Bestsellers, new and used books
|
Job the Silent A Study in Historical Counterpoint
460768117 1 of literary classics of biblical literature, book of Job is know as a story which exemplifies virtue of patience in face of suffering. Indeed, patience of Job is so celebrated as to be a cliche. But here 1 encounters a problem, for art of book that bears his name, Job is 1 of most impatient char in Bible. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 460768117
- Job the Silent A Study in Historical Counterpoint
|
|
Anxiety in Eden A Kierkegaardian Reading of Paradise Lost
460768176 Tanner draws on philosophic character of Miltons poetry, poetic nature of Kierkegaards philosophy, particularly his theory of anxiety, to enand enliven a bold reading of Miltons Paradise Lost. Proposing that Milton, Kierkegaard were similar in temperament, life experience, ideological commitment, Tanner argues that for Christian writers path to sin, to salvation lies through anxiety that poet, phi - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 460768176
- Anxiety in Eden A Kierkegaardian Reading of Paradise Lost losopher include anxiety, w pain, suffering, paradox, within compass of paradise. Both Miltons Paradise Lost, Kierkegaards Concept of Anxiety explore psychology of innocence, sin, guilt, probing nature of human fallibility, freedom. first half of work explores anxiety in Eden before Fall. section perspectives on such issues as free will, problem of a fall before Fall, original sin, etiology of evil, prelapsarian knowledge. second half examines anxiety after Fall, offering original insights into such issues as demonic personality, remorse, despair, faith. Taken as a whole, Tanners study a philosophically coherent reading of Paradise Lost. Further, though as a work of literary criticism, book touches on matters of philosophical, theological, human interest nature of freedom, knowledge, sin, self, salvation. Anxiety in Eden will be of keen interest to literary scholars, philosophers, theologians.
|
|
Alfarabi Avicenna and Averroes on Intellect Their Cosmologies Theories of the Active Intellect and Theories of Human Intellect
461124235 A study of problems revolving around subject of intellect in philosophies of Alfarabi d. 950, Avicenna 980 1037, Averroes 1126 1198, book pays attention to way in which philosophers addressed tangle of issues that grew up around active intellect. Davidson starts by reviewing discussions in Greek, Arabic philosophy that served as background for 3 Arabic thinkers. He examines cosmologies, theories o - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124235
- Alfarabi Avicenna and Averroes on Intellect Their Cosmologies Theories of the Active Intellect and Theories of Human Intellect f human, active intellect of 3 philosophers, covers such subjects as emanation of supernal realm from First Cause, emanation of lower world from transcendent active intellect, stages of human intellect, illumination of human intellect by transcendent active intellect, conjunction of human intellect w transcendent active intellect, prophecy, human immortality. Davidson traces impact of 3 philosophers on medieval Jewish philosophy, Latin Scholasticism. He shows that later medieval Jewish philosophers, Scholastics had differing perceptions of Averroes because they happened to use works belonging to periods of his philosophic career. book will be of interest to student, scholar in medieval philosophy, history of philosophy, medieval culture.
|
|
The Berlin Jewish Community Enlightenment Family and Crisis 1770 1830
461124269 Berlin Jewry was first major Jewish community to undergo process of modernization which hasswept most of world Jewry. process of adaptation to cultural, linguistic, political life of majority culture first proposed by intellectuals of Jewish Enlightenment Haskala was accompanied by a thoroughgoing crisis of Jewish identity. Berlin Jewry was soon faced by patterns of illegitimacy, marital breakdown - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124269
- The Berlin Jewish Community Enlightenment Family and Crisis 1770 1830 , conversion to Christianity on a scale never witnessed before. Scholars have long debated severity of crisis of Berlin Jewry as as its connection to philosophy, practice of Jewish Enlightenment. Berlin Jewish Community endeavors to settle much of debate through a collective biography of all 3,500 Jews in Berlin at time. extraordinarily documentation life of Berlin Jewry in period makes it to trace personal, family connections between those involved in modernizing activities w those involved in later crisis. results of study show that 1 in
|
|
Mysticism and Sacred Scripture
461124325 is fourth volume in an influential series that presents a basic revaluation of nature of mysticism. a collection of solicited papers by noted experts in study of religion. volume will explore how mystics, mystical traditions use, interpret, reconstruct sacred scriptures of their traditions. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124325
- Mysticism and Sacred Scripture
|
|
Recorded Music in American Life The Phonograph and Popular Memory 1890 1945
461124338 Here, Kenney examines interplay between recorded music, key social, political, economic forces in America during era of phonographs rise, decline as dominant medium of recorded sound from appearance of first commercial recordings to postwar years when industry became more complex, less powerful. He argues that phonograph, recording industry served n to impose a preference for high culture nor a de - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124338
- Recorded Music in American Life The Phonograph and Popular Memory 1890 1945 graded taste, but rather expressed a diverse set of sensibilities in which sorts of people found pleasure. As detailed in study, recorded music provided focus for active recorded sound cultures, in which listeners shared what they heard, expressed of their personal lives by way of their involvement w records, record players.
|
|
PACKAGE ENGRG MECHANICS DYNAMICS
460684479 INCLUDES 0132784092 ENGRG MECHANICSDYNAMICS 013794165X MATHCAD SUPP DYNAMENGRG - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 460684479
- PACKAGE ENGRG MECHANICS DYNAMICS
|
|
PACKAGE ALGEBRA TRIGONOMETRY
460684989 INCLUDES 0130914657 ALGEBRA TRIGONOMETRY 0130646040 PH TUTORING CENTER - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 460684989
- PACKAGE ALGEBRA TRIGONOMETRY
|
|
PACKAGE ALGEBRA TRIGONOMETRY
460685241 INCLUDES 0130893323 ALGEBRA TRIGONOMETRY 0130769983 ALGTRIG BLKBD ACC CARD - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 460685241
- PACKAGE ALGEBRA TRIGONOMETRY
|
|
PACKAGE ALGEBRA TRIGONOMETRY
461121111 INCLUDES 0130914657 ALGEBRA TRIGONOMETRY 0130914606 S S M ALGEBRA TRIG 0130646040 PH TUTORING CENTER 0135906210 ALGEBRA REVIEW COLL ALG - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461121111
- PACKAGE ALGEBRA TRIGONOMETRY
|
Help Wanted Stories
|
PACKAGE GEOSYSTEMS 461665218 INCLUDES 0130668249 GEOSYSTEMS 013959339X ATLAS OF WORLD GEOGRAPHY - Books Reading - New - 461665218 PACKAGE GEOSYSTEMS -
|
|
PACKAGE GEOSYSTEMS 461665355 INCLUDES 0130668249 GEOSYSTEMS 0130348244 CC STND ACC CARD GEOSYS - Books Reading - New - 461665355 PACKAGE GEOSYSTEMS -
|
|
PACKAGE INTRO TO ENVIRO GEOLOGY 461665398 INCLUDES 0130338222 INTRO TO ENVIRO GEOLOGY 013008493X BLKBD STND INTRO CARD - Books Reading - New - 461665398 PACKAGE INTRO TO ENVIRO GEOLOGY -
|
|
Spectra of Atoms and Molecules 460768202 Textbook emphasizing fundamental principles of spectroscopy w its primary goal being to testudents how to interpret spectra. Of interest to professionals in chemistry, physics, astronomy, engineering. DLC Atomic spectroscopy. - Books Reading - New - 460768202 Spectra of Atoms and Molecules -
|
|
Help Wanted Stories - Copyright 2010 Art Print Gallery - All rights reserved.
|