Philosophie / Religieux

On Jean Améry: Philosophy of Catastrophe

de Magdalena Zolkos, J M. Bernstein & Roy Ben-Shai

This volume offers the first English language collection of academic essays on the post-Holocaust thought of Jean Améry, a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, journalist and literary author. Comprehensive in...

The Christian Heritage

de George Anastaplo

The Christian Heritage delves into the history of the western Christian heritage. Challenges to the Christian heritage, a heritage nourished both by Judaism and by the western classics, have been stimulated...

The Philosophy of Ibn 'Arabi

de Rom Landau

Originally published 1959.

Ibn 'Arabi is one of the most significant thinkers of Islam. Yet he is far less widely known in the Western world than Ibn Sina, Al-Ghazali, Ibn Rushd or even Al Farabi. This volume...

Natural Religion and the Nature of Religion: The Legacy of Deism

de Peter Byrne

This study offers students of religion and philosophy introductory chapters concerning the concept of natural religion. It holds that we can't engage in useful discussion about the present concept of religion...

Mind and Deity: Being the Second Series of a Course of Gifford Lectures on the General Subject of Metaphysics and Theism given in the University of Gl

de John Laird

Complementary to Theism and Cosmology, this book begins with a discussion of philosophical and theological idea-ism, and our common beliefs concerning nature, man, and God. It is principally concerned with idealism...

Heaven Wasn't his Destination:

de William B. Chamberlain

If forced to state Feuerbach's philosophical genealogy, one would have to say that he was son of Hegel, father of Marx, and half-brother of Comte. In his own day he had many a celebratory and many a vilifier....

Faith after Foundationalism

de D.Z. Phillips

Foundationalism is the view that philosophical propositions are of two kinds, those which need supporting evidence, and those which in themselves provide the evidence which renders them irrefutable. This book, originally...

Experience, Explanation and Faith: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion

de Anthony O'Hear

In this book Anthony O'Hear examines the reasons that are given for religious faith. His approach is firmly within the classical tradition of natural theology, but an underlying theme is the differences between...

Deity and Morality: With Regard to the Naturalistic Fallacy

de Burton F. Porter

This book describes the "naturalistic fallacy", as attributed to Hume, that non-moral premises cannot logically entail a moral conclusion, and distinguishes it from the similarly named though subtly different...

Christianity and Morals

de Edward Alexander Westermarck

A thorough examination of many aspects of morality through the lens of Christianity, this book, originally published in 1939, is philosophical in its approach to assessing religion. It compares moral traditions...

An Analytical Philosophy of Religion

de Willem Frederik Zuurdeeg

This original study, published initially in 1959, introduces students of philosophy and of theology to a treatment of religion based upon the methods of modern philosophy - particularly logical empiricism and...

A History of Atheism in Britain: From Hobbes to Russell

de David Berman

Probably no doctrine has excited as much horror and abuse as atheism. This first history of British atheism, first published in 1987, tries to explain this reaction while exhibiting the development of atheism...

David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion in Focus

de Stanley Tweyman

Based on the original handwritten manuscript, this book provides a new, accurate edition of Hume's important work, faithful to his original text, marginal notes, and changes. Stanley Tweyman's comprehensive...

Faith without Dogma

de Margaret Isherwood

Life is a constant search for meaning, and reflective minds need to find deeper and more comprehensive meaning than that normally proffered by the orthodox teaching of any creedal religion.

When this book was...

Faith and Philosophical Enquiry

de D.Z. Phillips

The concern of this book is the nature of religious belief and the ways in which philosophical enquiry is related to it. Six chapters present the positive arguments the author wishes to put forward to discusses...

Theology as an Empirical Science

de Douglas Clyde Macintosh

Investigating the question 'can theology, description of the divine reality, be made truly scientific?', this book addresses logic and human knowledge alongside experimental religion. An important philosophic...

Theism and Cosmology: Being the First Series of a Course of Gifford Lectures on the General Subject of Metaphysics and Theism given in the University

de John Laird

Theism is one of the major types of metaphysics and cosmology is the general theory of the whole wide world. Must the world have an over-worldly source, or any source? Would "space" crumble unless God perpetually...

The Reality of the Mind: St Augustine's Philosophical Arguments for the Human Soul as a Spiritual Substance

de Ludger Ho?lscher

Among the various approaches to the question of the nature of the mind (or soul), Augustine's philosophical arguments for the existence of an incorporeal and spiritual substance in man and against materialism...

Stoic, Christian and Humanist

de Gilbert Murray

This book collects together four essays by the very well-known academic Gilbert Murray that were first presented between 1914 and 1939. The author seeks to present a statement of his profound belief in ethics...

Religion and Reality: A Study in the Philosophy of Mysticism

de James Henry Tuckwell

This discussion of the search for religious truth addresses a universal view of religion that can be termed 'philosophical mysticism' from a rational basis of experience.

Originally published in 1915, this is...