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Twenty years ago, God led me to the writings of the church fathers and then on a journey that changed my life. I discovered the amazing spiritual depth throughout all the eras of the church and began to realize that I was settling for scraps when God had prepared a banquet. This handbook was written as an aid to Christians from all traditions to help them hit the ground running to discover even greater depth and passion in their walk with Christ.

Twenty years ago, God led me to the writings of the church fathers and then on a journey that changed my life. I discovered the amazing spiritual depth throughout all the eras of the church and began to realize that I was settling for scraps when God had prepared a banquet. This handbook was written as an aid to Christians from all traditions to help them hit the ground running to discover even greater depth and passion in their walk with Christ.

By providing parallel accounts of the contrasting developments of classical Chinese and Western traditions, Anticipating China offers a means of avoiding the implicit cultural biases which so often distort Western understanding of Chinese intellectual culture. The book shows that failure to assess the significant cultural differences between China and the West has seriously affected our understanding of both classical and contemporary China, a...

David Lynn Hall is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas. He is the author of The Civilization of Experience, and The Uncertain Phoenix, as well as Eros and Irony (with Roger Ames), and Thinking Through Confucius, both published by SUNY Press. This is Hall's first fictional work.

The conception of culture and philosophy's role within it developed in this work permits interesting formulations of a number of important issues and concepts: the relations between the utopian and utilitarian functions of philosophic theory, the character of the aesthetic and mystical sensibilities, the meaning and function of metaphor and of irony, the value of theoretical consensus, the nature of philosophic communication, and the distincti...

The conception of culture and philosophy's role within it developed in this work permits interesting formulations of a number of important issues and concepts: the relations between the utopian and utilitarian functions of philosophic theory, the character of the aesthetic and mystical sensibilities, the meaning and function of metaphor and of irony, the value of theoretical consensus, the nature of philosophic communication, and the distincti...

This book is a discussion of the nature and import of Richard Rorty's philosophy, particularly as it relates to his reevaluation of American pragmatism. Rorty's thinking is assessed within the context of both modern and postmodern intellectual trends, and his thought is contrasted with that of his principal contemporaries in America and Europe, including Donald Davidson, W. V. O. Quine, Jürgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, Martin Heidegger, and J...

Thirteen essays written by leading scholars explore the impact of a rich variety of religious traditions on the political thought of America's founders.

Thinking Through Confucius critically interprets the conceptual structure underlying Confucius' philosophical reflections. It also investigates "thinking, " or "philosophy" from the perspective of Confucius. Perhaps the philosophical question of our time is "what is philosophy". The authors suggest that an examination of the Chinese philosophy may provide an alternative definition of philosophy that can be used to address some of the pressing ...

This book continues a comparative project begun with the authors' Thinking Through Confucius and Anticipating China. It continues the comparative discussions by focusing upon three concepts--self, truth, transcendence--which best illuminate the distinctive characters of the two cultures. "Self" specifies the meaning of the human subject, "truth" considers that subject's manner of relating to the world of which it is a part, and "transcendence"...

By providing parallel accounts of the contrasting developments of classical Chinese and Western traditions, Anticipating China offers a means of avoiding the implicit cultural biases which so often distort Western understanding of Chinese intellectual culture. The book shows that failure to assess the significant cultural differences between China and the West has seriously affected our understanding of both classical and contemporary China, a...

This book is a discussion of the nature and import of Richard Rorty's philosophy, particularly as it relates to his reevaluation of American pragmatism.

This is a novel of ideas. Flatly to say that it is a work of fiction would needlessly call into question the value of those ideas. To claim, on the other hand, that the text is factual, in whole or part, would, after tedious reflections on the meaning of 'facticity, ' likely be judged a lie.