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Elemental Life
Mystery and Mercy in the Work of Father Matthew Kelty, OCSO
Häftad, 2018
287 kr
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Father Matthew Kelty was an especially beloved monk at the historic Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. Perhaps best known as Thomas Merton's colleague and confessor in the year prior to Merton's death, Father Matthew was also an enormously gifted spiritual writer in his own right, one whose homilies …
Policing the State, Second Edition
Democratic Reflections on Police Power Gone Awry, in Memory of Kathryn Johnston (1914–2006)
E-bok, 2015
364 kr
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The manner in which Kathryn Johnston died so tragically at the hands of Atlanta narcotics police on the evening of November 21, 2006, anticipates and informs a number of very contemporary--and extremely volatile--issues that have become closely associated with the name of Ferguson, Missouri. As the …
God Gardened East
A Gardener''s Meditation on the Dynamics of Genesis
E-bok, 2008
390 kr
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Working within two popular genres, gardening books and biblical meditations, God Gardened East offers a meditation on the first twenty-five chapters of Genesis, emphasizing the tropes of cultivation, wandering, and the east. Reconceived in a post-9/11 environment, Ruprecht wrestles with difficult …
Reach without Grasping
Anne Carson's Classical Desires
Inbunden, 2021
1212 kr
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Anne Carson (b. June 21, 1950, in Toronto, Canada) is one of the most versatile of contemporary classicists, poets, and translators in the English language. In Reach without Grasping, Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. explores the role played by generic transgressions on the one hand, and by embodied …
Reach without Grasping
Anne Carson's Classical Desires
Häftad, 2023
460 kr
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Anne Carson (b. June 21, 1950, in Toronto, Canada) is one of the most versatile of contemporary classicists, poets, and translators in the English language. In Reach without Grasping, Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. explores the role played by generic transgressions on the one hand, and by embodied …
Cosmopolitan Crete
A History of Cultural, Ethnic, Linguistic, and Religious Mixing
Inbunden, 2026
1208 kr
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This open access book studies the history of the island of Crete as a site of ethnic and religious mixing and reveals how this relates to modern day interest in pluralistic community formation. Louis A Ruprecht Jr. explores the mixture of culture, traditions, languages, and religion in the Greek …
Afterwords
Hellenism, Modernism, and the Myth of Decadence
Häftad, 1996
401 kr
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Reading both philosophical and theological texts, this book presents an argument against nostalgia: against the myth of a Golden Age, against the posture that sees "modernity" as a problem to be solved.This book about nostalgia raises the question of why it has become such a dominant and …
Symposia
Plato, the Erotic, and Moral Value
Häftad, 1999
394 kr
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Argues that the underlining of erotic matters in Plato's dialogues marks the most significant moment in his career.Socrates was wise, because he knew that he did not know anything; this has long been the prevailing wisdom of the Socratic-Platonic tradition. In Plato's Middle Period-spanning …
