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Mystical Experience of God A Philosophical Inquiry

This title was first published in 2001: Engaging contemporary discussion concerning the validity of mystical experiences of God Jerome Gellman presents the best evidential case in favor of validity and its implications for belief in God. Gellman vigorously defends the coherence of the concept of a mystical experience of God against philosophical objections and evaluates attempts to provide alternative explanations from sociology and neuropsychology. He then carefully examines feminist objections to male philosophers' treatments of mystical experience of God and to the traditional hierarchal concept of God. Gellman finds none of the objections decisive and concludes that while the initial evidential case is not rationally compelling for some it can be rationally compelling for others. Offering important new perspectives on the evidential value of experiences of God and the concept of God more broadly this book will appeal to a wide range of readers including those with an interest in philosophy of religion religious studies mysticism and epistemology. | Mystical Experience of God A Philosophical Inquiry

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Problems of Evil and the Power of God

Why do bad things happen even to good people? If there is a God why aren't God's existence and God's will for humans more apparent? And if God really does miracles for some people why not for others? This book examines these three problems of evil - suffering divine hiddenness and unfairness if miracles happen as believers claim - to explore how different ideas of God's power relate to the problem of evil. Keller argues that as long as God is believed to be all-powerful there are no adequate answers to these problems nor is it enough for theists simply to claim that human ignorance makes these problems insoluble. Arguing that there are no good grounds for the belief that God is all-powerful Keller instead defends the understanding of God and God's power found in process theism and shows how it makes possible an adequate solution to the problems of evil while providing a concept of God that is religiously adequate. | Problems of Evil and the Power of God

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Lectures on the Moral Government of God

Originally compiled in 1859 this book is a collection of Nathaniel Taylor's lectures considering the moral government of God. The moral government of god was the great thought of Dr. Taylor's intellect and the favourite theme of his instructons in theology; to vindicate the ways of God to man was the object to which all Dr Taylor's energies were consecrated. This collection presents a complete and connected view of all that he wrote on this fundamental topic in theology and to the lectures on moral government have been appended other essays and lectures on subjects that are naturally connected with this. | Lectures on the Moral Government of God

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Vaiṣṇava Concepts of God Philosophical Perspectives

This book explores a number of concepts of God in Vaiṣṇavism which is commonly referred to as one of the great Hindu monotheistic traditions. By addressing the question of what attributes God possesses according to particular Vaiṣṇava textual sources and traditions the book locates these concepts within a global philosophical framework. The book is divided into two parts. The first part God in Vaiṣṇava Texts deals with concepts of God found in some of the more prominent canonical Vaiṣṇava texts: the Bhagavad-Gītā the Bhagavata-Purāṇa the Jayākhya-Saṃhitā as representative of the Pāñcarātras and the Mahābhārata. The second part God in Vaiṣṇava Traditions addresses concepts of God found in several Vaiṣṇava traditions and their respective key theologians. In addition to the Āḻvārs the five traditional Vaiṣṇava schools—the Śrī Vaiṣṇava tradition the Madhva tradition the Nimbārka tradition the Puṣṭimārga tradition and the Caitanya Vaiṣṇava tradition—and two contemporary ones—those of Ramakrishna (who has Vaiṣṇava leanings) and Swami Bhaktivedanta—are considered. The book combines normative critical and descriptive elements. Some chapters are philosophical in nature and others are more descriptive. Each unpacks a specific Vaiṣṇava concept of God for future philosophical analysis and critique. Written by experts who break new ground in this presentation and representation of the diversity of Vaiṣṇava texts and traditions the book provides approaches that reflect the amount of philosophical and historical deliberation on the specific issues and divine attributes so far considered in the field of Hindu Studies. This book will be of interest to researchers in disciplines including philosophy of religion and Indian philosophy cross-cultural and comparative philosophy analytic philosophy of religion Hindu Studies theology and religious studies. | Vaiṣṇava Concepts of God Philosophical Perspectives

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God of the Machine

The God of the Machine presents an original theory of history and a bold defense of individualism as the source of moral and political progress. When it was published in 1943 Isabel Paterson's work provided fresh intellectual support for the endangered American belief in individual rights limited government and economic freedom. The crisis of today's collectivized nations would not have surprised Paterson; in The God of the Machine she had explored the reasons for collectivism's failure. Her book placed her in the vanguard of the free-enterprise movement now sweeping the world. Paterson sees the individual creative mind as the dynamo of history and respect for the individual's God-given rights as the precondition for the enormous release of energy that produced the modern world. She sees capitalist institutions as the machinery through which human energy works and government as a device properly used merely to cut off power to activities that threaten personal liberty. Paterson applies her general theory to particular issues in contemporary life such as education . social welfare and the causes of economic distress. She severely criticizes all but minimal application of government including governmental interventions that most people have long taken for granted. The God of the Machine offers a challenging perspective on the continuing worldwide debate about the nature of freedom the uses of power and the prospects of human betterment. Stephen Cox's substantial introduction to The God of the Machine is a comprehensive and enlightening account of Paterson's colorful life and work. He describes The God of the Machine as not just theory but rhapsody satire diatribe poetic narrative. Paterson's work continues to be relevant because it exposes the moral and practical failures of collectivism failures that are now almost universally acknowledged but are still far from universally understood. The book will be essential to students of American history political theory and literature.

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Constructing Moral Concepts of God in a Global Age

Constructing Moral Concepts of God in a Global Age focuses on what people say and think about God rather than on arguments about God's existence. It advances a theological method or step-by-step approach to explore and reframe personal convictions about God and the worldviews shaped by those convictions. Since a moral God is more likely to foster a moral life this method integrates an ethical check to ensure that understandings of God and their associated worldviews are validly moral. The proposed method builds on the work of twentieth-century theologian Gordon Kaufman during the Kantian phase of his work. It anticipates a person-like God who hears prayers loves without end and comforts in times of hardship. To accommodate today’s pluralistic and globalized world the ethical check integrated in the method is a widely collaborative and vetted global ethic the Parliament of the World’s Religions Declaration Towards a Global Ethic. This volume of constructive philosophical theology is written for seminary students educators clergy study groups and anyone interested in delving more deeply and systematically into understandings of God whether their own or those of others.

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God After Darwin 1E

Argues that both evolutionism and creationism rely too heavily on notions of underlying order and design. Instead of focusing on the idea of novelty in human experience novelty as a necessary component of evolution and as the essence of divine Mystery. . In God After Darwin John Haught argues that the ongoing debate between Darwinian evolutionists and Christian apologists is fundamentally misdirected: both sides persist in focusing upon an explanation of underlying design and order in the universe. Haught suggests that what is lacking in both of these competing ideologies is the notion of novelty a necessary component of evolution and the essence of the unfolding of divine Mystery. He argues that Darwin’s disturbing picture of life instead of being hostile to religion - as scientific skeptics and many believers have thought it to be - actually provides a most fertile setting for mature reflection on the idea of God. Solidly grounded in scholarship Haught’s explanation of the relationship between theology and evolution is both accessible and engaging. | God After Darwin 1E

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Hospitable God The Transformative Dream

Exploring the hospitality of God and its implications for human thought and action this book examines the concepts of hospitality as cognitive tools for reframing our thinking about God divine action and human response in discipleship. Hospitality is imagined as an interactive symbol changing perspectives and encouraging stable environments of compassionate construction in society. Human rights are of crucial importance to the wellbeing of the people of our planet. But there is a sense in which they will always be an emergency measure a response to evils as they are happening. The authors argue that a hospitable comparative theology reaches out to bring Christian hospitality into the dialogue of world religions and cultures. It will respect the identity of particular groups and yet will strive for a cosmopolitan sharing of common values. It will respect tradition but also openness to reform and re-imagining. It will encourage convergence and development in a fluid stream of committed hospitalities. | Hospitable God The Transformative Dream

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Waiting for God

'You cannot get far in these essays without sensing yourself in the presence of a writer of immense intellectual power and fierce independence of mind. ' - Janet Soskice from the Introduction to the Routledge Classics edition Simone Weil (1909–1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical thinkers of the twentieth century. She was also a political activist who worked in the Renault car factory in France in the 1930s and fought briefly as an anarchist in the Spanish Civil War. Hailed by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our times ' her work spans an astonishing variety of subjects from ancient Greek philosophy and Christianity to oppression political freedom and French national identity. Waiting for God is one of her most remarkable books full of piercing spiritual and moral insight. The first part comprises letters she wrote in 1942 to Jean-Marie Perrin a Dominican priest and demonstrate the intense inner conflict Weil experienced as she wrestled with the demands of Christian belief and commitment. She then explores the 'just balance' of the world arguing that we should regard God as providing two forms of guidance: our ability as human beings to think for ourselves; and our need for both physical and emotional 'matter. ' She also argues for the concept of a 'sacred longing'; that humanity's search for beauty both in the world and within each other is driven by our underlying desire for a tangible god. Eloquent and inspiring Waiting for God asks profound questions about the nature of faith doubt and morality that continue to resonate today. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Introduction by Janet Soskice and retains the Foreword to the 1979 edition by Malcolm Muggeridge.

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Is There a God? A Debate

Bertrand Russell famously quipped that he didn’t believe in God for the same reason that he didn’t believe in a teapot in orbit between the earth and Mars: it is a bizarre assertion for which no evidence can be provided. Is belief in God really like belief in Russell’s teapot? Kenneth L. Pearce argues that God is no teapot. God is a real answer to the deepest question of all: why is there something rather than nothing? Graham Oppy argues that we should believe that there are none but natural causal entities with none but natural causal properties—and hence should believe that there are no gods. Beginning from this basic disagreement the authors proceed to discuss and debate a wide range of philosophical questions including questions about explanation necessity rationality religious experience mathematical objects the foundations of ethics and the methodology of philosophy. Each author first presents his own side and then they interact through two rounds of objections and replies. Pedagogical features include standard form arguments section summaries bolded key terms and principles a glossary and annotated reading lists. In the volume foreword Helen De Cruz calls the debate both edifying and a joy and sums up what’s at stake: Here you have two carefully formulated positive proposals for worldviews that explain all that is: classical theism or naturalistic atheism. You can follow along with the authors and deliberate: which one do you find more plausible? Though written with beginning students in mind this debate will be of interest to philosophers at all levels and to anyone who values careful rational thought about the nature of reality and our place in it. | Is There a God? A Debate

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Encounters with God in Medieval and Early Modern English Poetry

Engaging with four English poems or groups of poems-the anonymous medieval Crucifixion lyrics; William Langland's Piers Plowman John Donne's Divine Poems and John Milton's Paradise Lost-this book examines the nature of poetic encounter with God. At the same time the author makes original contributions to the discussion of critical dilemmas in the study of each poem or group of poems. The main linguistic focus of this book is on the nature of dialogue with God in religious poetry an area much neglected by grammarians and often overlooked in studies of literary style. It constitutes an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between literature and theology. | Encounters with God in Medieval and Early Modern English Poetry

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In the Image of God A Psychoanalyst's View

In the Image of God is a compilation of lectures by Stanley Leavy a psychoanalyst approaching retirement reflecting on his experience as a follower of Freud and his method and also as a lifelong faithful Episcopalian. The overarching idea linking the individual lectures is Leavy's belief that the deliberate study of the operations of the mind must yield results that are not just compatible with religious faith but amplify it eschewing the faith versus science argument for a more inclusive worldview. | In the Image of God A Psychoanalyst's View

GBP 180.00

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God in Context A Survey of Contextual Theology

