Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes and ideas, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of demanding material. Immanuel Kant's influence and importance are difficult to exaggerate, his Three Critiques - of Pure Reason, of Practical Reason and of Judgment - standing as landmark works in the Western philosophical canon.
Anyone interested in or studying philosophy will encounter Kant and hope to reach a detailed understanding of his work. Nevertheless, Kant is far from being an easy or straightforward subject for study. The book provides a concise and coherent overview of Augustine, introducing all the key concepts and themes, and is ideal for undergraduates who require more than just a simple introduction to his work and thought.
Habermas: A Guide for the Perplexed is the ideal starting point for anyone studying Habermas. It follows Habermas's critical and philosophical project through all the stages of its development - the early critical theory, the linguistic turn, communicative action and discourse ethics, the theory of deliberative democracy -building up a complete overview of his work, and offering close and incisive analysis throughout.
Author : R. Schopenhauer: A Guide For The Perplexed is a clear and thorough introduction To The work and thought of this important but often difficult thinker. Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging - or, indeed, downright bewildering. One of the most influential philosophers and cultural theorists of the twentieth century, Theodor Adorno poses a considerable challenge to students.
His works can often seem obscure and impenetrable, particularly for those with little knowledge of the philosophical traditions on which he draws.
His tendency to confound what we take for common sense, and to attack what he sees as the dominant trends in twentieth century European and American culture, can pose very particular difficulties for the reader. Those new to Adorno - and those who have struggled to make headway with his work - will find this an invaluable resource - clearly written, comprehensive and specifically focused on just what makes Adorno difficult to read and understand.
The text is structured around key themes in Adorno's work and provides clear and stimulating accounts of topics including the central place of the aesthetic in Adorno's writing, his much misunderstood essays on popular culture and the importance of freedom in Adorno's philosophy.
Kierkegaard is an important literary and religious figure, as well a major philosopher whom students may have a difficult time comprehending- this guide provides a clear and concise understanding of his work.
These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research. Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise, and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers, and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging-or, indeed, downright bewildering. Emmanuel Levinas is one of the most influential ethicists of recent times.
The importance and relevance of his work has been recognized and celebrated within philosophy, religion, sociology, political theory, and other disciplines. His writing, however, undoubtedly presents the reader with a significant challenge. Often labyrinthine, paradoxical, and opaque, Levinas' work seeks to articulate a complex ideology and some hard-to-grasp concepts. Levinas: A Guide for the Perplexed is the ideal text for the student, teacher, or lay reader who wants to develop a full and effective understanding of this major modern philosopher.
Focused upon precisely why Levinas is a difficult subject for study, the text guides the reader through the core themes and concepts in his writing, providing a thorough overview of his work. Valuably, the book also emphasizes Levinas's importance for contemporary ethical problems and thinking.
Benedict de Spinoza is a major philosopher of enduring influence and importance, whose work is encountered by all serious students of Western philosophy; his Ethics is one of the seminal works of moral, religious and political thought. Nevertheless, Spinoza is a considerable challenge for the modern student; his language, rooted in the vocabulary of late medieval scholasticism is frequently opaque, while the esoteric themes explored in his work often require elucidation.
Spinoza: A Guide for the Perplexed provides that elucidation, offering a thorough account and analysis of Spinoza's key works and overall philosophical project. The text equips the reader with the necessary means to draw full and clear understanding from Spinoza's often inaccessible language and complex philosophical system and method.
His Ethics and political treatises are covered in detail; Spinoza's 'geometrical' approach to his subject is opened up, and his obscure terminology fully explained. The book concludes with a valuable assessment of Spinoza's enduring influence and his relevance for contemporary philosophical debates and concerns. Though the tradition from Pentecostals to contemporary Black theology. Section one, the most group of churches has never been monolithically Reformed, interesting by far, offers a rare autobiographical sketch of at least not in the last plus years.
Also methodologically de-conversion. And material, his assessments of various black church traditions a handbook this is. Very little is original. Very little is devel- past and present, and his theological attempts to correlate oped in much detail.
But very little of the standard atheistic Reformed orthodoxy with African-American hermeneutical line is left out. The arguments of section two, in particular, intuitions.
As a decline. One only wishes Amos Yong that more of it were given over to this project. By John Biola University Atherton. London: SCM Press, Edited by Craig change, while also persuading anti-secularists of the value of A. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, The narratives and practices of both economics and Nazarene, etc.
Blanchard ogy of love. By Dan Barker. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, Amos Yong Pp. It is divided into four sections. By Carl E. The second and third sections detail his reasons for rejecting Braaten. Eerdmans Publishing theism and Christianity, respectively. The fourth section Company, Yet the book omits victim- focus. Two essays evaluation of the major twentieth-century movements stand out for this reviewer as particularly interesting and within Christianity that overlooks Liberation Theology and suggestive.
