KLEIN GELOOF EN DE RECHTVAARDIGMAKING VAN EEN ZONDAAR V


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Deze bundel bevat 2 boeken met Samenspraken. De eerste samenspraak gaat tussen een 'rentmeester' en een 'eenvoudige schaapherder', over Klein Geloof. Er komen sprankelende gedachten in voor over de zielstoestand van Klein Geloof, over zijn fouten en gebreken en zijn zalig uiteinde. De tweede samenspraak gaat over de 'Rechtvaardigmaking van een zondaar en satans aanklacht tegen hem' naar aanleiding van 'De verloren zoon.' Het boek bevat een rijkdom aan verheven gedachten, zoals: "Een gelovige, die niet bij voortduring zijn Bijbel leest, is als een soldaat zonder wapens." En: "Verenigd te zijn met Gods wil is de veiligste en meest gezegende zielsgesteldheid. Wanneer onze wil verenigd is met Gods wil, is er geen smartelijk kruis. Ons kruis wordt veroorzaakt doordat onze verdorven wil zich verzet en Stelt tegenover Gods wil, waarvan wij de smartelijke gevolgen dragen; want als we zo ons eigen kruis veroorzaken, moeten we het ook dragen."




European Modernity and Beyond


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In this book one of Europe's foremost sociologists offers a profound and accessible overview of the trajectory of European societies, East and West, since the end of World War II. Combining theoretical depth with factual analysis, Göran Therborn addresses the questions that underpin an understanding of the nature of European modernity, including: To what extent is the period 1945-2000 producing fundamental change and what are the areas of continuity? Have the societies of Europe become more similar to others on the globe or more distinctively European? What are the prospects of Europe after decades of postwar change and the end of the Cold War? Issues covered include the division of paid and unpaid labour,




Simone Weil and the Intellect of Grace


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As a thinker, mystic and social critic, Simone Weil is one of the most extraordinary figures of the 20th century. She was a Marxist who experienced the relations of power between producing and ruling classes first hand as a field and factory worker. She was an internationalist who felt that the fall of Paris was a 'great day for Indo-China', and yet she wanted to fight for France. Camus called her social writings 'more penetrating and more prophetic than anything since Marx.' What comes through strongly in this book are Weil's power of analysis and criticism, her love of truth and hunger for justice, her commitment to non-violence, and, most of all, her regard for everyone and everything marginalized or excluded by orthodoxies and establishments, whether colonized people or heresy.




God in the Age of Science?


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Herman Philipse puts forward a powerful new critique of belief in God. He examines the strategies that have been used for the philosophical defence of religious belief, and by careful reasoning casts doubt on the legitimacy of relying on faith instead of evidence, and on probabilistic arguments for the existence of God.




Imagination and Interpretation in Kant


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In this illuminating study of Kant's theory of imagination and its role in interpretation, Rudolf A. Makkreel argues against the commonly held notion that Kant's transcendental philosophy is incompatible with hermeneutics. The charge that Kant's foundational philosophy is inadequate to the task of interpretation can be rebutted, explains Makkreel, if we fully understand the role of imagination in his work. In identifying this role, Makkreel also reevaluates the relationship among Kant's discussions of the feeling of life, common sense, and the purposiveness of history.










The Saturated Self


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Drawing on a range of disciplines, from anthropology to psychoanalysis, this book explores the way we view ourselves and our relationships.




Sublime Historical Experience


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Why are we interested in history at all? Why do we feel the need to distinguish between past and present? This book investigates how the notion of sublime historical experience complicates and challenges existing conceptions of language, truth, and knowledge.




Strange Gods


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In a groundbreaking historical work that focuses on the long, tense convergence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with an uncompromising secular perspective, Susan Jacoby illuminates the social and economic forces that have shaped individual faith and the voluntary conversion impulse that has changed the course of Western history—for better and for worse. Covering the triumph of Christianity over paganism in late antiquity, the Spanish Inquisition, John Calvin’s dour theocracy, American plantations where African slaves had to accept their masters’ religion—along with individual converts including Augustine of Hippo, John Donne, Edith Stein, Muhammad Ali, George W. Bush and Mike Pence—Strange Gods makes a powerful case that nothing has been more important in struggle for reason than the right to believe in the God of one’s choice or to reject belief in God altogether.