An Interpretation of Religion
An Interpretation of Religion

Author: J. Hick

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1989-03-15

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0230371280

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A new and groundbreaking investigation which takes full account of the finding of the social and historical sciences whilst offering a religious interpretation of the religions as different culturally conditioned responses to a transcendent Divine Reality. Written with great clarity and force, and with a wealth of fresh insights, this major work (based on the author's Gifford Lectures of 1986-7) treats the principal topics in the philosophy of religion and establishes both a basis for religious affirmation today and a framework for the developing world-wide inter-faith dialogue.

Religion: A Humanist Interpretation
Religion: A Humanist Interpretation

Author: Raymond Firth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1134795025

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Religion: A Humanist Interpretation represents a lifetime's work on the anthropology of religion from a rather unusual personal viewpoint. Raymond Firth treats religion as a human art, capable of great intellectual and artistic achievements, but also of complex manipulation to serve the human interests of those who believe in it and operate it. His study is comparative, drawing material from a range of religions around the world. Its findings are a challenge to established beliefs. This anthropological approach to the study of religion covers themes ranging from; religious belief and personal adjustment; gods and God; offering and sacrifice;religion and politics; Malay magic and spirit mediumship; truth and paradox in religion.

The Culture of Interpretation
The Culture of Interpretation

Author: Roger Lundin

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780802806369

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This book offers a broad-ranging account of contemporary American culture, the complex network of symbols, practices, and beliefs at the heart of our society. Lundin explores the historical background of some of our "postmodern" culture's central beliefs and considers their crucial ethical and theological implications.

The Language of God
The Language of God

Author: Francis Collins

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-09-04

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1847396151

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Dr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of life. Yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God. How does he reconcile the seemingly unreconcilable? In THE LANGUAGE OF GOD he explains his own journey from atheism to faith, and then takes the reader on a stunning tour of modern science to show that physics, chemistry and biology -- indeed, reason itself -- are not incompatible with belief. His book is essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of all: why are we here? How did we get here? And what does life mean?

Tradition, Scripture, and Interpretation
Tradition, Scripture, and Interpretation

Author: D. H. Williams

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2006-11

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0801031648

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"While the patristic age is marked by the development of the Apostle's and the Nicene creeds, D. H. Williams contends we must not neglected the lesser known yet just as significant theological texts and expressions of worship that were seminal in shaping early Christian identity. In this sourcebook, Williams gathers key writings from the first through sixth centuries that illustrate the ways in which the church's confessions, teaching, and worship were expressed during that time. More than an anthology, this sourcebook introduces the primary sources of Christian antiquity."--BOOK JACKET.

The Moral Interpretation of Religion
The Moral Interpretation of Religion

Author: Peter Byrne

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780802845542

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The Moral Interpretation of Religion provides a critical examination of the traditional attempt to interpret religion in moral terms alone. He assesses historical attempts to reason directly from the basis of morality to the existence of a personal God.

Donald Davidson and the Mirror of Meaning
Donald Davidson and the Mirror of Meaning

Author: Jeff Malpas

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1992-10-29

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780521417211

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This book discusses the ideas of Donald Davidson, on the nature of understanding and meaning, and the nature of truth and knowledge, providing an account of Davidson's holistic and hermeneutical conception of linguistic interpretation, and, more generally, of the mind.