A nuanced exploration of the part religion plays in human life, past and present, from one of the foremost commentators on religion at work today.Moving from the Paleolithic Age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great length...

Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born after World War II ...

Essential reading for students and anyone interested in the great philosophers, this book opened up appreciation of Martin Heidegger beyond the confines of philosophy to the reaches of poetry. In Heidegger's thinking, poetry is not a ...

Thomas Paine, a seminal figure in American History, was an Englishman by birth who immigrated to America in 1774, where he quickly took up the cause of the independence of the American colonies from England. His famous work "Comm...

Writing with bracing intelligence and clarity, internationally renowned evolutionist and bestselling author Stephen Jay Gould sheds new light on a dilemma that has plagued thinking people since the Renaissance: the rift between scienc...

"What matters is not so much that Žižek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what he sometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian belief."--...

The latest in the series based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, this volume presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. It takes an approach unprecedented among introductions...

Atheists are frequently demonized as arrogant intellectuals, antagonistic to religion, devoid of moral sentiments, advocates of an "anything goes" lifestyle. Now, in this revealing volume, nineteen leading philosophers open a window o...

United Aspects of Satan: The Black Book, is an updated, professional version of the free PDF on the United Aspects of Satan website. This continues the philosophy of The Satanic Narratives. While the material is all available on the w...

Born in the late 5th century AD, Boethius was a Roman statesman and philosopher who would come into the service of the Ostrogothic ruler of Italy, Theodoric the Great. Ultimately he would rise to the position of magister officiorum, t...

Martin Buber\'s I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born since World War II...

"Fr. Michael Chaberek makes an excellent textual, philosophical, and theological case that the Teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas on human origins is incompatible with macroscopic evolutionary theory, even so-called 'theistic evoluti...

Augustine was arguably the greatest early Christian philosopher. His teachings had a profound effect on Medieval scholarship, Renaissance humanism, and the religious controversies of both the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. H...

pstrong“A brilliant exponent of a rare genre, the philosophical essay.”—emThe New York Times Book Review/em/strong/pThis collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind...

"A person begins to live when he learns to live outside of himself. The only man or woman with any chance of happiness is the man or woman who finds a way to serve." ― ALBERT EINSTEIN ―How would your life be better i...

CONTENTS Chapter 1 -THE GOD IN YOU Chapter 2 -THE GOAL OF LIFE Chapter 3 -YOUR MENTAL BROWNIES Chapter 4 -THE SEED LIFE Chapter 5 -AFTER ITS KIND Chapter 6 -HOW TO DEVELOP FAITH POWER FOR SUCCESSFUL LIVING Chapt...

Currently, the fanatics rule Islam. Their Islam is not a religion of peace. Just as reading Hitler's Mein Kampf would have provided a forewarning on what he intended, so the reading of Islamic ideologues unmasks the intentions of the ...

With our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources published throughout American history. Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and b...

In this book, Catholic philosopher Raymond Dennehy demonstrates to the reader that besides being a powerful source of God's grace and, as Father Garrigou-Lagrange observed, "a school of contemplation," the Rosary is also a r...

In A Common Faith, eminent American philosopher John Dewey calls for the "emancipation of the true religious quality" from the heritage of dogmatism and supernaturalism that he believes characterizes historical religions. ...

This book contains some of the original writings of Clarence Darrow, the famed attorney in the Scopes trial, concerning his agnostic philosophy and his critiques of organized religion. Also included are two essays by Professor Andrea ...

Barack Obama has called him “one of my favorite philosophers.” John McCain wrote that he is “a paragon of clarity about the costs of a good war.” Andrew Sullivan has said, “We need Niebuhr now more than ever.” For a theolo...

How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties, and sig...

The most important work of the famed German philosopher, this 1841 polemic asserts that religion and divinity are outward projections of inner human nature. Feuerbach's critique of Hegelian idealism excited immediate international att...

Discovering Justice takes a look at the Judeo-Christian conception of justice in light of the traditions of early church thinkers. From foundational philosophical thought to the practical day-to-day, this work investigates the princip...

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. Through the voice of the prophet AlMustafa, Kahlil Gibran touches on the many intricacies of life an...

Anthony Gottlieb's landmark The Dream of Reason and its sequel challenge Bertrand Russell's classic as the definitive history of Western philosophy.Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just tw...

The book "" The Gorgon's Head; (From: ""A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys"") "" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have ma...

The Miraculous Pitcher; (From: "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys") by Nathaniel Hawthorne has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken...

More than ever, people the world over are making a conscious attempt to find meaning in their lives. The excessive materialism of the late 20th century has proven an inadequate substitute for God. As we have acquired more things, we h...