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  • Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority

    Platonists, Priests, and Gnostics in the Third Century C.E.

    by Heidi Marx-Wolf ...
    Series series Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
    The people of the late ancient Mediterranean world thought about and encountered gods, angels, demons, heroes, and other spirits on a regular basis. These figures were diverse, ambiguous, and unclassified and were not ascribed any clear or stable moral valence. Whether or not they were helpful or harmful under specific circumstances determined if and what virtues were attributed to them. That all ... Read more

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  • Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority

    Platonists, Priests, and Gnostics in the Third Century C.E.

    by Heidi Marx-Wolf ...
    Series series Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
    The people of the late ancient Mediterranean world thought about and encountered gods, angels, demons, heroes, and other spirits on a regular basis. These figures were diverse, ambiguous, and unclassified and were not ascribed any clear or stable moral valence. Whether or not they were helpful or harmful under specific circumstances determined if and what virtues were attributed to them. That all ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

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  • On Augustine

    by The Rt Hon Rowan Williams ...
    Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge) Rowan Williams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy. In this new book he turns his attention to St Augustine.St Augustine not only shaped the development of Western theology, he also made a major contribution to political theory (City of God) and through ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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  • The Mind That Is Catholic

    Philosophical & Political Essays

    by James V. Schall ...
    In this wide-ranging collection of philosophical essays, the acclaimed Catholic intellectual presents his vision of Catholic thought applied in the world.In The Mind That Is Catholic, political philosopher and Catholic intellectual James V. Schall presents a retrospective collection of his academic and literary essays written in the past fifty years. In these essays, exploring topics from war to ... Read more

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  • Stoicism in Early Christianity

    Edited by Tuomas Rasimus, Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Ismo Dunderberg ...
    Highlighting the place of Stoic teaching in early Christian thought, an international roster of scholars challenges the prevailing view that Platonism was the most important philosophical influence on early Christianity. They suggest that early Christians were more often influenced by Stoicism than by Platonism, an insight that sheds new light on the relationship between philosophy and religion at ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Our Divine Double

    by Charles M. Stang ...
    What if you were to discover that you were not entirely you, but rather one half of a whole, that you had, in other words, a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, providing a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms throughout the centuries, down to the present. Our Divine ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • The Secret Revelation of John

    by Karen L. King ...
    Lost in antiquity, rediscovered in 1896, and only recently accessible for study, The Secret Revelation of John offers a firsthand look into the diversity of Christianity before the establishment of canon and creed. Karen L. King offers an illuminating reading of this ancient text--a narrative of the creation of the universe and humanity and a guide to justice and salvation, said to be Christ's ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Origins of Neoliberalism

    Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault

    by Dotan Leshem ...
    Dotan Leshem recasts the history of the West from an economic perspective, bringing politics, philosophy, and the economy closer together and revealing the significant role of Christian theology in shaping economic and political thought. He begins with early Christian treatment of economic knowledge and the effect of this interaction on ancient politics and philosophy. He then follows the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • On The Government of the Living

    Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980

    by M. Foucault ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    With these lectures Foucault inaugurates his investigations of truth-telling in the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. How and why, he asks, does the government of men require those subject to power to be subjects who must tell the truth about themselves? ... Read more

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  • Christian Platonism

    A History

    Edited by Alexander J. B. Hampton, John Peter Kenney ...
    Platonism has played a central role in Christianity and is essential to a deep understanding of the Christian theological tradition. At times, Platonism has constituted an essential philosophical and theological resource, furnishing Christianity with an intellectual framework that has played a key role in its early development, and in subsequent periods of renewal. Alternatively, it has been ... Read more

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  • Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration

    Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Environment, Nature, and Creation

    by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew ...
    Series series Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
    Can Orthodox Christianity offer spiritual resources uniquely suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case emphatically that it can indeed. In addition to being the first substantial and comprehensive collection of essays, in any language, to address environmental issues from the Orthodox point of view, this volume (with contributions from many of the most influential ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Sheed and Ward Anthology of Catholic Philosophy

    Edited by James C. Swindal, Harry J. Gensler, SJ ...
    Series series A Sheed & Ward Classic
    The Sheed & Ward Anthology of Catholic Philosophy is a thorough introduction to the evolution of Catholic philosophy from Biblical times to the present day. The first comprehensive collection of readings from Catholic philosophers, this volume aims to sharpen the understanding of Catholic philosophy by grouping together the best examples of this tradition, both well-known classics and lesser-known ... Read more

    $64.79 USD