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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Theology
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1148 - 1210) wrote prolifically in the
disciplines of theology, Quranic exegesis, and philosophy. He
composed treatises on jurisprudence, medicine, physiognomy,
astronomy, and astrology. His body of work marks a momentous
turning point in the Islamic tradition and his influence within the
post-classical Islamic tradition is striking. After his death in
1210 his works became standard textbooks in Islamic institutions of
higher learning. Razi investigates his transformative contributions
to the Islamic intellectual tradition. One of the leading
representatives of Sunni orthodoxy in medieval Islam, Razi was the
first intellectual to exploit the rich heritage of ancient and
Islamic philosophy to interpret the Quran. Jaffer uncovers Razi's
boldly unconventional intellectual aspirations. The book elucidates
the development of Razi's unique appropriation of methods and ideas
from ancient and Islamic philosophy into a unified Quranic
commentary-and consequently into the Sunni worldview. Jaffer shows
that the genre of Quranic commentary in the post-classical period
contains a wealth of philosophical material that is of major
interest for the history of philosophical ideas in Islam and for
the interaction of the aqli ("rational") and naqli ("traditional")
sciences in Islamic civilization. Jaffer demonstrates the ways Razi
reconciled the opposing intellectual trends of his milieu on major
methodological conflicts. A highly original work, this book
brilliantly repositions the central aims of Razi's intellectual
program.
This exciting collection of papers is an international, ecumenical,
and interdisciplinary study of Jesus' resurrection that emerged
from the "Resurrection Summit" meeting held in New York at Easter
of 1996. The contributions represent mainstream scholarship on
biblical studies, fundamental theology, systematic theology,
philosophy, moral theology, and homiletics. Contributors represent
a wide range of viewpoints and denominations and include Richard
Swinburne, Janet Martin Soskice, Peter F. Carnley, Sarah Coakley,
Willian Lane Craig, William P. Alston, M. Shawn Copeland, Paul
Rhodes Eddy, Francis Schussler Fiorenza, Brian V. Johnstone, Carey
C. Newman, Alan G. Padgett, Pheme Perkins, Alan F. Segal,
Marguerite Shuster, and John Wilkins. Combined, they offer a
timely, wide ranging, and well balanced work on the central truth
of Christianity."
The Russian school of modern Orthodox theology has made an immense
but undervalued contribution to Christian thought. Neglected in
Western theology, and viewed with suspicion by some other schools
of Orthodox theology, its three greatest thinkers have laid the
foundations for a new ecumenism and a recovery of the cosmic
dimension of Christianity. This ground-breaking study includes
biographical sketches of Aleksandr Bukharev (Archimandrite Feodor),
Vladimir Soloviev and Sergii Bulgakov, together with the necessary
historical background. Professor Valliere then examines the
creative ideas they devised or adapted, including the ?humanity of
God?, sophiology, panhumanity, free theocracy, church-and-world
dogmatics and prophetic ecumenism.
Karl Barth (1886-1968) was a prolific theologian of the 20th
century. Dr Gorringe places the theology in its social and
political context, from World War I through to the Cold War by
following Barth's intellectual development through the years that
saw the rise of national socialism and the development of
communism. Barth initiated a theological revolution in his two
"Commentaries on Romans", begun during World War I. His attempt to
deepen this during the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic made
him a focus of theological resistance to Hitler after the rise to
power of the Nazi party. Expelled from Germany, he continued to
defy fashionable opinion by refusing to condemn communism after
World War II. Drawing on a German debate largely ignored by
Anglo-Saxon theology, Dr Gorringe shows that Barth responds to the
events of his time not just in his occasional writings, but in his
magnum opus, the "Church Dogmatics". In conclusion Dr Gorringe asks
what this admittedly patriarchal author still has to contribute to
contemporary theology, and in particular human liberation. This
book is intended for undergraduate courses in theology and history
of doctrine.
Thirty years ago, Alvin Plantinga gave a lecture called "Two Dozen
(or so) Theistic Arguments," which served as an underground
inspiration for two generations of scholars and students. In it, he
proposed a number of novel and creative arguments for the existence
of God which have yet to receive the attention they deserve. In Two
Dozen (or so) Arguments for God, each of Plantinga's original
suggestions, many of which he only briefly sketched, is developed
in detail by a wide variety of accomplished scholars. The authors
look to metaphysics, epistemology, semantics, ethics, aesthetics,
and beyond, finding evidence for God in almost every dimension of
reality. Those arguments new to natural theology are more fully
developed, and well-known arguments are given new life. Not only
does this collection present ground-breaking research, but it lays
the foundations for research projects for years to come.
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