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Elizabeth Anscombe's forthright philosophy speaks directly to many religious and ethical issues of current concern.This collection of her essays forms a companion volume to the critically acclaimed Human Life, Action and Ethics published in 2005.
Credit: Hilary Putnam

"Truly one of the great philosophers of the twentieth century."

Credit: Mary Warnock

"A writer of immense breadth, authority and penetration."

Source: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Credit: Alasdair MacIntyre

"This is an excellent and unusually rewarding book... On every topic Anscombe has something important to say, characteristically something that badly needed saying both when she wrote and now... [T]he peculiar interest of these papers lies in the way in which philosophical considerations are brought to bear on theological issues and theological on philosophical."

Nov 14, 2008

Source: The Spectator

Credit: Christopher Howse

"Those who did not know her are not perhaps accustomed to seeing approachable humanity in the work of G.E.M. Anscombe, the foremost analytical philosopher of the late 20th century. There is more of it than expected in a collection of her essays on religion and ethics... In addition to the usual hard-headed explosions of popular fallacies, she gives a moving account of what the presence of God can mean."

Nov 18, 2008

Source: The Telegraph

Credit: Christopher Howse

"A new collection of [Anscombe's] papers, several unpublished before, gives a fresh insight into the thoughts on religion and ethics of the leading English analytical philosopher of the last half century."

Source: Standpoint

Credit: A.W. Price, Birkbeck

"[There is no attempt] to reduce the arcana of religion to something different but more articulable; rather, an ability to illuminate what has to remain mysterious by setting it in the context of what we can and must be clear-headed about... Anscombe embraces mystery, though not absurdity or contradiction."

Apr 17, 2009

Source: Times Literary Supplement

Credit: John Cottingham

"Anscombe is acutely sensitive to the multiple layers of meaning found in religious language (something many present-day analytic philosophers of religion are curiously blind to)... These are essays of great sincerity and power, written with the philosophical care and precision for which Elizabeth Anscombe was justly renowned."

Source: The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly

Credit: John Finnis

"Anscombe carried out the work that is widely and reasonably judged the twentieth century's outstanding English Catholic philosophical achievement."

Credit: Roger Scruton

"Elizabeth Anscombe thought deeply, wrote beautifully, and was never taken in by pretence."

Source: Scientific and Medical Network

"The essays are searching and analytically brilliant."
Hardcover
- Publication Date: 01 August 2008
- ISBN-13: 9781845401436
- Extent: Main content page count : 250
- Code: 1845401433
- Dimensions: 13.5 x 21 x 1.8 cm
- Weight: 500 grams
- List Price: £40.00
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Paperback
- Publication Date: 01 August 2008
- ISBN-13: 9781845401214
- Product Content: Text (eye-readable)
- Extent: Main content page count : 250
- Code: 1845401212
- Dimensions: 13.5 x 21 x 1.8 cm
- Weight: 350 grams
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Title: Faith in a Hard Ground
Subtitle: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics
Author: G.E.M. Anscombe
Edited by: Mary Geach, Luke Gormally
Collection: St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
Language: English
Publisher: Imprint Academic
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