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Book Divine Penology

Download or read book Divine Penology written by Levi Balmer Hartman and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Divine Punishment

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  • Author : Sergio Ramírez
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9781620540145
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Divine Punishment written by Sergio Ramírez and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the greatest work of a storied literary career, Sergio Ramriez transforms the most celebrated criminal trial in Nicaraguan history - the murders in 1933 of three high society women by a Casanova named Castaneda - into an examination of the entire Nicaraguan society on the brink of the first Somosa dictatorship. Passion, money, sex, gossip, political intrigue and judicial corruption all merge into a novel that reads like a courtroom drama wrapped in yellow journalism disguised as historical fiction posing as melodrama of the first order."Melodrama is comedy without humor. Sergio Ramrez returns the smile to the newspaper serial, but in the end this smile freezes on the lips--we are back in the heart of the darkness. Between the fullness of comedy and the imminence of tragedy, Sergio Ramrez has written the great novel of Central America. . ."--Carlos Fuentes "Divine Punishment is by far the best novel by Sergio Ramrez, former vice-president of Nicaragua, and one of my favorite novels, period. Set in the Nicaraguan city of Len in the 1930s, and based on a true story, it concerns the case of Oliverio Castaneda, a young charmer and social climber accused of killing neighbors, patrons, and lovers by poisoning. The convoluted affair (still used as a case study in Central American law schools) was never solved, and Ramrez himself cagily leaves it open-ended. Hilarious, riveting, beautifully constructed and written." - Dan Bellm"Divine Punishment is a darkly comic detective novel set in Len in 1933. A stranger comes to town with all the latest fox-trot records and is welcomed into the hearts and beds of the mother and two daughters of the most respectable family in town. Soon the young wife and the paterfamilias drop dead, apparently poisoned. Justice has nothing to do with power, as the young investigative judge sent from the capital soon finds out. A ripping good read, set in the author's hometown ten years before his birth."--John Oliver Simon

Book Punishment Human and Divine

Download or read book Punishment Human and Divine written by William Cecil De Pauley and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Is Divine Punishment Eternal

Download or read book Is Divine Punishment Eternal written by James Forrest and published by . This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece

Download or read book Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece written by Renaud Gagné and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his descendants thereafter', said Solon in the sixth century BC, a statement echoed throughout the rest of antiquity. This notion lies at the heart of ancient Greek thinking on theodicy, inheritance and privilege, the meaning of suffering, the links between wealth and morality, individual responsibility, the bonds that unite generations and the grand movements of history. From Homer to Proclus, it played a major role in some of the most critical and pressing reflections of Greek culture on divinity, society and knowledge. The burning modern preoccupation with collective responsibility across generations has a long, deep antecedent in classical Greek literature and its reception. This book retraces the trajectories of Greek ancestral fault and the varieties of its expression through the many genres and centuries where it is found.

Book Punishment and Political Order

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  • Author : Keally McBride
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2019-02-28
  • ISBN : 0472901133
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book Punishment and Political Order written by Keally McBride and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their government. How a state punishes reveals whether or not it is confident in its own legitimacy and sovereignty. Punishment and Political Order examines the questions raised by the state’s exercise of punitive power—from what it is about human psychology that desires sanction and order to how the state can administer pain while calling for justice. Keally McBride's book demonstrates punishment's place at the core of political administration and the stated ideals of the polity. "From start to finish this is a terrific, engaging book. McBride offers a fascinating perspective on punishment, calling attention to its utility in understanding political regimes and their ideals. She succeeds in reminding us of the centrality of punishment in political theory and, at the same time, in providing a framework for understanding contemporary events. I know of no other book that does as much to make the subject of punishment so compelling." —Austin Sarat, Amherst College "Punishment and Political Order will be welcome reading for anyone interested in understanding law in society, punishment and political spectacle, or governing through crime control. This is a clear, accessible, and persuasive examination of punishment—as rhetoric and reality. Arguing that punishment is a complex product of the social contract, this book demonstrates the ways in which understanding the symbolic power and violence of the law provides analytical tools for examining the ideological function of prison labor today, as well as the crosscutting and contingent connections between language and identity, legitimation and violence, sovereignty and agency more generally." —Bill Lyons, Director, Center for Conflict Management, University of Akron "Philosophical explorations of punishment have often stopped with a theory of responsibility. McBride's book moves well beyond this. It shows that the problem of punishment is a central issue for any coherent theory of the state, and thus that punishment is at the heart of political theory. This is a stunning achievement." —Malcolm M. Feeley, University of California at Berkeley Keally McBride is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco.

