LIBROS DEL AUTOR: davies oliver

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  • Milton’s Socratic Rationalism
    David Oliver Davies
    Milton's Socratic Rationalism focuses on the influence of Milton's years of private study of classical authors, chiefly Plato, Xenophon and Aristotle, on Paradise Lost. It examines the conversations of Adam and Eve as a mode of discourse closely aligned to practices of Socrates in the dialogues of Plato and eponymous discourses of Xenophon. ...
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    56,72 €

  • Milton’s Socratic Rationalism
    David Oliver Davies
    Milton's Socratic Rationalism focuses on the influence of Milton's years of private study of classical authors, chiefly Plato, Xenophon and Aristotle, on Paradise Lost. It examines the conversations of Adam and Eve as a mode of discourse closely aligned to practices of Socrates in the dialogues of Plato and eponymous discourses of Xenophon. ...
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    122,40 €

  • Shakespeare’s Fathers and Daughters
    Oliver Ford Davies
    A theme that obsessed Shakespeare in over 20 plays from Titus Andronicus to The Tempest was the relationship between a daughter and her father. This study traces chronologically the development of this theme, relating it to the little we know of his own two daughters, and sheds new light on his exploration of the family that so dominated his approach to drama. Drawing on a life...
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    45,97 €

  • Shakespeare’s Fathers and Daughters
    Oliver Ford Davies
    A theme that obsessed Shakespeare in over 20 plays from Titus Andronicus to The Tempest was the relationship between a daughter and her father. This study traces chronologically the development of this theme, relating it to the little we know of his own two daughters, and sheds new light on his exploration of the family that so dominated his approach to drama. Drawing on a life...
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    167,48 €

  • A Theology of Compassion
    Oliver Davies
    The wholesale rejection of metaphysics today has become the test of the postmodern. In this groundbreaking volume Oliver Davies argues for a renewal of metaphysics, as the language of createdness, based not in a return to outmoded concepts of essence but in a dynamic new understanding of ontology as narrative and performance. This repairing of the Western metaphysical tradition...
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    46,11 €

  • A Theology of Compassion
    Oliver Davies
    The wholesale rejection of metaphysics today has become the test of the postmodern. In this groundbreaking volume Oliver Davies argues for a renewal of metaphysics, as the language of createdness, based not in a return to outmoded concepts of essence but in a dynamic new understanding of ontology as narrative and performance. This repairing of the Western metaphysical tradition...
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    67,82 €

  • The Rhineland Mystics
    Oliver Davies
    The work of the great Rhineland mystics of the fourteenth century speaks to the modern reader with astonishing directness and clarity. In their emphasis on the personal, inward experience of God and their questioning of the formal, ritualistic side of religion, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Jan van Ruusbroec appear almost as contemporaries. This impression is heightened...
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    20,61 €

  • The Rhineland Mystics
    Oliver Davies
    The work of the great Rhineland mystics of the fourteenth century speaks to the modern reader with astonishing directness and clarity. In their emphasis on the personal, inward experience of God and their questioning of the formal, ritualistic side of religion, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Jan van Ruusbroec appear almost as contemporaries. This impression is heightened...
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    37,37 €

  • One-Month Money
    Oliver Davies
    MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND - UNTIL IT DOESN’TBankers blunder, governments turn a blind eye and investors just get it plain wrong. But what if there’s something else lurking behind all our great recessions and depressions, something operating in the shadows that makes our bubbles bigger and our crashes more catastrophic? Something so familiar and ubiquitous that we hardly ev...
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    25,24 €

  • Theology of Compassion
    Oliver Davies
    The wide-scale rejection of metaphysics today has become the test of the postmodern. In this volume, Oliver Davies argues for a renewal of metaphysics, as the language of createdness, based not in a return to outmoded concepts of essence, but in a dynamic new understanding of ontology as narrataive and performance. His repairing of the western metaphysical tradition is grounded...
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    60,40 €

  • Transformation Theology
    Oliver Davies / Paul D. Janz
    This book is the fruit of a close collaboration between three leading scholars with a background in systematics, philosophical theology and ethics. It sets out a new account of how incarnation is mediated in the world of space and time, leading to a new orientation of theology within the world. The doctrinal ("from above") and philosophical ("from below") sections lead to a new...
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    68,35 €

  • King Cromwell
    Oliver Ford Davies
    The year is 1657 and an infirm Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, is nearing the end of his life. But who will succeed him? Parliament want him to be king which will unite the people but is against Cromwell’s republican principles and will mean his ill-suited son, Richard, succeeds him. But the alternative is a military dictatorship under Cromwell...
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    18,51 €

  • The Creativity of God
    Davies Oliver / Oliver Davies
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    121,98 €

  • The Creativity of God
    Oliver Davies
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    58,02 €

  • Hildegard of Bingen - An Anthology
    Davies Oliver Davies / Fiona Bowie / Robert Carver
    This is a selection from the writings of the 12th century Benedictine mystic, who wrote books on prayer, theology, poetry, music, natural history, the human body, health as well as one play. It includes commentary which places Hildegard’s work in its social and historical context and the new translations bring it all vividly to life. ...
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    23,81 €