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SILENCE
A Christian HistoryDIARMAID MacCULLOCH
£10.95This book unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. MacCulloch considers Judaeo-Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine, and the silences which w... Learn More -
PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCES FOR EVERYONE
Edited by MICHELA MASSIMI
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You Save: 57%What is the origin of our universe? What is our role in the universe as human beings capable of knowledge? What makes us intelligent cognitive agents seemingly endowed with consciousness? This volume ... Learn More -
FOOD, SEX AND STRANGERS
Understanding Religion as Everyday LifeGRAHAM HARVEY
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You Save: 53%Religion is integral to many people's relationship with the wider world, an aspect of their dwelling among other beings -- both human and other-than-human -- and something manifested in the everyday w... Learn More -
ERANOS
An Alternative Intellectual History of the Twentieth CenturyHANS THOMAS HAKL
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You Save: 38%Every year since 1933 many of the world's leading intellectuals have met on Lake Maggiore to discuss the latest developments in philosophy, history, art and science and, in particular, to explore the ... Learn More -
EDITH STEIN AND REGINA JONAS
Religious Visionaries in the Time of the Death CampsEMILY LEAH SILVERMAN
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You Save: 45%Both Edith Stein and Regina Jonas were German Jewish women who demonstrated 'deviant' religious desires as they pursued their spiritual paths to serve their communities during the Holocaust. Stein, th... Learn More -
THE AGE OF NOTHING
How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of GodPETER WATSON
£14.95Since Nietzsche roundly declared that 'God is dead' in 1882, a raft of reflective and courageous individuals has devoted their creative energies to devising ways to live without Him, turning instead t... Learn More -
THE DARK BOX
A Secret History of ConfessionJOHN CORNWELL
£8.95Would you tell your deepest secrets to a relative stranger? And if you did, would you feel vulnerable? Confession has performed a complex role in society and created mixed feelings in its practitioner... Learn More -
REFLECTIONS OF A METAPHYSICAL FLÂNEUR
And Other EssaysRAYMOND TALLIS
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You Save: 51%These essays showcase Tallis's fascination with the infinite complexity of human lives and the human condition. In the title essay, Tallis uses the motif of the walk, the amble, to occasion a series o... Learn More -
PROUST AS PHILOSOPHER
The Art of MetaphorMIGUEL DE BEISTEGUI
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You Save: 51%Proust's In Search of Lost Time has long fascinated philosophers for its complex accounts of time, personal identity and narrative. De Beistegui observes that throughout Proust’s masterpiece ... Learn More -
OCTAVIA, DAUGHTER OF GOD
The Story of a Female Messiah and Her FollowersJANE SHAW
£9.95In 1919 a remarkable group of English women founded the Panacea Society, a new religion to tackle the world's grief. At the heart of the community was a charismatic and autocratic leader, Mabel Barltr... Learn More
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