Knowledge Of Angels

Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2011-02-28
ISBN : 1446423042
Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book Knowledge Of Angels written by Jill Paton Walsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one, a castaway, plucked from the sea by fishermen, whose beliefs represent a challenge to the established order; the other, a child abandoned by her mother and suckled by wolves, who knows nothing of the precarious relationship between Church and State but whose innocence will become the subject of a dangerous experiment. But the arrival of the Inquisition on the island creates a darker, more threatening force which will transform what has been a philosophical game of chess into a matter of life and death...

A Companion to Angels in Medieval Philosophy

by Tobias Hoffmann

Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2012-08-03
ISBN : 9004183469
Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book A Companion to Angels in Medieval Philosophy written by Tobias Hoffmann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies medieval theories of angelology insofar as they made groundbreaking contributions to medieval philosophy. It centers on the period from Bonaventure to Ockham while also discussing some original positions by earlier thinkers.

Neoplatonic Demons and Angels

by Luc Brisson

Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2018-07-10
ISBN : 9004374981
Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book Neoplatonic Demons and Angels written by Luc Brisson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoplatonic Demons and Angels is a collection of studies which examine the place reserved for angels and demons not only by the main Neoplatonic philosophers, but also in Gnosticism, the Chaldaean Oracles and Christian Neoplatonism.

Angels and Devils: their existence, character, and eternal state

by Rev. William COOKE (of the Methodist New Connexion.)

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Release Date : 1869
ISBN :
Pages : 27 pages
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Angels: A Very Short Introduction

by David Albert Jones

Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-10-27
ISBN : 0199547300
Pages : 161 pages
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Download or read book Angels: A Very Short Introduction written by David Albert Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are angels? Where were they first encountered? Can we distinguish angels from gods, fairies, ghosts, and aliens? And why do they remain so popular? This Very Short Introduction investigates stories and speculations about angels in religions old and new, in art, literature, film, and the popular imagination.

John Duns Scotus

by Etienne Gilson

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-27
ISBN : 0567678709
Pages : 632 pages
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Download or read book John Duns Scotus written by Etienne Gilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Étienne Gilson's Jean Duns Scot: Introduction À Ses Positions Fondamentales is widely understood to be one of the most important works on John Duns Scotus' texts, famous for their complexity. James Colbert's translation is the first time that Gilson's work on Scotus has been put into English, with an introduction by Trent Pomplun and an afterword by John Millbank. Scotus contributed to the development of a metaphysical system that was compatible with Christian doctrine, an epistemology that altered the 13th century understanding of human knowledge, and a theology that stressed both divine and human will. Gilson, in turn, offers a thoroughly comprehensive introduction to the fundamental positions that Scotus stood for. Explaining Scotus's views on metaphysics, the existence of infinite being and divine nature, the matter of the physical spiritual and angelic, intellectual knowledge and will and Scotus' relationship with other scholars, Gilson and Colbert show how deeply Scotus left a mark on discussions of such disparate topics as the semantics of religious language, the problem of universals, divine illumination, and the nature of human freedom. This work has been translated from the original work in French Jean Duns Scot. Introduction à ses positions fondamentales (© 1952 by Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin).

The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition

by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Publisher : Catholic Way Publishing
Release Date : 2014-07-16
ISBN : 1783793147
Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition written by Saint Thomas Aquinas and published by Catholic Way Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUMMA THEOLOGICA: COMPLETE EDITION SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS — A Classic in Western Philosophy and the Catholic Church — Complete and Unabridged, contains the Complete Text and Supplements — Three Parts, 38 Tracts, 631 Questions, 3,000 Articles, 10,000 Objections and Answers — Over 2.5 Million words — Includes an Active Index and multiple Table of Contents to every Part, Question and Article — Includes Layered NCX Navigation — Includes Illustrations by Gustave Dore The Summa Theologica, or 'Summary of Theology' was written from 1265 to 1274. It is the greatest achievement of Saint Thomas Aquinas and one of the most influential works of Western literature and Philosophy. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern Philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with, his ideas, particularly in the areas of Ethics, Natural Law, Metaphysics, and Political Theory. It is intended as a manual for beginners in Theology and a Compendium of all of the main Theological teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. It presents the reasoning for almost all points of Christian Theology in the West. The book is famous, among other things, for its five arguments for the existence of God, the Quinque viae. The Summa Theologica's topics follow a cycle: The Existence of God; Creation, Man; Man's Purpose; Christ; The Sacraments; and back to God. The first part is on God. In it, he gives five proofs for God’s existence as well as an explication of His attributes. He argues for the actuality and incorporeality of God as the unmoved mover and describes how God moves through His thinking and willing. The second part is on Ethics. Thomas argues for a variation of the Aristotelian Virtue Ethics. However, unlike Aristotle, he argues for a connection between the virtuous man and God by explaining how the virtuous act is one towards the blessedness of the Beatific Vision (beata visio). The last part of the Summa is on Christ and was unfinished when Thomas died. In it, he shows how Christ not only offers salvation, but represents and protects humanity on Earth and in Heaven. This part also briefly discusses the sacraments and eschatology. The Summa remains the most influential of Thomas’s works. Saint Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican Priest, born near Aquino, Sicily in 1225. He was an immensely influential Philosopher and Theologian in the tradition of Scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus. He died in 1274. As one of the 33 Doctors of the Church, he is considered the Church's greatest Theologian and Philosopher. Thomas is held in the Catholic Church to be the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood. He was canonized in 1323. PUBLISHER: CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING

The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church

by Heinrich F. E. Schmid

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2008-08-01
ISBN : 1725223023
Pages : 694 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (725 users)

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Embodiment

by Justin E.H. Smith

Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-02
ISBN : 0190677287
Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book Embodiment written by Justin E.H. Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodiment--defined as having, being in, or being associated with a body--is a feature of the existence of many entities, perhaps even of all entities. Why entities should find themselves in this condition is the central concern of the present volume. The problem includes, but also goes beyond, the philosophical problem of body: that is, what the essence of a body is, and how, if at all, it differs from matter. On some understandings there may exist bodies, such as stones or asteroids, that are not the bodies of any particular subjects. To speak of embodiment by contrast is always to speak of a subject that variously inhabits, or captains, or is coextensive with, or even is imprisoned within, a body. The subject may in the end be identical to, or an emergent product of, the body. That is, a materialist account of embodied subjects may be the correct one. But insofar as there is a philosophical problem of embodiment, the identity of the embodied subject with the body stands in need of an argument and cannot simply be assumed. The reasons, nature, and consequences of the embodiment of subjects as conceived in the long history of philosophy in Europe as well as in the broader Mediterranean region and in South and East Asia, with forays into religion, art, medicine, and other domains of culture, form the focus of these essays. More precisely, the contributors to this volume shine light on a number of questions that have driven reflection on embodiment throughout the history of philosophy. What is the historical and conceptual relationship between the idea of embodiment and the idea of subjecthood? Am I who I am principally in virtue of the fact that I have the body I have? Relatedly, what is the relationship of embodiment to being and to individuality? Is embodiment a necessary condition of being? Of being an individual? What are the theological dimensions of embodiment? To what extent has the concept of embodiment been deployed in the history of philosophy to contrast the created world with the state of existence enjoyed by God? What are the normative dimensions of theories of embodiment? To what extent is the problem of embodiment a distinctly western preoccupation? Is it the result of a particular local and contingent history, or does it impose itself as a universal problem, wherever and whenever human beings begin to reflect on the conditions of their existence? Ultimately, to what extent can natural science help us to resolve philosophical questions about embodiment, many of which are vastly older than the particular scientific research programs we now believe to hold the greatest promise for revealing to us the bodily basis, or the ultimate physical causes, of who we really are?

Select Works of S. Ephrem the Syrian

by Saint Ephraem (Syrus)

Publisher :
Release Date : 1847
ISBN :
Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book Select Works of S. Ephrem the Syrian written by Saint Ephraem (Syrus) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare's Religious Language

by R. Chris Hassel Jr.

Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2005-05-12
ISBN : 0826458904
Pages : 480 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (826 users)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Religious Language written by R. Chris Hassel Jr. and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-05-12 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A to Z reference guide to religious terms, concepts and references in Shakespeare.

Angels and Angelology in the Middle Ages

by David Keck

Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1998-07-23
ISBN : 9780195354966
Pages : 280 pages
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Download or read book Angels and Angelology in the Middle Ages written by David Keck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently angels have made a remarkable comeback in the popular imagination; their real heyday, however, was the Middle Ages. From the great shrines dedicated to Michael the Archangel at Mont-St-Michel and Monte Garano to the elaborate metaphysical speculations of the great thirteenth-century scholastics, angels dominated the physical, temporal, and intellectual landscape of the medieval West. This book offers a full-scale study of angels and angelology in the Middle Ages. Seeking to discover how and why angels became so important in medieval society, David Keck considers a wide range of fascinating questions such as: Why do angels appear on baptismal fonts? How and why did angels become normative for certain members of the church? How did they become a required course of study? Did popular beliefs about angels diverge from the angelologies of the theologians? Why did some heretics claim to derive their authority from heavenly spirits? Keck spreads his net wide in the attempt to catch traces of angels and angelic beliefs in as many portions of the medieval world as possible. Metaphysics and mystery plays, prayers and pilgrimages, Cathars and cathedrals-all these and many more disparate sources taken together reveal a society deeply engaged with angels on all its levels and in some unlikely ways.

Knowledge-intensive Business Services

by David Doloreux

Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2010
ISBN : 9780754678892
Pages : 268 pages
Rating Book: 4.7/5 (678 users)

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Download or read book Knowledge-intensive Business Services written by David Doloreux and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely volume brings together current research on knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and innovation from a geographic or territorial perspective. Researchers from across Europe and North America explore areas such as innovation related cooperation between KIBS firms and their industrial partners, how KIBS firms mediate business knowledge and the impact that KIBS make in their local, regional and international contexts.

An Introduction to Natural Theology

by Maurice R. Holloway

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2018-06-21
ISBN : 153264633X
Pages : 520 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (532 users)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Natural Theology written by Maurice R. Holloway and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What is the God of the philosopher? Can the philosopher, that is to say, can human reason, unenlightened by the revealed word, come to a true and secure understanding of ‘He-Who-Is’? Is it possible for mere man, without the impact of a personal experience, intimate and intuitive, to arrive by means of an objective demonstration at an absolute affirmation that the Being we call God exists, or that He is Pure Act, Existence Itself, because without him the world of our experience is unintelligible, a complete contradiction? “And even if we admit, as all Christian philosophers must, that unaided reason is able by its own power to reach an objectively true and secure assent that God exists, is there any evidence, in the recorded history of our world, that man, without the directive knowledge of revelation, ever did secure by a metaphysical effort this absolute truth that the Ipsum Esse exists? Whatever be the answer to this difficult problem—and we do not pretend to know it—it is obvious that Father Holloway, in composing his philosophical approach to God, allowed himself to be guided by the knowledge of faith. Indeed, he must have prayed often for the enlightenment which the supernatural motion of divine grace brings even to the limited and imperfect intellect of a philosopher.” —From the Foreword by Henri Renard, S.J.

Exploring Knowledge-Intensive Business Services

by Roberto Grandinetti

Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2012-05-08
ISBN : 1137008423
Pages : 277 pages
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Download or read book Exploring Knowledge-Intensive Business Services written by Roberto Grandinetti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an updated view of knowledge management strategies of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) by focusing on how those firms manage innovation in their value chains and at the territorial level. Offers an original analysis of key processes of KIBS, specializing in design, professional firms and information technology.

The displaying of supposed witchcraft

by John Webster

Publisher :
Release Date : 1677
ISBN :
Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book The displaying of supposed witchcraft written by John Webster and published by . This book was released on 1677 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Late Ancient Knowing

by Catherine M. Chin

Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2015-05-02
ISBN : 0520277171
Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book Late Ancient Knowing written by Catherine M. Chin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-05-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Late Ancient Knowing explores how people in late antiquity went about knowing their world and how this knowing shaped late ancient lives. Each essay is dedicated to a single concept--'Animal,' 'Demon,' 'Countryside,' 'Christianization,' 'God'--studying the ways in which individuals and societies in this period created and interacted with visible and invisible realities. Rather than narrating late ancient history based on facts defensible in modern historical terms, these essays attempt to create histories based on what are now considered late ancient fictions, the now-discarded paradigms of late ancient thought"--Provided by publisher.