Philosophy of Religion: Nature and Contemplation
Religionsfilosofi: Natur och kontemplation
About the Reading list
READING LIST Spring 2025
RT2326 Philosophy of Religion: Nature and Contemplation, 7.5 credits Advanced level
Author
Title, Publisher, Year of Publication, Pages.
Pierre Hadot
The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008, 432 pp.
Plato
The Timaeus. Many editions available; in English, Timaeus and Critias, Oxford University Press, 2009, 100 pp; in Swedish Platon skrifter, bok 4, Atlantis, 2006.
Lucretius
The Nature of *Things. *Many editions available; in English, trans. by Alicia Stallings, Penguin Classics, 2007; in Swedish, Om tingens natur, Bokförlaget Faethon, 2022, c. 220 pp.
Bonaventure
The Soul’s Journey to God, in Bonaventure, Classics of Western Spirituality Series, Paulist Press, 1978 (or any other version of the text), 65 pp.
Malcolm Brett Grainger
Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America, Harvard University Press, 2019, 200 pp.
Erazim Kohák
The Embers and the Stars: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Moral Sense of Nature, University of Chicago Press, 1984, 220 pp.
In addition, shorter articles will be made available on Canvas.