Secondhand History & Religion Bargain Book Box SP2817

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Four E.L. Mascall titles — Theology and the Future, Nature and Supernature, He Who Is, and Existence and Analogy — anchor a theology and philosophy box of exceptional depth, joined by Norman Cohn's The Pursuit of the Millennium, Helen Waddell's The Wandering Scholars, Evelyn Underhill's Practical Mysticism, and Unamuno's The Tragic Sense of Life. Geoffrey Parrinder, Bruno Bettelheim, Christopher Hill, and David Ricardo extend the range into comparative religion, psychology, history, and political economy — twenty-one titles for serious readers of theology, philosophy, and the intellectual history of belief.

1. Other Worlds — Paul Davies — Davies's accessible exploration of parallel universes and the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics; popular science at its most thought-provoking, from one of Australia's most distinguished science communicators.
2. Philosophy of Religion — H.D. Lewis — A clear and systematic introduction to the philosophical questions raised by religious belief; Lewis's Teach Yourself volume that served generations of students and interested general readers.
3. Africa's Three Religions — Geoffrey Parrinder — The comparative religion scholar's authoritative survey of Christianity, Islam, and traditional African religion as practised across the continent; genuinely comparative and accessible throughout.
4. The World Turned Upside Down — Christopher Hill — Hill's landmark study of radical religious and political ideas during the English Revolution; a foundational work in the social history of ideas that transformed our understanding of the 17th century.
5. A Guide to the British Moralists — D.H. Monro — An introduction to the tradition of British moral philosophy from Hobbes to Moore; a clear and well-organised guide to a distinguished philosophical tradition.
6. The Informed Heart — Bruno Bettelheim — Bettelheim's account of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps and what they reveal about human autonomy and the conditions for psychological survival; a disturbing and essential work.
7. Oxford Apostles — Geoffrey Faber — Faber's biographical and psychological study of the Oxford Movement and its leading figures; a Pelican classic of church history and Victorian intellectual life.
8. Conscience and Its Right to Freedom — Eric D'Arcy — A careful philosophical examination of the nature of conscience and its claim to freedom in moral decision-making; from the Sheed & Ward Stagbooks series of Catholic intellectual works.
9. The Pursuit of the Millennium — Norman Cohn — Cohn's landmark study of revolutionary millenarian movements in medieval and Reformation Europe; one of the most important and enduring works of religious and social history of the 20th century.
10. Righteousness and Society — John Neumann & William Lazareth — Ecumenical theology exploring the relationship between Christian ethics and social justice in a revolutionary age; a contribution to Protestant dialogue on the social demands of the Gospel.
11. Principles of Political Economy and Taxation — David Ricardo — The foundational text of classical economics; Ricardo's labour theory of value and theory of comparative advantage remain central to the history of economic thought.
12. Theology and the Future — E.L. Mascall — The distinguished Anglican philosophical theologian's examination of where Christian thought must go in the modern world; characteristically rigorous and deeply informed by the Catholic intellectual tradition.
13. Nature and Supernature — E.L. Mascall — Mascall's exploration of the relationship between the natural order and the supernatural life of grace; a major contribution to 20th-century Anglican theology in the Thomist tradition.
14. The Wandering Scholars — Helen Waddell — Waddell's celebrated study of the goliardic poets and Latin scholars of the medieval world; scholarly, lyrical, and written with the rare gift of making the medieval past feel vivid and alive.
15. Practical Mysticism — Evelyn Underhill — Underhill's concise and accessible introduction to the mystical life, written during the First World War as an argument for the practical value of contemplation; one of her most widely read works.
16. An Existentialist Theology — John Macquarrie — Macquarrie's groundbreaking comparison of Rudolf Bultmann and Martin Heidegger; an important work in the development of 20th-century liberal Protestant theology.
17. Handbook of Moral Theology — Dominic M. Prümmer OP — The classic Dominican manual of Catholic moral theology; authoritative, comprehensive, and widely used in seminary education across the 20th century.
18. The Tragic Sense of Life — Miguel de Unamuno — Unamuno's masterwork on the existential tension between reason and faith and the longing for immortality; one of the great works of 20th-century religious philosophy.
19. Theology and Sanity — F.J. Sheed — Sheed's accessible and intellectually robust argument that orthodox Catholic theology provides the most coherent account of reality; written for the intelligent general reader with no prior theological knowledge required.
20. He Who Is — E.L. Mascall — Mascall's study of the existence of God in the tradition of Thomas Aquinas; a major work of natural theology arguing for the coherence and necessity of traditional theism.
21. Existence and Analogy — E.L. Mascall — A philosophical investigation of existence and the concept of analogy in theological discourse; Mascall's engagement with the Thomist tradition at its most technically rigorous.