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The Aesthetics of Atheism
Theology and Imagination in Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
To really understand God, you have to understand atheism.
Atheism and Christianity are often placed at polar opposite ends of a spectrum, forever in stark conflict with each other. In The Aesthetics of Atheism, Kutter Callaway and Barry Taylor propose a radical alternative: atheism and theism...
God? : A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist
A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2003
The question of whether or not God exists is profoundly fascinating and important. Now two articulate spokesmen--one a Christian the other an atheist--duel over God's existence in an illuminating battle of ideas. In God? A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist William Lane Craig and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium was launched in the early eighties. It began during a particularly lean period in the American economy. But its success is linked as much to the need to be in touch with the rapidly changing currents of the philosophical climate as with the need to insure...
The Necessity of God
Ontological Claims Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Every person acquires a worldview, a picture of reality. Within that picture, the existence of some things will be taken wholly for granted as the background to, and support of, everything else. Their existence will rarely be questioned. The cosmos or universe, the gods, God, Brahman, Heaven, the...
The Universe of Experience
A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Modern experience forces philosophy and social thought to confront the basic problems of value. Is this life worth caring about? How can we find a way between the deceit of fanatical belief and despair? In the view of Lancelot Law Whyte, the essential challenge to mankind today is an underlying nihilism...
Animal Wonder World
A Chronicle of the Unusual in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
This is a charming series of essays on animal behavior, written in 1951 by the note British science writer Frank W. Lane, reveals obscure and fascinating oddities of animal behavior. The clear, logical explanation behind each bizarre happening grounds the observations in scientific research, and provides...
How to Listen to a Sermon
With 'Honoring the Gospel' and Other Homilies for the Sake of Heaven
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
After exploring several aspects of the craft of homily, How to Listen to a Sermon explains how listening to a sermon is different from attending to other forms of public address. This view presupposes a distinctive understanding of the sermonic or preaching event and this is illustrated by two homiletical...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This book examines the textual, social, cultural, practical and institutional environments to which the expression “teaching and learning contexts” refers. It reflects on the extent to which studying such environments helps us to better understand ancient or modern sources, and how notions of...
Philosophy, History and Social Action
Essays in Honor of Lewis Feuer with an autobiographic essay by Lewis Feuer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Two articles by Lewis Feuer caught my attention in the '40s when 1 was wondering, asa student physicist, about the relations of physics to philosophy and to the world in turmoil. One was his essay on 'The Development of Logical Empiricism' (1941), and the other his critical review of Philipp Frank's...
by Richard Swinburne
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1998
Why does a loving God allow humans to suffer so much? This is one of the most difficult problems of religious belief. Richard Swinburne gives a careful, clear examination of this problem, and offers an answer: it is because God wants more for us than just pleasure or freedom from suffering. Swinburne...
The Philosophy Of Right And Left
Incongruent Counterparts and the Nature of Space
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Incongruent counterparts are objects that are perfectly similar except for being mirror images of each other, such as left and right human hands. Immanuel Kant was the first great thinker to point out the philosophical significance of such objects. He called them "counter parts" because they are similar...
by Richard Yeo
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science, Richard Yeo interprets a relatively unexplored set of primary archival sources: the notes and notebooks of some of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution. Notebooks were important to several key members of the Royal Society of London,...
Lazare and Sadi Carnot
A Scientific and Filial Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence. He and his son Sadi produced work that derived from their training as engineering and went largely unnoticed by physicists...
Freemasonry
Encyclical Letter Humanus Genus
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
The race of man, after its miserable fall from God, the Creator and the Giver of heavenly gifts, “through the envy of the devil,” separated into two diverse and opposite parts, of which the one steadfastly contends for truth and virtue, the other of those things which are contrary to virtue and...