Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael hanby”
Skip side bar filters

  • Cosmology Without God?

    The Problematic Theology Inherent in Modern Cosmology

    by David Alcalde ...
    Series Book 35 - Veritas
    Is God a superfluous hypothesis for modern cosmology? According to the normal understanding of modern science, the answer should be affirmative because modern science is supposed to be free of metaphysical and theological presuppositions. However, despite its self-proclaimed neutrality regarding metaphysics and theology, modern science is full of metaphysical and theological presuppositions. These ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Augustine and Modernity

    by Michael Hanby ...
    Series series Routledge Radical Orthodoxy
    Augustine and Modernity is a fresh and challenging addition to current debates about the Augustinian origins of modern subjectivity and the Christian genesis of Western nihilism. It firmly rejects the dominant modern view that the modern Cartesian subject, as an archetype of Western nihilism, originates in Augustine's thought. Arguing that most contemporary interpretations misrepresent the complex ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • No God, No Science

    Theology, Cosmology, Biology

    by Michael Hanby ...
    Series series Illuminations: Theory & Religion
    No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology presents a work of philosophical theology that retrieves the Christian doctrine of creation from the distortions imposed upon it by positivist science and the Darwinian tradition of evolutionary biology.Argues that the doctrine of creation is integral to the intelligibility of the worldBrings the metaphysics of the Christian doctrine of creation to ... Read more

    $40.00 USD

  • Augustine and Politics

    by Todd Breyfogle, Phillip Cary, Robert Dodaro O.S.A, Louis I. Hamilton, Michael Hanby, Robert P. Kennedy, Thomas F. Martin O.S.A, Eugene McCarraher, David C. Schindler, Thomas W. Smith, Paul Wright ...
    Series series Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation
    The study of Augustine's political teachings has suffered from a history of misreadings, both ancient and modern. It is only in recent years that the traditional lines of "Augustinian pessimism" have been opened to question. Scholars have begun to explore the broader lines of Augustine's political thought in his letters and sermons, and thus have been able to place his classic text, The City of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Territories of Science and Religion

    by Peter Harrison ...
    An "extremely rewarding" exploration of how these two great human endeavors can not only coexist but enrich each other ( Times Literary Supplement).The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that's not the case, says Peter Harrison: Our very concepts of science and ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

    by Max Weber ...
    In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties. Based on the original 1905 edition, this volume includes, along with Weber's treatise, an illuminating introduction, a wealth of explanatory notes, and exemplary ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

    With linked Table of Contents

    by Max Weber ...
    Weber wrote that capitalism in northern Europe evolved when the Protestant (particularly Calvinist) ethic influenced large numbers of people to engage in work in the secular world, developing their own enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth for investment. The Protestant ethic was a force behind an unplanned and uncoordinated mass action that influenced the development of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ratzinger's Faith

    The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI

    by Tracey Rowland ...
    A general introduction to the theology of Pope Benedict XVI, including his approach to issues in moral and political theology, ecclesiology, liturgy, interpretations of the of the documents of the Second Vatican Council, and the theology of history. Tracey Rowland also addresses the question of Pope Benedict's place in the constellation of contemporary Catholic theologians. It has become a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality

    Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

    by John Boswell ...
    "What makes this work so exciting is not simply its content . . . but its revolutionary challenge to . . . Western culture's most familiar moral assumptions." — NewsweekJohn Boswell's National Book Award–winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay ... Read more

    $22.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kingdom and the Glory

    For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Lorenzo Chiesa, Matteo Mandarini ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Why has power in the West assumed the form of an "economy," that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that is, the ceremonial and liturgical apparatus that has always accompanied it?In the early centuries of the Church, in order to reconcile monotheism with God's threefold nature, the doctrine of Trinity was introduced in the guise of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • True and False Reform in the Church

    Translated by Paul Philibert OP ...
    by Yves Congar OP ...
    Archbishop Angelo Roncali (later Pope John XXIII) read True and False Reform during his years as papal nuncio in France and asked, A reform of the church 'is such a thing really possible?" A decade later as pope, he opened the Second Vatican Council by describing its goals in terms that reflected Congar's description of authentic reform: reform that penetrates to the heart of doctrine as a message ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Omnibus Homo Sacer

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer is one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. A twenty-year undertaking, this project is a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope investigating the deepest foundations of every major Western institution and discourse.This single book brings together for the first time all nine volumes that make up this ... Read more

    $75.59 USD