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Thomism and Tolerance
ISBN: PB: 9781589662155, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, December 2010
130 pp., 21.5x13 cm
In this incisive study, John F. X. Knasas grounds the ideal of tolerance in Aquinas's natural law ethics and connects the virtue of civic tolerance to the concept of being. If God is the source of being, argues Knasas, then we are the articulation of...
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£15,00
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Sephardic Legacy Unique Features and Achievements
ISBN: PB: 9781589662056, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
275 pp., 23x15 cm
Fundamentally different from other more prominent, Jewish traditions and experiences, the Sephardic tradition has long served to bind together the various Jewish communities of the Mediterranean basin. In "The Sephardic Legacy", Henry Toledano immers...
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£20,00
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Law of Love From Autonomy to Communion
ISBN: PB: 9781589662070, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
180 pp., 21.5x13 cm
With an interdisciplinary combination of philosophy, theology, and family law, "The Law of Love" explores the impact of secular conceptions of autonomy on sexuality and family. Drawing from the thought of Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, and th...
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£13,50
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Vessel of Clay The Inspirational Journey of Sister Carla
ISBN: PB: 9781589662179, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
171 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
Jacqueline Hansen Maggiore presents in this volume the biography of her lifelong friend Carol Piette, known throughout Chile and El Salvador as Sister Carla. Drawing from the memories of those who knew her and excerpts from her letters and diaries, "...
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£13,50
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Archbishop Oscar Romero A Disciple Who Revealed the Glory of God
ISBN: PB: 9781589662117, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
During his lifetime, Archbishop Oscar Romero chose to live the Christian Gospel in a radical way, defending, supporting, and serving the poor, and confronting the oppressive and murderous violence of the Salvadoran dictatorship. As a result, in March...
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£13,50
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Next-Generation Leadership A Toolkit for Teens and Twenty- and Thirty-Year-Olds
ISBN: PB: 9781589662216, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
291 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Drawing on his five decades of leadership experience, William Byron outlines in this volume the theory, practice, and purpose of leadership. Intuition, humility, empathy, simplicity of lifestyle, and sound speaking and writing skills are all essentia...
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£20,00
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South Street Gang vs. the Coalcracker Cyclops
ISBN: PB: 9781589662087, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
151 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
When Bob Capek's mother is killed in a hit-and-run accident in 1956, his father moves the family from Virginia back to his hometown of Mauch Chunk, a small town in the middle of the eastern Pennsylvania anthracite coal region. From the moment Bob boa...
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£6,00
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Religion, Fundamentalism, and Violence An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
ISBN: PB: 9781589662049, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
312 pp., 23x15 cm
In "Religion, Fundamentalism, and Violence", Andrew Gluck brings together distinguished scholars to address a fiercely debated topic: the intersection of religion and violence. Among the contributions is an anthropological analysis of the violence as...
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£22,00
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Medieval Philosophy Redefined
ISBN: HB: 9781589662162, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
450 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm
With "Medieval Philosophy Redefined" John Deely provides an in-depth, original history of medieval philosophy, tracing a common thread that coherently unifies and defines what he calls "the Latin Age" – which reaches unbroken from the fifth-century w...
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£30,00
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Mysticism of Kindness The Lucie Christine Story
ISBN: PB: 9781589662063, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
270 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
On the surface, Lucie Christine – the pseudonym given to a nineteenth-century Frenchwoman named Mathilde Boutle – was a very ordinary upper-middle-class woman, fulfilling her daily responsibilities to her husband and children. But underneath, Lucie C...
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