauty of the hieroglyphic text itself has inspired many see it as an art form in and of itself. But is there more to it than that? Did the Ancient Egyptian wisdom contain more than just aphorisms and hopes of eternal life beyond death? In this volume Dr. Muata Ashby, the author of over 25 books on Ancient Egyptian Yoga Philosophy has produced a new translation of the original texts which uncovers a mystical teaching underlying the sayings and rituals instituted by the Ancient Egyptian Sages and Saints. "Once the philosophy of Ancient Egypt is understood as a mystical tradition instead of as a religion or primitive mythology, it reveals its secrets which if practiced today will lead anyone to discover the glory of spiritual self-discovery. The Pert em Heru is in every way comparable to the Indian Upanishads or the Tibetan Book of the Dead."  $28.95 ISBN# 1-884564-28-3 Size: 81/2" X

Ascension Theology and Habakkuk - A Reformed Ecclesiology in Filipino American Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Neal D.... Ascension Theology and Habakkuk - A Reformed Ecclesiology in Filipino American Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Neal D. Presa
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book describes Reformed ecclesiology through the lived faith of the Filipino American Christian diaspora. It proposes a contextual, constructive ecclesiology by engaging with the Presbyterian/Reformed theological tradition's understanding of the ascension of Jesus Christ with the Old Testament book of Habakkuk as a conversation partner.

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