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Early Christian Creeds by J.N.D. Kelly 9780582492196
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €70.61A comprehensive study of the rise, development and use of credal formulaines in the creative centuries of the Church's history.About the AuthorJ.N.D. Kelly Principal of St Edmund Hall,... -
Being Christian in Vandal Africa: The Politics of Orthodoxy in the Post-Imperial West by Robin Whelan 9780520295957
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €75.72Being Christian in Vandal Africa investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom-the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, ca. 439 to 533 CE. Exploiting neglected texts,... -
The Greater and Lesser Worlds of Robert Fludd: Macrocosm, Microcosm, and Medicine by Joscelyn Godwin 9781620559499
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €36.64An illustrated reference book on a seminal figure of occult philosophy and Renaissance thought * Explains Fludd's thoughts on cosmic harmonies, divination, the kabbalah, astrology, geomancy, alchemy,... -
Mapping Atonement: The Doctrine of Reconciliation in Christian History and Theology by William G. Witt
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €20.06Southwestern Journal of Theology 2022 Book Award (Honorable Mention, Theological Studies) This introduction traces the origins, development, and divergent streams of atonement theology throughout... -
The Life and Regimen of the Blessed and Holy Syncletica: Part Two: A Study of the Life by Mary Schaffer 9781597524445
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €19.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597524445Author Pseudo-AthanasiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Wipf & Stock... -
Doctrine and Power: Theological Controversy and Christian Leadership in the Later Roman Empire by Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €38.14During the fourth century a.d., theological controversy divided Christian communities throughout the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. At stake was not only the truth about God but also the authority... -
Doctrina Christiana: The Timeless Catechism of St. Robert Bellarmine by St Robert Bellarmine S J 9780692758908
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692758908Author Athanasius SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Mediatrix PressPublisher... -
On the Incarnation by Community of S Mary the Virgin 9781629116792
Booksplease Price: €12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629116792Author Saint Athanasius of AlexandraFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Whitaker... -
Interpretations of History: From Confucius to Toynbee by Alban Gregory Widgery
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €43.17In this volume, originally published in 1961, the author presents an exposition of the meanings given to history. Part 1 describes the conceptions of history impied in wide-spread religions and... -
Doctrine and Power: Theological Controversy and Christian Leadership in the Later Roman Empire by Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho 9780520257399
RRP: €74.97Booksplease Price: €67.31During the fourth century A.D., theological controversy divided Christian communities throughout the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. Not only was the truth about God at stake, but also the... -
Clothes and Monasticism in Ancient Christian Egypt: A New Perspective on Religious Garments by Ingvild Saelid Gilhus 9780367505486
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66This book is an exploration of the ideals and values of the ascetic and monastic life, as expressed through clothes. Clothes are often seen as an extension of us as humans, a determinant of who we... -
Luther by Michael Mullett
RRP: €55.92Booksplease Price: €50.77Luther provides a clear exposition of the state of German politics on the eve of the Reformation. Dr Mullett concentrates particularly on the evolution of Luther's thought and its central... -
The Wisdom of Egypt: Changing Visions Through the Ages Peter J Ucko 9781598742084
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.57The Wisdom of Egypt examines the sources of evidence about Ancient Egypt available to scholars, and the changing visions of Egypt and of Egypt's role in human history that they produced. Its scope... -
The Absolute Power Complex from Constantine to Stalin: The Collective Unconscious of Catholic and Orthodox Countries Mino Vianello 9781138598294
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €43.17In The Absolute Power Complex from Constantine to Stalin: The Collective Unconscious of Catholic and Orthodox Countries Mino Vianello advances a new hermeneutical paradigm in analyzing why... -
Jesuit Science and the End of Nature's Secrets Mark A. Waddell 9781032926810
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €44.20Jesuit Science and the End of Nature's Secrets explores how several prominent Jesuit naturalists - including NiccolA(2) Cabeo, Athanasius Kircher, and Gaspar Schott - tackled the problem of occult or... -
Revisiting Christianity: Theological Reflections Marius C. Felderhof 9781409406730
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €35.09This book presents a view of Christianity and Christian thinking that draws on some key thinkers from Plato to Wittgenstein and represents a thoughtful 'common sense' theology offered as an... -
Irenaeus's Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching: A Theological Commentary and Translation by Iain M. MacKenzie 9781138717763
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €38.13This title was first published in 2002. The theology of Irenaeus, and the Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching in particular, is pivotal in showing the way in which the fathers of the church... -
Faith and Logic: Oxford Essays in Philosophical Theology by Basil Mitchell
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.29When this book was originally published in 1957 there had been lively debates on the air and in the press about the bearing of modern philosophy upon Christianity, but there had been relatively... -
Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine by Khaled Anatolios
Booksplease Price: €36.94Khaled Anatolios, a noted expert on the development of Nicene theology, offers a historically informed theological study of the development of the doctrine of the Trinity, showing its relevance to... -
Irenaeus's Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching: A Theological Commentary and Translation by Iain M. MacKenzie 9781138717770
RRP: €154.70Booksplease Price: €136.48This title was first published in 2002. The theology of Irenaeus, and the Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching in particular, is pivotal in showing the way in which the fathers of the church... -
A John Donne Companion by Robert H. Ray
RRP: €148.75Booksplease Price: €131.73First published in 1990, this title provides a compendium of useful information for any reader of Donne to have at hand: crucial biographical material, historical contextualisation, and details about... -
Insular Destinies: Perspectives on the history and politics of modern Cyprus Paschalis Kitromilides 9781032085296
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74In this collection, an eminent authority on the history of political thought and on the intellectual history of modern Hellenism employs his twin academic specializations in political science and in... -
The Burning Saints: Cognition and Culture in the Fire-walking Rituals of the Anastenaria Dimitris Xygalatas 9781138108219
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.30The Anastenaria are Orthodox Christians in Northern Greece who observe a unique annual ritual cycle focused on two festivals, dedicated to Saint Constantine and Saint Helen. The festivals involve... -
Christianity in the Land of the Pharaohs: The Coptic Orthodox Church by Jill Kamil
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €63.00The Copts - the indigenous Christians of Egypt - declared their independence from Byzantine Christianity when they appointed their own patriarchs in the sixth century. Jill Kamil has written an... -
Insular Destinies: Perspectives on the history and politics of modern Cyprus by Paschalis Kitromilides 9780815356608
RRP: €154.70Booksplease Price: €137.65In this collection, an eminent authority on the history of political thought and on the intellectual history of modern Hellenism employs his twin academic specializations in political science and in... -
Revisiting Christianity: Theological Reflections by Dr. Marius C. Felderhof 9781409406723
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €103.88This book presents a view of Christianity and Christian thinking that draws on some key thinkers from Plato to Wittgenstein and represents a thoughtful 'common sense' theology offered as an... -
FOG BOUND: The Cloud & Silver Linings: 2023 by Anthony Caine 9791220140126
Booksplease Price: €20.36A university historian from Toulouse takes a trip to the Mount Athos peninsula in Greece with the purpose of writing a book on Athanasius the Athonite, builder of the Great Lavra Monastery. Intending... -
The Art of Discovery: Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe Maren Elisabeth Schwab 9780691237169
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.09A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledgeIn the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the... -
Creating Modern Athens: A Capital Between East and West by Denis Roubien
RRP: €78.53Booksplease Price: €69.48Athens is a well-known destination for those interested in discovering the birthplace of Western civilization. Its ancient monuments have been the model for innumerable buildings and works of art all... -
The Art of Discovery: Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe by Maren Elisabeth Schwab
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €28.00A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledgeIn the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the... -
The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope by Catherine Wilson
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €38.95In the seventeenth century the microscope opened up a new world of observation, and, according to Catherine Wilson, profoundly revised the thinking of scientists and philosophers alike. The interior... -
No Greater Love: The Story of Michael Crescenz, Philadelphia's Only Medal of Honor Recipient from the Vietnam War by John A. Siegfried
RRP: €39.21Booksplease Price: €29.13Michael Crescenz grew up in one of Philadelphia's booming post-war Catholic neighbourhoods, distinguishing himself early on as a leader, brother and friend who fearlessly rose to the defense of... -
The Devil's Tabernacle: The Pagan Oracles in Early Modern Thought by Anthony Ossa-Richardson 9780691157115
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €41.11The Devil's Tabernacle is the first book to examine in depth the intellectual and cultural impact of the oracles of pagan antiquity on modern European thought. Anthony Ossa-Richardson shows how the... -
Partaking of God: Trinity, Evolution, and Ecology by Denis Edwards 9780814682524
Booksplease Price: €25.99The natural world around us is in crisis. We know it has a dynamic, evolutionary character. How might we understand this world in relationship to God?Partaking of God builds on the foundations of the... -
The Life of Antony, The Coptic Life and The Greek Life by Tim Vivian 9780879079024
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €33.67An Encomium on Saint Anthony by John of Schmun A letter to the Disciples of Antony by Serapion of ThmuisInstrumental in the conversion of many, including St. Augustine, The Life of Antony provided... -
Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence by Roland Greene 9780691630779
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €116.98Post-Petrarchism offers a theoretical study of lyric poetry through one of its most long-lived and widely practiced models: the lyric sequence, originated by Francis Petrarch in his Canzoniere of the... -
The New Map of the World: The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Giuseppe Mazzotta 9780691600772
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.49For today's readers, the great Italian philosopher of history Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) can be startlingly relevant to the social and educational divisiveness we confront at century's end: here... -
Yellow: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau 9780691198255
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €36.30From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the presentIn this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau-a renowned authority on the history of... -
Fields of Play in Modern Drama by Thomas R. Whitaker 9780691607726
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €36.06Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches thirteen plays, from Ibsen's Rosmersholm to Beckett's Endgame and Stoppard's... -
The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture by Jonathan Sheehan 9780691130699
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €37.12How did the Bible survive the Enlightenment? In this book, Jonathan Sheehan shows how Protestant translators and scholars in the eighteenth century transformed the Bible from a book justified by...