In the 1970s theologians in Asia and Africa showed an interest in the way different cultural contexts influenced the interpretation of Christian belief. Manifestations of contextual theologies have since appeared in many parts of the world; animated international discussion about expressions methods and theories for contextual theology have continued with the spread of contextual theology from the South to the North. . The object of these theologies is to shed new light on the concept of incarnation. How does the incarnated God act in a liberating way? Contextual theology explores awareness of the interrelatedness of God and culture. This book surveys important concepts positions and problems of contextual theology dealing with different criteria for the interpretation of 'context' and providing explanations of different theoretical models for contextual theology. Particular topics discussed include: the importance of place for the experience of God; a dynamic correlative and communicative view of tradition; the approach to knowledge in contextualism and the greater right of the poor to aesthetic knowledge; human ecological formation of theology and the contributions of pictorial art and architecture to contextual theology. Clearly explaining the importance of contextual theology for all theology this book offers an invaluable text for students and others exploring theology in context. | God in Context A Survey of Contextual Theology

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God Laughed Sources of Jewish Humor

Humor has had a profound effect on the way the Jewish people see the world and has sustained them through millennia of hardships and suffering. God Laughed reviews organizes and categorizes the humor of the ancient Jewish texts the Hebrew Bible the Talmud and Midrash in a clear readable and accessible manner. These works have influenced the Jewish people in many ways and all are replete with humor and wit. Inevitably this oeuvre of Jewish humor has itself influenced generations of comics as well as genres of humor. The authors use examples of Biblical humor from several broad categories including irony sarcasm wordplay humorous names humorous imagery and humorous situations. Because their primary purpose is not to entertain but to teach humanity how to live the ideal life much of the humor in the Talmud and the Midrash has a single purpose: to demonstrate that evil is wrong and even at times ludicrous. This may help explain why approximately 1 500 years after its closing the Talmud is still such a fascinating work. God Laughed is the latest addition to Transaction's Jewish Studies series. | God Laughed Sources of Jewish Humor

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God Behind the Screen Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion

This interdisciplinary study of literary characters sheds light on the relatively under-studied phenomenon of religious psychopathy. God Behind the Screen: Literary Portrais of Religious Psychopathy identifies and rigorously examines protagonists in works from a variety of genres written by authors such as Aldous Huxley Jane Austin Sinclair Lewis and Steven King who are both fervently religous and suffer from a range of disorders underneath the umbrella of psychopathy. | God Behind the Screen Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion

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God and Man In the Old Testament

Originally published in 1955 and containing some 500 passages this Biblical anthology brings together in their original wording the highest expressions of the Biblical view of life. The anthology is non-historical and non-doctrinal. It starts with the confrontations of man with God as seen in the ‘calls’ of the prophets and proceeds to the ways of life demanded of man and the duties accompanying the privilege of vocation. It ends with the visions of the ideal society which in times of trial the author believes have sustained the mind. When this was first published the anthology used often forgotten texts and in so doing stimulated much attention to these enduring religious documents. | God and Man In the Old Testament

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An Analysis of N.T. Wright's The New Testament and the People of God

Wright’s The New Testament and the People of God is the first volume of his acclaimed series ‘Christian Origins and the Question of God’ comprehensively addressing the historical and theological questions surrounding the origins of Christianity. The text outlines Wright's hermeneutical theory and discusses the history of the Jews stressing the close connection with Judaism and developing this to examine the treatment of early Christians. Wright’s work has played a significant role in challenging prevailing assumptions relating to the religious thought of first-century Jews. On a more technical level Wright provides a reappraisal of literary and historical readings of the New Testament. | An Analysis of N. T. Wright's The New Testament and the People of God

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An Analysis of St. Augustine's The City of God Against the Pagans

