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Aquinas: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Peter S. Eardley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441135359
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Aquinas: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Peter S. Eardley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Aquinas is the most widely read and arguably most influential of the medieval philosophers. He is famous for his impressive and coherent synthesis of Greek Philosophy and Christian Theology and his magisterial Summa Theologiae is a hugely important, and enduring, text in the history of philosophy. Yet he is also a very difficult thinker and his ideas present a number of challenges to his readers. Aquinas: A Guide for the Perplexed is a clear and thorough account of Aquinas's thought, his major works and ideas, providing an ideal guide to the important and complex writings of this key thinker. The book introduces all the key concepts and themes in Aquinas's thought and examines the ways in which they have influenced philosophical and theological thought. Geared towards the specific requirements of students who need to reach a sound understanding of Aquinas's ideas, the book serves as a clear and concise introduction to his philosophy and natural theology. This is the ideal companion to the study of this most influential and challenging of thinkers.

GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED

Author : E. F. Schumacher
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060906111
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED written by E. F. Schumacher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1978-05-31 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the world wide best-seller, Small Is Beautiful, now tackles the subject of Man, the World, and the Meaning of Living. Schumacher writes about man's relation to the world. man has obligations -- to other men, to the earth, to progress and technology, but most importantly himself. If man can fulfill these obligations, then and only then can he enjoy a real relationship with the world, then and only then can he know the meaning of living. Schumacher says we need maps: a "map of knowledge" and a "map of living." The concern of the mapmaker--in this instance, Schumacher--is to find for everything it's proper place. Things out of place tend to get lost; they become invisible and there proper places end to be filled by other things that ought not be there at all and therefore serve to mislead. A Guide for the Perplexed teaches us to be our own map makers. This constantly surprising, always stimulating book will be welcomed by a large audience, including the many new fans who believe strongly in what Schumacher has to say.

The Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1647980208
Total Pages : 1001 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book The Guide for the Perplexed written by Moses Maimonides and published by Wyatt North Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses Maimonides was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher. His famous work The Guide for the Perplexed combines Aristotelian philosophy with Hebrew Bible theology.

Theological Anthropology: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Marc Cortez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567428362
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)

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Book Synopsis Theological Anthropology: A Guide for the Perplexed by : Marc Cortez

Download or read book Theological Anthropology: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Marc Cortez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be human and to be made in the image of God? What does it mean to be a 'person'? What constitutes a human person? What does it mean to affirm that humans are free beings? And, what is gender? Marc Cortez guides the reader through the most challenging issues that face anyone attempting to deal with the subject of theological anthropology. Consequently, it addresses complexities surrounding such questions as: Each chapter explains first both why the question under consideration is important for theological anthropology and why it is also a contentious issue within the field. After this, each chapter surveys and concisely explains the main options that have been generated for resolving that particular question. Finally the author presents to the reader one way of working through the complexity. These closing sections are presented as case studies in how to work through the problems and arrive at a conclusion than as definitive answers. Nonetheless, they offer a convincing way of answering the questions raised by each chapter.

Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed

Author : Daniel Frank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108480519
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed written by Daniel Frank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first scholarly collection in English devoted to Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed.

Creation: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Simon Oliver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056765611X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Creation: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Simon Oliver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This addition to our popular Guides for the Perplexed series tackles a subject that is enjoying renewed debate: Christianity, along with Judaism and Islam, claims that the universe is not a brute fact. It is 'created'. But what do we mean by 'creation'? Do we mean that the universe is 'designed'? Is it the product of an evolutionary process? How are creatures related to God, and does God act within creation? Simon Oliver begins with the background to the Christian theology of creation in Greek philosophy and the Old Testament. This provides a route into understanding the claim that we are part of a created order that is also the theatre of God's providential action. He examines different understandings of creation, including creation out of nothing and the analogy of being, with close reference to the work of patristic and medieval theologians such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. This leads to an historical overview of the relationship between theological, philosophical and scientific approaches to creation in the modern period. Some of the ethical issues concerning humanity's place within, and treatment of, creation and our environment are also examined. A distinctive yet traditional theology of creation is proposed focused on the concepts of gift and participation as ways of understanding more fully the meaning and implications of the claim that the universe is created.

