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Robert Persons S.J., The Christian Directory (1582): The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, Appertayning to Resolution

By: Robert Persons S.J.

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Robert Persons S.J., The Christian Directory (1582): The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, Appertayning to Resolution

By: Robert Persons S.J.

This volume presents a critical edition of the immensely influential and popular first version of The Christian Directory, by the notorious Elizabethan Jesuit leader, Robert Persons. It was written during and immediately after the English Mission of 1580-1, which ended with the martyrdom of his companion Edmund Campion. Persons's work, originally entitled The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, appertayning to Resolution, attempts to persuade the reader to be resolved in the service of God. It deals with the motives and obstacles to such resolution. This edition includes a full apparatus of the alterations made to Persons's work by the Edmund Bunny, whose Protestant edition became an Elizabethan bestseller. It will be particularly useful to historians of the Catholic reformation and students of early modern English prose.

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BRILL

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9004474501

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9789004474505

Whatever Happened to Sherlock Holmes

Detective Fiction, Popular Theology, and Society

By: Robert S. Paul

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Whatever Happened to Sherlock Holmes

Detective Fiction, Popular Theology, and Society

By: Robert S. Paul

Robert S. Paul suggests that the reason detective fiction has won legions of readers may be that "the writer of detective fiction, without conscious intent, appeals directly to those moral and spiritual roots of society unconsciously affirmed and endorsed by the readers." Because detective stories deal with crime and punishment they cannot help dealing implicitly with theological issues, such as the reality of good and evil, the recognition that humankind has the potential for both, the nature of evidence (truth and error), the significance of our existence in a rational order and hence the reality of truth, and the value of the individual in a civilized society. Paul argues that the genre traces its true beginning to the Enlightenment and documents two related but different reactions to the theological issues involved: first, a line of writers who are generally positive in relation to their cultural setting, such as Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle; and second, a reactionary strain, critical of the prevailing culture, that begins in William Godwin s Caleb Williams and continues through the anti-heroic writers like Arsene Lupin to Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and John MacDonald.

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328

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SIU Press

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0809317222

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9780809317226

Finding Ever After

A Romantic Adventure for Her, an Adventurous Romance for Him

By: Robert S. Paul

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Finding Ever After

A Romantic Adventure for Her, an Adventurous Romance for Him

By: Robert S. Paul

National Institute of Marriage co-president gives help for couples to live out the fairy tale romance of their original hopes and dreams for marriage.

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254

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Baker Books

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0764205781

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9780764205781

The Lord Protector

Religion and Politics in the Life of Oliver Cromwell

By: Robert S. Paul

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The Lord Protector

Religion and Politics in the Life of Oliver Cromwell

By: Robert S. Paul

Oliver Cromwell stands at the gateway of modern history; his resolute Puritanism formative to concepts of political and religious liberty, the development of democracy, and the individual's duty to resist tyranny. In The Lord Protector, Robert S. Paul traces Cromwell's political career, from his early influences and political experience, to the English Civil Wars, his brutal conquest of Ireland and campaigns in Scotland. Where some historians present Cromwell in extremes, either as a scheming power-hungry tyrant, or as a noble hero, Paul seeks to understand the Lord Protector through the religious context of the seventeenth century, removed from the typical historical readings of his contemporaries. In order to understand Cromwell's career, Paul's investigation focusses his study through the extent to which Cromwell shared the theological beliefs common to his time. This relationship between his religion and political action provides an estimate of Cromwell as a man of faith, statesman and ruler.

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Lutterworth Press

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0718896807

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9780718896805

The Maudsley 2003 Prescribing Guidelines

By: David Taylor,Carol Paton,Robert Kerwin

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The Maudsley 2003 Prescribing Guidelines

By: David Taylor,Carol Paton,Robert Kerwin

The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines began as a ten-page pamphlet designed for use by prescribers in the Maudsley NHS Trust. This seventh edition has been fully updated and expanded to meet the needs of prescribers, nursing staff, pharmacists, GPs and other professions allied to medicine.

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CRC Press

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0203414128

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9780203414125

The Sources of the Faust Tradition

The Simon Magus to Lessing

By: Robert P. More,Philip M. Palmer

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The Sources of the Faust Tradition

The Simon Magus to Lessing

By: Robert P. More,Philip M. Palmer

First Published in 1966. In experience of many years in conducting a course in Goethe's Faust, trying to present to students of varied types and training the background out of which the drama grew, the compilers of this text have constantly felt the need of a collection of source material which would make that background more real and consequently more interesting. The content and form of the collection have been in part determined by its primary purpose of serving as an aid to students receiving their first serious introduction to Goethe's masterpiece and in part by the trend of Faust research. It is intended to be used as a supplement to the usual scholarly edition in the student's hands.

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Routledge

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1136999973

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9781136999970

The Church of Israel

Studies and Essays

By: Robert Hatch Kennett

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The Church of Israel

Studies and Essays

By: Robert Hatch Kennett

This 1933 book contains essays and articles by Robert Hatch Kennett, illustrating his role in the development of biblical study. A detailed introduction is also contained, together with a select bibliography of Kennett's works. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in biblical criticism and theology.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107680484

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Book's by Robert S. Paul

Robert Persons S.J., The Christian Directory (1582): The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, Appertayning to Resolution

Robert Persons S.J., The Christian Directory (1582): The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, Appertayning to Resolution

Whatever Happened to Sherlock Holmes

Whatever Happened to Sherlock Holmes

Finding Ever After

Finding Ever After

The Lord Protector

The Lord Protector

The Maudsley 2003 Prescribing Guidelines

The Maudsley 2003 Prescribing Guidelines

The Sources of the Faust Tradition

The Sources of the Faust Tradition

The Church of Israel

The Church of Israel

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