Biblica Hebraica: Stuttgartensia. American Bible Society. 2001.
The Greek New Testament. 4th ed. Edited by B. Aland, Bruce Metzger, J. Karavidopoulos, American Bible Society. 2000.
Al-Qur'an. A contemporary translation by Ahmed Ali. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.
A Presocratics Reader: Selected Fragments and Testimonia. Edited by Patricia Curd, Richard McKirahan. Hackett Publishing Co., 1996.
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Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Contra Gentiles. Translated by Anton C. Pegis. University of Notre Dame, 1975.
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Describes and analyzes the ontological problems which engage philosophers from
antiquity to the present.
Barth, Karl. The Doctrine of Creation: Church Dogmatics, vol. III, parts
1-4. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1955.
This is a classic text by the greatest Christian theologian of the 20th century.
For Barth, God in Christ is the UR
Beckett, Edmund. On the Origin of the Laws of Nature. London, UK: Society for the Preservation of Christian Knowledge, 1880.
Berger, Peter. The Other Side of God: A Polarity in World Religions. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1981.
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Bobbio, Norberto. Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 1993.
Bonansea, Bernardino M. Man and His Approach to God in John Duns Scotus. University Press of America, 1983.
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Copleston, Frederick. Religion and the One: Philosophies East and West.
Gifford Lectures. London: Search Press, 1982.
The work discusses the ultimate and transcendent reality as it is dealt with
in Taoist, Buddhist, Vedantin, Islamic, Judaic, and Christian scriptures and
literatures.
Craig, William Lane. The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz.
London: Macmillan, 1980.
A discussion of different forms of the argument to God as First Cause or Ultimate
Cause of the physical world by a leading contemporary philosopher.
Dales, Richard C. Medieval Discussions of the Eternity of the World. New York, NY: E.J. Brill, 1990.
Dan, Joseph, Rondal Kiener. eds. The Early Kaballah: Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press, 1986.
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This classic grounds science and values in humanity itself. Humanism; humans
are in the end UR.
Dillenberger, John. Protestant Thought and Natural Science. University of Notre Dame, 1989.
Doran, Robert. Birth of a Worldview: Early Christianity in Its Jewish and Pagan Context. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995.
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Funkenstein, Amos. Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1986.
Gillispie, Charles Coulton. The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960.
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Hegel, G. F. W., A.V. Miller. Phenomenology of Spirit.
Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1979.
A classic in the philosophical analysis of consciousness, and of moving from
immediate experiene to knowledge of the Absolute Spirit.
Heidegger, Martin, John Macquarrie, Edward Robinson. Being and Time.
San Francisco: Harper, 1962.
A 20th C. classic. UR is Being, humans grasp Being only in time. Famous
distinction between Being and things.
Heidegger, Martin. History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1985.
Huxley, Julian. Evolutionary Humanism. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1992.
Klein, Eliuhu, Hayyim ben Joseph Vital. Kabbalah of Creation: Issac Luria's Early Mysticism. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 2000.
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Matt, Daniel Chanan. God and the Big Bang: Discovering
Harmony between Science and Spirituality. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights
Pub., 1998.
An interesting comparison of modern physics and Jewish Kabalah mysticism.
McInerney, Peter K. Time and Experience. Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 1991.
Broad examination of the experience and reality of time, with reference to several
modern philosophers. Concludes that real time is necessary to explain our passage
through it, and that we exist in time in various ways.
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Neville, Rober Cummings. Eternity and Time's Flow. Albany, NY: SUNY
Press, 1993.
Presents a view that time's flow can only be considered as the togetherness
of past, present and future in dynamic eternity. It provides for personal identity,
a theory of temporality, a theology of God as eternal, and immortality.
Novack, George. The Origins of Materialism: The Evolution of a Scientific View of the World. New York: Pathfinder, 1965.
Novak, David, Norbert Samuelson. Creation and the End of Days: Judaism and Scientific Cosmology. University Press of America, 1986.
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Otto, Rudolf. The Idea of the Holy. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1958.
This very influential classic in the phenomenology of religion describes UR
as "the numenous."
Outka, Gene. Agape: An Ethical Analysis. New Haven: Yale Univeristy Press, 1972.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. Parmenides, Plato and the Semantics of Not-being. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 1990.
Plato. Republic. In Collected Dialogues. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961.
Plato's idea that UR is in the Realm of Forms.
Plato. Timaeus. In Collected Dialogues. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1961.
The most influential Western philosopher's work on UR. UR as the World of Ideas
or Realm of Forms.
Popkin, Richard Henry. Essays on the Context, Nature, and Influence of Isaac Newton's Theology: Polytheism, Deism, and Newton. Dordrecht, NL: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.
Rucker, Rudy. The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality.
1984.
A clear description of the "reality" of higher dimensions.
Rudavsky, Tamar. Time Matters: Time, Creation, and Cosmology in Medieval Jewish Philosophy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000.
Samuelson, Norbert. Judaism and the Doctrine of Creation. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994.
Schimmel, Annamarie. Mystical Dimensions of Islam. Chapel Hill: Univ.
of North Carolina Press, 1985.
This is the best introduction in English to the Sufi tradition in Islam. The
Sufi are a mystical sect, seeking communion with the One. They believe all religions
are seeking the same mystical UR.
Schrödinger, Erwin. My View of the World. Woodbridge, CT: Ox Bow Press, 1961.
Schwartz, Gary E.R. The Living Energy Universe. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., 1999.
Sharpe, Kevin J. David Bohm's World: New Physics and New Religion. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1993.
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Singer, Dorothea Waley. Giordano Bruno: His Life and Thought. New York, NY: Schuman, 1950.
Singer, Irving. The Nature of Love: Plato to Luther. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Singer, Irving. The Nature of Love: The Modern World. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Smith, Huston. The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions.
New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
Widely considered the best, most accessible introduction to the world's religions.
Sorabji, Richard. Time, Creation, and the Continuum: Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Spinoza, Benedict de. A Theologico-Political Treatise. Trans. by R. H. M. Elwes. New York: Dover, 1951.
One of the most original and influential philosophical analyses of all times on the concepts such as God, the universe, pantheism, revealed religion, the mind, the emotion, freedom and the nature of humanity.
Stewart, Ian. Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2001.
Stone, Bryan P., Thomas, Jay Oord. Thy Nature and Thy Name is Love: Wesleyan and Process Theologies in Dialogue. Nashville: Kingswood, 2001.
Swindler, Leonard. Toward a Universal Theology of Religion. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1987.
Taylor, Mark Lloyd. God is Love: A Study in the Theology of Karl Rahner. Atlanta: Scholars, 1986.
Templeton, John M. Agape Love: A Tradition Found in Eight World Religions. Radnor, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 1999.
Templeton, John M. Pure Unlimited Love: An Eternal Creative Force and Blessing Taught by All Religions. Radnor, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2000.
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Tillich, Paul. Systematic Theology. 3
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God beyond 'god', the ground of Being. God is beyond being whereas existence
is a human category.
Towne, Edgar A. Two Types of New Theism: Knowledge of God in the Thought
of Paul Tillich and Charles Hartshorne. New York: Lang, 1997.
Presents the alternative views of Theism of these men and argues that they can
withstand "modern" critical inquiry and even "postmodern"
irony.
Uspenskii, P. D. A New Model of the Universe: Principles of the Psychological Method in its Application to Problems of Science, Religion, and Art. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1997.
Vacek, Edward Collins. Love, Human and Divine: The Heart of Christian Ethics.
Washington, D.C. Georgetown University Press, 1994.
In what might be the most important comprehensive tome on the ethics of Christian
love, Vacek addresses various types of love (agape, eros, and philia) as they
have been formulated in the past and present. While rarely addressing connections
between the Christian love ethic and scientific concerns, this book provides
a theological, anthropological, and ethical basis upon which such an address
should arise.
Whitehead, Alfred North. Religion in the Making. New York: Meridian Books, 1926.
Whitehead, Alfred North. Science and the Modern World. New York: The
Free Press, 1967.
An incisive and penetrating critique of scientific materialism, as well as an
outline of the organismic philosophy of nature required by modern and recent
science. Classic analysis of the needed connections between religion, metaphysics
and science by the major process philosopher. 'Creativity' as one of the major
characteristics of Ultimate Reality.
Whitehead, Alfred North. The Concept of Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994.
Wilders, N. M. The Theologian and His Universe: Theology and Cosmology from the Middle Ages to the Present. HarperSanFrancisco, 1984.
Williams, Daniel Day. The Spirit and the Forms of Love. New York: Harper and Row, 1968.
Wolfson, Henry A. The Philosophy of Kalam. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
Univ. Press, 1976.
"Kalam" was a medieval school of Islamic philosophy. They argued that
God alone was the UR.
Yourgrau, W., A. D. Breck. Cosmology, History and Theology. New York and London: Plenum, 1977.