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  • Augustine and Ethics

    by Sean Hannan, Kim Paffenroth, Toni Alimi, Margaret Atkins, Paul A. Camacho, Colleen Campbell, Thomas Clemmons, Fábio Dalpra, Hans Feichtinger0, Ron Haflidson1, Wendy Elgersma Helleman2, Daniel T. Kim3, Rebecca Makas4, Rachel Matheson5, Veronica Roberts Ogle6, Matthew Puffer7, Makiko Sato8, Sarah Stewart-Kroeker9, Ian Clausen0, Vincent Lloyd1 ...
    Series series Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation
    Augustine and Ethics examines the topic of ethics in the life and works of Augustine of Hippo. Adopting a global perspective on ethics as a field of philosophical and theological investigation, this volume includes reflections on virtue and vice, love and sin, and the political outcomes to which certain ethical stances tend to give rise. For Augustine himself, ethics was never merely theoretical. ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Slaves of God

    Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics

    by Toni Alimi ...
    A provocative look at the central role of slavery in Augustine’s religious, ethical, and political thoughtAugustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context. Slaves of God provides a major reassessment of this monumental figure in the Western religious and political tradition, tracing the remarkably close ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • The Hebrew Republic

    Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought

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  • Imagine No Religion

    How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities

    by Carlin A. Barton, Daniel Boyarin ...
    "Shed[s] new light on the fascinating transformations of these words [religio, threskeia] in the shadow of Roman imperial power." —Brent Nongbri, award-winning author of God's LibraryWhat do we fail to see when we force other, earlier cultures into the Procrustean bed of concepts that organize our contemporary world? In Imagine No Religion, Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin map the myriad ... Read more

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  • Integralism

    A Manual of Political Philosophy

    by Alan Fimister, Thomas Crean ...
    Integralism is the application to the temporal, political order of the full implications of the revelation of man's supernatural end in Christ and of the divinely established means by which it is to be attained. These implications are identified by means of the philosophia perennis exemplified in the fundamental principles of St Thomas Aquinas. Since the first principle in moral philosophy is the ... Read more

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  • Hobbes: On the Citizen

    by Thomas Hobbes ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all time. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have undertaken the first complete translation since 1651, a rendition long thought (in error) to be at least sanctioned by Hobbes himself. On the Citizen is written in a clear, straightforward, expository style, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

    Edited by Catherine Steel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became ... Read more

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  • In Defense of Latin in the Mass

    The Case for the Church's Timeless Liturgical Language

    by Pope Benedict XIV ...
    For centuries, the use of Latin in the liturgy has been under attack.In these pages, Pope Benedict XIV (1675–1758) offers a convincing defense for the use of Latin as the normative liturgical language in the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church. Although the attacks over the use of Latin in Pope Benedict XIV's time stemmed primarily from the Protestant schism, the objections today are very similar. ... Read more

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  • The Last Pagans of Rome

    by Alan Cameron ...
    Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity. It is indeed widely believed that a largely pagan aristocracy remained a powerful and active force well into the fifth century, sponsoring pagan literary circles, patronage of the ... Read more

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  • Major Works, Volume I - Imperium Press

    by Joseph de Maistre ...
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    Joseph de Maistre is one of the greatest of all reactionary thinkers, and in this volume, three of his principal works are brought together unabridged.A leading voice defending the traditional order of throne and altar, Maistre distinguished himself as a political commentator in Considerations on France, showing the French Revolution to have been a disaster by his panoramic view of history and ... Read more

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    Capitalizing on the rich historical record of late antiquity, and employing sophisticated methodologies from social and economic history, this book reinterprets the end of Roman slavery. Kyle Harper challenges traditional interpretations of a transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages, arguing instead that a deep divide runs through 'late antiquity', separating the Roman slave system from its ... Read more

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