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The Maturing of Monotheism A Dialectical Path to its Truth


Free Download Garth Hallett, "The Maturing of Monotheism: A Dialectical Path to its Truth"
English | ISBN: 1350089354 | 2019 | 224 pages | EPUB | 978 KB
Tracing a dialectical path, The Maturing of Monotheism emphasises the plausibility of Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and kindred forms of monotheism and responds to anti-theistic challenges of our day. These include materialism, determinism, the denial of objective value, the pervasiveness of evil, and predictions of human individual and collective extinction. The book reviews traditional metaphysical ways of arguing for monotheism but employs a cumulative, more experiential approach. While agnosticism affects humanity’s most basic beliefs, Garth Hallett demonstrates that there remains ample room for rational, theistic faith.

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Re-energizing Ideology Studies The maturing of a discipline


Free Download Michael Freeden, "Re-energizing Ideology Studies: The maturing of a discipline"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367892847, 0815377150 | EPUB | pages: 194 | 1.1 mb
Ideology studies have undergone significant growth over the past couple of decades. The scope of the discipline has been extensively broadened to include not only text and discourse but emotions, imagination, fantasy, rhetoric and visual forms. Its attention to detail and to the micro-manifestations of ideology in the everyday have borne considerable fruit, particularly at a time of ideological fragmentation and reassembly. Its research methods have been refined, embracing both conceptual innovation and empirical evidence drawn from many fields of social creativity.

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