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В своей книге «Армагеддон: Что Библия на самом деле говорит о конце света» (Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End) известный библеист Барт Эрман подвергает критическому анализу Откровение Иоанна Богослова — самую загадочную и пугающую...

If we exclude those parts of the world where the Bible was entirely unknown before the advent of Christian missionaries, there are few aspects of culture, ancient, mediaeval and modern, European and non-European, religious and secular, that have not...

The Cambridge Companion to Jung2nd Edition, edited by POLLY YOUNG-EISENDRATH and TERENCE DAWSON, 2008New developments in the post-Jungian field. ANDREW SAMUELS 1PART I. JUNG’S IDEAS AND THE IR CONTEXT1. The historical context of analytical psychology...

Compare the following two questions, both of which greatly exercised ancient Greek and Roman thinkers:   What is a good human life? Why isn’t the earth falling?   They appear about as different...

Plato (427-347 B.C.) stands at the head of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon the wide range of topics that are still discussed by philosophers today under such headings...

Christian doctrine focuses upon God and the way in which God grants not just life but also meaning to all other things. To turn to the doctrine of God, therefore, is to consider both a particular item of concern (namely, God or theos) and a sp...

Descartes is perhaps the most widely studied of all the great philosophers. Students in countless introductory courses find that their imagination is captured by the lonely quest for knowledge described in Descartes’ masterpiece, the Meditatio...

What is it like to make a choice? The temptation we easily give way to is to think that it’s always the same kind of thing; or that there’s one kind of decision-making that’s serious and authentic, and all other kinds ought to be like this. In...

Two thousand years have come and gone, but still his remains the unfinished story that refuses to go away. Jesus of Nazareth, a Jew from rural first-century Galilee, is without doubt the most famous and most influential human being who ever walked...

A little over an hour into Ron Howard’s cinematic adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, for the first time in a major Hollywood film we see a portrayal of the Council of Nicaea. The brief scene takes place in an expansive, ornately decorated basili...

Few thinkers in the history of philosophy are more controversial than Hegel. Philosophers are either for or against him. Rarely do they regard him with cool detachment, weighing his merits and faults with strict impartiality. Hegel has been di...

From the outside, Luther’s life passed by simply and steadily. With few exceptions, his whole life took place within the territories of Thuringia and Saxony, mostly in Wittenberg, the electoral capital at the Elbe river, and its surroundings....

Augustine’s Confessions is undoubtedly among the most renowned works of Christian literature ever. In fact, it’s a classic of world literature that keeps generating editions, translations, commentaries, and monographs. In the Confessions, read...

The masterpiece of Sienese painting known as The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise by Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia is a fitting place to begin a consideration of the relationship between Christianity and the environment (Fig...

Quakerism is fascinating in its enduring ability to adapt to new contexts and yet retain a radical witness that has been inherent to its spirituality from the start. The Quakers (or Friends) today are a global faith composed of different branc...

Antisemitism1 is a late 19th-century (1870) term based on pseudoscientific racial theory that was coined to describe in a new way opposition to, and hatred of, the Jewish People and their form of life. Though a relatively recent linguistic and...

Cambridge Companions to Religion: а series of companions to major topics and key figures in theology and religious studies. Each volume contains specially commissioned chapters by international scholars which provide an accessible and stimula...

«Church Dogmatics» — главный богословский труд Карла Барта и один из крупнейших проектов систематического богословия XX века. Создававшаяся более трех десятилетий догматика охватывает учение о Слове Божьем и откровении, Троице, богопознании и бытии Б...

Уникальное пособие для самостоятельного изучения греческого языка. При серьезной работе с самоучителем, через два месяца вы сможете самостоятельно читать греческий текст.Люди выражают свои мысли, чувства и желания посредством речи. Речь сос...

Книга «Проблема Бога» (God's Problem) Барта Эрмана посвящена одному из самых сложных и болезненных вопросов философии и теологии: почему в мире, созданном всемогущим и любящим Богом, существует так много страданий? Автор, будучи бывшим фундаменталист...

The Jегоmе Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century is а one-volume resource on the entire Вiblе produced bу an international team of Catholic scholars. lts purpose is to provide in-depth analysis and interpretation of the Scriptures f...

Книга «Иисус до Евангелий» Барта Эрмана посвящена исследованию того туманного периода, когда истории об Иисусе существовали исключительно в устной форме — в течение 30–60 лет до того, как они были записаны. Автор опирается на современные достижения к...

The expression “philosophy of religion” did not come into general use until the nineteenth century, when it was employed to refer to the articulation and criticism of humanity’s religious consciousness and its cultural expressions in thought,...

Over three hundred years after Peter the Great’s campaign to reinvent Russia as a modern European nation, the opposition between ‘Russia’ and ‘the West’ remains a potent cultural meme that plays out in manifold ways—not least in the dangerous...