Philosophy of Religion

Philosophers startle ordinary people. Christians astonish the philosophers. - Pascal, Pens?®es In Wagering on an Ironic God Thomas S. Hibbs both s...

This book offers a close reading of Romans that treats Paul as a radical political thinker by showing the relationship between Paul's perspective a...

The modern notion of tolerance-the welcoming of diversity as a force for the common good-emerged in the Enlightenment in the wake of centuries of r...

People have long been duped by straight-talking politicians, confessional talk-show hosts, and fake-earnest advertisers. As sincerity has become su...

How our beliefs about the soul have developed through the ages, and why an understanding of it still matters todayThe concept of the soul has been ...

Fear and Trembling continues to fascinate and frustrate all who find, for many reasons, that they must struggle with it. Not only 'professional int...

John Rawls's influential theory of justice and public reason has often been thought to exclude religion from politics, out of fear of its illiberal...

In late 1845 Søren Kierkegaard began a literary duel with the satiric Danish review The Corsair that had momentous effects on his life and work. Th...

How is religion changing in the twenty-first century? In the global era, religion has leapt onto the world stage, often in contradictory ways. Some...

How our beliefs about the soul have developed through the ages, and why an understanding of it still matters todayThe concept of the soul has been ...

In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He ...