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The constant inundation of the affect and information experienced by contemporary individuals exposes the tragic nature of the world, making nihilism an epistemologically reasonable response. To counter the threat of nihilism, Elijiah Prewitt-Davis argues that knowledge...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-14
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A call for Christianity to recover its confidenceThe mainstream Churches are faltering - or even at risk of dying out - in their Western and Middle Eastern heartlands. Surveys confirm that only a minority of people in a country such as Britain now claim Christian...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2024-09-12
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This book provides a rigorous and insightful exploration of political fanaticism, guided by a nuanced interpretation of the works of Max Stirner, a philosopher often overlooked in contemporary discourse. Based on a comprehensive analysis of Stirner's perspectives, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-07
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Können religiöse und nicht-religiöse Menschen einander verstehen? Sprechen sie dieselbe Sprache? Gibt es gerechtfertigte Einwände gegen Glaubensüberzeugungen? Wie verhält sich religiöser Glaube zu ‚gewöhnlichem‘ Glauben? Ist er nichts anderes als Ausdruck von Gefühlen?...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-08-06
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This book provides a detailed account of Julián Marías’s metaphysical anthropology with the ultimate aim of offering a coherent and systematic analysis of Marías’s argumentation for claiming that the conscious hope for Christian salvation through resurrection — and with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-15
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This book examines how the semantics and metaphysics of disagreement affect the epistemology of disagreement. It thus broadens the philosophical discourse by relating the epistemological discussion of (peer) disagreement to inquiries into the nature of disagreement and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-29
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This volume is about the most mind-boggling sacrament of the Christian faith, also referred to as the Sacrament of the Altar, the Eucharist: in its Roman Catholic interpretation, the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ for...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-01-01
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Is evil evidence against the existence of God? Does divine hiddenness provide an evidential problem for theism?Is our evolutionary history evidence that God doesn’t exist? Skeptical theism is the view that humans are cognitively limited in important ways that prevent us...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-06
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This book investigates the compatibility between the doctrine of divine simplicity (DDS, hereafter) and divine free action primarily in the works of Avicenna and Anselm with an analytical approach.
The book has three main objectives: (1) to thoroughly analyse...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-19
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Anselm's ontological argument is one of the most fascinating, most controversial, and most misunderstood arguments in the entire history of Western thought. By centring the argument firmly in the Neoplatonic tradition within which Anselm was writing, Understanding...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-24
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
This book provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sina, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works, with an overview...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-12
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
This book provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sina, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works, with an overview...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-27
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Kants Verhältnis zur Religionsphilosophie ist von faszinierender Komplexität: Erkenntnistheoretisch ist Gott eine Leerstelle, praktisch hingegen nicht zu vermeiden. Was Gott an normativer Voraussetzbarkeit genommen wird, lässt Kant aus Gründen praktischer Nachhaltigkeit...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-04-06
Collection :
Neue Horizonte der Religionsphilosophie
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This book addresses the place of religious knowledge in religion, particularly within Christianity. The book begins by examining the difference between the general concepts of knowledge and belief, the relation between faith and knowledge, and reasons why belief as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-30
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This book critically assesses arguments for the existence of the God of classical theism, develops an innovative account of objects’ persistence, and defends new arguments against classical theism. The authors engage the following classical theistic proofs: Aquinas’s...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-11-29
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Wie lässt sich das Religiöse heute redlich denken? In welchem Verhältnis stehen Philosophie und Religion bzw. Theologie zueinander? Ist ein religiöser Glaube nur eine Option unter anderen oder vielmehr eine tiefe Dimension menschlicher Existenz, auch in einer...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-11-25
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This book deals with the intricate issue of approaching atheism—methodologically as well as conceptually—from the perspective of cultural pluralism. What does ‘atheism’ mean in different cultural contexts? Can this term be applied appropriately to different religious...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-11-16
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This book provides a new account of the emergence of the philosophy of personal identity in the early modern period. Reflection on personal identity is often thought to have begun in earnest with John Locke’s famous consciousness-based account, published in the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-11-14
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This brief treatise explores the common threads to psychoanalytic thought and theological theory. It uses a psychoanalytic lens to examine Judeo/Christian concepts of individual will, consciousness and the unconscious, and the apparent confounding idea of sin. What is...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-10-04
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How can a supposedly all-powerful and all-loving God permit evil and suffering on a grand scale?The question has assailed people across cultures at least as far back as the biblical Book of Job. To sceptics, it forms clinching evidence that all talk of providence is...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2022-09-15
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