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The Fear of Freedom

A Study of Miracles in the Roman Imperial Church

By: Rowan A. Greer

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The Fear of Freedom

A Study of Miracles in the Roman Imperial Church

By: Rowan A. Greer

By &"the fear of freedom&" Greer means the unconscious flight from the heavy burden of individual choice an open society lays upon its members. The miraculous represents a heavenly power brought down to earth and tied to the life of the community. Understanding how miracles were perceived in the late antiquity requires us to put aside the notion of a miracle as the violation of the natural order. &"Miracles&" for the church fathers refers to anything that evokes wonder. Rowan Greer is not concerned with conclusions about the truth or falsity of the miracles reported in the ancient sources. He is concerned with how the miracle stories shaped the way people understood Christianity in the fourth and fifth centuries. Once the Church gained the predominance in the Empire as part of the Constantinian revolution, most Christians thought that a new Christian commonwealth was in the making. The miracles associated with the cult of the saints (the martyrs and their relics) in the Christian Empire were part of this sacralization. In the Roman imperial church we find a tension between the Christian message, which revolved around virtue and the individual, and corporate piety that focused upon the empowering of the people of God. With Augustine we find Christian Platonism transformed into a &"new theology&" far more congruent with the corporate poetry that had by then developed. An emphasis upon grace and upon God's sovereignty fits a preoccupation with miracles better than the old emphasis upon human freedom and virtue and sets the stages for the Western Middle Ages and the cult of the saints, organized and made central to Christian piety. From a study of Roman imperial Christianity before the collapse of the West we discover the tendency to substitute one kind of freedom for another. Freedom as the capacity of human beings to choose the good does not, of course, disappear, but on the whole it is made subordinate to notions of God's sovereign grace and even to an insistence upon the authority of the church.

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Penn State Press

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027100648X

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9780271006482

Red Coats and Wild Birds

How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire

By: Kirsten A. Greer

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Red Coats and Wild Birds

How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire

By: Kirsten A. Greer

During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. While these bases helped the British project power and secure trade routes, they served more than just a strategic purpose. During their tours abroad, many British officers engaged in formal and informal scientific research. In this ambitious history of ornithology and empire, Kirsten A. Greer tracks British officers as they moved around the world, just as migratory birds traversed borders from season to season. Greer examines the lives, writings, and collections of a number of ornithologist-officers, arguing that the transnational encounters between military men and birds simultaneously shaped military strategy, ideas about race and masculinity, and conceptions of the British Empire. Collecting specimens and tracking migratory bird patterns enabled these men to map the British Empire and the world and therefore to exert imagined control over it. Through its examination of the influence of bird watching on military science and soldiers' contributions to ornithology, Red Coats and Wild Birds remaps empire, nature, and scientific inquiry in the nineteenth-century world.

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UNC Press Books

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1469649845

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365 Inspirational Words of Wisdom

Quotes That Touch the Heart and Empower the Soul

By: Marlon A. Greer

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365 Inspirational Words of Wisdom

Quotes That Touch the Heart and Empower the Soul

By: Marlon A. Greer

This book was written and these quotes were created and compiled with the hopes of inspiring, empowering, motivating, as well as encouraging everyone who reads it. Remember, its never too late to be the person that you thought you should have been. As long as you have your breath, your mind and the ability to choose, all the grandeurs of life is merely a thought away. Life is not about your family upbringing or lack thereof; Its not about blaming others for your current situation. No matter where you are today, you are in the drivers seat in creating a better tomorrow. You are in an excellent position because you have the ability to change your life in any given moment by changing your thought process. These quotes can assist you in remembering all the power that you possess and will aid you with the process of accessing that power that we all possess within us. These quotes are from individuals who have had a profound impact on not only my life but the world as we know it. These individuals are trailblazers, innovators and creators who have helped shape the world through their inspired thoughts and subsequent actions. What will your legacy be? Its up to you and only you.

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BalboaPress

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1452557772

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The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music

Aesthetic of Ambivalence

By: Taylor A. Greer

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The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music

Aesthetic of Ambivalence

By: Taylor A. Greer

At the turn of the century, visionary composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes synthesized highly diverse elements from other musical traditions into his distinct artistic voice. As American as he was far ranging in his interests, Griffes was an aesthetic polyglot, combining elements of literature, visual arts, global folk melodies, and contemporary European art music into a new musical language. The breadth of his sources of inspiration are breathtaking, including the sensual harmonies of fin-de-siècle French music, the British Aesthetic Movement, folk music drawn from the Middle East and Java, and a wide range of poets, including William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Sharp. The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music explores both his music and the rich historical context from which it grew to enrich our understanding of the composer's artistic contribution and reveal new intersections and contradictions in European and American culture during the early twentieth century. Taylor A. Greer also critiques the philosophical foundation of topic theory and its relationship to the pastoral in Griffes's music to reflect on the end of the nineteenth century and clarify our understanding of his artistic influences. With Griffes's conception of the pastoral, he transformed the siciliana-based tradition he inherited from the eighteenth century into a new and vibrant genre that preserved the usual associations of simplicity and tranquility and introduced new elements of tension into the pastoral ideal, including global voices, paradox, and occasional conflict.

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Indiana University Press

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0253069300

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9780253069306

One Path For All

Gregory of Nyssa on the Christian Life and Human Destiny

By: Rowan A. Greer,J. Warren Smith

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One Path For All

Gregory of Nyssa on the Christian Life and Human Destiny

By: Rowan A. Greer,J. Warren Smith

In his writings and his career Gregory of Nyssa assumes many roles. He is a Christian Platonist, a spiritual guide for ascetics and those seeking the vision of God, as well as one of those who shaped the Trinitarian doctrine of God espoused at Constantinople in 381. But he is also a popular preacher and, paradoxically, someone unafraid of deeper speculations regarding the meaning of the Christian ideal. The translations in Part One illustrate these various concerns, but are not a sufficient basis for the thesis of Part Two, one that attempts to answer the question of how to describe the coherence of a thinker far from systematic. One solution is to appeal to Gregory's conviction that after this world all Christians, indeed all humans, will be united in diversity, and that this means that all are now on the one path to their destiny, however much their progress may differ. This answer does not pretend to solve all problems, nor does it rule out other approaches to Gregory's thought. But it locates Gregory's work in the liturgical and sacramental life of the church that includes ordinary as well as elite Christians.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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162564633X

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9781625646330

Women's Vascular Health

By: Iain A Greer,Jeff Ginsberg,Charles Forbes

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Women's Vascular Health

By: Iain A Greer,Jeff Ginsberg,Charles Forbes

This book brings together specialist authors from a variety of medical disciplines to give comprehensive coverage of the whole spectrum of women's vascular health. Covering coronary artery disease and its precursors, venous disease, thrombophilic defects, hormonal therapy and haemorrhagic problems, the content is divided into three sections. Section one reviews generic issues including the pathophysiology of arteriosclerosis, metabolic factors in vascular disease, the epidemiology and management of CHD in women. The management of cardiac syndrome X and the problem of diabetes are also discussed here. The second section looks at women's vascular health as it applies to fertility issues and during pregnancy such as polycystic ovarian disease, menstrual dysfunction, the menopause, venous thromboembolism and haemorrhagic problems. In the concluding third section, hormonal therapy in women and in particular the oral contraceptive pill and hormone replacement therapies are covered. The reader will be given a clear overview of the potential mechanisms whereby such therapy can act as a risk factor for arterial and venous disease, and will receive clear guidance regarding prescribing.

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CRC Press

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0340809973

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9780340809976

Mosby's Color Atlas and Text of Obstetrics and Gynecology

By: Ian A. Greer,Henry C. Kitchener,Andrew Prentice

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Mosby's Color Atlas and Text of Obstetrics and Gynecology

By: Ian A. Greer,Henry C. Kitchener,Andrew Prentice

This new book was designed to bridge the gap between a traditional atlas and a textbook. Clinical content is consistently organized and lavishly illustrated with over 750 photographs. For each condition, there is coverage of symptoms, signs and diagnostic investigations, and principles of management. Comprehensive yet approachable introduction to obstetrics and gynaecology Profusion of high quality clinical photos Contains the core information necessary for a clinical medical student to pass the obstetrics and gynaecology section of the final MB Tackles much of the clinical content by adopting a problem based approach

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Mosby Incorporated

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0723424357

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9780723424352

BTEC National Further Mathematics for Technicians Third Edition

By: G. W. Taylor,A. Greer A Greer and Partners

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BTEC National Further Mathematics for Technicians Third Edition

By: G. W. Taylor,A. Greer A Greer and Partners

This edition of BTEC Further Mathematics provides all of the needed material for students taking the further mathematics optional unit of BTEC National Engineering and Electronics courses. It is also suitable for the higher mathematics units on a variety of technical courses such as the National for the Built Environment.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748794107

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9780748794102

Practical Obstetric Hematology

By: Peter Clark

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Practical Obstetric Hematology

By: Peter Clark

With notable expansion in the clinical interaction between hematologists and obstetricians over the last decade, understanding and managing the clinical manifestations of hemato-obstetric science has become increasingly important. A new reference work in this growing field, this text is a key tool in the diagnosis and treatment of these conditions, providing the reader with a user-friendly, authoritative source of information, which incorporates best practice within internationally accepted guidelines. Clearly presented and easy to use, each chapter includes: * pathophysiology * presentation * differential diagnosis * diagnostic tests and difficulties * maternal, fetal, and potential management complications * implications for screening and future management * tables summarizing the key points in diagnosis and management. A practical, reader-friendly book, this text will be an important resource for clinical staff involved in the management of pregnancy - from trainees in obstetrics, hematology and vascular medicine, to general practitioners involved in day-to-day maternity care, as well as midwifery staff and specialists in hematology, obstetrics and vascular medicine.

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0367800241

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9780367800246

Four Desert Fathers

Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria : Coptic Texts Relating to the Lausiac History of Palladius

By: Tim Vivian,Rowan A. Greer

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Four Desert Fathers

Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria : Coptic Texts Relating to the Lausiac History of Palladius

By: Tim Vivian,Rowan A. Greer

The four desert Fathers who give their names to this volume - Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria - were well known some 1600 years ago in Alexandria and the monastic communities of Lower Egypt. They were most famous, perhaps, because the monk (and later bishop) Palladius recounted their Lives - preserved in the Coptic Palladiana - in his Lausiac History. The introduction describes the relationships among Palladius and Evagrius, Origenism, the spiritual and theological ramifications of the Anthropomorphite controversy, and subsequent effects on the Lausiac History and the four Coptic Lives of this volume."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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St Vladimirs Seminary Press

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0881412562

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9780881412567

Venous Thrombosis in Women

Pregnancy, the Contraceptive Pill and Hormone Replacement Therapy

By: Ian A. Greer

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Venous Thrombosis in Women

Pregnancy, the Contraceptive Pill and Hormone Replacement Therapy

By: Ian A. Greer

The impact of hormones on deep venous thrombosis is one of the most charged and debated subjects in contraceptive medicine. Female hormonal balance is primarily affected by the use of either oral contraceptives or HRT. For a long time it has been recognized that oral contraceptives can raise the incidence of DVT; however, there has been an enormous controversy as to whether all progestins do this equally or whether some have a greater impact than others where oral contraception is concerned. Written by a world leader on the subject, this book offers the latest clinical information about the effects of pregnancy, the contraceptive pill, and hormone replacement therapy on thrombotic problems in women.

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1842142283

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Book's by A. Greer

The Fear of Freedom

The Fear of Freedom

Red Coats and Wild Birds

Red Coats and Wild Birds

365 Inspirational Words of Wisdom

365 Inspirational Words of Wisdom

The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music

The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music

One Path For All

One Path For All

Women's Vascular Health

Women's Vascular Health

Mosby's Color Atlas and Text of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Mosby's Color Atlas and Text of Obstetrics and Gynecology

BTEC National Further Mathematics for Technicians Third Edition

BTEC National Further Mathematics for Technicians Third Edition

Practical Obstetric Hematology

Practical Obstetric Hematology

Four Desert Fathers

Four Desert Fathers

Venous Thrombosis in Women

Venous Thrombosis in Women

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