This book provides readers with an excellent introduction to the history of ethics. The authors examine the ethical philosophies of prominent Western thinkers—from the ancients through the twentieth century—within the context of their views of human nature and human fulfillment. They do so in a way that is both accessible and engaging without sacrificing the profundity of the issues raised. A five-part organization covers the Homeric tradition, the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle, Christianity, Neoplatonism, Augustine, the Euthyphro problem, revolutions and reformations, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hegelianism and Materialism, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Soren Kierkegaard, Darwinism, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. E. Moore, A.J. Ayer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Elizabeth Anscombe, John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre, Carol Gilligan, Richard Rorty, and a conclusion about human nature, morality &amp; fulfillment. For individuals who want to better formulate their own answers and frame their own decisions, both large and small, within the all important context of what it means to flourish as a human being.

The Story of Ethics: Fulfilling Our Human Nature

Politics & Social Sciences

Clark, Kelly James

Poortenga, Anne

Philosophy

Pearson

A penetrating critique of the Enlightenment assumption of evidentialism -- that belief in God requires the support of evidence or arguments to be rational. Garnering arguments from C. S. Lewis, Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Thomas Reid, William James, and John Calvin, Clark asserts that this Enlightenment demand for evidence is itself both irrelevant and irrational

Return to Reason: A Critique of Enlightenment Evidentialism and a Defense of Reason and Belief in God

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Does cognitive science show that religious belief is irrational?
Kelly James Clark brings together science and philosophy to examine some of humanity’s more pressing questions. Is belief in God, as Richard Dawkins claims, a delusion? Are atheists smarter or more rational than religious believers? Do our genes determine who we are and what we believe? Can our very creaturely cognitive equipment help us discover truth and meaning in life? Are atheists any different from Mother Teresa? Clark’s surprising answers both defend the rationality of religious belief and contribute to the study of cognitive science.
God and the Brain explores complicated questions about the nature of belief and the human mind.
Scientifically minded, philosophically astute, and reader-friendly, God and the Brain provides an accessible overview of some new cognitive scientific approaches to the study of religion and evaluates their implications for both theistic and atheistic belief.

God and the Brain: The Rationality of Belief

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Recovers the lost messages of Mark, Matthew, Luke-Acts, and John for people today
The words of the gospels were meant to be heard. While we can still appreciate the construction and grasp some understanding when we read, we miss much of the message because we’re working in the wrong medium. In Written to Be Heard Paul Borgman and Kelly James Clark offer the keys to recovering the radical, relevant messages of each gospel as they were first heard.
The shaping of the gospels for oral performances, which would have been obvious to ancient (mostly preliterate) listeners, is lost on even the best contemporary reader. With careful analysis of the gospel writers’ particular voices within their own ancient literary context, Borgman and Clark equip readers to read as if hearing, focusing on overlapping patterns of hearing cues that shape each text and embed theological perspective.

Written to Be Heard: Recovering the Messages of the Gospels

Borgman, Paul C.

These forty Bible studies by Kelly James Clark provide new Christians with a basis for gowth in prayer, fellowship, service, evangelism and guidance.

Quiet Times for Christian Growth 5-pack

These forty Bible studies by Kelly James Clark provide new Christians with a basis for gowth in prayer, fellowship, service, evangelism and guidance.

Quiet Times for Christian Growth (IVP Booklets)

God and the Problems of Love (Elements in the Problems of God)

Religious Studies

Cambridge University Press

Religion and the Sciences of Origins: Historical and Contemporary Discussions

This concise introduction to science and religion focuses on Christianity and modern Western science (the epicenter of issues in science and religion in the West) with a concluding chapter on Muslim and Jewish Science and Religion. This book also invites the reader into the relevant literature with ample quotations from original texts.

History

World

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Spiritual Geography of Early Chinese Thought, A: Gods, Ancestors, and Afterlife (Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion)

Bloomsbury Academic

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Books by Clark, Kelly James

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The Story of Ethics: Fulfilling Our Human Nature

Return to Reason: A Critique of Enlightenment Evidentialism and a Defense of Reason and Belief in God

God and the Brain: The Rationality of Belief

Written to Be Heard: Recovering the Messages of the Gospels

Quiet Times for Christian Growth 5-pack

Quiet Times for Christian Growth (IVP Booklets)

God and the Problems of Love (Elements in the Problems of God)

Religion and the Sciences of Origins: Historical and Contemporary Discussions

Religion and the Sciences of Origins: Historical and Contemporary Discussions

Spiritual Geography of Early Chinese Thought, A: Gods, Ancestors, and Afterlife (Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion)