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Price: $25.50
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Sale: $25.24
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Manufacturer: YBK Publishers, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: YBK Publishers, Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 340
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Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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Reading Level: 204
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Description: One of the great legal minds of our time, Daube's depth of scholarship in a range of subjects-ancient literature, English literature, ancient law, medical ethics, much more-was matched by a dazzling agility and originality of mind-for instance: though raised in an Orthodox Jewish home, he produced strikingly original work on the New Testament.
David Daube's life spanned almost the entire 20th century and he was witness to its history. Born a Jew in Germany in 1909, he spent World War II and its aftermath in Britain on the faculties of Cambridge, Aberdeen, and Oxford. He came to the United States in the '60s-to the University of California at Berkeley where he reveled in what he called the "unmanicured, unclubbable, countercultural attitudes." Through it all he never lost his love for the land of his birth-though it didn't love him back for many years: he was on Hitler's list of those to be put to death once Germany had conquered England.
Not your typical fusty professor, he was a brilliant and charming commentator on matters personal, political, social, and philosophical. The reader of these jottings (set down in the 1970s and '80s) will understand within a page or two why those who knew him treasured him as a friend, mentor, and intellectual provocateur. These private reflections, gathered by one of his most distinguished students, are charming, insightful, thought-provoking, sometimes profound, and sometimes just amusing. His commentaries on political and social issues of his time ranged from bravely original thought on Israel and the Palestinians to an amusing and enlightening review of the sensational porn film Deep Throat.
Here are some sample jottings:
"I love women. They provide the unhappiness that I need in life."
"People are more struck by the asininity of the law when they are trapped by it than when they are let off."
"We are all of us survivors all the time; everything that is, is a survivor relative to what has fallen by the wayside. Naturally, having escaped from Hitler's clutches myself, I am a bit more alive to the whole business than the average guy."
The books's editor, Calum Carmichael, Professor of Comparative Literature and Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell, has degrees in science, historical theology, and law from the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Oxford. He teaches biblical and cognate (Near Eastern and Talmudic) literature as well as courses on law and literature in antiquity. He is the author of nine books that focus primarily on biblical law; the editor of a six volume series devoted to the work of David Daube who was his teacher at Oxford; and the author of a memoir, Ideas and the Man: Remembering David Daube.
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Price: $36.95
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Sale: $33.24
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Manufacturer: Catholic University of America Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 171.2
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Publication Date: 2004-09
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Reading Level: 311
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Description: In recent years, there has been a great revival of interest in natural law thinking, one that has occurred across a range of disciplines and perspectives - from the philosophical and theological to the most contemporary debates in the area of legal and political philosophy. Much of this recent work is traced to the thouht of St. Thomas Aquinas. To explore and evaluate the current revival, this volume brings together many of the foremost scholrs on natural law. They examine the relation between Thomistic natural law and the larger philosophical and theological tradition. Furthermore, they assess the contemporary relevance of St. Thomas's natural law doctrine to current legal and political philosophy. The book contains an extensive introduction to the topic, followed by four sections that treat various aspects of natural law thinking. The first section examines some of the philosophical foundations of natural law, especially the understanding of nature it presupposes. The second section is devoted to the theological context in which St. Thomas's natural law doctrine is situated. The essays in the third section discuss the new natural law theory espoused by Germain Grisez and John Finnis and the hotly debated question as to whether their theory is genuinely Thomistic. The final section explores several contemporary legal and political issues in light of St. Thomas's natural law thinking.
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Price: $42.00
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Sale: $34.85
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Manufacturer: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Richard, B. Couser
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Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 346.73064
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Publication Date: 1993-07-01
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Designed for those who are not lawyers, accountants, or quasi-legal specialists, this book outlines the elements of risk management for congregations and church professionals. Divided into three parts, the guide provides an overview and history of the American legal system, details various areas of the law, and focuses on ways religious organizations can minimize their exposure to legal difficulties.
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Price: $164.99
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Sale: $126.67
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Hamilton Hess
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 262.9
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Publication Date: 2003-01-02
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Reading Level: 292
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Description: When first published in 1958, The Canons of the Council of Sardica, AD 343 at once became the standard account of the canons passed by the Western bishops at Sardica in 343 and the thinking on church matters that lay behind them. In this new edition Hamilton Hess has updated his account in the light of recent literature, included new materials and the full texts of the canons, and translated all quotations into English to reach a wider audience. Three new opening chapters make a fresh contribution to the study of early church history in giving a comprehensive analysis of the rise of the conciliar movement from its earliest beginnings to the fourth century establishment of councils as exclusively episcopal legislative assemblies. It is also shown that the emergence of canon law was a gradual evolutionary process leading towards the sixth-century organization of canonical collections as juridical ecclesiastical codes parallel with and complementary to the contemporary civil codes of the Roman Empire.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $29.95
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Manufacturer: Catholic University of America Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kirsi Salonen::Ludwig Schmugge
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Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
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Edition: 1 New
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Dewey Decimal Number: 262.136
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Publication Date: 2008-12-08
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: This is the first book to include full texts and photographs from the Apostolic Penitentiary, "A Sip from the 'Well of Grace'", which is groundbreaking in its analysis of one of the most important papal offices of the Middle Ages. The Penitentiary alone was responsible for granting absolutions, dispensations, licenses, and special declarations in various matters such as marriage, illegitimacy, murder and violence, confession, and clerical ordination. With access to archival records long sealed by the Vatican, Kirsi Salonen and Ludwig Schmugge offer historians many new insights for interpreting an important structure of medieval life.The book begins with an introduction to the functions of the Apostolic Penitentiary and considers its role among the various papal offices. Also examined are the various circumstances for which Christians turned to its authority. Procedures for cases as well as the canon law regulations behind the cases are discussed, along with an overview of various documents that were produced during the handling of a case in the Penitentiary.The second part of the book introduces several case studies. Each case is illustrated with the help of original documents preserved both in the Vatican Secret Archives and in numerous local archives in Germany, Italy, and Scandinavia. The original Latin documents are fully edited and accompanied by English translation. Each document is also available in the form of a digital photo, which allows readers to learn concretely what the documents and writing looked like and to exercise palaeographic skills."A Sip from the 'Well of Grace'" will be an important addition to any collection on the social and religious history of the later Middle Ages. It is the seventh volume in the ongoing "Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law" series.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Universal Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stanslaus Muyebe
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Publisher: Universal Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 262
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Publication Date: 2002-01-01
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Reading Level: 124
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Description: Recently, there has been a growing interest in the narrative as an important metaphor in several academic disciplines. This work seeks to apply the narrative methodology to the study of canon law on sacraments. The emphasis in the book is on narrative as a mode of arranging and presenting knowledge. A narrative schema is therefore employed as an organizational and pedagogical tool to arrange the data on the sacramental law into a study guide. In the study guide, the material on each sacrament is arranged in terms of plots, characters and settings. In such an arrangement, the book presents pastoral problems that the canonical text on sacraments seeks to respond to. The pastoral component of canon law is thereby highlighted. The information in the book is presented in a note form and in a user-friendly format. The book limits itself to the basic concepts and basic concepts. Such a study guide would be a useful resource for the undergraduate students in Catholic Theology and the pastoral agents in the Catholic Church.
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Price: $11.95
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Sale: $11.94
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Manufacturer: Holy Cross Orthodox Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lewis J. Patsavos
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Publisher: Holy Cross Orthodox Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 262.9819
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Publication Date: 2007-04-03
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: An introduction to the Canonical Tradition of the Orthodox Church.
"Professor Patsavos's approach reflects the very essence and nature of the Canonical Tradition of the Orthodox Church; namely, that the canons are of a spiritual and pastoral dimension, striving for the salvation of the souls of God's people. This insightful book is accompanied by an index that classifies the Holy Canons for easy reference.
The quest for eternal salvation lies at the very heart of the Orthodox Canonical Tradition. This book's chief aim is to elucidate the fundamentals of the Canonical Tradition by raising the spirit of the law to the surface of our ecclesial consciousness and, by so doing, to communicate the essence of a law which is written not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts (2 Cor 3:3). Archbishop Demetrios of America"
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Price: $150.00
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Sale: $114.66
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Peter D. Clarke
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 262.92
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Publication Date: 2007-10-25
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: The interdict was an important and frequent event in medieval society. It was an ecclesiastical sanction which had the effect of closing churches and suspending religious services. Often imposed on an entire community because its leaders had violated the rights and laws of the Church, popes exploited it as a political weapon in their conflicts with secular rulers during the thirteenth century. In this book, Peter Clarke examines this significant but neglected subject, presenting a wealth of new evidence drawn from manuscripts and archival sources. He begins by exploring the basic legal and moral problem raised by the interdict: how could a sanction that punished many for the sins of the few be justified? From the twelfth-century, jurists and theologians argued that those who consented to the crimes of others shared in the responsibility and punishment for them. Hence important questions are raised about medieval ideas of community, especially about the relationship between its head and members.
The book goes on to explore how the interdict was meant to work according to the medieval canonists, and how it actually worked in practice. In particular it examines princely and popular reactions to interdicts and how these encouraged the papacy to reform the sanction in order to make it more effective. Evidence including detailed case-studies of the interdict in action, is drawn from across thirteenth-century Europe--a time when the papacy's legislative activity and interference in the affairs of secular rulers were at their height.
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Price: $9.94
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Sale: $48.37
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Manufacturer: Hunter Publishing (NJ)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Paul II::Catholic Church
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Publisher: Hunter Publishing (NJ)
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Publication Date: 1992-12
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Reading Level: 236
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $30.00
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Manufacturer: Marquette University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Francisco De Vitoria
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Publisher: Marquette University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 262.935
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Publication Date: 1997-04
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Reading Level: 269
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