“In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.” --Pierre Bayle
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Most Enlightenment intellectuals united around themes such as passion for science and scientific method (inductive reasoning), human wellbeing as the goal of philosophy, and religious tolerance. ...
Steven Grosby is Professor Emeritus of Religion at Clemson University.
Obbie Tyler Todd is the pastor of Third Baptist Church of Marion, Illinois and serves as adjunct professor of theology at Luther Rice College & Seminary.
Daniel Ross Goodman is a writer, rabbi, and scholar from western Massachusetts. He holds a Ph.D. from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, studied English & Comparative Literature at Colum...
Melissa Matthes is currently full professor at the United States Coast Guard Academy where she teaches courses in religion and politics, morals and ethics as well as the history of political thou...
Daniel J. Mahoney holds the Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship at Assumption University and is a Senior Writer at Law & Liberty.
King Solomon, the son of King David, was renowned for his wisdom and many of his sayings were collected in the Book of Proverbs, a book of the Old Testament.
Mo Tzu was a philosopher whose ideas rose to prominence in the third and second centuries BCE and briefly rivaled Confucianism as the leading school of thought in ancient China.
Stefania Tutino is a Professor of History and Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Strawley wrote on church history.
Shaw translated Augustine’s *On Christian Doctrine" for Schaff’s edition of the Nicene fathers.
Lao Tzu (or Laozi) is remembered as the first philosopher of Taoism. He is often cited as a contributor to, if not the author of, the Tao-te Ching, the basic philosophical discourse on Taoism.
Not much is known about Thompson, except that he was commissioned by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge to translate a work by St. Ambrose.
Sale translated the Koran into English in the early 18th century (1734).
Samuel was important in the transition of Israel from a tribal existence under the judges to the establishment of a monarchy. He is described in the first half of I Samuel as a priest, a prophet,...
Vida Scudder was a prolific author who published in the early 20th century on topics as diverse as English literature, Christianity, and socialism. We have used her edition of Bede’s Ecclesiast...
Tertullian was born in Carthage (modern Tunisia) and one of the leaders of the early Christian church.
Schaff was Professor of Church History at the Western Theological Seminary.
This volume contains a long introduction on the life and works of Mencius, following by 7 books from his writings. The 2 indexes have not been reproduced in the HTML version of the file but can b...