Oxford University Press

The methodological divide between systematic theologians and analytic philosophers of religion is ripe for exploration. The present volume represents an attempt to begin a much-needed interdisciplinary conversation about the value of analytic philosophical approaches to theological topics....

Based on an extensive review of relevant literature and an econometric analysis of inequality indexes, this volume provides the first systematic analysis of the changes in within-country income inequality over the last twenty years. In particular, it shows that inequality worsened in seventy per cent of the 73 developed, developing, and...

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Set in grimy, fog-ridden London, Gissing's `odd' women range from the idealistic Mary Barfoot and Rhoda Nunn, who run a school to train young women in office skills for work, to the Madden sisters struggling to subsist in low-paid jobs. Yet it is for the youngest Madden sister's marriage that the novel reserves its most sinister critique. With...

Ankylosing spondilitis is a chronic form of arthritis known to affect around 1 in 200 people (over 1 million sufferers in the USA alone). Ankylosing spondilitis: the facts is the first mass market book to be published on this important disease, written by someone who in not only a leading expert on AS, but is affected by it himself....

Why do the innocent suffer in a world created by a loving God? Does this mean that        God cannot prevent this suffering, despite His supposed omnipotence? Or is God not        loving after all? This in brief is 'the problem of evil'. The Devil provides one        solution to this problem: his rebellion against God and hatred of His works...