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  • Participation in the Divine

    A Philosophical History, From Antiquity to the Modern Era

    Edited by Douglas Hedley, Daniel J. Tolan ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Religion and Platonism
    The concept of participation in a transcendent domain of existence is central to the Platonic and the Judaeo-Christian traditions. It is how thinkers throughout history have justified existence itself, explaining temporal being vis-à-vis God. Yet in the wake of secularisation and the widespread phenomenon of disenchantment, this once ubiquitous and coveted notion has fallen into desuetude. The ... Read more

    $98.39 USD

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  • The Life of the Mind

    The Groundbreaking Investigation on How We Think

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    "A passionate, humane intelligence addressing itself to the fundamental problem of how the mind operates." — NewsweekConsidered by many to be Hannah Arendt's greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in contemplative life. In a shift from her previous writings, most of which focus on the world outside the mind, this ... Read more

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  • A New History of Western Philosophy

    by Anthony Kenny ...
    Series series New History of Western Philosophy
    This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy -- the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us to the great thinkers and their ideas, starting with Plato, Aristotle, and the other founders ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Introduction to Moral Theology

    by Romanus Cessario ...
    Series Book 1 - Catholic Moral Thought
    The comprehensive introduction to Catholic moral theology by the leading theologian and author of The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics .In Introduction to Moral Theology, Father Romanus Cessario, O.P. presents and expounds on the basic and central elements of Catholic moral theology written in the light of Veritatis splendor. Since its publication in 2001, this fir... ... Read more

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  • Angels and Us

    by Mortimer J. Adler ...
    A wonderfully enlightening work on the affinities between angels and human beings.Mortimer Adler has always been ahead of his time. In 1982, before the current revival of interest in angels, Dr. Adler published "The Angels and Us," an engaging look at the various images and hierarchies of angels (including guardian angels). Dr. Adler, the bestselling author of "Ten Philosophical Mistakes," ... Read more

    $12.35 USD

  • Spinoza's Religion

    A New Reading of the Ethics

    by Clare Carlisle ...
    A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza’s Religion, she sets out a bold interpretation of Spinoza through a lucid new reading of his masterpiece, the Ethics. Putting the question of ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Medieval Philosophy

    A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 2

    by Anthony Kenny ...
    Series series New History of Western Philosophy
    Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought through to the Renaissance.The middle ages saw a great flourishing of philosophy, and the intellectual endeavour of the era reaches its climax in the ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Scotus for Dunces

    An Introduction to the Subtle Doctor

    by Mary Beth Ingham ...
    This book is a simple guide to theological and philosophical aspects of the thought of the medieval Franciscan, John Duns Scotus. Known as the Subtle Doctor, Scotus has a reputation for intricate and technical reasoning. Ingham provides an insightful and creative introduction to his thought in this book. Philosophical and theological principles are explored with clarity and demonstrated by the use ... Read more

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  • The Hidden and the Manifest

    Essays in Theology and Metaphysics

    by David Bentley Hart ...
    Rowan Williams says that David Bentley Hart "can always be relied on to offer a perspective on the Christian faith that is both profound and unexpected." The Hidden and the Manifest, a new collection of this brilliant scholar's work, contains twenty essays by Hart on theology and metaphysics.Spanning Hart's career both topically and over time, these essays cover such subjects as the Orthodox ... Read more

    $42.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volumes I and II

    One-Volume Digital Edition

    by Edwin Curley, Benedictus de Spinoza ...
    The Collected Works of Spinoza: Complete Digital Edition, combining volumes I and II, provides for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the original-language texts, done by a scholar who has published extensively on the philosopher’s work.The first volume contains ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • On Augustine

    by The Rt Hon Rowan Williams ...
    Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge) Rowan Williams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy. In this new book he turns his attention to St Augustine.St Augustine not only shaped the development of Western theology, he also made a major contribution to political theory (City of God) and through ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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  • Birth of the Symbol

    Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts

    by Peter T. Struck ...
    "A rich and fascinating account of how . . . symbolism and allegorical reading developed over the course of classical antiquity." — Literary ImaginationNearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck explores the ancient Greek literary critics and ... Read more

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