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Medieval Church Councils in Scotland

By: Donald Watt

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Medieval Church Councils in Scotland

By: Donald Watt

Uniquely in the kingdoms of western Christendom, the Scottish bishops obtained authority, in 1225, to hold inter-diocesan meetings without a supervisory archbishop, and continued to meet in this way for nearly 250 years. Donald Watt provides an authoritative study of these church councils from the Latin and English records based on original sources.In addition to creating an original work of considerable historical interest, Professor Watt brings discussion of the councils and their significance into the broader context of Scotland's political, legal, ecclesiastical and social situation over a long period.An important contribution to Scottish church history and to its influence on contemporary affairs.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567235742

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Transcending Boundaries

My Dancing Life

By: Donald McKayle

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Transcending Boundaries

My Dancing Life

By: Donald McKayle

First Published in 2002, Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1136745726

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9781136745720

A History of the Church in the Middle Ages

By: F Donald Logan

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A History of the Church in the Middle Ages

By: F Donald Logan

In this fascinating survey, F. Donald Logan introduces the reader to the Christian church, from the conversion of the Celtic and Germanic peoples through to the discovery of the New World.

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Routledge

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1134786697

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9781134786695

The Emerald Light in the Air

Stories

By: Donald Antrim

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The Emerald Light in the Air

Stories

By: Donald Antrim

Nothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim's stories. As they do the things we all do—bum a cigarette at a party, stroll with a girlfriend down Madison Avenue, take a kid to the zoo—they're confronted with their own uncooperative selves. These artists, writers, lawyers, teachers, and actors make fools of themselves, spiral out of control, have delusions of grandeur, despair, and find it hard to imagine a future. They talk, they listen, they hope, they dream. They look for communion in a city, both beautiful and menacing, which can promise so much and yield so little. But they are hungry for life. They want to love and be loved. These stories, all published in The New Yorker over the last fifteen years, make it clear that Antrim is one of America's most important writers. His work has been praised by his significant contemporaries, including Jonathan Franzen, Thomas Pynchon, Jeffrey Eugenides, and George Saunders, who described The Verificationist as "one of the most pleasure-giving, funny, perverse, complicated, addictive novels of the last twenty years." And here is Antrim's best book yet: the story collection that reveals him as a master of the form.

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374712409

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9780374712402

Certain Sainthood

Canonization and the Origins of Papal Infallibility in the Medieval Church

By: Donald S. Prudlo

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Certain Sainthood

Canonization and the Origins of Papal Infallibility in the Medieval Church

By: Donald S. Prudlo

The doctrine of papal infallibility is a central tenet of Roman Catholicism, and yet it is frequently misunderstood by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Much of the present-day theological discussion points to the definition of papal infallibility made at Vatican I in 1870, but the origins of the debate are much older than that. In Certain Sainthood, Donald S. Prudlo traces this history back to the Middle Ages, to a time when Rome was struggling to extend the limits of papal authority over Western Christendom. Indeed, as he shows, the very notion of papal infallibility grew out of debates over the pope's authority to canonize saints.Prudlo's story begins in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries when Rome was increasingly focused on the fight against heresy. Toward this end the papacy enlisted the support of the young mendicant orders, specifically the Dominicans and Franciscans. As Prudlo shows, a key theme in the papacy's battle with heresy was control of canonization: heretical groups not only objected to the canonizing of specific saints, they challenged the concept of sainthood in general. In so doing they attacked the roots of papal authority. Eventually, with mendicant support, the very act of challenging a papally created saint was deemed heresy.Certain Sainthood draws on the insights of a new generation of scholarship that integrates both lived religion and intellectual history into the study of theology and canon law. The result is a work that will fascinate scholars and students of church history as well as a wider public interested in the evolution of one of the world’s most important religious institutions.

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Cornell University Press

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1501701525

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9781501701528

The Untouched Minutes

By: Donald Morrill

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The Untouched Minutes

By: Donald Morrill

What would you be willing to do to save someone, perhaps someone you loved? On aømoment?s notice, for instance, would you lunge between that person and an assailant?s knife strike? In that same situation, what would you be willing do for yourself? And what if there were nothing, ultimately, to be done? These and other such questions live in the untouched minutes?questions most of us are, fortunately, never compelled to answer, though the media exposes us daily to the stories of those who are. In February 2001, on what started out as a typical Sunday afternoon, Donald Morrill and his wife Lisa Birnbaum became the victims of a home invasion and found themselves faced with the specter of ultimate contingency. In The Untouched Minutes, Morrill recounts and examines the events of that day and its aftermath as well as the circumstances surrounding the murders of Dartmouth professors Half and Suzanne Zantop, which occurred the same week. Set against the unfolding drama of post-9/11 America, The Untouched Minutes explores how violence and the threat of violence color and recast one?s assumptions and can plot the course of people facing the unknown, the unknowable, the irredeemable. Morrill presents a memorable portrait of what it means to take back the life that, finally, wasn?t taken, and in the process he offers a powerful meditation on terror and security, home and travel, art, race, luck, and our individual places in the wider world.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803232381

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9780803232389

The Penguin Dictionary of Saints

Third Edition

By: Donald Attwater,Catherine Rachel John

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The Penguin Dictionary of Saints

Third Edition

By: Donald Attwater,Catherine Rachel John

This best-selling dictionary brilliantly reveals the lives and works of a host of fascinating individuals, from Biblical saints to those most recently canonised. It is a worthy companion to any study of Biblical or Church history, and includes details of feast days and special patronage to aid personal devotion.

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Penguin

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0140513124

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The Measure of Times Past

Pre-Newtonian Chronologies and the Rhetoric of Relative Time

By: Donald J. Wilcox

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The Measure of Times Past

Pre-Newtonian Chronologies and the Rhetoric of Relative Time

By: Donald J. Wilcox

In this extraordinary work, Donald J. Wilcox seeks to discover an approach to narrative and history consistent with the discontinuous, relative time of the twentieth century. He shows how our B.C./A.D. system, intimately connected to Newtonian concepts of continuous, objective, and absolute time, has affected our conception and experience of the past. He demonstrates absolute time's centrality to modern historical methodologies and the problems it has created in the selection and interpretation of facts. Inspired by contemporary fiction and Einsteinian concepts of relativity, he concludes his analysis with a comparison of our system with earlier, pre-Newtonian time schemes to create a radical new critique of historical objectivity.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226897222

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9780226897226

Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

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Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

The life that inspired the major motion picture The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese. Howard Hughes has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle, and reclusiveness. This is the book that breaks through the image to get at the man. Originally published under the title Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393078582

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The Great American Tax Dodge

How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance Are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax, and Costing You

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

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The Great American Tax Dodge

How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance Are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax, and Costing You

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

Barlett and Steele...are masters at mining obscure documents to see the big picture where most investigators never even knew there was a frame...Year after year, Congress continues to make tax laws more complex and more unfair, then refuses to give the IRS adequate resources to ferret out fraud. If the tax code isn't reformed soon, the authors warn, the consequences might be dire."—Baltimore Sun "A hard-hitting expose of perceived gross inequities in the U.S. tax system."—Publishers Weekly

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Univ of California Press

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0520236106

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9780520236103

Faces of History

Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder

By: Donald R. Kelley

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Faces of History

Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder

By: Donald R. Kelley

In this book, one of the world's leading intellectual historians offers a critical survey of Western historical thought and writing from the pre-classical era to the late eighteenth century. Donald R. Kelley focuses on persistent themes and methodology, including questions of myth, national origins, chronology, language, literary forms, rhetoric, translation, historical method and criticism, theory and practice of interpretation, cultural studies, philosophy of history, and "historicism." Kelley begins by analyzing the dual tradition established by the foundational works of Greek historiography--Herodotus's broad cultural and antiquarian inquiry and the contrasting model of Thucydides' contemporary political and analytical narrative. He then examines the many variations on and departures from these themes produced in writings from Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian antiquity, in medieval chronicles, in national histories and revisions of history during the Renaissance and Reformation, and in the rise of erudite and enlightened history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Throughout, Kelley discusses how later historians viewed their predecessors, including both supporters and detractors of the authors in question. The book, which is a companion volume to Kelley's highly praised anthology Versions of History from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, will be a valuable resource for scholars and students interested in interpretations of the past.

