Boethius' best-known work is the "e;Consolations of Philosophy"e; written during his imprisonment -- "e;by far the most interesting example of prison literature the world has ever seen.
In this little volume of 200 pages we have a series of dissertations on spiritual subjects, addressed especially to Christians, including thoughts on the Mountain Sermon, the Beatitudes, the Spirituality of the Law, the True Motive in Service, the Lord's Prayer, and on Not Judging but Doing.
In this age, when the study of nature is receiving so much attention, the teachings of Christ from the things of nature form an interesting addition to the bibliography.
The author treats the life and work of Christ and his disciples in this volume from the standpoint of a believer to believers, and as a Christian to Christians.
The meditations in this book will probably rank high among many similar works which the contemplative love of Jesus has produced; but it is our duty here plainly to affirm that they have no pretensions whatever to be regarded as history.
There is, perhaps, no phase of the Christian church more peculiar to it, nor one that more triumphantly demonstrates its perfect adaptation to human needs, than its possession of what are known as "e; spiritual gifts.
Clairvoyance means literally nothing more than "e;clear-seeing,"e; and it is a word which has been sorely misused, and even degraded so far as to be employed to describe the trickery of a mountebank in a variety show.
This work, published in 1768, when Swedenborg was eighty years of age, was the first of the author's theological works on the title of which his name appeared.
Das Buch ist kein sorgfältig komponiertes Werk, wie das nachfolgend wiedergegebene Inhaltsverzeichnis vermuten lässt, sondern im Grunde eine Gelegenheitsarbeit.
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher war protestantischer Theologe, Altphilologe, Philosoph, Publizist, Staatstheoretiker, Kirchenpolitiker und Pädagoge.
Der Untergang der Kultur und der Religionen der alten Welt im Christentum vollzieht sich "in, mit und unter" Herausbildung des neuen allumfassenden und allesverschlingenden Mythos vom Christ, der als Sohn Gottes aus seiner himmlischen Vorexistenz in die Welt geboren wurde, um das Reich des "Fürsten dieser Welt", das Reich Satans oder des Teufels, das im Tode gipfelt, zu zerstören und die Menschheit durch die Aufrichtung des Reiches Gottes aus seinen Banden und vor dem nahenden Weltgericht zu erretten.
Wie die Two Essays, so erschienen auch die Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Dialoge über natürliche Religion) nach Humes Tod, wie er für diese Schrift, die bereits Anfang der 1750er Jahre entstanden war, testamentarisch verfügt hatte.
This book is annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer.
The Summa Theologiae (Latin: Compendium of Theology or Theological Compendium; also subsequently called the Summa Theologica or simply the Summa, written 1265-1274) is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (c.
Der Text Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland ist eine in essayistischem Stil geschriebene Abhandlung des deutsch-jüdischen Dichters Heinrich Heine (1797-1856).
This is the extended edition including* a detailed annotation about the history of the BibleThe Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the latter years of his life by cutting and pasting numerous sections from various Bibles as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus.
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