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  • Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts

    de Mark Vessey ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    By close engagement with both traditional and contemporary approaches to ancient Christian literature, Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts seeks to delineate a historiographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as part of the subject-matter of a new literary history. After preliminary essays marking out the field, the volume is organized in three sections by ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Erasmus on Literature

    His Ratio or ‘System’ of 1518/1519

    de Robert D. Sider ...
    Series series Erasmus Studies
    None of the works included among Erasmus’ ‘Literary and Educational Writings’ in the Collected Works of Erasmus captures his most adventurous thinking about how texts signify in – and thereby make or remake – worlds of thought, feeling, and action. The one that comes closest to doing so, the Ratio verae theologiae (‘A System of True Theology’), was first published separately in 1518 and 1519, then ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Calling of the Nations

    Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present

    Edición de Mark Vessey, Sharon Betcher, Robert Daum, Harry Maier ...
    Series series Green College Thematic Lecture Series
    Current notions of nationhood, communal identity, territorial entitlement, and collective destiny are deeply rooted in historic interpretations of the Bible. Interweaving elements of history, theology, literary criticism, and cultural theory, the essays in this volume discuss the ways in which biblical understandings have shaped Western – and particularly European and North American – assumptions ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • A Companion to Augustine

    Edición de Mark Vessey ...
    Series Libro 192 - Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Augustine presents a fresh collection of scholarship by leading academics with a new approach to contextualizing Augustine and his works within the multi-disciplinary field of Late Antiquity, showing Augustine as both a product of the cultural forces of his times and a cultural force in his own right.Discusses the life and works of Augustine within their full historical context, ... Leer más

    $47.00 USD

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  • Prayer after Augustine

    A study in the development of the Latin tradition

    de Jonathan D. Teubner ...
    Series series Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology
    The influence of the theology and philosophy of Augustine of Hippo on subsequent Western thought and culture is undisputed. Prayer after Augustine: A Study in the Development of the Latin Tradition argues that the notion of the 'Augustinian tradition' needs to be re-thought; and that already in the generation after Augustine in the West such a re-thinking is already and richly manifest in more ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Abelard and Heloise

    de Constant J. Mews ...
    Series series Great Medieval Thinkers
    Constant J. Mews offers an intellectual biography of two of the best known personalities of the twelfth century. Peter Abelard was a controversial logician at the cathedral school of Notre-Dame in Paris when he first met Heloise, who was the brilliant and outspoken niece of a cathedral canon and who was then engaged in the study of philosophy. After an intense love affair and the birth of a child, ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    de Giorgio Agamben ...
    Traducido por Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The acclaimed philosopher and author of Homo Sacer contemplates the possibility of true human freedom through a deep analysis of monastic stricture.What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Giorgio Agamben's new ... Leer más

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  • The King's Two Bodies

    A Study in Medieval Political Theology

    de Ernst Kantorowicz, William Chester Jordan ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the postmortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, “The king is dead. Long live the king.” In The King’s Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz traces the historical dilemma ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Ransom of the Soul

    Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity

    de Peter Brown ...
    A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearA Tablet Book of the YearMarking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome’s fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the Church’s institutional relationship to ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Proving Woman

    Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages

    de Dyan Elliott ...
    Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ages female mystics were frequently mistrusted, derided, and in danger of their lives. The witch hunts were just ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Augustine

    Conversions to Confessions

    de Robin Lane Fox ...
    "This narrative of the first half of Augustine's life conjures the intellectual and social milieu of the late Roman Empire with a Proustian relish for detail." -- New York TimesIn Augustine, celebrated historian Robin Lane Fox follows Augustine of Hippo on his journey to the writing of his Confessions. Unbaptized, Augustine indulged in a life of lust before finally confessing and converting. Lane ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • God Owes Us Nothing

    de Leszek Kolakowski ...
    God Owes Us Nothing reflects on the centuries-long debate in Christianity: how do we reconcile the existence of evil in the world with the goodness of an omnipotent God, and how does God's omnipotence relate to people's responsibility for their own salvation or damnation. Leszek Kolakowski approaches this paradox as both an exercise in theology and in revisionist Christian history based on ... Leer más

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