Defining Religion
(January 2018)
Essays in Philosophy of Religion Robert Cummings Neville - Author
Provides a new orientation to philosophy of religion and a new theory of how religion ought to be defined.
In this collection of essays, written over the past decade, Robert Cummings Neville addresses contemporary debates about the concept of religion and the importance of the comparative method in theology, while advancing and defending his own original definition of religion. Neville’s hypothesis is that religion is a c...(Read More)
Satan and Apocalypse
(November 2017)
And Other Essays in Political Theology Thomas J. J. Altizer - Author
Offers a profound vision of the Christian epic as the site of the modern apocalyptic reenactment of the original apocalypse.
In this series of essays, Thomas J. J. Altizer explores the Christian epic as the site of modern revolutionary apocalyptic reenactments and renewals of the original apocalypse enacted by Jesus Christ and primitive Christianity. Beginning with the pivotal seventeenth-century figures Milton and Spinoza, Alt...(Read More)
The Greatest Mirror
(November 2017)
Heavenly Counterparts in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha Andrei A. Orlov - Author
A wide-ranging analysis of heavenly twin imagery in early Jewish extrabiblical texts.
The idea of a heavenly double—an angelic twin of an earthbound human—can be found in Christian, Manichaean, Islamic, and Kabbalistic traditions. Scholars have long traced the lineage of these ideas to Greco-Roman and Iranian sources. In The Greatest Mirror, Andrei A. Orlov shows that heavenly twin imagery drew in large part ...(Read More)
Movies and Midrash
(September 2017)
Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation Wendy I. Zierler - Author Eugene B. Borowitz - Foreword by
Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue.
Movies and Midrash uses cinema as a springboard to discuss central Jewish texts and matters of belief. A number of books have drawn on films to explicate Christian theology and belief, but Wendy I. Zierler is the first to do so from a Jewish perspective, exploring what Jewish tradition, text, and theology have to say about the lessons and themes ...(Read More)
Offers a new theology of desire and delight based on the Christian hope for bodily resurrection.
This work is part of a growing chorus of theological voices raised in support of erotic desire. Although most theologians have concluded that there will be no experience of sexual desire and delight in the world to come, Patricia Beattie Jung critically examines the historical traditions and biblical rationales for t...(Read More)
The Debt of the Living
(January 2017)
Ascesis and Capitalism Elettra Stimilli - Author Arianna Bove - Translator Roberto Esposito - Foreword by
Analyzes theological and philosophical understandings of debt and its role in contemporary capitalism.
Max Weber’s account of the rise of capitalism focused on his concept of a Protestant ethic, valuing diligence in earning and saving money but restraint in spending it. However, such individual restraint is foreign to contemporary understandings of finance, which treat ever-increasing consumption and debt ...(Read More)
Whitehead's Religious Thought
(January 2017)
From Mechanism to Organism, From Force to Persuasion Daniel A. Dombrowski - Author
Presents the process theistic thought of Whitehead as a third alternative between classical theism and religious skepticism.
This original interpretation of the religious thought of Alfred North Whitehead highlights Whitehead’s moves from mechanism to organism, and from force to persuasion to offer a third alternative between classical theism and religious skepticism. Daniel A. Dombrowski argues that the m...(Read More)
