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  • Kierkegaard and the Paradox of Religious Diversity

    by George B. Connell ...
    Series series Kierkegaard as a Christian Thinker (KCTS)
    Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) famously critiqued Christendom — especially the religious monoculture of his native Denmark. But what would he make of the dizzying diversity of religious life today? In this book George Connell uses Kierkegaard's thought to explore pressing questions that contemporary religious diversity poses.Connell unpacks an underlying tension in Kierkegaard, revealing both ... Read more

    $46.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion

    Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion

    by Peter L. Berger ...
    Influential scholar Peter L. Berger explores the sociological underpinnings of religion and the rise of a modern secular societyAcclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger carefully lays out an understanding of religion as a historical, societal mechanism in this classic work of social theory. Berger examines the roots of religious belief and its gradual dissolution in modern times, applying ... Read more

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  • God in Pain

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    A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjévic. In six chapters that describe Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in fresh ways using the tools of Hegelian and Lacanian analysis, God in Pain: Inversions of ... Read more

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  • A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

    Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

    by Peter L. Berger ...
    Influential scholar Peter L. Berger reveals five signs that point to the supernatural and its place in a modern secular societyAcclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger examines religion in twentieth-century Western society, exploring the social nature of knowledge and its effect on religious belief. Using five signs evident in ordinary life—order, play, hope, damnation, and humor—Berger ... Read more

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  • Finding Truth

    5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

    by Nancy Pearcey ...
    Christianity Has the Resources to Address Intellectual and Cultural Issues. Do You?Christians can feel overwhelmed at the sheer number of competing worldviews in today’s pluralistic, multicultural society. Thankfully, you don’t have to memorize a different argument to answer every new issue. Instead, you can master a single line of defense, grounded in Scripture, that applies to any theory. In ... Read more

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  • The Monstrosity of Christ

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    by Slavoj Zizek, John Milbank ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    A militant Marxist atheist and a “Radical Orthodox” Christian theologian square off on everything from the meaning of theology and Christ to the war machine of corporate mafia.“What matters is not so much that Žižek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what he sometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian ... Read more

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  • 50 Key Concepts in Theology

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  • The Puppet and the Dwarf

    The Perverse Core of Christianity

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    It has long been assumed that the more modern we become, the less religious we will be. Yet a recent resurrection in faith has challenged the certainty of this belief. In these original essays and interviews, leading hermeneutical philosophers and postmodern theorists John D. Caputo and Gianni Vattimo engage with each other's past and present work on the subject and reflect on our transition from ... Read more

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  • The SPCK Introduction to Kierkegaard

    by Dr Peter Vardy ...
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    This is a book about a remarkable man - yet in an important sense it is not about this man at all.Soren Kierkegaard died in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the age of forty-two in 1855. His writings had little influence in his lifetime and after his death, even with the translation of some of his works into German, he was barely known. Yet today, he is internationally accepted as one of the world's ... Read more

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