Creation: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Simon Oliver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056765608X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Creation: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Simon Oliver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judaism, Christianity and Islam claim that the universe is not a brute fact. It is 'created'. But what do we mean by 'creation'? Do we mean that the universe is 'designed'? Is it the product of an evolutionary process? How are creatures related to God, and does God act within creation? Simon Oliver begins with the background to the Christian doctrine of creation in Greek philosophy and the Old Testament. This provides a route into understanding the claim that we are part of a created order that is also the theatre of God's redemptive action in Christ. He examines different understanding of creation, with close reference to the work of patristic and medieval theologians such as Augustine and Aquinas. This leads to an historical guide to the relationship between theological, philosophical and scientific approaches to nature in the modern period including Darwinism and Intelligent Design. Some of the ethical issues concerning humanity's place within, and treatment of, creation and our environment are also examined. Finally, a distinctive yet traditional theology of creation is proposed focused on the concepts of gift and participation as ways of understanding more fully the meaning and implications of the claim that the universe is created.

Aquinas Against the Averroists

Author : Ralph McInerny
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557530295
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Aquinas Against the Averroists by : Ralph McInerny

Download or read book Aquinas Against the Averroists written by Ralph McInerny and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work should be in every graduate philosophy collection and is recommended for larger undergraduate libraries."--"Choice." (Philosophy)

Aquinas on Creation

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888442857
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Aquinas on Creation written by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six articles that comprise Book 2, Distinction 1, Question 1 of Aquinas' Writings on the "Sentences" of Peter Lombard represent his earliest and most succinct account of creation. These texts contain the essential Thomistic doctrines on the subject, and are here translated into English for the first time, along with an introduction and analysis. In Article One Aquinas argues, against Manichean dualism, that there is one ultimate cause of all created being; in so doing he gives three proofs for the existence of the Creator and the essential features of his answer to the problem of evil. Thomas establishes his definition of creation in Article Two, providing the needed distinctions between philosophical and theological senses of creation. Emanationism and the problem of whether there can be any intermediary causes in God's act of creation are the subject of Article Three. The next article demonstrates that although God is the cause of all created being, nevertheless creatures are true causes in nature. Article Five argues that it is from revelation alone that we know that the world had a temporal beginning, and that the philosophical arguments that purport to show either the necessity or impossibility of the temporal beginning are not persuasive. A detailed exposition of the meaning of the first sentence of the Bible, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," follows in Article Six.

Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation

Author : Josef Stern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022645763X
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation written by Josef Stern and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed is the greatest philosophical text in the history of Jewish thought and a major work of the Middle Ages. For almost all of its history, however, the Guide has been read and commented upon in translation—in Hebrew, Latin, Spanish, French, English, and other modern languages—rather than in its original Judeo-Arabic. This volume is the first to tell the story of the translations and translators of Maimonides’ Guide and its impact in translation on philosophy from the Middle Ages to the present day. A collection of essays by scholars from a range of disciplines, the book unfolds in two parts. The first traces the history of the translations of the Guide, from medieval to modern renditions. The second surveys its influence in translation on Latin scholastic, early modern, and contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, as well as its impact in translation on current scholarship. Interdisciplinary in approach, this book will be essential reading for philosophers, historians, and religious studies scholars alike.

Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed

Author : Daniel Frank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108573703
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed written by Daniel Frank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed (c. 1190) is the greatest and most influential text in the history of Jewish philosophy. Controversial in its day, the Guide directly influenced Aquinas, Spinoza, and Leibniz, and the history of Jewish philosophy took a decisive turn after its appearance. While there continues to be keen interest in Maimonides and his philosophy, this is the first scholarly collection in English devoted specifically to the Guide. It includes contributions from an international team of scholars addressing the most important philosophical themes that range over the three parts of this sprawling work - including topics in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of law, ethics, and political philosophy. There are also essays on the Guide's hermeneutic puzzles, and on its overall structure and philosophical trajectory. The volume will be of interest to philosophers, Judaists, theologians, and medievalists.

Schleiermacher: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Theodore Vial
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567415988
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)

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Book Synopsis Schleiermacher: A Guide for the Perplexed by : Theodore Vial

Download or read book Schleiermacher: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Theodore Vial and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the 'Father of Modern Theology'.

Truth

Author : Simon Blackburn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198037576
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Truth written by Simon Blackburn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the highly popular book Think, which Time magazine hailed as "the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy," Simon Blackburn is that rara avis--an eminent thinker who is able to explain philosophy to the general reader. Now Blackburn offers a tour de force exploration of what he calls "the most exciting and engaging issue in the whole of philosophy"--the age-old war over truth. The front lines of this war are well defined. On one side are those who believe in plain, unvarnished facts, rock-solid truths that can be found through reason and objectivity--that science leads to truth, for instance. Their opponents mock this idea. They see the dark forces of language, culture, power, gender, class, ideology and desire--all subverting our perceptions of the world, and clouding our judgement with false notions of absolute truth. Beginning with an early skirmish in the war--when Socrates confronted the sophists in ancient Athens--Blackburn offers a penetrating look at the longstanding battle these two groups have waged, examining the philosophical battles fought by Plato, Protagoras, William James, David Hume, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, and many others, with a particularly fascinating look at Nietzsche. Among the questions Blackburn considers are: is science mere opinion, can historians understand another historical period, and indeed can one culture ever truly understand another. Blackburn concludes that both sides have merit, and that neither has exclusive ownership of truth. What is important is that, whichever side we embrace, we should know where we stand and what is to be said for our opponents.

Aquinas and Maimonides on the Possibility of the Knowledge of God

Author : Mercedes Rubio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402047479
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Aquinas and Maimonides on the Possibility of the Knowledge of God written by Mercedes Rubio and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-18 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth study of Thomas Aquinas’ Quaestio de Attributis binds together the findings of previous research on the unique history of this text by reconstructing the historical circumstances surrounding its composition, shows that the Quaestio contains Aquinas’ final answer to the dispute on the divine attributes, and thoroughly examines his interpretation of Maimonides’ position on the issue of the knowledge of God by analysing this and other texts related to it chronologically and doctrinally.

The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas

Author : Norman Kretzmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825097
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas written by Norman Kretzmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the great philosophers of the Middle Ages Aquinas is unique in pursuing two apparently disparate projects. On the one hand he developed a philosophical understanding of Christian doctrine in a fully integrated system encompassing all natural and supernatural reality. On the other hand, he was convinced that Aristotle's philosophy afforded the best available philosophical component of such a system. In a relatively brief career Aquinas developed these projects in great detail and with an astonishing degree of success. In this volume ten leading scholars introduce all the important aspects of Aquinas' thought, ranging from its historical background and dependence on Greek, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy and theology, through the metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, to the philosophical approach to Biblical commentary.

Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Daniel Davies
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199768730
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed by : Daniel Davies

Download or read book Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed written by Daniel Davies and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the substance and presentation of major metaphysical themes in Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Using rigorous philosophy it seeks to refute the view that the Guide hides an ''esoteric'' philosophical meaning beneath a traditional veneer, and offers a new explanation of his esotericism.

Predestination: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Jesse Couenhoven
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567249662
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (672 download)

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Book Synopsis Predestination: A Guide for the Perplexed by : Jesse Couenhoven

Download or read book Predestination: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Jesse Couenhoven and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of predestination has been an essential topic in theology and philosophy since at least the time of St. Augustine, and is notoriously among the most contentious of religious doctrines. Many people of faith have found the belief that God destines them for eternal joy a source of great comfort, but many others have found it deeply troubling. Above all, those who reject predestination have been motivated by concerns about the doctrine's implications for human free will and divine responsibility for evil. Couenhoven addresses these issues by taking up two important questions: “What does predestination actually imply?”, and “How have great theologians defended their doctrines of predestination?” He answers these queries by analyzing why Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, and Barth found the doctrine attractive, and explaining the different ways in which they combined belief in predestination, freedom, and God's goodness. The book concludes with a constructive chapter in which Couenhoven defends predestination as a doctrine of hope.