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  • RORTY AND THE RELIGIOUS
    JACOB L GOODSON, BRAD ELLIOTT STONE
    Prior to his death in 2007, the self-described secular philosopher Richard Rorty began to modify his previous position concerning religion. Moving from "atheism" to "anti-clericalism," Rorty challenges the metaphysical assumptions that lend justification to abuses of power in the name of religion. Instead of dismissing and ignoring Rorty's challenge, the essays in this volume s...

    $550.00

  • BUILDING BELOVED COMMUNITY IN A WOUNDED WORLD
    JACOB L. GOODSON / BRAD ELLIOTT STONE / PHILIP RUDOLPH KUEHNERT
    Is the beloved community local, national, global, or universal? What kind of love is required for the beloved community? Is such a community only an ideal, or can it be actualized in the here and now? Tracing the phrase beloved community from Josiah Royce through Martin Luther King Jr. to a variety of contemporary usages, Goodson, Kuehnert, and Stone debate answers to the above...

    $444.00

  • THE PHILOSOPHER’S PLAYGROUND
    JACOB L. GOODSON
    Since its inception in 1994, scriptural reasoning has been practiced by academics and religious laypeople on an international scale. Scriptural reasoning is an activity or practice where Jews, Christians, and Muslims read and study together short passages from their traditionally sacred texts. In this book, Jacob L. Goodson describes this activity by giving a tour through moder...

    $497.00

  • THE DARK YEARS?
    JACOB L. GOODSON
    In 1997 and 1998, the American secular philosopher Richard Rorty published a set of predictions about the twenty-first century ranging from the years 2014-95. He predicted, for instance, the election of a "strong man" in the 2016 presidential race and the proliferation of gun violence starting in 2014. He labels the years from 2014-44 the darkest years of American history, poli...

    $426.00

  • STRENGTH OF MIND
    JACOB L. GOODSON
    Higher education in the twenty-first century should bring together freedom and knowledge with courage and hope. Why these four concepts? As Goodson argues in Strength of Mind, higher education in the twenty-first century offers preparation for ordinary life. Freedom and knowledge serve as the conditions for cultivating courage and hope within one's ordinary life. More specifica...

    $621.00