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This new collection of classic and contemporary readings explores questions about the nature, value, and rationality of faith. From the Ancient Greeks to present-day intellectuals, it reveals the variety of answers that thinkers and traditions have offered throughout the ages. Selecting texts from a diverse range of traditions and perspectives, both secular and religious, it introduces the role and function that faith plays in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Organized thematically around four parts, this one-of-a-kind reader brings together a collection of profound writings from philosophy, religious studies, theology, classics and psychology. Each Part has its own specialized introduction and suggestions for further reading.Excerpts are taken from core prayers, creeds, teachings and songs. Stretching beyond academic reflections, texts cover the treatment of faith in the media and literature. Noteworthy and hard-to-find selections include:- The poetry and commentary of a celebrated mystic- First-hand accounts of the experience of faith and doubt from two women canonized as saints in the Catholic Church- Historically influential accounts of the nature of faith from Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin. Offering a critical look at the relationship between faith and reason, the forms it takes and the ways in which it can be misplaced, here is everything you need to understand the place of faith in the twenty-first century.

This new collection of classic and contemporary readings explores questions about the nature, value, and rationality of faith. From the Ancient Greeks to present-day intellectuals, it reveals the variety of answers that thinkers and traditions have offered throughout the ages. Selecting texts from a diverse range of traditions and perspectives, both secular and religious, it introduces the role and function that faith plays in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Organized thematically around four parts, this one-of-a-kind reader brings together a collection of profound writings from philosophy, religious studies, theology, classics and psychology. Each Part has its own specialized introduction and suggestions for further reading.Excerpts are taken from core prayers, creeds, teachings and songs. Stretching beyond academic reflections, texts cover the treatment of faith in the media and literature. Noteworthy and hard-to-find selections include:- The poetry and commentary of a celebrated mystic- First-hand accounts of the experience of faith and doubt from two women canonized as saints in the Catholic Church- Historically influential accounts of the nature of faith from Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin. Offering a critical look at the relationship between faith and reason, the forms it takes and the ways in which it can be misplaced, here is everything you need to understand the place of faith in the twenty-first century.

The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them accessible in one volume for the first time.With readings from Aristotle, Aquinas, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Lavoisier, Linnaeus, Darwin, Faraday, and Maxwell, it analyses and discusses major classical, medieval and modern texts and figures from the natural sciences. Grouped by topic to clarify the development of methods and disciplines and the unification of theories, each section includes an introduction, suggestions for further reading and end-of-section discussion questions, allowing students to develop the skills needed to:§ read, interpret, and critically engage with central problems and ideas from the history and philosophy of science§ understand and evaluate scientific material found in a wide variety of professional and popular settings§ appreciate the social and cultural context in which scientific ideas emerge§ identify the roles that mathematics plays in scientific inquiryFeaturing primary sources in all the core scientific fields - astronomy, physics, chemistry, and the life sciences - The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader is ideal for students looking to better understand the origins of natural science and the questions asked throughout its history. By taking a thematic approach to introduce influential assumptions, methods and answers, this reader illustrates the implications of an impressive range of values and ideas across the history and philosophy of Western science.