Product Description: Author Robert P. Scharlemann is one of the most profound interpreters of the philosophy and theology of Paul Tillich. This volume contains 18 essays on Tillich written by Scharlemann between 1965 and 2002. The unifying theme of these essays might perhaps be described as the systematic question of the ontological connection between the symbol God and the concept of being...read more

Product Description: One of the oldest inquiries of philosophical and theological thought is addressed to the question who or what "God" is. Negative theology provides a way of answering that question by identifying what God is not. In recent years certain critical trends, such as deconstruction, have resembled features of negative theology in that they cancel the apparent meanings of the written word...read more

Product Description: A dialogue on the significance of deconstruction for theology between four academics prominent in contemporary discussions on the subject.

Product Description: Robin Fox's provocative essay, 'Consciousness out of Context,' is presented here, along with the replies of three scholarly respondents, Richard Handler, George Klosko, and Julian N. Hartt. Fox's thesis that the human species is biologically constituted in such a way as to make progress beyond a certain stage of organization unrealizable, and that what we regard as the progress of civilization is instead only a kind of oscillation between the two extremes of an impossible situation, is one that overturns many commonplaces of modern thought...read more

Product Description: Book by Scharlemann, Robert P.

Product Description: This interreligious, philosophical, and theological collection of essays by international scholars considers the hermeneutical concept of language as a medium. The concept, advanced in the studies of Hans-Georg Gadamer, means language considered "between" meanings and things...read more

Product Description: The essays by three gifted theologians on the current American scene will astonish those who are unfamiliar with the sophistications that belong to contemporary theology in its more formidable expressions. This is truly a radical and significant critique.