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This text presents and addresses the philosophical movement of antiphilosophy working thru the texts of Christian thinkers such as Pascal and Kierkegaard. The author as influenced by Alain Badiou, portrays these Christian thinkers as of a subjective dimension negating the possibility of an objective quest for truth. The claim here is that antiphilosophy is abundant in the eyes of these two thinkers who frame the thought event as represented by Christianity, ultimately resigning itself to more or less the opposite of philosophy itself. Readers will discover why philosophical reason should never be convinced by that which denies its very authority. Subjecting faith to the perils of philosophical analysis, confronting the philosophical tradition with the truth of the Christian faith, and occupying the space between the two: such are the challenges facing an antiphilosophy of Christianity. This text will appeal to researchers and students working in continental philosophy, philosophy of religion and those in religious studies who want to investigate the links between Christianity and antiphilosophy.

Understanding World Christianity is a series devoted to exploring lived Christianity in diverse global contexts and regions. Noted experts present a balanced history of Christianity and a detailed discussion of the six key 'intersections' of Christianity in a given context including the historical, denominational, socio-political, geographical, biographical, and theological settings. Understanding World Christianity: Mexico is an ideal introduction for anyone who wishes to know how Christianity is lived in the Mexican context

"John Locke's religious interests and concerns permeate his philosophical production and are best expressed in his later writings on religion, which represent the culmination of his studies. In this volume, Diego Lucci offers a thorough analysis and reassessment of Locke's unique, heterodox, internally coherent version of Protestant Christianity, which emerges from The Reasonableness of Christianity and other public as well as private texts. In order to clarify Locke's views on morality, salvation, and the afterlife, Lucci critically examines Locke's theistic ethics, biblical hermeneutics, reflection on natural and revealed law, mortalism, theory of personal identity, Christology, and tolerationism. While emphasizing the originality of Locke's Scripture-based religion, this book calls attention to his influences and explores the reception of his unorthodox theological ideas. Moreover, the book highlights the impact of Locke's natural and biblical theology on other areas of his thought, thus enabling a better understanding of the unity of his work"--

Christianity or religious pluralism? A review of Mansions of hte Spirit / Ron Dart -- The way, the truth, and the life: A discussion of Mansions of the Spirit / J.I. Packer -- Christ, the church, and the parliament of world religions / Ron Dart -- Appendix: The Enlightenment, the liberal establishment, and religious pluralism / Ron Dart.

The Understanding World Christianity series is organized geographically, by nation and region. Noted experts, in most cases native to the area of focus, present a balanced history of Christianity and a detailed discussion of the faith as it is lived today. This volume on China is an ideal introduction for anyone who wishes to know how Christianity is lived in the Chinese context

"Das Christentum ist seinem Selbstverständnis nach eine Liebesreligion, aber seine Geschichte
ist nicht zuletzt auch eine Geschichte der Gewalt. Der Text versucht diesen Widerspruch zu erklären. Er untersucht mit den Mitteln der Analytischen Sozialpsychologie, ausgehend vom Text der Bibel, was in dieser Religion der Ausübung von Gewalt
entgegenkommen kann." (Autorenreferat)

Es werden Hintergründe der gegenwärtigen Diskussion um Religion in der Übergangssituation zur Postmoderne skizziert. Thematisiert werden einerseits Phänomene der Säkularisierung und andererseits die Wiederkehr von Religion, die in dem individuellen Bedürfnis zum Ausdruck kommt, den behaupteten oder tatsächlichen Zwängen der Moderne mit religiöser Hilfe zu entkommen. Aufgezeigt wird, daß sich die bisherigen religionssoziologischen Theoriestücke für die Analyse von solchen Bewegungen des Zeitgeistes, wie z. B. die New Age-Bewegung, nur beschränkt eignen. Abschließend wird die Frage nach der Bedeutung oder Funktion von Religion im Lichte bisheriger religionstheoretischer Erörterungen differenziert, um zu zeigen, daß die Argumentationen über das Schicksal der Religion keineswegs beliebige Reaktionen auf die Wandlungen des Phänomenbereichs sind. (GF)

In his late work on Christianity, Talcott Parsons obviously built upon the writings of both Durkheim and Weber. While he departed from the idea that increasing differentiation of the system of action did not have to threaten the unity of the system as a whole, his emphasis on structural differentiation was also complemented by one on value integration. He believed that, especially in the New World, religion (i.e. Christianity) has gradually become able to impose its definition of the situation in highly different, highly heterogeneous contexts of action. In this paper, I reconstruct Parsons' historical-sociological analyses of the relation between Christianity and modern society. I discuss how Parsons appropriated the writings of Durkheim and Weber – in ways which did not fully exploit the potential of some of these writings. I suggest some alternatives, which rely less on a concern with value integration (Durkheim) but more on one with the differentiation of meaning systems (Weber).