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New York: HarperOne; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2011. 506 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. "Religious h… More...

New York: HarperOne; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2011. 506 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. "Religious historian and sociologist Rodney Stark has spent his career engaging with that very question. Indeed, after thirty highly regarded books on the matter, he has created a true master course in Christian history. Now, for the first time, he distills his research to just the most important and interesting episodes--the seminal moments in the story that, he now believes, demand new perspectives. Stark gets right to the events of greatest interest, often turning them on their heads: He argues that Constantine's conversion did the Church a great deal of harm, for example, and that the majority of converts to early Christianity were women. And he asks the questions at the heart of the human story: What role did Jesus's family play in the early Church? How was Christianity's rise influenced by the misery of daily life in Greco-Roman cities? What role did vigorous competition play in the success, and failure, of churches in colonial America? Finally, having brought readers to the present day, Stark makes a compelling case that the popular notion that religion must disappear to make room for modernity is amply disproved by the sociological evidence. No one is better equipped than Rodney Stark to get to the heart of the story that has shaped two millennia's worth of history. For scholars and armchair historians alike, The Triumph of Christianity is a brisk and thought-provoking journey through events we think we know--and need to reconsider." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction; The religious context; Many Judaisms; Jesus and the Jesus movement; Missionizing the Jews and the Gentiles; Christianity and privilege; Misery and mercy; Appeals to women; Persecution and commitment; Assessing Christian growth; Constantine's very mixed blessings; The demise of paganism; Islam and the destruction of Eastern and North African Christianity; Europe responds : the case for the Crusades; The "Dark Ages" and other mythical eras; The people's religion; Faith and the scientific "Revolution"; Two "churches" and the challenge of heresy; Luther's reformation; The shocking truth about the Spanish Inquisition; Pluralism and American piety; Secularization : facts and fantasies; Globalization; Conclusion. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Collectible., HarperOne; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2011, 5, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. xvii, 213 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. "A celebrated master of the spoken as well as the written word, Isaiah Berlin here gives us a rare memoir in the form of a dialogue. Isaiah Berlin is renowned the world over for his analysis of the ideas that have influenced or transformed societies. He has a deep commitment to liberty and pluralism, and has devoted the half century and more of his professional life as a teacher and lecturer to exploring the conditions that allow these ideals to flourish, and those that threaten them. Berlin here intersperses insights into the development of his ideas and political philosophy with rich personal reminiscences. He discusses Machiavelli, Marx, Vico, Herder, and Herzen, among others, and their influence over him. As he leads us from Petrograd to Oxford, Washington, Moscow, London, and Jerusalem, he speaks of his friends and contemporaries: W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Igor Stravinsky, A. J. Ayer, Bertrand Russell, and many others. He tells of his moving encounters with Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and Chaim Weizmann, and of his passion for music and literature. Frank and engaging, Conversations with Isaiah Berlin is a remarkable record of one of the great intellectual odysseys of our time." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible., Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991, 5, Dulles, Virginia, U.S.A.: Univ Science Books, 1997 hardback book in fine condition.no dust jacket. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket., Dulles, Virginia, U.S.A.: Univ Science Books, 1997, 5, Boulder, Co:: Westview Press. Very Good+. 1994. Third Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 9710857266. 240 pages; Nations of the Modern World: Asia Series. B&W illus. ; Bright solid copy with minor edgewear. Owner's name on half-title.. Catalogs: Asian Studies., Westview Press, 1994, 0, Orbis Books, 1985. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Orbis Books, 1985, 2.5, Orbis Books, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Orbis Books, 1985, 3, Harper Perennial. Very Good. 6.12 x 1.09 x 9.25 inches. Paperback. 1993. 480 pages. Name on ffep<br>INVENTING THE MIDDLE AGES The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Centu ry In this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages-with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies-was bo rn in the twentieth century. The medieval world was not simply ex cavated through systematic research. It had to be conceptually cr eated: It had to be invented, and this is the story of that inven tion. Norman Cantor focuses on the lives and works of twenty of the great medievalists of this century, demonstrating how the ev ents of their lives, and their spiritual and emotional outlooks, influenced their interpretations of the Middle Ages. Cantor makes their scholarship an intensely personal and passionate exercise, full of color and controversy, displaying the strong personaliti es and creative minds that brought new insights about the past. A revolution in academic method, this book is a breakthrough to a new way of teaching the humanities and historiography, to be en joyed by student and general public alike. It takes an immense bo dy of learning and transmits it so that readers come away fully i nformed of the essentials of the subject, perceiving the intercon nection of medieval civilization with the culture of the twentiet h century and having had a good time while doing it! This is a ri veting, entertaining, humorous, and learned read, compulsory for anyone concerned about the past and future of Western civilizatio n. Editorial Reviews Review Astoundingly readable ... Extraord inarily powerful -- The Philadelphia InquirerProvocative . . . Ex hilarating . . . A highly impassioned and personal book--and the better for it -- The Washington Post Book WorldGrandly conceived and brilliantly executed ... it is the best book about historians I have read in years, and not only a pleasure to read but exciti ng to read. -- Gordon Craig, Professor Emeritus of History, Stanf ord UniversityBrilliant ... No other book published this year is more witty and challenging. -- Houston Chronicle About the Autho r Norman F. Cantor was Emeritus Professor of History, Sociology, and Comparative Literature at New York University. His many book s include In the Wake of the Plague, Inventing the Middle Ages, a nd The Civilization of the Middle Ages, the most widely read narr ative of the Middle Ages in the English language. He died in 2004 . From The Washington Post Provocative . . . Exhilarating . . . A highly impassioned and personal book--and the better for it F rom The Washington Post Provocative . . . Exhilarating . . . A hi ghly impassioned and personal book--and the better for it Excerp t. ® Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter One THE QUEST FOR THE MIDDLE AGES BETWEEN ROME AND RENAISSANCE In F rance, Germany, and Italy they still call it the Middle Age. In E nglish-speaking countries since about 1840 it is generally referr ed to in the plural--the Middle Ages--signifying the several dist inct suberas during one very long epoch. Whether called by the si ngular or the plural, the medieval era in Western civilization is the millennium that stretched from the fall of the Roman Empire in Europe (about A.D. 450) to the Italian Renaissance of the late fifteenth century. The question that has engaged the lifetime in terest and work of thousands of historians, literary critics, art historians, philosophers, theologians, and archaeologists in mod em times is, What happened between Rome and the Renaissance? What was the nature of the European medieval world, and what is its c onnection to our own? Interest in the meaning and relevance of the Middle Ages stretches far beyond academia. Books about King A rthur and his Round Table, both fiction and nonfiction, constitut e a thriving cottage industry. In 1978 Barbara Tuchman, a disting uished historian although not an academic, published a best-selli ng medieval book, A Distant Mirror, that demonstrated to almost u niversal satisfaction similarities between the troubled fourteent h century in Europe and the more depressing moments of the twenti eth century. In 1990 no fewer than three Hollywood film companies almost simultaneously announced they were going to produce a new movie about Robin Hood, to replace the jovial 1938 film that sta rred Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland, and a new blockbuster f ilm about the mythic medieval hero is now actually in production. Perhaps on a more exalted level of discourse, the papacy in 1987 prohibited a professor of theology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., from teaching about sexuality in a manner that sharply departed from allegedly authoritative medieva l Catholic tradition. Hagar the Horrible, the rambunctious Viking , is a favorite comic strip. Every summer tens of thousands of mi ddle-class Americans climb into tour buses in London, Paris, Fran kfurt, Rome, and Vienna and spend a week or two visiting medieval cathedrals and the remains of medieval castles. Curiosity is the reby stimulated about the people who created the world of castle and cathedral. In 1984 the English translation of a novel by an Italian professor of medieval literature, The Name of the Rose b y Umberto Eco, surprised the New York publishing world by becomin g a phenomenal best seller. The popularity of Eco's highly cerebr al novel was helped by its being cast in the form of a detective story. Yet the setting was the fourteenth century, and the story is placed in the context of one of the more dramatic conflicts wi thin the medieval church: between the papacy and the radical, or Spiritual, wing of the order of Franciscan friars over the nature of the church and its role in society. Asked to explain the ph enomenal success of his novel, Eco modestly attributed it to a pe riod of renewed interest in the Middle Ages . . . both in Europe and America. Another comment by Eco puts it more sharply: [T]he f act is that everyone has his own ideas, usually corrupt, of the M iddle Ages. The huge popular success of Eco's and Tuchman's medie val books gave new attention to the ideas held about the Middle A ges by the leading academic medievalists of the twentieth century , whose research and insight the two best-selling authors had fre ely drawn upon. Specifying parallels between the agonies of the f ourteenth and twentieth centuries or setting a brilliant detectiv e story within the conflict between the papacy and the Spiritual Franciscans was only a small sliver of the medieval European expe rience that stretched for a millennium beyond the fall of the Rom an Empire. Which additional interpretations or fascinating data l oom strongly out of the work of three generations of medievalists since 1900? Which were the colossal personalities and dramatic c rises that the medievalists had revealed? What further parallels or contrasts could be drawn between the Middle Ages and our own c ulture and society? How do the medieval sensibility, imagination, and faith relate to our own set of assumptions and perceptions? These were subjects broached by sophisticated literary agents and editors as they took luncheons in two-star restaurants with acad emic medievalists, seeking to find at least one who, like Tuchman (but certanly not Eco), wrote suburban middle-class prose. </div ., Harper Perennial, 1993, 3, New York, 2005. Paperback in new condition.. Contains "Spirit, Body, and In-between" by William Chittick - Ambiguity and the intermediate realm; "Bees of the Invisible World" by Martha Heyneman - Rilke's soul at work; "Intentional Blending" by G. I. Gurdjieff - The birth of one's own initiative (illustrated with two paintings by Paul Reynard); "Plural Souls" by Adin Steinsaltz - Descent for the sake of ascension; "The Fragrance of the Friend" An interview with Iraj Anvar; "One Coffin--Two Corpses" by J. A. Taylor - Zen ancestor's teaching through dying; "Embodied in Air" by Lory Widmer Hess - The vitality of vowels, the power of consonants; "Except by Light" by Elizabeth Carothers Herron - The enduring affection among all things; "The Mind in the Hand" by Linda Hogan - Living by feel; "The True Human Body" An Interview with Jacob Needleman; "Legitimate Duality" From MEDITATIONS ON THE TAROT, Translated by Robert Powell - Rooted in being or rooted in love?; "The Pattern that is Me" by John Polkinghorne - Two modes of engagement; "Without Thunder There Is No Rain" by Moi Enomenga - The danger of losing Spirit; 128 pages., 2005, 6, NY: Orbis Books, 1974. Previous owner's inked name on half title page, red penciled underlining on contents page, else clean and tight. Crease down the spine, creased corners, slight edge and character wear, lightly rubbed. 119p.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback., Orbis Books, 1974, 3, Great Britain: Siena. Hardback. Sooner or later, in the course of almost any discussion about modern art, paul Klee will be metnioned. A member of Germany's influential Bauhaus group, he was at the heart of European artistic and cultural experiement during the dynamic years between the two world wars. Yet his work transcends simple classification. He constantly explored space, line and hue to create his own pictorial poetry and express his unique inner vision of the world. The totality of his experience and the plurality of nature were not only sources of inspiration but were combined in his paintings to create a compeletely new reality. Illustrated. Illustrated laminated boards. 79 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Fine. Decorative Illustrated Boards. 1st Siena Edition. 1995., Siena, 1995, 4.5, Paperback. Very Good., 3, Columbia University Press. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects., Columbia University Press, 3, SCM Press, 1985. Book. Good. paperback. printed card covers are heavily faded, the paper is age-toned but is clean and unmarked and the binding is tight, 288pp., SCM Press, 1985, 2.5, Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., 2.5, a m klein: VG no dj. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. spine covering is lightly crushed to both ends but no loss - rubbing at most. internally ,clean throughout with no inscription or annotation, a lovely clean copy. The philosophical approach of this volume is mainly structuralist, using logical tools to investigate the formal structure of various kinds of objects in our world, as characterised by language and as systematised by philosophy. This volume mainly analyses the structural properties of collections or pluralities (with applications to the philosophy of set theory), homogeneous objects like water, and the semantics and philosophy of events. This book thereby complements algebraic work that has been done on other philosophical entities, i.e. propositions, properties, relations, or situations. Located in the triangle of language, logic and philosophy, this volume is unique in combining the resources of different fields in an interdisciplinary enterprise. Half of the fourteen chapters of this volume are original papers, complementing the collection of the author's previously published essays on the subject., a m klein:, 0, 0, Postmodernism. Secularism. Pluralism. These are the words often used to describe the tumultuous changes that have affected our culture and our churches. But what do they really mean? More importantly, what challenges and opportunities do they provide todays preachers? David Lose takes preachers on a tour of the major cultural influences of the last century, explaining how they have contributed to the diminishment of the church and exploring how they also offer opportunities to cultivate a more vibrant and relevant faith in the twenty-first century. Filled with lucid analysis and practical suggestions, Preaching at the Crossroads invites preachers to reclaim the art of preaching the timeless Gospel in a timely and compelling manner., Fortress Press, 2013, 6, Tyndale House, 1991. Paperback. Very good., Tyndale House, 1991, 0, Tyndale House, 1991. Paperback. Very good; slightly bumped corners., Tyndale House, 1991, 0, Edinburgh, W.P. Kennedy, 1854. First. Soft covers. Scottish Periodical from the time of the Crimean War . Articles on the plurality of worlds, history of Scotland, the Stones of Venice by John Ruskin, an account of a mountaineering visit to Norway in 1851, and a discussion of Auguste Comte's positivism. 295pp. Blue paper covers and cloth binding , soiled. Loosely inserted a publisher's advert. for a new book about the war ( in the Crimea ) . internally good, but covers are poor.., Edinburgh, W.P. Kennedy, 1854, 0<