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“margaret toscano”

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  • Hell and its Afterlife

    Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

    by Margaret Toscano ...
    The notion of an infernal place of punishment for 'undesired' elements in human culture and human nature has a long history both as religious idea and as cultural metaphor. This book brings together a wide array of scholars who examine hell as an idea within the Christian tradition and its 'afterlife' in historical and contemporary imagination. Leading scholars grapple with the construction and ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

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    The Story That Created Us

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    **“Endlessly illuminating and a sheer pleasure to read.” —Jack Miles, author of God: A BiographyDaring to take the great biblical account of human origins seriously, but without credulity.**The most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, acclaimed ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • A History of Reading

    by Alberto Manguel ...
    In this marvelous book, acclaimed around the world, Alberto Manguel takes us on a fascinating exploration of what it means to be a reader of books. A History of Reading is a brilliant reminder of why we cherish the act of reading—despite distractions throughout the ages, from the Inquisition to the lures of cyberspace. He shows us what happens when we read; who we become; and how reading teaches ... Read more

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  • Satan: A Biography

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    by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart ...
    The Devil, like the poor, is always with us. Evil has been personified in every religion and culture, and Christianity in particular developed a highly graphic view of him from its earliest period. Sometimes grotesque, sometimes beautiful, sometimes threatening, sometimes seductively helpful, sometimes comical, Satan has played a variety of roles in human existence.Feared and frightening adversary ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits

    Traditional Belief and Folklore in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Kathryn A. Edwards ...
    Series series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
    Bringing together scholars from Europe, America, and Australia, this volume explores the more fantastic elements of popular religious belief: ghosts, werewolves, spiritualism, animism, and of course, witchcraft. These traditional religious beliefs and practices are frequently treated as marginal in more synthetic studies of witchcraft and popular religion, yet Protestants and Catholics alike saw ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Generating Traces in the History of the World

    New Traces of the Christian Experience

    by Luigi Giussani, Stefano Alberto, Javier Prades ...
    Generating Traces in the History of the World is a synthesis of Monsignor Luigi Giussani's reflection on the Christian experience. His exploration of Christianity as an unforeseen and unforeseeable event in which the mystery became a man reveals how, by acknowledging this fact, an individual is simultaneously able to use reason and be moved by affection. Discussing the ways in which Christ ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Contemplating the Trinity: The Pat to the Abundant Christian Life

    by Raniero Cantalamessa OFM CAP ...
    Unity, joy, simplicity, beauty, truth-these are the hallmarks of the three Persons in one God, the Trinity. In Contemplating the Trinity, Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, the preacher to the papal household, invites readers to turn to the Trinity so that they can enter into and experience the relationship of love that the divine Persons share with one another. Convinced that Christians today need a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

    by John Boswell ...
    Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but sanctified them--in ceremonies strikingly similar to heterosexual marriage ceremonies. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Will Many Be Saved

    What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization

    by Martin, Ralph ...
    The question of whether and how people who have not had the chance to hear the gospel can be saved goes back to the beginnings of Christian reflection. It has also become a much-debated topic in current theology. In Will Many Be Saved? Ralph Martin focuses primarily on the history of debate and the development of responses to this question within the Roman Catholic Church, but much of Martin's ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Virgin Mary and Theology of the Body

    by Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC ...
    The Church’s Marian beliefs have constantly shed light on other teachings, and the Theology of the Body is no exception. In this compilation of essays, some of the world’s most foremost Mariologists and experts on the Theology of the Body share their insights on how Mary illuminates the message of the Theology of the Body in a profound way.As the Mother of God, Mary provided Jesus with His body, a ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD

  • Discerning Spirits

    Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages

    by Nancy Mandeville Caciola ...
    Series series Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
    Trance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting, and other physical manifestations were often regarded as signs that a person was seized by spirits. In a book that sets out the prehistory of the early modern European witch craze, Nancy Caciola shows how medieval people decided whom to venerate as a saint infused with the spirit of God and whom to avoid as a demoniac possessed of an unclean spirit ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • A Very Brief History of Eternity

    by Carlos Eire ...
    From the author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, a brilliant cultural history of the idea of eternityWhat is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by priest and scientist alike, and an essential element in all human relations?In A Very Brief History of Eternity, Carlos ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD