Bøger af Brian Davies

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion provides a critical examination of the fundamental questions posed by religious belief: What does it mean to believe in God? Can God's existence be proven? Is there life after death? Brian Davies considers these questions and many others, sometimes offering provocative answers of his own, but more often giving students room to form their own conclusions. In addition to exploring the views of several classic philosophers of religion--including Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, and Kant--Davies surveys a variety of contemporary thinkers. Revised and updated to cover the latest developments in the field, the new edition of this influential textbook provides an ideal introduction for all students of the philosophy of religion.

This book is a detailed introduction to and discussion of Thomas Aquinas's best-known and most influential work: the Summa Theologiae. After a scholarly account of Aquinas's life, the book explores his purposes in writing the Summa Theologiae and provides a detailed analysis of each of its three parts.

Renowned Aquinas scholar Brian Davies offers the first in-depth study of the saint's thoughts on God and evil, revealing that Aquinas's thinking about God and evil can be traced through his metaphysical philosophy, his thoughts on God and creation, and his writings about Christian revelation and the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation.

This is a substantially updated, extended and reorganized third edition of an introductory text on the use of integral transforms. Emphasis is on the development of techniques and the connection between properties of transforms and the kind of problems for which they provide tools.

Provides an insight into the emergence of Russia as a great power.

Eating less, exercising more and losing weight seem the obvious solution for the oncoming 'obesity epidemic'. This book investigates how 'body centred talk' about weight, fat, food and exercise is recycled in schools, enters educational processes, and impacts on the identities and health of young people.

This book, written for in-service teachers and student-teachers, summarises the developments in educational policy that have occurred recently.

CONTRIBUTORS:FERGUS KERR OPCharity as Friendship SIMON TUGWELL OPPrayer, Humpty Dumpty and Thomas Aquinas BRIAN DAVIES OPClassical Theism and the Doctrine of Divine Simplicity DAVID B. BURRELL CSCDistinguishing God from the World DENYS TURNERFeuerbach, Marx and Reductivism ANTHONY KENNYAquinas on Knowledge of Self P. J. FITZPATRICKSome Seventeenth-Century Disagreements and TransubstantiationHUGO A. MEYNELLFaith, Objectivity, and Historical FalsifiabilityMARGARET DAVIESThe Genre of the First GospelTIMOTHY RADCLIFFE OP'The Coming of the Son of Man': Mark's Gospel and the Subversion of 'The Apocalyptic Imagination' BRIAN WICKERTaking Away the Sin of the WorldJ. M. CAMERONThe Theory and Practice of Autobiography ENDA MCDONAGHPrayer, Poetry and PoliticsEditor Biography:Brian Davies is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, New York.

An exciting new way of teaching chaos in dynamical systems to undergraduates, using a combination of text and computer experiments.

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