Philosophical Thinking and the Religious Context
This new collection covers a wide range of cutting-edge and timely questions in contemporary philosophy of religion from a rich variety of backgrounds and perspectives. The essays in the volume deal with a range of fascinating topics in the philosophy of religion such as views of God's nature in process philosophy and theology, process views compared with traditional views (such as that found in St Thomas Aquinas), teleology and purpose in human life and in the universe, religion and evolution,...
Einheit Und Vielheit ALS Metaphysisches Problem (Collegium Metaphysicum, #3)
Multilateral Theology (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies)
by Timothy T.N Lim
This book introduces a new "multilateral" methodology for the contemporary study of theology. It bases this methodology on the idea that there are too many materials contributing as sources for theologizing to sustain the "one method fits all" approach found in many systematic theologies within Christianity. What is needed instead is something that reflects the various and varied natures, purposes, and tasks of theologians’ theologizing for their respective contexts. Engaging materials from a r...
Codices, Avicenna Latinus, Volume Codices
In the years 1961-1972 Marie-Therese d'Alverny published in Archives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Litteraire du Moyen Age 11 fascicles of a study of the codicological tradition of the Latin Avicenna. In these she identifies and describes more than 150 Latin manuscripts of the Avicennan corpus preserved in European libraries, thus laying the foundation for work later published in the Avicenna Latinus series. These fascicles are photomechanically reprinted here, together with hitherto unpublished mate...
Vom Leben Zum Lebensquell (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, #292)
by H Emil Hocevar
Obwohl H. Plessner als Mitbegrunder der modernen philosophischen Anthropologie allgemein anerkannt ist, wurde sein gerade heute so aktuelles Hauptanliegen eines gigantischen Bruckenschlages von der Welt des Lebendigen zur Welt des Geistes bisher viel zu wenig beachtet. Die vorliegenden funf Beitrage versuchen unter dem Gesichtspunkt dieses hochst eigenstandigen Denkkonzeptes eine Reihe von aktuellen Fragen anzureissen, sei es nun ein zeitgemasses Verstandnis christlicher Dogmen und des Begriffes...
Evans' analysis of Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments and Concluding Unscientific Postscript introduces even the nonspecialist to two of Kierkegaard's most challenging works without minimizing the complex nature of his philosophy. Evans honors Kierkegaard's wish not to be confused with his pseudonyms and so frames the discussion around the thoughts of "Johannes Climacus." Yet, Evans highlights the similarities between Climacus' and Kierkegaard's ideas while setting them in conversation with...
The inspiration of the Bible is central to Christian faith, yet there is no general agreement on the nature of this inspiration. Here Kern Robert Trembath reviews seven major evangelical explanations of inspiration and demonstrates that all either view the Bible itself as the actual recipient of inspiration or explain biblical authority on grounds more appropriate to the doctrine of God.
Spinoza and Theology (Philosophy and Theology)
by Lecturer in Philosophy Daniel Whistler and Jenny Bunker
Spinoza and Theology is a comprehensive examination of Spinoza's legacy in theology. It assesses his dual representation as a heretic against whom theology must defend itself, and as a proponent of ethical thinking. The volume investigates Spinoza's argument for the existence of God and how this conception differs from other philosophical and religious variants. Further emphasis is placed on the radical Enlightenment context of Spinoza's rejection of key elements of the theological tradition. A...
Forschungen zur systematischen und Akumenischen Theologie
by Christoph Klein
Zwischen dem westlichen GebetsverstAndnis als "GesprAch mit Gott" und der ostkirchlichen Gebetspraxis als "Verbindung oder Einheit mit Gott" besteht eine Kluft. In zehn Kapiteln untersucht Klein die Probleme des Betens und des betenden Menschen sowie die Quelle des Gebets und die Frage nach dem Gott, zu dem gebetet, und der Welt, in der gebetet wird. Er zeigt Weisen, Typen, Wege und Praktiken des Gebets auf. Jedes Kapitel besteht aus drei Abschnitten: der Darstellung der Problematik zunAchst aus...
Do we have free will? And if we don't, why do we feel as if we do? Popular author Dan Barker examines the way we make choices in this world through his original concept of "harmonic free will": a philosophy that acknowledges both the impersonal laws of cause and effect that govern our world, as well as our own independent volition-without ever seeing these two perspectives as contradictory.
Das Aufeinandertreffen verschiedener Religionen, Ideologien oder religios-philosophischer Anschauungen in dieser Welt fuhrt nicht selten zu Hass, Gewalt und Trennung. Die Arbeit soll am Beispiel von Buddhismus und Christentum die Notwendigkeit und Bedeutung eines interreligiosen Dialogs in der heutigen Zeit verdeutlichen und ein Anstoss fur die Entwicklung einer Meta-Spiritualitat, Meta-Religionsphilosophie und Meta-Theologie sein. Zu diesem Zweck wurde im ersten Teil der Arbeit die Entwicklung...
The world we engage with is a vibrant collage brought to consciousness by language and our creative imagination. It is through the symbolic forms of language that the human world of value is revealed-this is where religious scholar Michael Fishbane dwells in his latest contribution to Jewish thought. In Fragile Finitude, Fishbane clears new ground for a theological life through a novel reinterpretation of the Book of Job. On this basis, he offers a contemporary engagement with the four classic...
The Ethics of Death: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives in Dialogue
by Lloyd Steffen and Dennis R Cooley
The Problem of Perception and the Experience of God (Emerging Scholars)
by Sameer Yadav
A fundamental problem in Christian theology has been that of determining whether God can be an object of experience and how we should account for God's empirical availability to us. The central claim in this work is that there is a radical mistake in many contemporary accounts that require grounding a theological story of God's availability to us in experience in a prior general philosophical theory of perception. Instead, it is argued that the philosophical problem of perception is a pseudoprob...
Metaphors of Light (European University Studies, v. 622)
by Luis Henrique Dreher
G. I. Gurdjieff
This volume presents a selection of writings based on papers originally presented at the G.I. Gurdjieff: Caucasian Influence in Contemporary Life and Thought conferences or, as they came to be called, the Armenia-Gurdjieff Conferences, which were held in Yerevan, Armenia in the summers from 2004-2007. Gurdjieff was born in Gyumri, Armenia, to an Armenian mother and a Cappadocian-Greek father, and was raised in eastern Asia Minor and the Caucasus. According to his own accounting, he spent his ear...