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  • Christian Platonism

    A History

    Edited by Alexander J. B. Hampton, John Peter Kenney ...
    Platonism has played a central role in Christianity and is essential to a deep understanding of the Christian theological tradition. At times, Platonism has constituted an essential philosophical and theological resource, furnishing Christianity with an intellectual framework that has played a key role in its early development, and in subsequent periods of renewal. Alternatively, it has been ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • On God, The Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity

    by John Peter Kenney ...
    Series series Reading Augustine
    Reading Augustine is a new line of books offering personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. The aim of the series is to make clear Augustine's importance to contemporary thought and to present Augustine not only or primarily as a pre-eminent Christian thinker but as a philosophical, spiritual, literary and intellectual icon of the West.Why did ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Mysticism of Saint Augustine

    Re-Reading the Confessions

    by John Peter Kenney ...
    Augustine's vision at Ostia is one of the most influential accounts of mystical experience in the Western tradition, and a subject of persistent interest to Christians, philosophers and historians.This book explores Augustine's account of his experience as set down in the Confessions and considers his mysticism in relation to his classical Platonist philosophy. John Peter Kenney argues that while ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Augustine and Philosophy

    by Johannes Brachtendorf, John D. Caputo, Alexander R. Eodice, Wayne J. Hankey, John Peter Kenney, Paul A. Macdonald Jr, Gareth B. Matthews, Roland J. Teske, Frederick Van Fleteren, James Wetzel, Jesse Couenhoven ...
    Series series Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation
    Augustine of Hippo was a philosopher as well as theologian, bishop and saint. He aimed to practice philosophy not simply as an academic discipline but as a love for divine wisdom pervading everything in his life and work. To inquire into Augustine and philosophy is thus to get to the heart of his concerns as a Christian writer and uncover some of the reasons for his vast influence on Western ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Courage to Be

    by Paul Tillich ...
    Series series The Terry Lectures Series
    The imminent philosopher and theologian examines religion in light of science and philosophy in modern society.Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Courage to Be has become a classic of twentieth-century religious and philosophical thought. The great Christian existentialist thinker Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the prob-lem of ... Read more

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  • The Ascent to Truth

    by Thomas Merton ...
    The author of The Seven Storey Mountain explores the mysticism of Saint John of the Cross.The only thing that can save the world from complete moral collapse is a spiritual revolution. . . . The desire for unworldliness, detachment, and union with God is the most fundamental expression of this revolutionary spirit.In Ascent to Truth, author and Trappist Monk Thomas Merton makes an impassioned case ... Read more

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  • The Light of Christ

    An Introduction to Catholicism

    by Thomas Joseph White ...
    This introduction to Catholicism "combines scholarly depth with an engaging style to present the what and why of Catholic belief with exceptional clarity" (Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia ).In The Light of Christ, Fr. Thomas Joseph White provides an accessible presentation of Catholic doctrine that is both grounded in traditional theology and engaged with contemporary ... Read more

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  • The Philokalia

    A Classic Text of Orthodox Spirituality

    Edited by Brock Bingaman, Bradley Nassif ...
    The Philokalia (literally "love of the beautiful or good") is, after the Bible, the most influential source of spiritual tradition within the Orthodox Church. First published in Greek in 1782 by St. Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain and St. Macarios of Corinth, the Philokalia includes works by thirty-six influential Orthodox authors from the fourth to fifteenth-centuries such as Maximus the Confessor ... Read more

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    Reflections on Science and Religion

    by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ...
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  • Behold the Spirit

    A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion

    by Alan Watts ...
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  • The Wound of Knowledge: Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to St. John of the Cross

    by Rowan Williams ...
    In this classic treatise on Christian spirituality, Rowan Williams takes us with a new eye along a road marked out by Paul, John, Ignatius, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Athanasius, Basil, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, and finally to Luther and St. John of the Cross. The Wound of Knowledge is a penetrating psychological and intellectual analysis of Christian spirituality from one of the ... Read more

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