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Virtue and the Moral Life - Theological and Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover): William Werpehowski, Kathryn Getek Soltis Virtue and the Moral Life - Theological and Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover)
William Werpehowski, Kathryn Getek Soltis; Contributions by Mark A Wilson, Julie Hanlon Rubio, Lisa Tessman, …
R3,900 R2,744 Discovery Miles 27 440 Save R1,156 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a moral agent's life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or base, or sinful; or about the conditions of human character and circumstance that make for good relations between family members, friends, workers, fellow citizens, and strangers, and the sorts of conditions that do not. Clearly these questions will inevitably be directed to more finely grained features of everyday life in particular contexts. Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives takes up these questions. In its ten timely and original chapters, it considers the specific importance of virtue ethics, its public significance for shaping a society's common good, the value of civic integrity, warfare and returning soldiers' sense of enlarged moral responsibility, the care for and agency of children in contemporary secular consumer society, and other questions involving moral failure, humility, and forgiveness.

Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry - Envisioning a Future for the Philosophy of Religion... Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry - Envisioning a Future for the Philosophy of Religion (Paperback)
Wesley J. Wildman
R818 Discovery Miles 8 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work argues that philosophy, as multidiciplinary comparative inquiry, is essential to the contemporary academic study of religion.

Who One Is - Book 2:  Existenz and Transcendental Phenomenology (Hardcover, 2009 ed.): J. G. Hart Who One Is - Book 2: Existenz and Transcendental Phenomenology (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
J. G. Hart
R5,716 Discovery Miles 57 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

If I am asked in the framework of Book 1, "Who are you?" I, in answering, might say "I don't know who in the world I am." Nevertheless there is a sense in which I always know what "I" refers to and can never not know, even if I have become, e.g., amnesiac. Yet in Book 2, "Who are you?" has other senses of oneself in mind than the non-sortal "myself". For example, it might be the pragmatic context, as in a bureaucratic setting; but "Who are you?" or "Who am I?" might be more anguished and be rendered by "What sort of person are you?" or "What sort am I?" Such a question often surfaces in the face of a "limit-situation", such as one's death or in the wake of a shameful deed where we are compelled to find our "centers", what we also will call "Existenz". "Existenz" here refers to the center of the person. In the face of the limit-situation one is called upon to act unconditionally in the determination of oneself and one's being in the world. In this Book 2 we discuss chiefly one's normative personal-moral identity which stands in contrast to the transcendental I where one's non-sortal unique identity is given from the start. This moral identity requires a unique self-determination and normative self-constitution which may be thought of with the help of the metaphor of "vocation". We will see that it has especial ties to one's Existenz as well as to love. This Book 2 claims that the moral-personal ideal sense of who one is is linked to the transcendental who through a notion of entelechy. The person strives to embody the I-ness that one both ineluctably is and which, however, points to who one is not yet and who one ought to be. The final two chapters tell a philosophical-theological likely story of a basic theme of Plotinus: We must learn to honor ourselves because of our honorable kinship and lineage "Yonder".

Aquinas's Summa Theologiae (Paperback): Brian Davies Aquinas's Summa Theologiae (Paperback)
Brian Davies; Contributions by Leonard Boyle, Victor White, John Wippel, Peter Geach, …
R1,134 Discovery Miles 11 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) was first and foremost a Christian theologian. Yet he was also one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages. Drawing on classical authors, and incorporating ideas from Jewish and Arab sources, he came to offer a rounded and lasting account of the origin of the universe and of the things to be found within it, especially human beings. Aquinas wrote many works, but his greatest achievement is undoubtedly the Summa Theologiae. This presents his most mature thinking and is the best introduction to his philosophical (and theological) ideas. Few secondary books on Aquinas focus solely on the Summa, but the present volume does just that. Including work by some of the best Aquinas scholars of the last half decade, it provides a solid introduction to one of the landmarks of western thinking.

Absolute Reality in the Qur'an (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Masudul Alam Choudhury Absolute Reality in the Qur'an (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Masudul Alam Choudhury
R1,523 Discovery Miles 15 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book studies the absolute reality of the Qur'an, which is signified by the struggle of truth against falsehood in the framework of monotheistic unity of knowledge and the unified world-system induced by the consilience of knowledge. In such a framework the absolute reality reveals itself not by religious dogmatism. Rather, the methodology precisely comprises its distinctive parts. These are namely the 'primal ontology' as the foundational explained axiom of monotheistic unity; the 'secondary ontologies' as explanatory replications of the law of unity in the particulars of the world-system; 'epistemology' as the operational model; and 'phenomenology' as the structural nature of events induced by the monotheistic law, that is by knowledge emanating from the law. The imminent methodology remains the unique explanatory reference of all events that take place, advance, and change in continuity across continuums of knowledge, space, and time.

