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A Logical Approach to Spirituality - Shattering the Religious Paradigm and Finding Your Inner Truth (Hardcover): Randy Kleinman A Logical Approach to Spirituality - Shattering the Religious Paradigm and Finding Your Inner Truth (Hardcover)
Randy Kleinman
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Call of Modernity and Islam - A Muslim's Journey Into the 21st Century (Hardcover, Revised with New Afterword ed.):... The Call of Modernity and Islam - A Muslim's Journey Into the 21st Century (Hardcover, Revised with New Afterword ed.)
Jamal Khwaja
R991 R853 Discovery Miles 8 530 Save R138 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
What is a Rune? and Other Essays (Hardcover): Collin Cleary What is a Rune? and Other Essays (Hardcover)
Collin Cleary; Edited by Greg Johnson
R875 R722 Discovery Miles 7 220 Save R153 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Discourses on the Bhagavat Gita (Hardcover): Tiruvalum Subba Row Discourses on the Bhagavat Gita (Hardcover)
Tiruvalum Subba Row
R818 Discovery Miles 8 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Magic of Prayer - An Introduction to the Psychology of Faith (Hardcover, New): M.D. Faber The Magic of Prayer - An Introduction to the Psychology of Faith (Hardcover, New)
M.D. Faber
R2,218 Discovery Miles 22 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This comprehensive, psychological, and naturalistic analysis of prayer offers an alternative to William James's model of prayer, represented in his work "The Varieties of Religious Experience," which links supplication to the divine or supernatural realm. Through his examination of prayer, and its connection to faith, Faber also analyzes religious faith psychologically and anthropologically, concluding that subjective prayer is finally an instance of homeopathic magical conduct. It ritualistically conjures up, according to the author, a version of the first, primal, biological situation, in which the dependent little one cries out to a parental big one for physical and emotional nourishment. Eventually, religion...and its expression of faith through prayer, provides us with a magical protective presence that is natural in its return to the primal, rather than supernatural, as James argues, in its presence and existence.

The very instructional details of individual prayer, Faber argues, are unconsciously designed to recreate the magical alliance through which our existence on the planet commences and goes forward. Over and over again, dozens of times each day, thousands of times each year, the little one asks and the big one sees to it that the little one receives. Such asking and receiving is the central feature of a child's existence. As we internalize this reality and seek to re-create it in our adult lives, religious conviction and faith--as it comes through prayer--helps us to achieve a sense of security and a psychic return to the parental alliance. Faber's compelling arguments will challenge readers to consider prayer and faith as a magical circle of religious belief and to examine afresh the underlying nature of supplication.

Superstition in All Ages; a Dying Confession (Hardcover): Paul Henri Thiry  Baron D'holbach, Divine Mental and Congress of... Superstition in All Ages; a Dying Confession (Hardcover)
Paul Henri Thiry Baron D'holbach, Divine Mental and Congress of Ancient; Jean 1664-1729 Meslier
R942 Discovery Miles 9 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Christian Philosophy, God - Being A Contribution To A Philosophy Of Theism (Hardcover): John T (John Thomas) 1866- Driscoll Christian Philosophy, God - Being A Contribution To A Philosophy Of Theism (Hardcover)
John T (John Thomas) 1866- Driscoll
R1,042 Discovery Miles 10 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
De-Fragmenting Modernity (Hardcover): Paul Tyson De-Fragmenting Modernity (Hardcover)
Paul Tyson
R923 R790 Discovery Miles 7 900 Save R133 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Origins of the Druze People and Religion (Hardcover): Philip K. Hitti The Origins of the Druze People and Religion (Hardcover)
Philip K. Hitti
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion (Hardcover): Sami Pihlstroem Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion (Hardcover)
Sami Pihlstroem
R2,284 Discovery Miles 22 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion develops a distinctive approach to pragmatist philosophy of religion, and more generally to pragmatist investigations of the human search for meaning, by emphasizing what may be considered two closely interrelated main features of this tradition: humanism and antitheodicism. Humanism here emphasizes the need to focus on religion as a human practice within human concerns of meaningfulness and significance, as distinguished from any metaphysical search for cosmic meaning. Antitheodicism, in turn, stands for the refusal to accept any justification, divine or secular, for the experiences of meaninglessness that individuals undergoing horrendous suffering may have. Developing a critical form of pragmatism emphasizing these ideas, Sami Pihlstroem explores the relations between pragmatism and analytic philosophy in the philosophy of religion, especially regarding the question of religious meaning, as well as the significance of literature for philosophy of religion, with particular emphasis on William James's pragmatism.

