"...a useful and important book...enlarges the picture of Spinoza's appearance in history as the first secular Jew, aggressively secular, and yet entirely Jewish in habits of thought and in range of r
Twelve chapters, presented by Davidson (philosophy, Oklahoma City U.), assess the importance of French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) and his phenomenological hermeneutics to a broad spectrum of
This book is a reprint of the dissertation that won the 2009 Prize of the Pontifical Academies.The analogy of names is not one of those topics that is important because it is a grand conclusion to int
The essays in this volume take up the history of philosophy of religion and contemporary problems within the discipline. They pursue these tasks as opportunities to correct Eurocentric biases that dis
The present volume is a continuation of the series Contemporary Philosophy. As with the earlier volumes in the series, the present Chronicles purport to give a survey of significant trends in contempo
The essays in Religious Upbringing and the Costs of Freedom are the personal stories of philosophers who were brought up religiously and have broken free, in one way or another, from restraint and opp
Readings in the Theory of Religion is an interdisciplinary Religious Studies resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Readers will encounter the rare grouping of breakthrough texts b
Chris Seay is one of my favorite people. He's a shepherd at heart. His insights on culture always take me into a better understanding of the world we live in. I'm grateful for him in so many ways.--Do
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) is sometimes referred to as the ''father of liberal Protestant theology,'' largely on the strength of his massive work of systematic theology, The Christian Faith
Examinung a series of common features in the works of Derrida and the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi, considered to be one of the most influential figures in Islamic thought, the author addresses the significan
After launching his career with the 1947 publication of his dissertation, Occidental Eschatology, Jacob Taubes spent the early years of his career as a fellow and then professor at various American in
This study examines the significance of Nietzsche’s references to his own life. They are related to the objective intentions of Nietzsche’s philosophy, and are interpreted as being a part of them. The
