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Author | : Jacques Bénigne Bossuet |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521368070 |
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This 1991 book was the first ever English rendition of the classic statement of divine right absolutism, published in 1707. Jacques-Benigne Bossuet argues in the Politics that a general society of the entire human race, governed by Christian charity, has given way (after the Fall) to the necessity of politcs, law, and absolute hereditary monarchy. That monarchy - seen as natural, universal and divinely ordained (beginning with David and Solomon) is defended in the first half of the book. The last part, added soon before Bossuet's death, goes on to take up the rights of the Church, the distinction between absolutism and arbitrariness, and causes of just war. Patrick Riley has provided full supporting materials including a chronology, guide to further reading, and a lucid introduction placing Bossuet in his historical and intellectual context.
Author | : Jacques Ellul |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2012-07-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 161097798X |
Download The Politics of God and the Politics of Man Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Man's freedom--God's omnipotence: how can they be reconciled? That question is central to this penetrating study of political action and the prophetic function. Ellul's answer to that question, though based on events recorded in the Second Book of Kings, is immediately relevant to contemporary issues and to the church today. Emerging from these reflections is an eloquent testimony to the immense love of God--"which not only creates and saves, but which also in its incomprehensible humility wants to associate man with its work."
Author | : Ira Katznelson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010-10-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139493175 |
Download Religion and the Political Imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The theory of secularisation became a virtually unchallenged truth of twentieth-century social science. First sketched out by Enlightenment philosophers, then transformed into an irreversible global process by nineteenth-century thinkers, the theory was given substance by the precipitate drop in religious practice across Western Europe in the 1960s. However, the re-emergence of acute conflicts at the interface between religion and politics has confounded such assumptions. It is clear that these ideas must be rethought. Yet, as this distinguished, international team of scholars reveal, not everything contained in the idea of secularisation was false. Analyses of developments since 1500 reveal a wide spectrum of historical processes: partial secularisation in some spheres has been accompanied by sacralisation in others. Utilising new approaches derived from history, philosophy, politics and anthropology, the essays collected in Religion and the Political Imagination offer new ways of thinking about the urgency of religious issues in the contemporary world.
Author | : Robert Filmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1685 |
Genre | : Monarchy |
ISBN | : |
Download Patriarcha; Or, The Natural Power of Kings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Joris van Eijnatten |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2009-01-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9047424875 |
Download Preaching, Sermon and Cultural Change in the Long Eighteenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The fourth volume in Brill’s series A New History of the Sermon, this study examines the sermon during the ‘long’ eighteenth century – the era between Bossuet and Schleiermacher. It offers a broad outline of the history of preaching in this period, an overview of the research over the past three decades, and suggestions for new approaches to the subject. Thematically, the book includes chapters on such topics as the theology of the eighteenth-century sermon, preachers' instructions, the sermon in daily life, delivery as a means of reaching congregations, and audience reception of preaching. It also pays ample attention to the three important religious and intellectual currents of the long eighteenth century: (Neo-)classicism, Pietism, and the Enlightenment. Contributors are Alexander Bitzel, Françoise Deconinck-Brossard, O.C. Edwards, Joris van Eijnatten, Sabine Holtz, Pasi Ihalainen, Herman Roodenburg, Jonathan Strom, and Thomas Worcester
Author | : Ernst von Dobschütz |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2022-09-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation" by Ernst von Dobschütz. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Els Agten |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2020-03-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004420223 |
Download The Catholic Church and the Dutch Bible Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Catholic Church and the Bible: From the Council of Trent to the Jansenist Controversy studies the impact of Jansenism and anti–Jansenism on vernacular Bible reading and Bible production in the Low Countries in the sixteent and seventeenth centuries.
Author | : Patrick Riley |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674524071 |
Download Leibniz' Universal Jurisprudence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For the first time Leibniz' political, moral, and legal thought are extensively discussed here in English. The text includes fragments of his work that have never before been translated. Riley shows that a justice based on both wisdom and love, "wise charity", has at least as much claim to be taken seriously as the familiar contractarian ideas of Hobbes and Locke. For Leibniz, nothing is more important than benevolence toward others, which he famously equates with justice and which he insists is morally crucial. Because Leibniz was the greatest Platonist of early modernity, Riley argues, his version of Platonic idealism serves as the bridge from Plato himself to the greatest modern "critical" idealist, Kant. With Leibniz' Universal Jurisprudence we now have a fuller picture of one of the greatest general thinkers of the seventeenth century.
Author | : Jan-Hendrik Passoth |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2012-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136851267 |
Download Agency Without Actors? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Agency without Actors? New Approaches to collective Action is rethinking a key issue in social theory and research: the question of agency. The history of sociological thought is deeply intertwined with the discourse of human agency as an effect of social relations. In most recent discussions the role of non-humans gains a substantial impact. Consequently the book asks: Are nonhumans active, do they have agency? And if so: how and in what different ways? The volume offers a critical state-of-the-art debate of internationally and nationally leading scholars within Sociology, Social Anthropology and STS on agency (Latour, Law, Michael, Rammert etc.). It fosters the productive exchange of empirical settings and theoretical views by outlining a wide range of novel accounts that link human and non-human agency. It tries to understand social-technical, political and environmental networks as different forms of agency that produce discrete and identifiable entities like humans, animals, technical artifacts. It also asks how different types of (often conflicting) agency and agents actors are distinguished in practice, how they are maintained and how they interfere with each other"--
Author | : François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1994-09-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780521456623 |
Download Telemachus, Son of Ulysses Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fénelon's Telemachus (1699) is, alongside Bossuet's Politics, the most important work of political theory of the grand siècle in France. It was also the most widely read work of the time, influencing Montesquieu and Rousseau in its attempt to combine monarchism with republican virtues. Fénelon tells of the moral and political education of Telemachus, young son of Ulysses, by his tutor Mentor (the goddess Minerva in disguise). Telemachus visits every corner of the Mediterranean world and learns patience, courage, modesty and simplicity, the qualities he will need when he succeeds Ulysses as King of Ithaca. It is the story of the transformation of an egoistic young man into a model ruler, and is meant (among other things) as a commentary on the bellicosity and luxuriousness of Louis XIV. The present English edition follows closely that of Tobias Smollett published in 1776.