Download or read book The Providential Letters written by Blaise Pascal and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost simultaneously with Descartes, Pascal discovers the logic of the heart in contrast to the logic of calculating reason. Martin Heidegger, 1914, Woodland Paths This new Reader's Edition from Livraria Press contains a new Afterword by the translator on Pascal's personal relationship with Descartes and his intellectual objections to the new Cartesian rationality which fundamentally changed the course of both Science and Philosophy, a short biography on Pascal's life and impact. This is followed by a timeline of his life and relationships, an index of his core Philosophic terminology, a chronological list and summary of all of his published and posthumous works, and the text of Pascal's Memorial, a poetic, fragmented account of his divine vision in 1654. This volume introduces the reader to Pascal's metaphysical works and brings to life Pascal's witness of the dawn of a new Scientific age. Letters to a Provincial (Les Provinciales) is a series of 18 letters written by Blaise Pascal between 1656 and 1657, addressing the controversy between the Jansenists and the Jesuits. Originally published anonymously, the letters were intended to defend the Jansenist theologian Antoine Arnauld, who had been condemned by the Sorbonne for his views on grace and predestination. In these letters, Pascal criticized Jesuit moral theology, especially its use of "casuistry," which he saw as a way of justifying moral laxity through complex reasoning. Known for their wit, clarity, and satirical tone, the Provincial Letters made complex theological debates accessible to the general public.They played a crucial role in swaying public opinion in favor of the Jansenists, while exposing the inconsistencies and weaknesses in Jesuit arguments.Pascal's blend of sharp criticism and eloquent writing made the Letters not only a key work in theological disputes, but also a landmark in French literature. This is volume 5 of the 7-part Complete Works of Pascal by Livraria Press. This volume covers Pascal’s groundbreaking contributions to mathematics, science, and engineering, as well as his Scientific-Philosophical commentary on the Enlightenment's Scientific progress.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Providence Athenaeum written by Providence Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters on the Practice of Abandonment to Divine Providence written by S.J. de Caussade and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Pierre de Caussade, of the Society of Jesus in France, was one of the most remarkable spiritual writers in the 18th Century. His works have gone through many editions and have been republished, and translated into several foreign languages. First Book: On the Esteem for and Love of This Virtue. Second Book: On the Exercise of the Virtue of Abandonment. Third Book: On the Obstacles to Abandonment. Fourth Book: The First Trials of Souls Called to the State of Abandonment. Aridities, Weaknesses and Weariness. Fifth Book: Fresh Trials, Sufferings and Privations. Sixth Book: On the Continuation of Trials, and Fear of the Anger Of God. Seventh Book: The Last Trials. Agony and Mystical Death. The Fruit Thereof.
Download or read book The Mystified Letter written by Craig Tichelkamp and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2023 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading has become a problem--not just of attention, comprehension, or illiteracy rates, but of politics, society, and religion. The Mystified Letter offers an alternative to this malaise: a theology of reading centered on mystical encounter. It retrieves medieval Christian reading culture to build a case for a mystical theology of literature.
Download or read book Lives Out of Letters written by Robert N. Hudspeth and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the efficacy of literary biography has been widely contested by academic theorists, artention to the lives of authors remains an enduring fact of our literary history. Dedicated to Robert N. Hudspeth, editor of the Letters of Margaret Fuller and the Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, the eleven essays in this collection address from a practitioner's perspective the relationship between American literary biography, documentation, and interpretation.
Download or read book Discerning the Good in the Letters Sermons of Augustine written by Joseph Clair and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine turns to the vast collection of moral advice found in Augustine's letters and sermons, mining these neglected and highly illuminating texts for examples of Augustine's application of his own moral concepts. It focuses on letters and sermons in which Augustine offers concrete advice on how to interact with the various goods relevant to social and political life. A special set of goods reappears throughout the letters and sermons, namely sexual intimacy and domestic life, power and public office, and wealth and private possessions. Together, these goods form the central topics of this book. Joseph Clair highlights that the most revealing cases are those in which an individual must choose between competing goods, and cases in which an individual's role and role--specific obligations inform their decisions. Such cases uncover the nimbleness of Augustine's moral reasoning in action--an artful blend of scriptural interpretation, virtue theory, and sensitivity to the circumstances of individual lives. He reveals that Augustine's understanding of the goods constitutive of social and political life is deeply indebted to the Stoic and Peripatetic doctrine of oikeiōsis, or "social appropriation". The colorful, personal, and practical details found in these writings provide a window onto Augustine's moral reasoning not available in his more theoretical treatments of the good, and the concrete cases often illustrate the human significance of properly discerning the good. Beyond providing one of the first analyses of these ethical writings, this work contributes a new sense of Augustine's ethics--both in terms of the range of questions he addresses and the manner in which he treats them.