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Yale University Press

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0300075588

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9780300075588

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts, March 2016: Five-Volume Print Set

By: GINSBURG,Donald E. Rocap

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Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts, March 2016: Five-Volume Print Set

By: GINSBURG,Donald E. Rocap

When structuring mergers and acquisitions, there's only one way to be sure that you've thought of all the tax and legal consequences: rely on Martin D. Ginsburg, Jack S. Levin and Donald E. Rocap as you plan, develop, and execute your Mand&A strategy. In this five-volume print set, these expert practitioners offer you: Solutions to real-life Mand&A problems as they arise in negotiations Step-by-step analysis of typical and non-typical mergers transactional permutations Checklists, flow charts, and other at-a-glance mergers practice materials Whether you represent the buyer, the seller, or another interested party, you can go straight to a model Mand&A agreement that gives you: A complete document structured to embody your client's Mand&A interests Clauses addressing a wide variety of specific mergers situations Specific language for even the smallest mergers and acquisitions variations you're likely to encounter Includes CD-ROM containing Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts: Sample Acquisition Agreements Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts is recently updated with: New step-by-step methods for structuring transactions, with tax, SEC, corporate, HSR, accounting and other mergers considerations New table summarizing and contrasting terms of pro-buyer, pro-seller, and neutral stock and& asset purchase agreements New mergers legislation, Mand&A regulations, rulings, and court decisions impacting Mand&A transactions

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Wolters Kluwer

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1454872284

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9781454872283

Lawrence Durrell's Major Novels, Or, The Kingdom of the Imagination

By: Donald P. Kaczvinsky

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Lawrence Durrell's Major Novels, Or, The Kingdom of the Imagination

By: Donald P. Kaczvinsky

Through his use of Gnostic beliefs, Durrell destabilizes our notions of the "real" and suggests that the civilization to emerge out of the ruins of a devastated Europe will not be Christian, but Quincunxial. Durrell's aesthetic and thematic concerns establish him as a significant, indeed central, voice in twentieth-century British literature. His career, which spans over five decades, links the British High Modernists with the Postmodernists.

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Susquehanna University Press

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0945636997

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9780945636991

The Global Church---The First Eight Centuries

From Pentecost through the Rise of Islam

By: Donald Fairbairn

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The Global Church---The First Eight Centuries

From Pentecost through the Rise of Islam

By: Donald Fairbairn

Discover the Variety and Unity of the Early Church The Christian church of the early centuries spread throughout much of Asia, Africa, and Europe, spoke many languages, was situated within diverse cultural settings, and had varied worship practices; yet it maintained a vital unity on core teachings at the heart of the Christian faith. In The Global Church--The First Eight Centuries: From Pentecost through the Rise of Islam, author Donald Fairbairn helps readers understand both the variety and unity of the church in this pivotal era by: Re-centering the story of the church in its early centuries, paying greater attention to Africa, Turkey, and Syria, where most of the church's intellectual energy was nurtured Highlighting Christian communities outside the Roman Empire, as far afield as Persia and India, alongside those within it Identifying key events by their global, not merely Western, significance and taking into account early Christian interactions with other religions, particularly Islam The Global Church--The First Eight Centuries is an ideal introduction to the patristic era that broadens the narrative often recounted and places it more firmly in its varied cultural contexts. Students of the early church, formal and informal alike, will appreciate the fresh approach and depth of insight this book provides.

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Zondervan Academic

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031009786X

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9780310097860

The Byzantine Lady

Ten Portraits, 1250-1500

By: Donald M. Nicol

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The Byzantine Lady

Ten Portraits, 1250-1500

By: Donald M. Nicol

What kind of lives did women in the Byzantine empire lead? Just how subservient were they in so male-dominated a society? In this collection of biographies Donald M. Nicol uncovers the unexpected fact that in the later years of the empire, at least, some aristocratic women enjoyed influence and exercised initiative. The ten ladies whose lives are described here did not complain of male oppression: instead, despite the conventions of caste and court, they found an outlet for their talents in religion, patronage, friendship and scholarship. They left a lasting influence on the society in which they lived. The story of their achievements offers new perspectives on the Byzantine empire, and a fascinating insight into the lives of women in past times.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521576237

