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Yehezkel Kaufmann, The Religion of Israel: From Its Beginning to the Babylonian Exile
Yehezkel Kaufmann (1889-1963) was an Israeli philosopher and biblical scholar. The majority of his publications were in modern Hebrew and remain untranslated.
John N. Oswalt, The Bible among the Myths: Unique or Just Different?
John N. Oswalt (1940- ) is distinguished professor of Old Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary. He has a written a careful assessment of the uniqueness of the biblical conception of God and how this distinguishes the Bible from similar forms of ancient near-eastern religious texts.
Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will
At the behest of the Pope and the Catholic party, Desiderius Erasmus (1466/9-1536) wrote a little book called Diatribe de Libero Arbitrio defending a semi-Pelagian to Pelagian view of the will (cf. Pelagius, Roman Commentary review) in 1524.
Jyotrimaya Sharma, Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism
The book is a critical introduction to the basic sources of the modern Hindutva movement: Dayananda Saraswati (1824-1883), Siri Auronbindo (1872-1950) , Swami Vivekanda (1863-1902), Vinayak Damadar Svarkar (1883-1966). The author Jyotrimaya Sharma is..
Augustine, The City of God against the Pagans
At the behest of the Pope and the Catholic party, Desiderius Erasmus (1466/9-1536) wrote a little book called Diatribe de Libero Arbitrio defending a semi-Pelagian to Pelagian view of the will (cf. Pelagius, Roman Commentary review) in 1524.
Albrecht Ritschl, Three Essays: Theology and Metaphysics, “Prolegomena” to The History of Pietism, and Instruction in the Christian Religion
The volume translated by Philip Hefner was designed to introduce the basic theological framework of Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889).
Thomas Nagal, Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
Thomas Nagal (1937- ) is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at New York University and has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard. He is an avid atheist (12).
F. C. Copleston, Aquinas: An Introduction to the Life and Work of the Great Medieval Thinker
Thomas Nagal (1937- ) is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at New York University and has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard. He is an avid atheist (12).
Robert L. Dabney, The Sensualistic Philosophy of the Nineteenth Century Considered
A thoughtful and essentially accurate critique of materialistic philosophy and theology of the 19th Century by Robert L. Dabney (1820-1898).
Gertrude Himmelfarb, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution
Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922 - ) is an historian of the Victorian period. She is especially concerned with promoting the virtues of the Victorian era in the political and public square and…