This book offers a series of highly personal, thoughtful essays by traditionally religious philosophers, revealing the power of belief in their intellectually rigorous lives and work.
Profoundly honest and deeply thoughtful, these essays reveal how highly educated philosophers--working in the halls of dispassionate analysis--come to grips with their faith in a skeptical world. Together, they make a profound statement regarding the reality of God in contemporary spiritual inquiry.
The Great Demarcation describes the efforts of French revolutionaries to make 'a radical distinction between private property and public power.' Blaufarb's wonderful monograph describes the long, difficult process of creating this separation in the laws of the land ... [Blaufarb] not only illuminates a complex, poorly understood legislative and legal campaign but also makes important contributions to the understanding of the French Revolution itself ... Essential.