Contested Ethnicities and Images (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, #345)
by David L. Balch
Ethnic values changed as Imperial Rome expanded, challenging ethnocentric values in Rome itself, as well as in Greece and Judea. Rhetorically, Roman, Greek, and Judean writers who eulogized their cities all claimed they would receive foreigners. Further, Greco-Roman narratives of urban tensions between rich and poor, proud and humble, promoted reconciliation and fellowship between social classes. Luke wrote Acts in this ethnic, economic, political context, narrating Jesus as a founder who change...
INTRO to the Life and Teachings of the Father of Modern Humanism
by John Hasslar Dietrich
In his latest book, Horizons of Difference: Engaging with Others, Fred Dallmayr argues that the dialogue between religious and secular commitments, between faith and reason, is particularly important in our time because both faith and reason can give rise to dangerous and destructive types of extremism, fanaticism, or idolatry. In this interdisciplinary and cross-cultural synthesis of philosophy, religious thought, and political theory, Dallmayr neither accepts the "clash of cultures" dichotomy...
While some see the comic as trivial, fit mainly for amusement or distraction, Soren Kierkegaard disagrees. This book examines Kierkegaard's earnest understanding of the nature of the comic and how even the triviality of comic jest is deeply tied to ethics and religion. It rigorously explicates terms such as "irony," "humor," "jest," and "comic" in Kierkegaard, revealing them to be essential to his philosophical and theological program, beyond aesthetic interest alone. Drawing centrally from Kie...
Islam in a World of Diverse Faiths (Library of Philosophy and Religion)
Today the Islamic faith has exploded on the contemporary scene. On television and in newspapers Islam is depicted as playing a major role in world events. In this illuminating volume distinguished Muslim, Christian and Jewish writers explore the nature of the Islamic religion and its impact on a pluralistic society. In diverse ways they present a new and challenging vision of dialogue between the three monotheistic faiths in the modern world.
Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies, #83)
Islamic intellectual thought is at the center of this collection of articles honoring Dimitri Gutas by friends, colleagues, and former students. The essays cover three main areas: the classical heritage and Islamic culture; classical Arabic science and philosophy; and Muslim traditional sciences. They show the interconnectedness between the Islamic intellectual tradition and its historical predecessors of Greek and Persian provenance, ranging from poetry to science and philosophy. Yet, at the sa...
Breve Historia de la Filosofia Islamica
by Ernest Yassine Bendriss
Today's antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim its hatred or fear of Jews. This book looks at the kind of antisemitism which is tolerated or which goes unacknowledged in apparently democratic spaces: trade unions, churches, left-wing and liberal politics, social gatherings of the chattering classes and the seminars and journals of radical intellectuals. It analyses how criticism of Israel can mushroom into antisem...
No child of this century, women s liberation existed as a Christian movement in the 2nd century. In this first study of the social context that produced the Apocryphal Acts, Stevan L. Davies contends that women wrote the Acts and that the Acts appear to have been a striving by Christian women for both a mode of self-expression and a way to preach rebellion for the sake of sexual continence. These early rebelscalled widows because they left their husbands for the churchrefused absolute subservien...
Religion and the Rise of Western Culture
by Christopher 1889-1970 Dawson
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.
Our Quaker Friends of Ye Olden Time
by James Pinkney Pleasant Bell