David C Burrell: 2 books
Fjords
Processes and Products
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Fjords are both an interface and a buffer between glaciated continents and the oceans. They exhibit a very wide range in environmental conditions, both in dynamics and geography. Some are truly wonders of the world with their dizzying mountain slopes rising sharply from the ocean edge. Others represent...
Knowing the Unknowable God
Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1992
In Knowing the Unknowable God, David Burrell traces the intellectual intermingling of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions that made possible the medieval synthesis that served as the basis for Western theology. He shows how Aquinas's study of the Muslim philosopher Ibn-Sina and the Jewish thinker...