Philosophy of religion Books

Book SynopsisEvolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis comprises 41 chapters that push for a new way of conducting the study of religion, thereby, transforming the discipline into a genuine science of religion. The recent resurgence of evolutionary approaches on culture and the increasing acknowledgement in the natural and social sciences of culture’s and religion’s evolutionary importance calls for a novel epistemological and theoretical framework for studying these two areas. The chapters explore how a new scholarly synthesis, founded on the triadic space constituted by evolution, cognition, cultural and ecological environment, may develop. Different perspectives and themes relating to this overarching topic are taken up with a main focus on either evolution, cognition, and/or the history of religion.

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Book SynopsisThis is a bilingual edition of the selected peer-reviewed papers that were submitted for the International Symposium on Jesuit Studies on the thought of the Jesuit Francisco Suárez (1548–1617). The symposium was co-organized in Seville in 2018 by the Departamento de Humanidades y Filosofía at Universidad Loyola Andalucía and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College.Trade Review“The volume especially shines by putting Suárez into fruitful and critical conversations with other well-known thinkers, mostly English, of the modern political canon like Machiavelli, Hobbes, James I, Bentham, and Locke. […] Overall, [it] offers the best recent treatment in English of Suárez’s political thought.” David Lantigua, University of Notre Dame. In: Theological Studies, Vol. 81, No. 1 (2020), pp. 244–255. “The articles give a remarkable overview of recent tendencies in the interpretation of this Jesuit thinker [and] offer valuable contributions to further illuminate the various traditions that shaped early modernity.” Bernhard Knorn, Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 679–681.Table of ContentsPreface  Robert Aleksander Maryks Introducción  Juan Antonio Senent-De Frutos Part 1: Metaphysics  1 Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysics of Cognitive Acts  Daniel Heider  2 Suárez on Substantial Forms: a Heroic Last Stand?  Sydney Penner  3 Intrinsic Being or the Formal Structures of Thought? The Grounding of Possibility in Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysics  Matthew Z. Vale  4 En contra del esencialismo: ente real y existencia en Suárez  Ángel Poncela González Part 2: Religion, Law, Society  5 Francisco Suárez: Religious Freedom and International Law  Robert Fastiggi  6 Francisco Suárez on Religion and Religious Pluralism  S.J. Aaron Pidel  7 Encarnación y subsistencia en las Disputaciones metafísicas de Francisco Suárez: algunas cuestiones en torno a los fundamentos de la modernidad  Julio Söchting Herrera  8 Settling Law: Francisco Suárez's Theory of Custom for Contemporary Contexts  Elisabeth Kincaid Part 3: Political Theories  9 Francisco Suárez y la posibilidad de intervención pública en asuntos sociales  Luis-Carlos Amezúa Amezúa  10 Beyond Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Finding Resources in Francisco Suárez’s Political Theology  Liam de los Reyes  11 Entrega del poder al gobernante y esclavitud voluntaria de la comunidad política en Francisco Suárez: una interpretación desde los límites fácticos al poder  Pablo Font Oporto  12 Francisco Suárez y la propaganda político-apocalíptica en la Inglaterra de Jacobo I: el libro V de la Defensio fidei; El Anticristo  Pilar Pena Búa  13 Francisco Suárez: Absolutist or Constitutionalist?  Szilárd Tattay Part 4: Psychology  14 El sí mismo desde Suárez y el valor moral de los hábitos  Giannina Burlando  15 Separated Soul and Its Nature: Francisco Suárez in the Scholastic Debate  Simone Guidi  16 Doctrinal Divergences on the Nature of Human Composite in Two Commentaries on Aristotle’s De anima (Anonymous, Cod. 2399 BGUC and Francisco Suárez): New Material on the Jesuit School of Coimbra and the Cursus Conimbricensis  Paula Oliveira e Silva and João Rebalde  17 Suárez, Maquiavelo y una moderna noción de prudencia: derivaciones políticas en la obra de Diego de Saavedra Fajardo  Nicolás Vivalda Part 5: Legacy  18 Francisco Suárez and John Locke on Rights and Alienability: a Critical Conversation  Catherine Sims Kuiper  19 La imposible teología política: gobierno y justicia en Francisco Suárez  Lorenzo Rustighi  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisThis edition contains quaestiones 1-5 of book III of the commentary on the Sentences, by Marsilius of Inghen (†1396), the founding rector and first doctor of theology of the University of Heidelberg. These questions are devoted to the Christology, Mariology, and Trinitology, and deal with the issue of the Incarnation of Christ, with quaestiones 1-3 considering it in relation to the individual Persons of the Trinity, and quaestiones 4-5 in relation to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In all questions, Marsilius advocates the via media of sound faith, even above any school traditions.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction  1 Notes on Doctrinal Content: Christology  2 General Remarks concerning Marsilius of Inghen’s Commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences  3 Description of the Sources Containing qu. 1–5 of Marsilius of Inghen’s Commentary on the Sentences  4 Relationship among the Copies and Choice of the Basic Manuscript  5 Editorial Rules  6 Descriptio Fontium  7 Abbreviationes et Sigla Quaestiones super tertium librum Sententiarum  Q. 1 Utrum regnum increatum quod nisi fuissent crimina, non fuisset incarnatum, plus perfecerit regnum creatum, quam si sine crimine stetisset immaculatum  Q. 2 Utrum sicut solus Filius naturam hominis assumpsit, sic Pater et Spiritus Sanctus eandem naturam assumere potuerit  Q. 3 Utrum sicut Filius quamlibet aliam naturam in unitatem suppositi assumere potuit, sic in ipso inter personam assumentem et assumptam naturam unio media fuit  Q. 4 Utrum sicut a Virgine potentia peccandi extitit ablata, sic ipsa cum Filio in suis parentibus extitit decimata  Q. 5 Utrum sicut nullis praecedentibus meritis patrum Verbum incarnatum est, sic ad Verbi incarnationem Virgo Mater in aliquod operata sit Bibliographia Indices

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Book SynopsisWhere do gods come from – and what is the cost of bearing them? In Practicing Safe Sects F. LeRon Shults argues for the importance of having “the talk” about the causes and consequences of participating in religious sects. To survive and thrive as a social species, we humans are likely to continue needing some kind of sects (as well as sex) for quite some time. But can we learn how to practice safe sects? Can we live together in healthy and productive social networks without reproducing the superstitious beliefs and segregative behaviors that are engendered and nurtured by shared ritual engagement with imagined supernatural agents? In this provocative and timely book, Shults provides scientific and philosophical resources for answering these questions.

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Book SynopsisReading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of the history of Neoplatonism from the 9th to the 16th century. This third volume gathers contributions on key concepts of the Platonic tradition (Proclus, Plotinus, Porphyry or Sallustius) inherited and reinterpreted by Arabic (e.g. Avicenna, the Book of Causes), Byzantine (e.g. Maximus the Confessor, Ioane Petritsi) and Latin authors (e.g. Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Berthold of Moosburg, Marsilio Ficino etc.). Two major themes are presently studied: causality (in respect to the One, the henads, the self-constituted substances and the first being) and the noetic triad (being-life-intellect).Table of ContentsNotes On Causes and the Noetic Triad  Dragos Calma Part 1 Causes Section 1 One and Participation 1 Proclus’ Elements of Theology and Platonic Dialectics  Jan Opsomer 2 Substantia stans per essentiam suam: Proclus et l’ auteur du De causis sur les êtres qui se constituent eux-mêmes  Carlos Steel 3 Regards croisés sur la cause première: Plotin, Porphyre, Victorinus, Saloustios, Proclus  Anca Vasiliu 4 L’ Être premier—entre Proclus et Denys l’ Aréopagite  Marilena Vlad 5 Proclus’ Reception in Maximus the Confessor, Mediated through John Philoponus and Dionysius the Ps.-Areopagite: A Case Study of Ambiguum 7  Jonathan Greig 6 Henads as Divine Images: The Epistemological and Ontological Significance of Inner Light and Creation of a New Subjectivity in Ioane Petritsi’s Metaphysics  Levan Gigineishvili 7 Cause and Effect in Petritsi’s Commentary on Proclus’ Elements of Theology  Lela Alexidze 8 Virtus and Causae Primordiales in Berthold’s Expositio  Ezequiel Ludueña Section 2 Causality and Free Will 9 Causalité et pouvoir: autour des traces du Liber de causis dans la Métaphysique d’ Avicenne  Olga Lizzini 10 God’s Existence and Essence: The Liber de causis and School Discussions in the Metaphysics of Avicenna  Amos Bertolacci 11 The Causal Efficacy of Nature in the Neoplatonica Arabica  Bethany Somma 12 Thomas d’ Aquin, l’ étiologie proclusienne, et la théorie du concours de Dieu à la causalité naturelle  Jean-Luc Solère 13 Deux modèles de causalité, deux théories de la liberté: À propos de deux interprétations de la proposition I du Livre des causes  Olivier Boulnois 14 “Agir par son être-même”: La question de la liberté créatrice dans le Liber de causis et sa réception chez Albert le Grand  Isabelle Moulin Part 2 The Noetic Triad: Being, Life, Intellect 15 The Early History of the Noetic Triad  John Dillon 16 Some Overlooked Sources of the Elements of Theology: The Noetic Triad, Epistrophé, Apokatastasis, Bodies, God, “All in All” and the Possible Reception of Origenian Themes  Ilaria Ramelli 17 Le chapitre XI[XII] du Liber de causis commenté par Albert le Grand: l’ unité de la cause et de son effet comme immanence réciproque  Julie Casteigt 18 L’ exemple de la triade esse, vivum, homo dans les commentaires latins du XIIIe siècle au Liber de causis, entre réalisme des universaux et pluralité des formes substantielles  Julie Brumberg-Chaumont 19 Self-Knowledge and Reditio Completa: Two Mid-13th-Century Interpretations of the Liber de causis, prop. XIV(XV) (Roger Bacon, Ps-Henry of Ghent)  Thérèse Scarpelli Cory 20 Marsilio Ficino on The Triad Being-Life-Intellect and the Demiurge: Renaissance Reappraisals of Late Ancient Philosophical and Theological Debates  Denis J.-J. Robichaud Index

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Book SynopsisThe first scholarly book on Thomas Vaughan (1621–1666) draws from recent studies in Western esotericism to place his famously difficult writings in their proper context. It shows that they develop themes from a distinctively Rosicrucian synthesis of alchemy, magic, and Christian cabala. Vaughan introduced Rosicrucian documents to English readers and placed them in older philosophical contexts during the breakdown of censorship that followed the English Revolution against the old order in politics and religion. Willard’s book will appeal to students of early modern ideas about religion, science, and society as they were seen by an intelligent and eloquent outsider.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations A Note on Quotations Introduction Double Obscurity 1 The Progress: A Life of Thomas Vaughan  1 Wales  2 Oxford  3 Civil War  4 London  5 Publishing  6 Profession  7 Marriage  8 Patronage 2 The Bookish Faith: Vaughan’s Reading and Influences  1 The Biblical Tradition  2 The Platonic Philosophy  3 Magic  4 Cabala  5 Alchemy  6 The Rosy Cross  7 Tradition and the Individual 3 Not Easily Apprehended: Vaughan’s Language and Writings  1 Part One: The Alphabet of Nature  1.1 Magical Writing  1.2 Alchemical Rhetoric  1.3 Oracular and Vernacular  1.4 Center and Circumference  2 Part Two: The Key to the Lock  2.1 Anthroposophia Theomagica  2.2 Anima Magica Abscondita  2.3 Magia Adamica  2.4 Coelum Terrae  2.5 Lumen de Lumine  2.6 Aula Lucis  2.7 Preface to The Fame and Confession  2.8 Euphrates  2.9 Preface to The Chymists Key  2.10 Flint, Fire, and Tears: Vaughan’s English Poetry 4 Numbered amongst Ranters: Vaughan’s Reputation  1 The Pamphlet Debate  2 The Stylist, Rival, and Source  3 The Satiric Butt  4 The Legendary Adept  5 The Research Subject Conclusion Invisible History Appendix 1 Annotations in Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum Appendix 2 Preface to Humane Industry Appendix 3 Excerpts from The Ladies Champion Appendix 4 The Term “Spiritual Alchemy” Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects Index of Bible Citations

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Book SynopsisThe articles in The Modern Experience of the Religious, edited by Nassim Bravo and Jon Stewart, explore the many ways in which religion was impacted by the emergence of modernity, particularly after the Enlightenment, which underscored the centrality of human reason and thus called into question traditional forms of religiosity. Modernity raised several questions that are studied by the authors of this volume: What should be the role of religion in a secular or pluralistic society? How does the human being relate to God? Can instituted religion be compatible with modern values such as civil liberties, pluralism or environmentalism?

