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Bishop Stephen Neill was one of the most prolific, accomplished, and fascinating Christian leaders of the global church in the twentieth century. Privileged to live in radically different cultural contexts over the course of his life, Neill was also a supremely gifted individual. He excelled by turns as a missionary, a bishop, an ecumenist, a professor, and a prolific author, all the while travelling around the world to share his tremendous knowledge of the world Christian movement with scholars, clergy and laypersons alike. This is the first complete biography of this influential figure, and builds on Daughritys previous work Bishop Stephen Neill: From Edinburgh to South India (Peter Lang Publications, 2008). It stands to become the authoritative word on a man who understood Christianitys changing contours better than most during the dramatic diversification that it underwent during his lifetime.

C.S. Lewis was concerned about an aspect of the problem of evil he called subjectivism: the tendency of ones perspective to move towards self-referentialism and utilitarianism. In C.S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil, Jerry Root provides a holistic reading of Lewis by walking the reader through all of Lewiss published work as he argues Lewiss case against subjectivism. Furthermore, the book reveals that Lewis consistently employed fiction to make his case, as virtually all of his villains are portrayed assubjectivists. Lewiss warnings are prophetic; this book is not merely an exposition of Lewis, it is also a timely investigation into the problem of evil.

Para el individuo que hace filosofía, conocer un hecho es comprenderlo. Se trate de una roca, de un rayo, de la vida de una persona o de un fenómeno social, pregunta qué es y por qué es. Y al hacer estas preguntas no se enfrenta al hecho de un modo meramente intelectual, como si fuese un problema externo que no le afecta y al que tiene que hallarle una explicacion o una solucion, sino que lo integra en su propia vivencia de sujeto e intenta comprenderlo como parte de esa totalidad de la que el tambien forma parte y en la que transcurre su propia vida. Realidad ante la cual solo puede buscar algunas respuestas, alguna manera de orientarse y de tranquilizar su propia inquietud. Intentos de comprension de la realidad que a su vez han contribuido a los intentos de comprension posteriores, incluyendo a los que se producen en nuestro presente, de la misma manera que nuestros intentos de comprension contribuiran a todos lo que se realicen en el futuro. Es por este motivo por el que no puede sorprendernos el hecho de que las discusiones que se produjeron en la Grecia clasica entre los sofistas y los naturalistas como Socrates o Platon se parezcan tanto a las discusiones actuales entre los que afirman la inevitable relatividad de todo lo que se produce o sucede y los partidarios de la posibilidad de encontrar un sentido ultimo o fundamental a la realidad en la que nos encontramos y a nuestra existencia.Vicente Lozano Diaz es profesor de Metafisica y de Historia de la Filosofia en la Universidad Francisco de Vitoria de Madrid, universidad en la que ha desempeñado el cargo de Vicerrector de Ordenacion Academica y Calidad. Miembro de la Asociacion Española de Personalismo y de diversos grupos de investigacion nacionales e internacionales, entre sus ultimas publicaciones destacan La nocion aristotelica de filosofia primera, Hacia una razon ampliada: fundamentos de investigacion, Pensamiento y realidad, el sistema de Hegel y Existir como posibilidad, la ontologia fundamental de Martin Heidegger.

As can beseen from this volume, the Australian Lonergan Workshop aims to encourage a diversity of contributions from across many disciplines and fields, from emerging young voices and those who continually value Lonergans work to inform, to bring to birth insights stirred by what Frederick Crowe, sj, called a profundity we have dimly glimpsed in Lonergans work; we have a sense of an enormous potential to develop. The result is a collection ranging from the eclectic, stirring and practical, to the richly theological, and scholarly. Nonetheless, each contribution adds to the valuable ongoing exploration of ideas necessary for conversation and progress. To this end, the Australian Lonergan Workshop while a modest publication, remains an invaluable vehicle for developing Lonergan scholarship in Oceania.

When the daily business news breaks away from stories of profit and loss, it often shines a spotlight on ethical failures. But Christians aim to be ethical in all the areas of daily life and worknot just when the spotlight is on them. For those facing the many questions and quandaries of doing business with ethical integrity, Alec Hill offers a place to begin.In this third edition of a popular textbook on business ethics, Hill carefully explores the foundational Christian concepts of holiness, justice, and love. These keys to Gods character, he argues, are also the keys to Christian business ethics. Hill then shows how some common responses to business ethics fall short of a fully Christian response. Using penetrating case studies on such pressing topics as employer-employee relations, discrimination and affirmative action, and environmental damage, he clothes principles in concrete business situations. Updated throughout, and with a new chapter on international business, this new edition of Just Business is an excellent introduction to business ethics for students, and a timely refresher for men and women already in the marketplace.

