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The Acts of the Apostleby W. BarclayISBN 0664241069 (0-664-24106-9)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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The Acts of the Apostles: The New Daily Study Bibleby William BarclayISBN 0664226752 (0-664-22675-2)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Acts of the Apostles: The New Daily Study Bible'Book summary:In The Acts of the Apostles, noted Scottish Bible interpreter William Barclay follows the formula established for The Daily Study Bible by first giving the text of the day's study in his own interpretation, followed by two or three pages of commentary. [via]
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Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Powerby Marvin Meyer, Richard SmithISBN 0691004587 (0-691-00458-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power'Book summary:This thought-provoking collection of magical texts from ancient Egypt shows the exotic rituals, esoteric healing practices, and incantatory and supernatural dimensions that flowered in early Christianity. These remarkable Christian magical texts include curses, spells of protection from "headless powers" and evil spirits, spells invoking thunderous powers, descriptions of fire baptism, and even recipes from a magical "cookbook." Virtually all the texts are by Coptic Christians, and they date from about the 1st-12th centuries of the common era, with the majority from late antiquity. By placing these rarely seen texts in historical context and discussing their significance, the authors explore the place of healing, prayer, miracles, and magic in the early Christian experience, and expand our understanding of Christianity and Gnosticism as a vital folk religion.
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Ancient Egypt: An Illustrated Reference to the Myths, Religions, Pyramids and Temples of the Land of the Pharaohsby Lorna OakesISBN 0760749434 (0-7607-4943-4)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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Augustine Political Writings: Political Writingsby E. M. Edtatkins, E.M. Atkins, Robert J. DodaroISBN 0521441722 (0-521-44172-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Augustine Political Writings: Political Writingsby E.M. Atkins, Robert J. DodaroISBN 052144697X (0-521-44697-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Buddhism for Dummiesby Jonathan Landaw, Stephan BodianISBN 0764553593 (0-7645-5359-3)
Softcover, For Dummies
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Christian Theology: An Introductionby Alister E. McGrathISBN 0631160795 (0-631-16079-5)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christian Theology: An Introduction'Book summary:This is a completely revised and updated edition of one of the leading introductions to Christian theology. Assuming no previous knowledge, it introduces readers to the main ideas and key debates, as well as to the leading thinkers who have influenced Christian thinking over the last two thousand years.
- Provides an excellent introduction to the basics of Christian theology, assuming no previous knowledge of the subject.
- Outlines and explains all the main ideas and key debates that have influenced Christian theology, and identifies and explores the work of leading thinkers.
- Introduces basic vocabulary, explains all technical terms, and translates every Latin, Greek and German word or phrase.
- Includes a special section on 'Theological Resources on the Internet' and a dedicated web site linked to this book.
- Written in a clear, straightforward and easily accessible style.
- A comprehensive, one-stop, freestanding, and fully cross-referenced volume on Christian theology.
- The Christian Theology Reader, also by McGrath, is designed as a helpful accompaniment to this book.
More details on the third edition of Christian Theology: An Introduction can be found on the accompanying website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/mcgrath [via]
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Softcover, Blackwell Pub - Christian Theology: An Introduction: ISBN 0631160787 (0-631-16078-7)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub - Christian Theology: An Introduction: ISBN 0631225277 (0-631-22527-7)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub - Christian Theology: An Introduction: ISBN 0631160795 (0-631-16079-5)
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- Provides an excellent introduction to the basics of Christian theology, assuming no previous knowledge of the subject.
