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Cain and Abel: The Commanding Word of God

Jews, Christians and Muslims share in the understanding that the Creator of all things, generally …

Chapter 6: Cain and Abel: The Commanding Word of God

Jews, Christians and Muslims share in the understanding that the Creator of all things, …

McCall Kragh Review:

Regarding the ‘non-religious farce’ of some scientists, Ralph Waldo Emerson says, “A person will worship something, have no …

Helge S. Kragh, Entropic Creation: Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and Cosmology (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 272 Pps., $114.95.

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James A. Keller, Problems of Evil and the Power of God, Ashgate Philosophy of Religion Series (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), x + 176 Pps., $99.95.

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Catherine Keller, Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming (New York: Routledge, 2003).

Catherine Keller is Professor of Constructive Theology at …

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I found Keller’s emphasis throughout regarding the pervasiveness of Western-ism to mark theology, and her condemnation thereof, …

Galen Strawson, The Secret Connexion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989),

Hume writes, “It must certainly be allowed, that nature has kept us at …

Antony Flew, Hume’s Philosophy of Belief: A Study of His First Inquiry (Bristol: Thoemmes, 1997),

In a letter to his friend, Gilbert Elliot, in 1751, …

Norman Kemp Smith, The Philosophy of David Hume: A Critical Study of its Origins and Central Doctrines. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 

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Coventry, Angela M.  Hume’s Theory of Causation: A Quasi-Realist Interpretation (London: Continuum, 2006).

Cited within this book are the following …

Tapan Kumar Chakraboti, Hume’s Theory of Causality (Calcutta: Raghunauh Press, 1979), 

A “cause” is an invariable antecedent without contradiction, …

Causality and causation have troubled philosophers at least since the time of Aristotle. Aristotle himself notes that pre-Socratic philosophers were …

Helen Beebee, Hume on Causation (New York: Routledge, 2006), 

Hume is traditionally credited with holding a regularity theory of causation. Hume is …

Saul Traiger, ed. The Blackwell Guide to Hume’s Treatise (Malden: Blackwell, 2006)

Citations are from the SBN editions of the Treatise and the Enquiry:

Nadler, Steven. Causation in Early Modern Philosophy (University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1993).

The topic of causation was prominent in …

Hispanic Ministry Write-up 1

Pgs. 3-26 in TEC: Latinos in the Race Structure

Usually in both the Spanish-speaking world, as well as the …

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Because human beings are created in the image of God, we can thereby communicate. Further, …

Eswine Preaching to a PostEverything World Crafting Biblical Sermons that Connect with Our Culture and Pasquarello Christian Preaching A Trinitarian …

Zack Eswine, Preaching to a Post-Everything World: Crafting Biblical Sermons The Connect with Our Culture (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2008), 288 …

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Differing from most theologians of this postmodern age, I appreciate Wright once more, regarding his assertion that God is a …

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I was immediately moved into agreement with Wright at the onset of this book, by …

Grenz and Olson 20th Century Theology

In their 1992 book, 20th Century Theology: God & the World in a Transitional Age, authors Stanley J. Grenz and …

I must admit my general amazement of 20th century theology that I have garnered as a consequence of perusing Grenz and Olson’s book entitled 20th …

An Exploration of Christian Theology. By Don Thorsen. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2008. Pp. xxii + 453. Hardback, $34.95, ISBN  978-1-56563-236-3.

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Christopher Southgate, The Groaning of Creation: God, Evolution, and the Problem of Evil (London: Westminster John Knox, 2008), xii + 196 Pps., …

Christopher Southgate, ed. God Humanity and the Cosmos: A Companion to the Science-Religion Debate (London: T & T Clark, 2005), xxv + 443 Pps., …