THE PROBLEM OF GOD IN MODERN THOUGHT
Philip Clayton's enviable reputation as a scholarly and readable explorer of the boundaries between disciplines is built on his earlier "Explanation from Physics to Philosophy"…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
WHEN THE GODS CAME DOWN
Subtitled "The Catastrophic Roots of Religion Revealed", this book slings out the religious baby with the mystic bathwater by incautiously proclaiming from the outset and…… Read More »
Human Nature After Darwin: A Philosophical Introduction
Lazily, I mostly review books chosen from preference. Human Nature after Darwin was an exception - an Open University text complete with chapter by chapter…… Read More »
FUNDAMENTAL SYMBOLS
Rene Guenon may be known to a number of readers arguably the greatest perennial philosopher of the early to mid 20th century. This work is…… Read More »
THE NEW BELIEVERS
"Do you know how to tell a cult from a way?" I was asked. "By the smell?" "It is easy to join a cult -…… Read More »
THE SYMMETRY OF GOD
Rodney Bomford was until recently an Anglican vicar in Camber well and a member of the London Bi-logic Group. He has brilliantly and profoundly focussed…… Read More »
As It Is
This book is a complete contrast in tone to the Jourdain dialogues although coming from the same stable. Both insist that our ordinary sense of…… Read More »
A History of Western Thought
The first English edition of what has clearly been a standard undergraduate work in Scandinavia since its publication in the early 70s. In scope but…… Read More »
On Immigration and Refugees
Here Sir Michael Dummett ventures beyond technical philosophy into a contentious area dealing with the ethical and political dilemmas raised by the treatment of immigrants…… Read More »
Rumi - Hidden Music
A new collection of Rumi poems arranged thematically, covering the Path, the Secret, Hidden Treasure and other central spiritual themes. The poems are sensitively translated…… Read More »