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Book SynopsisAiming to develop a less studied literary genre, this book provides a well-rounded picture of spiritual and physical diseases and their remedies as they were ingrained in the imagination and practices of Middle Eastern Abrahamic cultures, with a special emphasis of Christian communities (Greeks/Byzantines, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Ethiopians). The volume traces traditions dealing with the onset of a disease in the body and soul, the search for remedy, the maintenance of healing, and the engagement of these processes with faith—either through their affirmation in the public sphere or remaining within the personal framework, as in monastic traditions. A recurring presence in religious literature and the history of the intellectual world, the confrontation between disease and healing may well still be current for our modern understanding of the paths to seeking and maintaining the health of one’s body and soul, without excluding the factor of faith as a core principle.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Catalin-Stefan Popa 1 The Contemplative as Spiritual Physician: Medical Theory and Terminology in the Writings of Evagrius Ponticus  Luke Dysinger 2 Illness, Sainthood, and Spiritual Healing in Early Antique Monasticism  Daniel Lemeni 3 Illness of Body and Soul in Greek-Speaking Church Fathers  Martin Meiser 4 Survivals of Phoenician and Aramaic Pharmacobotany during Late Antiquity  Daniel Asade 5 Zoroastrian Medical Rhetoric in Late Antique Iran  Mahnaz Moazami 6 Physician, Spiritual Healer, or Medicine Man? Medical Science according to Bar Bahlūl  Stefanie Rudolf 7 Spiritual Therapy of the Heart: Syriac Fathers on a Pure Heart and How to Keep It Free of Disease  Catalin-Stefan Popa 8 Disease and Healing according to the Armenian Christian Tradition  Jesse Siragan Arlen 9 Soul and Body: Diseases, Remedies and Healing in Georgian Hagiography  Gaga Shurgaia 10 Haunted Bodies: Health, Illness and Inner Life in Byzantium  Raffaele Guerra 11 Non-Codex Gəʿəz Manuscripts as Forms of Healing  Hagos Abrha Abay 12 A Sixteenth Century Hebrew Account of the Epidemic in Naples  Nadia Zeldes 13 Medical and Pharmacological Remedies with Qurʾanic Verses in Nineteenth-Century Manuscripts from Timbuktu  Ali Diakite and Paul Naylor 14 ‘Let Us Bear Illness with Dignity and Righteousness’ Physical and Spiritual Affliction in the Understanding of the Elders of Optina  Eugene Lyutko, Gleb Zapalsky and Vyacheslav Yachmenik Index of Subjects Index of Names Index of Places

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Book SynopsisThis book gives us a new perspective on the Philosophy according to the Chaldean Oracles by Porphyry of Tyre (ca. 232/305 CE), demonstrating that much of what we thought we knew about this work and its fragments is mistaken. Here, for the first time, the attempt is made at reconstructing the original text by following the vicissitudes of its reception and transmission from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance up to modern scholarship. The extensive and painstaking study of the surviving fragments leads to the radically innovative conclusion that this encyclopedic treatise, written by Porphyry in the last decades of the 3rd century CE, consisted of fifteen books organized in various sections. After an initial discussion of the nature of theurgy and of its subordinate role with respect to philosophy, Porphyry describes the entire history of Greek philosophy from Homer up to his own teacher Plotinus, to then go on to present “introductions” to the seven encyclical disciplines whose study is required for the comprehension of theosophy, that is, the esoteric speculation on the three parts of philosophy: anthropology-ethics, physics, and metaphysics-theology. By harmonizing the teachings of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and the Chaldean Oracles, Porphyry intends to present the complete and definitive philosophic system, with the aim of showing the universal way for the liberation of the souls of initiates and of contextually fighting the final battle of the Greco-Roman civilization against Christianity.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowlegments Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 Preliminary Questions 1 A Philosophy Conforming with the “Chaldean Oracles” 2 An Esoteric Philosophy for the Salvation of the Soul 3 The First Commentary on the “Chaldean Oracles” 4 Zoroaster, the Magi, and the “Chaldean Oracles” 5 Polemics against the Christians 6 Some Further Consequences Part 2 Χρηστικη Πραγματεια Statues, Sacrifices and Oracles 7 Philosophy versus Theurgy 8 The Orphic Prorrhesis and the Statues of the Gods 9 The Universal Way for the Salvation of the Soul 10 Sacrifices and Oracles 11 The Letter to Anebo and the Response by Iamblichus 12 Chaldean Philosophy versus Chaldean Theology 13 The Anti-Christian Oracles of Hekate and Apollo 14 Against Origen’s Allegorical Interpretation of the Jewish Scriptures 15 Against Origen’s Allegorical Interpretation of Homer Part 3 Πολλων Των Κατα Φιλοσοφιαν Δογματων Αναγραφη The History of Philosophy and the Encyclical Disciplines 16 The Chronicle of Greek Philosophy from the Fall of Troy to the Reign of Claudius 17 The History of Greek Philosophy from Homer to Plato 18 The History of Greek Philosophy from the Old Academy to Plotinus 19 The Two Editions of the Life of Plotinus 20 The Truest Philosophy of Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle 21 The Oracle of Apollo on Plotinus’s Soul 22 Porphyry and the Encyclical Disciplines 23 The Mathematical Disciplines 24 Augustine on the Encyclical Disciplines 25 The Encyclical Disciplines against the Christians Part 4 Θεοσοφια Theological Wisdom for the Salvation of the Soul 26 The Threefold Division of Philosophy 27 Two Preliminary Methodological Issues 28 On the Union of Soul and Body 29 A Collection of Hieroi Logoi on the Soul 30 The Immortality of the Soul 31 Self-Determination and Transmigration of the Soul 32 Homer’s Philosophy of the Soul 33 From Anthropology-Ethics to Physics 34 From Physics to Metaphysics-Theology 35 Theology as the Fulfilment of Theosophy 36 Further Theological Fragments 37 Three Books against the Religion and Name of the Christians Part 5 Reception in the Latin, Byzantine, and Arabic Traditions 38 The Latin Reception 39 Augustine and Macrobius 40 The Byzantine Reception 41 The Relationship with “On Abstinence” 42 A Byzantine Epitome of Porphyry’s Theosophy 43 An Arabic Translation of Porphyry’s Theology 44 The Philosophy of the Few Conclusion: A Tentative Reconstruction of the Philosophy according to the Chaldean Oracles Bibliography Index of Ancient, Medieval and Modern Authors

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Book SynopsisWounded pride of the hero motivated one of the primal poems, pride of the angel caused his downfall and hubris of man cost him his expulsion from earthly paradise and the sale of his soul to the devil. Different forms of pride play a central role in many myths. This book conscientiously reviews the history of these emotions, literary recreations and philosophical approaches and accounts for their relevance in the contemporary world. It offers an original phenomenology of pride, which draws on preceding historical and analytical work, and a conceptual and musical speculation on the future of posthuman pride.Trade Review‘The analysis of the emotion of pride is approached with a masterful beauty, perfectly combining a double historical-hermeneutical and philosophical-phenomenological approach.’ - Sonia Rodríguez, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National University of Distance Education, Spain ‘What a great book! Very well written, with clear ideas and masterfully developed. Also substantial and erudite. None of this prevents the author from using a subtle and ironic humor where it is appropriate and does not break the speech.’ - Mikel Gorriti, Ph.D. in Psychology, Basque Government ‘Written in simple and rigorous language, this book traces the history of the emotion of pride and analyses its growing importance in contemporary cultural, social and political movements. An excellent book.’ - Juan Antonio Valor, former Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University of MadridTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 The Duality of Pride 1 Emotion and Character 2 The State of the Question 3 History and Philosophy Part 1 The History of Pride 2 Gods, Heroes and Men 1 The Warrior Aristocracy 2 The Olympic Games 3 The Panegyric of Democracy 4 The Myth of Prometheus 3 The Pride of Philosophers 1 The Philosopher-Kings 2 Greatness of Soul 3 Hubris, Outrage and Excess 4 Pride and Work 4 The Hubris of the Angel 1 The Problem of Sources 2 The Creation of the Angels 3 The Sin of the Angel 4 The Fall of the Angel 5 The Hubris of the Human 1 The State of Innocence 2 General Pride and Special Pride 3 Moral Humility and Spiritual Humility 4 Original Sin 5 The Implications of the Thomist Interpretation 6 Piety and Justice 1 The Four Stages of History 2 The Two Pillars of the Old Testament 3 The Exclusivity of the God of Israel 4 Orphans, Widows and Foreigners 7 Pride and Knowledge 1 The Devil’s Crony 2 The Curiosity of Doctor Faustus 3 The Plurality of Faustuses 4 Excess and Pride 5 The Condemnation and Salvation of Faustus Part 2 The Philosophy of Pride 8 The Virtue of Pride 1 From Myth to Lógos 2 Opinions, Desires, Emotions 3 The Passions of the Soul 4 Pride, Magnanimity and Humility 5 Pride and Dignity 9 Humility and Resentment 1 The Morality of Aristocrats and the Morality of Slaves 2 The Transvaluation of Values 3 Christian Humility, Resentment and Fraternity 4 The Ambiguities of Christian Morality 5 Nietzschean Love and Pride 10 The Pride of the Masses 1 Philosophy and Poetry 2 No-One Is More than any One 3 Resentment and Mass-Pride 11 Identity and Difference 1 Black Pride 2 lgbtiq+ Pride 3 Collective Pride 4 Science and Pride 12 The Phenomenology of Pride 1 The Essence of Pride 2 Variations of the Proximate Kind: Emotion 3 Variations of Subject and Material Object: Oneself 4 Variations of the Formal Object: Excellence 5 Variations of Modality: Order and Disorder Part 3 The Future of Pride 13 Post-pride 1 Infra-humanity and Post-humanity 2 Subhuman, Human and Superhuman Dignity 3 The Morality and Pride of Supermen 4 Fundamental Prideological Meditation 5 The Transvaluation of Pride Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is an exploration of the content and dimensions of contemporary Continental philosophy of religion. It is also a showcase of the work of some of the philosophers who are, by their scholarship, filling out the meaning of the term Continental philosophy of religion.Table of ContentsKenneth BRYSON: Editorial Foreword Acknowledgments Deane-Peter BAKER and Patrick MAXWELL: Introduction Part One: DIMENSIONS ONE Jeffrey W. ROBBINS: Overcoming Overcoming: In Praise of Ontotheology TWO Will LARGE: Inverted Kantianism and Interiority: A Critical Comment on Milbank’s Theology THREE Jones IRWIN: Deconstructing God: Defending Derrida against Radical Orthodoxy FOUR Eric BOYNTON: Enigmatic Sites and Continental Philosophy of Religion: Must Philosophy Once Again Yield to Theology? FIVE Jim KANARIS: Lonergan and Contemporary Philosophy of Religion SIX Michael PURCELL: justice as an Aporia in Levinas? Part Two: INTERFACE SEVEN Karmen MACKENDRICK: The Word made Flesh: The Embodiment of Christ in the Fourth Gospel EIGHT Catherine PICKSTOCK: The Soul in Plato NINE Mark NELSON: Narrativity and the Problem of Evil TEN Deane-Peter BAKER: Imago Dei: Toward a Transcendental Argument for the Existence of God ELEVEN Patrick LENTA: The Changing Face of the Law: Ubuntu, Religion and the Politics of Postcolonial Legality TWELVE Clayton CROCKETT: Foreclosing God: Philosophy of Religion and Psychoanalysis THIRTEEN Pamela Sue ANDERSON: Feminism in Philosophy of Religion About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book critically explores answers to the big question, What produced our universe around fifteen billion years ago in a Big Bang? It critiques contemporary atheistic cosmologies, including Steady State, Oscillationism, Big Fizz, Big Divide, and Big Accident, that affirm the eternity and self-sufficiency of the universe without God. This study defends and revises Process Theology and arguments for God's existence from the universe's life-supporting order and contingent existence.Trade Review"Edwards’ scholarship and erudition are really quite impressive … provides a very helpful overview of the basic alternatives seeking to explain the origination of the big bang, making a reasoned case for creation" - in: International Journal for Philosophy of religion 53 (2003) "This is a book that fills a large lacuna in process studies, namely, an examination of contemporary cosmology’s theories of origins from a perspective knowledgeable about, and sympathetic to, process thought. This is the first book authored by an avowed process thinker that focuses on the Big Bang and other recent theories of the physical universe’s origin. … [Edwards’] whole book is “must” reading for anyone interested in issues pertaining to the cognitive integration of science and religion, and particularly for those with interests in the integration of science and process theism." - in: Process Studies 31.2 (2002)Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword Kenneth A. BRYSON: Preface Acknowledgments ONE. Scientific Cosmology and the Big Bang 1.The Evolution of the Universe 2. Evidences for the Big Bang 3. Scientific Cosmological Agnosticism TWO. Humanistic Naturalism 1. Family Traits of Humanistic Naturalism 2. How Scientific Is Humanistic Naturalism? THREE. Steady State and Plasma Cosmologies 1. Steady State Cosmology 2. Critique of Steady State Cosmology 3. Plasma Cosmology and Eric Lerner’s Critique of the Big Bang 4. Critique of Plasma Cosmology FOUR. Antecedent Universe Cosmologies 1. Gamow’s Infinite Squeeze/Bang/Rebound Universe 2. Critique of Gamow’s Cosmology 3. Oscillation Cosmology 4. Critique of Oscillation Cosmology FIVE. Big Fizz and Big Divide Quantum Cosmologies 1. Big Fizz Quantum Cosmology 2. Big Divide Many Worlds Cosmology 3. Critique of World-Ensemble Cosmologies SIX. Quantum Observership Cosmology 1. Observers Create the Universe 2. Critique of Quantum Observership SEVEN. Big Accident Quantum Cosmology 1. The Universe as a Big Accident 2. Critique of Big Accident Quantum Cosmology EIGHT. Atheistic Anthropic Cosmology 1. The Anthropic Principle and Cosmic Purpose Without God 2. The Weak and Strong Anthropic Principles 3. Critique of Infinite World-Ensemble Teleology NINE. The Final Anthropic Principle 1.The Omega Point as the Purpose of the Universe 2. Critique of the Final Anthropic Principle TEN. Concepts of God’s Nature and Existence 1.Two Concepts of God’s Nature: Classical and Process Theology 2. Conceiving of God’s Existence 3. Critique of Process Theology ELEVEN. The Biopic Teleological Argument 1. God’s Purpose for the Universe and Cosmic Teleology 2. Critique and Defense of the Biopic Teleological Argument TWELVE. Theism and Cosmic Contingency 1. A Cosmological Argument from Contingency 2. Critique and Defense of the Cosmological Argument from Contingency Notes Bibliography About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a first attempt to examine the thought of key contemporary Jewish thinkers on the meaning of tradition in the context of two models. The classic model assumes that tradition reflects lack of dynamism and reflectiveness, and the present’s unqualified submission to the past. This view, however, is an image that the modernist ethos has ascribed to the tradition so as to remove it from modern existence. In the alternative model, a living tradition emerges as open and dynamic, developing through an ongoing dialogue between present and past. The Jewish philosophers discussed in this work—Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, David Hartman, and Eliezer Goldman—ascribe compelling canonic status to the tradition, and the analysis of their thought discloses the tension between these two models. The book carefully traces the course they have plotted along the various interpretations of tradition through their approach to Scripture and to Halakhah.Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword Introduction Returning to Tradition: Paradox or Challenge The Tense Encounter with Modernity Soloveitchik: Jewish Thought Confronts Modernity Compartmentalization: From Ernst Simon to Yeshayahu Leibowitz The Harmonic Encounter with Modernity Religious Commitment in a Secularized World: Eliezer Goldman David Hartman: Renewing the Covenant Between Old and New: Judaism as Interpretation? Scripture in the Thought of Leibowitz and Soloveitchik Halakhah in the Thought of Leibowitz and Soloveitchik Eliezer Goldman: Judaism as Interpretation Epilogue “My Name’s my Donors’ Name” Notes Bibliography About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisSince the time of the Enlightenment in Western Europe, discussions of faith and reason have often pitted the believer against the skeptic, the theist against the atheist, and the person of one faith against the person of no professed faith. But the relation of reason to faith has been a matter of debate among believers as well. There are those who hold that religious faith can be proven or supported by rational argument. Others say that to try to give reasons and arguments does violence to religious faith, or opens it to misunderstanding and doubt, or trivializes it. Responses to the Enlightenment: An Exchange on Foundations, Faith, and Community is a dialogue between Hendrik Hart and William Sweet, two philosophers who identify themselves as Christians, and who seek to respond to the challenges of the Enlightenment and its legacy. The authors approach the relation of faith to reason, however, in very different ways: Hart from the perspective of the Calvinian tradition and postmodern philosophy, Sweet from the Catholic tradition and analytic philosophy. Among the topics discussed are the nature of religious faith and of reason, liberalism and orthodoxy in religion, the relation of religious experience and rationality, and building community in a religiously and culturally pluralistic world. This exchange presents two distinctive perspectives to some of the major challenges of the reason to religious belief, but seeks to find common ground between them.Trade Review"Furnishes the reader with valuable perspectives on significant elements of faith and reason for Christian belief in relation to the legacy of the Enlightenment." – in: Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 43 (2014) "a provocative contribution to the discussion of the epistemological status of religious knowledge claims in modern liberal societies." – in: Dialogue, April 2014 "The discussion is rich in its scope and substance. It is of interest to anyone struck not only by a pervasive cultural indifference to religion but by a critical onslaught against its commitments and practices in an increasingly secular age … What is of particular interest is the issue of religious belief: whether this is to be understood in terms of faith as trust, in terms of reason as understanding, or in terms of both." – in: SOPHIA 52 (2013)Table of ContentsKenneth A. Bryson: Editorial Foreword Preface Hendrik Hart: Reason and Religion Hendrik Hart: Liberalism, Pluralism, and Lived Faith William Sweet: Anti-Foundationalism and the Nature of Religious Belief Hendrik Hart: Faith as Trust and Belief as Intellectual Credulity William Sweet: Faith, Belief, and Religious Truth William Sweet: Discourse and Religious Truth William Sweet: Religious Belief, Meaning, and Argument William Sweet: Final Vocabularies and Building Communities William Sweet: Religious Belief and Community Hendrik Hart: Sorting Out Reason Hendrik Hart: Focused in Faith: The Epistemology of Faith as a Way of Knowing Hendrik Hart: The Give-and-Take of Cross-Traditional Discourse William Sweet: Distinguishing to Unite: Reason, Religion, and the Legacy of the Enlightenment Works Cited Appendix About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisArt has always been important for religion or spirituality. Secular art displayed in museums can also be spiritual, and it is this art that is the subject of this book. Many of the works of art produced by Wassily Kandinsky, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, and Anselm Kiefer are spiritual in nature. These works reveal their own spirituality, which often has no connection to official religions. Wessel Stoker demonstrates that these artists communicate religious insights through images and shows how they depict the relationship between heaven and earth, between this world and a transcendent reality, thus clearly drawing the contours of the spirituality these works evince.Trade Review"Whoever wants to descend into the catacombs of the religious aspects of Rothko’s work and other artists will find a perfect and knowledgeable travel guide in Stoker’s Where Heaven and Earth Meet." – Joost Zwagerman, De Volkskrant "Stoker demonstrates how transcendence and spirituality play a role in secular art and provides a nuanced and differentiated outline of that role." – Marcel Barnard, Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift "… finely detailed and erudite chapters on Kandinsky, Rothko, Warhol, and Kiefer." – Anne Marijke Spijkerboer, VolZinTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Art and Spirituality Introduction What Makes Secular Art Spiritual Art? A Heuristic Model Kandinsky: Art as Spiritual Bread Introduction “Expressive” Art: The Inner Sound Veiled‐Figurative Abstraction Geometric and Biomorphic Abstraction A Spirituality of Inwardness: Radical Immanence Rothko: The Tragedy of Human Existence Introduction Myths as the Expression of the Tragic Colour Fields: Filled or Empty? The Rothko Chapel Paintings A Spirituality of Silence Warhol: A Spiritual Business Artist Introduction The Last Supper: A Preliminary Exploration The Image: Simulacrum or Referential? A Spirituality of Everyday Kiefer: Can Heaven Bear the Weight of History? Introduction The Tear in Reality Transformation and Restoration A Spirituality of Concrete The Spiritual Image Introduction The Spiritual Image in Secular Art Spiritual Insights Bibliography Index of Subjects Index of Names List of Paintings

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Book SynopsisIn today’s world, the boundaries within which Christian theologians operate are becoming ever more permeable, and Christian theology is increasingly influenced and challenged by multiple “outside” factors. In Western Europe, two such factors stand out in particular: the so-called “turn to religion” in continental philosophy and religious diversity. Theologians working with contemporary continental philosophers and theologians engaging the multireligious world tend to work quite separately from one another. The aim of the present book is therefore to initiate a conversation between these two groups of theologians. The question of truth was chosen because it is both a key issue in contemporary-philosophical debates (in the continental and analytic traditions) and one that arises in complex and problematic ways in the praxis of, and theoretical reflection on, interreligious dialogue. Some of the pressing questions that are addressed by the contributors to this volume are: What is truth? What is theological truth? How does the issue of truth arise from interreligious encounter? To what extent can or should the nature of truth be discussed explicitly during interreligious dialogue? Or should the question of truth be rather postponed in the interest of successful interreligious encounter? Is there a hermeneutical concept of truth and, if so, how can it be of help for theological reflection on the question of truth and on the role and place of truth in the context of dialogue between religions?Table of ContentsFrederiek Depoortere and Magdalen Lambkin: Editors’ Introduction Frederiek Depoortere: Introducing the Question of Theological Truth Olivier Riaudel: Theological Truth in the Context of Modern Philosophy Lieven Boeve: Theological Truth in the Context of Contemporary Continental Thought: The Turn to Religion and the Contamination of Language Michael Purcell: The Liturgical Enactment of Truth Hendrik M. Vroom: Religious Truth: Seeing Things as They Really Are. Experience, Insight, and Religious Stories Catherine Cornille: Meaning and Truth in the Dialogue between Religions Marianne Moyaert: Lindbeck and Ricoeur on Meaning, Truth, and the Translation of Religions Werner G. Jeanrond: Theological Truth from the Perspective of an Interreligious Hermeneutics of Love Magdalen Lambkin: The Issue of Truth as it Arises from the Praxis of Scriptural Reasoning Martin Sebastian Kallungal: The Plight of Truth in Hindu‐Christian Hermeneutics Rose Drew: Theological Truth and Dialogue: A Buddhist Christian Perspective Frederiek Depoortere and Magdalen Lambkin: The Question of Theological Truth in a Multireligious World: Reflections at the Interface of Continental Philosophy and Interreligious Studies Index of Names Index of Subjects Contributors to this Volume

