The Pocket Guide to the Saints

The Pocket Guide to the Saints
by Richard P. Mcbrien (Author)

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This pocket edition of Richard McBrien's Lives of the Saints is the perfect concise, handy reference for scholars, students, and general readers.

About the Author

Richard P. McBrien is Crowley-O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Educated at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he has also served as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. A leading authority on Catholicism, he is the bestselling author of Catholicism, Lives of the Popes, and Lives of the Saints, as well as the general editor of The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism. Most recently a consultant for ABC News, McBrien offers regular commentary on all the major television networks. He is also a prize-winning syndicated columnist in the Catholic press.

Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity

Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200 (Oxford Classical Monographs) by Maria-Zoe Petropoulou (Author)

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A study of animal sacrifice within Greek paganism, Judaism, and Christianity during the period of their interaction between about 100 BC and AD 200. After a vivid account of the realities of sacrifice in the Greek East and in the Jerusalem Temple (up to AD 70), Maria-Zoe Petropoulou explores the attitudes of early Christians towards this practice. Contrary to other studies in this area, she demonstrates that the process by which Christianity finally separated its own cultic code from the strong tradition of animal sacrifice was a slow and difficult one. Petropoulou places special emphasis on the fact that Christians gave completely new meanings to the term `sacrifice'. She also explores the question why, if animal sacrifice was of prime importance in the eastern Mediterranean at this time, Christians should ultimately have rejected it.

About the Author

Maria-Zoe Petropoulou is a teacher on the International Baccalaureate Program of the Hellenic American Foundation, Athens.

A History of German Literature

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A History of German Literature (Hardcover) by Wolfgang Beutin

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Since the appearance of the first edition in 1979, A History of German Literature has established itself as a classic work and basic reference source for those interested or in contact with German literature.

In this book, the subject of German literature is treated as a phenomenon firmly rooted in the social and political world from which it has risen. Literary works are assessed according to their relation to the human condition. Social forces and their interrelation with the artistic avant-garde are an organizing theme of this history, which traces German literature from its first beginnings in the Middle Ages to the present day. This latest edition has been updated to cover the reunification of Germany, and its consequent events.

Readable and stimulating, A History of German Literature makes the literature of the past as vital and engaging as the works of the present, and will prove a valuable tool.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About the Author
Wolfgang Beutin is a Lecturer in Early German Literature at the University of Hamburg. Klaus Ehlert is a teacher in the state schools at Bremen. Wolfgang Emmerich is a professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Bremen. Helmut Hoffacker is a teacher at the Old Bremen Gymnasium. Bernd Lutz is the general manager of J. B. Meltzer Verlag. Volker Meid is a freelance academic writer and former professor of German Literature at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Ralf Schnell is former professor of Modern German literature at Hanover University. Peter Stein is Lecturer in Language and Communication at the University of Luneburg. Inge Stephan is a Professor of Literature at the University of Hamburg.

Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind

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Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind by Julia E. Annas

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This volume represents the eighth installment in the series "Hellenistic Culture and Society." Annas's objective is to place a renewed importance upon the previously underappreciated post-Aristotelian philosophers, mainly the Stoics and Epicureans. The author contends that the enormous variety of medical and scientific advances that were occurring during the Hellenistic Age made the study of philosophy separate from the study of science and medicine, thereby creating the opening for new, original schools of thought to replace the "reduced" Platonic and Aristotelian schools. Annas makes available a wealth of helpful background information condensed in footnotes that will guide the novice philosophy student to a comprehension and appreciation for this mentally strenuous and scholarly work.
- Jacqueline Garlesky, Cambria Cty. Lib., Johnstown, Pa.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Glenn Lesses, Canadian Philosophical Review
"In her systematic examination of Stoic and Epicurean theories of mind, Julia Annas seeks to demonstrate the innovative nature of their views. According to Annas' exactingly lucid book, the Stoic and Epicurean accounts are philosophically worthy and, properly construed, the first genuine theories of mind. . . . Annas carefully and sympathetically attends to the arguments that the Stoics and Epicureans construct, while indicating their defects. As a result, we gain a sense of the enormous attraction of their reasoned, philosophical positions. . . . A model of philosophical scholarship about Hellenistic antiquity."

Исторические корни Волшебной Сказки

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After Aquinas

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After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism by Fergus Kerr

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This guide to the most interesting work that has recently appeared on Aquinas reflects the revival of interest in his work.

• Written by one of the foremost Roman Catholic theologians currently writing in English.
  
• Offers a guide to the most interesting work that has recently appeared on Aquinas, reflecting the revival of interest in his work.
  
• Brings together in one volume, a range of views that have previously only been accessible through different books, articles, and periodicals.
  
• Represents a major revisionist treatment of Thomism and its significance, combining useful exposition with original, creative thinking.
  
• Offers students, in one volume, all the material necessary for a rounded understanding of Aquinas.