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Book Jean Bodin

Download or read book Jean Bodin written by Howell A. Lloyd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Bodin was a figure of great importance in European intellectual history, known as a jurist, associate of kings and courtiers in sixteenth-century France, and author of influential works in the fields of constitutional and social thought, historical writing, witchcraft, and a great deal else besides. Best known for his contribution to formulating the modern doctrine of sovereignty, Bodin was a scholar of exceptional range, whose works provoked controversy in his own time and have continued to do so down the centuries. Hugh Trevor-Roper described him as "the Aristotle, the Montesquieu of the sixteenth century, the prophet of comparative history, of political theory, of the philosophy of law, of the quantitative theory of money, and of so much else". Much has been written on Bodin and his ideas, but in this new intellectual biography, Howell A. Lloyd presents the first rounded treatment of the thinker and his times, his writings (major and minor), and his ideas in their contemporary context, as well as in the broader intellectual tradition.

Book Reading between the lines     Leo Strauss and the history of early modern philosophy

Download or read book Reading between the lines Leo Strauss and the history of early modern philosophy written by Winfried Schröder and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1952, Leo Strauss's Persecution and the Art of Writing has stirred considerable controversy, particularly among historians concerned with early modern philosophy. On the one hand, several scholars share his view that it would be inadequate to generally take at face value the explicit message of texts which were composed in an era in which severe sanctions were imposed on those who entertained deviating views. ‘Reading between the lines’ therefore seems to be the appropriate hermeneutical approach. On the other hand, the risks of such an interpretative maxim are more than obvious, as it might come up to an unlimited license to ascribe heterodox doctrines to early modern philosophers whose manifest teachings were in harmony with the orthodox positions of their time. The conributions to this volume both address these methodological issues and discuss paradigmatic cases of authors who might indeed be candidates for a Straussian ‘reading between the lines’: Hobbes, Spinoza, and Bayle.

Book Royal Dictionary English and French and French and English      Grand Dictionnaire Fran  ais Anglais Et Anglais Fran  ais

Download or read book Royal Dictionary English and French and French and English Grand Dictionnaire Fran ais Anglais Et Anglais Fran ais written by Charles Fleming (Professor at the College Louis-le-Grand.) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Grand Dictionnaire Francais anglais Et Anglais francais

Download or read book Grand Dictionnaire Francais anglais Et Anglais francais written by Charles Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth Century French Writing

Download or read book Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth Century French Writing written by Richard Parish and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'le christianisme est étrange' - Pascal, Pensées Pascal's assertion that 'Christianity is strange', provides the theme for Richard Parish's exploration of Catholic particularity, as it was expressed in the writing of the French seventeenth century. This was a period of quite exceptional fertility in a range of genres: apologetics, sermons, devotional manuals, catechisms, martyr tragedies, lyric poetry, polemic and spiritual autobiography. Parish examines a broad cross-section of this corpus with reference to the topics of apologetics, physicality, language, discernment, polemics and salvation; and draws evidence both from canonical figures (Pascal, Bossuet, Fénelon, St François de Sales, Madame Guyon) and from less easily-available texts. Parish aims to consider all those distinctive features that the heritage of the Catholic Reformation brought to the surface in France, and to do so in support of the numerous ways in which Christian doctrine could be understood as being strange: it is by turns contrary to expectations, paradoxical, divisive, carnal and inexpressible. These features are exploited imaginatively in the more conventional literary forms, didactically in pulpit oratory and empirically in the accounts of personal spiritual experience. In addition they are manifested polemically in debates surrounding penance, authority, inspiration and eschatology, and often push orthodoxy to its limits and beyond in the course of their articulation. This volume provides an unsettling account of a belief system to which early-modern France often unquestioningly subscribed, and shows how the element of cultural assimilation of Catholic Christianity into much of Western Europe only tenuously contains a subversive and counter-intuitive creed. The degree to which that remains the case will be for the reader to decide.

Book Nouveau Dictionnaire Fran  ois anglois  Et Anglois fran  ois  Contenant la Signification Et Les Differens Usages Des Mots      De Mr  Louis Chambaud  Corrig   consid  rablement Augment   Par Lui par Mr  J  B  Robinet

Download or read book Nouveau Dictionnaire Fran ois anglois Et Anglois fran ois Contenant la Signification Et Les Differens Usages Des Mots De Mr Louis Chambaud Corrig consid rablement Augment Par Lui par Mr J B Robinet written by Louis Chambaud and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Simone Weil

Download or read book Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Simone Weil written by Vivienne Blackburn and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first major study to bring together the two early twentieth-century theologians Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran pastor, and Simone Weil, French philosopher and convert to Christianity. Both were victims of Nazi oppression, and neither survived the war. The book explores the two theologians' reflections on Christian responsiveness to God and neighbour, being the interdependence of the two great commandments of the Jewish Law reiterated by Jesus. It sets out the common ground and the differing emphases in their interpretations. For Bonhoeffer, responsiveness was the transformation of the whole person effected by faith (Gestaltung), and the responsibility (Verantwortung) for one's actions which it implies. For Weil, responsiveness was the hope and expectation of grace (attente) reflected in attention, the capacity to listen to, understand and help others. Both Bonhoeffer and Weil faced a world dominated by aggression and horrendous suffering. Both endeavoured to articulate their responses, as Christians, to that world. The relevance of their thought to the twenty-first century is explored, in relation to perspectives on grace and freedom, on aggression, suffering, and forgiveness, and on the role of the church in society. Conclusions are illustrated by reference to contemporary theologians including Rowan Williams, Daniel Hardy, Frances Young and David Tracy.

