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Passion and Compassion in Early Christianity
This book examines how early Christians cultivated affective compassion as a virtue in a Roman world that valued emotional tranquillity.
A Commonwealth of Hope
A bold new interpretation of Augustine’s virtue of hope and its place in political life When it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is renowned as one of history’s great pessimists, with his sights set firmly on the heavenly city rather than the public square. Many have enlisted him to chasten political hopes, highlighting the realities of evil and encouraging citizens instead to cast their hopes on heaven. A Commonwealth of Hope challenges prevailing interpretations of Augustinian pessimism, offering a new vision of his political thought that can also help today’s citizens sustain hope in the face of despair. Amid rising inequality, injustice, and political division, many citizens w...
What are They Saying about Augustine?
This book presents an overview of the best of contemporary scholarship on the fourth and fifth century bishop, Augustine of Hippo. His life, his sermons and letters, doctrinal writings and pastoral work, as well as his own faith and spirituality are reviewed in light of new research. This Father of the Church emerges as a dynamic thinker struggling to integrate his Christian faith with the demands of reason, and to discern Christian meaning amidst the political and social controversies that plagued the late Roman world. The circumstances of his life and the dynamism of his faith are more relevant to the contemporary Christian than one might suspect. The early- and mid-twentieth century saw n...
From the Torment of Dreams
Lan Agstaff joined the army to escape from the memory of a failed love affair. But on the way to his first posting in Neotra, the suspended animation chamber malfunctions–and instead of peaceful nothingness he dreams endlessly about his lost lover. By the time Lan’s ship gets to Neotra tensions have reached breaking point, making all-out war virtually inevitable. Will Lan be consumed by the flashbacks of his ex-lover or can he recover from the torment of dreams?
Closes at Dusk
Discover Kim Paffenroth's haunting novel of after-life discovery and family ties... Christoph Hahn came to the United States to build a new life after WWII devastated his homeland of Germany and scattered his family. He found a good job, a beautiful wife, and built a little storybook land along a busy highway - a wooded idyll that generations of children loved in the 60s and 70s. Now it's 2007, and he's dead - but not gone. Instead, his spirit is condemned to linger, struggling to understand and atone for his mistakes.
Bible Review
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Universality and History: Foundations of Core
Selected Papers from the Sixth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses San Francisco, CA 13-16 April 2000
The Downside Review
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First Things
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The Intertextual Jesus
A comprehensive examination of the scriptural intertextuality of Q that reveals a compelling new interpretation of Q and offers significant new insights into the historical Jesus.