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Book SynopsisGiordano Bruno (1548-1600) was a philosopher in his own right. However, he was famous through the centuries due to his execution as a heretic. His pronouncements against teachings of the Catholic Church, his defence of the cosmology of Nicholas Copernicus, and his provocative personality, all this made him a paradigmatic figure of modernity. Bruno’s way of philosophizing is not looking for outright solutions but rather for the depth of the problems; he knows his predecessors and their strategies as well as their weaknesses, which he exposes satirically. This introduction helps to identify the original thought of Bruno who proudly said about himself: “Philosophy is my profession!” His major achievements concern the creativity of the human mind studied through the theory of memory, the infinity of the world, and the discovery of atomism for modernity. He never held a permanent office within or without the academic world. Therefore, the way of thinking of this “Knight Errant of Philosophy” will be presented along the stations of his journey through Western Europe.Trade Review"The author is a distinguished historian of philosophy, who contributed to the Bruno Studies with outstanding works … the reader is presented with a well-balanced account of Bruno’s bio-bibliography and a dynamic overview of his ideas in their development … a very useful introduction to Bruno’s philosophy" – in: Metascience, July 2013 "[Giordano Bruno] had the misfortune to live in an era of conflict between Catholics and Protestants. Unwilling to keep silent, and unable to fit his beliefs to the acceptable party line of either side, he stayed mostly in motion. Blum’s book works hard to keep up with him. It will be of most use to students and specialist scholarly readers in the history of philosophy." – in: Reference and Research Book News 27/6 (December 2012)Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword Foreword Acknowledgement Pleasant Campania: Education Before and In the Convent Fleeing into Exile—Northern Italy, Geneva, Toulouse: Astronomy as a Means of Earning a Living Paris: The Power of Memory Off to London: Satire, Metaphysics, and Ethics in Italian God Is Not Idle: Infinite Possibilities and Infinite Reality Religion and Ethics for the People and the Hero Return to Paris: Challenging Mathematics and Aristotelianism “Houses of Wisdom” in Germany: History, Magic, and Atomism Off to Venice: The Trial of the Heretic Afterlife: From Heretic to Hermeticist Chronology Select Bibliography About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains new and original papers on Martin Heidegger’s complex relation to Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy. The authors not only critically discuss the many aspects of Heidegger’s reading of Nietzsche, they also interpret Heidegger’s thought from a Nietzschean perspective. Here is presented for the first time an overview of not only Heidegger’s and Nietzsche’s philosophy but also an overview of what is alive – and dead – in their thinking. Many authors through a reading of Heidegger and Nietzsche deal with current issues such as technology, ecology, and politics. This volume is of interest for everyone interested in Heidegger’s and Nietzsche’s thought. Contributors include: Babette Babich, Charles Bambach, Robert Bernasconi, Virgilio Cesarone, Stuart Elden, Michael Eldred, Markus Enders, Charles Feitosa, Véronique Fóti, Luanne T. Frank, Jeffery Kinlaw, Theodore Kisiel, William D. Melaney, Eric Sean Nelson, Abraham Olivier, Friederike Rese, Karlheinz Ruhstorfer, Harald Seubert, Robert Sinnerbrink, Robert Switzer, Jorge Uscatescu Barrón, Nancy A. Weston, Dale Wilkerson, Angel Xolocotzi, Jens ZimmermannTable of ContentsVorwort Nach dem Tod Gottes? Fragen der Religionsphilosophie und Theologie Karlheinz Ruhstorfer: “Der Gottmensch in Knechtsgestalt”. Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger – drei maßgebliche Negationen metaphysischer Christologie Virgilio Cesarone: Paulus von Tarsus und die Auseinandersetzung zwischen Nietzsche und dem jungen Heidegger Jeffery Kinlaw: Heidegger on Nietzsche’s Word and Overcoming Ontotheology Harald Seubert: Kommender und letzter Gott zwischen Heidegger und Nietzsche Markus Enders: Heideggers Deutung von Nietzsches Proklamation des Todes Gottes Dale Wilkerson: Preservation-Enhancement as Value-Positing Metaphysics in Heidegger’s Essay “The Word of Nietzsche: ‘God is Dead’” Jenseits von Gut und Böse? Fragen der Ethik und Moral-philosophie Abraham Olivier: Nietzsche and Heidegger on Pain Robert Bernasconi: Heidegger, Rickert, Nietzsche, and the Critique of Biologism Jens Zimmermann: The Inhumanity of Being: Subjectivity in Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Levinas Theodore Kisiel: Measuring the Greatness of the Great Men of Grand Politics: How Nietzsche’s “Dynamite” Rendered Heidegger “kaputt” Nietzsche und Heidegger in Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte der Philosophie William D. Melaney: Heidegger’s Allegory of Reading: On Nietzsche and the Tradition Charles Bambach: Heraclitean Justice Between Heidegger and Nietzsche Luanne T. Frank: Nietzsche is Said in Many Ways: Nietzsche’s Presences in Heidegger’s Parmenides Véronique Fóti: From an Agonistic of Powers to Deferred Homecoming: Heidegger, Sophocles, and Hölderlin Am Ende der Moderne? Macht, Technik und die Verwindung der Metaphysik Babette Babich: Heidegger’s Wille zur Macht. Nietzsche – Technik – Machenschaft Angel Xolocotzi: Das dionysische Ja-Sagen zur Welt. Die Auslegung des stimmungsmäßigen Charakters des Willens zur Macht und dessen zeitlichen Sinnes Jorge Uscatescu Barrón: Nietzsches Umdeutung des Begriffs des Guten im Rahmen seiner Metaphysik des Willens zur Macht und Heideggers Kritik an seinem Wertgedanken Stuart Elden: A Thousand Year Conclusion? Machination and Calculation in the Nietzsche Lectures Michael Eldred: Assessing How Heidegger Thinks Power Through the History of Being Charles Feitosa: Das Schweigen der Tiere bei Nietzsche und Heidegger Eric Sean Nelson: Traumatic Origins: History, Genealogy, and Violence in Heidegger and Nietzsche Welt, Wahrheit, Sprache, Kunst Friederike Rese: Horizontbildung und Weltbildung. Zur Mensch-Tier-Differenz in Heideggers Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik-Vorlesung Robert Sinnerbrink: Heidegger and Nietzsche on the End of Art Robert Switzer: “Raging Discordance.” Heidegger and Nietzsche on Truth and Art Nancy A. Weston: On Truth as Justice