Book New Essays on the Political Thought of the Huguenots of the Refuge

Download or read book New Essays on the Political Thought of the Huguenots of the Refuge written by John Christian Laursen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1995 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, the Huguenot refugees who spread throughout Protestant Europe contributed greatly to the development of new political ideas and realities, ranging from the theory and practice of freedom of the press through religious toleration and early modern economic discourse. The essays in this volume throw new light on their work.

Book The Royal Dictionary Abridged

Download or read book The Royal Dictionary Abridged written by Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1708 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Royal Dictionary  English and French and French and English

Download or read book Royal Dictionary English and French and French and English written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Royal Dictionary  French and English  and English and French

Download or read book The Royal Dictionary French and English and English and French written by Abel Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Royal Dictionary English and French and French and English Compiled from the Dictionaries of Johnson  Todd     by Professors Fleming and Tibbins

Download or read book Royal Dictionary English and French and French and English Compiled from the Dictionaries of Johnson Todd by Professors Fleming and Tibbins written by Charles Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Royal Dictionary Abridged

Download or read book The Royal Dictionary Abridged written by Abel Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Amor Dei in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Download or read book Amor Dei in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries written by David C. Bellusci and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amor Dei, “love of God” raises three questions: How do we know God is love? How do we experience love of God? How free are we to love God? This book presents three kinds of love, worldly, spiritual, and divine to understand God’s love. The work begins with Augustine’s Confessions highlighting his Manichean and Neoplatonic periods before his conversion to Christianity. Augustine’s confrontation with Pelagius anticipates the unresolved disputes concerning God’s love and free will. In the sixteenth-century the Italian humanist, Gasparo Contarini introduces the notion of “divine amplitude” to demonstrate how God’s goodness is manifested in the human agent. Pierre de Bérulle, Guillaume Gibieuf, and Nicolas Malebranche show connections with Contarini in the seventeenth-century controversies relating free will and divine love. In response to the free will dispute, the Scottish philosopher, William Chalmers, offers his solution. Cornelius Jansen relentlessly asserts his anti-Pelagian interpretation of Augustine stirring up more controversy. John Norris, Malebranche’s English disciple, exchanges his views with Mary Astell and Damaris Masham. In the tradition of Cambridge Platonism, Ralph Cudworth conveys a God who “sweetly governs.” The organization of sections represents the love of God in ascending-descending movements demonstrating that, “human love is inseparable from divine love.”

Book The Spiritual Life

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  • Author : Reverend Adolphe Tanquerey
  • Publisher : Catholic Way Publishing
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1783795131
  • Pages : 881 pages

Download or read book The Spiritual Life written by Reverend Adolphe Tanquerey and published by Catholic Way Publishing. This book was released on with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SPIRITUAL LIFE: A TREATISE ON ASCETICAL AND MYSTICAL THEOLOGY REVEREND ADOLPHE TANQUEREY — A Catholic Classic! — Two Parts of Four Books in One — Includes 1,773 Active Linked Footnotes — Includes Active Linked Headings, Index and Table of Contents — Includes Religious Illustrations Publisher: Available in Paperbacks: FIRST PART: ISBN-13: 978-1-78379-507-9 SECOND PART: ISBN-13: 978-1-78379-508-6 It is the writer’s conviction that Dogma is the foundation of Ascetical Theology and that an exposition of what God has done and still does for us is the most efficacious motive of true devotion. Hence, care has been taken to recall briefly the truths of faith on which the spiritual life rests. This treatise then is first of all doctrinal in character and aims at bringing out the fact that Christian perfection is the logical outcome of dogma, especially of the central dogma of the Incarnation. The work however is also practical, for a vivid realization of the truths of faith is the strongest incentive to earnest and steady efforts towards the correction of faults and the practice of virtues. Consequently in the first part of this treatise the practical conclusions that naturally flow from revealed truths and the general means of perfection are developed. The second part contains a more detailed exposition of the special means of advancing along the Three Ways towards the heights of perfection. Contents: FIRST PART: Principles SECOND PART: The Three Ways BOOK I: The Purification of the Soul or the Purgative Way BOOK II: The Illuminative Way BOOK III: The Unitive Way PUBLISHER: CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING