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Book Augustine of Hippo

Download or read book Augustine of Hippo written by Peter Brown and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic biography was first published forty-five years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine cast fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of the Confessions and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa. Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). He also reviews the changes in scholarship about Augustine since the 1960s. A personal as well as a scholarly fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the bishop of Hippo.

Book Ancient Judaism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Max Weber
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2010-05-11
  • ISBN : 143911918X
  • Pages : 522 pages

Download or read book Ancient Judaism written by Max Weber and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weber’s classic study which deals specifically with: Types of Asceticism and the Significance of Ancient Judaism, History and Social Organization of Ancient Palestine, Political Organization and Religious Ideas in the Time of the Confederacy and the Early Kings, Political Decline, Religious Conflict and Biblical Prophecy.

Book The Semites in Ancient History

Download or read book The Semites in Ancient History written by Sabatino Moscati and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Theology of History

Download or read book A Theology of History written by Hans Urs von Balthasar and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man has always wrestled with the problem of finding meaning in history. It is not surprising that, as a Christian, von Balthasar finds the meaning of history in Christ, its Center and Lord. What may surprise-as it will surely stimulate-is the theological mastery with which von Balthasar traces the effects of Christ's lordship upon the daily life of the Christian. In this book we have one of the indispensable sources for understanding Balthasar's Catholic Christocentrism. Here we find elaboration of the striking statement that Jesus Christ is 'the Idea made concrete, personal, historical; universale concretum et personale'-which, put otherwise, means that Christ is the universally valid in the here and now. Characteristic of Balthasar, the book inspires as much spiritually as it informs theologically.

Book Martin Buber   Christianity  a Dialogue Between Israel and the Church

Download or read book Martin Buber Christianity a Dialogue Between Israel and the Church written by Hans Urs Von 1905-1988 Balthasar and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book My Friend Ch

Download or read book My Friend Ch written by Ricardo Rojo and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Argentine lawyer, friend of the late Guevara, writes of his involvement in Latin American revolutions.

Book A Treasury of Mexican Folkways

Download or read book A Treasury of Mexican Folkways written by Frances Toor and published by Crown. This book was released on 1947 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The customs, myths, folklore, traditions, beliefs, fiestas, dances, and songs of the Mexican people.

Book The Rebellion of the Hanged

Download or read book The Rebellion of the Hanged written by B. Traven and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rebellion of the Hanged is the fifth book in legendary author B. Traven’s multi-volume retelling of the Mexican Revolution. Originally published in 1936, Traven captures the struggle for freedom of the enslaved Indians against labor agents in this thrilling, action-packed account. "The Jungle Novels constitute one of the richest portraits of revolution in all literature."- University Review

Book Socialism and Man

Download or read book Socialism and Man written by Che Guevara and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Donatist Church

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  • Author : W. H. C. Frend
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2020-03-31
  • ISBN : 1532697554
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book The Donatist Church written by W. H. C. Frend and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Excess

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  • Author : Masha Salazkina
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2009-08-01
  • ISBN : 0226734161
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book In Excess written by Masha Salazkina and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1920s and ’30s, Mexico attracted an international roster of artists and intellectuals—including Orson Welles, Katherine Anne Porter, and Leon Trotsky—who were drawn to the heady tumult engendered by battling cultural ideologies in an emerging center for the avant-garde. Against the backdrop of this cosmopolitan milieu, In Excess reconstructs the years that the renowned Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein spent in the country to work on his controversial film ¡Que Viva Mexico! Illuminating the inextricability of Eisenstein’s oeuvre from the global cultures of modernity and film, Masha Salazkina situates this unfinished project within the twin contexts of postrevolutionary Mexico and the ideas of such contemporaneous thinkers as Walter Benjamin. In doing so, Salazkina explains how Eisenstein’s engagement with Mexican mythology, politics, and art deeply influenced his ideas, particularly about sexuality. She also uncovers the role Eisenstein’s bisexuality played in his creative thinking and identifies his use of the baroque as an important turn toward excess and hybrid forms. Beautifully illustrated with rare photographs, In Excess provides the most complete genealogy available of major shifts in this modern master’s theories and aesthetics.

Book The Cinema of Eisenstein

Download or read book The Cinema of Eisenstein written by David Bordwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cinema of Eisenstein is David Bordwell's comprehensive analysis of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, arguably the key figure in the entire history of film. The director of such classics as Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible, October, Strike, and Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein theorized montage, presented Soviet realism to the world, and mastered the concept of film epic. Comprehensive, authoritative, and illustrated throughout, this classic work deserves to be on the shelf of every serious student of cinema.

Book Mani and Manichaeism

Download or read book Mani and Manichaeism written by Geo Widengren and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Breve Historia de Mexico

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  • Author : Jose Vasconcelos
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781019374238
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Breve Historia de Mexico written by Jose Vasconcelos 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: Esta obra es una introducción a los principales temas de la historia mexicana desde la época prehispánica hasta la Revolución de 1910. Escrita con claridad y amenidad, Breve Historia de México se ha convertido en un clásico de la divulgación histórica en nuestro país. Este libro es una excelente opción para aquellos que deseen aprender sobre la historia de México de manera accesible y entretenida. 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 Eisenstein at Work

Download or read book Eisenstein at Work written by Jay Leyda and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Film Sense

Download or read book The Film Sense written by Sergei Eisenstein and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1947 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned Soviet director discusses his theory of film as an artistic medium which must appeal to all senses and applies it to an analysis of sequences from his major movies.

Book Cinemachismo

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  • Author : Sergio de la Mora
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2009-01-27
  • ISBN : 0292782314
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Cinemachismo written by Sergio de la Mora and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the modern Mexican state came into being following the Revolution of 1910, hyper-masculine machismo came to be a defining characteristic of "mexicanidad," or Mexican national identity. Virile men (pelados and charros), virtuous prostitutes as mother figures, and minstrel-like gay men were held out as desired and/or abject models not only in governmental rhetoric and propaganda, but also in literature and popular culture, particularly in the cinema. Indeed, cinema provided an especially effective staging ground for the construction of a gendered and sexualized national identity. In this book, Sergio de la Mora offers the first extended analysis of how Mexican cinema has represented masculinities and sexualities and their relationship to national identity from 1950 to 2004. He focuses on three traditional genres (the revolutionary melodrama, the cabaretera [dancehall] prostitution melodrama, and the musical comedy "buddy movie") and one subgenre (the fichera brothel-cabaret comedy) of classic and contemporary cinema. By concentrating on the changing conventions of these genres, de la Mora reveals how Mexican films have both supported and subverted traditional heterosexual norms of Mexican national identity. In particular, his analyses of Mexican cinematic icons Pedro Infante and Gael García Bernal and of Arturo Ripstein's cult film El lugar sin límites illuminate cinema's role in fostering distinct figurations of masculinity, queer spectatorship, and gay male representations. De la Mora completes this exciting interdisciplinary study with an in-depth look at how the Mexican state brought about structural changes in the film industry between 1989 and 1994 through the work of the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE), paving the way for a renaissance in the national cinema.