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This book explores the historical relations between science and religion and discusses contemporary issues with perspectives from cosmology, evolutionary biology and bioethics.
Author : Peter Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521712513
This book explores the historical relations between science and religion and discusses contemporary issues with perspectives from cosmology, evolutionary biology and bioethics.
Author : Edward James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521016575
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Author : Markus Bockmuehl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 2001-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521796781
This Companion offers an integrated introduction to the study of Jesus.
Author : Olav Hammer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521196507
This volume addresses the key features of new religions, such as Scientology, the Moonies and Jihadist movements, from a systematic, comparative perspective.
Author : Markku Peltonen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 1996-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521435345
There are also essays on Bacon's theory of rhetoric and history as well as on his moral and political philosophy and on his legacy. Throughout the contributors aim to place Bacon in his historical context.
Author : Liba Taub
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107092485
Provides a broad framework for engaging with ideas relevant to ancient Greek and Roman science, medicine and technology.
Author : Thomas Worcester
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 113982774X
Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) obtained papal approval in 1540 for a new international religious order called the Society of Jesus. Until the mid-1700s the 'Jesuits' were active in many parts of Europe and far beyond. Gaining both friends and enemies in response to their work as teachers, scholars, writers, preachers, missionaries and spiritual directors, the Jesuits were formally suppressed by Pope Clement XIV in 1773 and restored by Pope Pius VII in 1814. The Society of Jesus then grew until the 1960s; it has more recently experienced declining membership in Europe and North America, but expansion in other parts of the world. This Companion examines the religious and cultural significance of the Jesuits. The first four sections treat the period prior to the Suppression, while section five examines the Suppression and some of the challenges and opportunities of the restored Society of Jesus up to the present.
Author : Dale Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 1999-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139825550
Thomas Hardy's fiction has had a remarkably strong appeal for general readers for decades, and his poetry has been acclaimed as among the most influential of the twentieth century. His work still creates passionate advocacy and opposition. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy is an essential introduction to this most enigmatic of writers. These commissioned essays from an international team of contributors comprises a general overview of all Hardy' s work and specific demonstrations of Hardy's ideas and literary skills. Individual essays explore Hardy's biography, aesthetics, his famous attachment to Wessex, and the impact on his work of developments in science, religion and philosophy in the late nineteenth century. Hardy's writing is also analysed against developments in contemporary critical theory and issues such as sexuality and gender. The volume also contains a detailed chronology of Hardy's life and publications, and a guide to further reading.
Author : David Vincent Meconi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108422519
Masterfully explains Augustine's major work The City of God book by book through engagement with theology, history and political science.
Author : Michel Janssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521828341
These fourteen essays by leading historians and philosophers of science introduce the reader to the work of Albert Einstein. Following an introduction that places Einstein's work in the context of his life and times, the essays explain his main contributions to physics in terms that are accessible to a general audience, including special and general relativity, quantum physics, statistical physics, and unified field theory. The closing essays explore the relation between Einstein's work and twentieth-century philosophy, as well as his political writings.