Sari: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674302860)
Umberto Grassi recovers a radical critique, suppressed by the Inquisition. A wave of 16th-18th century Italians claimed that Adam and Eve had angered God by engaging in sodomy-sexual practice reserved for the divine. The heresy was politically poten...Loe edasi...
This Element explores Kierkegaards Two Ages, his literary review of a contemporary novella, situating it in the context of his other writings from the same period of his life and his cultural/political context. It investigates his reviews analysis...Loe edasi...
The goal of human life, according to Plato, Aristotle, and the Bible, is to become as much like god as possible. This book, written in vivid and lucid English, illuminates Greek philosophy by showing how it grows out of ancient Greek religion and ho...Loe edasi...
This Element examines the roles and activities of women and their contributions to the Platonic tradition from Platos time, fourth century BCE, through to the sixth century CE. The existing evidence allows us to glimpse a wider pattern of female ph...Loe edasi...
Love Is a Journey is the remarkable story of Albino Luciani, known to the world as Pope John Paul I or The Smiling Pope, from his harrowing birth to his tragic death just 33 days into his 1978 pontificate-the shortest pontificate in history--...Loe edasi...
A rich and inclusive history of belief, from humanitys earliest days to our own times Religion is distinctly human. We can’t help wondering about where we come from and why we are here. Did some all-powerful being make the un...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Apr-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Jonathan Cape, ISBN-13: 9781787334793)
**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was stand...Loe edasi...
The most important aspects about this book are its breadth, the inclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood’s descendants and its intended audience. Regarding the first: it is far broader in scope than any other book on the Muslim Brotherhood that I know of...Loe edasi...
The Pilgrim Church is an alternative "ecclesiastical history" of all the movements within historical Christianity to go "back to the Bible" and simply practice NT Christianity. Broadbent was a member of The Brethren, as was F.F. B...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jan-2007, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Penguin USA, ISBN-13: 9780143038597)
An analysis of the life, influence, and mythical powers of the Oracle of Delphi draws on the accounts of her contemporaries as well as archaeological and geological findings from her ancient temple on Mount Parnassos, in an investigation that seeks t...Loe edasi...
