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Cyprian of Carthage: Studies in His Life, Language and Thought by H. Bakker 9789042923973
RRP: $172.20Booksplease Price: $165.50Up to Augustine, bishop Cyprian of Carthage was the theological authority in the West, and he has continued to influence theology ever since. Cyprian of Carthage. Studies in His Life, Language and... -
Critical Spirituality: Spirituality as Critical Practice in the Global Modern Age by H. Westerink 9789042934535
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $167.96A central issue in the study of the correlation between modernity, the turn to the religious subject and the history of mysticism, concerns the critical - some would argue... -
Eastern and Oriental Christianity in the Diaspora by Verheyden J. 9789042939776
RRP: $205.80Booksplease Price: $192.36This volume contains a selection of papers read at an international colloquium on the way Eastern and Oriental Christianity has accommodated itself to a Diaspora situation... -
The End of the Law: The Good Life - A Teleological View by Stephen Theron 9789042907256
Booksplease Price: $91.90The End of the Law pursues further the ethical theories developed in the author's earlier books, such as Morals as Founded on Natural Law (1987) or The Recovery of Purpose (1993). Here he focuses... -
Compassion and Remorse: Acknowledging the Suffering Other by S. Tudor 9789042909205
Booksplease Price: $101.81"This book articulates in rich and complex ways the nature of two important moral emotions or 'ways of being' -- compassion and remorse. As an exemplar of the 'agent-centred' tradition in normative... -
Early Italian Sigillata: The Chronological Framework and Trade Patterns. Proceedings of the First International ROCT-congress, Leuven, May 7 and 8, 1999 by J. Poblome 9789042914810
Booksplease Price: $221.74The edited volume is the result of the first international ROCT-conference (Roman Crafts and Trade Network) at the Catholic University Leuven on 7 and 8 May, 1999. The collected papers provide an... -
The Response of Discourse Ethics to the Moral Challenge of the Human Situation as Such and Especially Today: Mercier Lectures, Louvain-la-Neuve, March 1999 by Karl-Otto Apel 9789042909786
Booksplease Price: $62.81The need for a global ethics has its origin in the human situation as such (i.e. in the fact of hominisation that has dismissed us from the natural security of animal instincts and thrown us into the... -
Dying Death and Bereavement in a British by Shirley Firth 9789068319767
Booksplease Price: $72.77This study is an exploration of the religious beliefs, attitudes, traditions and rituals of a British hindu community, with respect to dying, death and bereavement. The observations of this... -
On the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy: The Thirteenth-century Paris by L. Michael Harrington 9789042924819
RRP: $119.70Booksplease Price: $118.29The medieval fascination with the mysterious language of Dionysius the Areopagite is nowhere more evident than in the thirteenth-century textbook edition of his treatise on liturgical rites... -
Defixiones Olbiae Ponticae: (DefOlb) by A.V. Belousov 9789042942950
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $186.71This book presents a complete corpus of magical inscriptions (defixionum tabellae) of the ancient Greek city of Olbia, located in the northern Black Sea region. The... -
Hildegard of Bingen, Two Hagiographies: "Vita Sancti Rupperti Confessoris" and "Vita Sancti Dysibodi Episcopi" by H. Feiss 9789042923188
RRP: $92.40Booksplease Price: $90.57Today, after centuries of obscurity, Hildegard of Bingen has become one of the most famous women of the Middle Ages. She was a woman of great and varied talent as well as tenacious purpose. Her life... -
The Ornamental Calcite Vessels from the Tomb of Tutankhamun by L. Manniche 9789042937215
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $154.83At the time of the clearing of the tomb of Tutankhamun Howard Carter and his team made meticulous handwritten notes of every single object found. Yet a full scholarly... -
Building Towers: Perspectives on Globalisation by L. Anckaert 9789042912359
Booksplease Price: $88.18This volume contains the papers delivered at a colloquium on globalisation at the UFSIA in 2002. The book takes a multidisciplinary approach in the context of which several perspectives on... -
The Incomprehensibility of God: Augustine as a Negative Theologian by Paul van Geest 9789042924734
RRP: $172.20Booksplease Price: $164.77Augustine's way of speaking about God has been frequently deplored. It has been dismissed as too confident regarding the content of its assertions and too narrowly confined. The reception of... -
Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion by Antoine Faivre 9789042906303
Booksplease Price: $85.11This volume is based upon papers read during the innovative section "Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion" organized at the 17th International Congress of the International Association for... -
Bonaventure, On the Eucharist: (Commentary on the 'Sentences', Book IV, dist. 8-13) by J. Johnson 9789042934542
RRP: $182.70Booksplease Price: $172.33Since Bonaventure never wrote a treatise dedicated to the Eucharist, his extensive treatment in the fourth book of his commentary on Peter Lombard's Sentences, which covers... -
Qasr Ibrim, Between Egypt and Africa: Studies in Cultural Exchange (Nino Symposium, Leiden, 11-12 December 2009) by J.van der Vliet 9789042930308
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $102.27The natural citadel of Qasr Ibrim in Northern Nubia occupied for thousands of years a strategic position between Egypt and the Middle Nile region, the present-day Sudan. The rich archaeological and... -
The Libyan Period in Egypt: Historical and Cultural Studies into the 21st - 24th Dynasties: Proceedings of a Conference at Leiden University, 25-27 October 2007 by G. P. F. Broekman 9789042922389
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $196.12This volume contains the Proceedings of a conference held in October 2007 at Leiden University on the Libyan Period in Egypt. The study of the Third Intermediate Period, and most notably its... -
Problems in Decipherment by J. Bennet 9789068311778
Booksplease Price: $48.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068311778Author Y. DuhouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher Peeters... -
Encyclopedic Trends in Byzantium?: Proceedings of the International Conference Held in Leuven, 6-8 May 2009 by P. Van Deun 9789042925571
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $202.06In May 2009 the Leuven Institute of Early Christian and Byzantine Studies organized an international congress, with the title: Encyclopedic Trends in Byzantium? Some 40 scholars discussed the concept... -
Ethics and the Life of Faith: A Christian Moral Perspective by G. Moller 9789042906990
Booksplease Price: $87.63How can someone, committed to a Christian view of life, reason concerning ethical issues ? That is the main question of this book, which seeks to contribute to an understanding of morality as a human... -
Matter of Breath: Foundations for Professional Ethics by G. De Stexhe 9789042909069
Booksplease Price: $68.48This book submits for discussion the first results of an undertaking that is still going on. It aims to stimulate a broad reflection on the general question of the meaning of ethics and ethics... -
The Foundation and Application of Moral Philosophy: Ricoeur's Ethical Order by Hendrik J. Opdebeeck 9789042908529
Booksplease Price: $40.22Paul Ricoeur (1913), prominent French philosopher, is one of the most versatile thinkers of our time. Moreover, he is known to be an extremely gifted lecturer, who is able to set forth ethical... -
'the Little Commonwealth of Man': the Trinitarian Origins of the Ethical and Political Philosophy of Ralph Cudworth by Benjamin Carter 9789042922143
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $110.33This book presents a contextual study of the life and work of the Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth (1617-1688). Focusing on the theological basis of Cudworth's ethical philosophy, this book unlocks... -
Alexandria and the Moon: An Investigation into the Lunar Macedonian Calendar of Ptolemaic Egypt by C. Bennett 9789042925052
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $167.96This book is the first comprehensive study of the lunar Macedonian calendar in two decades. The mechanics of the calendar are examined in detail, and a new approach for reconstructing the sequence... -
"I am myn owene woman, wel at ese": In Memory of Margaret Jennings by M. Jennings 9789042934948
Booksplease Price: $43.91This booklet is devoted to the memory of Margaret Jennings (1942-2016), a distinguished medievalist who devoted much of her scholarly work to the fourteenth-century... -
The Flood: The Akkadian Sources: A New Edition, Commentary, and a Literary Discussion by N. Wasserman 9789042941731
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $177.35The story of the primeval cataclysmic flood which wiped out all life on earth, save for one family, is found in different ancient Mesopotamian texts whence it reached the... -
Hebrew at the Crossroads of Cultures: from Outgoing Antiquity to the Middle Ages by H. B. Rosen 9789068316858
RRP: $60.90Booksplease Price: $60.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068316858Author H. B. RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher... -
God's Signature: Understanding Paul Beauchamp on Creation in the First Testament by J.R. Pambrun 9789042933941
RRP: $235.20Booksplease Price: $220.31This book consists of a theological hermeneutical reading of the meaning of creation in the First Testament as found in the writings of the Jesuit biblical scholar Paul Beauchamp. Out... -
Vested Angels by Maurice McNamee 9789042900073
Booksplease Price: $98.57McNamee's detailed and well illustrated new study is about eucharistic symbolism in Early Netherlandish painting. It focuses on the pervading presence of the vested angel in this school of painting... -
On the Trail of the Septuagint Translators: Collected Essays by Anneli Aejmelaeus 9789042919396
RRP: $117.60Booksplease Price: $111.99The essays of this revised and expanded collection were written by Prof. Anneli Aejmelaeus over a period of 25 years. The thread that runs through all these essays and holds the collection together... -
A Contextual and Cross-cultural Study of Psalm 109 by Stephen C. Egwim 9789042924680
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $172.20The present work is an attempt to better understand Psalm 109 in relation to its curse content and the ambiguity surrounding the speaker. The psalm appears somewhat out of the ordinary ? the curse... -
Christian Feast and Festival: The Dynamics of Western Liturgy and Culture by P. Post 9789042910553
Booksplease Price: $193.85This collection on Christian feast culture is closely connected with the first Dutch national research program, Liturgical Movements and Feast Culture, which was conceived and initiated in 1995, and... -
Contemporary Sacramental Contours of a God Incarnate by L. Leijssen 9789042910942
Booksplease Price: $67.66From November 3 to 6, 1999, scholars from various countries gathered in Leuven to participate in the second biannual 'Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology' (LEST), dealing with 'Sacramental... -
Spirituality as Insight: Mystical Texts and Theological Reflection by Frans Maas 9789042914513
Booksplease Price: $49.83This book is concerned with mystical texts and theological reflection with reference to spiritual insight. in the first place the author shows, with reference to two great figures in the Christian... -
Trust: Cement of Democracy? by Frank Ankersmit 9789042915343
Booksplease Price: $114.26The last twenty years have witnessed the world-wide triumph of democracy. We now know that democracy is the only political system that enables us to face the challenges of modernity and of the future... -
Coptic Paradigms: A Summary of Sahidic Coptic Morphology by Gregory E. Sterling 9789042918726
Booksplease Price: $42.02Facility in reading an ancient language requires several competencies: control of the morphology, a working vocabulary of common words and phrases, and a grasp of syntax. This pedagogical aide... -
Qumran and the Bible: Studying the Jewish and Christian Scriptures in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls by A. Lange 9789042924550
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $96.81At October 28th, 2008, the University of Vienna awarded Emanuel Tov an honorary doctorate in recognition of a life dedicated to the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the textual histories of the... -
Micah by J.C. De Moor 9789042943636
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $184.17The book of Micah provides insight into the struggle of a prophet with his vocation in an extremely difficult time. The aggressive policies of Neo-Assyrian kings which... -
Music, Analysis, and the Body: Experiments, Explorations, and Embodiments by R. Thumpston 9789042936416
RRP: $249.90Booksplease Price: $235.66How do our embodied experiences of music shape our analysis, theorizing, and interpretation of musical texts, and our engagement with practices including composing,...