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Book R  J  Goar   Cicero and the state religion  Amsterdam   Hakkert 1972

Download or read book R J Goar Cicero and the state religion Amsterdam Hakkert 1972 written by Pierre Boyancé and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cicero and the State Religion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Jefferson Goar
  • Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • Release : 1978-01-01
  • ISBN : 9789025608040
  • Pages : 141 pages

Download or read book Cicero and the State Religion written by Robert Jefferson Goar and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Religion of the Romans

Download or read book The Religion of the Romans written by Jörg Rüpke and published by Polity. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gods were the true heroes of Rome. In this major new contribution to our understanding of ancient history, Jörg Rüpke guides the reader through the fascinating world of Roman religion, describing its unique characteristics and bringing its peculiarities into stark relief. Rüpke gives a thorough and engaging account of the multiplicity of cults worshipped by peasant and aristocrat alike, the many varied rites and rituals daily observed, and the sacrifices and offerings regularly brought to these immortals by the population of Ancient Rome and its imperial colonies. This important study provides the perfect introduction to Roman religion for students of Ancient Rome and Classical Civilization.

Book Cicero and the State religion

Download or read book Cicero and the State religion written by R. J. Goar and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aquinas s Summa Theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period

Download or read book Aquinas s Summa Theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period written by Reginald M. Lynch O.P. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the reception history of Thomas Aquinas's account of eucharistic sacrifice during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Book The Formation of Hell

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  • Author : Alan E. Bernstein
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2020-06-30
  • ISBN : 150171175X
  • Pages : 409 pages

Download or read book The Formation of Hell written by Alan E. Bernstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What becomes of the wicked? Hell—exile from God, subjection to fire, worms, and darkness—for centuries the idea has shaped the dread of malefactors, the solace of victims, and the deterrence of believers. Although we may associate the notion of hell with Christian beliefs, its gradual emergence depended on conflicting notions that pervaded the Mediterranean world more than a millennium before the birth of Christ. Asking just why and how belief in hell arose, Alan E. Bernstein takes us back to those times and offers us a comparative view of the philosophy, poetry, folklore, myth, and theology of that formative age.Bernstein draws on sources from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and Israel, as well as early Christian writings through Augustine, in order to reconstruct the story of the prophets, priests, poets, and charismatic leaders who fashioned concepts of hell from an array of perspectives on death and justice. The author traces hell's formation through close readings of works including the epics of Homer and Vergil, the satires of Lucian, the dialogues of Plato and Plutarch, the legends of Enoch, the confessions of the Psalms, the prophecies of Isaiah, Ezechiel, and Daniel, and the parables of Jesus. Reenacting lively debates about the nature of hell among the common people and the elites of diverse religious traditions, he provides new insight into the social implications and the psychological consequences of different visions of the afterlife.This superb account of a central image in Western culture will captivate readers interested in history, mythology, literature, psychology, philosophy, and religion.

Book Aquinas s Summa Theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period

Download or read book Aquinas s Summa Theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period written by M. P. M. Lynch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is focused on the reception history of Thomas Aquinas' account of Eucharistic sacrifice during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Although the sacrificial character of the Eucharist has been of interest to theologians throughout the Church's history, during the early sixteenth century renewed attention was given to this subject, in part because of disputes that arose between Reformed and Catholic theologians about the relationship between the Eucharistic liturgy and Christ's sacrifice on the cross. Does the Eucharistic presence itself have a sacrificial quality? Can aspects of the liturgy or dimensions of the moral life be considered a sacrifice, and if so in what way? The emergence of these and other new questions in Eucharistic theology at the beginning of the sixteenth century coincided with a shift within the practice of theology in universities that began to emphasize Aquinas' Summa theologiae as the standard text of theological instruction, in place of Peter Lombard's Sentences. Because of the Summa's relatively late ascendency as a text of commentary and instruction, studying the Summa's reception history involves the interpreter in a complex textuality. Although itself a product of the middle ages, as a received text the Summa is in many ways a creature of the early modern period. Interpreting the reception of this text therefore requires one to consider not only the Summa in its original environment, but the life of this same text as it was received in new interpretive contexts.

Book Imagine There s No Heaven

Download or read book Imagine There s No Heaven written by Mitchell Stephens and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical achievements of religious belief have been large and well chronicled. But what about the accomplishments of those who have challenged religion? Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century America, Imagine There's No Heaven explores the role of disbelief in shaping Western civilization. At each juncture common themes emerge: by questioning the role of gods in the heavens or the role of a God in creating man on earth, nonbelievers help move science forward. By challenging the divine right of monarchs and the strictures of holy books, nonbelievers, including Jean- Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot, help expand human liberties, and influence the early founding of the United States. Revolutions in science, in politics, in philosophy, in art, and in psychology have been led, on multiple occasions, by those who are free of the constraints of religious life. Mitchell Stephens tells the often-courageous tales of history's most important atheists— like Denis Diderot and Salman Rushdie. Stephens makes a strong and original case for their importance not only to today's New Atheist movement but to the way many of us—believers and nonbelievers—now think and live.

