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  • Aquinas
    David B. Burrell / David B. CSC Burrell / David BCSC Burrell
    This exploration of Thomas Aquinas’s philosophical theology, decidedly 'unorthodox' at the time of its original publication, had the good fortune to be employed extensively--notably at Yale and Cambridge--by my eminent colleagues George Lindbeck and Nicholas Lash. It essayed a 'non-foundational' reading of the Summa Theologiae, unabashedly beholden to Wittgenstein, thereby prep...
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    26,67 €

  • Exercises in Religious Understanding
    David B. Burrell / David B. CSC Burrell / David BCSC Burrell
    The dual purpose of this book is to point out the ways whereby reflective religious thinkers work and to suggest how these skills can be acquired. It is a manual of apprenticeship in acquiring religious understanding.The thought of Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Kierkegaard, and Jung on selected religious topics is developed expressly to show how each handled these issues and thus...
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    29,26 €

  • Analogy and Philosophical Language
    David B. Burrell / David B. CSC Burrell / David BCSC Burrell
    The most useful and available key to someone’s position lies in the expressions he is prepared to make his own. Language clearly reflects the bearings we have taken as well as it reveals how aware we are that we have taken them. The language he uses not only shows us where someone stands but also lets us in on the extent to which he understands where he stands. And if the expre...
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    35,55 €

  • Questing for Understanding
    David B. Burrell / David BBurrell
    Trying to articulate the ways in which one’s life meshes with one’s own time can be perilous, yet friends have encouraged me to do just that. Nevertheless, for one oriented to serving others as teacher and mentor in a context of faith, writing about oneself seems unnatural. Yet the 'self' we have been given to share embodies many others as well. So many of the encounters narrat...
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    17,88 €

  • Friendship and Ways to Truth
    C.S.C. David B. Burrell / C.S.CDavid BBurrell
    The death of a friend is a source of pain and grief for anyone. For David B. Burrell, it is also a source of reflection on the role of friendship in our ongoing pursuit of truth. In this small but penetrating book, Burrell offers five essays that explore friendship as the bond that links us to the religious traditions we embrace in our search for truth. Known for his many and ...
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    28,69 €

  • Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions
    C.S.C. David B. Burrell / C.S.CDavid BBurrell
    With creation of the universe as its focus and a deeper understanding of human freedom as its goal, Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions is a work of philosophical theology that brings together Jewish, Christian, and Muslim perspectives on the complex questions surrounding divine and human freedom. Burrell shows how the three traditions (each avowing the free creation of th...
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    41,43 €

  • Knowing the Unknowable God
    C.S.C. David B. Burrell / C.S.CDavid BBurrell
    In Knowing the Unknowable God, David Burrell traces the intellectual intermingling of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions that made possible the medieval synthesis that served as the basis for Western theology. He shows how Aquinas’s study of the Muslim philosopher Ibn-Sina and the Jewish thinker Moses Maimonides affected the disciplined use of language when speaking of di...
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    35,88 €