In "God and Natural Order: Physics, Philosophy, and Theology," Shaun Henson brings a theological approach to bear on contemporary scientific and philosophical debates on the ordered or disordered nature of the universe. Henson engages arguments for a unified theory of the laws of nature, a concept with monotheistic metaphysical and theological leanings, alongside the pluralistic viewpoints set out by Nancy Cartwright and other philosophers of science, who contend that the nature of physical reality is intrinsically complex and irreducible to a single unifying theory. Drawing on the work of...
In "God and Natural Order: Physics, Philosophy, and Theology," Shaun Henson brings a theological approach to bear on contemporary scientific and ph...
In the light of advances in cosmology, mathematics and logic in the 21st century, metaphysics is in need of a fundamental overhaul. This text presents a new metaphysics with a genealogy based on counter-intuition, and locates counter-intuition and complexity at the foundations of truth.
In the light of advances in cosmology, mathematics and logic in the 21st century, metaphysics is in need of a fundamental overhaul. This text presents...
The turn to religion within the work of a group of thinkers, including Derrida, who have been stereotypically identified as relativists or nihilists prompts a series of questions which form the background to this study of negative theology & its place in modern French philosophy.
The turn to religion within the work of a group of thinkers, including Derrida, who have been stereotypically identified as relativists or nihilists p...
The way in which people change and represent their spiritual evolution is often determined by recurrent language structures. Through the analysis of ancient and modern stories and their words and images, this book describes the nature of conversion through explorations of the encounter with the religious message, the discomfort of spiritual uncertainty, the loss of personal and social identity, the anxiety of destabilization, the reconstitution of the self and the discovery of a new language of the soul.
The way in which people change and represent their spiritual evolution is often determined by recurrent language structures. Through the analysis of a...
This work takes as its point of departure the historical fact that it was Orthodox pioneers of German origin, in contrast to their Eastern European counterparts, who successfully developed religious kibbutz life.
This work takes as its point of departure the historical fact that it was Orthodox pioneers of German origin, in contrast to their Eastern European co...
This work develops a new model for interfaith dialogue and the role it ought to play in the constitution of the self and the making of society using Foucault's work on the de-centring of transcendence and human reason.
This work develops a new model for interfaith dialogue and the role it ought to play in the constitution of the self and the making of society using F...
Making European Muslims provides an in-depth examination of what it means to be a young Muslim in Europe today, where the assumptions, values and behavior of the family and those of the majority society do not always coincide. Focusing on the religious socialization of Muslim children at home, in semi-private Islamic spaces such as mosques and Quran schools, and in public schools, the original contributions to this volume focus largely on countries in northern Europe, with a special emphasis on the Nordic region, primarily Denmark. Case studies demonstrate the ways that family life, public...
Making European Muslims provides an in-depth examination of what it means to be a young Muslim in Europe today, where the assumptions, values and beha...
Adam Smith wrote in a Scotland where Calvinism, Continental natural law theory, Stoic philosophy, and the Newtonian tradition of scientific natural theology were key to the intellectual lives of his contemporaries. But what impact did these ideas have on Smith s system? What was Smith s understanding of nature, divine providence, and theodicy? How was the new discourse of political economy positioned in relation to moral philosophy and theology?
In this volume a team of distinguished contributors consider Smith s work in relation to its Scottish Enlightenment religious background,...
Adam Smith wrote in a Scotland where Calvinism, Continental natural law theory, Stoic philosophy, and the Newtonian tradition of scientific natural...
In this study, E. Frances King explores how people first learn to relate to the images and artefacts of religious belief within their domestic environments. As a sense of religious belonging is instilled on a daily basis in the home, it also becomes emotionally linked to family, community, and homeland, resulting in two different genealogies one to do with faith and one to do with motherland that become entangled.
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In this study, E. Frances King explores how people first learn to relate to the images and artefacts of religious belief within their domestic envi...
