John Bowker

Biographic Data

ID247144
NAMEJohn Bowker
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEBowker
SIGNATUREBOWKER J
AFFILIATIONSLancaster University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX1

  • Why Religions Matter

    Open AccessJohn BowkerBOOKWhy Religions Matter2015

    What are religions? Why is it important to understand them? One answer is that religions and religious believers are extremely bad news: they are deeply involved in conflicts around the globe; they harm people of whom they disapprove; and they often seem irrational. Another answer claims that they are in fact extremely good news: religious beliefs and practices are universal and so fundamental in human nature that they have led us to great discov…

  • God: A Very Short Introduction

    John BowkerBOOKGod2014

    Who or what is God? How can we know God? Many people believe in God; not just throughout history but also in the present day. But who or what is it they believe in? Many different and sometimes conflicting answers have been suggested to this question. God: A Very Short Introduction explores some of the answers provided by philosophers, poets, and theologians, and considers why some people believe in God and others do not. It considers how each ma…

  • God, Spiritual Formation, and Downward Causation

    Open AccessJohn BowkerARTICLETheology2004

  • Implicit Morality: An Empirical Ethical Perspective

    John BowkerARTICLEImplicit Religion1998

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  • Religious Studies and the Languages of Religions

    Open AccessJohn BowkerARTICLEReligious Studies1981

    This paper was originally given to a meeting of the Institute of Religion and Theology in London. It was in response to a specific request to consider how far it is desirable, or even necessary, for a student or a teacher of a religious tradition to know at least the main language(s) of the tradition in question. To what extent, to put it slightly differently, is it possible to gain knowledge of, and insight into, religion and religions through t…

  • Religion as a one-way ticket

    John BowkerARTICLEReligion1977References: 1

  • The Targums and Rabbinic Literature. An Introduction to Jewish Interpretations on Scripture

    Ernst Ludwig Dietrich, John BowkerARTICLEOriens1976

  • The Sense of God

    Betty R Scharf, John BowkerARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1974Cited by: 5

  • Spurious Interpretations of Rabbinic Sources in the Studies of the Pharisees and Pharisaism

    Solomon Zeitlin, John Bowker et al.ARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review1974

  • Problems of Suffering in Religions of the World

    Jacob Neusner, John BowkerARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1971

  • The Problem of Suffering in the Qur'an

    Open AccessJohn BowkerARTICLEReligious Studies1969

    In his recent book, Evil and the God of Love , 1 Dr John Hick examined various Christian responses to the problem of evil. He traced two related, but in important respects different, paths of thought, which correspond to the two main ways in which the genesis or origin of evil have been understood: either as a capacity for goodness which has not yet been realised (with life, therefore, as a ‘vale of soul-making’), or as an original defect which h…

  • The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: An Introduction to Jewish Interpretations of Scripture

    Open AccessJohn Bowker, John Westerdale BowkerBOOKTargums and Rabbinic Literature1969

    The Targums are interpretative translations of the Hebrew text of the Bible which originated in Synagogue teaching, where an interpretation of the Hebrew text had to be given orally for the benefit of non-Hebrew speaking congregations. Over the centuries, a loose 'Targum Tradition' began to form and the written Aramaic Targums can best be understood as crystallisations of the Targum tradition at different points of time. In the first part of this…