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God the Created
(February 2022)
Pragmatic Constructive Realism in Philosophy and Theology
Benjamin J. Chicka - Author
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Develops a creative and provocative new model of God that brings together insights from both process theology and ground-of-being theology.
In God the Created, Benjamin Chicka develops a method of inquiry and program for theology that he labels "pragmatic constructive realism" While influenced most heavily by American pragmatism, especially that of Charles S. Peirce, Chicka’...(Read More) |
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Religion in Multidisciplinary Perspective
(February 2022)
Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Approaches to Wesley J. Wildman
F. LeRon Shults - Editor
Robert Cummings Neville - Editor
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An up-to-date examination of the work of one of the most inventive thinkers in the study of religion.
Religion in Multidisciplinary Perspective provides the first comprehensive treatment of the work of Wesley J. Wildman, one of the most inventive thinkers in the field of religious studies. Scholars with expertise in philosophical, theological, and scientific approaches to th...(Read More) |
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Sacred and Secular
(January 2022)
Responses to Life in a Finite World
Donald A. Crosby - Author
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Explores distinctions between the sacred and the secular in a variety of religious traditions, and proposes ways in which their relationship can be mutually beneficial.
The sacred and the secular—or religion and secularity—differ from one another in many ways, but they must also frequently interact with and can instruct and benefit one another in today's world. This is especially s...(Read More) |
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A Postcolonial Relationship
(December 2021)
Challenges of Asian Immigrants as the Third Other
Choi Hee An - Author
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Offers an Asian immigrant perspective on US racial relations and explores the unique situations and challenges facing Asian immigrants in the United States.
A Postcolonial Relationship critically examines the problems of current US racial relations from an Asian immigrant perspective and provides a new understanding of the complications that Asian immigrant groups experience...(Read More) |
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Saying Peace
(October 2021)
Levinas, Eurocentrism, Solidarity
Jack Marsh - Author
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Offers an immanent critique of Levinas’s core philosophical proposals by reference to his allegedly eurocentric statements.
Levinas's big idea is that our lived sense of moral obligation occurs in an immediate experience of the otherness of the Other, and that moral meaning is grounded in alterity rather than identity. Yet he also held what seemed an inconsiderate, or "eurocentric,...(Read More) |
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D. G. Leahy and the Thinking Now Occurring
(September 2021)
Lissa McCullough - Editor
Elliot R. Wolfson - Editor
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A critical introduction to the American philosopher D. G. Leahy (1937–2014), whose oeuvre sets forth a fundamental thinking in which change itself is revealed to be the very essence of reality and mind.
This book offers a critical introduction to the work of American philosopher D. G. Leahy (1937–2014). Leahy’s fundamental thinking can be characterized as an absolute creativity<...(Read More) |
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Naturalizing God?
(July 2021)
A Critical Evaluation of Religious Naturalism
Mikael Leidenhag - Author
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Evaluates religious naturalists’ attempts to find a middle path between supernaturalism and atheistic secularism, and explores naturalistic, theistic, and panpsychist solutions.
Can nature be considered a religious object? Religious naturalists answer yes, as they seek to carve out a middle path between supernaturalism and atheistic secularism. In this book, Mikael Leidenhag critic...(Read More) |
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Antigone's Sisters
(May 2021)
On the Matrix of Love
Lenart Škof - Author
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An original and innovative exploration of Antigone, femininity, and love in various cosmological, philosophical, and theological contexts.
In Antigone’s Sisters, Lenart Škof explores the power of love in our world—stronger than violence and, ultimately, stronger even than death. Focusing on Antigone, Savitri, and Mary, the book offers an investigation into various goddesses ...(Read More) |
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Demons of Change
(December 2020)
Antagonism and Apotheosis in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism
Andrei A. Orlov - Author
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Demonstrates how conflict between a human adept as the divine warrior and an otherworldly antagonist plays a key role in early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic accounts.
Antagonistic imagery has a striking presence in apocalyptic writings of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. In these visionary accounts, the role of the divine warrior fighting against demonic forces is ...(Read More) |
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Religion within the Limits of History Alone
(September 2020)
Pragmatic Historicism and the Future of Theology
Demian Wheeler - Author
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Shows that pragmatic historicism is a significant intellectual tradition in the history of American religious and philosophical thought.
Among the greatest challenges facing religious thinkers today is that created by historicism, the notion that human beings and their myriad understandings of reality are utterly historical, conditioned by contingent circumstances and tied to particular contexts. In this book, Demian Wheeler co...(Read More) |
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