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  • The Future of Christian Realism

    International Conflict, Political Decay, and the Crisis of Democracy

    by Dallas Gingles, Joshua Mauldin, Rebekah L. Miles, Nigel Biggar, John P. Burgess, William P. George, Luping Huang, Elisabeth R. Kincaid0, Nathan McLellan1, Douglas F. Ottati2, Frederick Simmons3, Yoshibumi Takahashi4, Todd Whitmore5, Robin W. Lovin6, Gary Dorrien7, Kevin Carnahan8, Eric Gregory9, Simeon O. Ilesanmi0, Gerald McKenny1, Peter J. Paris2, William Schweiker3 ...
    Series series Faith and Politics: Political Theology in a New Key
    In the world’s most developed democracies, anxiety about the future of democracy is palpable. The tension between moral aspiration and moral despair has reached a point of crisis. Christian realism arose during a similar time of crisis, when Reinhold Niebuhr used the insights of the Christian tradition to interpret the clash between democracy and totalitarianism.Beginning with Robin Lovin’s ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Finding Peace,Joy and Unity:A Bible Study on the Book of Philippians

    by A.J. Paris ...
    To any woman seeking encouragement, contentment, unity, true joy, and peace in times of trial, this is the Bible study for you! During this Bible study, we will study the life of Paul and the background to the book of Philippians. Then, we will study the book of Philippians verse by verse. During this study, you will come across the themes of perseverance during persecution, learn how to find true ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The History of the Riverside Church in the City of New York

    by Peter J. Paris, John W. Cook, James Hudnut-Beumler, Lawrence Mamiya ...
    Series series Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
    It was from the pulpit of the Riverside Church that Martin Luther King, Jr., first publicly voiced his opposition to the Vietnam War, that Nelson Mandela addressed U.S. church leaders after his release from prison, and that speakers as diverse as Cesar Chavez, Jesse Jackson, Desmond Tutu, Fidel Castro, and Reinhold Niebuhr lectured church and nation about issues of the day. The greatest of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • A Preface to Morals

    by Bernard J. Paris ...
    After an eloquent and moving analysis of what he sees as the disillusion of themodern age, Lippmann posits as the central dilemma of liberalism its inability to find an appropriate substitute for the older forms of authority-- church, state, class, family, law, custom--that it has denied. Lippmann attempts to find a way out of this chaos through the acceptance of a higher humanism and a way of ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Religion and Poverty

    Pan-African Perspectives

    by Peter J. Paris, Jacob Olupona, Katie Geneva Cannon, Barbara Bailey, Takatso A. Mofokeng ...
    A Ghanaian scholar of religion argues that poverty is a particularly complex subject in traditional African cultures, where holistic worldviews unite life’s material and spiritual dimensions. A South African ethicist examines informal economies in Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, and South Africa, looking at their ideological roots, social organization, and vulnerability to global capital. African American ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • African American Theological Ethics

    A Reader

    by Peter J. Paris, Julius Crump ...
    This volume in the Library of Theological Ethics series draws on writings from the early nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries to explore the intersection of black experience and Christian faith throughout the history of the United States. The first sections follow the many dimensions of the African American struggle with racism in this country: struggles against theories of white ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Character and Conflict in Jane Austen's Novels

    A Psychological Approach

    by Bernard J. Paris ...
    In Character and Conflict in Jane Austen's Novels , Bernard J. Paris offers an analysis of the protagonists in four of Jane Austen's most popular novels. His analysis reveals them to be brilliant mimetic creations who often break free of the formal and thematic limitations placed upon them by Austen. Paris traces the powerful tensions between form, theme, and mimesis in Mansfield Park , Emma , ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Heaven and Its Discontents

    Milton's Characters in Paradise Lost

    by Bernard J. Paris ...
    Many critics agree with C. S. Lewis that "Satan is the best drawn of Milton's characters". Satan is certainly a wonderful creation, but Adam and Eve are also complex and well-drawn, and God may be the most complicated character of all. Paradise Lost is above all God's story; it is his discontent, first with Lucifer and then with human beings, that drives the action from the beginning until his ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Bargains with Fate

    Psychological Crises and Conflicts in Shakespeare and His Plays

    by Maria Jarosz, Bernard J. Paris ...
    The enduring appeal of Shakespeare's works derives largely from the fact that they contain brilliantly drawn characters. Interpretations of these characters are products of changing modes of thought, and thus past explanations of their behavior, including Shakespeare's, no longer satisfy us. In this work, Bernard J. Paris, an eminent Shakespearean scholar, shows how Shakespeare endowed his tragic ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Psychotherapy in an Age of Narcissism

    Modernity, Science, and Society

    by J. Paris ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Adopting a friendly but critical approach to the talking therapies, this book places psychotherapy in a social and historical context, exploring its relationship to contemporary culture and recommending a different way of thinking about practice. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A General Drama of Pain

    Character and Fate in Hardy's Major Novels

    by Bernard J. Paris ...
    This motivational analysis of the protagonists in Thomas Hardy's three most widely read novels--Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Jude the Obscure--highlights an often-overlooked aspect of his art. Bernard J. Paris shows Hardy's genius in creating imagined human beings. He demonstrates that while Hardy tends to blame external conditions for his characters' painful fates, ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • A Psychological Approach to Fiction

    Studies in Thackeray, Stendhal, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, and Conrad

    by Bernard J. Paris ...
    "Psychology helps us to talk about what the novelist knows, but fiction helps us to know what the psychologist is talking about." So writes the author of this brilliant study. The chief impulse of realistic fiction is mimetic; novels of psychological realism call by their very nature for psychological analysis. This study uses psychology to analyze important characters and to explore the ... Read more

    $69.99 USD