Download or read book Abandonment to Divine Providence written by Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1925 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1939 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book First Supplement to the Finding List of the Providence Public Library 1882 written by Providence Public Library and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book Providence River and Harbor Maintenance Dredging Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England 1636 1663 written by Rhode Island and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christianity in China written by Wu Xiaoxin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 2211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bibliographical guide to the works in American libraries concerning the Christian missionary experience in China.
Download or read book The Handbook of Policy Practice written by Ira C. Colby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All social work practice is regulated by social policies. Professionals, however, cannot arbitrarily select which policy to follow in any circumstance. Knowing what comprises a given policy is essential, but equally important is understanding how to amend a policy by applying unique skills that reflect the social work profession's shared values and beliefs. Recognizing that a series of interdependent social policies govern every aspect of social work in both nonprofit and public organizations, this practice-specific textbook focuses on influencing social policies in an agency setting or through formal governmental processes. Purposefully, the Handbook also relies on information comes from the digital world; using the web as a primary source builds on the social work profession's long-held belief to "begin where the client is." Using the links to the various data and citation sources, readers will learn to identify and discern the features of a valid web site. As a whole, The Handbook of Policy Practice is an essential resource for all BSW and MSW students.
Download or read book Letters and Manuscripts of All of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence written by Theodorus Bailey Myers and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Letters of A M A Blanchet written by Roberta Stringham Brown and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1846, French Canadian-born A. M. A. Blanchet was named the first Catholic bishop of Walla Walla in the area soon to become Washington Territory. He arrived at Fort Walla Walla in late September 1847, part of the largest movement over the Oregon Trail to date. During the thirty-two years of Blanchet's tenure in the Northwest, the region underwent profound social and political change as the Hudson's Bay Company moved headquarters and many operations north following the Oregon Treaty, U.S. government and institutions were established, and Native American inhabitants dealt with displacement and discrimination. Blanchet chronicled both his own pastoral and administrative life and his observations on the world around him in a voluminous correspondence-almost nine hundred letters-to religious superiors and colleagues in Montreal, Paris, and Rome; funding organizations; other missionaries; and U.S. officials. This selection of Blanchet's letters provides a fascinating view of Washington Territory as seen through the eyes of an intelligent, devout, energetic, perceptive, and occasionally irascible cleric and administrator. Almost all of Blanchet's correspondence was in French. Roberta Stringham Brown and Patricia O'Connell Killen have chosen forty-five of those letters to translate and annotate, creating a history of early Washington that provides new insights into relationships, events, and personalities. A number of the letters provide first-hand glimpses of familiar events, such as the Whitman tragedy, the California gold rush, Indian wars and land displacement, transportation advances, and the domestic material culture of a frontier borderland. Others voice the hardships of historically underrepresented groups, including Native Americans, Metis, and French Canadians, and the experiences of ordinary people in growing population centers such as Seattle, Walla Walla, and Vancouver, Wash-ington. Still others describe the struggle to bring social, medical, and educational institutions to the region, a struggle in which women religious workers played a key role. The letters-and the editors' fascinating annotations-provide an engaging and insightful look at an important period in the history of the Pacific Northwest and southwest Canada.
Download or read book Letters to the New Island written by W.B. Yeats and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-10-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1888 to 1892 W.B.Yeats contributed a series of essays on literature and Irish folklore to two American newspapers, the Boston Pilot and Providence Sunday Journal. These important but little-known pieces show his intense engagement with current books, plays, personalities and controversies. They also make major statements about the issues of cultural nationalism and theatrical reform that preoccupied the poet. Newly edited, annotated, and introduced by George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer, Letters to the New Island offers a fresh glimpse of Yeats as an active polemicist, critic and all-round man of letters.
Download or read book A Reply to a Letter to the Right Rev Bishop Hobart occasioned by the strictures on Bible Societies contained in his late address to the Convention of New York by a Churchman of the diocese of New York i e W Jay in a letter to that gentleman By Corrector i e Bishop J H Hobart written by and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
