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  • The Typological Imaginary

    Circumcision, Technology, History

    by Kathleen Biddick ...
    In this book Kathleen Biddick investigates the fate of the enduring timelines fabricated by early Christians to distinguish themselves from their Jewish neighbors. Ranging widely across the history of text, technology, and book art, she relates three interwoven stories: the Christians' translation of circumcision into a graphic problem of writing on the heart; the temporal construction of ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • The Typological Imaginary

    Circumcision, Technology, History

    by Kathleen Biddick ...
    In this book Kathleen Biddick investigates the fate of the enduring timelines fabricated by early Christians to distinguish themselves from their Jewish neighbors. Ranging widely across the history of text, technology, and book art, she relates three interwoven stories: the Christians' translation of circumcision into a graphic problem of writing on the heart; the temporal construction of ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • The Shock of Medievalism

    by Kathleen Biddick, Joan Wallach Scott ...
    In The Shock of Medievalism Kathleen Biddick explores the nineteenth-century foundations of medieval studies as an academic discipline as well as certain unexamined contemporary consequences of these origins. By pairing debates over current academic trends and issues with innovative readings of medieval texts, Biddick exposes the presuppositions of the field of medieval studies and significantly ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • The Origins of Early Christian Literature

    Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture

    by Robyn Faith Walsh ...
    Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the gospel authors acted as literate spokespersons for their religious communities. Whether described as documenting intra-group 'oral traditions' or preserving the collective perspectives of their fellow Christ-followers, these writers are treated as something akin to the Romantic poet speaking for their Volk - a questionable framework ... Read more

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  • Theology for the Third Millennium

    An Ecumenical View

    by Hans Kung ...
    In "Theology for the Third Millennium," renowned theologian Hans Küng distills three decades of groundbreaking scholarship into a seminal work that reaffirms the enduring relevance of theology in our modern world.As religion faces constant questioning and frequent attacks, Küng's magnum opus offers a profound and intellectually rigorous defense of faith's place in contemporary discourse.This ... Read more

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  • Histories and Fallacies: Problems Faced in the Writing of History

    Problems Faced in the Writing of History

    by Carl R. Trueman ...
    How do we know the stories told by historians are true? To what extent can we rely on their interpretations of the past?Histories and Fallacies is a primer on the conceptual and methodological problems in the discipline of history. Historian Carl Trueman presents a series of classic historical problems as a way to examine what history is, what it means, and how it can be told and understood. Each ... Read more

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  • Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith

    A Dialogue

    by Gianni Vattimo, René Girard ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    The debate over the place of religion in secular, democratic societies dominates philosophical and intellectual discourse. These arguments often polarize around simplistic reductions, making efforts at reconciliation impossible. Yet more rational stances do exist, positions that broker a peace between relativism and religion in people's public, private, and ethical lives.Christianity, Truth, and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • ABC: The Alphabetizaton of the Popular Mind

    by Ivan Illich ...
    In ABC... philosopher and cultural analyst Ivan Illich and medieval scholar and literary critic Barry Sanders have produced an original, meticulous and provocative study of the advent, spread and present decline of literacy. They explore he impact of the alphabet on fundamental thought processes and attitudes, on memory, on political groupings and religous and cultural expectations. Their ... Read more

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  • Not Thinking like a Liberal

    by Raymond Geuss ...
    In a compelling meditation on the ideas that shape our lives, one of the world’s most provocative and creative philosophers explains how his eccentric early years influenced his lifelong critique of liberalism.Liberalism is so amorphous and pervasive that for most people in the West it is background noise, the natural state of affairs. But there are nooks and crannies in every society where the ... Read more

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  • The Journey of Modern Theology

    From Reconstruction to Deconstruction

    by Roger E. Olson ...
    Modernity has been an age of revolutions—political, scientific, industrial and philosophical. Consequently, it has also been an age of revolutions in theology, as Christians attempt to make sense of their faith in light of the cultural upheavals around them, what Walter Lippman once called the "acids of modernity." Modern theology is the result of this struggle to think responsibly about God ... Read more

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  • René Girard's Mimetic Theory

    by Wolfgang Palaver ...
    Series series Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
    A systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist René Girard, this essential text explains its three main pillars (mimetic desire, the scapegoat mechanism, and the Biblical “difference”) with the help of examples from literature and philosophy. This book also offers an overview of René Girard’s life and work, showing how ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD