Three Essays on Religion
Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : New York : H. Holt
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Nature
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Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : New York : H. Holt
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Nature
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Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 1885
Category : God
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Author : Philip L. Quinn
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019156950X
This volume presents a selection of essays by the late Philip Quinn, one of the world's leading philosophers of religion. Quinn left behind an influential body of work on a wide variety of topics. He was the author of Divine Commands and Moral Requirements (1978) and of more than two hundred papers in philosophy. Fourteen of his best and most influential contributions to the philosophy of religion are gathered here. The papers have been organized around the following topics: religious epistemology, religious ethics, religion and tragic dilemmas, religion and political liberalism, topics in Christian philosophy, and religious diversity.
Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN :
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Author : Jonathan Z. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2004-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0226763870
One of the most influential theorists of religion, Jonathan Z. Smith is best known for his analyses of religious studies as a discipline and for his advocacy and refinement of comparison as the basis for the history of religions. Relating Religion gathers seventeen essays—four of them never before published—that together provide the first broad overview of Smith's thinking since his seminal 1982 book, Imagining Religion. Smith first explains how he was drawn to the study of religion, outlines his own theoretical commitments, and draws the connections between his thinking and his concerns for general education. He then engages several figures and traditions that serve to define his interests within the larger setting of the discipline. The essays that follow consider the role of taxonomy and classification in the study of religion, the construction of difference, and the procedures of generalization and redescription that Smith takes to be key to the comparative enterprise. The final essays deploy features of Smith's most recent work, especially the notion of translation. Heady, original, and provocative, Relating Religion is certain to be hailed as a landmark in the academic study and critical theory of religion.
Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Ethics
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Author : Thomas Nagel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,59 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195394119
This volume collects recent essays and reviews by Thomas Nagel in three subject areas. The first section, including the title essay, is concerned with religious belief and some of the philosophical questions connected with it, such as the relation between religion and evolutionary theory, the question of why there is something rather than nothing, and the significance for human life of our place in the cosmos. It includes a defense of the relevance of religion to science education. The second section concerns the interpretation of liberal political theory, especially in an international context. A substantial essay argues that the principles of distributive justice that apply within individual nation-states do not apply to the world as a whole. The third section discusses the distinctive contributions of four philosophers to our understanding of what it is to be human--the form of human consciousness and the source of human values.
Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Historiography
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Author : Karl Barth
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2004-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1592449239
Karl Barth was the master theologian of our age. Whenever men in the past generation have reflected deeply on the ultimate problems of life and faith, they have done so in a way that bears the mark of the intellectual revolution let loose by this Swiss thinker. But his life was not simply one of quiet reflection and scholarship. He was obliged to do his thinking and writing in one of the stormiest periods of history, and he always attempted to speak to the problems and concerns of the time. In June 1933 he emerged as the theologian of the Confessional movement, which was attempting to preserve the integrity of the Evangelical Church in Germany against corruption from within and terror from without. His leadership in this struggle against Nazism also made it necessary for him to say something about the totalitarianism that the Soviet power was clamping down upon a large part of Europe. In this indirect way, a Barthian social philosophy emerged, and this theologian, who abjured apologetics and desired nothing but to expound the Word of God, was compelled by circumstances to propound views on society and the state that make him one of the most influential social thinkers of our time. David Haddorff is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at St. John's University, New York. He is the author of several articles and reviews, and the book: Dependence and Freedom: The Moral Thought of Horace Bushnell (1994). Table of Contents: Introduction by David Haddorff - Karl Barth's Theological Politics 1 Gospel and Law 71 Church and State 101 The Christian Community and the Civil Community 149 Bibliography 191
Author : John Mill
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368819399
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.