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Save Me from the Grave and Wise

By: Colin Kirk

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Save Me from the Grave and Wise

By: Colin Kirk

Save me from the Grave and Wise is an Irish folk song. Beethoven based his 7th symphony on the song’s dread of dull scholarship and love of life, culminating in the exhilarating coda. This work has young Adeodatus, St. Augustine’s bastard son, escaping his father’s clutches. Augustine with Jerome and Ambrose are said the be the pillars of the Church. Their largely unreadable scholarship dominated European political thinking for over a millennium. Augustine wanted Adeodatus to following in his footsteps. Adeodatus had other ideas and thought his father personified the scribes and pharisees Jesus condemned as hypocrites. Set in late fourth century Milan, western capital of the Roman Empire at its height. Augustine was spokesman for the emperor and the imperial court, role model for elegant mannerisms in dress and deportment as well as in speech. Save me from the Grave and Wise is a lively read as well as a play for acting.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1664118616

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9781664118614

Morality After Calvin

Theodore Beza's Christian Censor and Reformed Ethics

By: Kirk M. Summers

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Morality After Calvin

Theodore Beza's Christian Censor and Reformed Ethics

By: Kirk M. Summers

Morality after Calvin examines the development of ethical thought in the Reformed tradition immediately following the death of Calvin, using Theodore Beza's Cato Censorius Christianus (1591) as a point of departure. The book examines the theology that drove the disciplinary activity at Geneva in the latter half of the sixteenth century.

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Oxford University Press

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0190280077

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9780190280079

Urban Planning in a Capitalist Society

By: Gwyneth Kirk

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Urban Planning in a Capitalist Society

By: Gwyneth Kirk

Originally published in 1980, Urban Planning in a Capitalist Society addresses land use planning as both a technical and a political activity, involving the distribution of scarce resources – land and capital. The book reviews and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of several theoretical perspectives, and pluralist, bureaucratic, reformist and Marxist approaches to the distribution of power, and hence resources in a capitalist society. It concentrates on the role played by planning professionals, the opportunity for the public to influence land use planning decision making, and the scope for political action concerning planning.

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Routledge

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1351050613

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Genealogical Abstracts from 18th-century Virginia Newspapers

By: Robert Kirk Headley

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Genealogical Abstracts from 18th-century Virginia Newspapers

By: Robert Kirk Headley

The data abstracted herein have been collected from over 7,100 issues of eighty-one 18th-century Virginia newspapers."--Introduction.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806311991

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9780806311999

Aidan’S Goldfish

By: Colin Kirk

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Aidan’S Goldfish

By: Colin Kirk

Media feed is the governments way of informing the public. Only the most skilled journalists, broadcasters and cartoonists are suitable. This is the CIAs account of how it began to operate to undermine foreign governments back in the 1950s. Moral Operations officers were trained in propaganda basics, including: Leaflet Writing Radio propaganda Rumor creating Poison-Pen letters This is now applied to all the news, including that aimed at American audiences. Perversion of journalism to serve the needs of government and restriction of politics to only two parties both in the grip of Corporate America is disastrous. Without an Opposition or powerful criticism by the media government by corporate wealth is unimpeded. As George Washington wrote in unworthy hands the best institutions may be made use of to promote the worse designs.

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1514499940

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9781514499948

Wills of Richmond County, Virginia, 1699-1800

By: Robert Kirk Headley

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Wills of Richmond County, Virginia, 1699-1800

By: Robert Kirk Headley

Richmond County wills are extant only from 1699, but the compiler of this useful work has bridged the gap by substituting information from Order Books, 1692-1699, thereby extending the possibilities for genealogical enquiry. The entries, which consist mainly of abstracts of wills and inventories and refer to about 8,000 persons, are arranged throughout the work in chronological order.

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0806310219

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9780806310213

Shepherds Notes: Augustines Confessions

By: Mark DeVries,Kirk Freeman

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Shepherds Notes: Augustines Confessions

By: Mark DeVries,Kirk Freeman

A volume comparable in style to Cliff's Notes, here highlighting the key points from Augustine's Confessions.

