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The Manifest and the Revealed
(December 2018)
A Phenomenology of Kenosis
Adam Y. Wells - Author
Kevin Hart - With a 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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Remnants of Hegel
(November 2018)
Remains of Ontology, Religion, and Community
Félix Duque - Author
Nicholas Walker - Translator
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An original philosophical exploration of the limits of Hegel’s thought.
In the preface to the second edition of the Science of Logic, Hegel speaks of an instinctive and unconscious logic whose forms and determinations “always remain imperceptible and incapable of becoming objective even as they emerge in language.” In spite of Hegel’s ambitions to provide a philosophical system that might transcend...(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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Reconfigurations of Philosophy of Religion
(April 2018)
A Possible Future
Jim Kanaris - Editor
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Explores the place and meaning of philosophy of religion in our current poststructuralist, postsecular, postcolonialist context.
This collection addresses, as it exemplifies, an identity crisis in contemporary philosophy of religion. It represents a unique two-way dialogue between philosophers of religion and scholars of religion and broaches issues pertaining to the philosophy of religion and the philosophical tradition, on th...(Read More) |
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Lessing and the Enlightenment
(February 2018)
His Philosophy of Religion and Its Relation to Eighteenth-Century Thought
Henry E. Allison - Author
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A comprehensive study of Lessing’s religious thought.
Although only one aspect of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s diverse oeuvre, his religious thought had a significant influence on thinkers such as Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and present-day liberal Protestant theologians. His thought is particularly difficult to assess, however, because it is found largely in a series of essays, reviews, critical studies, polemical writi...(Read More) |
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Mystery 101
(February 2018)
An Introduction to the Big Questions and the Limits of Human Knowledge
Richard H. Jones - Author
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Delineates the knowable from the unknowable in philosophy, science, and theology.
Offering readers much to ponder, Richard H. Jones approaches the “big questions” of philosophy such as the nature of reality, consciousness, free will, the existence of God, and the meaning of life not by weighing the merits of leading arguments in these debates, but instead by questioning the extent to which we are even in a position t...(Read More) |
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