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David Hume (1711-1776), philosopher, historian, and essayist, is widely considered to be the most important philosopher ever to write in English. This guide to Hume's life and work includes 22 specially commissioned essays, written by a team of leading experts, covering various aspects of Hume's thought.

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Immanuel Kant is widely considered to be one of the most important and influential thinker of modern Europe and the late Enlightenment. This title presents a comprehensive overview of historical and philosophical context in which Kant wrote and the various features, themes and topics apparent in his thought.

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G W F Leibniz (1646-1716) was one of the great polymaths of the modern world. With entries written by scholars in the field of Modern Philosophy, this guide to Leibniz's life, thought and work is suitable for those who are interested in Leibniz and the era in which he wrote.

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John Locke (1632-1704) was a leading seventeenth-century philosopher and widely considered to be the first of the British Empiricists. This comprehensive guide to Locke's life and work includes more than 90 specially commissioned entries, covering various aspects of Locke's thought.

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Covers the fundamental areas of philosophical logic. This guide explores issues pertaining to classical logic and its rivals, extensional and intensional extensions of classical logic, semantics for parts of natural language, and the application of logic in the theory of rationality.

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From new questions concerning qualia, representation, embodiment and cognition to fresh thinking about the long-standing problems of physicalism, dualism, personal identity and mental causation, this book offers a guide to the research in the Philosophy of Mind. It also includes an extended glossary of terms for quick reference.

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Plato, mathematician, philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, is, together with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, universally considered to have laid the foundations of western philosophy. This guide includes over 140 entries on various aspects of Plato's thought.

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Offers a guide to a key area of contemporary philosophy. This title covers all the fundamental questions asked by pragmatism. It explores issues pertaining to aesthetics, economics, education, the environment, epistemology, ethics, history, law, metaphysics, politics, race, religion, science and technology, language, and social theory.

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This is a one-volume, edition of the three-volume "Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism" published in 1998. The main historical surveys have been retained, while essays of a thematic nature, and a few whose subject matter is not central to the historical development, have been omitted.

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A wide range of philosophical essays informed by the work of Harry Frankfurt, who offers a response to each essay.

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Norman Geras discusses a central aspect of the experience of the Holocaust with a view to exploring its most important contemporary implications. Geras's argument focuses on the figure of the bystander to consider the moral consequences of looking on without active responses at persecution and great suffering. -- .

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From the early narratives of such colonial writers as Jonathan Edwards to the more recent conversion experiences of Jim Bakker, Jerry Falwell, and Pat Robertson, America is rich in both conversions and autobiographies.

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The story of how Europe was converted to Christianity from 300AD until the Lithuanians finally capitulated at the late date of 1386.

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Allan McNicol examines the 'Conversion of the Nations' in the book of Revelation together with the author's vision for final redemption.

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Nature plays an important role in Jewish apocalypses. Although "Romans 8:19-22" was not written in the genre of an apocalypse, it shares the basic apocalyptic worldview. A comparison of nature in Jewish apocalypses and Romans 8:19-22 reveals important insights into the theology of early Judaism and its influence on early Christian thought.

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Explores what the interrogations reveal about the individual and communal lives of those interrogated and how the interrogations themselves shaped villagers' perceptions of those lives. This book shows how heretical and orthodox beliefs flourished side by side and what life was like in one particular time and place.

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The Cost follows the dramatic story of a teenage Muslim boy's miraculous encounter with Jesus, who would call him to bring the gospel to Muslims despite life-threatening odds.

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A history of the 16th century conservative Catholic movement which sought to secure the traditions of the church against Protestant innovations and the liberalizing effects of the Renaissance.

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"This book demonstrates that a consistent countercultural narrative permeates the First Epistle of John, and identifies the Johannine community as conquering the polytheism of the Greco-Roman world with their pistis (belief/faith) in Jesus as the true Son of God"--

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"A short, masterful, information-packed examination, a book that is thoroughly trustworthy, and spot-on."-Michael Novak, National Review

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A defence of the humanist alternative to a faith in God, which rejects both religious spirituality and nihilism.