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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.>

Kant: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason - A Commentary (Hardcover, New): James J. Dicenso Kant: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason - A Commentary (Hardcover, New)
James J. Dicenso
R2,830 Discovery Miles 28 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is one of the great modern examinations of religion's meaning, function and impact on human affairs. In this volume, the first complete English-language commentary on the work, James J. DiCenso explains the historical context in which the book appeared, including the importance of Kant's conflict with state censorship. He shows how the Religion addresses crucial Kantian themes such as the relationship between freedom and morality, the human propensity to evil, the status of historical traditions in relation to ethical principles, and the interface between individual ethics and social institutions. The major arguments are clearly and precisely explained, and the themes are highlighted and located within Kant's mature critical philosophy, especially his ethics. The commentary will be valuable for all who are interested in the continuing relevance of religion for contemporary inquiries into ethics, public institutions and religious traditions.

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
Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation (Hardcover): St Thomas More Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation (Hardcover)
St Thomas More
R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 Ships in 12 - 19 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
Theory and Practice in Kant and Kierkegaard (Hardcover): Ulrich Knappe Theory and Practice in Kant and Kierkegaard (Hardcover)
Ulrich Knappe
R3,266 Discovery Miles 32 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work investigates crucial aspects of Kant's epistemology and ethics in relation to Kierkegaard's thinking. The challenge is taken up of developing a systematic reconstruction of Kant's and Kierkegaard's position. Kant forms a matrix for the interpretation of Kierkegaard, and considerable space is devoted to the exposition of Kant at those various points at which contact with Kierkegaard's thought is to be demonstrated. The burden of the argument is that Kierkegaard in his account of the stages is much closer to Kant than the texts initially reveal. It is possible, then, to arrive at a proper grasp of Kierkegaard's final position by seeing just how radically the stage of Christian faith (Religiousness B) departs from Kant.

Sacred Humanism without Miracles - Responding to the New Atheists (Hardcover): R. Saltman Sacred Humanism without Miracles - Responding to the New Atheists (Hardcover)
R. Saltman
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The New Atheists' claim that religion always leads to fanaticism is baseless. State-backed religion results in tyranny. Sacred humanists work to implement their highest values that will improve this world; separation of church and state, eliminating denigration of nonbelievers, assuring just governance, and preventing human trafficking.

Is God a Scientist? - A Dialogue Between Science and Religion (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): R Crawford Is God a Scientist? - A Dialogue Between Science and Religion (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
R Crawford
R1,494 Discovery Miles 14 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The scriptures of the Faiths use models to depict what God is like; namely Father, Mother, Husband, Judge, Lover, Friend, shepherd and so on. Science also uses models to advance its knowledge, and in a scientific age a model of God as the Cosmic Scientist interacting with the traditional could communicate well. It would imply that the world is a laboratory created by God in order to test whether humanity will obey his laws and live up to the values which he embraces. Using material drawn from science and six world faiths, the book shows the difference and similarity between divine and human experiments and argues that God will bring the experiment to a successful conclusion.

Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology (Hardcover, 1st ed): Richard A. Lee Jr. Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology (Hardcover, 1st ed)
Richard A. Lee Jr.
R1,505 Discovery Miles 15 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology explores the role that the singular plays in the theories of science of Robert Grosseteste, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Marsilius of Inghen, and Pierre d’Ailly. Confronting the scientific status of theology, Lee argues that the main issue is how to provide a “rational ground” for existing singulars. The book exposes how, on the eve of modernity, existing singulars were freed from the constraints of rational ground.

Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Jewish Spirituality (Hardcover, New): Lawrence J. Kaplan, Kayann Short, Abouali Farmanfarmaian Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Jewish Spirituality (Hardcover, New)
Lawrence J. Kaplan, Kayann Short, Abouali Farmanfarmaian
R3,114 Discovery Miles 31 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was the first Ashkenazic chief rabbi of mandatory Palestine. Admired for the incredible diversity of his talents and interests--talmudist, halakhist, kabbalist, mystic, theologian, moralist, poet, and communal leader--Rav Kook's world outlook extolled breadth and derided narrow specialization. More than any other Orthodox thinker in modern times, he addressed, squarely and boldly, the confrontation between Judaism and the modern world. Kook serves as a natural model to those Jews who seek a religious understanding of and response to the culture and politics of the modern age.
These essays, most published here for the first time, offer a range of analyses and interpretations covering, in an accessible, systematic, and comprehensive fashion the major areas of Rav Kook's thought. Among the issues discussed are: his relationship to the Jewish mystical, philosophical, and halakhic traditions; poetry and spirituality; harmonism and pluralism; tolerance and its limits; Zionism, messianism, and politics; and Rav Kook today.

Islamic and Comparative Religious Studies - Selected Writings (Paperback): William A. Graham Islamic and Comparative Religious Studies - Selected Writings (Paperback)
William A. Graham
R1,600 Discovery Miles 16 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

William A Graham, a leading international scholar in the field of Islamic Studies, gathers together his selected writings under three sections: 1.History and Interpretation of Islamic Religion; 2.The Qur'an as Scripture, and 3. Scripture in the History of Religion. Each section opens with a new introduction by Graham, and a bibliography of his works is included. Graham's work in Islamic studies focuses largely on the analysis and interpretation of the religious dimensions of ritual action, scriptural piety, textual authority/revelation, tradition, and major concepts, such as grace and transcendence. His work in the comparative history of religion has focused in particular on the 'problem' of scripture as a cross-cultural religious phenomenon that is more complex than simply 'sacred text'. This invaluable resource will be of primary interest to students of the Islamic tradition, especially as regards Qur'anic piety, Muslim 'ritual' practice, and fundamental structures of Islamic thought, and to students of the comparative history of religion, especially as regards the phenomenon of 'scripture' and its analogs.

Hume On Natural Religion (Hardcover): Stanley Tweyman Hume On Natural Religion (Hardcover)
Stanley Tweyman
R5,957 Discovery Miles 59 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The "Key Issues" series aims to make available the contemporary responses that met important books and debates on their first appearance. These take the form of journal articles, book extracts, public letters, sermons and pamphlets which provides an insight into the historical relevance and the social and political context in which a publication or particular topic emerged. Each volume brings together some of the key responses to the works. This is the second volume of a two-volume set containing important secondary literature on Hume on religion. This text focuses on general remarks on Hume's life and philosophy, his "Natural History of Religion", "Dialogues Concerning Natural religion", and his work on the immortality of the soul and suicide, containing material ranging from 1755 to 1907. Authors include: William Warburton, Henry O'Connor and George Giles.

Heidegger's Pauline and Lutheran Roots (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Duane Armitage Heidegger's Pauline and Lutheran Roots (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Duane Armitage
R3,109 Discovery Miles 31 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this work of philosophy, theology, and intellectual history, Duane Armitage offers a clear interpretation of Heidegger's enigmatic theology as uniquely Pauline and Lutheran. He argues that the real impetus, aim, and structure of Heidegger's philosophy of religion as well as his philosophy as a whole, are rooted in Pauline (and Lutheran) ontology. He thus demonstrates that continental philosophy of religion, and, to an extent, Continental Philosophy as a whole, is indebted to St. Paul and Martin Luther. This examination also shows how much of continental thinking itself is traceable to Heidegger's onto-theological critique and hence to Luther and St. Paul. Armitage argues that St. Paul and Luther, or at least Luther's specific reading of St. Paul, remain the un-thought origins of postmodern thinking on religion, and perhaps postmodern thinking in general.

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