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  • The Greatest Cities of Ancient Mesopotamia

    The History of Babylon, Nineveh, Ur, Uruk, Persepolis, Hattusa, and Assur

    Edited by Charles River Editors ...
    In southern Iraq, a crushing silence hangs over the dunes. For nearly 5,000 years, the sands of the Iraqi desert have held the remains of the oldest known civilization: the Sumerians. When American archaeologists discovered a collection of cuneiform tablets in Iraq in the late 19th century, they were confronted with a language and a people who were at the time only scarcely known to even the most ... Read more

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  • The Holy Trinity

    Hans Urs Von Balthasar and His Sources

    by Katy Leamy ...
    This book explores the ways in which Balthasar employs and adapts the thought of Sergei Bulgakov with the Trinitarian theology of Thomas Aquinas to form a kenotic Trinitarian theology that is based on the notion of Personhood as a relation of self-donating love. When we look at Balthasar's Trinitarian theology in light of Bulgakov, and particularly as a rereading of Bulgakov in light of a ... Read more

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  • The Authority of the Saints

    Drawing on the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar

    Pauline Dimech explores whether and to what extent we may attribute authority to the saints, but also how we may ensure that it is the saints, and not the scoundrels, whose influence persists and whose memory endures. The thing that drives her research is the thought that history is full of examples of individuals who held positions of official authority that they did not deserve. Dimech is ... Read more

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  • Christ and Analogy

    The Christocentric Metaphysics of Hans Urs von Balthasar

    Series series Emerging Scholars
    As one of the pillars of the nouvelle thologie movement, a main influence upon the Second Vatican Council, and one of the few figures to complete a full-scale multi-volume systematics, Hans Urs von Balthasar is undoubtedly one of the towering figures of twentieth-century theology. Until now, the structural undergirding of von Balthasars main contribution, a weighty 15-volume, three-part triptych ... Read more

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  • Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought

    In Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought, Jennifer Newsome Martin offers the first systematic treatment and evaluation of the Swiss Catholic theologian’s complex relation to modern speculative Russian religious philosophy. Her constructive analysis proceeds through Balthasar’s critical reception of Vladimir Soloviev, Nicholai Berdyaev, and Sergei ... Read more

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  • Saving Karl Barth

    Hans Urs von Balthasar's Preoccupation

    Challenging recent rejections of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s groundbreaking study of Karl Barth’s theology, Stephen Long argues that these interpreters are myopically impatient with the nuances of Balthasar’s reading of Barth and fail to appreciate the longstanding theological friendship that perdured. Even more, current readings threaten to repristinate the embattled divide hallmarking Protestant ... Read more

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  • Ascending the Sacred Steps

    The Great Ziggurat of Ur and Mesopotamia’s Celestial Legacy

    Series Book 6 - Forgotten wonders of ancient civilization
    Before pyramids touched the sky, humanity climbed the stars.Rising from the plains of ancient Mesopotamia, the Great Ziggurat of Ur was more than a monument of mud brick and stone—it was a gateway between heaven and earth, where priests measured the movements of the moon, tracked planets, and shaped the earliest foundations of science, religion, and civilization itself.In Ascending the Sacred ... Read more

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    His Life and Essential Sayings

    by Urs App ...
    A modern Zen classic--reissued with new material: An introduction to the great tenth-century Chinese master, with translations of his key works.Yunmen Wenyan (c. 864–949) was a master of the Chinese Zen (Chan) tradition and one of the most influential teachers in its history, showing up in many famous koans—in one of which he’s credited with the famous line, “Every day is a good day.” His ... Read more

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  • Ìmpireachd (Scottish Gaelic)

    Theres a sense in which Empire (Impireachd) is based on the interweaving of the two journeys, of son and father. The author has an unusual gift for persuading us we are present with him within the narrative, whether on the Lewis machair or on the streets of New York and Chicago before the Great Depression, in present-day Iran or in Dungavel detention centre. Such sustained and vibrant attention to ... Read more

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  • Morgan Hill

    Series series Images of America
    Morgan Hill lies at the foot of stately El Toro Mountain in southern Santa Clara Valley. Martin Murphy Sr. settled here in 1845, and only a generation later the Murphy family had managed to acquire 70,000 acres. Martin�s son Daniel owned over a million acres in the western United States when his only daughter, the beautiful Diana, secretly married Hiram Morgan Hill in 1882. Hiram and Diana ... Read more

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  • Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

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    by Jomny Sun ...
    The chronicle of a lonely alien sent to observe Earth, based on the beloved Twitter account by the New York Times–bestselling author and illustrator.Here is the unforgettable story of Jomny, an alien sent to study Earth. Always feeling apart, even among his species, Jomny feels at home for the first time among the earthlings he meets. There is a bear tired of other creatures running in fear, an ... Read more

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  • Sephardic Jews in America

    A Diasporic History

    by Aviva Ben-Ur ...
    A significant number of Sephardic Jews, tracing their remote origins to Spain and Portugal, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans from 1880 through the 1920s, joined by a smaller number of Mizrahi Jews arriving from Arab lands. Most Sephardim settled in New York, establishing the leading Judeo-Spanish community outside the Ottoman Empire. With their distinct ... Read more

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