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Re-Genesis

A New World

By: Roger W. Coltey

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As more and more of the earth’s resources are removed from within, physical forces will be altered. Science is hard at work trying to find a way to prevent a catastrophe. Satellites and even people on the space station are studying the planets changing properties. Will people on the space station be the only humans to survive some great catastrophe? What will become of them and the future of the human species as we know it?

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1452022003

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Members Only

By: Fabrice Roger-Lacan

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By: Fabrice Roger-Lacan

Who was it who said that a friend is someone you can phone in the middle of the night and say, "I've just killed a man" and he'll say "OK, where's the body?" Adrien and Bernard are lifelong friends and business partners. It's Bernard's fortieth birthday. But Adrien can't come. Adrien has a big night at his club. And the crash starts there. An intimate, fast moving, cruel and tender comedy about friendship, obsession and the absurdity of desire. An epic journey from small things to the big one."There are no rules for friendship, but there are...guidelines" Members Only opened at the Trafalgar Studios in March 2006.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1849437882

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Christian Community in History Volume 1

Historical Ecclesiology

By: Roger D. Haight

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Christian Community in History Volume 1

Historical Ecclesiology

By: Roger D. Haight

Drawing upon the methodology developed in his Dynamics of Theology (1990) and exemplified in Jesus Symbol of God (1999), Roger Haight, in this magisterial work, achieves what he calls an historical ecclesiology, or ecclesiology from below. In contrast to traditional ecclesiology from above, which is abstract, idealist, and ahistorical, ecclesiology from below is concrete, realist, and historically conscious. In this first of two volumes, Haight charts the history of the church's self-understandings from the origins of the church in the Jesus movement to the late Middle Ages. In volume 2 Haight develops a comparative ecclesiology based on the history and diverse theologies of the worldwide Christian movement from the Reformation to the present. While the ultimate focus of the work falls on the structure of the church and its theological self-understanding, it tries to be faithful to the historical, social, and political reality of the church in each period.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441124306

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Selective Service and American Society

By: Roger William Little

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Selective Service and American Society

By: Roger William Little

A penetrating analysis of the Selective Service System: its recruiting services, the makeup and attitude of those who serve on local draft boards, the criteria for deferment or rejection from service, and the application of the principle of universality in the present draft laws. Using data from several sources, the study also explores the position of blacks with respect to military service. Comprehensive recommendations are set forth.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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161044664X

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Biology and Mathematics

History and Challenges

By: Roger Buis

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Biology and Mathematics

History and Challenges

By: Roger Buis

To formalize the dynamics of living things is to search for invariants in a system that contains an irreducible aspect of “fuzziness”, because biological processes are characterized by their large statistical variability, and strong dependence on temporal and environmental factors. What is essential is the identification of what remains stable in a “living being” that is highly fluctuating. The use of mathematics is not limited to the use of calculating tools to simulate and predict results. It also allows us to adopt a way of thinking that is founded on concepts and hypotheses, leading to their discussion and validation. Instruments of mathematical intelligibility and coherence have gradually “fashioned” the view we now have of biological systems. Teaching and research, fundamental or applied, are now dependent on this new order known as Integrative Biology or Systems Biology.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119663474

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9781119663478

Al McGuire

The Colorful Warrior

By: Roger Jaynes

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Al McGuire

The Colorful Warrior

By: Roger Jaynes

Al McGuire was not only one of the most successful coaches in college basketball history, but arguably, as this insightful memoir shows, the most colorful and unpredictable as well. Over the years his entertaining and often controversial remarks--and his altercations with fellow coaches, referees, and even the NCAA--became legendary.

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Sports Publishing LLC

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1582618429

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Culture Wars

An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices

By: Roger Chapman

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Culture Wars

An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices

By: Roger Chapman

A collection of letters from a cross-section of Japanese citizens to a leading Japanese newspaper, relating their experiences and thoughts of the Pacific War.

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765622505

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Christian Community in History Volume 1

Historical Ecclesiology

By: Roger Haight

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Christian Community in History Volume 1

Historical Ecclesiology

By: Roger Haight

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A&C Black

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Inhibition

History and Meaning in the Sciences of Mind and Brain

By: Roger Smith

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Inhibition

History and Meaning in the Sciences of Mind and Brain

By: Roger Smith

In everyday parlance, "inhibition" suggests repression, tight control, the opposite of freedom. In medicine and psychotherapy the term is commonplace, its definition understood. Relating how inhibition—the word and the concept—became a bridge between society at large and the natural sciences of mind and brain, Smith constructs an engagingly original history of our view of ourselves. Not until the late nineteenth century did the term "inhibition" become common in English, connoting the dependency of reason and of civilization itself on the repression of "the beast within." This usage followed a century of Enlightenment thought about human nature and the nature of the human mind. Smith traces theories of inhibitory control from the moralistic psychologies of the early nineteenth century to the famous twentieth-century schools of Sherrington, Pavlov, and Freud. He finds that the meanings of "inhibition" cross disciplinary boundaries and outline the growth of our belief in the self-regulated person.

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Univ of California Press

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0520911709

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Law, Culture and Regionalism in Early Medieval Spain

By: Roger Collins

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Law, Culture and Regionalism in Early Medieval Spain

By: Roger Collins

Roger Collins deals here with the history of Spain, specifically Christian Spain, in the period from the 6th to the 10th century - from the Visigoths, through the time of the Arab conquests, up to the end of the era of Carolingian dominance across the Pyrenees. Particular emphasis, indeed, is placed upon the importance of this Pyrenean region, in the lands now known as France as well as those in Spain, with the author also calling into question the received notion of an Aquitanian identity in the 5th-9th centuries. Of the themes running through this volume, that of regionalism is most evident here and in the articles on the Basques, but appears equally, for instance, in the study on the relations between Merida and the Visigothic government. Similarly, legal and cultural themes provide the focus for the articles on the workings of Visigothic law in the 9th-10th centuries, or on the intellectual culture of Navarre, but recur in other parts of the collection. Two of these articles appear for the first time in English, while a third has been re-written for this volume and others supplied with additional notes or illustrations. Roger Collins traite ici de l’histoire d’Espagne et, plus particulièrement, de celle de l’Espagne chrétienne entre le 6e et le 10e siècle: des Visigoths jusqu’à la fin de l’hégémonie carolingienne au nord du pays, en passant par les conquêtes arabes. L’importance de la région pyrénéenne, recouvrant des terres qui font de nos jours partie de la France ainsi que de l’Espagne, est soulignée par l’auteur, qui remet par ailleurs en question l’idée reçue d’identité aquitaine qui prévalait entre le 5e et le 9e siècle. Certains thèmes légaux et culturels forment la base d’articles sur le fonctionnement du droit visigoth aux 9e et 10e siècles, ou encore sur la culture intellectuelle de la Navarre et ressurgissent à d’autres endroits de la collection. Le régionalisme reste cependant le plus prédominant

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Taylor & Francis

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1040249620

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Anthony Burgess

A Biography

By: Roger Lewis

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Anthony Burgess

A Biography

By: Roger Lewis

A delirious yet definitive biography of the author of A Clockwork Orange.

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St. Francis of Assisi and Nature

Tradition and Innovation in Western Christian Attitudes toward the Environment

By: Roger D. Sorrell

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St. Francis of Assisi and Nature

Tradition and Innovation in Western Christian Attitudes toward the Environment

By: Roger D. Sorrell

One of the best-loved saints of all time, Francis of Assisi is often depicted today as a kind of proto-hippie or early environmentalist. This book, the most comprehensive study in English of Francis's view of nature in the context of medieval tradition, debunks modern anachronistic interpretations, arguing convincingly that Francis's ideas can only be understood in their 13th-century context. Through close analysis of Francis's writings, particularly the Canticle of the Sun, Sorrell shows that many of Francis's beliefs concerning the proper relation of humanity to the natural world have their antecedents in scripture and the medieval monastic orders, while other ideas and practices--his nature mysticism, his concept of familial relationships with created things, and his extension of chivalric conceptions to interactions with creatures--are entirely his own. Sorrell insists, however, that only by seeing Francis in terms of the Western traditions from which he arose can we appreciate the true originality of this extraordinary figure and the relevance of his thought to modern religious and environmental concerns.