True Humanity (Hardcover): Little Lamb True Humanity (Hardcover)
Little Lamb
R570 Discovery Miles 5 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A guide to Bible understanding and motivator for research

The Lost Zodiac of Rudolf Steiner - Exploring the four sets of zodiac images designed by Rudolf Steiner (Hardcover): Adrian... The Lost Zodiac of Rudolf Steiner - Exploring the four sets of zodiac images designed by Rudolf Steiner (Hardcover)
Adrian Anderson
R891 Discovery Miles 8 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Conceptions of God, Freedom, and Ethics in African American and Jewish Theology (Hardcover, Delacorte PR Hd): K Buhring Conceptions of God, Freedom, and Ethics in African American and Jewish Theology (Hardcover, Delacorte PR Hd)
K Buhring
R1,525 Discovery Miles 15 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is a consideration of major contemporary African American and Jewish theological understandings of God, human nature, moral evil, suffering, and ethics, utilizing the work of James Cone and Emil Fackenheim. Specifically, it examines how profound faith in a just God is sustained, and even strengthened, in the face of particularly horrific and long-standing evil and suffering in a community. The constructive portion of the book explores theological possibilities by focusing on the concepts of human freedom, resistance, and responsibility--all grounded in divine gift--as an effective and meaningful response to oppression and despair.

In Tune with the Infinite - Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty (Hardcover): Ralph Waldo Trine In Tune with the Infinite - Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty (Hardcover)
Ralph Waldo Trine
R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Perusal Of Christian Philosophy (Hardcover): Clarence L. Harris Jr. Perusal Of Christian Philosophy (Hardcover)
Clarence L. Harris Jr.
R966 Discovery Miles 9 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is about the study of Christian Philosophy through the ancient, medieval and modern eras. The ancient era includes the works of Greek and Roman thinkers. This is the most creative era. The medieval era was heavily influenced by Christianity. The modern era represents in most respects a break with thoughts dominated by Christianity. Coupled with scientific investigation, it brought forth many different subjects that are taught in the schools today. In this book, one will learn about the divisions and social studies of Christian Philosophy. This book teaches about the doctrines of the Bible from a Christian and Philosophical viewpoint. Such topics as Analytic Philosophy, Logic, Empiricism, Scholastic and others are introduced. Theories of great men like Plato, Socrates, Augustine, Aquinas, Kant and others are developed. There is even the introduction of some great women philosophers: Fuller, Stanton, etc. This book contains valuable information for research and study. It will be of great benefit in the home, school or library.

Comparative Theories of Nonduality - The Search for a Middle Way (Hardcover): Milton Scarborough Comparative Theories of Nonduality - The Search for a Middle Way (Hardcover)
Milton Scarborough
R4,926 Discovery Miles 49 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

It is a commonplace that while Asia is nondualistic, the West, because of its uncritical reliance on Greek-derived intellectual standards, is dualistic. Dualism is a deep-seated habit of thinking and acting in all spheres of life through the prism of binary opposites leads to paralyzing practical and theoretical difficulties. Asia can provide no assistance for the foreseeable future because the West finds Asian nondualism, especially that of Mahayana Buddhism, too alien and nihilistic. On the other hand, postmodern thought, which purports to deliver us from the dualisms embedded in modernity, turns out to be merely a pseudo-postmodernism. This book's novel idea is that the West already contains within one of its more marginalized roots, that of ancient Hebrew culture, a pre-philosophical form of nondualism which makes possible a new form of nondualism, one to which the West can subscribe. This new nondualism, inspired by Buddhism but not identical to it, is an epistemological, ontological, metaphysical, and praxical middle way both for the West and also between East and West.>

Theology after the Birth of God - Atheist Conceptions in Cognition and Culture (Hardcover): F Shults Theology after the Birth of God - Atheist Conceptions in Cognition and Culture (Hardcover)
F Shults
R1,953 Discovery Miles 19 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Engaging recent developments within the bio-cultural study of religion, Shults unveils the evolved cognitive and coalitional mechanisms by which god-conceptions are engendered in minds and nurtured in societies. He discovers and attempts to liberate a radically atheist trajectory that has long been suppressed within the discipline of theology.

