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Zum Thema 'Marcion und seine Weltanschauung' wurde bislang Tertullians Werk gegen diesen Haretiker zumeist steinbruchartig benutzt, um daraus Erkenntnisse uber den marcionitischen Streit zu gewinnen. Dieses Werk hingegen sucht Tertullians eigene Strategien, Methoden der Argumentation sowie rhetorische Mittel zu analysieren. UEber diese Interpretation hinaus mussen in einem ersten Schritt freilich auch Einleitungsfragen wie die nach der Genese oder den Adressaten des Werkes eroertert werden. Gema...

Freuds Kritik an der Religion und an der analytischen Philosophie ist vollstandig zuruckzuweisen. Aufgrund seines naturalistischen Denkens ist Freud zu keiner substantiellen Auseinandersetzung mit den von ihm kritisierten Positionen in der Lage. Seine eigene Position unterwandert auf eine Weise die Beachtung der Wurde des Menschen, die sie zu einer wissenschaftlich untermauert sein sollenden Legitimation problematischer Vorstellungen von Gesellschaft werden lasst.

In 1875, the geophysicist Balfour Stewart and the mathematician P. G. Tait published the second edition of The Unseen Universe. The book's aim had been 'to overthrow materialism by a purely scientific argument', and its initial success, and the controversy it aroused, prompted this revised edition. The treatise suggests that science and religion could be reconciled, and that by using science, it could be proved that the soul survives after death. The book begins with a historical account of the...

Emmanuel Levinas conceives of our lives as fundamentally interpersonal and ethical, claiming that our responsibilities to one another should shape all of our actions. While many scholars believe that Levinas failed to develop a robust view of political ethics, Michael L. Morgan argues against understandings of Levinas's thought that find him politically wanting or even antipolitical. Morgan examines Levinas's ethical critique of the political as well as his Jewish writings-including those on Zio...

Through an examination of Christian interaction with other religions, Paul S. Chung constructs a theology of comparative religion. In the course of this construction, he employs the work of Ernst Troeltsch, Robert Bellah, and Karl Barth, while offering case studies of transformative interaction between Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. Chung's interdisciplinary approach opens up new avenues for inter-religious understanding and melding, for instance exploring the development of a Protestant Isl...

W. W. Buckland's highly regarded magisterial work of 1908 is a scholarly and thorough description of the principles of the Roman law with regard to slavery. Chapters systematically address, in Buckland's words, 'the most characteristic part of the most characteristic intellectual product of Rome'. In minute detail, Buckland surveys slaves and the complexity of the position of the slave in Roman law, describing how slaves are treated both as animals and as free men. He begins by outlining the def...

An examination of the nature of religion from a philosophical perspective. In successive chapters classical, mediaeval and modern authors are canvassed for their views. Even among those who find no evidence for the existence of God, we encounter discussions of the nature of religion and its function in society. This study begins in antiquity with Socrates, Plato, Cicero and Seneca. It then moves through Augustine to the Middle Ages as represented by Averroes and Aquinas. By so proceeding, the au...

In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied with the relationship between faith and reason, he was influenced both by Aristotle's rational world view and by the powerful belief that wisdom and truth can ultimately only be reached through divine revelation. Thomas's writings, which contain highly influential statements of fundamental Christian doctrine, as well as observations on topics as diverse as p...