ebooks Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories: Newly Recorded Stories from the Aboriginal Elders of Central Australia (Sacred Literature Trust Series) by Peggy Rockman Napaljarri; Lee Cataldi in History

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In this groundbreaking; cross-disciplinary work of philosophy and biblical studies; New Testament scholar C. Kavin Rowe explores the promise and problems inherent in engaging rival philosophical claims to what is true. Juxtaposing the Roman Stoics Seneca; Epictetus; and Marcus Aurelius with the Christian saints Paul; Luke; and Justin Martyr; and incorporating the contemporary views of Jeffrey Stout; Alasdair McIntyre; Charles Taylor; Martha Nussbaum; Pierre Hadot; and others; the author suggests that in a world of religious pluralism there is negligible gain in sampling from separate belief systems. This thought-provoking volume reconceives the relationship between ancient philosophy and emergent Christianity as a rivalry between strong traditions of life and offers powerful arguments for the exclusive commitment to a community of belief and a particular form of philosophical life as the path to existential truth.