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- Publisher:
- Acumen Publishing
- Online publication date:
- February 2013
- Print publication year:
- 2009
- Online ISBN:
- 9781844654673
- Subjects:
- Philosophy of Religion, Religion
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An international team of over 100 leading scholars has been brought together to provide authoritative exposition of how historys most important philosophical thinkers from antiquity to the present day- have sought to analyse the concepts and tenets central to Western religious belief, especially Christianity. Volume 5 comprises an introduction, presenting an overview of Twentieth-Century philosophy of religion, and a series of essays on Twentieth-Century philosophers, including William James, Max Scheler, John Hick, Richard Swinburne, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Emmanuel Heidigger, John Dewey and Karl Jaspers. Each essay opens with a brief biography, outlines and analyses the philosophers contribution to thinking on religion, and concludes with key further reading. The volume closes with a chronology, presenting a contextual guide to the main religious, political, cultural and artistic events of the period. This volume is an excellent tool for those undertaking research in this area.
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