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9780521576239

The Grace of Incorruption

The Selected Essays of Donald Sheehan on Orthodox Faith and Poetics

By: Donald Sheehan

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The Grace of Incorruption

The Selected Essays of Donald Sheehan on Orthodox Faith and Poetics

By: Donald Sheehan

Professor and scholar, teacher of poets and poetry and convert to Eastern Orthodoxy, Donald Sheehan wrote these wide-ranging essays with a common commitment to understanding the ways in which the ruining oppositions of our experience can be held within the disciplines of lyric art—held “until God Himself can be seen in the ruins . . . and overwhelmingly and gratefully loved.” That is what Sheehan means by “the grace of incorruption.” Part One weaves together themes from Sheehan’s life and pilgrimages; the spiritual art of Orthodox Saints Gregory of Nyssa, Isaac and Ephraim of Syria, and others; the literary art of Dostoevsky, Frost, Salinger, and contemporary poets including Jane Kenyon; and the philosophy of René Girard—examining the nature of penitence, prayer, personhood, freedom, depression, and the right relationship to the earth. Part Two delves into the poetics of The Psalms, especially LXX 118: a “poetics of resurrection.” “I am dead certain that my response to this volume will chime with those of others whose work is held up to the light in The Grace of Incorruption. In one beautiful sentence after another, we must share the uncanny sense of never having understood our own hearts—not until we saw them reflected in the great heart (and mind) of this nonpareil commentator. Don Sheehan did not merely understand poetry; it was part and parcel of his own great soul." —Sydney Lea, Vermont Poet Laureate “This was a very difficult book for me to read, as—now and again—my own tears blinded me to the page, and my own sobbing shook the papers in my hands. That is to say that Donald Sheehan’s journey—through both brokenness and beauty—to a deep and healing calm is at once personal and universal. With a poet’s visionary prose, a scholar’s acuity, and a pilgrim’s devotion, Donald Sheehan offers his reader access to the profound, compelling stillness at the heart of all things. He proves an exceedingly good guide along the way.”—Scott Cairns, author of Slow Pilgrim: Collected Poems “In this beautiful book, Dostoyevsky, Orthodox liturgy, and Holy Fathers ancient and modern converse with Shakespeare, Frost, Salinger, Jane Kenyon and René Girard, sharing insight into such realities as memory, violence, depression, stillness, self-emptying love, personhood, and ‘the anthropology of the Cross.’ This conversation, a ‘spiritual ecumenism’ effected in art, gathers finally round the heart and source of all tradition of poetry and prayer in Christian East and West alike: the Psalms of David. Orthodox Christian contributions to Anglophone poetry and poetics are few. Don Sheehan was not only a fine interpreter of poetry, but a poet himself, working in the medium of prose. The philosopher Malebranche famously wrote that ‘attentiveness is the natural prayer of the soul,’ and the Orthodox liturgy bids us continually to ‘be attentive.’ The essays in this volume capture that spirit of loving attentiveness -- never lacking in form -- for which Don ardently strove, and which characterized his approach to art, to other people, and to God.”—Fr. Matthew Baker, Fordham University

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Paraclete Press

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1612617018

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9781612617015

Africa Squadron

The U.S. Navy and the Slave Trade, 1842-1861

By: Donald L. Canney

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Africa Squadron

The U.S. Navy and the Slave Trade, 1842-1861

By: Donald L. Canney

Donald L. CanneyOCOs study is the first book-length history of the U.S. NavyOCOs Africa Squadron. Established in 1842 to enforce the ban on importing slaves to the United States, in twenty yearsOCO time the squadron proved ineffective. To officers and enlisted men alike, duty in the squadron was unpopular. The equatorial climate, departmental neglect, and judicial indifference, which allowed slavers back at sea, all contributed to the sailorsOCO frustration. Later, the most damaging allegation was that the squadron had failed at its mission. Canney investigates how this unit earned a poor reputation and whether it is deserved. Though U.S. warships seized slave vessels as early as 1800, four decades passed before the Navy established a permanent squadron off the western coast of Africa to interdict U.S.-flag vessels participating in this trade. Canney traces the NavyOCOs role in interdicting the slave trade, Great BritainOCOs pressure on the U.S. government to curb slave traffic, the creation of the squadron, and how individual politicians, department secretaries, captains, and squadron commanders interpreted the laws and orders from higher authorities, changing squadron operations. While famous ships and captains served on this station, none won distinction in the Africa Squadron. In the final analysis, the squadron was unsuccessful, even though it was the NavyOCOs only permanent squadron with a specific, congressionally mandated mission: to maintain a quasi-blockade on a foreign shore. While Canney exonerates southern-born naval captains, who approached their work as diligently as their counterparts from the north, he demonstrates how the secretaries of the NavyOCopro-slavery southern politiciansOConeglected the squadron.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1597974641

