Author: General historyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
A general history and collection of voyages and travels, arranged in systematic order by R. Kerr. Vol.12 (ch.3, sect.5) -vol.17
Author: General historyUniversal Salvation in Late Antiquity
Author: Archbishop Michael Bland SimmonsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190272848
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
This study offers an in-depth examination of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre, whose significance for late antique thought is immense. Porphyry's concept of salvation is important for an understanding of those cataclysmic forces, not always theological, that helped convert the Roman Empire from paganism to Christianity. Porphyry, a disciple of Plotinus, was the last and greatest anti-Christian writer to vehemently attack the Church before the Constantinian revolution. His contribution to the pagan-Christian debate on universalism can thus shed light on the failure of paganism and the triumph of Christianity in late antiquity. In a broader historical and cultural context this study will address some of the issues central to the debate on universalism, in which Porphyry was passionately involved and which was becoming increasingly significant during the unprecedented series of economic, cultural, political, and military crises of the third century. As the author will argue, Porphyry may have failed to find one way of salvation for all humanity, he nonetheless arrived a hierarchical soteriology, something natural for a Neoplatonist, which resulted in an integrative religious and philosophical system. His system is examined in the context of other developing ideologies of universalism, during a period of unprecedented imperial crises, which were used by the emperors as an agent of political and religious unification. Christianity finally triumphed over its competitors owing to its being perceived to be the only universal salvation cult that was capable of bringing about this unification. In short, it won due to its unique universalist soteriology. By examining a rival to Christianity's concept of universal salvation, this book will be valuable to students and scholars of ancient philosophy, patristics, church history, and late antiquity.
Frances Burney's Cecilia
Author: Catherine M. ParisianPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409418200
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
In her exhaustive publishing history of Frances Burney's Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress, Parisian mines an extensive archival record that includes portions of the original manuscript, annotated page proofs, legal records relative to its copyright, and an abundance of letters, to chronicle the composition, printing, and publication of Frances Burney's Cecilia from its first edition in 1782 to the present-day Oxford World's Classics paperback. Her timely history demonstrates the importance of Cecilia to the art of the novel and the history of the book.
The Ancient History of the Egyptians
Author: Charles RollinJournal
Author: Rhode Island Institute of InstructionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
School Architecture; or Contributions to the improvement of school houses in the United States ... Fourth edition. [In part based on the author's “School-House Architecture,” published in 1842.]
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Author: Henry BarnardThe Frog Prince, Continued
Author: Jon ScieszkaPublisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780785735670
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. After the frog turns into a prince, he and the Princess do not live happily ever after and the Prince decides to look for a witch to help him remedy the situation.
Travels Into Bokhara: Travels into Bokhara [continued] book I. General and geographical memoir on the part of Central Asia. book II. An historical sketch of the countries between India and the Caspian Sea. book III. On the commerce of Central Asia. Observations on Lieutenant Burnes's collection of Bactrian and other coins by H. H. Wilson and James Prinsep
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Author: Sir Alexander BurnesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Travels into Bokhara [continued] book I. General and geographical memoir on the part of Central Asia. book II. An historical sketch of the countries between India and the Caspian Sea. book III. On the commerce of Central Asia. Observations on Lieutenant Burnes's collection of Bactrian and other coins by H. H. Wilson and James Prinsep
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Author: Sir Alexander BurnesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Mediaeval Stage: book I. Minstrelsey. book II. Folk drama
Author: Edmund Kerchever ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description