Book Divine Punishment and Reconciliation

Download or read book Divine Punishment and Reconciliation written by J. Brenton Stearns and published by . This book was released on 1981* with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Post mortem Divine Retribution

Download or read book Post mortem Divine Retribution written by Angukali Rotokha and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a Christian understanding of divine judgement tends to focus on the afterlife, the Hebrew Bible is far more concerned with divine retribution as something experienced in this life. Yet if the same God enacts both, should there not be significant continuity between biblical accounts of divine retribution, whether experienced in this world or the hereafter? In this study, Dr. Angukali Rotokha provides an overview of Old Testament and Second Temple sources that express conceptions of post-mortem judgement. Alongside these passages, she examines the perspective on judgement presented in Deuteronomy, with its orientation towards divine retribution as experienced on this side of death. She explores Deuteronomy’s varying emphases on the impersonal, anthropocentric, theocentric, and limited aspects of divine retribution, as well as the relevance of these conceptions to the descriptions of post-mortem judgement found in Isaiah, Daniel, 1 Enoch, and 2 Maccabees. In clarifying points of continuity and discontinuity between earthly and post-mortem divine retribution, she provides a foundation for deeper insight into the Judeo-Christian understanding of both God’s judgement and God’s grace.

Book Divine Punishment

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  • Author : Alexander Heist
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2014-11-06
  • ISBN : 9781503087798
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Divine Punishment written by Alexander Heist and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest lore to the last lines written, the Old Testament was a masterpiece a thousand years in the making. The final version of the Hebraic texts dates probably from the first century B.C. After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by Roman troops in the year 70 AD, Jewish scholars created the Masoretic Text that serves as the basis for all translations of the Old Testament until today. The Old Testament contains allegories, narrations of historic events, guidelines and elements of a legal code - the Divine Law. This book is a compilation of those parts of the Old Testament that compose the criminal code of the Divine Law. While the Old Testament contains many verses describing punishments for wrongful deeds, this book lists only those law-like regulations that apply to everyone. It does not contain punishments that God bestows upon a specific individual or group. This book is for both, the scholar who needs a comprehensive overview of the criminal code of the Old Testament, as well as the laymen, who seeks clarity and guidance in an ever changing world.

Book Divine Punishment

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  • Author : Sergio Ramírez
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780385269476
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Divine Punishment written by Sergio Ramírez and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Plato on Punishment

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  • Author : Mary Margaret Mackenzie
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1985-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520056244
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Plato on Punishment written by Mary Margaret Mackenzie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Divine Penology

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  • Author : REV DD L B Hartman
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781021076304
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Divine Penology written by REV DD L B Hartman and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspiring book explores the relationship between divine justice and human behavior. Drawing upon Christian theology and philosophy, the author provides a thought-provoking analysis of the nature and purpose of divine punishment, and its role in shaping human morality. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Punishment and Freedom

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  • Author : Devora Steinmetz
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2008-06-10
  • ISBN : 0812240685
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Punishment and Freedom written by Devora Steinmetz and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Punishment and Freedom offers a fresh look at classical rabbinic texts about criminal law from the perspective of legal and moral philosophy, arguing that the Rabbis constructed an extreme positivist view of law that is based in divine command and that is related to the rabinnic notion notion of human freedom and responsibility.

Book The Ethics of Aquinas

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  • Author : Stephen J. Pope
  • Publisher : Georgetown University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780878408887
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book The Ethics of Aquinas written by Stephen J. Pope and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive anthology, twenty-seven outstanding scholars from North America and Europe address every major aspect of Thomas Aquinas's understanding of morality and comment on his remarkable legacy. While there has been a revival of interest in recent years in the ethics of St. Thomas, no single work has yet fully examined the basic moral arguments and content of Aquinas' major moral work, the Second Part of the Summa Theologiae. This work fills that lacuna. The first chapters of The Ethics of Aquinas introduce readers to the sources, methods, and major themes of Aquinas's ethics. The second part of the book provides an extended discussion of ideas in the Second Part of the Summa Theologiae, in which contributors present cogent interpretations of the structure, major arguments, and themes of each of the treatises. The third and final part examines aspects of Thomistic ethics in the twentieth century and beyond. These essays reflect a diverse group of scholars representing a variety of intellectual perspectives. Contributors span numerous fields of study, including intellectual history, medieval studies, moral philosophy, religious ethics, and moral theology. This remarkable variety underscores how interpretations of Thomas's ethics continue to develop and evolve-and stimulate fervent discussion within the academy and the church. This volume is aimed at scholars, students, clergy, and all those who continue to find Aquinas a rich source of moral insight.

Book World Religions in America  Fourth Edition

Download or read book World Religions in America Fourth Edition written by Jacob Neusner and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2009-10-07 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth edition of World Religions in America continues its lauded tradition of providing students with reliable and nuanced information about America's religious diversity, while also reflecting new developments and ideas. Each chapter was updated to reflect important changes and events, and current statistics and information. New features include a timeline of key events and people for each tradition, sidebars on major movements or controversies, personal stories from members of various faiths, a theme-based organization of subjects, more subheads, three new chapters exploring America's increasing religious diversity, and suggestions for further study.

Book Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds

Download or read book Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an interdisciplinary investigation and contextualization of the various concepts of divine union in the private and public sphere of the Greek and Near Eastern worlds.

Book Learning Theodicy

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  • Author : Paul Vermeer
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9789004116504
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Learning Theodicy written by Paul Vermeer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains a practical-theological study on the problem of theodicy as a subject-matter for religious education. It offers new insights on how the problem of evil may be dealt with in the classroom.