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The Repose of the Spirits
(May 2019)
A Sufi Commentary on the Divine Names
Ahmad Sam'ani - Author
William C. Chittick - Translated and with an introduction by
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Major new translation of a unique and important Persian treatise on divine names in the Islamic tradition.
The Repose of the Spirits is a translation of one of the earliest and most comprehensive treatises on Sufism in the Persian language. Written by Aḥmad Sam‘ānī, an expert in Islamic law from a famous Central Asian scholarly family in about the year 1135, it is one of the handful of early Sufi texts av...(Read More) |
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Personal Religion and Spiritual Healing
(February 2019)
The Panacea Society in the Twentieth Century
Alastair Lockhart - Author
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A unique historical study of the personal nature of religion, spirituality, and healing in the twentieth century based on the letters of ordinary people from around the world.
The Panacea Society was a small religious community of women that was established in England in the early twentieth century. They followed the early nineteenth-century mystic Joanna Southcott, as well other emerging spiritual movements of the day, and deve...(Read More) |
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The Manifest and the Revealed
(December 2018)
A Phenomenology of Kenosis
Adam Y. Wells - Author
Kevin Hart - Foreword by
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Offers a new phenomenological method for biblical interpretation that opens up the possibility of an absolute science of scripture.
What is scripture and how does it function? Is there a “scientific” way to understand its meaning? In answer, Adam Wells proposes a phenomenological approach to scripture that radicalizes both phenomenology and its relation to Christianity. By reading the “kenōsis hymn”...(Read More) |
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The Poetry of Georges Bataille
(December 2018)
Georges Bataille - Author
Stuart Kendall - Translated and with an introduction by
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Presents a new window into the literary, philosophical, and theological concerns of this enigmatic thinker and writer.
Despite its relative rarity, and the condensed brevity of the poems themselves, poetry occupies a striking place in the literary and philosophical oeuvre of Georges Bataille. For Bataille, poetry had no meaning “except in the violence of revolt,” which it could attain “only by evoking the impos...(Read More) |
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The Adventure of Weak Theology
(November 2018)
Reading the Work of John D. Caputo through Biographies and Events
Štefan Štofaník - Author
John D. Caputo - Afterword
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Štofaník provides a unique, personal reading of weak theology and tries to inhabit the gap between it and its “founder,” John D. Caputo.
In this distinctive exploration of John D. Caputo’s work, Štefan Štofaník traces Caputo’s journey of philosophical discovery from his earlier, more conventional academic writings to his later, almost confessional works of weak theology a...(Read More) |
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The Asymptote of Love
(November 2018)
From Mundane to Religious to God's Love
James Kellenberger - Author
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Discusses the complexities and paradoxes of love as represented in the history of Western philosophy and Christianity.
In The Asymptote of Love, James Kellenberger develops a theory of religious love that resists essentialist definitions of the term and brings into conversation historical debates on love in Western philosophy and Christian theology. He argues that if love can be likened to a mathematical asymptote, which is a ...(Read More) |
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Effing the Ineffable
(October 2018)
Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language
Wesley J. Wildman - Author
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A meditation on how religious language tries to limn the liminal, conceive the inconceivable, speak the unspeakable, and say the unsayable.
In Effing the Ineffable, Wesley J. Wildman confronts the human obsession with ultimate reality and our desire to conceive and speak of this reality through religious language, despite the seeming impossibility of doing so. Each chapter is a meditative essay on an aspect of life that,...(Read More) |
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Atmospheres of Breathing
(April 2018)
Lenart Škof - Editor
Petri Berndtson - Editor
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Attempts to think anew about philosophical questions from the perspective of breath and breathing.
As a physiological or biological matter, breath is mostly considered to be mechanical and thoughtless. By expanding on the insights of many religions and therapeutic practices, which emphasize the cultivation of breath, the contributors argue that breath should be understood as fundamentally and comprehensively intertwined with hum...(Read More) |
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