Humanist Essays (Routledge Revivals) (Routledge Revivals) (U.Books)
by Gilbert Murray
First published in 1964, this is a short collection of both literary and philosophical essays. Whilst two essays consider Greek literature written at the point at which the Athenian empire was breaking apart, another group explore the background from which Christianity arose, considering Paganism and the religious philosophy at the time of Christ. These, in particular, display Gilbert Murray’s ‘profound belief in ethics and disbelief in all revelational religions’ as well as his conviction that...
This collection leaps into the dangerous currents where poetry and reli-gion meet, and enlivens the lexicon of traditional American Christian belief by testing its doctrines and language against contemporary experience. "Beyond the wonderful music of his lines . . . , what makes To the Green Man such an important and memor-able book is its enactment of a spiritual struggle to be at once at home in the world and astonished by it."-Alan Shapiro Mark Jarman is a professor of English at Vanderbilt...
Soren Kierkegaard and the Common Man (Kierkegaard Classic Studies)
by Jorgen Bukdahl
Middle East and North Africa (Climate and Culture, #6)
The volume Middle East and North Africa: Climate, Culture and Conflicts focuses on the intricate interrelationships between nature, culture and society in this ecologically, historically and politically fragile region. As such, it debates ideas of eco-theology from Muslim and Jewish perspectives, followed by mythological interpretations and geo-archeological resp. historical analyses of the interrelationships and impacts of climate and other environmental factors on the development of ancient ci...
FAQ's With The Facts - Volume 3 (Faq's with the Facts, #3)
by David Rick Lyon
Carnets Jean Paul Sartre (Jahrbucher Der Sartre-Gesellschaft E.V., #3) (Jahrbuecher Der Sartre-Gesellschaft E.V., #3)
Die Sartre Gesellschaft nahm das Erscheinen von Sartres Drama Der Teufel und der liebe Gott vor gut funfzig Jahren zum Anlass, das aus der religioesen Tradition ins Politische verschobene Kategorienpaar gut - boese in seinen aktuellen moralischen und ethischen Dimensionen zu befragen. Von der Breite und Vielfalt dieses Themas zeugen die hier veroeffentlichten Tagungsbeitrage. Aufsatze und Rezensionen erweitern und erkunden philosophische, literarische und ideengeschichtliche Bezuge, die unter Be...
Oxford Handbook of Value Theory (Oxford Handbooks)
Value theory, or axiology, looks at what things are good or bad, how good or bad they are, and, most fundamentally, what it is for a thing to be good or bad. Questions about value and about what is valuable are important to moral philosophers, since most moral theories hold that we ought to promote the good (even if this is not the only thing we ought to do). This Handbook focuses on value theory as it pertains to ethics, broadly construed, and provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary d...
In a free society, it is common to hear the request that one 'keep an open mind.' Just what exactly is it, however, to keep an open-mind? How does open-mindedness function? How does it square with important personal commitments? These issues are particularly acute when it comes to matters of religious belief in which open-mindedness can sound to the pious a bit too much like doubt. Certainly, in a discipline whose discourse remains rational dialogue, effort should be spent discerning the contour...
Evolution and Consciousness (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, #28)
by Michael Michelo DelMonte and Maeve Halpin
This volume provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the emerging concept of the evolution of consciousness. The simple, but dynamic, theory of evolving consciousness blends the powerful insights of modern science with the deep wisdom of age-old cultures, synthesising the traditions of East and West, of the head and heart, of the feminine and the masculine and of science and spirituality. By integrating diverse multi-disciplinary approaches, it provides an overarching and transcen...
A great deal of attention has been given over the past several years to the question: What is secularism? In On Diaspora, Daniel Barber provides an intervention into this debate by arguing that a theory of secularism cannot be divorced from theories of religion, Christianity, and even being. Accordingly, Barber's argument ranges across matters proper to philosophy, religious studies, cultural studies, theology, and anthropology. It is able to do so in a coherent manner as a result of its overarc...
Frequently, alleged irreconcilable conflicts between science and religion are instead misdescribed battles concerning negotiable philosophical assumptions-conflicts between metaphysics and metaphysics. Hud Hudson provides a two-stage illustration of this claim with respect to the putative inconsistency between the doctrines of The Fall and Original Sin and the deliverances of contemporary science. The tension in question emerges through a study of the many forms the religious doctrines have ass...
Korea's Great Buddhist-Confucian Debate (Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion)
This volume makes available in English the seminal treatises in Korea's greatest interreligious debate of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. On Mind, Material Force, and Principle and An Array of Critiques of Buddhism by Confucian statesman Ch?ng Toj?n (1342-1398) and Exposition of Orthodoxy by S?n monk Kihwa (1376-1433) are presented here with extensive annotation. A substantial introduction provides a summary and analysis of the philosophical positions of both Neo-Confucianism and Buddhis...
Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology: Volume 1
Over the past sixty years, within the analytic tradition of philosophy, there has been a significant revival of interest in the philosophy of religion. More recently, philosophers of religion have turned in a more self-consciously interdisciplinary direction, with special focus on topics that have traditionally been the provenance of systematic theologians in the Christian tradition. The present volumes Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology, volumes 1 and 2aim to bring together some of the m...
An illustrated companion to the PBS documentary reveals the history, practices, and timeless wisdom of the holy men and women of the Orthodox Church who have built lives of humility and a constant connection to God through a simple prayer.
Genesis, Evolution, and the Search for a Reasoned Faith
by Mary Katherine Birge Ssj, Brian G Henning, Rodica Stoicoiu, and Ryan Taylor
Four scholars engage in respectful dialogue about the relationship between science and religion. Using as their starting point the ongoing discussion regarding evolutionary theory and the biblical accounts of creation, these scholars present an integrated analysis demonstrating the intimate and not antagonistic relationship of their respective disciplines. Readers will encounter an exploration of the history and meaning of the biblical creation accounts, the nature of scientific investigation, t...