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9781597974646

Masters of Learned Ignorance: Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus

By: Donald F. Duclow

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Masters of Learned Ignorance: Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus

By: Donald F. Duclow

The medieval Christian West's most radical practitioners of a Neoplatonic, negative theology with a mystical focus are John Scottus Eriugena, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas Cusanus. All three mastered what Cusanus described as docta ignorantia: reflecting on their awareness that they could know neither God nor the human mind, they worked out endlessly varied attempts to express what cannot be known. Following Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, they sought to name God with symbolic expressions whose negation leads into mystical theology. For within their Neoplatonic dialectic, negation moves beyond reason and its finite distinctions to intellect, where opposites coincide and a vision of God's infinite unity becomes possible. In these papers Duclow views these thinkers' efforts through the lens of contemporary philosophical hermeneutics. He highlights the interplay of creativity, symbolic expression and language, interpretation and silence as Eriugena, Eckhart and Cusanus comment on the mind's work in naming God. This work itself becomes mystical theology when negation opens into a silent awareness of God's presence, from which the Word once again 'speaks' within the mind - and renews the process of creating and interpreting symbols. Comparative studies with Gregory of Nyssa, Pseudo-Dionysius, Anselm and Hadewijch suggest the book's wider implications for medieval philosophy and theology.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040247547

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Visual Intelligence

How We Create What We See

By: Donald D Hoffman

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Visual Intelligence

How We Create What We See

By: Donald D Hoffman

In an informal style replete with illustrations, Hoffman presents the compelling scientific evidence for vision's constructive powers unveiling a grammar of vision--a set of rules that govern our perception of line, color, form, depth, and motion. 150 illustrations, 20 in color.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393319679

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A Conflict of Traditions

Women in Religion in the Early Middle Ages, 500-840

By: Donald Hochstetler

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A Conflict of Traditions

Women in Religion in the Early Middle Ages, 500-840

By: Donald Hochstetler

Confronts various topics concerning women and religion in the Early Middle Ages such as separation, communal life, and obedience.

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University Press of America

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0819186090

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9780819186096

Theological Turning Points

Major Issues in Christian Thought

By: Donald K. McKim

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Theological Turning Points

Major Issues in Christian Thought

By: Donald K. McKim

In this volume, Donald McKim traces the historical and systematic development of eight major Christian doctrines from early centuries to the present. Clearly written and amply documented, this introductory handbook features primary sources and extensive endnotes. It covers: the Trinity, Christology, Ecclesiology, Anthropology, Soteriology, Authority, the Sacraments, and Eschatology, concentrating on the decisive points in the development of the Church's theology. This book is well structured for use as a basic text.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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080420702X

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Music in the Human Experience

An Introduction to Music Psychology

By: Donald A. Hodges

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Music in the Human Experience

An Introduction to Music Psychology

By: Donald A. Hodges

Music in the Human Experience: An Introduction to Music Psychology, Second Edition, is geared toward music students yet incorporates other disciplines to provide an explanation for why and how we make sense of music and respond to it—cognitively, physically, and emotionally. All human societies in every corner of the globe engage in music. Taken collectively, these musical experiences are widely varied and hugely complex affairs. How did human beings come to be musical creatures? How and why do our bodies respond to music? Why do people have emotional responses to music? Music in the Human Experience seeks to understand and explain these phenomena at the core of what it means to be a human being. New to this edition: Expanded references and examples of non-Western musical styles Updated literature on philosophical and spiritual issues Brief sections on tuning systems and the acoustics of musical instruments A section on creativity and improvisation in the discussion of musical performance New studies in musical genetics Greatly increased usage of explanatory figures

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Taylor & Francis

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0429018339

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9780429018336

The Backyard Birdsong Guide Eastern and Central North America

A Guide to Listening

By: Donald Kroodsma

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The Backyard Birdsong Guide Eastern and Central North America

A Guide to Listening

By: Donald Kroodsma

Back by popular demand with more than 300,000 copies sold, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is proud to re-release the widely acclaimed and bestselling bird audio field guide series, Backyard Birdsongs, from award-winning Ornithologist and Author, Donald Kroodsma. Backyard Birdsongs is an interactive handbook of birds and their songs for beginning bird-watchers. With a touch-button electronic module housing common vocalizations of 75 species from across Eastern and Central North America, this volume offers a truly sensory way to identify and get to know local birds. Crisply detailed and scientifically accurate illustrations accompany each entry, and up-to-date range maps provide clear geographical reference points. Complete with an introduction to birdsongs that will inspire readers to look out their kitchen windows and venture out in the field, this unique book provides an exciting entryway into the subtle art of birding. This second edition includes a much-requested new Sound Track Index (to help make watching and listening to birds easier), and a download of the award-winning MERLIN™ Bird ID App available FREE on iTunes and Android stores (no code necessary). 35% of the net proceeds from the sale of Backyard Birdsongs supports projects at the Cornell Lab, such as children’s educational and community programs.

