Free Will and Theism
Concerns both about the nature of free will and about the credibility of theistic belief and commitment have long preoccupied philosophers. In addition, there can be no denying that the history of philosophical inquiry into these two issues has been dynamic and, at least to some degree, integrated. In a great many cases, classical treatments of one have influenced classical treatments of the other-and in a variety of ways. Without pretending to be able to trace all the historical integrations of...
The Salistamba Sutra
Since at least the 19th century, the question of origins has occupied a leading position in the formulation of theories and models for understanding religion. When, where, how and with what motivations has the human species produced those various systems of practice and belief that we have come to label "religions"? Can one establish a beginning to a history of such efforts? In this book the attempt is made to distinguish carefully between origins and beginnings, to demonstrate the role of myth...
Biblical Natural Law: A Theocentric and Teleological Approach
by Perry Family Foundation Professor of Theology Matthew Levering
The Preacher's Commentary - Vol. 09: 1 and 2 Kings (Preacher's Commentary, #9)
by Dr Russell H Dilday
Not much attention has been given to Dostoyevsky's concern with the crisis of the modern West, although allusions to almost every aspect of Western civilizationincluding the political, economic, and social dimensionsare present in his literary works and abound in his secondary writings. This book points the way to a better understanding of the apparent contradiction between Dostoyevsky's concern with the highest reaches of human spirituality and at the same time with the most detailed developmen...
Silent Music breaks down the barriers between science and religion, as well as between religions themselves, in order to extrapolate a comprehensive understanding of the "science of meditation." Johnston explores the concept of meditation from all perspectives in a rich account that runs the gamut from friendship to biofeedback. Understanding all approaches and incorporating them into a united vision, Silent Music reveals as new way of understanding the mystical and our search for wisdom in the...
Morality Without God? (Philosophy in Action)
by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Some argue that atheism must be false, since without God, no values are possible, and thus "everything is permitted." Walter Sinnott-Armstrong argues that God is not only not essential to morality, but that our moral behaviour should be utterly independent of religion. He attacks several core ideas: that atheists are inherently immoral people; that any society will sink into chaos if it is becomes too secular; that without morality, we have no reason to be moral; that absolute moral standards re...
Spectres of False Divinity presents a historical and critical interpretation of Hume's rejection of the existence of a deity with moral attributes. In Hume's view, no first cause or designer responsible for the ordered universe could possibly have moral attributes; nor could the existence (or non-existence) of such a being have any real implications for human practice or conduct. Hume's case for this 'moral atheism' is a central plank of both his naturalistic agenda in metaphysics and his secula...
Einheit Und Vielheit ALS Metaphysisches Problem (Collegium Metaphysicum, #3)
Augustine's Text of John (Oxford Early Christian Studies)
by H. A. G. Houghton
What sort of Bible did Augustine have? How did he quote from it - and was he accurate? Do Augustine's biblical citations transmit readings not found in any surviving manuscripts? This book is part of a major project on the Old Latin versions of the Gospel according to John, and uses Augustine as a test-case to examine the importance of the evidence provided by the Church Fathers for the text of the Gospels. The early history of the Latin Bible is reconstructed from Augustine's comments in his tr...
Essays in Anarchism and Religion
by Matthew S Adams and Alexandre Christoyannopoulos