The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe
Elizabeth Anscombe was one of four brilliant women philosophers who were contemporaries at Oxford just before the Second World War – with Iris Murdoch, Mary…… Read More »
Book Reviews
Queenly Philosophers
Subtitled 'Renaissance Women Aristocrats as Platonic Guardians', this is a fascinating study of five women who lived in England in the 16th and 17th centuries…… Read More »
The Revolution of Values
This is a short and informative book on the origins of Martin Luther King's moral and political philosophy. Some of these roots are well-known and…… Read More »
From Personality to Virtue
This volume sits at the interface between philosophy and psychology, relating the philosophical concept of character with the psychological idea of personality and responding to…… Read More »
On Patience
Part of my interest in this book emerges from my work in character and values education, where young people frequently identify patience as a quality…… Read More »
The Seat of the Soul
This study is the sequel to the author's The Mystery of Emerging Form and continues his biological perspective on formative forces creating the body in…… Read More »
The Life of St Teresa of Avila
This is the story of the Vida of St Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), an exceptional woman plagued early in life with severe illnesses leading to…… Read More »
Jerusalem
This profound reflection, subtitled 'the role of the Hebrew people in the spiritual biography of humanity', builds on the work of Rudolf Steiner and consists…… Read More »
Wrestling with Archons
Subtitled 'Gnosticism is a critical theory culture', this scholarly work argues that Gnosticism performed this function in the early Christian period by deconstructing some of…… Read More »
Reason and Beyond – Knowledge, Belief and Spiritual Transformation
This book by a teacher of A Course in Miracles is a profound meditation on the really important things in life, interweaving philosophical reasoning, evocative…… Read More »