Reading list

Philosophy of Religion: Nature and Contemplation

Religionsfilosofi: Natur och kontemplation

Course
RT2326
Second cycle
7.5 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
2025-03-27
Decision date
2025-01-28

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.