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Valid Values
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Valid Values

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-06-06
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  • Publisher: LIT Verlag

It is a challenge to talk about values and a provocation to call them "valid". But it is necessary when human dignity is at stake. Freedom, love, truth and life determine and protect this dignity. The highest value is life; when it is threatened, one loses the experience of dignity. Mere autonomy going beyond value-oriented freedom can threaten life, physically and psychologically. If we do not respect our livelihoods, we threaten them. Genuine love of one's neighbour prevents tolerance from turning into populist, intolerant ideologies. Dignity as the standard for our coexistence gives rise to hope. Therefore, this book invites us to think, feel and act responsibly for a life ‘in fullness’ (John 10:10).

The Blind Watch
  • Language: en

The Blind Watch

The Blind Watch has a twofold purpose. Firstly, it aims to expose some of the salient inadequacies and fallacies of modern atheism. Secondly, and more fundamentally, it is intended to expand our thinking about nature in general and about the meaning of nature for a Christian understanding of human beings. For systematic reasons, the book focuses on Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker, which has become a classic on modern atheism. In contrast to Dawkins' work, the present book describes the watch, i.e. the atheistic scientist, not the watchmaker, as “blind”, insofar as the scientist calculates everything, but sees very little. By confronting the atheism of Dawkins with the philosophical (Heraclitus and the Stoics) and the theological (the Apostle Paul and Augustine) traditions, the book develops a fundamental understanding of nature as nature that leads to a definition of life quite different from that of the evolutionary biologists.

Encounters with Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Encounters with Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-12-04
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  • Publisher: BRILL

With figures such as Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, and Nietzsche, the nineteenth century was a dynamic time of philosophical development. The period made lasting contributions to several fields of philosophy. Moreover, it paved the way for the development of the social sciences at the turn of the twentieth century. This volume is dedicated to exploring the rich tradition of nineteenth-century Continental philosophy in its different areas with the main purpose of highlighting the importance of this tradition in the development of the leading streams of thought of the twentieth and twenty-first century.

Mystics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Mystics

Mystics presents a collection of previously unpublished essays by prominent scholars that consider both the idea of mystics and mysticism. The contributors offer detailed discussions of a variety of mystics from history, and on mysticism in the twenty-first century.

Friedrich Nietzsche - der Philosoph mit dem Hammer
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 362

Friedrich Nietzsche - der Philosoph mit dem Hammer

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ist tatsächlich der Philosoph, der mit dem Hammer redet. Das ist für sein Genie und seinen Wahnsinn entscheidend. Nietzsche geht es elementar um die werdende Weltlichkeit in der wirklichen Welt. Der Mensch muss nach Nietzsche überstiegen werden durch den Übermenschen. Allein im Schaffen steigert sich das Leben über sich hinaus. Nietzsche ist beseelt in seinem rechten Aufwärts-Weg zur nie ermüdenden Hoffnung, die Gelingen und Verzweifeln kennen und realisieren müssen.

A Theology of Love
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

A Theology of Love

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-01-21
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

This book explores the different dimensions of Christian love. It argues that all expressions of love are wrestling with the challenge of otherness.

A Companion to Meister Eckhart
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 811

A Companion to Meister Eckhart

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12-03
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Drawing on the latest European Research on Meister Eckhart since 1970, the volume provides a comprehensive rereading of the Life, Works, Career, Trial of Meister Eckhart. Central Philosophical ideas and sources with an account of his preaching, teaching and the reception of his work from the 14th to the 21st century.

Trinitarian Theology after Barth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

Trinitarian Theology after Barth

Drawing together scholars whose essays exhibit work after Barth in engaging the doctrine of the Trinity and its related themes. Barth's thought, as evidenced amongst his most expert commentators, allows for a variety of interpretations, the details of which are being hammered out on the pages of academic journals and volumes such as this one. It is this variety of responses to and interpretations of Barth's theology that gives such vibrancy to the essays in this volume by seasoned Barth scholars and voices new to the conversation.

Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch

In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, "selfless love" can appear as a threat to the lover's personal well-being. This perception jars with the Biblical promise that we gain our life through losing it and therefore calls for a theological response. In conversation with the Protestant theologian Paul Tillich and the atheistic moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch enquires into the anthropological grounds on which selfless love can be said to build up, rather than undermine, the lover's self. It proposes that while the implausibility of selfless love was furthered by the modern deconstruction of the self, bo...