The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion

The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion
Author: Peter Harrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2010-06-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521712513

This book explores the historical relations between science and religion and discusses contemporary issues with perspectives from cosmology, evolutionary biology and bioethics.

The Cambridge Companion to Jesus

The Cambridge Companion to Jesus
Author: Markus Bockmuehl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2001-11-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780521796781

This Companion offers an integrated introduction to the study of Jesus.

The Cambridge Companion to Bacon

The Cambridge Companion to Bacon
Author: Markku Peltonen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 406
Release: 1996-04-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521435345

There are also essays on Bacon's theory of rhetoric and history as well as on his moral and political philosophy and on his legacy. Throughout the contributors aim to place Bacon in his historical context.

The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements

The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements
Author: Olav Hammer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2012-08-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0521196507

This volume addresses the key features of new religions, such as Scientology, the Moonies and Jihadist movements, from a systematic, comparative perspective.

The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits

The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits
Author: Thomas Worcester
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2008-03-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 113982774X

Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) obtained papal approval in 1540 for a new international religious order called the Society of Jesus. Until the mid-1700s the 'Jesuits' were active in many parts of Europe and far beyond. Gaining both friends and enemies in response to their work as teachers, scholars, writers, preachers, missionaries and spiritual directors, the Jesuits were formally suppressed by Pope Clement XIV in 1773 and restored by Pope Pius VII in 1814. The Society of Jesus then grew until the 1960s; it has more recently experienced declining membership in Europe and North America, but expansion in other parts of the world. This Companion examines the religious and cultural significance of the Jesuits. The first four sections treat the period prior to the Suppression, while section five examines the Suppression and some of the challenges and opportunities of the restored Society of Jesus up to the present.

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy
Author: Dale Kramer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 1999-06-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139825550

Thomas Hardy's fiction has had a remarkably strong appeal for general readers for decades, and his poetry has been acclaimed as among the most influential of the twentieth century. His work still creates passionate advocacy and opposition. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy is an essential introduction to this most enigmatic of writers. These commissioned essays from an international team of contributors comprises a general overview of all Hardy' s work and specific demonstrations of Hardy's ideas and literary skills. Individual essays explore Hardy's biography, aesthetics, his famous attachment to Wessex, and the impact on his work of developments in science, religion and philosophy in the late nineteenth century. Hardy's writing is also analysed against developments in contemporary critical theory and issues such as sexuality and gender. The volume also contains a detailed chronology of Hardy's life and publications, and a guide to further reading.

The Cambridge Companion to John Calvin

The Cambridge Companion to John Calvin
Author: Donald K. McKim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2004-06-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1107494680

John Calvin (1509–64) stands with Martin Luther (1483–1546) as the premier theologian of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. Calvin's thought spread throughout Europe to the New World and later throughout the whole world. His insights and influence continue to endure today, presenting a model of theological scholarship grounded in Scripture as well as providing nurture for Christian believers within churches across the globe. Dr Donald K. McKim gathers together an international array of major Calvin scholars to consider phases of Calvin's theological thought and influence. Historians and theologians meet to present a full picture of Calvin's contexts, the major themes in Calvin's writings, and the ways in which his thought spread and has increasing importance. Chapters serve as guides to their topics and provide further readings for additional study. This is an accessible introduction to this significant Protestant reformer and will appeal to the specialist and non-specialist alike.

The Cambridge Companion to Einstein

The Cambridge Companion to Einstein
Author: Michel Janssen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 579
Release: 2014-05-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0521828341

These fourteen essays by leading historians and philosophers of science introduce the reader to the work of Albert Einstein. Following an introduction that places Einstein's work in the context of his life and times, the essays explain his main contributions to physics in terms that are accessible to a general audience, including special and general relativity, quantum physics, statistical physics, and unified field theory. The closing essays explore the relation between Einstein's work and twentieth-century philosophy, as well as his political writings.