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Princeton University Press

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1943645167

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9781943645169

Matej's Journey to America

The Driving Forces of Our Immigrant Ancestors

By: Donald F. Chmelka

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Matej's Journey to America

The Driving Forces of Our Immigrant Ancestors

By: Donald F. Chmelka

Matej's Journey to America is a creative-nonfiction chronicle exploring the forces that drove our immigrant ancestors to new lands. After Adam and Eve's eviction from Eden, man slowly scattered with a great dispersion occurring about 2700 BC as the Lord confounded the tongues of presumptuous Babylonians building a tower to heaven. Among the afflicted was an Aryan slave named Chmelka who was growing hops (chmel in the new Slavic language) to flavor beer for his Semitic masters. As the Slavs fled northward toward unknown Czech lands, other tribes migrated in all directions. According to The Book of Mormon, the righteous Jared took a Semitic clan from Babel across the mountains, deserts and oceans to a New World . . . later named America. Another Semitic clan that passed through Babylon 850 years later included a young Abraham, destined to be the patriarch of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He introduced the concept of a single God revered by all his religious descendants, but despite their many commonalties, each of these three great religions seem convinced it has the only correct formula for salvation, justifying incredible atrocities with God always on its side. The descendants of the first Chmelka struggled as great civilizations developed and fell through the turmoil and bloodshed of the Dark Ages. Marco Polo awakened Europe in the late 13th century to the riches of the Far East, giving rise to explorers like Christopher Columbus who stumbled onto the North American Continent in 1492. The Protestant Reformation began to divide the Holy Roman Empire at the time, adding to the bloodshed as Austria, Prussia and France fought for domination in Europe. Meanwhile, Spain, England and France were colonizing and competing for control in the New World that was becoming home to an increasing number of European emigrants looking for a better life. The American Colonies fought for independence and then began to absorb all lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Thomas Jefferson purchased the immense Louisiana Territory from Napoleon in 1803, after which mountain men opened the West to homesteaders, miners and ranchers. My great-great-grandfather Matej was born as the Rocky Mountain fur trade boomed in 1825, and grew up on a 13-acre farm in Moravia where the Chmelkas had been serfs since Charlemagne was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor a millennium earlier. Matej became a Dragoon in the Austrian Imperial Army and helped put down a revolution in Prague in 1848 the year gold was discovered in California but war spread and life worsened for European peasants. Gold, homesteads and wild Texas longhorns free for the taking lured thousands of oppressed Europeans to America on steamships and railroads now making long-distance travel feasible. After Prussia defeated the Austrian Empire including Bohemia and Moravia and then France, Matej's family escaped its misery and immigrated to Nebraska in 1871. They found a difficult life with grasshoppers, drought, hail and fires destroying crops . . . spurring Matej's fourteen-year-old son to join a Texas cattle drive and then dodge Indians and gunfighters for fourteen years in the Wild West. New technologies in farm equipment, transportation and communications made America the envy of the world in 1902 when Matej died and was buried near the prairie church he helped build. Matej's Journey to America honors him and his fellow immigrants ordinary men and women generally lost in history for the legacies and opportunities they gave us in our great land of freedom.

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The Norman Kingdom of Sicily

By: Donald Matthew

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The Norman Kingdom of Sicily

By: Donald Matthew

This book is an introductory account of the kingdom of Sicily established in 1130 by Roger II, a 'Norman' king, and ruled by Roger, his own son and grandsons until 1194 when the kingdom was conquered by his son-in-law, Henry VI of Hohenstaufen. The period covered does, however, extend from Charles of Anjou, a period roughly as long and as coherent as the 'Norman' monarchy of England between 1066 and 1204. Roger II's difficulties in creating an enduring kingdom needed continuous military effort. Even when these efforts were no longer required, the monarchy had still to learn how to function in lands where traditions of local government were strong. Yet when the monarchy itself faltered, the kingdom did not fall apart. Frederick II, the grandson of Roger II, showed that it could be revived and that his sons could maintain it. The ways in which the monarchy made itself indispensable cannot be traced in detail, but pointers to its success can be seen. The kingdom did not spring full-armed at birth - it took time and experience to hammer it into shape. When at last it looked capable of assuming the leadership of all Italy, its enemies combined to prevent it from doing so with the most profound consequences for Italy, the papacy and the west.

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The Faith and Friendships of Teenage Boys

By: Robert C. Dykstra,Allan Hugh Cole, Jr.,Donald Capps

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The Faith and Friendships of Teenage Boys

By: Robert C. Dykstra,Allan Hugh Cole, Jr.,Donald Capps

A study of how faith forms through friendship for adolescent boys

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Broom and Fraser's Domestic Animal Behaviour and Welfare 6th Edition

By: Donald M. Broom

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Broom and Fraser's Domestic Animal Behaviour and Welfare 6th Edition

By: Donald M. Broom

Completely updated and revised, and synthesizing the recent explosion in animal welfare literature, the sixth edition of this best-selling textbook continues to provide a thorough overview of behaviour and welfare of companion and farm animals, including fish. The introductory section has been completely revised, with all following chapters updated, redesigned and improved to reflect our changing understanding. Written by a world-leading expert and key opinion leader in animal behaviour and welfare, this text provides a highly accessible guide to the subject. It is an essential foundation for any veterinary, animal science, animal behaviour or welfare-focused undergraduate or graduate course.

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The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453

By: Donald M. Nicol

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The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453

By: Donald M. Nicol

The Byzantine Empire, fragmented and enfeebled by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, never again recovered its former extent, power and influence. Its greatest revival came when the Byzantines in exile reclaimed their capital city of Constantinople in 1261 and this book narrates the history of this restored empire from 1261 to its conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. First published in 1972, the book has been completely revised, amended, and in part rewritten, with its source references and bibliography updated to take account of scholarly research on this last period of Byzantine history carried out over the past twenty years.

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Hierarchy, History, and Human Nature

The Social Origins of Historical Consciousness

By: Donald E. Brown

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Hierarchy, History, and Human Nature

The Social Origins of Historical Consciousness

By: Donald E. Brown

Here is a book that I can strongly recommend for a variety of reasons. It is well written, it is scholarly, but its greatest appeal lies in the posing of an important question and in the offering of a satisfying (to this reviewer, at least) answer."ÑJournal of Historical Geography "This is an intriguing and stimulating study of historical differences in the indigenous historiography of parts of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe."ÑAmerican Anthropologist.

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The First Seven Ecumenical Councils (325-787)

Their History and Theology

By: Leo Donald Davis

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The First Seven Ecumenical Councils (325-787)

Their History and Theology

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By the time the first ecumenical council opened at Nicaea in 325, Rome as a city had flourished for a thousand years, and as an Empire, regarded as eternal and universal, had dominated 50-60 million inhabitants of the Mediterranean littoral and western Europe for over three hundred. This book illustrates the contributions of these councils in the development and formulation of Christian beliefs.

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Father Miller's Daughter

Ellen Harmon White

By: Donald Edward Casebolt

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Father Miller's Daughter

Ellen Harmon White

By: Donald Edward Casebolt

The crisis in Adventist eschatology is due to its reliance on Millerism's faulty methodology and falsified prophetic predictions. Ellen White taught that Father Miller's sole authority was Scripture and a concordance; that his interpretations were literal commonsense; and most importantly, that God had originated his date-setting conclusions by repeated angelic guidance. She announced that Miller was typological of John the Baptist; that Miller was a forerunner to Christ's Second Advent as the Baptist was to his First. This book will document that these three misconceptions are falsified by primary sources from roughly 1835 to 1851. Miller was highly dependent on disconfirmed, centuries-old, historicist speculations; his interpretations were allegorical and arbitrary not literal; his falsified proofs obviously not of angelic origin. For example, Miller initially predicted the Parousia and fall of the Ottoman Empire for 1839. White also endorsed Snow, Joseph Turner, and Crozier, whom, she said, God had given "true light." Post-Disappointment, these men continued using Miller's allegorical-typological-historicist methods, and Ellen Harmon "was taught" by these men. About two centuries after "The Midnight Cry" and the "end-times" signs of 1755, 1780, and 1833, the SDA church's tenacious reliance on Millerite proofs makes its eschatology increasingly implausible.

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1666798002

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Thomas Aquinas

A Historical, Theological, and Environmental Portrait

By: Prudlo, Donald S.

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Thomas Aquinas

A Historical, Theological, and Environmental Portrait

By: Prudlo, Donald S.

Reintroduces this significant thinker in his context, as a man, as a mendicant, as a mystic, as a saint.

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The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England

By: Michael Lapidge,John Blair,Simon Keynes,Donald Scragg

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The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England

By: Michael Lapidge,John Blair,Simon Keynes,Donald Scragg

Widely acknowledged as the essential reference work for this period, this volume brings together more than 700 articles written by 150 top scholars that cover the people, places, activities, and creations of the Anglo-Saxons. The only reference work to cover the history, archaeology, arts, architecture, literatures, and languages of England from the Roman withdrawal to the Norman Conquest (c.450 – 1066 AD) Includes over 700 alphabetical entries written by 150 top scholars covering the people, places, activities, and creations of the Anglo-Saxons Updated and expanded with 40 brand-new entries and a new appendix detailing "English Archbishops and Bishops, c.450-1066" Accompanied by maps, line drawings, photos, a table of "English Rulers, c.450-1066," and a headword index to facilitate searching An essential reference tool, both for specialists in the field, and for students looking for a thorough grounding in key topics of the period

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Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts, August 2012

By: Martin D. Ginsburg,Jack S. Levin,Donald E. Rocap

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Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts, August 2012

By: Martin D. Ginsburg,Jack S. Levin,Donald E. Rocap

When structuring mergers and acquisitions, there's only one way to besure that you've thought of all the tax and legal consequences: rely onMartin D. Ginsburg,Jack S. Levin andDonald E. Rocap as you plan, develop, and execute your M&Astrategy. In this five volume print set, these expert practitioners offer you:Solutions to real-life M&A problems as they arise in negotiationsStep-by-step analysis of typical and non-typical mergers transactionalpermutationsChecklists, flow charts, and other at-a-glance mergers practice materialsWhether you represent the buyer, the seller, or another interested party, youcan go straight to a model M&A agreement that gives you:A complete document structured to embody your client's M&A interestsClauses addressing a wide variety of specific mergers situationsSpecific language for even the smallest mergers and acquisitions variationsyou're likely to encounterIncludes CD-ROM containing Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts: SampleAcquisition AgreementsMergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts is recently updated with:New step-by-step methods for structuring transactions, with tax, SEC,corporate, HSR, accounting and other mergers considerationsNew table summarizing and contrasting terms of pro-buyer, pro-seller, andneutral stock & asset purchase agreementsNew mergers legislation, M&A regulations, rulings, and courtdecisions impacting M&A transactions

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God and Humanity in Auschwitz

Jewish-Christian Relations and Sanctioned Murder

By: Donald J. Dietrich

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God and Humanity in Auschwitz

Jewish-Christian Relations and Sanctioned Murder

By: Donald J. Dietrich

God and Humanity in Auschwitz synthesizes the findings of research developed over the last thirty years on the rise of anti-Semitism in our civilization. Donald J. Dietrich sees the Holocaust as a case study of how prejudice has been theologically enculturated. He suggests how it may be controlled by reducing aggressive energy before it becomes overwhelming. Dietrich studies the recent responses of Christian theologians to the Holocaust and the Jewish theological response to questions concerning God's covenant with Israel, which were provoked by Auschwitz. Social science has dealt with the psychosocial dynamics that have supported genocide and helps explain how ordinary persons can produce extraordinary evil. Dietrich shows how this research, combined with theological analyses, can help reconfigure theology itself. Such an approach may serve to help dissolve anti-Semitism, to aid in constructing such positive values as respect for human dignity, and to point the way to restricting future outbreaks of genocide. God and Humanity in Auschwitz surveys which religious factors created a climate that permitted the Holocaust. It also illuminates what social science has to tell us about developing a strategy that, when institutionally implemented, can channel our energies away from sanctioned murder toward a more compassionate society. The book has proven to be an essential resource for theologians, sociologists, historians, and political theorists.

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