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Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him. This book tells the story of early Christian concepts of sin, exploring the ways that sin came to shape ideas about God no less than about humanity.

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"An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature"--

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"An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature"--

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Provides an introduction to theories of the good life, by exploring the strengths and weakness of six simple statements of what a good life should be. Drawing on classic Chinese, Indian, Greek and Roman sources, this book considers the various ways in which one might think about the values that are worth aiming for.

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An introduction to practice and meditation techniques from the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana path that show us how to become Tara in our everyday life through the complete and unexcelled Vajrayana Buddhist path.

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A practical new resource for a growing problem in American churches.The authors use real anecdotal examples from clergy and congregations in crisis to illustrate their points.It is carefully written to be useful to all mainline churches.

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What does it really mean to be a football fan (and why should we count Aristotle as one) Why do great players such as Cristiano Ronaldo count as great artists This title explores the complex and often hidden contours of the world's most popular game.

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This text is composed of selections from Plato's Symposium, Alcibiades I, and Alcibiades II, and provides a rich discussion of how Athens' greatest philosopher loved and tried to teach his most ambitious youth, and why Athens turned on both of them.

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This text shows that Socrates had reached a spiritual stage called "samadhi", satisfying the requirements specified in the Buddhist systems of one who has attained enlightenment. Bodri points to the comparisons and contrasts between East and West, illuminating both Buddhist and Socratic thought.

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Four of Plato's dialogues ('Protagoras', 'Euthydemus', 'Hippias Major', and 'Cratylus') explore the topic of sophistry and philosophy. English translations with notes and introductory essay.

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"Socrates in The Apology: An Essay on Plato's Apology of Socrates".

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"Socrates in The Apology: An Essay on Plato's Apology of Socrates".

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From an international correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter's Global Sisters Report comes a powerful investigative work into the poignant acts of humanitarianism he witnessed during the Ukrainian war.

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This work, asking, "What is solitude", draws upon a corpus of literary reflections on the subject - Lao Tze, Sappho, Plotinus, Seneca, Augustine, Petrarch, Montaigne, Goethe and others. It concludes that both solitude and encounter are primary modes of human experience, and equally essential.

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In Some Things You Just Have to Live With, author Barbara Cawthorne Crafton explores the "spilled milk" of our lives, the physical changes our bodies endure, and the new and energizing purpose we can discover by plunging into the middle of life in a deeper-and sometimes mystifying-relationship with God.

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Offers two complementary works, unabridged, in modernised, annotated texts. Suitable for classroom use, this title provides an introduction, a note on the texts, and a select bibliography.

Delving into the history and envelopment of logic from its beginnings to the modern era, this title rehabilitates the term logic and demonstrates that an enhanced traditional logic remains a viable possibility.

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This is a short book of spiritual meditations for the Advent season on the four "Middle Eastern" songs sung around the birth of Jesus: canticles that play an important role in the liturgical worship of the church over the centuries. The devotions emphasize the Middle Eastern cultural elements of these songs.