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  • Ecologies of Ecstasy

    Mysticism, Philosophy, and Vegetal Life

    by Simone Kotva ...
    What might religious practice learn from plants? Recent years have seen the emergence of critical plant studies, and philosophers have found a radical mode of thought in vegetal life. Ecologies of Ecstasy recasts religious contemplation as a form of vegetal being, arguing that spiritual practice is rooted in the generation of life on earth.Simone Kotva explores the role of vegetal life in the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Félix Ravaisson

    Fragments on Philosophy and Religion

    Edited by Victor Emma-Adamah, Simone Kotva, Clare Carlisle ...
    Félix Ravaisson: Fragments on Philosophy and Religion comprises translations from Ravaisson's notes on the history and philosophy of religion, dating from 1850 to 1900.Addressing the history of religions, ancient Greek thought, Christian theology, and the philosophy of revelation, these texts are brought to an English audience for the first time here, as the editors place the fragments in the ... Read more

    Was $120.99 CAD Now $42.19 CAD

  • Effort and Grace

    On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy

    by Simone Kotva ...
    Series series Re-inventing Philosophy as a Way of Life
    Philosophy and theology have long harboured contradictory views on spiritual practice. While philosophy advocates the therapeutic benefits of daily meditation, the theology of grace promotes an ideal of happiness bestowed with little effort. As such, the historical juxtaposition of effort and grace grounding modern spiritual exercise can be seen as the essential tension between the secular and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Nature, man, and woman

    by Alan Watts ...
    Western thought and culture have coalesced around a series of constructed ideas—that human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled; that the mind is somehow superior to the body; that all sexuality entails a seduction—that in some way underlie our exploitation of the earth, our distrust of emotion, and our loneliness and reluctance to love. Here, Watts fundamentally challenges ... Read more

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  • Love

    A History

    by Simon May ...
    "What is love? May plunders Western poetry, philosophy and psychology to find answers . . . Thought-provoking stuff" ( The Sunday Telegraph).Love—unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting—is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this path-breaking and superbly written book, philosopher Simon May does ... Read more

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  • Zen and the Birds of Appetite

    by Thomas Merton ...
    Merton, one of the rare Western thinkers able to feel at home in the philosophies of the East, made the wisdom of Asia available to Westerners."Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite--one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Christianity

    by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger ...
    Revised EditionOne of Cardinal Ratzinger's most important and widely read books, this volume is a revised second edition with an improved translation and an in-depth 20 page preface by the Cardinal. As he states in the preface, since this book was first published over 30 years ago, many changes and significant events have occurred in the world, and in the Church. But even so, he says he is firmly ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Mysticism

    by Simon Critchley ...
    A probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our time.Why mysticism? It has been called “experience in its most intense form,” and in his new book the philosopher Simon Critchley poses a simple question to the reader: Wouldn’t you like to taste this intensity? Wouldn’t ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Wound of Knowledge: Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to St. John of the Cross

    by Rowan Williams ...
    In this classic treatise on Christian spirituality, Rowan Williams takes us with a new eye along a road marked out by Paul, John, Ignatius, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Athanasius, Basil, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, and finally to Luther and St. John of the Cross. The Wound of Knowledge is a penetrating psychological and intellectual analysis of Christian spirituality from one of the ... Read more

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  • Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 2)

    Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self

    by C. G. Jung, Gerhard Adler, R. F. C. Hull ...
    Series Book 2 - Bollingen Series
    An investigation of the symbolism of the selfAion, originally published in German in 1951, is one of the major works of Jung’s later years. The central theme of the volume is the symbolic representation of the psychic totality through the concept of the Self, whose traditional historical equivalent is the figure of Christ. Jung demonstrates his thesis by an investigation of the Allegoria Christi, ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The World Is Made of Stories

    by David R. Loy ...
    In this dynamic and utterly novel presentation, David Loy explores the fascinating proposition that the stories we tell—about what is and is not possible, about ourselves, about right and wrong, life and death, about the world and everything in it—become the very building blocks of our experience and of reality itself. Loy uses an intriguing mixture of quotations from familiar and less-familiar ... Read more

    $23.00 CAD

  • The Gnostic Religion

    The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity

    by Hans Jonas ...
    The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD