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Catholic Answers Press Real Story of Catholic History
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Catholic Answers Press Pope Peter: Defending the Chur
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Faithlife Corporation The Trinity and Martin Luther
Book SynopsisMartin Luther was classically orthodox.Scholars often portray Luther as a heroic revolutionary, totally unlike his peers and forebears--as if he alone inaugurated modernity. But is this accurate? Is this even fair? At times this revolutionary model of Luther has come to some shocking conclusions, particularly concerning the doctrine of the Trinity. Some have called Luther modalist or tritheist--somehow theologically heterodox.In The Trinity and Martin Luther Christine Helmer uncovers Luther's trinitarian theology. The Trinity is the central doctrine of the Christian faith. It's not enough for dusty, ivory tower academics to know and understand it. Common people need the Trinity, too. Doctrine matters.Martin Luther knew this. But how did he communicate the doctrine of the Trinity to lay and learned listeners? And how does his trinitarian teaching relate to the medieval Christian theological and philosophical tradition?Helmer upends stereotypes of Luther's doctrine of the Trinity.This definitive work has been updated with a new foreword and with fresh translations of Luther's Latin and German texts.
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Faithlife Corporation Basics of the Faith
Book SynopsisA systematic theology from the pillars of evangelicalism. Basics of the Faith is an overview of essential Christian doctrines from some of the best minds of mid-twentieth century evangelicalism around the globe. Originally appearing in the pages of Christianity Today during 1961-1962, this collection includes essays from influential theologians and biblical scholars including Philip E. Hughes on inspiration, Anthony A. Hoekema on the divine attributes, John Murray on sanctification, Cornelius Van Til on original sin, F. F. Bruce on the person of Christ, G. E. Ladd on the saving acts of God, Leon Morris on the atonement, and J. I. Packer on the nature of the church. This edition includes an introduction by Kevin J. Vanhoozer that lays out their original context and evaluates their ongoing significance. Approachable yet scholarly, Basics of the Faith is both a relevant systematic theology and a celebration of evangelical heritage.
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Faithlife Corporation Orthodox yet Modern
Book SynopsisHerman Bavinck showed that othodox theology continues to speak authoritatively today. Since the English translation from Dutch of Herman Bavinck's magisterial 4-volume Reformed Dogmatics, there has been a blossoming interest in Bavinck's theology. Readers have been drawn to Bavinck for his faithfulness to the Reformed tradition while also engaging the questions of 19th-century Europe. Far from simply revisiting the older dogmatic systems, Bavinck faithfully engages modern trends like historical-criticism, the epistemological problems raised by Kant, the rationalism of the philosophes, and the radical changes ushered in through the French and European revolutions. The question then is, was Bavinck orthodox, modern, or both? In Orthodox yet Modern, Cory C. Brock argues that Bavinck acts as a bridge between orthodox and modern views, insofar as he subsumes the philosophical-theological questions and concepts of theological modernity under the conditions of his orthodox, confessional tradition. By exploring the relation between Bavinck and Schleiermacher, Orthodox yet Modern presents Herman Bavinck as a theologian eager to engage the contemporary world, rooted in the catholic and Reformed tradition, absorbing the best of modernity while rejecting its excesses. Bavinck represents a theologian who is at once orthodox, yet modern.
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Faithlife Corporation Discontinuity to Continuity
Book SynopsisWhat is the best framework for reading the Bible? The question of how to relate the Old and New Testaments is as old as the Bible itself. While most Protestants are unified on the foundations, there are major disagreements on particular issues. Who should be baptized? Is the Christian obligated to obey the Law of Moses? Does the church supplant Israel? Who are the proper recipients of God's promises to Israel? In Discontinuity to Continuity, Benjamin Merkle brings light to the debates between dispensational and covenantal theological systems. Merkle identifies how Christians have attempted to relate the Testaments, placing viewpoints along a spectrum of discontinuity to continuity. Each system's concerns are sympathetically summarized and critically evaluated. Through his careful exposition of these frameworks, Merkle helps the reader understand the key issues in the debate. Providing more light than heat, Merkle's book will help all readers better appreciate other perspectives and articulate their own.
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Faithlife Corporation Sinless Flesh
Book SynopsisDid Christ assume a fallen human nature? "What is not assumed is not healed." So goes the Chalcedonian maxim articulated by Gregory of Nazianzus regarding the nature and extent of Christ's work in assuming a human nature. But what is the nature of that assumption? If Christ is to stand in solidarity with us, must he have assumed not merely a human nature, but specifically a fallen human nature? In Sinless Flesh: A Critique of Karl Barth's Fallen Christ, Rafael Bello argues against the assertion made by Karl Barth, T. F. Torrance, and those who follow them that Christ assumed a fallen nature. Through retrieval of patristic, medieval, and Reformed orthodox theologians, Bello argues that a proper understanding of human nature, trinitarian inseparable operations, and the habitual grace-grace of union distinction leads to the conclusion that the assertion that Christ assumed a fallen human nature is at odds with faithful theological and historical understandings of the incarnation. Readers interested in theological retrieval for issues in contemporary theology will find a faithful model and way forward for a thorny issue in modern dogmatics.
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Faithlife Corporation The Federal Theology of Jonathan Edwards
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Faithlife Corporation Always Reforming
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Faithlife Corporation All Thy Lights Combine
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Faithlife Corporation Christ, the Way
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Faithlife Corporation How the Church Fathers Read the Bible
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Faithlife Corporation The Klaas Schilder Reader
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Faithlife Corporation Reformed Dogmatics in Dialogue – The Theology of
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Faithlife Corporation Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Book SynopsisFrom basement Bible study to leading evangelical institution Starting from humble beginnings in the late nineteenth century, the story of Trinity International University and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School is one of faithfulness. In Great Is Thy Faithfulness, scholars John D. Woodbridge, David M. Gustafson, Scott M. Manetsch, and Bradley J. Gundlach trace the journey of Trinity International University and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. In order to tell the story of evangelicalism in America, one must know the story of Trinity International University. Great Is Thy Faithfulness is an essential resource for understanding an institution that has been at the center of evangelical theological life for decades. Readers will be encouraged by God's faithfulness to his people.
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Faithlife Corporation A Historiographic Study of the Military Campaigns
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Faithlife Corporation A Bond between Souls
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Faithlife Corporation Fundamentalists in the Public Square: Evolution,
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Faithlife Corporation Lexham Geographic Commentary on the Pentateuch
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press New Approaches to Religion and the Enlightenment
Book SynopsisThe Enlightenment, an eighteenth-century philosophical and cultural movement that swept through Western Europe, has often been characterized as a mostly secular phenomenon that ultimately undermined religious authority and belief, and eventually gave way to the secularization of Western society and to modernity. To whatever extent the Enlightenment can be credited with giving birth to modern Western culture, historians in more recent years have aptly demonstrated that the Enlightenment hardly singled the death knell of religion. Not only did religion continue to occupy a central pace in political, social, and private life throughout the eighteenth century, but it shaped the Enlightenment project itself in significant and meaningful ways. The thinkers and philosophers normally associated with the Enlightenment, to be sure, challenged state-sponsored church authority and what they perceived as superstitious forms of belief and practice, but they did not mount a campaign to undermine religion generally. A more productive approach to understanding religion in the age of Enlightenment, then, is to examine the ways the Enlightenment informed religious belief and practice during the period as well as the ways religion influenced the Enlightenment and to do so from a range of disciplinary perspectives, which is the goal of this collection. The chapters document the intersections of religious and Enlightenment ideas in such areas as theology, the natural sciences, politics, the law, art, philosophy, and literature.Table of ContentsPreface Notes from Many Hands: Pierre Lyonnet’s Redesign of Friedrich Christian Lesser’s Insecto-Theology Kevin L. Cope An Apostate Maskil: The Effect of the Haskalah on Daniil Avraamovich Khvol’son Andrew C. Reed The Discourse of Civil Religion in M. M. Kheraskov’s Numa Pompilius Andreas Berg George Whitefield, John Wesley, and the Rhetoric of Liberty Glen O’Brien The Enlightenment in the Historical Imagination of Evangelical and Awakened Protestants in Europe, Britain, and North America, c. 1750–1850 Andrew Kloes Tale of the Comet: Enlightenment Discourse, the Salem Witch Trials, and the Undoing of Puritan Orthodoxy Douglass Madison Furrh “The Glorious Liberty of the Children of God”: Moral Agency and Human Liberty in Samuel Clarke’s Newtonian Theology Jonathan D. Pike Facing Forward, Looking Backward: Milton, Dryden, and the Politics of Biblical Interpretation John J. Burke, Jr. David Simple, Volume the Last, and Rational Christian Faith Robin Runia Repentance or Regret: Isabella’s Religion in The History of the Nun Lisa Sikkink The Mémoires of Jean Marteilhe, a Huguenot Galley Slave, in the Age of Enlightenment Séverine Collignon-Ward “The Agreeable Contrast”: British Caricatures of the 1745 Jacobite Revolution Monika Renate Barget Religion and the Late German Enlightenment: Four New Translations of Schiller and Goethe Paul E. Kerry Managing Overseas Missions: The SPCK in the Scilly Islands, 1796–1819 Bob Tennant Bibliography Index Contributors
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Turner Publishing Company Faithful Volunteers: The History of Religion in
Book SynopsisA celebration of the unique history and character of religion in Tennessee, from the earliest pioneer days to the present, Faithful Volunteers covers the state's spiritual topography from a nonsectarian viewpoint. More than just a history of religion, it puts religious events into their proper cultural contexts.
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Regnery Publishing Jesus Is Risen: Paul and the Early Church
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Regnery Publishing The Resurrected Jesus: The Church in the New
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Brandeis University Press Transmitting Jewish History – Yosef Hayim
Book SynopsisThe deeply personal reflections of a giant of Jewish history. Scholar Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932–2009) possessed a stunning range of erudition in all eras of Jewish history, as well as in world history, classical literature, and European culture. What Yerushalmi also brought to his craft was a brilliant literary style, honed by his own voracious reading from early youth and his formative undergraduate studies. This series of interviews paints a revealing portrait of this giant of history, bringing together exceptional material on Yerushalmi’s personal and intellectual journeys that not only attests to the astonishing breakthrough of the issues of Jewish history into “general history,” but also offers profound insight into being Jewish in today's world. Trade Review“[Yerushalmi's] profound insights into what it means to be a Jew in modern times comes out in these fascinating interviews.” * Jewish Link *Table of ContentsForeword to the English Edition by Alexander KayeNote to the French Edition by Ophra YerushalmiIntroduction – Sylvie Anne GoldbergI. Zakhor, From Memory to Reading HistoryII. Choosing HistoryIII. Back to ChildhoodIV. The Path to CardosoV. The Melody of HistoryVI. From Zakhor to FreudVII. DerridaVIII. New York: 1939-1945IX. Who Makes History?: Questions of InterpretationX. A Jewish Kid from the Bronx at Harvard and ColumbiaXI. Professor YerushalmiXII. Questions of History and HistoriographyXIII. The CollectorXIV. Gershom ScholemXV. The Ritual ExperienceXVI. Truth in History and Its AvatarsXVII. Messianism and ZionismXVIII. The State of Israel and Messianic SignificanceXIX. An American JewXX. From Yesterday to TomorrowWith “Clio and the Jews: Reflections on Jewish Historiography in the Sixteenth Century”Index
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Nova Science Publishers Inc The Growth of the Christian Church: A Search for
Book SynopsisThe subject is historical and follows the development of the Church-the great movements of faith and the people that have shaped the worldwide mission over two millennia. Christianity came into being (c. 30 AD) when the Apostles received the power of the Holy Spirit to preach the resurrection and Gospel of Christ (Acts 1-2). Jesus had placed the Jewish idea of the Kingdom of God at the centre of his teaching but gave the idea a new spiritual and universal meaning (Matthew 28:16-20). He taught that God is present wherever individuals enter into the relationship of love which God is seeking to initiate with them. Throughout the ages the Catholic Church spread the Gospel, and sustained Christian communities, bringing light and hope into the lives of men and women in the darkest times of their history, playing a key role in the development of society with the founding of hospitals and institutions of education, retraining the political ambitions of monarchs. Despite emerging differences of interpretation in matters of theology and practice, and the invention of new ways of being Christian at the Reformation, belief in Jesus Christ and his Gospel has grown and spread throughout the world, beginning with the Age of Discovery. In the 20th century the Church began to reconsider its ideological traditions and to participate in the ecumenical movement, with a resurgence of scholarship, a new attitude to the witness of the Church in the world, expounded at the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). Christianity has moulded the shape of Western civilisation and has been carried by missionaries to nearly all the countries of the world.Table of ContentsTable of Figures; Preface; Introduction; The Early and Medieval Church; The Protestant and Catholic Reformations; The Church 1683-1983; Conclusion: The Development of Doctrine: A Timeline of Magisterial Teaching; References; Index.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc The Growth of the Christian Church: A Search for
Book SynopsisThis volume is the second of two devoted to the growth of the Christian Church over the two millennia of its existence. The volumes are meant to supplement each otherâthe first as history of the development of established faith in Jesus Christ; the second as a series of articles and citations that throw deeper light on the implications of the Church''s development and beliefs. This Reader is intended to bring the themes incipient to the evolution of Christianity into closer focus. The chapters are designed to examine some of the major areas of the faith.
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Word on Fire The Mind of Benedict XVI
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Blurb The Life of Hazrat Aminah bint Wahb The Mother of
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G&D Media Escape From Iran: The Exodus of Persian Jewry
Book SynopsisFor 2,500 years the Jews of Persia, banished from their homeland, built a civilization in exileTheir fortunes rose and fell, from the glory of their ancestral traditions to persecution, suppression, and the brutality of conquering armies. By the mid20th Century the Jewish community of modern-day Iran had achieved a measure of success-until the Islamic Revolution of 1979 threatened once again to plunge Persian Jewry into darkness.This is the story of the dramatic rescue and emigration of thousands of Iranian Jewish students to America, and the miraculous rebirth of an ancient civilization in a brand new world."...My deepest thanks for the work you have done on behalf of Persian Jewry. Before the Islamic Revolution you came to Iran and worked tirelessly to help the youth of Iran escape to a safe haven. I remember your acts of self-sacrifice in your rescue efforts to bring them to safety in the United States. On that Yom Kippur in Machane Mordechai, I remember the heartrending prayers of the students and their profound worry and concern over the wellbeing of their families who remained in Iran...You cared for our children, providing food, schooling and housing. We must express our deepest appreciation for your heroic efforts on behalf of the Jews of Iran." - Excerpt from the commendation letter of Rabbi Eliyahu Ben-Hayim, Senior Rav and Dayan of the Persian Jewish Community of New YorkSHOLEM BER HECHT was there each step of the way, overseeing every facet of the operation under the direction of his illustrious father, Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht o.b.m., and the visionary guidance of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. A noted educator and spiritual leader, he is CEO of the National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education, Rabbi of the Sephardic Jewish Congregation of Queens, Senior Chabad Emissary in Queens, and Senior Rabbi of the Sephardic Community of Queens since 1974. In this remarkable book he weaves together the thrilling tale of the escape from Iran with his penetrating insight into its history-making significance.
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G&D Media The Confessions of St. Augustine
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Pickwick Publications Write That They May Read
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Tanglewood Publishing For Those in Peril
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R. R. Bowker Message to the Blackman II: God has a Word for
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Jesociety Press Thunder God, Wonder God: Exploring the Emblematic
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Meid Books A History of the Catholic Church
Book Synopsis127 short chapters the story of one of the world’s largest religions. A History of the Catholic Church tells in 127 short chapters the story of one of the world’s largest religions from its roots in Jewish history to the pontificate of Benedict XVI. In a taut narrative, it describes how the small community of those who believed that Jesus of Nazareth was the Son of God grew into a powerful institution whose patriarch, the pope, claimed both secular and spiritual jurisdiction over all the nations of Christendom. There are chapters on the major challenges it faced such as the rise of Islam, the schism with the Orthodox Church, the Protestant Reformation, French Revolution, Bolshevism, Nazism and secularism. There are also short chapters on Catholic art, architecture, philosophy and literature. It is not an academic treatise but a selection of episodes chosen to entertain as well as inform the reader. Piers Paul Read is the author of 17 novels and eight works of non-fiction, among them Alive. The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974). He studied History at Cambridge University, and has written a history of the crusading order, The Templars (1999), and an account of the infamous miscarriage of justice in France in the nineteenth century, The Dreyfus Affair (2012). The Templars ‘A highly readable and nicely paced book that draws on the lessons of modern historical scholarship while also communicating a sense of narrative excitement and drive.’ Evening Standard The Dreyfus Affair ‘In bringing his novelist’s eye to bear on events, Read ensures they unfold with a compelling sense of drama.’ The Sunday Times
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Sydney University Press Celts in Legend and Reality: Papers from the
Book SynopsisCONTENTS:Preface by Pamela O'NeillCelts in the Material Record??The image of a Celtic society: medieval West Highland sculpture by David H Caldwell, Fiona M McGibbon, Suzanne Miller and Nigel A RuckleyJust what did a nemeton look like anyway? By Kristen ErskineCelts, Romans and Germans in the Rhineland by Michael NelsonThe ancient Celts: classical perceptions and modern definitions by David Sheehan'Celts in the Gobi desert': a linguistico-archaeological mess by Aedeen CreminCelts in History??Gendering the foundation myths of Scotland in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by Michelle SmithEdmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft's Irish education by Mary SpongbergEamhain Mhacha in this world and in the otherworld by Penny PollardMyth and legend in the landscape of the Rhondda Valley, south Wales, as a source of cultural identity by Graham Aubrey'And anyway she was always going about with the Mother of God': the Brigid and Mary stories in Gaelic culture by Mary O'ConnellCelts in Law??The idea of continuation and extinguishment of 'Welsh' customary land law in the face of Norman-English conquest and legal regime change by Michael StuckeyThe Welsh laws of women by Gwenyth RichardsThe Scottish Highlands and the conscience of the nation, 1886 to 2003 by Ewen A CameronCelts in Literature??Irish myths: fantastic nonsense or a real record of astronomical catastrophes? by Patrick McCaffertyImperial Roman elements in the architecture of the city in Saltair na Rann by Tessa MorrisonFiction, feminism and the 'Celtic Church': the Sister Fidelma novels of Peter Tremayne by Carole CusackMorgan le Fay: Celtic origins and literary images by Dominique Beth WilsonWicca in Eileanan and the problems of history by Lauren BernauerCelts in the Diaspora??Irish and Scottish child migrants at Pinjarra: maintaining a Celtic identity by Paula-Lee M MageeThe Irish language in Australia: survey of a community language by Dymphna Lonergan'A class equal to any for making prosperous colonists...': Ulster Protestant migrants in the Antipodes by Brad Patterson'Migrant fairies': an anthropological investigation of contemporary Celtic identity in the Australian setting as endorsed by mythical symbolism by Jeffrey ParkerCompeting Celticities: Cornish and Irish constructions of Australia by Philip Payton
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The Medieval and Modern Centre Medieval Irish Law: Text and Context
Book SynopsisCONTENTS:Preface by Anders Ahlqvist & Pamela O''NeillThe Types of Pledges in Early Irish Law: Form, Function and Context by Jaqueline BemmerAspects of athgabál aile by Hanne-Mette Alsos RaaeReflecting a Local Economy? Evidence from Coibnes Uisci Thairidne by Riona DoolanThe Distribution of Body-fine: AD 650-1150 by Neil McLeodNarratives in Early Irish Law: A Typological Study by Fangzhe QiuMaterial Culture and Social Development in Early Irish Law Texts by Pamela O''NeillTowards the Linguistic Dating of Early Irish Law Texts by David StifterNorse Loanwords and the Dating of Early Irish Texts by Timothy CausbrookOld Irish airaiccecht ''primer, etc.'' by Anders Ahlqvist
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Sydney University Press Celts and their Cultures at Home and Abroad: A
Book SynopsisCONTENTS:Preface by Anders Ahlqvist & Pamela O'NeillOld Irish no· by Anders AhlqvistIn Pursuit of the Hand of Madeleine de Valois: The European Marriage Negotiations of James V of Scotland I517-1536 by Lorna G. BarrowScottish Migration to Ulster during the 'Seven III Years' of the 1690s by Karen J. CullenIrish suide / -side 'the aforementioned' by Aaron GriffithThe Murder of the Archbishop of St Andrews and its Place in the Politics of Religion in Restoration Scotland and England by Marcus K. HarmesTwo Fragments of Auraicept na nÉces in the Irish Franciscan Archive: Context and Content by Deborah HaydenAn Examination of the Recent Reconceptualising of Woodlands in Scotland from the Last Ice Age to the Present by Sybil M. JackCelticity in the Works of William Shakespeare by Charles W. MacquarrieÓn and airliciud: Loans in Medieval lrish Law by Neil McLeod'What are you talking about?' Tochmarc Ailbe and Courtship Flytings by Daniel F. Melia'The Canny Scot' Rev. John Dunmore Lang and the Largs Controversy by Tessa MorrisonThe Meaning of Muirbolc: A Gaelic Toponymic Mystery by Pamela O'NeillWilliam Cobbett's Scotophobia by Gordon Pentland'The Original of the Portrait' Irish Gothic and the Painted Image by Julie-Ann RobsonFrom Synthetic to Analytic? The Changing Use of Diminutive Expressions in Welsh by Karolina RosiakThe Iconography of Sovereignty and Dynasty in Early Renaissance Britain by Katie StevensonLaoidh an Táilleir 'The Ballad of the Tailor': Sartorial Satire and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Scotland by Natasha SumnerLost - and some Found: Scottish Gaelic Manuscripts in New South Wales by Alasdair & Brian TaylorSt Carthage in Australasia by Chris Watson
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Sydney University Press Germano-Celtica: A Festschrift for Brian Taylor
Book SynopsisCONTENTS:Preface by Anders Ahlqvist & Pamela O'NeillIn Honour of my Father, Brian Taylor by Alasdair TaylorBrian Taylor: The Wizard of Celtic Studies by Aedeen CreminBrian Taylor: An Appreciation by Sybil JackHast du mir gesehen by Anders AhlqvistThe Soul in the Old English Soliloquies and Ninth-Century Neoplatonism by Daniel AnlezarkThe Psalter in the Prose Lives of St Guthlac by Helen AppletonWelsh Antiquarianism and Proto-Nationalism in Elizabeth Hardy's Owen Glendower (1849) by Geraint EvansCaerleon and Cultural Memory in the Modem Literature of Wales by Helen Fulton'The Mavis of Clan Donald': Engaging with John MacCodrum by William GilliesStudying in Continental Europe: The Experience of Australian Postgraduates by Wallace KirsopFrom Phonetics to Phonograph: Teaching Spoken German in the 1930s by Nicola McLellandScottish and German Connections by Michael Graham NelsonOtherness in the Writings of St Patrick by Lynette OlsonA Possible Early Medieval Route across Scotland by Pamela O'NeillLiterary Translations between Polish and Welsh: An Overview by Karolina RosiakThe Death of the Dictation by Katherine Spadaro
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Sydney University Press Celtic-Australian Identities
Book SynopsisCONTENTS:United Irishman Organisation in New South Wales and the Castle Hill Revolt of March 1804 by Ruán O'DonnellThe Connerys in Ireland and NSW by Brendan Kiely'An Interesting Freight of Numerous Friendless Beings' - pre-Famine Assisted Immigration to NSW by Perry McIntyreEmbarking for the New World - a Group Migration to South Australia in 1849 by Patrick DuffyA Gathering of Irish Instinctives: Dan Deniehy's Republican Portrait by David HeadonFinding the Welsh in NSW by Lesley WalkerBoorowa and Young-a case study of the Influence of Irish-Australians on the Voting for Australian Federation by Patrick McCormackIrish-Australian Nightingales - Voices from an Invisible Choir? by Jeff BrownriggPriests, the Gaelic Revival and Irish-Australian Cultural Identity, 1880-1920 by Jonathan WoodingThe Impact of Vietnam and Ireland on Australian Identity during the 1960s by Val NooneLouis de Paor - From the Boy to the Father by Brian ÓConchubhair
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Biblioasis All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine
Book SynopsisA deeply personal search for meaning in Michelangelo’s frescoes—and an impassioned defence of the role of art in a fractured age.What do we hope to get out of seeing a famous piece of art? Jeannie Marshall asked that question of herself when she started visiting the Sistine Chapel frescoes. She wanted to understand their meaning and context—but in the process, she also found what she didn’t know she was looking for.All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel tells the story of Marshall’s relationship with one of our most cherished artworks. Interwoven with the history of its making and the Rome of today, it’s an exploration of the past in the present, the street in the museum, and the way a work of art can both terrify and alchemize the soul. An impassioned defence of the role of art in a fractured age, All Things Move is a quietly sublime meditation on how our lives can be changed by art, if only we learn to look.Trade ReviewPraise for All Things Move"The Sistine Chapel serves as inspiration and structure for this deeply contemplative account about life, family, art, and appreciation."—New York Times"Elegantly voiced [...] [Marshall's] declaration of a point of view, that sense of personal experience in the face of great art and especially the right to have personal experience in the face of great art, proves to be as worthy a subject as the Sistine Chapel itself."—Washington Post"In the era of the perpetual scroll, art still asks us to stop and look, long and slowly. All Things Move is a rich vindication of one writer’s decision to do just that."—Globe and Mail“[Marshall’s] aim—appropriate to the spirit of Renaissance humanism that inspired the frescoes—becomes one of pulling out the human stories beneath their biblical veneer, and her observations on this front are often disarmingly simple, lovely and intelligent.”—Emily Donaldson, Globe and Mail"Marshall’s book is a meditation on how lives can be changed by art."—Toronto Star"Jeannie Marshall examines how art can transform our lives [...] Marshall may not be an art historian, but she nonetheless elegantly sets the Sistine Chapel in historical context."—CBC Ideas"Jeannie Marshall’s All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel brings Michelangelo’s frescoes into exacting view, considering not only the details of the images and context of their making, but their ongoing situatedness in human history."—Ploughshares"Informative, insightful, perceptive, thought-provoking, and exceptionally 'reader friendly' in organization and presentation, All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel is unreservedly recommended."—Midwest Book Review"All Things Move: Learning to Look at the Sistine Chapel ... makes a unique case for considering the Chapel as something other than a religious enclave, scholarly artifact, or checklist tourist attraction. It’s all those, of course, but its otherworldly qualities transcend religious, academic, or tour-bus affiliations."—Canadian Architect"A sublime meditation on the Sistine Chapel."—The National Catholic Register"In case you have a sense of wanderlust but aren’t able to indulge it yourself, Marshall’s book [...] is a meditation on how lives can be changed by art; and guides us through how she learned how to truly see Michelangelo’s work, and what it has to tell us about life and art."—Toronto Star“Part memoir, part art theory, and all manner of exploration: All Things is an essay in the greatest sense of the word, a meaningful attempt to get to the very heart of why art matters.”—The Tyee"Part meditation, part cultural criticism, part therapy, All Things Move captures the complex range of emotions that art can sometimes elicit in us, as well as the questions that may arise as a consequence."—Literary Review of Canada“All Things Move is an extended essay on how we experience art [...] evocative and illuminating, a moving meditation on the human impulse both to create art and to experience its power.”—Winnipeg Free Press"A testament to quiet patience, and what we gain when we let go of preconceptions of how we are supposed to interact with an artwork of any medium or discipline."—Quill & Quire"Jeannie Marshall's book All Things Move addresses the splendor of the iconic Sistine Chapel from personal and universal perspectives [...] an all-encompassing intimate tour of the Sistine Chapel's extraordinary wonders"—Foreword Reviews"'Great Art' can often have a highbrow, inaccessible aura, but Marshall’s individual approach to the Sistine Chapel makes it so compelling."—McGill Tribune"Jeannie Marshall offers a meditation on the timeless values and personal meanings in both art and religion. Full of insights into everyone from Michelangelo and Martin Luther to Barnett Newman, All Things Move is a celebration of the power of art to make us see, feel and think."—Ross King, author of Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling"All Things Move is not just another book, written in clear and lively sentences that anyone will want to read, detailing the history and creation of one of the greatest works of art known to mankind. It's a book that actually operates in the opposite direction—a book about how we experience that work of art, and why the experience is so unforgettable. Michelangelo made a great and lasting work of art that changed history. But in Marshall's gifted hands, our experience of it becomes an adventure and a work of art in its own right. This is a book about discovery, unlike anything you have read before."—Ian Brown, author of Sixty"In the manner of the late W. G. Sebald, who shattered sundry barriers in his writing, Jeannie Marshall has produced a prose poem, a deeply personal, multi-layered, and thoroughly captivating meditation on art, spirituality, and life. I was both moved and enchanted."—Modris Eksteins, author of Solar DancePraise for Jeannie Marshall“Marshall’s clear, direct book ably captures the frustrations of trying to find the healthiest path and inspiring kids to do the same.”—Kirkus Reviews“Marshall ... writes passionately about the dangers posed by processed foods—not just to our children’s health but to our way of life, our human attachment to the 'ordinary happiness' of meals cooked at home from real foods.”—Boston Globe“Engaging … admirably well-researched … a well-timed eye-opener.”—Chris Nuttal-Smith, Globe and Mail“Outside the Box is about teaching kids how to appreciate real food but also about how globalization is changing the way the world eats. In this beautifully written book about what needs to be done to preserve food culture in Italy and elsewhere, Marshall makes the political personal as she explains how she is teaching her son to enjoy the pleasures of eating food prepared, cooked and lovingly shared by friends and family.”—Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics
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Must Have Books The Great Heresies
Book SynopsisHilaire P. R. Belloc (1870-1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century, known as an orator, poet, satirist, man of letters and political activist. He is most notable for his Catholic faith, which had a strong impact on most of his works and his writing collaboration with G. K. Chesterton. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds, but is also widely regarded as a humane and sympathetic man. In this important book THE GREAT HERESIES written in 1936, Belloc predicts the re-emergence of Islam with mind-blowing accuracy, which we see in today''s world, and expertly tackles all the other major heresies throughout history as well, which threatened to subdue true Faith.
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Reaktion Books St George: A Saint for All
Book SynopsisThe image of St George - the mounted, medieval knight slaying a dragon - seems so familiar to us all that it is tempting to assume this figure is easily understood. He is, in fact, one of the most significant and complex mythic figures in Christian culture, and has played an important role in Eastern Orthodox, Coptic and western European traditions over many centuries. Today St George continues to have a lively and diverse following: his various appearances can be found across many world religions, including Islam, Hinduism, Judaism and the African-Brazilian belief system Candomble. St George's identification with nature, springtime and healing means that he can also be found throughout pagan beliefs. St George: A Saint for All includes firsthand accounts of celebrations in Georgia, Greece, Malta and Belgium, and explores the iconic figure's wide-ranging significance in nations such as Lebanon, Palestine, Ethiopia and Estonia, as well as his totemic role for the Roma people. With or without the dragon, St George has been repeatedly reinvented over the last 1,700 years. This book is an engaging account of the huge potential that artists, poets and painters have found in his myth, discussing the often controversial political uses to which the saint has been put, including many reworkings and reimaginings, and places his current cultural position in its historical context. This is the first book to offer a full overview of the cult of St George, from its beginnings in the eastern Mediterranean to its established presence around the world today.Table of ContentsChapter 1: A Reappraisal for a Multi-Cultural Age, Chapter 2: Misrepresentations and Reinventions, Chapter 3: St George and the Natural World, Chapter 4: St George and Water, and the Healing Saint, Chapter 5: St George as a Dragon Slayer, Chapter 6: St George and England, Bibliographic Essay, References, Acknowledgements, Index.
£18.00
Watkins Media Limited The Secret History of the Gnostics: Their
Book SynopsisA long-awaited illumination of the mystical movement that teaches 'Gnosis' - knowledge of God as opposed to unquestioning faithAcclaimed author Andrew Phillip Smith delves into the myths and practices of this ancient movement, exploring its early popularity, its subsequent decline under the weight of orthodoxy in the Church, and its present-day resurgence.Gnosticism has travelled a fascinating path, from the Manichaeans in Persia between the 3rd and 7th centuries, to the triumphs and tragedies of the Cathars in southern Europe between the 12th and 14th centuries, to, finally, today's Mandaeans in Iraq. However the revival of Gnosticism extends further than these sects, offering inspiration to a legion of literary figures, including Dan brown and Philip Pullman. Gnostcisim's emphasis on personal over organized religion, in keeping with the doctrine of the early Christian era during which it thrived, has found particular resonance with today's multicultural world.The Secret History of the Gnostics is not simply an authoritative account of one sect's practical beliefs and customs - it is, in effect, a manifesto, an appeal to those inspired by or drawn to the Gnostic faith not to forget its origins.