On the Intrinsic Value of Everything (Hardcover, New): Scott A. Davison On the Intrinsic Value of Everything (Hardcover, New)
Scott A. Davison
R3,365 Discovery Miles 33 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

On the Intrinsic Value of Everything is an illuminating introduction to fundamental questions in ethics. How--and to what--we assign value, whether it is to events or experiences or objects or people, is central to ethics. Something is intrinsically valuable only if it would be valued for its own sake by all fully informed, properly functioning persons. Davison defends the controversial view that everything that exists is intrinsically valuable to some degree. If only some things are intrinsically valuable, what about other things? Where and how do we draw the cutoff point? If only living creatures are intrinsically valuable, what does this imply for how we value the environment? If everything has intrinsic value, what practical implications does this have for how we live our lives? How does this view fit with the traditional theistic idea that God is the source of goodness and truth? Both critics and proponents of the concept of intrinsic value will find something of interest in this careful investigation of the basic value structure of the world.

Vasilii Rozanov and the Creation - The Edenic Vision and the Rejection of Eschatology (Hardcover, New): Adam Ure Vasilii Rozanov and the Creation - The Edenic Vision and the Rejection of Eschatology (Hardcover, New)
Adam Ure
R4,587 Discovery Miles 45 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides the first detailed study in English of the religious philosophy of Vasilii Rozanov, one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of Russia's Silver Age. It examines his subversion of traditional Russian Orthodoxy, including his reverence for the Creation, his focus on the family, and his worship of sex.Rozanov is one of the towering figures of Russian culture, a major influence on thinkers and writers such as Bakhtin, Maiakovskii, and Mandelshtam, as well as many European writers. He critiqued Orthodox theology, and wrote extensively on philosophy, literature, and politics, and helped reform marriage and divorce laws.His enormous contribution to Russian thought has been largely neglected, and much of his work has been misunderstood. Ure addresses this by examining the basis of Rozanov's religious philosophy, the Creation of the Earth and the Book of Genesis.>

Twelve Lectures on the Connexion Between Science and Revealed Religion - Delivered in Rome (Hardcover): Nicholas Patrick... Twelve Lectures on the Connexion Between Science and Revealed Religion - Delivered in Rome (Hardcover)
Nicholas Patrick 1802-1865 Wiseman
R1,108 Discovery Miles 11 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Genesis of the New England Churches (Paperback): Leonard Bacon The Genesis of the New England Churches (Paperback)
Leonard Bacon
R1,283 Discovery Miles 12 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Theory of Spectral Rhetoric - The Word between the Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Seth Pierce A Theory of Spectral Rhetoric - The Word between the Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Seth Pierce
R2,616 Discovery Miles 26 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book synthesizes Jacques Derrida's hauntology and spectrality with affect theory, in order to create a rhetorical framework analyzing the felt absences and hauntings of written and oral texts. The book opens with a history of hauntology, spectrality, and affect theory and how each of those ideas have been applied. The book then moves into discussing the unique elements of the rhetorical framework known as the rhetorrectional situation. Three case studies taken from the Christian tradition, serve to demonstrate how spectral rhetoric works. The first is fictional, C.S. Lewis 'The Great Divorce. The second is non-fiction, Tim Jennings 'The God Shaped Brain. The final one is taken from homiletics, Bishop Michael Curry's royal wedding 2018 sermon. After the case studies conclusion offers the reader a summary and ideas future applications for spectral rhetoric.

The Imitation of Christ (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover): Thomas... The Imitation of Christ (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
Thomas A Kempis
R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
God The Creator Of Both Evil And Good For Our Benefit (Hardcover): Pinson H God The Creator Of Both Evil And Good For Our Benefit (Hardcover)
Pinson H
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Antiphilosophy of Christianity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Ghislain Deslandes Antiphilosophy of Christianity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Ghislain Deslandes
R3,119 Discovery Miles 31 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This text presents and addresses the philosophical movement of antiphilosophy working thru the texts of Christian thinkers such as Pascal and Kierkegaard. The author as influenced by Alain Badiou, portrays these Christian thinkers as of a subjective dimension negating the possibility of an objective quest for truth. The claim here is that antiphilosophy is abundant in the eyes of these two thinkers who frame the thought event as represented by Christianity, ultimately resigning itself to more or less the opposite of philosophy itself. Readers will discover why philosophical reason should never be convinced by that which denies its very authority. Subjecting faith to the perils of philosophical analysis, confronting the philosophical tradition with the truth of the Christian faith, and occupying the space between the two: such are the challenges facing an antiphilosophy of Christianity. This text will appeal to researchers and students working in continental philosophy, philosophy of religion and those in religious studies who want to investigate the links between Christianity and antiphilosophy.

Infidels and Unreasonable Gods - Do Not Necessarily Despair of Being Possessed by Unreasonable Ideas (Hardcover): James Morrison Infidels and Unreasonable Gods - Do Not Necessarily Despair of Being Possessed by Unreasonable Ideas (Hardcover)
James Morrison
R969 Discovery Miles 9 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
What is a God? - Philosophical Perspectives on Divine Essence in the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover): Jaco Gericke What is a God? - Philosophical Perspectives on Divine Essence in the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)
Jaco Gericke
R4,233 Discovery Miles 42 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book Jaco Gericke is concerned with different ways of approaching the question of what, according to the Hebrew Bible, a god was assumed to be. As a supplement to the tradition of predominantly linguistic, historical, literary, comparative, social-scientific and related ways of looking at the research problem, Gericke offers a variety of experimental philosophical perspectives that aim to take a step back from the scholarly discussion as it has unfolded hitherto in order to provide a new type of worry when looking at the riddle of what the biblical texts assumed made a god divine. Consisting of a brief history of philosophical interpretations of the concepts of whatness and essence from Socrates to Derrida, the relevant ideas are adapted and reapplied to look at some interesting metaphysical oddities arising from generic uses of elohim/el/eloah as common noun in the Hebrew Bible. As such the study seeks to be a prolegomenon to all future research in that, instead of answering the question regarding a supposed nature of divinity, it aims to complicate it beyond expectation. In this way a case is made for a more nuanced and indeterminate manner of constructing the problem of what it meant to call something a god.

Evgenii Trubetskoi (Hardcover): Teresa Obolevitch, Randall A. Poole Evgenii Trubetskoi (Hardcover)
Teresa Obolevitch, Randall A. Poole
R1,071 Discovery Miles 10 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Philosophy of Religion: The Key Thinkers (Hardcover): Jeffrey J Jordan Philosophy of Religion: The Key Thinkers (Hardcover)
Jeffrey J Jordan
R4,230 Discovery Miles 42 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is an accessible survey of the most important thinkers on Religion, from Aquinas, through Kant to William James. Arguments concerning the existence and nature of God have been a staple of western philosophy for over 2,000 years. "Philosophy of Religion: The Key Thinkers" offers a comprehensive historical overview of this fascinating field. Nine specially commissioned essays introduce and explore the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject and the central issues and arguments therein. The book reconstructs the history of the philosophy of religion, clearly illustrating the most important attempts to address such crucial issues as the ontological argument, the cosmological argument, the problem of evil, miracles, the moral argument, the design argument, religious experience and the idea of god. Thinkers covered include Anselm, Aquinas, Pascal, Hume, Kant, Paley and James. Crucially the book demonstrates why the ideas and arguments these key thinkers developed are still relevant in contemporary thought. Ideal for undergraduate students, the book lays the necessary foundations for a complete and thorough understanding of this fascinating subject.

King Secularism (Hardcover): John H Ludlum King Secularism (Hardcover)
John H Ludlum
R1,298 Discovery Miles 12 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
An Axiomatic Study of God - A Defence of the Rationality of Religion (Hardcover): Paul Weingartner An Axiomatic Study of God - A Defence of the Rationality of Religion (Hardcover)
Paul Weingartner
R4,021 Discovery Miles 40 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Weingartner shows that an essential part of natural or philosophical theology and even a part of theology can be treated axiomatically. God's essence, omniscience, omnipotence, creating activity, and all-goodness are described by axioms and by theorems proved from them.

The Gift of the Self - A Theology and Liturgy for Living as a Generous Soul (Hardcover): Matthew Harp The Gift of the Self - A Theology and Liturgy for Living as a Generous Soul (Hardcover)
Matthew Harp
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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