Presenting fifty commonly heard reasons people often give for believing in a God, the author raises legitimate questions regarding these reasons, showing in each case that there is much room for doubt. He shows that, despite the prevalence of belief in God, in the end there are no unassailable reasons for believing in a God.
Helps readers to find a unified call to reason, tolerance, and freedom of expression in opposition to the forces of ignorance, supernaturalism, superstition, and dogmatism. This title includes the words of over eighty of the world's most often read and frequently quoted authors such as: Aristotle, Matthew Arnold, Marcus Aurelius, and Cicero.
Paul Ricoeur's most widely read book, The Symbolism of Evil, examines the structure of a will that has succumbed to evil and discloses its meaning through a study of symbols and myths. This edited collection explores a wide range of themes that resonate with topics in contemporary philosophy and religion.
A Critical Analysis of Bhima Bhoi and the Mahima Cult is a rare compendium of insightful essays by eminent Indian scholars on the Mahima Cult, its genesis, and its growth. The volume focuses on Bhima Bhoi, the poet-philosopher and the prime interlocutor of the Renegade Faith, who started a revolt from below to champion human rights. To critically ......
A Hindu-Jewish Conversation: Root Traditions in Dialogue is a historical, theological, and phenomenological engagement of the Hindu and Jewish traditions, two "root" traditions that give rise to other--in some ways very different--types of religious traditions. Rachel Fell McDermott and Daniel F. Polish explore conceptions of the divine, which are ......
A Phenomenological Reading of Hosea 12.4-5 and 11.1-2: Commune with Us explores two passages from the Hebrew Bible's prophetic book containing puzzling plurals in the original language, pieces so enigmatic they are usually changed entirely in translation. Andrew Oberg, however, considers them delightfully confusing, and through in-depth ......
Exploring the Theology, Philosophy, and Psychology of Play
Teismann embarks on a whirlwind ride through different aspects of play and how they relate to spirituality. Drawing on classical philosophers, memories of childhood, developmental science, poets, and his long career as a psychotherapist, he explores how the spirit of play informs our moral pursuits and spiritual yearnings.
Christian and Transreligious Resources for Transformation
A Process Spirituality argues for a hopeful and relational vision of the God-world relationship characterized by mutuality, value, change, and transformation, which incorporates a constructive re-imagining of the work of Whitehead and Jung.
If God exists, why is there so much pain and suffering, and why isn't his existence more obvious? In A Theodicy for a Suffering World with a Hidden God, Philip Pegan develops a theodicy in answer to these questions. This theodicy is consistent with theological determinism--the belief that everything is determined by the will of God--and with the ......
