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  • Strange, Surprising, Sure
    Robert Cummings Neville
    Accessible and wide-ranging essays on the philosophy of religion.In Strange, Surprising, Sure, Robert Cummings Neville presents a theory of being, change, and value, and engages other philosophers who deal with these concepts. The book’s central thesis is that the entire created world includes everything determinate, and thus the creator does not exist within creation. Strangel...
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    49,40 €

  • General Seydlitz
    Charles H. L. Johnston / F. N. Maude / Robert Neville Lawley
    Accounts of one of the great commanders of European cavalry Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Seydlitz was indisputably one of the greatest cavalry commanders in Frederick the Great’s Prussian Army. As a senior officer he is credited with the development of the Prussian cavalry during the Seven Years War. His first experiences of war were during The War of Austrian Succession, (17...
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    18,70 €

  • Metaphysics of Goodness
    Robert Cummings Neville
    Develops a theory of culture based on a metaphysics that elaborates on the Platonic and Confucian traditions.In Metaphysics of Goodness, Robert Cummings Neville extends Alfred North Whitehead’s project of cultural studies, which was based on a new metaphysics that Whitehead developed in Adventures of Ideas. Neville’s focus is value or goodness in many modes. The metaphysics tre...
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    50,62 €

  • Defining Religion
    Robert Cummings Neville
    Provides a new orientation to philosophy of religion and a new theory of how religion ought to be defined.In this collection of essays, written over the past decade, Robert Cummings Neville addresses contemporary debates about the concept of religion and the importance of the comparative method in theology, while advancing and defending his own original definition of religion. ...
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  • Seasons of the Christian Life
    Robert Cummings Neville
    Once liberal Christianity was preached in ways that defined it in the public eye. Now Christianity is identified almost exclusively with its conservative expressions. Seasons of the Christian Life presents a series of sermons articulating a liberal Christianity over against its conservative neighbors. They were preached at the University Church (Marsh Chapel) at Boston Universi...
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  • Nurture in Time and Eternity
    Robert Cummings Neville
    The dimension of eternity has been lost from much contemporary religious consciousness. Liberals tend to focus on action within time, as do conservatives, who see history as a battleground for a war of good against evil. Spiritual life, however, also requires nurturing a sense of eternity within time. These sermons from Marsh Chapel at Boston University follow the lectionary in...
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    26,77 €

  • Existence
    Robert Cummings Neville
    The second volume in a trilogy advancing a systematic philosophical theology, this book explores the realities of human existence articulated by religion.Religion, writes Robert Cummings Neville, articulates existential predicaments and provides venues for ecstatic fulfillment. Like its companion volumes treating ultimacy and religion, Existence advances a systematic philosophi...
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    50,56 €

  • Orwell, Huxley & The Fallacies of Futurity
    Robert Neville
    The year is 1949.The place Los Angeles.Two world-famous novelists, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, meet at Huxley’s Hollywood home.What follows is an imagined conversation between these two titans when they discuss their novels. And much, much more.Behold the mystery. What is the secret of the enduring impact of ’1984’ and ’Brave New World?’ What are the key themes and ideas?M...
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    13,37 €

  • Guy Fawkes - 5/11 Treason
    Robert Neville
    When you’ve got nothing to lose, do you lose it? When you lose everything, is it the end of the world, or does it just feel like it? In recent times, we’ve become all too aware of what can happen when disaffection becomes suicidal, and murderous, intent.Four hundred years ago, in England, a group of desperate young men dedicated themselves not only to mass murder but the total ...
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    13,92 €

  • Mary Tudor and The Lost Kingdom
    Robert Neville
    1556. Mary reigns. The soldiers of her husband, Philip of Spain, patrol the jungle territories of the New World. The Spanish commander of the Imperial forces, with a contingent of mercenary English, finds the path to a fabled kingdom. In England, Mary’s sister, the worldly-wise Elizabeth, circles like a beast of prey, ever ambitious and seeking her place in the sun. Mary and Ph...
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    19,08 €

  • Ritual and Deference
    Robert Cummings Neville
    Brings Confucianism and Daoism into conversation with contemporary philosophy and the contemporary world situation.Ritual and Deference develops Robert Cummings Neville’s thesis that contemporary philosophy has much to gain by shaping itself through important themes of the Chinese philosophical traditions, especially the themes of ritual and deference. Neville here offers a bro...
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    47,43 €

  • General Seydlitz
    Robert Neville Lawley
    General Seydlitz: A Military Biography is a book written by Robert Neville Lawley in 1852. The book is a detailed account of the life and military career of Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, a Prussian general who served during the Seven Years’ War. The author provides a comprehensive overview of Seydlitz’s early life, his military training, and his rise through the ranks of the ...
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    33,44 €

  • Religion in Late Modernity
    Robert Cummings Neville
    A well-known theologian and philosopher offers a late-modern perspective on religion, one opposed to the received truths of postmodern religious thought.Religion in Late Modernity runs against the grain of common suppositions of contemporary theology and philosophy of religion. Against the common supposition that basic religious terms have no real reference but are mere functio...
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    49,70 €

  • Symbols of Jesus
    Robert Cummings Neville
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    72,46 €

  • The Truth of Broken Symbols
    Robert Cummings Neville
    Provides a cross-cultural analysis of how religious symbols function from a theological and philosophical perspective.This book provides a cross-cultural analysis of how religious symbols function from a theological and philosophical perspective. Showing how religious symbols can be true in various qualified senses, Neville presents a theory of religious symbolism in the Americ...
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    49,52 €

  • A Theology Primer
    Robert Cummings Neville
    Preface How To Use This Book Introduction 1. The Nature of Theology I. Divine Matters II. Theological Assumptions and Assertions III. Theological Conceptualization IV. Truth and the Modes of Theological Assertion 2. Revelation: Sources and Uses of Theology I. Authority in Theology II. Scripture, Tradition, Reason, Experience III. Uses of Theology IV. Revelation 3. God the C...
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    47,29 €

  • Soldier, Sage, Saint
    Robert C. Neville / Robert CNeville
    This is a philosophic study of some aspects of spiritual development, broadly defined. Professor Neville has been influenced significantly by comparison between several of the world’s great spiritual traditions, and he has tried to be faithful to experiences in those traditions. Readers whose interest in spiritual development come out of non-Western traditions will find this bo...
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    35,91 €