Download or read book God s Statesman written by Peter Toon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That the man who has been called “the greatest British theologian of all time” should have no adequately researched biography of his life and times would be incredible if it were not a fact. But as Dr. Toon, an able historian who specializes in the Puritan era, shows in this book, John Owen was even more than just a great theologian. He exercised a profound influence on youth as Dean of Christ Church, and Vice Chancellor in the University of Oxford; he was also a statesman of no mean order, whose wisdom often prevented excesses into which his contemporaries would have fallen in their untampered zeal; but above all, he was a spiritual shepherd with a true pastor’s heart who delighted in nothing so much as to feed the flock of God. Dr. Toon, who has been engaged for over four years on almost continuous research, has produced a volume full of new information as well as an assessment of the tremendous influence of this outstanding leader. The current worldwide interest in the Puritan period underlines the timeliness and importance of this new work. John Owen achieved national recognition when at the comparatively early age of thirty he preached before the House of Commons at St. Margaret’s, Westminster. Yet his achievements would eventually be recorded in higher archives than any mere earthly ones, for he was to become a revered and redoubtable servant of the King of kings. Like many other renowned servants of God, John Owen cared little for personal aggrandizement and by his own command not one of his diaries has been preserved; and since the extant letters in which he lays bare his soul are very few, his biographer is hard put to find those personal touches which have helped to establish biography as an important part of English literature. Nevertheless this carefully researched study has been produced to help meet the need for a fuller life of this remarkable man.
Download or read book God s Statesman written by Peter Toon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That the man who has been called "the greatest British theologian of all time" should have no adequately researched biography of his life and times would be incredible if it were not a fact. But as Dr. Toon, an able historian who specializes in the Puritan era, shows in this book, John Owen was even more than just a great theologian. He exercised a profound influence on youth as Dean of Christ Church, and Vice Chancellor in the University of Oxford; he was also a statesman of no mean order, whose wisdom often prevented excesses into which his contemporaries would have fallen in their untampered zeal; but above all, he was a spiritual shepherd with a true pastor's heart who delighted in nothing so much as to feed the flock of God. Dr. Toon, who has been engaged for over four years on almost continuous research, has produced a volume full of new information as well as an assessment of the tremendous influence of this outstanding leader. The current worldwide interest in the Puritan period underlines the timeliness and importance of this new work. John Owen achieved national recognition when at the comparatively early age of thirty he preached before the House of Commons at St. Margaret's, Westminster. Yet his achievements would eventually be recorded in higher archives than any mere earthly ones, for he was to become a revered and redoubtable servant of the King of kings. Like many other renowned servants of God, John Owen cared little for personal aggrandizement and by his own command not one of his diaries has been preserved; and since the extant letters in which he lays bare his soul are very few, his biographer is hard put to find those personal touches which have helped to establish biography as an important part of English literature. Nevertheless this carefully researched study has been produced to help meet the need for a fuller life of this remarkable man.
Download or read book The Philosopher in Plato s Statesman written by Mitchell H. Miller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: others in his discipline tend not to bring their studies to bear on the substance of the dialogues. Conversely, philosophical interpreters have generally felt free to approach the extensive logical and ontological, cosmological, and political doctrines of the later dialogues without concern for questions of literary style s and form. Given, moreover, the equally sharp distinction between the diSCiplines of philosophy and cultural history, it has been too easy to treat this bulk of doctrine without a pointed sense of the specific historical audience to which it is addressed. As a result, the pervasive tendency has been the reverse of that which has dominated the reading of the early dialogues: here we tend to neglect drama and pedagogy and to focus exclusively on philosophical substance. Both in general and particularly in regard to the later dialogues, the difficulty is that our predispositions have the force of self-fulfilling prophecy. Are we sure that the later Plato's apparent loss of interest in the dramatic is not, on the contrary, a reflection of our limited sense of the integrity of drama and sub stance, form and content? What we lack eyes for, of course, we will not see. The basic purpose of this essay is to develop eyes, as it were, for that integrity. The best way to do this, I think, is to take a later dialogue and to try to read it as a whole of form, content, and communicative function.
Download or read book God s Statesman The Life and Work of John Owen Pastor Educator Theologian written by Peter Toon and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Memory and Political Art in Plato s Statesman written by Catherine Craig and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Memory and the Political Art in Plato’s Statesman, Catherine Craig provides an original reading of Plato’s Statesman by bringing memory to the foreground. The dialogue itself explores various components of political memory, such as common speech, myths, and laws, and argues that these create a framework in which we live our political lives. Each of these aspects of political memory serves as an image to move the individual to rational inquiry. In this way, the dialogue suggests that political memory can serve as a starting point for philosophic recollection, allowing for a move from knowledge of the rational soul to first principles. Craig shows how Plato weaves together the personal, political, and philosophic dimensions of memory, providing a richer understanding of the significance of memory for political life. Beyond providing an analysis of the Statesman, this book helps readers consider the challenges of political memory in contemporary political life, while also arguing that memory mediates between universal, rational principles and the particular ends and circumstances of human life.
Download or read book The statesman s manual or The Bible the best guide to political skill and foresight a lay sermon Followed by A lay sermon addressed to the higher and middle classes on the existing distresses and discontents written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Principle and Prudence in Western Political Thought written by Christopher Lynch and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on principle and prudence in the thoughts and actions of great thinkers and statesmen. Discussions of the place of moral principle in political practice are haunted by the abstract and misleading distinction between realism and its various principled or idealist alternatives. This volume argues that such discussions must be recast in terms of the relationship between principle and prudence: as Nathan Tarcov maintains, that relationship is not dichotomous but complementary. In a substantive introduction, the editors investigate Leo Strausss attack on contemporary political thought for its failure to account for both principle and prudence in politics. Leading commentators then reflect on principle and prudence in the writings of great thinkers such as Homer, Machiavelli, and Hegel, and in the thoughts and actions of great statesmen such as Pericles, Jefferson, and Lincoln. In a concluding section, contributors reassess Strausss own approach to principle and prudence in the history of political philosophy. Principle and Prudence in Western Political Thought contains a series of first-rate essays on aif not thecentral problem of political thought: how should and can abstract and general principles inform contingent, particularistic political life. Catherine H. Zuckert, coauthor of Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy
Download or read book The God Centered Statesman written by Martin L. Hawley and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The God-centered Statesman is a unique effort to bring together biblical scholarship and useful political application for people of faith wrestling with getting into the political arena. The current 21st century climate in the United States is increasingly hostile to persons of the Christian faith engaging in political campaigns, running for elected office, or hiring on to civil service careers. This is to say nothing of the hostility of the political machinery and even of typical U.S. citizens toward Christians conforming their approach to governing and public policy to the presuppositions of their faith. In calling for Christians to actively reenter the political arena, Martin Hawley looks to the life and the political circumstances faced by Daniel, a God-centered statesman who maintained the principles and practices of his faith in spite of broad opposition while serving in the Neo-Babylonian and later Persian administrations. As he governed according to his faith, Daniel also governed so exceptionally in the eyes of his cultural and philosophical advisories as to achieve the highest levels of power and all the while bringing progress and blessings not only to his own exilic people, but to the conquerors' states as well. All of this was achieved, not through Daniel's own talents and inner strength, but because he served the Most High God, who is sovereign in the affairs of men and of nations. As the United States stands at a modern crossroads, moving further and further away from its original faith-based moorings, now is the time for people of faith to reassert the sovereignty and kingship of God Most High and to serve as his instruments in building his kingdom while bringing benefits to the kingdoms and governments of this present century. The God-centered Statesman is also dedicated to the memory of Georgia State Representative Bobby Franklin and includes an account of his Daniel-like, God-centered service as a faithful statesman.
Download or read book John Owen and English Puritanism written by Crawford Gribben and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Owen was a leading theologian in seventeenth-century England. Closely associated with the regicide and revolution, he befriended Oliver Cromwell, was appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, and became the premier religious statesman of the Interregnum. The restoration of the monarchy pushed Owen into dissent, criminalizing his religious practice and inspiring his writings in defense of high Calvinism and religious toleration. Owen transcended his many experiences of defeat, and his claims to quietism were frequently undermined by rumors of his involvement in anti-government conspiracies. Crawford Gribben's biography documents Owen's importance as a controversial and adaptable theologian deeply involved with his social, political, and religious environments. Fiercely intellectual and extraordinarily learned, Owen wrote millions of words in works of theology and exegesis. Far from personifying the Reformed tradition, however, Owen helped to undermine it, offering an individualist account of Christian faith that downplayed the significance of the church and means of grace. In doing so, Owen's work contributed to the formation of the new religious movement known as evangelicalism, where his influence can still be seen today.
Download or read book Parmenides Theaetetus Sophist Statesman Philebus written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Dialogues of Plato Parmenides Theaetetus Sophist Statesman Philebus written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dialogues of Plato Gorgias Philebus Parmenides theaetetus Sophist Statesman written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