This book contains reflections on the Sunday Bible Readings for Year A in the Roman Catholic Lectionary. They are intended to assist those preparing homilies or talks on the readings, as well as others whose curiosity and questions have been aroused by these readings. Reflections on Year B and Year C in the the liturgical cycle will appear in subsequent volumes. Sunday matters or should matter to Christians. It is the Lords day and so the most important day of the week, a time for us to acknowledge God as the source, centre and goal of our lives. Because Sunday is a matter of importance there are important matters to consider on this day, such as time for prayer, worship and being nourished by the Word of God. Sunday also matters because it is a limited amount of time and these days there are a host of other things competing for our time and attention: sport, shopping, TV, travel, etc. Deciding what to do on Sundays and other major days of the Christian calendar has become something of a challenge for contemporary Christians, some would say even a crisis.

The book is aimed at senior high school and college students as a textbook, a book to be used in a classroom setting in course in science and religion, religion, and philosophy. It deals with topics such as: 1) The importance of science and religion; methods of science; the method of religion; the birth of modern cosmology; the evelopment of cosmology; the Big Bang; the Book of Genesis; the Stars; the Anthropic universe-science at its limits; the resurrection; and the fruits of a useful conversation between science and religion. The book has 10 chapters and has questions and comes with a CD that has many power points for us in the classroom as and adjunct to teaching with the accompanying the text.

Bill Loader has been one of the leading New Testament scholars not just in Australia, but globally, for half a century. What is immediately apparent is that the clarity of communication and the exceptional precision in analyzing the details of ancient texts, which are the hallmarks of his scholarship, were present even in the earliest essays. Without exception every essay in this volume is a contribution of exceptional insight for all who seek to learn from an exemplary scholar.

The two shipboard journals recorded by Lewis Harding, Bede Poldings fellow passenger in 1835 and 1846, and here published for the first time, present endearing glimpses of Australia were via the Cape of Good Hope. In addition, he sailed several times to ports within his Province to Newcastle, Hobart, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Albany and Perth. When in Europe he regularly crisscrossed the Irish Sea and the English Channel. In his old age, in October 1869, he undertook a voyage intending to reach Europe in time for the opening of the Vatican Council at Rome in December. The steamer sailed via Melbourne and Albany into the Indian Ocean, thence into the Red Sea, heading to the Suez Canal, which was due to open in November. However, the Archbishop, sick and exhausted, turned back after reaching Aden, arriving in Sydney on Christmas Eve 1869.

La Crisis es aquél momento en que los relatos impuestos que habían dotado de sentido a la existencia individual y colectiva se resquebrajan. Las interpretaciones que sustentaban la sociedad, muchas veces impuestas de manera violenta, dejan de ser satisfactorias. La Crisis es, ademas, la oportunidad para alumbrar nuevos relatos, interpretaciones, que vengan a sustituir a aquellos que se rompen. Ese es el presente que vivimos, desde donde proyectamos nuestro compromiso con el futuro. Por ello esta obra se propone aportar algunas visiones en torno a la situacion social y politica, en torno a la vida en comun, pero tambien acerca del interpretar, del comprender, del dotar de sentido a la existencia y a lo que esta por venir, con la voluntad de que sea para todos posible crear nuevos mundos, darnos nuevas narraciones y, en definitiva, construir alli donde solo hay escombros.

Lateinamerika verortet sich heute politisch als eigenstandig, wurde philosophisch jedoch von westlichen Denktraditionen gepragt. Der seit rund dreiig Jahren in Mexiko lebende und arbeitende Philosoph Stefan Gandler zeigt in Kritischer Marxismus in Mexiko, wie fruchtbar die Impulse lateinamerikanischer Perspektiven fur die Weiterentwicklung internationaler kritischer Gesellschaftstheorie sein konnen. Die Sozialphilosophen Adolfo Sanchez Vazquez und Bolivar Echeverria, die beide in der zweiten Halfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts Professoren an der Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico waren, nehmen dabei eine Scharnierstellung ein. Sie begrundeten in ihren Hauptwerken eine andere Tradition der Moderne. Gandler legt Zeugnis von Leben und Philosophie Sanchez Vazquez und Echeverrias ab und schafft damit eine unschatzbare Quelle fur alle, die versuchen, kritische Theorie ins Zentrum der internationalen philosophischen Diskussion zu stellen.

Die Einubung des Ungehorsams in Deutschland / Institutionalismus und studentische Opposition / Der schnelle Tod und die langsamen Genossen / Strau oder Die Erreichung des Klassenziels / Kritische Fragen an die SPD / Der grune Glaubenskrieg als Traditionsveranstaltung / Das Odipale an den Achtundsechzigern.

Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man is a new philosophy of history. This volume outlines how sustainable history is propelled by good governance, which balances the tension between the attributes of human nature - emotionality, amorality and egoisms - and human dignity needs, such as reason, security, human rights, accountability, transparency, justice, opportunity, innovation and inclusiveness. The author proposes minimum criteria for good governance that are sensitive to local cultures and histories but meet certain common global values to ensure maximum and sustainable moral and political cooperation. Using an ocean model of a single collective human civilisation, the author argues that we should think in terms of a common human story that is comprised of multiple geo-cultural domains and sub-cultures with a history of mutual borrowing and synergies. The author argues that, today, all geo-cultural domains must succeed if humanity as a whole is to triumph. This collective triumph will also depend on reason and a recognition that a great deal of knowledge is indeterminate and may be temporally, spatially and perhaps culturally constrained, as is outlined in the authors new theory of knowledge: "Neuro-rational Physicalism". Dr. Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan is Senior Scholar in Geostrategy and Director of the Programme on the Geopolitical Implications of Globalisation and Transnational Security at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva, Switzerland. "This book is an exceptionally wide-ranging examination of past and present approaches to the securing of a qualitatively adequate social life on the planet. The need for intercultural dialogue is pressing and stated as a matter of urgency in the text. That argument is well-presented and it is helpfully accompanied by a large amount of empirical evidence. The book is also a strong and ethically attractive humanist statement about the value of human interaction that incorporates a vision of mutual respect based on a mixture of scientific arguments and normative aspirations. Those features are very impressive." Professor Michael Freeden, Professor of Politics, Director of the Centre for Political Ideologies, Professorial Fellow, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man is a new philosophy of history. This volume outlines how sustainable history is propelled by good governance, which balances the tension between the attributes of human nature - emotionality, amorality and egoisms - and human dignity needs, such as reason, security, human rights, accountability, transparency, justice, opportunity, innovation and inclusiveness. The author proposes minimum criteria for good governance that are sensitive to local cultures and histories but meet certain common global values to ensure maximum and sustainable moral and political cooperation. Using an ocean model of a single collective human civilisation, the author argues that we should think in terms of a common human story that is comprised of multiple geo-cultural domains and sub-cultures with a history of mutual borrowing and synergies. The author argues that, today, all geo-cultural domains must succeed if humanity as a whole is to triumph. This collective triumph will also depend on reason and a recognition that a great deal of knowledge is indeterminate and may be temporally, spatially and perhaps culturally constrained, as is outlined in the authors new theory of knowledge: "Neuro-rational Physicalism". Dr. Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan is Senior Scholar in Geostrategy and Director of the Programme on the Geopolitical Implications of Globalisation and Transnational Security at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva, Switzerland. "This book is an exceptionally wide-ranging examination of past and present approaches to the securing of a qualitatively adequate social life on the planet. The need for intercultural dialogue is pressing and stated as a matter of urgency in the text. That argument is well-presented and it is helpfully accompanied by a large amount of empirical evidence. The book is also a strong and ethically attractive humanist statement about the value of human interaction that incorporates a vision of mutual respect based on a mixture of scientific arguments and normative aspirations. Those features are very impressive." Professor Michael Freeden, Professor of Politics, Director of the Centre for Political Ideologies, Professorial Fellow, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

In You Looked At Me, Claudine Moine writes a profound autobiographical account of her own spiritual development. Impacted by her experiences as a refugee from the Thirty Years War, Moine relates a detailed narrative of Gods involvement in her life, comprising times of favour, temptation, transverberation and mystical marriage, and the state of darkness that caused her to cease writing. Illuminated by the translation and collation of Rev. Gerard Carroll, You Looked At Me is a work of extraordinary spiritual and theological richness, offering insights for spiritual seekers and historical researchers alike. It stands in the company of Julian of Norwichs Revelations of Divine Love and The Cloud of Unknowing as a crucial text of historical spirituality.

"Clemencia" de Séneca es un tratado filosófico en el que el autor explora el concepto de la clemencia y su importancia en la gobernanza y la vida humana. Séneca argumenta que la clemencia es una virtud fundamental que debe practicarse tanto por los lideres como por los individuos en general. A traves de ejemplos historicos y reflexiones eticas, Seneca sostiene que la clemencia no solo es beneficiosa para los que la reciben, sino tambien para los que la otorgan, ya que promueve la paz, la justicia y la benevolencia en la sociedad. "Clemencia" es una obra que invita a la reflexion sobre el poder, la compasion y la responsabilidad moral, y sigue siendo relevante en el estudio de la etica y el gobierno hasta el dia de hoy.

