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  • The Book of Proverbs and Virtue Ethics

    Integrating the Biblical and Philosophical Traditions

    by Arthur Jan Keefer ...
    In this book, Arthur Keefer offers a new interpretation of the book of Proverbs from the standpoint of virtue ethics. Using an innovative method that bridges philosophy and biblical studies, he argues that much of the instruction within Proverbs meets the criteria for moral and theological virtue as set out in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and the works of St. Thomas Aquinas. Keefer presents the ... Read more

    $104.79 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Wisdom Literature

    by Suzanna R. Millar, Arthur Jan Keefer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    Study of the wisdom literature in the Hebrew Bible and the contemporary cultures in the ancient Near Eastern world is evolving rapidly as old definitions and assumptions are questioned. Scholars are now interrogating the role of oral culture, the rhetoric of teaching and didacticism, the understanding of genre, and the relationship of these factors to the corpus of writings. The scribal culture in ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

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  • Man and Woman He Created Them

    A theology of the body

    by John Paul II, Michael Waldstein ...
    A new critical translation of Pope John Paul II's talks on the Theology of the Body by the internationally renowned biblical scholar Michael Waldstein. With meticulous scholarship and profound insight, Waldstein presents John Paul II's magnificent vision of the human person. Includes a preface by Cardinal Schönborn, a foreword by Christopher West, a comprehensive index of words and phrases, a ... Read more

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  • Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works

    by St. Anselm ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    `For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.' Does God exist? Can we know anything about God's nature? Have we any reason to think that the Christian religion is true? What is truth, anyway? Do human beings have freedom of choice? Can they have such freedom in a world created ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Death of Omnipotence and Birth of Amipotence

    by Thomas Jay Oord ...
    Omnipotence is dead.At least it should be. It has no biblical support. And it dies a death of a thousand qualifications in philosophy.Those harmed and hurting wonder why an omnipotent and loving God doesn't prevent pointless pain. The problem of evil buries omnipotence six feet under.But the death of omnipotence is not the death of God.In this ground-breaking book, best-selling and award-winning ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Are People Basically Good?

    by R.C. Sproul ...
    Series series Crucial Questions
    Surveys routinely show that a majority of men and women believe that people are basically good. In fact, the Bible reveals that mankind was indeed created good. And yet, we all know people who have hurt us or others. And we have likewise done what is wrong. So what changed? Why do people lie, cheat, and steal?In this booklet, Dr. R.C. Sproul explains how we became morally corrupt and just how deep ... Read more

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  • Wisdom's Wonder

    Character, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible's Wisdom Literature

    by William P. Brown ...
    Wisdom's Wonder offers a fresh reading of the Hebrew Bible's wisdom literature with a unique emphasis on "wonder" as the framework for understanding biblical wisdom. William Brown argues that wonder effectively integrates biblical wisdom's emphasis on character formation and its outlook on creation, breaking an impasse that has plagued recent wisdom studies.Drawing on various disciplines, from ... Read more

    $34.35 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stoicism in Early Christianity

    Edited by Tuomas Rasimus, Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Ismo Dunderberg ...
    Highlighting the place of Stoic teaching in early Christian thought, an international roster of scholars challenges the prevailing view that Platonism was the most important philosophical influence on early Christianity. They suggest that early Christians were more often influenced by Stoicism than by Platonism, an insight that sheds new light on the relationship between philosophy and religion at ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • New Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorical Criticism

    by George A. Kennedy ...
    Series series Studies in Religion
    New Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism provides readers of the Bible with an important tool for understanding the Scriptures. Based on the theory and practice of Greek rhetoric in the New Testament, George Kennedy’s approach acknowledges that New Testament writers wrote to persuade an audience of the truth of their messages. These writers employed rhetorical conventions that ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • What's Divine about Divine Law?

    Early Perspectives

    by Christine Hayes ...
    How ancient thinkers grappled with competing conceptions of divine lawIn the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present. What's Divine about Divine Law? untangles the classical and biblical roots of the Western idea of divine law and shows how early ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • God Is Impassible and Impassioned

    Toward a Theology of Divine Emotion

    by Rob Lister ...
    Modern theologians are focused on the doctrine of divine impassibility, exploring the significance of God's emotional experience and most especially the question of divine suffering. Professor Rob Lister speaks into the issue, outlining the history of the doctrine in the views of influential figures such as Augustine, Aquinas, and Luther, while carefully examining modernity's growing rejection of ... Read more

    $25.39 CAD

  • Providence and the Problem of Evil

    by Richard Swinburne ...
    Why does a loving God allow humans to suffer so much? This is one of the most difficult problems of religious belief. Richard Swinburne gives a careful, clear examination of this problem, and offers an answer: it is because God wants more for us than just pleasure or freedom from suffering. Swinburne argues that God wants humans to learn and to love, to make the choices which make great ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD