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Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0851158196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The result is a full and wide-ranging narrative account of St. Augustine's thinking on the human condition, justice, the State, slavery, private property and war. This comprehensive sourcebook will be of value to students of St. Augustine at all levels."--Jacket.
Author: Miles Hollingworth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-06-25
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0567653307
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book Miles Hollingworth investigates how Augustine's understanding of discipleship causes him to resist the normal tendencies of Western political thinkers. On the one hand, he does not attempt to delineate an ideal state in the classical fashion: to his mind, the Garden of Eden can be an archetype for nothing on earth. And on the other hand, he does not seek to achieve an ideological perspective on the proper relations between Church and State. In fact his Pilgrim City is shown to lie beyond utopianism, realism and the normal terms of political discourse. It stands, instead, as a singular challenge to the aspirations of politics in the West; and so standing it calls for a reassessment of his position in the history of political thought. This book will be of interest to theologians as well as historians of political thought. It will also appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of ideas.
Author: John D. Spalding
Publisher: Harmony
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It's a long, strange journey to paradise, and often hilarious one, if you bravely follow the road less traveled--wherever it leads. John D. Spalding certainly has. In this smart and insightful collection, Spalding, Beliefnet.com's popular offbeat humorist, wanders America as a modern-day "pilgrim" seeking the Celestial City. Loosely organizing his comic misadventures according to John Bunyan's classic The Pilgrim's Progress, Spalding describes how he spent three days as a street preacher in Times Square ("Excuse me, sir, did you know you're going to hell?"); went to the mat (conversationally) with Omega and Apocalypse, two mainstays of the Christian Wrestling Federation; and visited a man who, practicing the art of trepanation, drilled a hole in his head to make himself permanently happy. He also experienced his own funeral, courtesy of the Dying-to-Get-In Company. Like Christian, Bunyan's beleaguered pilgrim, Spalding never knows who is waiting around the next bend. On his journey, he finds himself at the mercy of rebirthing therapists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Mormon missionaries, and in the company of a psychic "ghost counselor," America's luckiest (and perhaps divinely blessed) lottery winner, and a mysterious, barefoot holy man named Whatsyourname. Finally, he makes an ancient, five-hundred-mile pilgrimage across Spain, during which he learns what it truly means to be a pilgrim. Funny, wry, and revealing, the stories in A Pilgrim's Digress describe Spalding's satirical quest for the righteous path and what he discovers about the spiritual zeitgeist along the way.
Author: George Weigel
Publisher: Image
Published: 2015-10-27
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0553418904
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Karol Wojtyła, Pope John Paul II, was a man whose life was the expression of a richly textured and multidimensional soul. The many layers of that soul took on their first, mature form in Kraków.” – George Weigel In this beautifully illustrated spiritual travelogue, New York Times bestselling author George Weigel leads readers through the historic streets of Kraków, Poland, introducing one of the world’s great cities through the life of one of the most influential Catholic leaders of all time. “To follow Karol Wojtyła through Kraków is to follow an itinerary of sanctity while learning the story of a city.” Weigel writes. “Thus, in what follows, the story of Karol Wojtyła, St. John Paul II, and the story of Kraków are interwoven in a chronological pilgrimage through the life of a saint that reveals, at the same time, the dramatic history and majestic culture of a city where a boy grew into a man, priest, a bishop—and an apostle to the world.” With stunning photographs by Stephen Weigel and notes on the city’s remarkable fabric by Carrie Gress, City of Saints offers an in-depth look at a man and a city that made an indelible impression on the life and thought of the Catholic Church and the 21st century world.
Author: Rosemary Mahoney
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2004-05
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780618446650
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An "enlightening but also very funny" (Paul Theroux) account of one woman's personal quest to find the roots of belief among modern religious pilgrims.
Author: BookCaps
Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides
Published: 2013-08-29
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1621076474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →John Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress” is one of the greatest allegories ever written. One of the worlds great classics. The fact that it is a classic doesn’t mean every reader will breeze through it with no problem at all. If you need just a little more help with Bunyan’s classic, then let BookCaps help with this simplified study guide! This book contains a comprehension study of Bunyan’s classic work (including chapter summaries for every chapter, and an overview of themes and characters). This edition does not include the novel. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.
Author: Stefan Paas
Publisher: SCM Press
Published: 2019-11-30
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0334058791
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What does “missional” mean for small Christian communities in a deeply secular society? Leading missiologist Stefan Paas asks what missional spirituality could possibly mean for today’s local church. This fully revised new international edition will make this an important introduction to contemporary thinking on mission and the church.
Author: Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)
Publisher:
Published: 1947
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13:
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