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  • God and Truth

    An Essay on Reason and Religious Ideas

    by Lenn E. Goodman ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
    Is God a necessary being? Infinite yet simple? Creator of a world that seems equally able to explain itself? In this volume, prize-winning philosopher Lenn Goodman probes key religious questions against the backdrop of sacred texts and philosophical classics. In dialogue with a range of philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to Philo, Maimonides, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant, he examines the ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Coming to Mind

    The Soul and Its Body

    by Lenn E. Goodman, D. Gregory Caramencio ...
    How should we speak of bodies and souls? In Coming to Mind, Lenn E. Goodman and D. Gregory Caramenico pick their way through the minefields of materialist reductionism to present the soul not as the brain's rival but as its partner. What acts, they argue, is what is real. The soul is not an ethereal wisp but a lively subject, emergent from the body but inadequately described in its terms.Rooted in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Islamic Humanism

    by Lenn E. Goodman ...
    This book is an attempt to explain how, in the face of increasing religious authoritarianism in medieval Islamic civilization, some Muslim thinkers continued to pursue essentially humanistic, rational, and scientific discourses in the quest for knowledge, meaning, and values. Drawing on a wide range of Islamic writings, from love poetry to history to philosophical theology, Goodman shows that ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • The Holy One of Israel

    by Lenn E. Goodman ...
    Holy, holy, holy! The Lord of hosts! The fill of all the earth is His glory. In these few ecstatic words, the prophet Isaiah captured the core of Jewish thinking about humanity, nature, and God. If the idea of holiness generally points toward God's transcendence, Isaiah brings it back down to earth, recognizing God's presence throughout the world. The Holy One of Israel is a philosophical ... Read more

    $115.19 USD

  • Two Faiths, One Covenant?

    Jewish and Christian Identity in the Presence of the Other

    by Dianne Bergant, Mary C. Boys, Yehuda Gellman, Edward Kessler, Steven J. McMichael, David Novak, Michael A. Signer, John T. Pawlikowski, Lenn E. Goodman0 ...
    Series series The Bernardin Center Series
    Judaism and Christianity are religions bound together by their claims to the same biblical covenant initiated by God with Abraham and his descendants. Yet, despite the inseparable connection between the election of Israel and that of the church, between the 'old' and the 'new' covenant, this shared spiritual patrimony has been the source of a type of violent sibling rivalry competing for the same ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Islamic Humanism

    by Lenn E. Goodman ...
    This book is an attempt to explain how, in the face of increasing religious authoritarianism in medieval Islamic civilization, some Muslim thinkers continued to pursue essentially humanistic, rational, and scientific discourses in the quest for knowledge, meaning, and values. Drawing on a wide range of Islamic writings, from love poetry to history to philosophical theology, Goodman shows that ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Judaism

    A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation

    by Lenn E. Goodman ...
    Series series Investigating Philosophy of Religion
    Judaism, as a religion and a way of life, has guided millions of lives and profoundly influenced its younger sisters, Christianity and Islam, as well as contributing major themes and norms to the liberal and humanistic traditions of the West. Not all Jews are religious, and not all of Judaism is philosophical; but at its core Judaism rests on a complex of values and ideas that address the abiding ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Creation and Evolution

    by Lenn E. Goodman ...
    Can religion survive Darwinism? Do scientists entering the lab or heading for the field have to bracket, or reject outright, all religious commitments and convictions? Trenchantly laying out the evidence for natural selection and carefully following and underscoring the themes and theses of Genesis, L. E. Goodman traces the historical and conceptual backgrounds of today’s evolution controversies, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere

    by Lenn E. Goodman ...
    How can we, as people and communities with different religions and cultures, live together with integrity? Does tolerance require us to deny our deep differences or give up all claims to truth, to trade our received traditions for skepticism or relativism? Cultural philosopher Lenn E. Goodman argues that we can respect one another and learn from one another's ways without either sharing them or ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity

    by Michael Fagenblat, Agata Bielik-Robson, Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Lenn E. Goodman, James Jacobson-Maisels, Martin Kavka, Samuel Lebens, Adam Lipszyc, David Novak, Sarah Pessin0, Kenneth Seeskin1, David Shatz2, Sandra Valabregue-Perry3, Tzahi Weiss4, Elliot R. Wolfson5, Shiva Wolosky6 ...
    Series series New Jewish Philosophy and Thought
    Negative theology is the attempt to describe God by speaking in terms of what God is not. Historical affinities between Jewish modernity and negative theology indicate new directions for thematizing the modern Jewish experience. Questions such as, What are the limits of Jewish modernity in terms of negativity? Has this creative tradition exhausted itself? and How might Jewish thought go forward? ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State

    by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Regina M. Schwartz, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Nicholas Wolterstorff ...
    Series series Graven Images
    Rising calls in both the United States and abroad for theologizing national agendas have renewed examinations about whether liberal states can accommodate such programs without either endangering citizens' rights or trivializing religious concerns. Conventional wisdom suggests that theology is necessarily unfriendly to the liberal state, but neither philosophical analysis nor empirical argument ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • The Guide to the Perplexed

    A New Translation

    Translated by Lenn E. Goodman, Phillip I. Lieberman ...
    by Moses Maimonides ...
    A landmark new translation of the most significant text in medieval Jewish thought.Written in Arabic and completed around 1190, the Guide to the Perplexed is among the most powerful and influential living texts in Jewish philosophy, a masterwork navigating the straits between religion and science, logic and revelation. The author, Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, commonly known as Maimonides or as Rambam, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD