This book assesses preaching in a postmodern culture that rejects absolute truth and authority. For disillusioned practitioners, it offers guidelines, distinguishing authoritative from authoritarian preaching to show the homiletic task is still feasible.
Reflections on Contemporary Values, Beliefs and Behaviours
This book presents important issues that affect us all, from sex and religion to parenting and self-confidence. Illustrated with personal anecdotes and contrasting philosophy with science, it explores why our advanced world still faces unhappiness and conflict.
This collection of philosophical essays synthesizes Western culture and science with insights from Zen practice. It discusses provocative topics from The Lord of the Rings to artificial intelligence and consciousness. A stimulating tour that will challenge how you look at things.
Destroying Idols
Confusion over the meaning of ‘God’ in biblical texts is at the heart of the divorce between Judaism and Christianity. This book offers a new understanding by re-examining the “two powers in heaven” doctrine, allowing for a renewed messianic interpretation of both faiths.
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.
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.
What is open-mindedness and how does it square with personal commitments? This issue is particularly acute when it comes to religious belief, where it can sound like doubt. This collection of essays explores this virtue and its role in the philosophy of religion.
Death is the limit of life. This book argues that only by living within this limit can we be truly free, loving, and compassionate. It explores death as life’s paradox to test what it means to exist, overcoming the divide between philosophy and theology.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Ur-Illuminism charts humanity’s quest for its highest potential. Tracing a hidden history from Plato and the mystics to the Illuminati, it proposes a radical synthesis of esoteric metaphysics and libertarian thought as the one true bulwark against modern oppression.