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The Trinity and Theodicy

The Trinitarian Theology of von Balthasar and the Problem of Evil

By: Dr Jacob H Friesenhahn

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The Trinity and Theodicy

The Trinitarian Theology of von Balthasar and the Problem of Evil

By: Dr Jacob H Friesenhahn

Why does God permit the great suffering and evil that we see in our world? This basic question of human existence receives a fresh answer in this book as the mystery of evil is explored in the context of the mystery of the Trinity. God's permission of evil and the way in which suffering can lead human persons into the life of the Trinity are discussed in dialogue with the great Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. In the light of Balthasar's model of the Trinity as divine self-giving love, we gain a profound grasp of the nature of suffering in human life by placing our suffering in the context of the divine life of the Triune God.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409481360

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9781409481362

Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality

Testing Religious Truth-claims

By: Dr R Scott Smith

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Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality

Testing Religious Truth-claims

By: Dr R Scott Smith

Philosophical naturalism is taken to be the preferred and reigning epistemology and metaphysics that underwrites many ideas and knowledge claims. But what if we cannot know reality on that basis? What if the institution of science is threatened by its reliance on naturalism? R. Scott Smith argues in a fresh way that we cannot know reality on the basis of naturalism. Moreover, the "fact-value" split has failed to serve our interests of wanting to know reality. The author provocatively argues that since we can know reality, it must be due to a non-naturalistic ontology, best explained by the fact that human knowers are made and designed by God. The book offers fresh implications for the testing of religious truth-claims, science, ethics, education, and public policy. Consequently, naturalism and the fact-value split are shown to be false, and Christian theism is shown to be true.

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254

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1409481735

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9781409481737

Piety and Responsibility

Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika

By: Dr John N Sheveland

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Piety and Responsibility

Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika

By: Dr John N Sheveland

This book analyzes the writings of Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika to disclose how each construes "piety" and "responsibility" as integral to each other. Each theologian expresses a fundamental unity of love of God and love of neighbour. Sheveland explores this unity in ecumenical and interreligious frameworks, showing how these authors privilege theology as practice, enactment, or simply as ethical. He uses the Renaissance genre of musical polyphony as a methodological tool by which to explore the aesthetic quality and the similarity-in-difference of the theological voices being compared. Polyphony's application to comparative theology includes the avoidance of caricature, domestication, and antagonism. In place of these is offered a fundamentally aesthetic paradigm by which to hear theological voices in terms of their unity-in-distinction.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409481441

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9781409481447

Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities

Sustenance and Sustainability

By: Dr Pankaj Jain

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Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities

Sustenance and Sustainability

By: Dr Pankaj Jain

In Indic religious traditions, a number of rituals and myths exist in which the environment is revered. Despite this nature worship in India, its natural resources are under heavy pressure with its growing economy and exploding population. This has led several scholars to raise questions about the role religious communities can play in environmentalism. Does nature worship inspire Hindus to act in an environmentally conscious way? This book explores the above questions with three communities, the Swadhyaya movement, the Bishnoi, and the Bhil communities. Presenting the texts of Bishnois, their environmental history, and their contemporary activism; investigating the Swadhyaya movement from an ecological perspective; and exploring the Bhil communities and their Sacred Groves, this book applies a non-Western hermeneutical model to interpret the religious traditions of Indic communities. With a foreword by Roger S Gottlieb.

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240

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1409481433

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9781409481430

Dalit Theology and Christian Anarchism

By: Revd Dr Keith Hebden

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Dalit Theology and Christian Anarchism

By: Revd Dr Keith Hebden

A second generation of emerging Dalit theology texts is re-shaping the way we think of Indian theology and liberation theology. This book is a vital part of that conversation. Taking post-colonial criticism to its logical end of criticism of statism, Keith Hebden looks at the way the emergence of India as a nation state shapes political and religious ideas. He takes a critical look at these Gods of the modern age and asks how Christians from marginalised communities might resist the temptation to be co-opted into the statist ideologies and competition for power. He does this by drawing on historical trends, Christian anarchist voices, and the religious experiences of indigenous Indians. Hebden's ability to bring together such different and challenging perspectives opens up radical new thinking in Dalit theology, inviting the Indian Church to resist the Hindu fundamentalists labelling of the Church as foreign by embracing and celebrating the anarchic foreignness of a Dalit Christian future.

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1409481476

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9781409481478

Religion in the Thought of Mikhail Bakhtin

Reason and Faith

By: Dr Hilary B P Bagshaw

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Religion in the Thought of Mikhail Bakhtin

Reason and Faith

By: Dr Hilary B P Bagshaw

This book examines the significance of religion in the work of the twentieth century philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin. Exploring Bakhtin’s contribution to debates on methodology in the study of religion, this book argues that his use of religious terminology is derived from his source material in philosophy of religion and not from his confessional commitment to Russian Orthodox Christianity. Critiquing Gavin Flood’s important work Beyond Phenomenology, Hilary Bagshaw explains how Bakhtin’s work on ‘outsideness’ presents invaluable insights for scholars of religion, particularly pertinent to the contemporary insider/outsider debate.

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277

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1409462420

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Cassian's Conferences

Scriptural Interpretation and the Monastic Ideal

By: Dr Christopher J Kelly

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Cassian's Conferences

Scriptural Interpretation and the Monastic Ideal

By: Dr Christopher J Kelly

This book explores Cassian's use of scripture in the Conferences, especially its biblical models to convey his understanding of the desert ideal to the monastic communities of Gaul. Cassian intended the scriptures and, implicitly, the Conferences to be the voices of authority and orthodoxy in the Gallic environment. He interprets familiar biblical characters in unfamiliar ways that exemplify his ideal. By imitating their actions the monk enters a seamless lineage of authority stretching back to Abraham. This book demonstrates how the scriptures functioned as a dynamic force in the lives of Christian monks in the fourth and fifth centuries, emphasizes the importance of Cassian in the development of the western monastic tradition, and offers an alternative to the sometimes problematic descriptions of patristic exegesis as "allegory" or "typology". Cassian has been described as little more than a provider of information about Egyptian monasticism, but a careful reading of his work reveals a sophisticated agenda to define and institutionalize orthodox monasticism in the Latin West.

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1409481743

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Averroes and Hegel on Philosophy and Religion

By: Dr Catarina Belo

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Averroes and Hegel on Philosophy and Religion

By: Dr Catarina Belo

Comparing Averroes’ and Hegel’s positions on the relation between philosophy and religion, this book explores the theme of the authorities of faith and reason, and the origin of truth, in a medieval Islamic and a modern Christian context respectively. Through an in-depth analysis of Averroes’ and Hegel’s parallel views on the nature of philosophical and religious discourse, Belo presents new insights into their perspectives on the relation between philosophical knowledge and religious knowledge, and the differences between philosophy and religion. In addition, Belo explores particular works which have not yet been studied by modern scholarship.

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1472404181

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Book's by Dr Jacob H Friesenhahn

The Trinity and Theodicy

The Trinity and Theodicy

Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality

Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality

Piety and Responsibility

Piety and Responsibility

Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities

Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities

Dalit Theology and Christian Anarchism

Dalit Theology and Christian Anarchism

Religion in the Thought of Mikhail Bakhtin

Religion in the Thought of Mikhail Bakhtin

Cassian's Conferences

Cassian's Conferences

Averroes and Hegel on Philosophy and Religion

Averroes and Hegel on Philosophy and Religion

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