A Study of Daisaku Ikeda
This book explores the philosophical and religious work of Daisaku Ikeda, framing it as a philosophy of action. With a strong spiritual and religious reference, Ikeda’s work interprets the human through emancipative will, translating philosophy into practical social engagement.
Human values do not fall from a metaphysical sky. They originate from the human essence—a universal life force emerging from the natural process. Values arise as an existential response to the desires and essential demands of human nature, a gift to all societies.
The Canopy of the Old War
Religion’s power in war is undeniable. These presentations explore the ambivalence of religion, showing how it leads to extreme enmity. But violence does not have the last word. This book demonstrates religion’s function as the authentic expression of the meaning of our lives.
The Life and Ideas of Evangelista Torricelli
Explore the life of Evangelista Torricelli, the 17th-century physicist who fused science with rhetorical elegance. This book analyzes his unique approach to science and his philosophical views, and presents the first annotated English translation of his Academic Discourses.
Analogies and Models in Science and Theology
This book uses Hesse’s Network Model of Theory to debunk scientism and argue for the indispensability of socio-cultural and theological values in the search for objective knowledge. It shows how both science and theology rely on interpretation, models, and metaphor.
This collection of doctoral essays in Catholic Studies shines new light on age-old issues and offers opportunities for dialogue with the contemporary world. Inspired by St. John Henry Newman’s vision of faith and reason, these works cover theology, ethics, history, and more.
For Friedrich Nietzsche, scepticism is not mere nihilism. His philosophy takes us beyond the ‘death of God’ to a new spiritualization of life, holding out an affirmative spirit of joy in the renewal of our ‘god-creating’ power and will to honour the higher Whole.
Buddhist Hermeneutics and East Asian Buddhist Interpreters
This book explores the hermeneutic dilemma of how non-conceptual religious reality is conceptually interpreted in Buddhism. Examining approaches from Indian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese traditions, it illuminates the fundamental challenge: how to deliver dharma of no dharma.
The World as Analogy of Absolute Mind
Can evolved thought grasp evolution itself? This book explores the Augustinian-Thomist heritage through Hegel, considering sacramental theology, original sin, grace, and linguistic representation, culminating in an examination of real presence in unreal nature.
A Tri-Dimensional Model of Mental Health
This study explores what constitutes mental health, proposing that holistic health depends on integral wholeness: the synthesis of body, mind, and heart. It argues one is always whole in one’s true Self (essence), which must be distinguished from the ego (personality).
Jacques Maritain in the 21st Century
Rejecting egocentric isolation and totalitarianism, Christian philosopher Jacques Maritain promoted the human person in authentic community. His quest for liberation contributes to our understanding of 21st-century movements for sustainability, human rights, and democracy.
Reflections on Russell
This book offers original interpretations of Bertrand Russell’s thought, moving beyond mathematical logic to his philosophy of science and religion. Countering competing views, it shows Russell developed a philosophy incorporating both atheism and spirituality.
Using ordinary language and facts of experience, Bishop Butler’s philosophy is a guidebook to happiness. This book presents his work as a bridge joining ancient wisdom with modern experience, offering ways to live without the error and distraction that lead to misery.
This study unearths the singular concept of “parama-mukhya-vṛtti” from the Dvaita Vedānta philosophy of Madhva. Discover the 12th-century thinker’s unique hermeneutical technique used to establish Viṣṇu as the focus of Vedic writings and its relevance for any sacred text.
This book bridges Christian sacramental praxis with philosophy of mind. Through a new philosophy of incarnation, it argues self-consciousness must develop towards the Absolute Idea, where religion becomes intellectual virtue. A new theology is here. It is time to put it to work.
Culture at the Crossroads
This collection explores the interfaces of culture, gender, and power. It moves beyond conventional conceptions to suggest a holistic view of culture that enacts the dynamics of power, nationality, class, gender, and ethnicity in an ever-shifting transnational context.
Beyond Hope
This book argues for hope as a path beyond facile optimism and weary pessimism. Drawing on Western philosophy and Advaita Vedanta, it suggests that living from the Self, distinct from the ego, reveals a peace and bliss beyond both hope and happiness. A timely and wise book.
This book compares Hegel’s and Aquinas’s Trinitarian studies, renouncing the separation of philosophy and theology. Beneath their very different idioms, a near-perfect harmony is found, offering enriched participation in thought’s self-understanding.
Orthodox Mysticism and Asceticism
This volume explores the cultural, social and ethical dimensions of St Gregory Palamas’ works, relating his mystical theology to contemporary debates in philosophy, politics, and art. Topics include church-state relations and hesychast influences on Byzantine iconography.
The Idea and Values of Europe
From Sophocles’ Antigone to the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, this book charts the 2500-year evolution of human rights. It explores the origins of European shared values and assesses their compatibility with a non-European culture and religion such as Islam.