Philosophy and the Turn to Religion

Philosophy and the Turn to Religion

Author: Hent de Vries

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1999-07-23

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 9780801859953

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Only by confronting such uncanny and difficult figures, de Vries claims, can one begin to think and act upon the ethical and political imperatives of our day.--Richard Rorty, Stanford University "MLN"


Transforming Philosophy and Religion

Transforming Philosophy and Religion

Author: Norman Wirzba

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2008-05-07

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0253219582

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Norman Wirzba, Bruce Ellis Benson, and an international group of philosophers and theologians describe how various expressions of philosophy are transformed by the discipline of love. What is at stake is how philosophy colors and shapes the way we receive and engage each other, our world, and God. Focusing primarily on the Continental tradition of philosophy of religion, the work presented in this volume engages thinkers such as St. Paul, Meister Eckhart, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Ricoeur, Derrida, Marion, Zizek, Irigaray, and Michele Le Doeuff. Emerging from the book is a complex definition of the wisdom of love which challenges how we think about nature, social justice, faith, gender, creation, medicine, politics, and ethics.


Philosophy and the Study of Religions

Philosophy and the Study of Religions

Author: Kevin Schilbrack

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-03-03

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1444330535

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Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto advocates a radical transformation of the discipline from its current, narrow focus on questions of God, to a fully global form of critical reflection on religions in all their variety and dimensions. Opens the discipline of philosophy of religion to the religious diversity that characterizes the world today Builds bridges between philosophy of religion and the other interpretative and explanatory approaches in the field of religious studies Provides a manifesto for a global approach to the subject that is a practice-centred rather than a belief-centred activity Gives attention to reflexive critical studies of 'religion' as socially constructed and historically located


The Transformation of Judaism

The Transformation of Judaism

Author: Jacob Neusner

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2011-03-31

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0761854401

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Jacob Neusner describes, analyzes, and interprets the transformation of one system of the Israelite social order by a connected but autonomous successor-system. He characterizes the successive systems classifying the one as philosophical and the other as religious. He explains the categorical account of each and sets forth the outcome of a number of topical studies on the category-formations of Rabbinic Judaism with special attention to the social order: politics, philosophy, and economics. These systems emerged as [1] autonomous when viewed synchronically, [2] connected when seen diachronically, and [3] as a continuous construction when seen at the end of their formative age. In their successive stages of categorical autonomy, connection, and finally continuity, the three distinct systems may be classified, respectively, as philosophical, religious, and theological, each one taking over and revising the definitive categories of the former and framing its own fresh, generative categories as well. The formative history of Judaism is the story of the presentations and re-presentations of categorical structures. In method, it is the exegesis of taxonomy and taxic systems. Now, after more than two decades, Neusner has decided to review the initial statement. Since the book summarizes ten years of work, from 1980 to 1990, on the Rabbinic category formations of social science politics, philosophy, and economics in the setting of the law and theology of Rabbinic Judaism from the Mishnah through the Bavli, 200-600 C.E., it seemed well worth the effort to recapitulate the original work. The revised introduction explains the omission of theology in his category-formation philosophy-religion-theology; Neusner's account of the Bavli produced the decade after this title was completed did not make possible the continuous description of the unfolding of the Rabbinic system. The pattern that appealed to Neusner from philosophy to religion to theology has not yet come to a satisfactory account. In the twenty years of work on the third layer of the canon up to the Bavli, a series of monographs clarified the theological system that sustained Rabbinic Judaism.


Peirce and Religion

Peirce and Religion

Author: Roger Ward

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-10-15

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1498531512

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Charles Sanders Peirce is one of the most original voices in American philosophy. His scientific career and his goal of proving scientific logic provide rich material for philosophical development. Peirce was also a life-long Christian and member of the Episcopal Church. Roger Ward traces the impact of Peirce’s religion and Christianity on the development of Peirce’s philosophy. Peirce’s religious framework is a key to his development of pragmatism and normative science in terms of knowledge and moral transformation. Peirce’s argument for the reality of God is a culmination of both his religious devotion and his life-long philosophical development.


Transformations of Mind

Transformations of Mind

Author: Michael McGhee

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-04-28

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780521777537

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The book offers a conception of philosophy as a form of self-enquiry which begins not in reflection, but in silence and meditation, conceived as conditions for the emergence and cessation of contending states of mind which influence perception and action. The philosopher thus becomes a kind of cartographer of a shifting interior landscape. This underlying perspective explains the personal nature of the writing and its mixing of genres. The book draws on both the Greek and Buddhist traditions, recognising that it is time for Western thinkers to acknowledge and respond to an intercultural canon. It aims to integrate ethics and a non-theistic philosophy of religion through the medium of aesthetics, mapping Buddhist 'mindfulness' and the Greek virtues and vices of temperance and licentiousness, continence and incontinence, onto an account of the development of moral sentiments and their relation to practical judgement in the context of oppressive political and social realities.


The Philosophy of Religion Reader

The Philosophy of Religion Reader

Author: Chad V. Meister

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13:

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Reflecting current trends and research interests in the field - including the growing interest in religious diversity and global philosophy of religion - this broad and up to date introduction explores key writings from both the Western theistic tradition and from non-Western, non-theistic sources. The nine sections cover: Religious Diversity The Nature and Attributes of God Arguments for and Against the Existence of God Science Faith and Miracles The Self and Human Condition Religious Experience The Problem of Evil and Suffering Death and the Afterlife. With section introductions, discusssion questions, extensive bibliographies and a supporting website featuring additional material, it is the ideal reference tool to help clarify important points and reinforce understanding.


Philosophy of Religion

Philosophy of Religion

Author: John Cottingham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-09-15

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1107019435

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In this book, abstract intellectual argument meets ordinary human experience on matters such as the existence of God and the relation between religion and morality.


The End of Philosophy of Religion

The End of Philosophy of Religion

Author: Nick Trakakis

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1847065341

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An expert examination of the analytic-continental divide in the writing and study of philosophy of religion.


Contemporary Philosophy of Religion

Contemporary Philosophy of Religion

Author: Steven M. Cahn

Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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This collection of twenty-one essays brings together some of the finest recent contributions to philosophy of religion. Most of the selection appeared during the past decade and have not been reprinted previously. The author include many distinguished contemporary philosophers of religion, some sympathetic to religion, others sharply critical.