The City of God against the Pagans is a central text in the Western intellectual tradition. Made up of twenty-two lengthy books Augustine wrote his masterpiece over a thirteen-year period during which the Western Roman Empire began to unravel. The first ten books are a critique of pagan religion and philosophy while books eleven to twenty-two treat the relationship between the City of God and the Earthly City. Throughout Augustine conveys his mature vision of what it means for a Christian to live in a world with evil. Its arguments and ideas have provoked debate for nearly 1600 years and remains a central text in the disciplines of theology historiography and political theory. | An Analysis of St. Augustine's The City of God Against the Pagans

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Classical Theism New Essays on the Metaphysics of God

This volume provides a contemporary account of classical theism. It features 17 original essays from leading scholars that advance the discussion of classical theism in new and interesting directions. It’s safe to say that classical theism—the view that God is simple omniscient and the greatest possible being—is no longer the assumed view in analytic philosophy of religion. It is often dismissed as being rooted in outdated metaphysical systems of the sort advanced by ancient and medieval philosophers. The main purpose of this volume is twofold: to provide a contemporary account of what classical theism is and to advance the scholarly discussion about classical theism. In Section I the contributors offer a clear and cutting-edge account of the nature and existence of the God and the historical and theological foundations of classical theism. Section II contains chapters on a variety of topics such as whether classical theism’s doctrine of simplicity needs revision whether simplicity is compatible with the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation and whether the hypothesis of a multiplicity of divine ideas is consistent with divine simplicity among others. Classical Theism will appeal to scholars and advanced students in the philosophy of religion who are interested in the nature of God. Chapters 2 and 6 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Classical Theism New Essays on the Metaphysics of God

GBP 120.00

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Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas

St. Gregory Palamas (ca. 1296–1357) is among the most well-known and celebrated theologians of late Byzantium. This book provides a comprehensive account of the essence-energies distinction across his twenty-five treatises and letters written over a twenty-year period. An Athonite monk abbot and later Metropolitan of Thessalonica Gregory is remembered especially for his distinction between God’s essence and energies and his celebrated doctrine still generates a great deal of debate. What does Palamas actually mean by the term energies? Are they ‘activities’ that God performs and if so how can they be eternal and uncreated? Indeed how could God be simple if he possesses energies distinct from his essence? Going beyond the Triads and the One Hundred and Fifty Chapters this book explores Palamas’s answers to these long-standing questions by analyzing all of the treatises produced by Palamas between the years 1338 and 1357. It seeks to understand what Palamas means when he speaks of God’s energies how he seeks to prove that they are distinct from the divine essence and how he explains that this distinction in no way violates the unity and simplicity of the one God in Trinity. Essence and Energies is a useful resource for upper-level undergraduates postgraduates and scholars interested in Byzantine theology in the fourteenth century. | Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas

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Society and the Death of God

This book advances the strong programme that sociology and anthropology provide a scientific foundation for arguing that God and the gods are human creations. Contending that religion is one – but not the only – way to systematize and institutionalize the moral order of a society the author argues that religion reflects the fundamental human need for belonging and the social function of compassion. As such our transcendental and supernatural ideas are really concerned with our everyday lives in communities and faced with the severity and immediacy of the global problems with which the world is confronted – existential threats – it is increasingly important to abandon delusions and correct our mistake in reference not by eradicating religion but by grounding it more explicitly in earthly matters of community social solidarity belonging and compassion. A wide-ranging study of the roots nature and purpose of religion and theistic belief Society and the Death of God will appeal to sociologists social theorists and philosophers with interests in the scientific study of religion and the role of religion in the life of humankind.

