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Judaism

Momigliano Arnaldo

ISBN: PB: 9780226794921, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
270 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-87) was one of the most distinguished twentieth-century scholars of the classics and of ancient and modern history. Throughout his career, but especially in the final twenty years of his life, he wrote essays on a variety of...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment

Marion Jean-Luc

ISBN: PB: 9780226758299, ISBN: HB: 9780226684611, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A timely new work by one of France's premier philosophers, "A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment" offers insight into what "catholic" truly means. In this short, accessible book, Jean-Luc Marion braids the sense of catholic as all-embracing and univ...

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Christianity

Voting About God in Early Church Councils

MacMullen Ramsay

ISBN: PB: 9780300255416, Yale University Press, August 2020
182 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.

In this study, Ramsay MacMullen steps aside from the well-worn path that previous scholars have trod to explore exactly how early Christian doctrines became official. Drawing on extensive verbatim stenographic records, he analyzes the ecumenical coun...

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Judaism

Hasidism Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World

Mayse Ariel, Berrin Shonkoff Sam, Mayse Ariel Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781684580170, ISBN: HB: 9781684580163, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2020
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hasidism has attracted, repelled, and bewildered philosophers, historians, and theologians since its inception in the eighteenth century. In "Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World", Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Sh...

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Christianity

Eastern Orthodox Church A New History

McGuckin John Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300218763, Yale University Press, May 2020
376 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In this short, accessible account of the Eastern Orthodox Church, John McGuckin begins by tackling the question "What is the Church?" His answer is a clear, historically and theologically rooted portrait of what the Church is for Orthodox Christianit...

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Biography & Memoires

Judaism

Rav Kook Everything is Rising

Mirsky Yehudah

ISBN: PB: 9780300248579, ISBN: HB: 9780300164244, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential – and controversial – rabbis of the twentieth century. A maverick thinker, he combined strict traditionalism with an embrace of modernity and its heresies, Orthodoxy and tolerance, sc...

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Health & Wellbeing

Buddhism

Little Buddha Looking for Love

Mikosch Claus

ISBN: HB: 9781781453803, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, September 2019
136 pp., 20x13.8 cm, full colour throughout

The journey of the Little Buddha began when Claus Mikosch and his four-year-old daughter used to go walking near a Buddhist temple, and she asked him questions about the Buddha. When Claus had the idea to collect their conversations, the Little Buddh...

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Buddhism

Little Buddha Finding Happiness

Mikosch Claus

ISBN: HB: 9781781453797, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, September 2019
128 pp., 20x13.8 cm, full colour throughout

The journey of the Little Buddha began when Claus Mikosch and his four-year-old daughter used to go walking near a Buddhist temple, and she asked him questions about the Buddha. When Claus had the idea to collect their conversations, the Little Buddh...

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Christianity

Divine Bodies Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity

Moss Candida R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300179767, Yale University Press, July 2019
208 pp., 21x14 cm

When people talk about the resurrection they often assume that the bodies in the afterlife will be perfect. But which version of our bodies gets resurrected – young or old, healthy or sick, real-to-life or idealized? What bodily qualities must be rec...

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Christianity

Heretics and Believers A History of the English Reformation

Marshall Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300234589, Yale University Press, March 2018
672 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping new history – the first major overview for general readers in a generation – argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neit...

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