"De la ira" de Séneca es un tratado filosófico que examina la naturaleza de la ira y sus efectos destructivos en la mente humana. Séneca argumenta que la ira es una emoción irracional y perjudicial que corrompe el juicio y causa sufrimiento tanto a quien la experimenta como a quienes la rodean. A traves de ejemplos historicos y consejos practicos, Seneca ofrece estrategias para controlar y mitigar la ira, incluida la razon, la moderacion y la comprension de las causas subyacentes. Su obra es una llamada a la reflexion sobre la importancia de la autodisciplina y el autocontrol emocional en la busqueda de una vida virtuosa y serena. "De la ira" sigue siendo relevante en la comprension de las emociones humanas y la busqueda de la paz interior en la sociedad moderna.

Pese al fracaso editorial que había supuesto la primera edición de El mundo como voluntad y representación, Schopenhauer consiguió que en 1844 saliera a la luz una segunda edición, aumentada por un segundo volumen de mayor extension que el primero y en el que incluyo los complementos a los cuatro libros que componian la obra original. Calificadas por el mismo como lo mejor que he escrito, sus paginas son fruto de veinticinco años de trabajo dedicados a reelaborar, ampliar y profundizar en las tesis vertidas en el primer volumen.Lejos de ser un aditamento postizo, los Complementos del Schopenhauer maduro son a la obra de juventud lo que el cuadro pintado al simple boceto, y su lectura resulta indispensable para captar en toda su significacion el contenido de aquella y comprender en profundidad la filosofia de Schopenhauer.En esta edicion se incluyen los indices de materias y nombres de los dos volumenes de la obra, reforzando asi la perfecta unidad de este libro unico.

En la Metafísica de las costumbres (1797), su último libro de filosofía moral, Kant rehace los conceptos y principios de su filosofía jurídica, ética y política, al hilo de una discusión sobre las relaciones entre derecho y etica. El derecho a que Kant se refiere es aquel cuyos principios se expresan en la "Declaracion de los derechos del hombre y del ciudadano" de 1789; Kant concibe la "doctrina del derecho" del presente libro como un analisis de esa Declaracion, a la que convierte en una teoria del derecho perfectamente articulada. Y la "doctrina de la virtud" o etica versa sobre el "fin en si" que el ser libre es, en que ya se asentaba aquella teoria del derecho, pero entendido ese fin como un fin que debes proponerte tu, cosa que el derecho, precisamente por considerarte libre en lo que toca a fines, no podria imponerte. Libertad, pues, como principio del derecho y deber de ser libre como principio de la etica. Kant enmarca su consideracion de los principios del derecho y de la etica en una consideracion del orden de derecho como un orden esencialmente tripartito. Para la existencia moderna, que ha hecho experiencia de la globalidad de su morada en la Tierra, por la que los asuntos de todos se mezclan con los asuntos de todos, un efectivo orden de derecho habra de componerse del derecho de los Estados de derecho, del derecho que ha de regular las relaciones entre los Estados de derecho y del orden de derecho que ha de regular la red cada vez mas densa e inextricable de relaciones cosmopolitas; "si falla una de estas tres partes, necesariamente tienen que fallar las otras dos". Tras la catastrofe del sistema de Estados atenido a la relacion amigo-enemigo, tras el ascenso y hundimiento del socialismo de Estado y tras el fin del orden de la posguerra, este Kant radicalmente ilustrado de la Metafisica de las costumbres se nos vuelve a imponer hoy otra vez en todos sus registros como un referente unico que queda tambien muy por delante de lo que fueron sus principales recepciones por Rawls, Habermas y otros en el ultimo tercio del siglo XX.

Aunque pudiera parecer sorprendente, teniendo en cuenta su actitud inicial durante la Guerra Civil española, la obra de Miguel de Unamuno está constantemente presente en los escritores del exilio republicano. Pero no se trata en este libro de lo que los exiliados dijeron de Unamuno, sino de lo que el les hizo decir a ellos: desde su funcion seminal en la germinacion de una filosofia de lo tragico en Maria Zambrano a su ejemplo como intelectual total para Max Aub o la ansiedad de su influencia sentida por Antonio Sanchez Barbudo; desde el efecto que su poesia causara en Luis Cernuda o Jose Bergamin a su consagracion como filosofo por Juan David Garcia Bacca o Segundo Serrano Poncela, su ejemplo, el de quien se les adelanto mas de una decada en el triste destino del destierro, sera semilla fertil y conflictiva. Incluso desde un punto de vista politico, el exilio liberal, comunista o nacionalista vasco, tomara posicion de cara a su obra.*XVIII Premio de Ensayo Miguel de Unamuno 2017 del Ayuntamiento de Bilbao.