How do various concepts of God impact the moral life? Is God ultimately required for goodness? In this edited collection, an international panel of contemporary philosophers and theologians offer new avenues of exploration from a theist perspective for these important questions.…
Approaches the problems raised by the Holocaust from the standpoint of the theology of culture. The powerful narrative that dominates our technological civilization is the double myth of apocalypse and utopia, both of which can be achieved by unlimited and autonomous technology.…
Approaches the problems raised by the Holocaust from the standpoint of the theology of culture. The powerful narrative that dominates our technological civilization is the double myth of apocalypse and utopia, both of which can be achieved by unlimited and autonomous technology.…
The idea of human-nonhuman combinations has been a recurrent theme throughout the history of humanity. From the myths of the Minotaur and the centaurs in ancient Greece to the dogheads of the Middle Ages right through to the monsters of modern science fiction, these beings have …
This dissertation examines the Tirukkuṟaḷ, a poem composed in Tamil around the fifth century C.E. that is today attributed to an author named Tiruvaḷḷuvar. The poem consists of 1,330 verses arranged into 133 chapters of ten verses each, which are then divided into three thematic…
This study attempts to clarify the role of religious values in the rise of new pious Muslim entrepreneurs in Turkey, based on field study carried out in Kayseri from 1980 to the present. It particularly attempts to account for the influence of religion on the work ethic of these…
"Ethics Without God? brings the theological perspective of the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions to bear on a variety of current political and theoretical questions."--Jacket.
"In this wide-ranging book, Rowan Williams argues that what we say about Jesus Christ is key to understanding what Christian belief says about creator and creation overall. Through detailed discussion of texts from the earliest centuries to the present day, we are shown some of …
Using intuitionist moral psychology and a detailed anthropological investigation of the moral reasoning of Turkish "Islamist” voters, I argue for an urgent rethinking of the dynamics of political Islam and religious fundamentalism in general. Having explained a widespread conten…