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0195363906

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The Art of the Sublime

Principles of Christian Art and Architecture

By: Roger Homan

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The Art of the Sublime

Principles of Christian Art and Architecture

By: Roger Homan

In the view of Hegel and others, pagan art is the art of the beautiful and Christian art is the art of the sublime. Roger Homan provides a comprehensive and informative account of the course of Christian art, encompassing a re-evaluation of conventional aesthetics and its application to religious art. Homan argues that taste and aesthetics are fashioned by morality and belief, and that Christian art must be assessed not in terms of its place in the history of art but of its place in Christian faith. The narrative basis of Christian art is documented but religious art is also explored as the expression of the devout and as an element in the trappings of collective expression and personal quest. Sections in the book explore pilgrimage art, puritan art, the tension of Gothic and Classical, church architecture and the language of worship. Current areas of debate, including the relationship of ethics to the appreciation of art, are also discussed. An extensive range of examples of painting, architecture and decoration, most of which are of European origin, are discussed throughout, with a number of striking illustrations included within the text.

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Routledge

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1351894552

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Historic Homes of Minnesota

By: Roger G. Kennedy

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Historic Homes of Minnesota

By: Roger G. Kennedy

Great Houses of Minnesota is the engaging story of the evolution of architectural styles in Minnesota from 1830 to 1914--from the influence of the early French traders along the Mississippi and St. Croix to the emergence of the school of Frank Lloyd Wright. Through photographs and colorfully informative text, internationally known historian Roger Kennedy helps readers understand the unique styles of Minnesota's first homes, including the Mower House in Arcola, the first large house on the St. Croix; Alexander Ramsey's "Mansion House" in St. Paul, influenced by Pennsylvania Dutch virtues; the whimsical Charles C. Clement house in Fergus Falls, clearly Norse in spirit; and the Purcell House in Minneapolis, a fine example of the Prairie School design. On a broad plane these architectural eras reflected social customs, politics, commerce, religion, and literature. On a personal level they often revealed the national origin and character of the families that made the house a home. In short, this is in large measure a history of the people. Kennedy has considered their heritage and traditions as carefully as he has examined the architecture they created, and he offers a fresh, wholistic approach to the study of our state's great houses.

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Minnesota Historical Society

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0873515579

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Many Histories Deep

The Personal Landscape Poets in Egypt, 1940-45

By: Roger Bowen

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Many Histories Deep

The Personal Landscape Poets in Egypt, 1940-45

By: Roger Bowen

Fraser, and the Greek exiles George Seferis and Elie Papadimitriou.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838635679

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War and Peace in the Western Political Imagination

From Classical Antiquity to the Age of Reason

By: Roger Manning

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War and Peace in the Western Political Imagination

From Classical Antiquity to the Age of Reason

By: Roger Manning

The study of war in all periods of prehistory and recorded history has always commanded the attention of historians, dramatists, poets and artists. The study of peace has, however, not yet gained a comparable readership, and the subject is attracting an increasing amount of scholarly research. This volume presents the first work of academic research to tackle this imbalance head on. It looks at war and peace through the ages, from the Classical world through to the 18th century. It considers the nature and advocacy of war and peace both from an historical perspective but also a philosophical one, particularly looking at how universal peace, which began as a personal philosophy, became over the centuries a political philosophy that underpins much of modern society's attitudes towards warfare and militarism. Roger Manning begins his journey through history by looking at the Greek martial ethos and philosophical concepts of peace and war in the ancient world; moving through the Roman empire's military advances, he explores the concepts of war and peace in the medieval world and the Renaissance, with the writing of Machiavelli and Erasmus; finally, his account of the search for a science of peace in the 17th and 18th centuries brings the book to its conclusion.

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1474258727

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Keepers of the Keys of Heaven

A History of the Papacy

By: Roger Collins

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Keepers of the Keys of Heaven

A History of the Papacy

By: Roger Collins

One of the most enduring and influential of all human institutions, the papacy has also been amongst the most controversial. No one who seeks to make sense of modern issues within Christendom -- or, indeed, world history -- can neglect the vital shaping role of the popes. In Keepers of the Keys of Heaven, eminent religion scholar Roger Collins offers a masterful account of the entire arc of papal history -- from the separation of the Greek and Latin churches to the contemporary controversies that threaten the unity of the one billion-strong worldwide Catholic community. A definitive and accessible guide to what is arguably the world's most vaunted office, Keepers of the Keys of Heaven is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of faith in the shaping of our world.

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Basic Books

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0786744189

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A Clamjamfray of Poets

A Tale of Literary Edinburgh, 1950-1985

By: Stanley Roger Green

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A Clamjamfray of Poets

A Tale of Literary Edinburgh, 1950-1985

By: Stanley Roger Green

Stanley Roger Green was a member of the circle of poets and writers surrounding Hugh MacDiarmid in the howfs and halls of post war Edinburgh. Sydney Goodsir Smith, Norman MacCaig, Tom Scott, George Mackay Brown and Robert Garioch were among them and the author offers a very personal account of their life and times.

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The Saltire Society

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0854110984

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The Berlin Tunnel

A Cold War Thriller

By: Roger L. Liles

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The Berlin Tunnel

A Cold War Thriller

By: Roger L. Liles

During the Cold War, a tunnel was built by British MI-6 and the CIA which tapped into a buried communications cable in East Berlin and successfully intercepted and exploited East European communist communications. The Berlin Tunnel is based on this historic event.* * *In the height of the Cold War, American Air Force Captain Robert Kerr finds himself in a divided Berlin awash with spies who move freely between the East and West. His task-build a TOP SECRET tunnel under the River Spree into East Berlin-tap into highly classified communications links between civilian and military leaders in Russia and the Warsaw Pact countries.Love couldn't have found him at a worse time. Soon after he arrives, Robert falls for a German girl, Anna Fischer. Nasty East German Secret Police harass them both constantly, intent on determining what Robert and his work crew are doing in Berlin, but it's Anna who gets caught in the crossfire.The wall is closed, trapping 19 million East Germans including Anna's entire family behind the Iron Curtain. As the world holds its collective breath during the Berlin Crisis, Robert and Anna fight for their lives as they attempt to free her family.

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Acorn Publishing

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1947392271

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A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820

By: Roger Eliot Stoddard,David Rhodes Whitesell

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A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820

By: Roger Eliot Stoddard,David Rhodes Whitesell

A bibliography of poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed in the form of books or pamphlets before 1821"--Provided by publisher.

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Penn State Press

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027105221X

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9780271052212

The Pilgrim's Tale

By: Roger Coombs

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The Pilgrim's Tale

By: Roger Coombs

Whilst in France researching his next book, an author stumbles on an ancient burial. This leads him to discover the answer to a mystery regarding a long lost and valuable religious relic. He sends tantalising clues to his daughter in London but then dies suddenly. The clues have to be followed, leading a group of friends across France on their trail. However they are not alone. Unscrupulous crooks are on the same trail. Can the amateurs keep ahead of the professionals?

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Lulu.com

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0244333270

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A Guide to Research in Music Education

By: Roger P. Phelps

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A Guide to Research in Music Education

By: Roger P. Phelps

An updated and practical approach to research concepts, techniques, and sources from the 4th edition.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810852403

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9780810852402

Canonical Medicine

Gentile da Foligno and Scholasticism

By: Roger French

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Canonical Medicine

Gentile da Foligno and Scholasticism

By: Roger French

This book deals with the work of one of the most famous medical scholars of the middle ages, renowned to his contemporaries as being able to see more deeply into the theory of medicine than anyone else. It is based in particular on an analysis of his huge commentary on Avicenna's Canon, the biggest and most important single medical text of the Middle Ages. This is the first modern analysis of the commentary, and while the size and elaborate scholastic structure of it has deterred historians, it remained an important text for two centuries. This book explains the nature and purposes of medical scholasticism, which reached its height in the half century before the Black Death, in which Gentile died.

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BRILL

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9004476423

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9789004476424

Clerical Orders in the Early Middle Ages

Duties and Ordination

By: Roger E. Reynolds

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Clerical Orders in the Early Middle Ages

Duties and Ordination

By: Roger E. Reynolds

The theology of sacred or clerical orders of the Latin Church in the high and later Middle Ages developed from an amalgam of texts written from late patristic antiquity through to the early 12th century. Such texts, many studied and edited here, include letters, tracts, sermons, liturgical commentaries, ordination instructions, and canon law pieces. Within these texts multiple topics might be considered, such as the Old and New Testament origins of each of the clerical grades, their number and hierarchical ranking, the duties, dress and moral conduct of a cleric, and ordination ritual. Particularly striking are the multiple duties assigned each grade and their modification in various parts of the Western Church. Many of these texts found their way not only into more formal theological treatments of sacred orders, but also into ordination rites. Probably the most public and visible duty of a cleric was his function as a eucharistic officer, and one essay in this collection deals with perhaps the most famous early medieval depiction of this clerical ritual on the ivory covers of the 9th-century Drogo Sacramentary.

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1040248349

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Witch Blood of Salem

Lessons from the Trials

By: Roger Kriney

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Witch Blood of Salem

Lessons from the Trials

By: Roger Kriney

The Salem Witch Trials, 1692 is the setting for this investigation into a few of the actual cases. The author offers the readers the opportunity to thoroughly examine all the existing written evidence against just four of the accused families and learn everything possible about the witnesses and accusers necessary for investigating their trials. As in any criminal investigation, the reader will find more than suspicion of greed, anger, decades old vengeance and misunderstanding as the basis for accusation and motive. The fingerprints of the religious hands are all over the intense fervor of the community as well as on the judges’ misunderstanding and mishandling of the trials. The reader will also find the apparent abuse of young minds by certain adults as the means in order to set the stage for this travesty. The most disturbing thing you will find is the religious justification for all of it.

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1728319994

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20th-Century Theology

God and the World in a Transitional Age

By: Stanley J. Grenz,Roger E. Olson

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20th-Century Theology

God and the World in a Transitional Age

By: Stanley J. Grenz,Roger E. Olson

Stanley J. Grenz and Roger E. Olson offer a sympathetic guide and a critical assessment of the significant theologies and theologians of the 20th century. They trace the shifts in theol-ogy as it has moved back and forth between God's immanence and God's transcendence.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830878890

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Kings and Bishops in Medieval England, 1066-1216

By: Roger Wickson

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Kings and Bishops in Medieval England, 1066-1216

By: Roger Wickson

The relationship between kings and bishops in Medieval England could be tricky. Thomas Becket summed it up succinctly when he said to Henry II, 'You are my lord, you are my king, you are my spiritual son.' Bishops were the king's greatest subjects, and yet no man could be secure as King without being crowned and anointed by a bishop. For much of the period, kings and bishops worked harmoniously to shape England into a country with one of the most sophisticated governments in Western Europe. Yet sometimes, as in the case of Henry II and Becket, there was conflict between them. This introductory text explores the central relationship between the kings of England and their bishops, from the Norman Conquest to Magna Carta. Wickson provides an approachable overview of the key scholarship on this subject, from historical to contemporary viewpoints. He also draws readers to the major primary sources, such as monastic chroniclers, making this an ideal starting-point for anyone studying high medieval England.

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1137431180

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