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Book Synopsis“At last, Russia has begun to speak in a truly original voice.” So said Anatoly Vaneev, a Soviet dissident who became Karsavin’s disciple in the Siberian gulag where the philosopher spent his last two years. The book traces the unusual trajectory of this inspiring voice: Karsavin started his career as Russia’s brightest historian of Catholic mysticism; however, his radical methods – which were far ahead of their time – shocked his conservative colleagues. The shock continued when Karsavin turned to philosophy, writing flamboyant and dense essays in a polyphonic style, which both Marxists and religious traditionalists found provocative. There was no let-up after he was expelled by Lenin from Soviet Russia: in exile, he became a leading theorist in the Eurasian political movement, combining Orthodox theology with a left-wing political orientation. Finally, Karsavin found stability when he was invited to teach history in Lithuania: there he spent twenty years reworking his philosophy, before suffering the German and Soviet invasions of his new homeland, and then deportation and death. Clearing away misunderstandings and putting the work and life in context, this book shows how Karsavin made an original contribution to European philosophy, inter-religious dialogue, Orthodox and Catholic theology, and the understanding of history.Trade Review”very thorough… Rubin’s book is an admirable contribution to the scholarly literature on Russian religious philosophy.” in: The Russian Review, Vol. 72, No. 4, October 2013Table of ContentsList of Diagrams Preface The Making of a Metaphysical Historian Prelude: Who was Lev Karsavin? Early life (1882–1901) Scholarly beginnings and first crisis (1902–1915) The Foundations of Medieval Religiosity (1915–1916) Karsavin, historical Christianity and FMR A Theology Unfolds The Petrograd years (1917–1922): “I have singed my wings . . .” The roots of all-unity (1): Catholicism and Revelation of the Blessed Angela The roots of all-unity (2): Nicholas of Cusa The early essays (1919–1922) Conclusion The Flames of Love and Knowledge Noctes Petropolitanae: love and temptation Expulsion On First Principles (1921–1925) Conclusion The Symphonic Face of Lev Karsavin: From History to Politics Bread, butter and—metaphysics in exile (1924–1926) The Philosophy of History (1921–1923) Karsavin and the Eurasian movement (1926–1930) Conclusion Personhood as the True Countenance of Being The move to Lithuania On Personhood (1928) The correspondence with Wetter (1940) “Strength made perfect in weakness . . .” From occupation to deportation (1940–1949) Karsavin’s Lithuanian and camp works Coda: Karsavin’s years in Abez and Anatoly Vaneev (1950–1952) Epilogue: Karsavin Today Prelude Eastern and Western theology yesterday and today Conclusion Bibliography Works by Lev Karsavin Works by Other Authors Abbreviations for Selected Works by Karsavin Appendix: Karsavin’s Poem on Death (1931) Index

