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“james boyd white”

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  • The Gospel as Conversation

    Texts, Sermons, and Questions for Reflection: A Study Guide

    by James Boyd White ...
    How are we to read the Gospels and bring them into our lives? The idea of this book is that the Gospels are not merely rules for life, or stories illustrating moral lessons, or statements of theological doctrine, but invitations to thought and conversation. The Gospels are full of problems, uncertainties, and tensions; these difficulties call upon us to engage with the Gospels in a new way: to ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Connecting to the Gospel

    Texts, Sermons, Commentaries

    by James Boyd White ...
    How can we connect the Gospels--the fundamental texts of Christian faith--to our own experience of inner and outer life? This is the question that animates Connecting to the Gospel. In it James Boyd White presents a series of Gospel passages, together with the sermons he gave on these passages as a lay preacher in the Episcopal Church, with brief commentaries and questions on each as well. The ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let in the Light

    Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions

    by James Boyd White ...
    St. Augustine’s Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western culture. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in translation, it seemed utterly dull. Its ideas struck him as platitudinous and its prose felt drab. It was only when he started to read the text in Latin that he began to see the originality and depth of Augustine’s work.In Let in the Light, White invites readers to join him ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Let in the Light

    Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions

    by James Boyd White ...
    St. Augustine’s Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western culture. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in translation, it seemed utterly dull. Its ideas struck him as platitudinous and its prose felt drab. It was only when he started to read the text in Latin that he began to see the originality and depth of Augustine’s work.In Let in the Light, White invites readers to join him ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • When Words Lose Their Meaning

    Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community

    by James Boyd White ...
    Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer's Iliad, Swift's Tale of a Tub, and Austen's Emma through the United States Constitution and McCulloch v. Maryland, James Boyd White examines the relationship between an individual mind and its language and culture as well as the "textual community" established between writer and audience. These striking textual analyses develop a rhetoric—a "way ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force

    by James Boyd White, H. Jefferson Powell ...
    The authors of this book share a concern for the state of law and democracy in our country, which to many seems to have deteriorated badly. Deep changes are visible in a wide array of phenomena: judicial opinions, the teaching of law, legal practice, international relations, legal scholarship, congressional deliberations, and the culture of contemporary politics. In each of these intersections ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Living Speech

    Resisting the Empire of Force

    by James Boyd White ...
    Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to be killed. The language of race objectifies those it touches, and propaganda disables democracy. Advertising reduces us to consumers, and clichés destroy the life of the imagination.How are we to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    by Frederic M. Wheelock, Richard A. LaFleur ...
    Generations of students have learned Latin with this classic introductory Latin grammar textbook that remains the most highly regarded and bestselling single-volume of its kind.Wheelock’s Latin 7th Edition retains its signature core of authentic Latin readings—curated from the works of Cicero, Vergil, and other major Roman authors of Roman literature, drama, and poetry, as well as inscriptions, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Rediscovering Americanism

    And the Tyranny of Progressivism

    by Mark R. Levin ...
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a searing plea for a return to America’s most sacred values.In Rediscovering Americanism, Mark R. Levin revisits the founders’ warnings about the perils of overreach by the federal government and concludes that the men who created our country would be outraged and disappointed to see where we've ended up.Levin returns to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Get Started in Latin Absolute Beginner Course

    The essential introduction to reading, writing, speaking and understanding a new language

    by G D A Sharpley ...
    Do memories of your grammar lessons haunt you and other textbooks overwhelm you? Then Get Started in Latin is for you. Follow a Latin story set in a medieval monastery, where conspiracy unfolds in the cloisters, Vikings threaten to attack, and young lovers set out to unmask the villains. Sample some classical Latin too, and learn more about the authors who wrote it.The free audio for this course ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Birth of a White Nation

    The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today

    by Jacqueline Battalora ...
    Birth of a White Nation is a fascinating new book on race in America that begins with an exploration of the moment in time when "white people,” as a separate and distinct group of humanity, were invented through legislation and the enactment of laws. The book provides a thorough examination of the underlying reasons as well as the ways in which “white people” were created. It also explains how the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sworn Book of Honorius

    Liber Iuratus Honorii

    by Honorius of Thebes ...
    Translated by Joseph H. Peterson ...
    Series series Weiser Enochian Library
    As the title testifies, students were sworn to secrecy before being given access to this magic text, and only a few manuscripts have survived. Bits of its teachings, such as the use of the magic whistle for summoning spirits, are alluded to in other texts. Another key element of its ritual, the elaborate “Seal of God,” has been found in texts and amulets throughout Europe.Interest in The Sworn ... Read more

    $25.19 USD