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B&H Publishing Group

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0805491996

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9780805491999

Women of Bible Lands

A Pilgrimage to Compassion and Wisdom

By: Martha Ann Kirk

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Women of Bible Lands

A Pilgrimage to Compassion and Wisdom

By: Martha Ann Kirk

Women of Bible Lands is an anthology of biblical and early stories about and by Jewish, Christian, and some Muslim women from the 19th century B.C.E. to the 9th century C.E., and a guide noting sites of Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Sinai, Egypt, Tunisia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece, and the Mediterranean Islands with which the women are associated. Book jacket.

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Liturgical Press

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0814651569

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9780814651568

The Elephant of Belfast

A Novel

By: S. Kirk Walsh

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The Elephant of Belfast

A Novel

By: S. Kirk Walsh

Inspired by true events, this vivid and moving story of a young woman zookeeper and the elephant she's compelled to protect through the German blitz of Belfast during WWll speaks to not only the tragedy of the times, but also to the ongoing sectarian tensions that still exist in Northern Ireland today—perfect for readers of historical and literary fiction alike. Belfast, October 1940. Twenty-year-old zookeeper Hettie Quin arrives at the city docks in time to meet her new charge: an orphaned three-year-old Indian elephant named Violet. As Violet adjusts to her new solitary life in captivity and Hettie mourns the recent loss of her sister and the abandonment of her father, new storm clouds gather. A world war rages, threatening a city already reeling from escalating tensions between British Loyalists and those fighting for a free and unified Ireland. The relative peace is shattered by air-raid sirens on the evening of Easter Tuesday 1941. Over the course of the next five hours, hundreds of bombs rain down upon Belfast, claiming almost a thousand lives and decimating the city. Dodging the debris and carnage of the Luftwaffe attack, Hettie runs to the zoo to make sure that Violet is unharmed. The harrowing ordeal and ensuing aftermath set the pair on a surprising path that highlights the indelible, singular bond that often brings mankind and animals together during horrifying times. Inspired by a largely forgotten chapter of World War II, S. Kirk Walsh deftly renders the changing relationship between Hettie and Violet, and their growing dependence on each other for survival and solace. The Elephant of Belfast is a complicated and beguiling portrait of hope and resilience—and how love can sustain us during the darkest moments of our lives.

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Catapult

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164009511X

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9781640095113

The Battle Rages Higher

The Union's Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry

By: Kirk Jenkins

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The Battle Rages Higher

The Union's Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry

By: Kirk Jenkins

Although the Fifteenth lost all three of its principal officers at the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, the men of the Fifteenth Kentucky fought for the Union for over three years. The men were in the thick of the action not only at Perryville but also at Stones River and Chickamauga, and throughout the battles of the Atlanta campaign. At Chickamauga, Buzzards Roost, and Resaca, the Fifteenth Kentucky was called upon to fight Confederate Kentuckians - the "Orphan Brigade" commanded by former Kentucky Senator John C. Breckinridge."--BOOK JACKET.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813122813

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9780813122816

Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God

Reason and Emotion in the Christian Philosophy

By: Kirk Essary

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Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God

Reason and Emotion in the Christian Philosophy

By: Kirk Essary

What did Paul mean when he wrote that the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom? Through close analysis of the sixteenth-century reception of Paul's discourses of folly, this book examines the role of the New Testament in the development of what Erasmus and John Calvin refer to as the “Christian philosophy.” Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God reveals the importance of Pauline rhetoric in the development of humanist critiques of scholasticism while charting the formation of a specifically affective approach to religious epistemology and theological method. As the first book-length examination of Calvin's indebtedness to Erasmus, which also considers the participation of Bullinger, Pellikan, and Melanchthon in an Erasmian exegetical milieu, it is a case study in the complicated cross-confessional exchange of ideas in the sixteenth century. Kirk Essary examines assumptions about the very nature of theology in the sixteenth century, how it was understood by leading humanist reformers, and how ideas about philosophy and rhetoric were received, appropriated, and shared in a complex intellectual and religious context.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487514158

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Myrtle Point and Vicinity

1893-1950

By: Chuck King,Linda Kirk,Carolyn Prola,Mary Ellen Robertson

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Myrtle Point and Vicinity

1893-1950

By: Chuck King,Linda Kirk,Carolyn Prola,Mary Ellen Robertson

The town of Myrtle Point, incorporated in 1887, was platted in a grove of myrtle trees on a point of land overlooking the South Fork of the Coquille River. Ten years after incorporation, Myrtle Point was a thriving commercial hub of 600 people. It had a riverboat landing, two hotels, and streets lined with churches, businesses, houses, and barns. This book begins in 1893, a landmark year when the telephone and the train both arrived in Myrtle Point. It ends in 1950, a time of prosperity for loggers and farmers in southwestern Oregon and for the enterprises in Myrtle Point that served them. Family photographs, many published here for the first time, reveal glimpses of a world where logging was king; the Coos County Fair was the biggest event of the year; and, early on, farm families traveled by horse team and riverboat to shop in a bustling Myrtle Point.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439642974

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The Roots of American Order

By: Russell Kirk

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The Roots of American Order

By: Russell Kirk

In this classic work, Russell Kirk describes the beliefs and institutions that have nurtured the American soul and commonwealth. His analytical narrative might be called "a tale of five cities": Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and Philadelphia. For an understanding of the significance of America at the dawn of a new century, Kirk's masterpiece on the history of American civilization is unsurpassable.

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Simon and Schuster

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1882926994

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The Politics of Prudence

By: Russell Kirk

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The Politics of Prudence

By: Russell Kirk

30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by Michael Federici! Throughout his career, whether as a man of letters, professor, soldier, journalist, novelist, or world traveler, Russell Kirk found himself in the thick of the intellectual controversies of his age. In The Politics of Prudence, his twenty-ninth book (and the last to be published during his lifetime), Kirk endeavors to defend a truly conservative "prudential politics," as opposed to the "ideological politics" now often advanced by self-identified conservatives and those with whom they are allied, including libertarians and neoconservatives. Kirk lays out, in separate chapters, ten principles, events, thinkers, and books that have defined and shaped the American conservative mind and heart. He also examines the difficulties posed for conservatives by increasing political and economic centralization, imprudent foreign policy, educational decline, and other symptoms of cultural decay.

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Simon and Schuster

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1684515319

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9781684515318

The Vision of God

By: K.E. Kirk

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The Vision of God

By: K.E. Kirk

Based on the 1928 Bampton Lectures, The Vision of God was the first of Kenneth E. Kirk’s three major books on moral theology. Drawing inspiration from the ascetic tradition of Christianity, Kirk advocates the priority of worship in ethical thought. Beginning with the sixth beatitude, he places the visio Dei front and centre throughout, placing himself in a eudaimonistic tradition that ranges from Irenaeus to Aquinas and the Shorter Catechism. Worship, he shows, offers the opportunity to discover and acknowledge something more valuable than the self, and thus contains the key to moral instruction. Although Kirk published an expanded ‘complete edition’ of The Vision of God in 1931, he notes in the preface to the shorter text presented here that ‘what remains approximates to, though it is not quite identical with, the actual lectures as originally delivered.’ The reader therefore has in their hands the essence of Kirk’s thesis, which continues to prompt debate today.

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0227179013

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9780227179017

Mazo de la Roche

By: Heather Kirk

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Mazo de la Roche

By: Heather Kirk

In 1927, Mazo de la Roche was an impoverished writer in Toronto when she won a $10,000 prize from the American magazine Atlantic Monthly for her novel Jalna. The book became an immediate bestseller. In 1929, the sequel Whiteoaks also went to the top of bestseller lists. Mazo went on to publish 16 novels in the popular series about a Canadian family named Whiteoak, living in a house called Jalna. Her success allowed her to travel the world and to live in a mansion near Windsor Castle. Mazo created unforgettable characters who come to life for her readers, but she was secretive about her own life and tried to escape the public attention her fame brought.

