Panentheism has gained popularity among contemporary thinkers. This belief system explains that "all is in God"; as a soul is related to a body, so God is related to the world. In Panentheism--The Other God of the Philosophers, philosopher and theologian John Cooper traces the growth and evolution of this intricate theology from Plotinus to Alfred North Whitehead to the present. This landmar…
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the great philosophers of our era whose concept of creative evolution continues to dominate a large area of modern thought. In Bergson’s view, the world includes two opposing tendencies-life and matter. Life is dynamics, has force and will, and struggles for richness and complexity through and beyond matter. Matter is the congealed residue of creation that…
The timeliness of this book, first published in 1901, is shown by the fact that a great number of academic texts quote from it. "The Certainty of Faith" is one of the small but powerful classics written by one of the greatest theologians Holland has ever produced. Bavinck examines the difference between the certainty of science and that of religion historically, biblically, and theologically.
In addition to exegetical, biblical, and systematic theology, "there is room also for a Philosophy of Revelation which will trace the idea of revelation, both in its form and in its content, and correlate it with the rest of our knowledge and life," writes the author, one of the most distinguished Reformed theologians of the twentieth century. "Theological thought has always felt the need of su…
In this volume, Bahnsen has gathered the primary passages on apologetics from the vast body of works by Cornelius Van Til, arranged them topically, and added incisive commentary and analysis. The result is a carefully organized digest of all that Van Til taught about apologetics with running exposition by Bahnsen.
Confessions is one of the most moving diaries ever recorded of a man's journey to the fountain of God's grace. Writing as a sinner, not a saint, Augustine shares his innermost thoughts and conversion experiences and wrestles with the spiritual questions that have stirred the hearts of the thoughtful since time began. Starting with his childhood in Numidia, through his youth and early adulthood …
The Analects of Confucius is the gem in the crown of Chinese Classics. This book contains more than 100 choice quotations specially selected by professor Chen Wangheng of the Philosophy Department of Wuhan University. He has also classified the quotations under eight broard themes, and compiled an index of these quotations under 10 keywords depicting Confucian core values. These best select…
A HANDBOOK ON GOOD MANNERS FOR CHILDREN is considered to be the first treatise in Western Europe on the moral and practical education of children. It was written by Erasmus of Rotterdam who determined that manners are best instilled at an early age. It was a massive bestseller - indeed the biggest-selling book of the 16th century - going into nineteen editions and being translated into eight la…
A complete summary of the views of the most important philosophers since the beginning of Western civilization. Each major field of philosophic inquiry is treated in a separate chapter, so that each chapter can be read as a complete unit, without reference to the others. Includes Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Dewey, Sartre, and many others.
JATIDIRI MANUSIA Berdasar Filsafat Organisme Whitehead Tugas utana manusia", kata Sokrates, "adalah menggembalakan jiwanya". Untuk itu manusia harus mengenal dirinya yang sejati atau JATIDIRI-nya. "Siapakah aku?" merupakan pertanyaan yang sangat kompleks dengan unsur- unsur dan taraf-tarafnya yang berbeda-beda. "Aku" di hadapan orangtua tidak sama dengan aku di hadapan tanaman kesayanganku, …