Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
9 produkter
Insiders versus Outsiders
Exploring the Dynamic Relationship Between Mission and Ethos in the New Testament
Av Jacobus Kok
Inbunden, 2014
1039 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Christianity as a movement developed within the already established, but volatile Jewish movement/religion, expressing a profound sense of inclusivism illustrated in the transcendence of social boundaries. In this book the dynamic reality of creating and transcending boundaries and the relationship …
Apophatic Anthropology
An English Translation
Av Octavian Gabor, André Scrima
Inbunden, 2016
1328 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An English translation of André Scrima's 1952 work on Apophatic Anthropology. Pascalian in essence, the approach departs from the Augustinian roots of Western Christian theology and develops a Christian anthropology based on Eastern Orthodoxy. The endeavor of a human being to understand oneself …
Kierkegaard and Eastern Orthodox Thought
A Comparative Philosophical Analysis
Inbunden, 2019
1756 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The continuing popularity and influence of Søren Aabye Kierkegaard remains something of a minor miracle.Kierkegaard himself would undoubtedly find some humor in this development as a part of his overall philosophical project was to provide a full-frontal assault on the growing dominance of …
Earrings of God
The Absurd Among Us
Av Fortunato Pasqualino, Gabriel Lahood
Inbunden, 2021
1830 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Life is full of absurdities, and human misperception of such absurdities leads to a state of unrest and fear that require meaning and direction for a happy life. F. Pasqualino addresses here samples of existential absurdities, and discusses solutions offered: Taoism offers in its paradoxes a …
As Below, So Above
Apocalypticism, Gnosticism and the Scribes of Qumran and Nag Hammadi
Av Glen Fairen
Inbunden, 2013
933 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Questioning the scholarly assumptions regarding the “heretical” Nag Hammadi Library and the “apocalyptic” Dead Sea Scrolls, Fairen argues that they were not diametrically opposed, but represent a scribal reconfiguration of an Enochic worldview as a critique of foreign rule.
Coming of the Impassible God: Tracing a Dilemma in Christian Theology
Inbunden, 2013
1613 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book describes the development of the Christian understanding of God from the second to the eighth century as witnessed by major theologians who gradually realized that the Incarnate Word made flesh was not the God of the philosophers. They helped construct the great dogmas of the …
Common Grounds without Foundations
A Pragmatic Approach to Ethical Disagreements Across Cultural, Philosophical, and Religious Traditions
Inbunden, 2015
1151 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An alternative, fallibilist model of moral reasoning rooted in the American Pragmatic tradition. Additional resources drawn from Chinese philosophy, Jain epistemology, modern philosophy of mathematics, and the Gadamerian hermeneutical tradition serve both to corroborate the argumentation and to …
Psychology of Prophecy in Early Christianity
Prophetism and religious altered states of consciousness
Av Alan Humm
Inbunden, 2013
1697 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Dr. Humm analyses early Christian prophetic activity seeking to understand the psychological states behind it. A system of categories is suggested based on the external appearances and subjective claims of modern phenomena. Assuming that the ancients followed the same patterns, most instances …
Seeing the God
Ways of Envisioning the Divine in Ancient Mediterranean Religion
Av Jared Calaway, Jeffrey Pettis
Inbunden, 2013
1151 kr
Lägg i varukorg
When people prayed, they expected their gods to come, wrote Robin Lane Fox, providing the impetus for this volume of collected essays exploring the concept of how the ancients “envisioned” the deities within various ancient religious traditions. The perspectives of Judaism, Gnosticism, Syriac …
