Philosophy of Religion Books

New and Published Books

1. The Possibility of Christian Philosophy

   Maurice Blondel at the Intersection of Theology and Philosophy

   By Adam C. English

   Series: Routledge Radical Orthodoxy

   This is the first to book to explore Blondel's entire body of work and provides an introduction to his life and writings and their relevance to the debates surrounding the radical orthodoxy identity. Detailing Blondel's impressive research output during the first half of the twentieth...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. On Humanism

   2nd Edition

   By Richard Norman

   Series: Thinking in Action

   What is humanism and why does it matter? Is there any doctrine every humanist must hold? If it rejects religion, what does it offer in its place? Have the twentieth century’s crimes against humanity spelled the end for humanism? On Humanism is a timely and powerfully argued philosophical defence...

   Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics

   Virtues and Gifts

   By Andrew Pinsent

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   Thomas Aquinas devoted a substantial proportion of his greatest works to the virtues. Yet, despite the availability of these texts (and centuries of commentary), Aquinas’s virtue ethics remains mysterious, leaving readers with many unanswered questions. In this book, Pinsent argues that the key...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
4. Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy

   A Critical Inquiry

   By Paul DeHart

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy investigates the encounter of the most vibrant and controversial trend in recent theology with the greatest Christian thinker of the Middle Ages. The book describes Radical Orthodoxy’s orientation and highlights those anti-secular strategies and intellectual influences...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. Rethinking Religion in India

   The Colonial Construction of Hinduism

   Edited by Esther Bloch, Marianne Keppens, Rajaram Hegde

   Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

   This book critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Increasingly scholars have come to realise that the dominant understanding of Indian culture and its traditions is unsatisfactory. According to the classical paradigm, Hindu traditions are conceptualized as...

   Published September 15th 2011 by Routledge
6. Inspired Knowledge in Islamic Thought

   Al-Ghazali's Theory of Mystical Cognition and Its Avicennian Foundation

   By Alexander Treiger

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   It has been customary to see the Muslim theologian Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111) as a vehement critic of philosophy, who rejected it in favour of Islamic mysticism (Sufism), a view which has come under increased scrutiny in recent years. This book argues that al-Ghazali was, instead, one of the...

   Published August 21st 2011 by Routledge
7. Religion and Science: The Basics

   By Philip Clayton

   Series: The Basics

   Religion and science are arguably the two most powerful social forces in the world today. But where religion and science were once held to be compatible, most people now perceive them to be in conflict. This unique book provides the best available introduction to the burning debates in this...

   Published August 17th 2011 by Routledge
8. Fifty Key Thinkers on Religion

   By Gary Kessler

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Fifty Key Thinkers on Religion is an accessible guide to the most important and widely studied theorists on religion of the last 300 years. Arranged chronologically, the book explores the lives, works and ideas of key writers across a truly interdisciplinary range, from sociologists to...

   Published July 19th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Yogi and the Devotee (Routledge Revivals)

   The Interplay Between the Upanishads and Catholic Theology

   By Ninian Smart

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1968, Ninian Smart’s The Yogi and the Devotee: The Interplay Between the Upanishads and Catholic Theology is based on lectures given in Delhi and explores in a novel way the relation between Hinduism and Christianity. The author puts forward a general theory of the relationship...

   Published June 28th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Existence of God

    A Philosophical Introduction

    By Yujin Nagasawa

    Does God exist? What are the various arguments that seek to prove the existence of God? Can atheists refute these arguments? The Existence of God: A Philosophical Introduction assesses classical and contemporary arguments concerning the existence of God: the ontological argument, introducing the...

    Published April 20th 2011 by Routledge