The Meaning of Mourning - Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief (Hardcover): Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode The Meaning of Mourning - Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief (Hardcover)
Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode; Contributions by Lesley Chamberlain, Richard Conrad, John Cottingham, Douglas Davies, …
R2,287 Discovery Miles 22 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Grief is a universal human response to death and loss. Mourning is an equally universally observable practice that enables the bereaved to express their grief and come to terms with the reality of loss. Yet, despite their prevalence, there is no unified understanding of the nature and meaning of grief and mourning. The Meaning of Mourning: Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief brings together fifteen essays from diverse disciplines addressing the topics of death, grief, and mourning. The collection moves from general questions concerning the putative badness of death and the meaning of loss through the phenomenology and psychology of grief, to personal and cultural aspects of mourning. Contributors examine topics such as theodicy and grief, reproductive loss, mourning as a form of recognition of value, the roots of grief in early childhood, grief in COVID-times, hope, phenomenology of loss, public commemoration and mourning rituals, mourning for a devastated culture, the Necropolis of Glasgow, and the "art of outliving." Edited by Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode, the volume provides a survey of the rich topography of methodologies, problems, approaches, and disciplines that are involved in the study of issues surrounding loss and our responses to it and guides the reader through a spectrum of perspectives, highlighting the connections and discontinuities between them.

Christian Theology and the Status of Animals - The Dominant Tradition and Its Alternatives (Hardcover): R. McLaughlin Christian Theology and the Status of Animals - The Dominant Tradition and Its Alternatives (Hardcover)
R. McLaughlin
R2,591 R1,915 Discovery Miles 19 150 Save R676 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The author argues that there are conflicting traditions with regard to the question of what is the moral standing of animals according to Christianity. The dominant tradition maintains that animals are primarily resources but there are alternative strands of Christian thought that challenge this view.

The Genealogy of Morals (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover): Friedrich Wilhelm... The Genealogy of Morals (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
R965 Discovery Miles 9 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Scientific & the Divine - Conflict and Reconciliation from Ancient Greece to the Present (Paperback): James A. Arieti,... The Scientific & the Divine - Conflict and Reconciliation from Ancient Greece to the Present (Paperback)
James A. Arieti, Patrick A. Wilson
R1,242 Discovery Miles 12 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There have been many too many attempts over the centuries to bring science and religion into harmony. James A. Arieti and Patrick A. Wilson survey and assess these various efforts, from Plato to Aquinas to present-day philosophers and theologians. The Scientific & The Divine examines the perennial issues that keep science and religion at arm's length, clarify those issues, and fit them into an historical framework. This book is ideal for use as a textbook in any course that discusses the interplay between science and faith. Arieti and Wilson do not push an agenda they take a critical, analytical look at the theories that started when the ancient Greeks realized the religious implications of scientific discovery. The Scientific & The Divine shows the historical continuity of both the central issues and the many potential solutions, and demonstrates which of these theories comes closest to saving the marriage between science and religion.

Orthodoxy (Hardcover): G. K. Chesterton Orthodoxy (Hardcover)
G. K. Chesterton
R929 Discovery Miles 9 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reason and God - Encounters of Philosophy with Religion (Hardcover, New edition): John E. Smith Reason and God - Encounters of Philosophy with Religion (Hardcover, New edition)
John E. Smith
R2,785 Discovery Miles 27 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Relevance of Bernard Lonergan's Notion of Self-Appropriation to a Mystical-Political Theology (Hardcover, New... The Relevance of Bernard Lonergan's Notion of Self-Appropriation to a Mystical-Political Theology (Hardcover, New edition)
Ian B. Bell
R1,909 Discovery Miles 19 090 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In The Relevance of Bernard Lonergan's Notion of Self-Appropriation to a Mystical-Political Theology, Ian Bell takes on the issue of the separation of the interior and exterior lives that has come to dominate mystical theology over the years. The mystical life, he claims, is necessarily involved in the establishment of social structures and institutions that govern human living, and the work of Bernard Lonergan on the human subject provides a means by which the connection between the interior and exterior lives may be established. Because human persons operate in a consistent pattern regardless of a given moment's particularities, mystical experience is no longer relegated to so-called spiritual matters, and the insights of mystics may be applied to the Christian call to live as agents of love. With this connection in place, mystical theology and political theology come together in a theology that is both mystical and political.

Heterodox Shakespeare (Hardcover): Sean Benson Heterodox Shakespeare (Hardcover)
Sean Benson
R2,527 Discovery Miles 25 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The last quarter century has seen a "turn to religion" in Shakespeare studies as well as competing assertions by secular critics that Shakespeare's plays reflect profound skepticism and even dismissal of the truth claims of revealed religion. This divide, though real, obscures the fact that Shakespeare often embeds both readings within the same play. This book is the first to propose an accommodation between religious and secular readings of the plays. Benson argues that Shakespeare was neither a mere debunker of religious orthodoxies nor their unquestioning champion. Religious inquiry in his plays is capacious enough to explore religious orthodoxy and unorthodoxy, everything from radical belief and the need to tolerate religious dissent to the possibility of God's nonexistence. Shakespeare's willingness to explore all aspects of religious and secular life, often simultaneously, is a mark of his tremendous intellectual range. Taking the heterodox as his focus, Benson examines five figures and ideas on the margins of the post-Reformation English church: nonconforming puritans such as Malvolio as well as physical revenants-the walking dead-whom Shakespeare alludes to and features so tantalizingly in Hamlet. Benson applies what Keats called Shakespeare's "negative capability"-his ability to treat both sides of an issue equally and without prejudice-to show that Shakespeare considers possible worlds where God is intimately involved in the lives of persons and, in the very same play, a world in which God may not even exist. Benson demonstrates both that the range of Shakespeare's investigation of religious questions is more daring than has previously been thought, and that the distinction between the sacred and the profane, between the orthodox and the unorthodox, is one that Shakespeare continually engages.

The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion (Hardcover): Michael Stausberg, Steven Engler The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion (Hardcover)
Michael Stausberg, Steven Engler
R4,838 Discovery Miles 48 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion provides a comprehensive overview of the academic study of religion. Written by an international team of leading scholars, its fifty-one chapters are divided thematically into seven sections. The first section addresses five major conceptual aspects of research on religion. Part two surveys eleven main frameworks of analysis, interpretation, and explanation of religion. Reflecting recent turns in the humanities and social sciences, part three considers eight forms of the expression of religion. Part four provides a discussion of the ways societies and religions, or religious organizations, are shaped by different forms of allocation of resources. Other chapters in this section consider law, the media, nature, medicine, politics, science, sports, and tourism. Part five reviews important developments, distinctions, and arguments for each of the selected topics. The study of religion addresses religion as a historical phenomenon and part six looks at seven historical processes. Religion is studied in various ways by many disciplines, and this Handbook shows that the study of religion is an academic discipline in its own right. The disciplinary profile of this volume is reflected in part seven, which considers the history of the discipline and its relevance. Each chapter in the Handbook references at least two different religions to provide fresh and innovative perspectives on key issues in the field. This authoritative collection will advance the state of the discipline and is an invaluable reference for students and scholars.

Life at the End of Us Versus Them - Cross Culture Stories (Hardcover): Marcus Peter Rempel Life at the End of Us Versus Them - Cross Culture Stories (Hardcover)
Marcus Peter Rempel
R948 Discovery Miles 9 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Resurrection of God Incarnate (Hardcover, New): Richard Swinburne The Resurrection of God Incarnate (Hardcover, New)
Richard Swinburne
R4,453 Discovery Miles 44 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Whether or not Jesus rose bodily from the dead remains perhaps the most critical and contentious issue in Christianity. Until now, argument has centred upon the veracity of explicit New Testament accounts of the events following Jesus's crucifixion, often ending in deadlock. In Richard Swinburne's approach, though, ascertaining the probable truth of the Resurrection requires a much broader approach to the nature of God and to the life and teaching of Jesus. The Resurrection can only have occurred if God intervened in history to raise to life a man dead for 36 hours. It is therefore crucial not only to weigh the evidence of natural theology for the existence of a God who has some reason so to intervene, but also to discover whether the life and teaching of Jesus show him to be uniquely the kind of person whom God would have raised Swinburne argues that God has reason to interfere in history by becoming incarnate, and that it is highly improbable that we would find the evidence we do for the life and teaching of Jesus, as well as the evidence from witnesses to his empty tomb and later appearances, if Jesus was not God incarnate and did not rise from the dead.

Jesus and Mahomad are GOD - (Author Articles) (Hardcover): Bryan W Foster Jesus and Mahomad are GOD - (Author Articles) (Hardcover)
Bryan W Foster
R708 R635 Discovery Miles 6 350 Save R73 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Aquinas's Summa Theologiae (Hardcover, New): Brian Davies Aquinas's Summa Theologiae (Hardcover, New)
Brian Davies; Contributions by Leonard Boyle, Victor White, John Wippel, Peter Geach, …
R3,073 Discovery Miles 30 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) was first and foremost a Christian theologian. Yet he was also one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages. Drawing on classical authors, and incorporating ideas from Jewish and Arab sources, he came to offer a rounded and lasting account of the origin of the universe and of the things to be found within it, especially human beings. Aquinas wrote many works, but his greatest achievement is undoubtedly the Summa Theologiae. This presents his most mature thinking and is the best introduction to his philosophical (and theological) ideas. Few secondary books on Aquinas focus solely on the Summa, but the present volume does just that. Including work by some of the best Aquinas scholars of the last half decade, it provides a solid introduction to one of the landmarks of western thinking.

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