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Book SynopsisThe reissue with a new Foreword of classic volume setting a fresh agenda for philosophy of religion. The book contains chapters by some of the foremost thinkers in the field, including Rowan Williams, Janet Soskice, Fergus Kerr, Stephen Clark and Paul Williams, who offers a comparative piece on Tibetan Buddhism.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Michael Mcghee; 1. Philosophy and religion in the thought of Kierkegaard Michael Weston; 2. De Consolatione Philosophiae John Haldane; 3. The real or the real? Chardin or Rothko? Anthony O'hear; 4. Love and attention Janet Martin Soskice; 5. Descartes' debt to Augustine Stephen R. L. Clark; 6. Visions of the self in Late Medieval Christianity: some cross-disciplinary reflections Sarah Coakley; 7. Refined and crass supernaturalism T. L. S. Sprigge; 8. Religious imagination Ronald W. Hepburn; 9. Moral values as religious absolutes James P. Mackey; 10. Revealing the scapegoat mechanism: Christianity after Girard Fergus Kerr; 11. Philosophy vs. Mysticism: an Islamic controversy Oliver Leaman; 12. Non-Conceptuality, critical reasoning and religious experience: some Tibetan Buddhist discussions Paul Williams; 13. Know thyself': what kind of an injunction? Rowan Williams; 14. Facing truths: ethics and the spiritual life Michael Mcghee.