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Book SynopsisThis book reconstructs the cornerstones of Jesus’s moral teachings about how to lead a good, even exemplary, human life. It does so in a way that is compatible with the most prominent, competing versions of the historical Jesus. The work also contrast Jesus’ understanding of the best way to lead our lives with that of Friedrich Nietzsche. Both Jesus and Nietzsche were self-consciously moral revolutionaries. Jesus refashioned the imperatives of Jewish law to conform to what he was firmly convinced was the divine will. Nietzsche aspired to transvalue the dominant values of his time —which themselves were influenced greatly by Christianity— in service of what he took to be a higher vision. The interplay of these radical versions of the good human life, seasoned with critical commentary emerging from modern findings in the sciences and humanities, opens possibilities and lines of inquiry that can inform our choices in answering that enduring, paramount question, “How should we live our lives?”Trade ReviewA subtle interpreter of both Jesus and Nietzsche. … Belliotti writes well and with conviction, and it is a refreshing to see a commentator who, where appropriate, confronts and criticizes not just Nietzsche but also Jesus forthrightly. … recommended to both Nietzsche scholars and theologians, as well as a wider range of readers who simply seek to improve their lives. Religious Studies. Volume 50 (2014)Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword by Olli Loukola Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Introduction Nietzsche’s Life Problems of Interpretation in Nietzsche My (Mis)Interpretation of Nietzsche Jesus: The Nature of Our World and Our Mission in It Family Relations Associating and Identifying with Undesirables Unsettling Established Rituals Interrogating Prevailing Norms of Just Distribution Material Minimalism Jesus and the Concept of Forgiveness Nietzsche: The Nature of Our World and Our Mission in It Perspectivism Genealogical Critiques Crafting a Worthy Self Values Nietzsche’s Glad Tidings Master and Slave Moralities Going Beyond Good and Evil Eternal Recurrence Philosophy and Psychology Style and Rhetoric Tragic View of Life Jesus and Nietzsche Fundamental Understandings of Human Beings: Unconditional Love and the Will to Power The Power of Unconditional Love The Paradoxes of Agapic Love Parental Agape The Will to Power The Last Man and The Overman Nietzsche on Jesus Nietzsche on St. Paul and Christianity Nietzsche’s Understanding of Jesus Jesus and Engagement in this World Daunting Normative Ideals The Perfectionism of Jesus Perfectionism and Unconditional Love Extending Unconditional Love Unconditional Love and Abstraction A Summary of the Perfectionism of Jesus The Ethic of Jesus and Contemporary Philosophy Jesus’ Enduring Message The Perfectionism of Nietzsche Nietzsche’s Vision Aristocratic Privilege A Summary of the Perfectionism of Nietzsche The Perfectionism of Nietzsche and Contemporary Philosophy Jesus and Nietzsche: Toward a Synthesis Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisAmor Dei, “love of God” raises three questions: How do we know God is love? How do we experience love of God? How free are we to love God? This book presents three kinds of love, worldly, spiritual, and divine to understand God’s love. The work begins with Augustine’s Confessions highlighting his Manichean and Neoplatonic periods before his conversion to Christianity. Augustine’s confrontation with Pelagius anticipates the unresolved disputes concerning God’s love and free will. In the sixteenth-century the Italian humanist, Gasparo Contarini introduces the notion of “divine amplitude” to demonstrate how God’s goodness is manifested in the human agent. Pierre de Bérulle, Guillaume Gibieuf, and Nicolas Malebranche show connections with Contarini in the seventeenth-century controversies relating free will and divine love. In response to the free will dispute, the Scottish philosopher, William Chalmers, offers his solution. Cornelius Jansen relentlessly asserts his anti-Pelagian interpretation of Augustine stirring up more controversy. John Norris, Malebranche’s English disciple, exchanges his views with Mary Astell and Damaris Masham. In the tradition of Cambridge Platonism, Ralph Cudworth conveys a God who “sweetly governs.” The organization of sections represents the love of God in ascending-descending movements demonstrating that, “human love is inseparable from divine love.”Trade Review“A carefully nuanced overview of the way in which the Augustinian notion of the “Love of God” came to be developed within later Counter-Reformation … a useful introduction to a raging debate that undergirded the tumultuous Reformations of the early modern period. … opens a door for students of theology as well as of early modern philosophy. …. Social and cultural historians will also benefit from reading this work as a way to better understand some of the grand intellectual themes which served to frame both social and cultural currents of this period” Sixteenth Century Journal – XLV /2 (2014)Table of ContentsKenneth A. Bryson: Editorial Foreword Preface Introduction Augustine: The Experience of Love Interpreting Love in Augustine Nature and Knowledge Problems with Love in Augustine Truth, Conversion, and Conflict Augustine’s Intellectual Journey Manichean Conversion Plotinian Influences From “Darkness” to the Free Will Augustine and Pelagianism Augustine on Grace Augustinianism: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Early Modern Philosophy Gasparo Contarini L’École Française and Pierre de Bérulle Guillaume Gibieuf William Chalmers Jansen of Ypres Scotus Eriugena and Dionysius the Areopagite Divine Amplitude: The Agency of Love Malebranche and the Love of God Malebranche, Lamy, and Norris “Vision in God” John Norris: Malebranche’s Disciple God’s Knowledge Three Letters to Bernard Lamy Vision in God and Divine Love Sweetness of God Ralph Cudworth and the Divine Free Will Cudworth’s God of Love Human Response to Divine Love Cudworth and Augustine Conclusion Works Cited About the Author Index

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Table of ContentsAlexander BÖHLIG: Vorwort. Der Manichäismus und das Christentum. Bemerkungen zur Metaphysik in Gnosis und Philosophie. Die Bedeutung des CMC für den Manichäismus. Mani und Platon - ein Vergleich. Wolfgang FAUTH: Manis anderes Ich. Gestalthafte Metaphysik im Kölner Mani-Kodex. Syzygos und Eikon. Edgar FRÜCHTEL: Platonismus und Christentum. Einige Bemerkungen zu Zeit und Zeitlichkeit in der Platonica Theologia des Marsilius Ficinus. Einige Bemerkungen zum Bild des Seelenwagenlenkers. Carl-A. KELLER: Gnostik, Urform christlicher Mystik. Christoph MARKSCHIES: Die Krise einer philosophischen Theologie.

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