Continuum imprint: 595 books
Stepping Out with the Sacred
Human Attempts to Engage the Divine
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Val Webb describes in this book how humans have engaged the Divine across religions and centuries, through rituals, art, sacred places, language and song. Drawing on personal and observed experience of travel and meetings with strangers, Webb uses her anecdotes to supplement her analysis of centuries...
Harvesting the Fruits
Basic Aspects of Christian Faith in Ecumenical Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The Second Vatican Council declared the restoration of unity among Christians to be one of its principal concerns. Division among the Churches scandalises the worldand damages that most holy cause, the preaching of The Gospel to every creature. A key figure to have worked tirelessly at these aims...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Critical thinking is becoming increasingly prominent as an academic discipline taught and examined in schools and universities, as well as a crucial skill for everyday life. To be a successful critical thinker it is vital to understand how the different concepts and terms are defined and used. The...
by Professor Israel Knohl
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
It features the first discussion of the recently discovered text 'The Gabriel Revelation' - an apocalyptic text written on stone at the turn of the Common Era. This tablet provides revolutionary paths to the understanding of the historical Jesus and the birth of Christianity.
It explores the...
Kierkegaard's 'Fear and Trembling'
A Reader's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Søren Kierkegaard was without question one of the most important and influential thinkers of the nineteenth century. Fear and Trembling is a classic text in the history of both philosophical and religious thought that still challenges readers with its original philosophical perspective and idiosyncratic...
Academic Writing in a Second or Foreign Language
Issues and Challenges Facing ESL/EFL Academic Writers in Higher Education Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
It can be a challenge writing in a language that is not your native tongue. Constructing academic essays, dissertations and research articles in this second or foreign language is even more challenging, yet across the globe thousands of academics and students do so, some out of choice, some out of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Many major world events have occurred since the last key anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War, and these events have had a dramatic impact on the international stage: 9/11, the Iraq War, climate change and the world economic crisis. This is an opportune moment to bring together a group...
Digimodernism
How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
A bold new challenge to postmodern theory
The increasing irrelevance of postmodernism requires a new theory to underpin our current digital culture. Almost without anybody noticing, a new cultural paradigm has taken center stage, displacing an exhausted and increasingly marginalized postmodernism....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Exploring what great philosophers have written about the nature of knowledge and about how we know what we know, this is a concise and accessible introduction to the field of epistemology.
Epistemology: The Key Thinkers tells the story of how epistemological thinking has developed over the...
The Future of Blasphemy
Speaking of the Sacred in an Age of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
In the days of Moses, blasphemy was the mortal offence of failing to respect the divine. In an age of human rights, blasphemy is understood as a failure to respect persons, as insult, defamation, or "advocacy of religious hatred." The criminalisation of this personal blasphemy has been advanced...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
In 1971, Deleuze and Guattari's collaborative work, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia caused an international sensation by fusing Marx with a radically rewritten Freud to produce a new approach to critical thinking, which they provocatively called "schizoanalysis." Deleuze and the...
The God of Jesus Christ
New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Kasper is a master synthesiser, and his display of erudition alone makes this book a worthy read and an invaluable resource for questions of God and Trinity. Using admittedly polemical language, he calls for a 'theological theology' which makes the explanation of the confession of the triune God its...
The Return to the Mystical
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Teresa of Avila and the Christian Mystical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
The most recent mystical theology scholarship - a discipline that has found new energy and influence. This is examined through the lens of Wittgenstein's philosophy.
by Dr Peter Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Peter Tyler endeavours to represent St John of the Cross in the truest light, covering his life from the angles of John as Theologian, as Mystic, Psychologist, and Artist. Tyler draws parallels, at times uncomfortable, between the age of disruption and and change in the church during which St John...