The legal position of parents and families in this country has changed dramatically in the last twenty years. This book aims to assist ministers and congregations who in the next few years, will need to explore their pastoral care of families and consider their approaches to some of the modern structures of family life. The book contains a clear and accessible account of the modern legal structures of family life, together with the history of marriage and families, showing that these do not conf...
Pious Jews of the Second Temple period sought to conform their lives to Torah, the law God had given Israel. Their different sects disagreed, however, on how to interpret particular laws and even on the question of who had the authority to interpret them. Jesus and his earliest followers, while focusing primarily on what they believed God was doing in their own day, were repeatedly confronted with issues raised by its relation to God's prior revelation in Torah. This volume contains studies by S...
Wie integriert Augustin in den Fruhdialogen mit Hilfe logischer Schlussverfahren christliche Lehrsatze in den philosophischen Diskurs? Tobias Uhle untersucht Augustins dialektische, das heisst logische, Argumentation in den Cassiciacum-Dialogen ( Contra Academicos, De beata vita, De ordine und Soliloquia, inklusive De immortalitate animae). Obwohl Augustins Argumentation zunachst ausschliesslich von pagan-philosophischen Pramissen ausgeht und spezifisch Christliches unsichtbar bzw. im Hintergrun...
This third edition of Philosophy of Religion offers a wide variety of readings designed to introduce students to important issues in the philosophy of religion. The authors have coupled new readings-including essays by Robert M. Adams, Peter Van Inwagen, and William P. Alston-with readings from classical philosophers, thus offering instructors and students an even more comprehensive and well-focused textbook. Many of the essays are particularly accessible to beginning philosophy students. New es...
If I am asked in the framework of Book 1, "Who are you?" I, in answering, might say "I don't know who in the world I am." Nevertheless there is a sense in which I always know what "I" refers to and can never not know, even if I have become, e.g., amnesiac. Yet in Book 2, "Who are you?" has other senses of oneself in mind than the non-sortal "myself". For example, it might be the pragmatic context, as in a bureaucratic setting; but "Who are you?" or "Who am I?" might be more anguished and be rend...
Women and Gender in Ancient Religions (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, #263)
Following a scholarly conference given in honor of Adela Yarbro Collins, this collection of essays offers focused studies on the wide range of ways that women and gender contribute to the religious landscape of the ancient world. Experts in Greek and Roman religions, Early Christianity, Ancient Judaism, and Ancient Christianity engage in literary, social, historical, and cultural analysis of various ancient texts, inscriptions, social phenomena, and cultic activity. These studies continue the we...
Kult und Macht (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe, #319)
Im Mai 2008 fand im Rahmen des Graduiertenkollegs "Goetterbilder - Gottesbilder - Weltbilder: Polytheismus und Monotheismus in der Welt der Antike" an der Theologischen Fakultat der Georg-August-Universitat Goettingen ein internationales Kolloquium zu den Wechselbeziehungen von Religion und Herrschaft im syro-palastinischen Raum in hellenistisch-roemischer Zeit statt. Der daraus entstandene Sammelband enthalt den Grossteil der gehaltenen Vortrage und wurde um einige Beitrage erweitert. Mithilfe...
Das Buch hat eine theologiegeschichtliche Themenstellung im Grenzbereich von Theologie und Philosophie zum Inhalt. Fichte hatte 1798 im "Philosophischen Journal" den sogenannten Atheismusstreit ausgelost. In dieser Monographie wird die wenig erforschte Vorgeschichte des Streites untersucht. Es wird dargestellt, wie die theologische und philosophische Kontroverse nach dem Erscheinen von Fichtes religionskritischer Schrift "Versuch einer Kritik aller Offenbarung" von 1792 verlaufen ist. Hier falle...
This book critically examines three distinct interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein, those of George Lindbeck, David Tracy, and David Burrell, while paying special attention to the topic of interreligious disagreement. In theological and philosophical work on interreligious communication, Ludwig Wittgenstein has been interpreted in very different, sometimes contradicting ways. This is partly due to the nature of Wittgenstein's philosophical investigation, which does not consist of a theory nor d...
Realitaten Des Glaubens (Praktische Theologie Im Wissenschaftsdiskurs, #5) (Praktische Theologie Im Wissenschaftsdiskurs = Practical The)
by Ilona Nord
Virtuelle Realitaten sind computervermittelte Kommunikationsraume. Man findet sie z. B. in Bildung, Kunst, Technik, Medizin und auch in der Religion. Der Band enthalt in einem ersten Teil Beitrage zu einem praktisch-theologischen Verstandnis des Phanomens. Dabei wird gefragt, wie wirklich die Wirklichkeit ist, inwiefern Anonymitat zu Kommunikation gehoert, welche Bedeutung der Humor fur kommunikative Freiheit hat. Es werden Aspekte zu einem veranderten praktisch-theologischen Verstandnis von Rau...
Der institutionalisierte Dauerstreit (Studien zu Religion, Philosophie und Recht, #3)
by Eva Bucher
Vertragt sich Religion mit Aufklarung? Was fur eine Rolle spielt die Theologie dabei? Kants Der Streit der Fakultaten kommt zu dem Schluss, dass der unendliche Streit um die Religion nicht zwangslaufig zum Problem fur die Aufklarung werden muss, sondern seine Institutionalisierung die beste Hoffnung fur Freiheit ist: Ohne Kritik kein Fortschritt, ohne Streit bloss Irrglaube. F.W.J. Schellings, Jacques Derridas und Judith Butlers Auseinandersetzung mit Kants Werk zeigen jedoch auch, dass dabei au...
The Elements of Islamic Metaphysics (Bidayat al-Hikmah)
by Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'I
This book, originally published in 1921, was written to help students of ethics comprehend the significance of morals and ethical behavior. We are all amply provided with moral maxims that we hold with more or less confidence, but an insight into their significance is not attained without reflection and some serious effort. In a field in which there are so many differences of opinion, clearness of insight and breadth of view are eminently desirable.
Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Collected here are five short essays, A Dialogue, A Few Words on Pantheism, On Books and Reading, Physiognomy, and, Psychological Observations, by the world renowned philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.
Schoepfung, Zufall oder viele Universen? (Collegium Metaphysicum, #21)
by Matthias Schleiff
Das Gerucht, Gott sei tot, scheint ubertrieben gewesen zu sein. An dessen Verbreitung haben die Naturwissenschaften einen wesentlichen Anteil gehabt. Gegenwartig fuhren dagegen gerade sie Gott wieder im Munde. Massgeblichen Anteil daran hat die Entdeckung des Phanomens der "Feinabstimmung": Wenn Naturkonstanten, die die Gestalt unseres Universums bestimmen, nur wenig andere Werte angenommen hatten, hatte es bewusstes Leben nie gegeben. Matthias Schleiff entwickelt daraus das teleologische "Feina...
Immanuel Kant is often referred to as the 'philosopher of Protestantism' because he provides a model for mediating successfully between a modern scientific world view and theism. This radical new reading of Kant's religious thought suggests that he is in fact more accurately read as a precursor to nineteenth-century atheism than to liberal Protestant theology.Michalson locates major themes in Kant's philosophy that are more continuous with nineteenth-century atheism than with constructive theolo...
Science and the spiritual quest come together in this work to produce a reliable and engaging introduction to the chief questions raised at the nexus of science and religion. Sharpe, a leader in the field, ably and engagingly seeks the reality of God in the world, even as he eschews traditional theological terms and authorities. Well- versed in the latest developments in physics and cosmology, biology and neuroscience, Sharpe provides fascinating accounts of how contemporary knowledge expands ou...