£11.69
Colourpoint Creative Ltd The Celtic Church: Origins, Development and
Book SynopsisThis popular book has been comprehensively revised to cover Units AS 5 and A2 5, of the current CCEA Religious Studies specification. It has been through a meticulous quality assurance process. The text explores the origins, development and nature of the Celtic Church in Ireland in the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries, and considers themes in the Celtic Church, Reformation and Post-Reformation Church. Included are tasks, practice essay titles of exam standard, and activities highlighting other aspects of human experience. Areas explored include: • The Arrival of Christianity in Ireland • Celtic Monasticism • Celtic Penitentials • Celtic Hagiography • Controversy and Authority • Missionary Outreach • Developments and Outreach in Christianity • Synoptic Assessment Theme: Faith, Morality and the State A detailed glossary and index are also provided.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Chapter 1 - The Arrival of Christianity in Ireland Chapter 2 - Celtic Monasticism Chapter 3 - Celtic Penitentials Chapter 4 - Celtic Hagiography Chapter 5 - Controversy and Authority Chapter 6 - Missionary Outreach Chapter 7 - Developments and Outreach in Christianity Chapter 8 - Synoptic Assessment Theme: Faith, Morality and the State Bibliography Glossary Index
£27.10
Oneworld Publications Religions of Iran: From Prehistory to the Present
Book SynopsisToday it is Iran’s association with Islam that commands discussion and debate. But this perception obscures a far more influential and complex relationship with religion. Iran has in fact played an unparalleled role in shaping all the world religions, injecting Iranian ideas into the Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, and Muslim traditions. This vivid and surprising work explores the manner in which Persian culture has interacted with and transformed each world faith, from the migration of the Israelites to Iran thousands of years ago, to the influence of Iranian notions on Mahayana Buddhism and Christianity. Travelling through thousands of years of history, Foltz’s powerful and evocative journey uncovers a vital and fresh account of our spiritual heritage in this fascinating region.
£42.75
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Religion: Antiquity and Its Legacy
Book SynopsisWhat is a religion? What triggered the spontaneous development of distinct religions throughout the ancient world? How do religions evoke the ultimate realities they claim to address? Such questions are as evergreen as belief itself. The Hellenistic and Roman worlds were a fertile seedbed of the monotheistic faiths that dominate today's western image of religion, as well as many global conflicts. In this concise and elegant overview, Jorg Rupke addresses the similarities and differences of religions in antiquity, tracing their sometimes complex lineage into modern systems of belief. Greek and Roman religion is discussed not in isolation, but in the broader context of western Asia and Egypt. The author also addresses developments relating to early Islam on the south-eastern margins of the Byzantine Empire. Examining such topics as the functions of priests and religious functionaries; religious individualism; the relationship between religion and political identity; the acceptance of the pagan Julian calendar by Christians; and contrasting ancient and modern understandings of divination, Rupke shows that study of pre-modern culture enables us more daringly to explore the contemporary religious world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: Individual and Corporate Religion Chapter 2: Historicizing Religion Chapter 3: Idolatry and Representation Chapter 4: Theological Heritages: Roman Priesthood and the New Testament Chapter 5: Colonizing Time Chapter 6: Dealing with the Future: Divination by Calendars Chapter 7: The Presence of Death in Lived Religion Chapter 8: Conclusion Some Suggestions for Further Reading Notes Index
£26.92
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Friars: The Impact of the Mendicant Orders on Medieval Society
Book SynopsisThe mendicant friars of the Franciscan and Dominican orders played a unique and important role in medieval society. In the early thirteenth century, the Church was being challenged by a confident new secular culture, associated with the growth of towns, the rise of literature and articulate laity, the development of new sciences and the creation of the first universities. The mendicant orders which developed around the charismatic figures of Saint Francis of Assisi (founder of the Franciscans) and Saint Dominic of Osma (founder of the Dominicans) confronted this challenge by encouraging preachers to go out into the world to do God's work, rather than retiring into enclosed monasteries. C.H. Lawrence here analyses the origins and growth of these orders, as well as the impact which they had upon the medieval world - in the areas of politics and education as well as religion. His study is essential reading for all scholars and students of medieval history.Trade Review'A masterly synthesis, invaluable for both scholars and students' David D'Avray, FBA, Professor of History, University College London. 'Franciscans, Dominicans and other medieval orders of friars have exerted huge influence within and beyond Christianity. This revised edition of Professor Lawrence's acclaimed work on the friars in the crucial period of their foundation and early development will surely be welcomed alike by scholars and general readers.' Norman Tanner SJ, Professor of Church History, Gregorian University, Rome 'This is a book that should be on the shelves of every student and scholar of medieval history.' Lindy Grant, Professor of Medieval History, University of ReadingTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Abbreviations used in the footnotes Preface to the New Edition Chapter 1 The Medieval Church in Crisis Chapter 2 St Francis of Assisi and the Origins of the Friars Minor Chapter 3 The Growth of the Friars Minor, Crisis and Change Chapter 4 St Dominic and the Order of Friars Preachers Chapter 5 New Brethren Chapter 6 The Mission to the Towns Chapter 7 The Capture of the Schools Chapter 8 The Complaint of the Clergy Chapter 9 In the Houses of Kings Chapter 10 In the Service of the Papacy Chapter 11 Afar unto the Gentiles Epilogue: Loss and Gain Bibliography Index
£31.99