Book Killing Abraham Lincoln

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  • Author : Festus Ogunbitan
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2012-02
  • ISBN : 1469747138
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Killing Abraham Lincoln written by Festus Ogunbitan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This epideictic oratory is dedicated to, Thespis of Icaria, the inventor of acting, the first actor, playwright, director, and producer in the world s theater. My project is a classic drama style of political theater started in Greece thousands of years ago by Thespis of Icaria on the stage for demonstrating the political views of the Greek civilization. This revolution was passed on to the Romans in the Basilica and Supreme Court where Roman politicians communicate their political views to fellow Romans and Countrymen. Later, the revolution surfaced in England when John Milton, Christopher Marlow, and William Shakespeare started the classic British theater. In the contemporary period, America has carried on this tradition on the Senate Floor, and the House of Representatives Congress. The country has also generated talk show hosts, comedians, and moviemakers to carry on this tradition of political theater. I came across this idea while studying Masters of Arts in Liberal Arts at Sacramento State University in Sacramento California. Since then, I have been adapting history of the Greeks, Romans, Americans and other nations, into Greek style epideictic drama, distinctively reflecting the identities and political views of each nation through classic drama. Hoping to permanently retell the history of America, I have decided to use Aristotle s theory of catharsis to rewrite America s history through the locus of all presidents to have a permanent knowledge of America s history. All the plays shall incorporate the principles of American politics, focusing on the values and virtues of the Conservatives and the Liberals."

Book A Marginal Jew

    Book Details:
  • Author : John P. Meier
  • Publisher : Anchor Bible
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1144 pages

Download or read book A Marginal Jew written by John P. Meier and published by Anchor Bible. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anchor Bible reference library. Contents: v. 2 Mentor, message, and miracles. Includes bibliographical references & indexes.

Book A Marginal Jew  Mentor  message  and miracles

Download or read book A Marginal Jew Mentor message and miracles written by John P. Meier and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Toland and the Deist Controversy

Download or read book John Toland and the Deist Controversy written by Robert E. Sullivan and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Epic of Being George Washington

Download or read book Epic of Being George Washington written by Festus Ogunbitan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose of writing this play is to reclaim the dream of the Father of our Nation, President George Washington by adapting his brainy quotes into Greek style epideictic drama. Also, I wish to explore the conflicts and issues in dialectic of exchange and reply in the political responses of King George III of England, and President George Washington who represented the thirteen colonies of America in the struggle for Americas Independence and democratic rule. I have dramatized President Washington, and King George IIIs arguments based on the articles of the Declaration of Independence through the logic of stated assumptions, and unstated assumptions to discuss the logical soundness of the disputes made by each faction on monarchy and democratic rule. I have critically analyzed their line of reasonings with the method of Aristotles catharsis and intellectual purification of the soul. Although democracy has been around since the time of the Greeks, but I have examined the recurring ideologies in the evolution of democracy from the Roman era through the overthrow of King Tarquin the proud, 496 B.C., and the emergence of the first twenty senators or Rex Sacrorum, to the foundation of the new democratic system of government, and the reaffirmation of another four year period of presidency during the period of Quinctius Cincinnatus 456 B.C.. The collapse of the full establishment of democratic government came during the time of Julius Caesar 44 B.C. in the early Roman Republican period; but hope for a free and fair world of democratic government of the people, by the people, and for the people returned through President George Washington in the 1776 A.D. According to Charlene Spretnak in The Resurgence of the Real--Body, Nature, and Place in a Hypermodern World, this evolution of political governance can be called a social process of culture.'

Book The Roman Republic of Letters

Download or read book The Roman Republic of Letters written by Katharina Volk and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic—and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war In The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion. It was a period of intense cultural flourishing and extreme political unrest—and the agents of each were very often the same people. Members of the senatorial class, including Cicero, Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Cato, Varro, and Nigidius Figulus, contributed greatly to the development of Roman scholarship and engaged in a lively and often polemical exchange with one another. These men were also crucially involved in the tumultuous events that brought about the collapse of the Republic, and they ended up on opposite sides in the civil war between Caesar and Pompey in the early 40s. Volk treats the intellectual and political activities of these “senator scholars” as two sides of the same coin, exploring how scholarship and statesmanship mutually informed one another—and how the acquisition, organization, and diffusion of knowledge was bound up with the question of what it meant to be a Roman in a time of crisis. By revealing how first-century Rome’s remarkable “republic of letters” was connected to the fight over the actual res publica, Volk’s riveting account captures the complexity of this pivotal period.

Book The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages  Volume 1  Stoicism in Classical Latin Literature

Download or read book The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages Volume 1 Stoicism in Classical Latin Literature written by Marcia L. Colish and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages

Download or read book The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages written by Marcia L. Colish and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume one, Stoicism in classical Latin literature (09327-3), approaches its subject from the standpoint of intellectual history, examining how Stoicism was used by Roman thinkers, for what purposes, and how they correlated it with their other sources. Volume two, Stoicism in Christian Latin thought through the sixth century, (09328-1), focuses on how a particular Latin Christian author used Stoic ideas, to what ends, and how they were associated in his mind with the other doctrines he had to work with. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR