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Metaphor, Analogy and the Place of Placesby Carl Vaught
Baylor University Press 2004; US$ 34.95Vaught identifies the place where religion and philosophy meet-and he does so in constant conversation with Augustine, Hegel, Heidegger and Jaspers. Vaught argues that both religious and philosophical discourse assume one of four modes: figurative, analytical, systematic, and analogical. Any real innovation occurs by moving from one mode of discourse to another. Vaught also explores the relationship among ''space,'' ''time,'' and ''place'' as well as ''mystery,'' ''power,'' and ''structure.'' Remarkably, Vaught shows how the category of ''place'' serves as the intersection of both triads. In the end, ''place'' is the orientation that guides the discussions of Being and God, where philosophy and religion are joined. more...
Beyond Good and Evilby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Helen Zimmern
The Floating Press 1886; US$ 5.99Beyong Good and Evil expands on the ideas Nietzsche first published in Thus Spake Zarathustra . Darker in its philosophy, this text questions Christianity as a basis for moral thinking. In its place, Nietzsche calls for the use of bold critical thinking and individualism. more...
The Rule of St Benedictby Carolinne White; Carolinne White
Penguin Group Inc. 2008; US$ 11.99The single most important document on monastic life that helped to shape Western society Composed in Italy around 530 AD but based on earlier compilations, The Rule of St Benedict has been the defining guide to daily prayer and work for Benedictine communities for fifteen centuries. The Rule also embodies the idea of a written constitution, authority limited by law and under the law, and the right of the ruled to review the legality of their superiors' actions-ideas at the heart of the West's most treasured civic institutions. This is a fundamental contribution to the tradition of simple living that continues to experience a renaissance. more...
Sense and Sensualityby Ravi Zacharias
The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group 2010; US$ 9.99WHY versus WHY NOT? Why did God place us in a world full of pleasures if we aren’t meant to pursue them all? In an imaginative dialogue, Oscar Wilde asks Jesus Christ to respond to this question about critical lifestyle choices. Their talk vividly illustrates the arguments for both sensual pleasure-seeking and moral moderation. Playwright, dramatist, poet, critic—Wilde openly defied the mores of Victorian society. His literary repartee fueled an “if it feels good, do it” humanistic philosophy that is still prevalent in the world today. SO WHAT does JESUS SAY? From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Why You Think the Way You Doby Glenn S. Sunshine
Zondervan 2009; US$ 9.99This authoritative, accessible survey traces the development of the worldviews that underpin the Western world. It demonstrates how Christianity transformed pagan Roman culture into one that established virtually all the positive aspects of Western civilization. It uniquely discusses Western worldviews as a continuous narrative instead of simply cataloguing them. more...
Christ and Horrorsby Marilyn McCord Adams
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 34.00A systematic Christology that is at once biblical and philosophical, focusing on Christ as horror-defeater. more...
An Interpretation of Religionby Emeritus Professor John Hick
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 36.00An updated new edition of the groundbreaking investigation which takes full account of the finding of the social and historical sciences whilst offering a religious interpretation of the religions as different culturally conditioned responses to a transcendent Divine Reality. Written with great clarity and force, and with a wealth of fresh insights, this major work (based on the author's Gifford Lectures of 1896-7) treats the principal topics in the philosophy of religion and establishes both a basis for religious affirmation today and a framework for the developing world-wide inter-faith dialogue. Includes a new Introduction to the second edition. more...
Sinby Paula Fredriksen
Princeton University Press 2012; US$ 24.95Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him. In this book, award-winning historian of religion Paula Fredriksen tells the surprising story of early Christian concepts of sin, exploring the ways that sin came to shape ideas about God no less than about humanity. Long before Christianity, of course, cultures had articulated the idea that human wrongdoing violated relations with the divine. But Sin tells how, in the fevered atmosphere of the four centuries between Jesus and Augustine, singular new Christian ideas about sin emerged in rapid and vigorous variety, including the momentous shift from the belief that sin is something... more...
This Incredible Need to Believeby Julia Kristeva; Beverley Bie Brahic
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 9.99"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for humanism." So writes Julia Kristeva in this provocative work, which skillfully upends our entrenched ideas about religion, belief, and the thought and work of a renowned psychoanalyst and critic. With dialogue and essay, Kristeva analyzes our "incredible need to believe"& mdash;the inexorable push toward faith that, for Kristeva, lies at the heart of the psyche and the history of society. Examining the lives, theories, and convictions of Saint Teresa of Avila, Sigmund Freud, Donald Winnicott,... more...
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hume on Religionby David O'Connor
Routledge 2001; US$ 29.95David Hume was the most important British philosopher of the eighteenth century. Hume on Religion introduces students to his major work on the subject Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion . more...