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Eating God A History of the Eucharist

Eating God examines the history of the Eucharist as a means for understanding transformations in society from the late Middle Ages onwards. After an introduction on the sacrament from its origins to the Protestant Reformation this book considers how it changed the customs and habits of society on not only behavioural and imaginative levels but also artistic and figurative level. The author focuses on Counter-Reformation Italy as a laboratory for the whole of Christendom subject to Rome and reflects on how even today the transformations of the modern age are relevant and influence contemporary debate. This book offers an innovative path through the history of a sacrament with consideration of its impact as an ‘object’ that was used venerated eaten depicted and celebrated far beyond the sphere of liturgical celebration. It will be particularly relevant to those interested in cultural history and the history of Christianity. | Eating God A History of the Eucharist

GBP 130.00

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God and Caesar Troeltsch's Social Teaching as Legitimation

H. Richard Niebuhr's powerful interpretation of Ernst Troeltsch has shaped our view of the man for over seventy years. Troeltsch is one of the most respected and renowned figures in liberal Protestant thought. Yet as Harvard philosopher of religion Cornel West observes in his foreword Constance Benson shat-ters certain crucial aspects of Troeltsch's image as a liberal religious thinker with God and Caesar. Benson reconstructs the historical context in which Troeltsch wrote his landmark The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches and reinterprets it in relation to that context. She shows that Troeltsch's Christian-ity legitimized class religious and gender inequality in response to the challenges of social democracy. Her controversial exploration of why most Troeltsch scholars have remained silent on this deserves seri-ous consideration. Her discovery of Troeltsch's rolein the politics and ideological debates of Imperial Germany require a painful reexamina-tion of an entire chapter of Protestant history. Benson exposes Troeltsch's relationship to Paul de Lagarde a notorious anti-Semite and architect of what later became Nazi ideology. God and Caesaris a needed corrective. Troeltsch is an important figure for the Chris-tian right in Germany and for many mainstream Protestants in the United States. Benson's courageous book is the most challenging critique of Troeltsch's politics we have an unsettling perspective that forces us to revise the beloved Troeltsch so many of us had come to admire and cherish. It will be of interest to intellectual historians theologians and students of religious history and specialists in German social and political history. | God and Caesar Troeltsch's Social Teaching as Legitimation

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How to Know God The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali

The aphorisms collected in this book first published in 1953 were composed by Patanjali a great Indian sage over 1 500 years ago and here translated into clear English prose. The accompanying commentary interprets the sayings for the modern world and in doing so gives a full picture of what yoga is what its aims are and how it can be practised. | How to Know God The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali

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The God of the Left Hemisphere Blake Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation

The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of rationalising and ordering processes which modern neuroscience identifies as 'left hemisphere' brain activity. The book argues that Blake's profound understanding of the human brain is finding surprising corroboration in recent neuroscientific discoveries such as those of the influential Harvard neuro-anatomist Jill Bolte Taylor and it explores Blake's provocative supposition that the emergence of these rationalising law-making and 'limiting' activities within the human brain has been recorded in the earliest Creation texts such as the Hebrew Bible Plato's Timaeus and the Norse sagas. Blake's prescient insight into the nature and origins of this dominant force within the brain allows him to radically reinterpret the psychological basis of the entity usually referred to in these texts as 'God'. The book draws in particular on the work of Bolte Taylor whose study in this area is having a profound impact on how we understand mental activity and processes. | The God of the Left Hemisphere Blake Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation

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Mystical Experience of God A Philosophical Inquiry

Problems of Evil and the Power of God

Lectures on the Moral Government of God

Vaiṣṇava Concepts of God Philosophical Perspectives

God of the Machine

Constructing Moral Concepts of God in a Global Age

God After Darwin 1E

Hospitable God The Transformative Dream

Waiting for God

Is There a God? A Debate

Encounters with God in Medieval and Early Modern English Poetry

In the Image of God A Psychoanalyst's View

God in Context A Survey of Contextual Theology

God Laughed Sources of Jewish Humor

God Behind the Screen Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion

God and Man In the Old Testament

An Analysis of N.T. Wright's The New Testament and the People of God

An Analysis of St. Augustine's The City of God Against the Pagans

Classical Theism New Essays on the Metaphysics of God

Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas

Society and the Death of God

Eating God A History of the Eucharist

God and Caesar Troeltsch's Social Teaching as Legitimation

How to Know God The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali

The God of the Left Hemisphere Blake Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation

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