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Dundurn

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1770707328

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The Essential Russell Kirk

Selected Essays

By: Russell Kirk

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The Essential Russell Kirk

Selected Essays

By: Russell Kirk

As the author of The Conservative Mind and other seminal books, Russell Kirk is usually thought of as one of the American conservative political movement’s most important progenitors. But as this collection demonstrates, Kirk was perhaps at his best as an essayist. This volume also confirms that Kirk’s was principally a literary and historical conservatism that refused to fit the irreducible complexity of human experience to the requirements of any ideological straitjacket. With The Essential Russell Kirk, literary critic George A. Panichas captures the breadth and depth of Kirk’s intellectual project by gathering together forty-four of the most masterful of Kirk’s essays, along with a unique chronology told in Kirk’s own words and a substantial introduction that articulates the deep humanism that animated Kirk’s philosophy. The result is a carefully assembled volume that gives us a fuller picture of an extraordinary man and writer, one whose labors had, and continue to have, remarkable repercussions on the American literary and political landscape.

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Simon and Schuster

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1684516145

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9781684516148

Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture

By: Kirk Melnikoff

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Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture

By: Kirk Melnikoff

Outlining the full range of practises that publishers performed, including the acquisition of copy and titles, compiling, alteration to texts, and reissuing, Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture considers links between the book trade and the literary culture of Elizabethan England.

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1487502230

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9781487502232

CliffsNotes on Cather's My Ántonia

By: Susan Van Kirk,David Kubicek

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CliffsNotes on Cather's My Ántonia

By: Susan Van Kirk,David Kubicek

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. In CliffsNotes on My Antonia, you follow the story of Jim, an orphaned boy who travels to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. Upon arriving, Jim meets the uplifting, spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family that plans to farm on nearby, untamed land. Honoring and celebrating the immigrant settlers of the American plains, Willa Cather's novel also succeeds as one of the finest romantic stories written in the United States. Other features that help you figure out this important work include Life and background of the author Analyses of a large cast of characters A brief synopsis of the novel Critical essays A review section that tests your knowledge and suggests essay topics A resource center that leads you to more great books and websites Classic literature or modern-day treasure—you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0544182871

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9780544182875

Food Webs

Integration of Patterns & Dynamics

By: Gary A. Polis,Kirk O. Winemiller

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Food Webs

Integration of Patterns & Dynamics

By: Gary A. Polis,Kirk O. Winemiller

Reflecting the recent surge of activity in food web research fueled by new empirical data, this authoritative volume successfully spans and integrates the areas of theory, basic empirical research, applications, and resource problems. Written by recognized leaders from various branches of ecological research, this work provides an in-depth treatment of the most recent advances in the field and examines the complexity and variability of food webs through reviews, new research, and syntheses of the major issues in food web research. Food Webs features material on the role of nutrients, detritus and microbes in food webs, indirect effects in food webs, the interaction of productivity and consumption, linking cause and effect in food webs, temporal and spatial scales of food web dynamics, applications of food webs to pest management, fisheries, and ecosystem stress. Three comprehensive chapters synthesize important information on the role of indirect effects, productivity and consumer regulation, and temporal, spatial and life history influences on food webs. In addition, numerous tables, figures, and mathematical equations found nowhere else in related literature are presented in this outstanding work. Food Webs offers researchers and graduate students in various branches of ecology an extensive examination of the subject. Ecologists interested in food webs or community ecology will also find this book an invaluable tool for understanding the current state of knowledge of food web research.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461570077

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9781461570073

The Saints' Little Book of Wisdom

The Essential Teachings

By: Andrea Kirk Assaf

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The Saints' Little Book of Wisdom

The Essential Teachings

By: Andrea Kirk Assaf

From Saint Teresa of Calcutta to Saint Francis of Assisi, the words of the saints provide comfort, strength, and peace in times of need and in times of joy. In this beautiful, handy collection, the wisdom of the saints has been distilled into themes such as love, faith, hope, and joy. This volume offers 300 bite-sized nuggets of inspiration and wisdom for readers to turn to time and time again. Here are quotes from more than 150 saints on a wide range of topics, including: Faith and prayer Love Family Hope and joy Listening to God Dignity and suffering "Joy is a net of love by which we catch souls." —Saint Teresa of Calcutta “Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” —Saint Francis of Assisi “To reach something good, it is very useful to have gone astray and thus acquire experience.” —Saint Teresa of Avila

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Hampton Roads Publishing

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1612833756

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9781612833750

Death of Augustus His Conversion to Christ

By: Colin Kirk

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Death of Augustus His Conversion to Christ

By: Colin Kirk

Myth and the Church Augustus Caesar, Son of God, started the Christiancalendar. Moreover, he also contributed massively to thepersona of Christ, to Christianity and to the ChristianChurch. Indeed, Jesus, a Jewish prophet, was transformedin the process to become the God of Christian Europe. Augustus, the Godfather of Europe, spawned a religion aliento Rome and the world of Rome he had created. This was not the work of Augustus himself. However, Augustus was the luminary of the Roman state religion before he was transformed into the second person of the Trinity. The processes involved in these changes are followedthrough the rst four centuries of the Christian era. A brieflook at developments since highlight the Christian churchs continued inuence on the western European knowledgebase. Here you can check out your own mindset, against factors that are still crazily inuential. The cover illustration is of a restored cult gure of Augustus, one of thousands destroyed by Christian zealots let loose in 395. Most of the hood of the toga of Pontifex Maximus is missing. This example is at Thyatira, to where John sent a copy of his Revelations. All seven churches of the Apocalypse were in the Roman province of Asia. Just off the coast is the island of Samos, where Augustus lived when he was in the area. Patmos, where John wrote his Revelations during his exile there, is a bit further out in the Aegean Sea. The reverse of an Augustan aureus, on the spine, shows the winged victory standing on the globethat Augustus had installed as centerpiece of the Roman Curia. It was carried at his funeral to leadthe procession from the forum to his mausoleum. At the end of the fourth century it was removed from the Curia and reinstated three times. Finally Ambrosius, Bishop of Milan, insisted it be takenout and utterly destroyed. Rome and the world of Rome collapsed shortly afterwards. Augustus last 100 days were extremely busy. He was supposedto have suffered from the weariness of old age before then. But after ofcial functions in Rome he went to Capri for a few days, thenon to the Games in Naples, where heindulged in horse play with the athletes and on to Beneventum to review his armies, before they set off to war. His death at the old family home atNola is well documented, down totime and day. Its the year thats in dispute here. Christian historians strove to proveJesus was the Messiah by his dateof birth. They also wanted to knowwhen the Second Coming of Christwould occur. In the process they hadto alter the date of Augustus death. Much was destroyed to cover their tracks. Fortunately enough remainsin the debris to reconstruct the real chronology of the period. Surprisingly much else remainedto be unearthed. Cicero, not Herod,ordered the massacre of the innocents. Wise men from the east visited Augustus. Its all there for the digging.

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1483693341

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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico

By: Stephanie Kirk

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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico

By: Stephanie Kirk

Each of the book's five chapters evokes a colonial Mexican cultural and intellectual sphere: the library, anatomy and medicine, spirituality, classical learning, and publishing and printing. Using an array of literary texts and historical documents and alongside secondary historical and critical materials, the author Stephanie Kirk demonstrates how Sor Juana used her poetry and other works to inscribe herself within the discourses associated with these cultural institutions and discursive spheres and thus challenge the male exclusivity of their precepts and precincts. Kirk illustrates how Sor Juana subverted the masculine character of erudition, writing herself into an all-male community of scholars. From there, Sor Juana clearly questions the gender politics at play in her exclusion, and undermines what seems to be the inextricable link previously forged between masculinity and institutional knowledge. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico opens up new readings of her texts through the lens of cultural and intellectual history and material culture in order to shed light on the production of knowledge in the seventeenth-century colonial Mexican society of which she was both a product and an anomaly.

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Routledge

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1317052560

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9781317052562

Eliot and His Age

T. S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century

By: Russell Kirk

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Eliot and His Age

T. S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century

By: Russell Kirk

Though much has been written about T. S. Eliot since it was first published, Eliot and His Age remains the best introduction to the poet's life, ideas, and literary works. It is the essential starting place for anyone who would understand what Eliot was about. Russell Kirk's view of his older friend is sympathetic but not adulatory. His insights into Eliot's writings are informed by wide reading in the same authors who most influenced the poet, as well as by similar experiences and convictions. Kirk elaborates here a significant theory of literary meaning in general, showing how great literary works awaken our intuitive reason, giving us profound visions of truth that transcend logical processes. And he traces Eliot's political and cultural ideas to their true sources, showing the balance and subtlety of Eliot's views. Eliot and His Age is a literary biography that will endure when much of the more recent writing on Eliot is gathering dust.