Witte, Jr. Michael D. Royster The authors recover much contemporary wisdom from a Houston Graduate School of Theology seemingly unlikely source. The second is B. By Tom Breen. This book is satirical. Every page has numerous attempts David H. Jensen at humor, many of which are actually funny. But there are also Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary other attempts at humor that seem pointless and, at times, mildly offensive. By David Brown. Oxford: Oxford University experts, buzzkills, boring, and irrelevant.
The chief with the body. He real- tianity has always had a relationship with popular culture. This is not a particularly that God in his totality cannot be experienced does not entail new insight see, e. I would recommend this should be seen as sacramental.
Highly recommended for those interested in theology and inspiration as human religious imagination. As a correc- and the body. By Don S. Brown- hermeneutics. Signs of the Times, 1. Pietermaritzburg, South practical inquiry, but as a middle step that is continually Africa: Cluster Publications, The essays demonstrate a consistent concern with tianity and climate change is not surprising.
This discussion families and societies in these changing times. The book will argues that consumerism and climate change are spiritual serve both as a textbook for practical theology and as a and religious problems, not simply economic or ecological resource for courses and research on theology and families.
Jensen conceptions useful for addressing climate change; in par- Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary ticular, the idea of confessing guilt is explored. By Fernando L.
Lanham, MD: University it holds insights for specialists as well. Second, Conradie Press of America, The nature of revelation, inspiration, and their inter- Through the richness of this background he makes an connection has long intrigued theologians. By Perry C. He glosses over Cotham. He offers brief but fair synopses of world religions would have been stronger had Crisp grappled with historical such as Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism, as well as current information rather than avoiding it through a straw man articulations of pantheism and reincarnation.
For the likes attack on historical-critical scholarship instead. By and sacred texts introduces general similarities and differ- Lisa E. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg, Cotham does not shy away from blindspots that reinforce This is a good book for beginners to Julian of Norwich. In , while close to expression as in the Crusades under the banner of Christian- death, Julian received sixteen visions also called showings.
While reading Julian can be overwhelm- with sensitivity and humility. This work would serve as a ing, this book has small passages that can be rewarding. By Oliver D. Current Issues in phor of journey is appropriate for this book that gives Theology. New York: Cambridge University Press, By John A. Oxford: Crisp makes an admirable attempt to defend classical theol- Oxford University Press, Dennison plans to include these in the tunate personal and professional consequences.
Abshire achieved this goal despite persistent efforts. Eugene, OR: credited as providing his writings durability not accorded Pickwick Books, This claim raises a question regarding the relative Brock University devoted to a discussion of James K. What is interesting and valuable about acceptance—whatever the cost—could be questioned.
The ought to read this book. New York: Peter Lang, He shows that philosophical theologian will unfold next. Burlington, movements of this time. With over sixty pages of notes and VT: Ashgate, However, logical topic—eschatology—in light of the works of Husserl, the book will please any reader who is interested in Bult- Heidegger, Levinas, M. Henry, and others. It turns out, quite a bit. This book Forte hopes to reclaim beauty from its marginalization begins with two of its strongest essays, both of which look at relative to philosophical priorities of sublimity and diversity how we understand the future in the present: Lacoste offers by highlighting its central role throughout the development a phenomenology of anticipation, C.
Romano explores a phe- of Christian theology. Later sections of the book explore theological aesthetics of Augustine, Aquinas, Kierkegaard, how phenomenology contributes to eschatology, as well as Dostoevsky, Balthasar, and Evdokimov.
Some of these essays might be forms as coming from and returning to God by means of applicable to non-Christian religious thought, but most are attraction, Aquinas interjects the tragedy of the cross, which oriented toward Christian theology.
Further, while Augustine and Aquinas essays seem out of place, overall this collection is a thought- view the path of beauty as leading inexorably to the One, provoking and worthwhile example of how phenomenology Kierkegaard the lone Protestant envisioned the limits of intersects with theological concerns. Remaining theologians are similarly juxtaposed in Ohio Northern University response to one another.
By Anette Ejsing. Princeton uniting beauty to the ultimate, silent threshold, where more Theological Monograph Series, Ejsing draws from C. By James M. In the new preface Ejsing interacts substantially that have emerged in the past written for this edition, Gustafson attributes his interest in generation but have languished of late.
By Bruno Forte. Translated by lications. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Capetz tional conservative Baptist beliefs and convictions. The Harriet A. Oxford: Oxford University Press, She critically examines philosophical trends, explored in other volumes in this series. The foot- and theology. The philosophical and hermeneutical trends notes will help researchers unfamiliar with tensions in analyzed include German critical philosophies, empirical Baptist history and thought.
On Being the Church comple- rationalism, Scottish common sense philosophy, critical ments other notable studies in Baptist theology that have realism, Gadamerian hermeneutics, and phenomenological appeared over the last twenty or so years. It may be read as hermeneutics. By Elaine A. Eugene, OR: Pick- scholarly inquiries, with the result that their approach wick Publications, Heath explains neutics.
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