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Introduction / Yujin Nagasawa and Erik J. Wielenberg -- A new definition of 'omnipotence' in terms of sets / Daniel J. Hill -- Can God choose a world at random? / Klaas J. Kraay -- Why is there anything at all? / T. J. Mawson -- Programs, bugs, DNA and a design argument / Alexander R. Pruss -- The 'why design?' question / Neil A. Manson -- Divine command theory and the semantics of quantified modal logic / David Efird -- Divine desire theory and obligation / Christian B. Miller -- The puzzle of prayers of Thanksgiving and praise / Daniel Howard-Snyder -- A participatory model of the atonement / Tim Bayne and Greg Restall -- Basic human worth : religious and secular perspectives / Christopher J. Eberle -- Imperfection as sufficient for a meaningful life : how much is enough? / Thaddeus Metz

The appearance of J. R. Oldfield's study, Popular politics and British anti-slavery, first published by Manchester University Press in 1995, now in paperback and therefore available for a student market, is much to be welcomed. The book is already well established in its field. As James Walvin writes in his preface, 'Oldfield's research serves to clinch a simple but critical issue, namely that in the attack on the slave trade, popular revulsion was crucial' (p. vi). Building on the work of earlier scholars, notably Seymour Drescher, Hugh Honour and Clare Midgley, Oldfield has demonstrated the ways in which the abolition movement turned to mobilizing public opinion after 1787 against the slave trade. At the centre of his investigation are the petition campaigns of 1788 and 1792. In analysing anti-slavery sentiment he successfully brings together approaches which focus on the eighteenth century as a period of expansion in commercial society and popular forms of politics with the agenda of historians of the slave trade and slavery. The abolition movement, he argues, provided the prototype for modern reforming organizations. It was peopled by practical middle-class men who understood the importance of the expansion of the market and consumer choice. It succeeded in capturing the imagination of those, predominantly middle-class men and women, who were increasingly interested in engaging in forms of public debate and who had the resources, both in terms of time and money, to do so. His book, he argues, is a piece of 'thick description' which offers 'fresh insights into the increasingly powerful role of the middle classes in influencing Parliamentary politics from outside the confines of Westminster'

Dieses Buch ist sein Gewicht in Gold wert" schrieb ein Rezensent zur englischen Originalausgabe. Zu 29 Kernfragen des Lebens sind hier zentrale Aussagen aus den Schriften der zwölf großen Religionen der Welt zusammengestellt. ES GIBT ZWÖLF GROSSE LEBENDE RELIGIONEN auf dieser Erde. Zu den 29 wichtigsten Themen - wie Liebe, Freundschaft, Verantwortung, Courage, Glaube, Hass, Glücklichsein, Frieden und Arbeit - trug ich eine Auswahl zentraler Gedanken aus den Heiligen Schriften dieser Religionen zusammen. Sie offenbaren, wie Religionen aus gänzlich verschiedenen Kulturen und Zeitaltern doch gleichartige Grundsätze der Ethik und Geistigkeit lehren. - Diese bescheidene Zusammenstellung ist nicht nur ein Versuch, das Beste aus den Schriften der lebenden Religionen zu versammeln, sondern ebenso ein Führer zum Verständnis der wesensmäßigen Einheit, die alle Religionen durchzieht. Ich bin sicher, sie wird Trost, Führung und Inspiration für jene bereithalten, die diese Zeilen aufmerksam lesen.