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  • Christianity and the Contest for Manhood in Late Antiquity

    The Cappadocian Fathers and the Rhetoric of Masculinity

    by Nathan D. Howard ...
    In this book, Nathan Howard explores gender and identity formation in fourth-century Cappadocia, where pro-Nicene bishops used a rhetoric of contest that aligned with conventions of classical Greek masculinity. Howard demonstrates that epistolary exhibitions served as 'a locus for' asserting manhood in the fourth century. These performances illustrate how a culture of orality that had defined ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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    Conversions and Confessions

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    A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographiesAugustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which continues to delight its many admirers. In it he writes about his infancy and his schooling in the classics in late Roman North ... Read more

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  • Hypatia

    The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher

    by Edward J. Watts ...
    Series series Women in Antiquity
    A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following her murder, by a mob of Christians, Hypatia has been remembered in books, poems, plays, paintings, and films as a victim of religious intolerance whose death symbolized the end of the Classical world. But Hypatia was a person before she was a symbol. Her ... Read more

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  • Orthodoxy & Catholicism: A Comparison

    by Dave Armstrong ...
    It has been my strong desire for some time now to revise my book in order to emphasize ecumenism and unity proportionately a lot more than in the first (2004) edition. I'm much more interested in finding common ground. I've also learned a thing or two about Orthodoxy over the past decade. I wanted this volume to be able to read by Orthodox and also Eastern Catholics, without having seizures or ... Read more

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  • Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae

    A Biography

    by Bernard McGinn ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    The life and times of the most important theological work of medieval ChristendomThis concise book tells the story of the most important theological work of the Middle Ages, the vast Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, which holds a unique place in Western religion and philosophy. Written between 1266 and 1273, the Summa was conceived by Aquinas as an instructional guide for teachers and novices ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Medieval Philosophy

    From 500 CE to 1500 CE

    by Brian Duignan ...
    Series series The History of Philosophy
    Philosophers of the Middle Ages endeavored to reconcile two seemingly incompatible concepts: religion and reason. By drawing extensively from the work of their predecessors, like Plato and Aristotle, medieval philosophers were able to find logical bases for their theological beliefs, thus using rationality to better comprehend their faith. This fascinating volume looks at the individuals who ... Read more

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  • An Unfinished Council

    Vatican II, Pope Francis, and the Renewal of Catholicism

    by Richard R. Gaillardetz ...
    The Second Vatican Council has become an indispensable reference point for understanding Roman Catholicism today. Yet in spite of its impact, Vatican II was in many ways an unfinished council. The council bishops were able to establish key pillars in the construction of a new vision for the church of our time, but, for various reasons, they were not able to draw those pillars together into a ... Read more

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  • Between Pagan and Christian

    by Christopher Prestige Jones ...
    For the early Christians, “pagan” referred to a multitude of unbelievers: Greek and Roman devotees of the Olympian gods, and “barbarians” such as Arabs and Germans with their own array of deities. But while these groups were clearly outsiders or idolaters, who and what was pagan depended on the outlook of the observer, as Christopher Jones shows in this fresh and penetrating analysis. Treating ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Christian Women in the Patristic World

    Their Influence, Authority, and Legacy in the Second through Fifth Centuries

    by Amy Brown Hughes, Lynn Cohick ...
    **A Top Ten Book for Parish Ministry in 2017, Academy of Parish ClergyA** Jesus Creed 2017 Book of the Year (Honorable Mention)From facing wild beasts in the arena to governing the Roman Empire, Christian women--as preachers and philosophers, martyrs and empresses, virgins and mothers--influenced the shape of the church in its formative centuries. This book provides in a single volume a nearly ... Read more

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  • Receiving the Council

    Theological and Canonical Insights and Debates

    by Ladislas Orsy SJ ...
    Vatican II was a seminal council, both an end and a beginning. It left behind intuitive perceptions in need of precise articulation and pointed to theological values in need of structural support. Bearing in mind that Vatican II was the conclusion of one era and the opening of another, Ladislas Orsy insists that the task of the church is to continue 'with both creative insights and critical ... Read more

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  • The Making of Martin Luther

    by Richard Rex ...
    A major new account of the most intensely creative years of Luther's careerThe Making of Martin Luther takes a provocative look at the intellectual emergence of one of the most original and influential minds of the sixteenth century. Richard Rex traces how, in a concentrated burst of creative energy in the few years surrounding his excommunication by Pope Leo X in 1521, this lecturer at an obscure ... Read more

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  • Byzantine Intersectionality

    Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages

    by Roland Betancourt ...
    A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term “intersectionality” was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia. Byzantine Intersectionality reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around sexual and reproductive consent, bullying and slut-shaming, homosocial and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD