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Paul Ricoeur and the Poetic Imperative

Looks at Ricoeur’s writings on love and justice, prominent toward the end of his life, and how these serve as an interpretive key to his thought as a whole.

Encounters with God in Augustine's Confessions

This reappraisal of the middle section of Augustine's Confessions covers the period of Augustine's conversion to Christianity. The author argues against the prevailing Neoplatonic interpretation of Augustine.

Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Becoming

An accessible and original exploration of the theological and philosophical significance of Kierkegaard’s religious thought.

Access to God in Augustine's Confessions

Continuing his groundbreaking reappraisal of the Confessions, Carl G. Vaught shows how Augustine's solutions to philosophical and theological problems emerge and discusses the longstanding question of the work's unity.

A Platonic Philosophy of Religion

Explores the process or neoclassical interpretation of Plato's thought on God.

Islam in Modern Turkey

A biography of the prominent Turkish theologian and thinker.

The Deities Are Many

Provides a theology of polytheism—the belief in many deities—using examples from a wide range of world religions.

Thinking through the Death of God

A critical exploration of the thought of radical theologian Thomas J. J. Altizer, including a response from Altizer and a comprehensive bibliography of his work.

In Deference to the Other

Explores the work of Bernard Lonergan in light of contemporary continental thought.

The Mystic Experience

Explores the human experience of mysticism and looks at it within the spiritual traditions around the world.

Reclaiming Narrative for Public Theology

Argues for American national narratives in Christian theology that respect the separation of church and state and a diverse, multifaith society.

God, Evil, and Human Learning

Revises the traditional free will defense regarding the existence of evil in the world of a loving God.

The Structure of Religious Knowing

Provides a critical exploration of Mircea Eliade's notion of the sacred by referencing the work of Bernard Lonergan.

Eco-Justice--The Unfinished Journey

Articles linking ecological sustainability and social justice.

Mystical Consciousness

Provides a philosophical account of everyday consciousness as a way of understanding mystical consciousness, drawing on the work of many Western and some Japanese thinkers.

Religious Studies, Theology, and the University

Explores the relationship between religious studies and theology and the place of each in the modern, secular university.

Religion in Late Modernity

A well-known theologian and philosopher offers a late-modern perspective on religion, one opposed to the received truths of postmodern religious thought.

Process and Difference

Leading scholars explore the relationship between deconstructive theory and process thought.

The Incarnation of God

Examines the notion of divine incarnations as a central element of the portrait of God that came into focus through the Judaism of the dual Torah.

Imaginary Christs

Discusses the issue of christological pluralism--the panoply of competing visions of Christ that exist today--and provides criteria for evaluating these.

Discussions of Simone Weil

A distinguished discussion of Weil's views on social philosophy, science, ethics, and religion.

Mediterranean Perspectives

Edited by Robert M. Berchman
Subjects: Philosophy

Characterize several lines of intellectual development by which some of the fundamental features of ancient, medieval, and modern pictures of God, Nature, Beauty, the State, and the Self came to be accepted as common knowledge in the Mediterranean world today.

Boundaries of Our Habitations

Brown's theory of tradition stands on its own as a significant contribution to the academic study of religions, but it also provides the framework for a challenging critique of contemporary American theologies—conservative, ...

Novitas Mundi

The "Prolegomena" sets out the fundamental perception of the history of being now operative in consciousness. The center of the book is comprised of a two-part "Reflection on the History of Being": Part ...