Product Description: English summary: The dialectic is one of the most recurrent ideas of the philosophical tradition. Plato conquered its methods and promoted it to the status of supreme knowledge, but Aristotle brought it back to what it was before the Republic, an art of dialogue, the discovery of truth in the dark, and a method of reasoning with simple and probable premises, which paves the way for the seizure of the truth, defends the principles of knowledge against possible objections, but can not claim the status of apodictic science...read more

Product Description: English summary: Volume IX of the Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook explores the development of Jewish and general encyclopedias through a cultural-historical prism. Another thematic focus deals with the history of identification papers as an element in the construction of belonging...read more

Product Description: Description: This book constitutes the second volume of a three-volume study of Christian testimonies to divine suffering: God's Wounds: Hermeneutic of the Christian Symbol of Divine Suffering, vol. 2, Evil and Divine Suffering. The larger study focuses its inquiry into the testimonies to divine suffering themselves, seeking to allow the voices that attest to divine suffering to speak freely, then to discover and elucidate the internal logic or rationality of this family of testimonies, rather than defending these attestations against the dominant claims of classical Christian theism that have historically sought to eliminate such language altogether from Christian discourse about the nature and life of God...read more

Product Description: This book constitutes the first volume of a three-volume study of Christian testimonies to divine suffering: God's Wounds: Hermeneutic of the Christian Symbol of Divine Suffering, Divine Vulnerability and Creation. This study first develops an approach to interpreting the contested claims about the suffering of God...read more

Product Description: Langdon Gilkey's writings have long been profitably studied by students of theology who have discovered there illuminating insights, pioneering thoughts, and even a healthy agony with which every serious thinker can identify. Now we have a systematic and critical exposition and appraisal of the theology of Langdon Gilkey...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Against Returning to Egypt is study of a doctrinal statement recently adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention: "The Report of the Presidential Theological Study Committee." Using criteria developed from the SBC's historic distinction between confessions of faith and creeds, Professor Jeff Pool takes the measure of this doctrinal statement and finds it wanting...read more

Product Description: The Sacred Mandates of Conscience contains insights from among the best in Baptist scholarship interpreting several of the most central affirmations in the Baptist Faith & Message. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)