CENTRE of THEOLOGY and PHILOSOPHY

Now Available: Immediacy and Meaning: J. K. Huysmans and the Immemorial Origin of Metaphysics

By Adam Morton ⋅ February 12, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available: Immediacy and Meaning: J. K. Huysmans and the Immemorial Origin of Metaphysics, by Caitlin Smith Gilson (Bloomsbury Academic; 9 Feb. 2017; 323pp+); [Purchase: Bloomsbury | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] Immediacy and Meaning seeks to approach the odd uneasiness at root in all metaphysical meaning; that the human knower attempts to mediate what cannot be […]

New from Angelico Press: Person, Soul, and Identity: Philosophy and the Real Self, by Robert Bolton

By Adam Morton ⋅ January 12, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

Person, Soul, and Identity: Philosophy and the Real Self, by Robert Bolton The reality of the self is—perhaps paradoxically—of more than purely personal interest. It is as important for religion as is the existence of God. Without it, any religious message can only go from nothing to nothing. Worse yet, scepticism about self and soul […]

Notable: Australian Religious Thought, by Wayne Hudson

By Adam Morton ⋅ May 23, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available: Australian Religious Thought, by Wayne Hudson (Monash University Publishing; April 20, 2016; 272pp+). [Purchase: Publisher | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com] Book description: This book is the first major historical study of Australian religious thought, arguing that religious thought can be found in many of Australia’s intellectuals, both in the religiously inclined and in those […]

New: The Heart has its Reasons: Towards a Theological Anthropology of the Heart, by Beáta Tóth

By Adam Morton ⋅ January 31, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Newly available from Cascade: The Heart has its Reasons: Towards a Theological Anthropology of the Heart, by Beáta Tóth (Wipf & Stock/Cascade; January 2016; 268pp). [Purchase: Wipf & Stock | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] Book description: This book explores a hitherto neglected area of theological anthropology: the unity of human emotionality and rationality embodied in the biblical concept of the heart. […]

New from Dominic Johnson: God is Watching You: How the Fear of God Makes Us Human

By Adam Morton ⋅ January 29, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Out this month from Dominic Johnson: God is Watching You: How the Fear of God Makes Us Human (Oxford University Press; January 2016; 304pp). [Purchase: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] Book description: “And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under […]

Improved Cardiovascular Health

By Adam Morton ⋅ November 1, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

The benefits of quitting smoking can usually be felt within days. Health continues to improve as key structures of the lungs and heart start to repair themselves.1 Although the results can vary from person to person, many of these changes will occur on a fairly standard timeline. After you quit smoking, you can expect to experience a number of […]

Incarnation – Quiting smoking

By Adam Morton ⋅ October 12, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

The benefits of quitting smoking can usually be felt within days. Health continues to improve as key structures of the lungs and heart start to repair themselves.1 Although the results can vary from person to person, many of these changes will occur on a fairly standard timeline. After you quit smoking, you can expect to experience a number […]

Yoga for Weight Loss: Easy Asanas for Losing Weight

By Adam Morton ⋅ October 9, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

Yoga is one of the oldest practices in the world. Its origins date back to 1000 years. Regularly Practicing yoga has both mental and physical benefits. Additionally, it makes for a great workout! Do you want to shed those pesky kilos? Then you’re at the right place! Let’s talk about the best yoga asanas for […]

Now available: Interstitial Soundings: Philosophical Reflections on Improvisation, Practice, and Self-Making, by Cynthia Nielsen

By Adam Morton ⋅ October 6, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

Now out from Cascade Books is Cynthia R. Nielsen’s Interstitial Soundings: Philosophical Reflections on Improvisation, Practice, and Self-Making. [Purchase: Wipf & Stock] In Interstitial Soundings, Cynthia R. Nielsen brings music and philosophy into a fruitful and mutually illuminating dialogue. Topics discussed include the following: music’s dynamic ontology, performers and improvisers as co-composers, the communal character of […]

Now available: The Great Grace: Receiving Vatican II Today

By Adam Morton ⋅ August 24, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available: The Great Grace: Receiving Vatican II Today, edited by Nigel Zimmermann (Bloomsbury Publishing; 160pp+). [Purchase: Bloomsbury | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] Publication description: Nigel Zimmermann presents critical reflections from leading Catholic prelates and scholars on the significance of the Second Vatican Council fifty years after it began. These include two senior Cardinals, one of whom is […]

Now available to order: Music and Transcendence

By Adam Morton ⋅ July 13, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

Music and Transcendence Edited by Férdia J. Stone-Davis August 2015 272 pages This collection of essays explores the ways in which music relates to transcendence by bringing together the disciplines of musicology, philosophy and theology. Music has the capacity to take one outside of oneself and place one in relation to that which is ‘other’. This ‘other’ can be […]

