Ecologies of Grace: Environmental Ethics and Christian by Willis Jenkins

The Non-Existence of God: An Introduction

Is it attainable to turn out or disprove God's life? Arguments for the lifestyles of God have taken many various types over the centuries: within the Non-Existence of God, Nicholas Everitt considers the entire arguments and examines the function that cause and information play within the debate over God's life.

The Royal Remains: The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty

"The king is useless. lengthy dwell the king! " In early sleek Europe, the king's physique was once actually sovereign—and the precise to rule used to be instantly transferrable to the following monarch in line upon the king's dying. within the Royal is still, Eric L. Santner argues that the "carnal" size of the constructions and dynamics of sovereignty hasn't disappeared from politics.

God from the Machine: Artificial Intelligence Models of Religious Cognition (Cognitive Science of Religion)

'God from the computer' (deus ex machina) refers to an old dramatic machine the place a god used to be routinely introduced onto the degree to save lots of the hero from a tough state of affairs. yet the following, William Sims Bainbridge makes use of the time period in a strikingly various manner. rather than trying to a desktop to carry an already identified god, he asks what a computing desktop and its simulations may possibly educate us approximately how faith and non secular ideals come to being.

Die Konzeption des Messias bei Maimonides und die frühmittelalterliche islamische Philosophie (Studia Judaica) (German Edition)

Moses Maimonides (1138–1204) supported an idea of the Messiah which was once notably new in the Jewish culture. the writer of the current quantity examines no matter if and to what quantity this idea should be traced again to Early Medieval Islamic philosophy. She devotes specific cognizance to the religio-philosophical, philological, historic and political elements of such an come across.