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1684516137

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9781684516131

Bring Me the Head of Trevor Brooking

Three Decades of East End Soap Opera at West Ham United

By: Ben Sharratt,Kirk Blows

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Bring Me the Head of Trevor Brooking

Three Decades of East End Soap Opera at West Ham United

By: Ben Sharratt,Kirk Blows

West Ham United last won a major trophy in 1980, but the roller-coaster ride of the past three decades has produced enough twists and turns, heroes and villains and contrasting emotions to grace the script of the most thrilling TV soap opera. Since Trevor Brooking headed home the FA Cup final winner against Arsenal, the Hammers have experienced delight and despair in not so equal measure, with a cast of controversial characters - either adored or abhorred - playing the key roles in a tale of fact rather than fiction. The saving of the club by David Sullivan and David Gold, as West Ham stared into the financial abyss following the ill-fated Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson reign, is the latest chapter in a saga that includes numerous promotions and relegations, great escapes, contentious changes of ownership and management, internal feuds, bust-ups and power struggles, the Carlos Tevez affair and the passing of legends Ron Greenwood, John Lyall and Bobby Moore, as well as several false dawns in the endless quest for success. Including exclusive interviews with key protoganists, Bring Me the Head of Trevor Brooking tells - for the very first time - the inside story behind 60 of the most significant developments at Upton Park in the modern era. Whether examining the contributions of Paolo Di Canio, Harry Redknapp and Frank McAvennie or Gianfranco Zola, Marco Boogers and Iain Dowie, the book celebrates the good, the bad and the ugly of West Ham United.

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Random House

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1845969014

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Without Precedent

Scripture, Tradition, and the Ordination of Women

By: Geoffrey Kirk

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Without Precedent

Scripture, Tradition, and the Ordination of Women

By: Geoffrey Kirk

Though the ordination of women has been hotly debated in a number of churches (and in particular in the world-wide Anglican Communion) there has been a strange silence on the subject from academic theologians. "They have left the debate," says the author of this book, "for the most part, to the also-rans." Without Precedent seeks to examine the arguments that, in the absence of serious academic contributions, have been advanced. In particular it looks at claims of ancient precedent for modern practice. What did Jesus think about women? Was Paul a misogynist or a feminist, a reactionary or a revolutionary? Does the role of Mary of Magdela, in scripture and tradition, offer any guidance (as many have claimed)? Were there female priests, and even bishops, in early Christianity? Extravagant claims have been made and repeated in all of these areas, and have crucially influenced decisions taken. This book provides, in the words of former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams: "a lucid and helpful survey, which quite rightly punctures some awful historical nonsense.

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1498230814

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9781498230810

The Magitians Discovered, Volume 3

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By: Olaus Magnus,Henry Cornelius Agrippa,John Dee,Robert Burton,Isaac La Peyrère,Robert Kirk

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The Magitians Discovered, Volume 3

Supplementary Texts

By: Olaus Magnus,Henry Cornelius Agrippa,John Dee,Robert Burton,Isaac La Peyrère,Robert Kirk

In 1665 an anonymous treatise on magic, by magicians, was added to a book skeptical of witchcraft, "The Discoverie of Witchcraft". The "Magitians Discovered" series examines that anonymous material. This volume contains texts that are foundational for understanding that material, plus texts that are related to the arguments about the material made in the first volume. These texts include selections from Henry Cornelius Agrippa's "Three Books of Occult Philosophy", about the theory and practice of magic; selections from his "Fourth Book"; selections from Olaus Magnus' "Description of the Northern Peoples" about pagan customs, giants, standing stones, witches, and related topics; selections from Robert Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" that deal with magic; selections from Isaac La Peyrère's "Prae-Adamitae" which deal with magic and hermeticism; selections from John Dee's writings from "A True and Faithful Relation" that deal with the nature of the aerial spirits; selections from Robert Kirk's "Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies", and more.

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