St Augustine,R. P. H. Green's De Doctrina Christiana (Oxford Early Christian Texts) PDF

The De Doctrina Christiana ("On Christian Teaching") is considered one of Augustine's most vital works at the classical culture. Undertaken even as the Confessions, is sheds gentle at the improvement of Augustine's proposal, specially within the parts of ethics, hermeneutics, and sign-theory. what's best, although, is its cautious try and point out accurately what components of a classical schooling are helpful for a Christian, andhow the precepts of Ciceronian rhetoric can be used to speak Christian fact.

Theosis, Sino-Christian Theology and the Second Chinese by A. Chow PDF

For a millennium and a part in China, Christianity has been perceived as a overseas faith for a overseas humans. This quantity investigates a number of old makes an attempt to articulate a chinese language Christianity, evaluating the jobs that Western and Latin types of Christian theology have performed with the aptitude position of japanese Orthodox theology.

New PDF release: The Birds of the Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula is certainly one of Europe's such a lot ornithologically various areas supplying a bunch of neighborhood specialities. It comprises well-known birding hotspots akin to the Coto Donaña wetlands, mountainous parts corresponding to the Picos de Europa and the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean cork and holm oak forests of the southwest, the migration crossroads of the Strait of Gibraltar and the steppe-like plains of Extremadura and Alentejo.

Download e-book for iPad: Bodies in Question: Gender, Religion, Text by Darlene Bird,Yvonne Sherwood

Exploring quite a number topics from the human genome undertaking to Kierkegaard's worry and Trembling, the poetry of Jorie Graham to feminist Christian artwork, the members pose questions round the subject matter 'Body and Voice'. Questions raised contain: 'Who speaks for the foetus and on what foundation? '; 'What impression does the near-sacrifice of Isaac have on mom Sarah's physique?