Religious Quest and National Identity in the Balkans (Studies in Russia and East Europe)
by Celia Hawkesworth, Muriel Heppell, and Harry Norris
This book offers rare insights into the cultural traditions that have shaped the Balkan region - from pagan times, through folk culture, the medieval Christian churches, the encounter between Christianity and Islam, up to the religious and national mythologies that have proved so destructive in the present day. With the Balkans a central focus of European concern at the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume is a timely reminder of the complex cultural processes that continue to affe...
Reading the Islamic City (Toposophia: Sustainability, Dwelling, Design)
by Akel Ismail Kahera
The Adventure of Weak Theology (SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought)
by Stefan Stofanik
In the digital world, Kierkegaard's thought is valuable in thinking about aesthetics as a component of human development, both including but moving beyond the religious context as its primary center of meaning. Seeing human formation as interrelated with aesthetics makes art a vital dimension of human existence. Contributing to the debate about Kierkegaard's conception of the aesthetic, Kierkegaard, Aesthetics, and Selfhood argues that Kierkegaard's primary concern is to provocatively explore h...
The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of Its History Volume 4
by Otto Pfleiderer
Religion Und Gottesgedanke (Beitraege Zur Rationalen Theologie, #7)
by Falk Wagner
'A revelatory classic' Maria Popova 'A spiritual polymath, the first and possibly greatest' Deepak ChopraWhat we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriouslyToo often we fall into the trap of anticipating the future while lamenting the past and in the midst of this negative loop we forget how to live in the now. In this iconic and prescient text, pioneering Zen scholar Alan Watts shows us how, in an age of unprecedented anxiety...
Christianity and the "Enlightenment" Thinkers
by Father James F Graner
Of this book, based on his lectures at Lake Forest College in 1911. Josiah Royce wrote, "It is one of the easiest of my books to read...it contains the whole sense of me in a brief compass." Here Royce probes the neuralgic point in the philosophy of religion. The essays aim at religious unity and emphasize communal religious experience based on a faith shared by a community's members through their authentic loyalty and deeds of service. It is an urgently needed counterpoint to William James's in...
The problem of abstract entities is one with which philosophers have grappled since Plato's time. Questions like "What are universals?", "What are numbers?", as well as the very general "What are abstract entities?", seem to be some of the most puzzling in philosophy. In this book, the author approaches such questions via an account of the logic of abstract terms. Such terms, he argues, have in common that they are eliminable by paraphrase, in a way that undercuts realism (or Platonism), while a...
Mitleid (Religion in Philosophy and Theology, #28)
Wie kommt es, dass wir Mitleid empfinden? Ist Mitleid eine Emotion oder eine Tugend? In welchem Verhaltnis stehen Mitgefuhl und Empathie, passion, pity and compassion, Mitleid, Erbarmen und Nachstenliebe? Wodurch zeichnet sich ein spezifisch christliches Verstandnis von Mitleid aus? Und wie verhalt sich das zur Passion Christi, zur Barmherzigkeit und zur Nachstenliebe?
Dante and Derrida (SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought)
by Francis J. Ambrosio
Abraham Geiger's Liberal Judaism (Jewish Literature and Culture)
by Ken Koltun-Fromm
German rabbi, scholar, and theologian Abraham Geiger (1810-1874) is recognized as the principal leader of the Reform movement in German Judaism. In his new work, Ken Koltun-Fromm argues that for Geiger personal meaning in religion-rather than rote ritual practice or acceptance of dogma-was the key to religion's moral authority. In five chapters, the book explores issues central to Geiger's work that speak to contemporary Jewish practice-historical memory, biblical interpretation, ritual and gend...