Now available: God, the Flesh, and the Other: From Irenaeus to Duns Scotus, by Emmanuel Falque

By Adam Morton ⋅ March 25, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available: God, the Flesh, and the Other: From Irenaeus to Duns Scotus, by Emmanuel Falque, translated by William Christian Hackett (Northwestern University Press; published December 30, 2014; 376pp+). [Purchase: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] Description: In God, the Flesh, and the Other, the philosopher Emmanuel Falque joins the ongoing debate about the role of theology in […]

Edited collection newly available: Apology of Culture: Religion and Culture in Russian Thought

By Adam Morton ⋅ March 12, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

Newly available this month: Apology of Culture: Religion and Culture in Russian Thought, edited by Artur Mrowczynski-Van Allen, Teresa Obolevitch, and Pawel Rojek (Pickwick Publications / Wipf & Stock; March 2, 2015; 252pp+). [Purchase: Wipf & Stock | Amazon.com] Description: Contemporary philosophy and theology are ever more conscious of the fact that the model of […]

Now available: Blue Labour: Forging a New Politics, edited by Ian Geary & Adrian Pabst

By Adam Morton ⋅ March 10, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available: Blue Labour: Forging a New Politics, edited by Ian Geary and Adrian Pabst (I.B.Tauris; published 28 Feb. 2015; 288pp+). [Purchase: Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com] Description: In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, and the worst recession for over seventy years, Britain has witnessed one of the most turbulent eras in politics since the Second […]

New from Thomas John Hastings: Seeing All Things Whole: The Scientific Mysticism and Art of Kagawa Toyohiko (1888-1960)

By Adam Morton ⋅ March 3, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

New from Thomas John Hastings: Seeing All Things Whole: The Scientific Mysticism and Art of Kagawa Toyohiko (1888-1960), with a foreword by J. Wentzel van Huyssteen (Wipf & Stock; 272pp+). [Purchase: Wipf & Stock | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] Publication description: KAGAWA TOYOHIKO was one of the best-known evangelists and social reformers of the twentieth century. Founder of several […]

New from Ric Machuga: Three Theological Mistakes: How to Correct Enlightenment Assumptions about God, Miracles, and Free Will

By Adam Morton ⋅ March 3, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

New Title from Ric Machuga: Three Theological Mistakes: How to Correct Enlightenment Assumptions about God, Miracles, and Free Will (Cascade Books / Wipf & Stock; published January 5, 2015; 294pp+). [Purchase: Wipf & Stock | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] Publication description: Though the Enlightenment was responsible for much that is fine, just, and good, it also promoted three bad […]

Now available: The Submerged Reality: Sophiology and the Turn to a Poetic Metaphysics, by Michael Martin

By Adam Morton ⋅ February 13, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available from Angelico Press: The Submerged Reality: Sophiology and the Turn to a Poetic Metaphysics, by Michael Martin, with a foreword by Adrian Pabst (Angelico Press; Published 10 February 2015; 246pp+). In The Submerged Reality, Michael Martin challenges us to reimagine theology, philosophy, and poetics through the lens of sophiology. Sophiology, as this book shows, […]

Nihilism and Metaphysics: The Third Voyage, by Vittorio Possenti

By Adam Morton ⋅ January 27, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

Nihilism and Metaphysics: The Third Voyage, by Vittorio Possenti, translated by Daniel B. Gallagher, with a foreword by Brian Schroeder (SUNY; Published: January 2, 2015; 424+ pp). [Purchase: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] Book description: Challenging the idea that nihilism has supplanted metaphysics, Vittorio Possenti finds in this philosophical turn the grounds for a mature renewal of […]

New 2nd Edition of Gregory Shaw’s Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus

By Adam Morton ⋅ October 24, 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

The 2nd edition of Gregory Shaw’s Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus is now available (Angelico Press/Sophia Perennis; September 9, 2014). This 2nd edition contains a new preface from the author, as well as a foreword by John Milbank and Aaron Riches. [Purchase: Amazon.uk | Amazon.com] Description: Theurgy and the Soul is a study […]

Recently published: Partakers of the Divine: Contemplation and the Practice of Philosophy

By Adam Morton ⋅ October 14, 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

Recently published: Partakers of the Divine: Contemplation and the Practice of Philosophy, by Jacob Holsinger Sherman (Fortress Press, 2014). [Purchase: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] Description: Exploring the meeting of mystical and philosophical theology, Partakers of the Divineshows that Christian philosophical and contemplative practices arose together and that throughout much of Christian history, philosophy, theology, and contemplation […]

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