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Creation and Fall/Temptation: Two Biblical Studiesby Dietrich BonhoefferISBN 0684825872 (0-684-82587-2)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religionsby Walter BurkertISBN 0674175700 (0-674-17570-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformationby Richard FletcherISBN 0670032719 (0-670-03271-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Doctor Faustusby Jan Kott, Christopher Marlowe, Linda CooksonISBN 0582353904 (0-582-35390-4)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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Doctor Faustus: A- And B- Textsby David Bevington, Eric Rasmusse N, David M. BevingtonISBN 0719016436 (0-7190-1643-6)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctor Faustus: A- And B- Texts'Book summary:This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and staging/performance assessments.[via]More editions of Doctor Faustus: A- And B- Texts:
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Dr. Faustusby Christopher Marlowe, Roma GillISBN 0713667907 (0-7136-6790-7)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Faustus'Book summary:This edition is based on the earlier version of this hugely successful[via]
Renaissance tragedy, the A-text published in 1604 which, it is
generally agreed, preserves much of Marlowe's original version. In
addition, it separately includes the scenes that were adapted or added
in the B-text of 1616. Marlowe joined the form of the late medieval
morality play to the historical material found in the German tale of
Johann Faust, who sells his soul to the devil in return of infinite
power and knowledge. Ironically undercutting the aspirations of
Renaissance Man, the play presents a devil who fails to impress the
sinner with the realities of hell - 'I think hell's a fable,' Faustus
shrugs - and calls into question the medium of theatre, which time and
again serves the devil to distract Faustus when the pious promptings of
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Dr. Faustusby Roma Gill, Christopher MarloweISBN 0713632313 (0-7136-3231-3)
Softcover, Motorbooks Intl
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Faustus'Book summary:Marlowe's play has two different recognized texts, with most editions based on the B text. Due to recent arguments for the authenticity of A, this edition is based on the A text. It includes a discussion of biographical, dramatic and theatrical aspects of the play. [via]
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Faith And Politics: How the Moral Values Debate Divides America And How to Move Forward Togetherby John DanforthISBN 0670037877 (0-670-03787-7)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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The Faith Club: A Muslim, a Christian, a Jew -- Three Women Search for Understandingby Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla WarnerISBN 074329047X (0-7432-9047-X)
Hardcover, Free Pr
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The Fall of Hyperionby Dan SimmonsISBN 0553288202 (0-553-28820-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of Hyperion'Book summary:The stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion. On the world of Hyperion the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever be the same. [via]
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Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith and the Search for Orderby George Johnson, Edward KastenmeierISBN 067974021X (0-679-74021-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order'Book summary:In the mountains of northern New Mexico, the Tewa pueblo of San Ildefonso and the laboratory city of Los Alamos coexist, representing two distinct, yet not entirely dissimilar world views. In this land of strange juxtapositions where magic and science rub elbows, Johnson introduces us to an amazing diversity of people who see the world through varied lenses, who find vastly different pictures in the night sky. At the core of the book is the question of the human view of the universe: are there really innate patterns in creation, and why do we honor them so highly? Johnson examines some of the radical theories of physics and biology emanating from Los Alamos and compares them to the intricate beliefs of the Tewa Indians, the Catholic sect of the Penitentes, and other inhabitants of the high New Mexico desert in this startling work of intellectual adventure. [via]
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The First Dissident: The Book of Job in Today's Politicsby William SafireISBN 067974858X (0-679-74858-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Four Noble Truthsby Dalai Lama XIV, Dominique SideISBN 0722535503 (0-7225-3550-3)
Softcover, Zondervan
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From Black Land to Fifth Sun: The Science of Sacred Sitesby Brian FaganISBN 0738201413 (0-7382-0141-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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God Knowsby Joseph HellerISBN 0684841258 (0-684-84125-8)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God Knows'Book summary:Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving novel is the story of David -- yes, King David -- but as you've never seen him before. You already know David as the legendary warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, and father of Solomon; now meet David as he really was: the cocky Jewish kid, the plagiarized poet, and the Jewish father. Listen as David tells his own story, a story both relentlessly ancient and surprisingly modern, about growing up and growing old, about men and women, and about man and God. It is quintessential Heller. [via]
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The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-Earthby Ralph C. WoodISBN 0664226108 (0-664-22610-8)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Great People of the Bibleby Readers Digest EditorsISBN 0685416127 (0-685-41612-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Heart of the Matterby Graham GreeneISBN 061317271X (0-613-17271-X)
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A History of Christian Thought: From Its Judaic and Hellenistic Origins to Existentialismby Paul TillichISBN 0671214268 (0-671-21426-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The I Ching: Or, Book of Changesby R. Wilhelm, C.F. BaynesISBN 069109750X (0-691-09750-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The I Ching: Or, Book of Changes'Book summary:The I Ching, or Book of Changes, a common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy, is one of the first efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for 3,000 years, and interest in it has been rapidly spreading in the West. [via]
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The I Ching (The Book of Changes)by James LeggeISBN 0553260022 (0-553-26002-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul Iby David A. YallopISBN 0552132888 (0-552-13288-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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James the Brother of Jesus : The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrollsby Robert EisenmanISBN 0670869325 (0-670-86932-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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James, the Brother of Jesusby Robert H. EisenmanISBN 0571175732 (0-571-17573-2)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James, the Brother of Jesus'Book summary:In a work of detection based on a lifetime of research, a co-author of "The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered" identifies the "missing link" between Judaism and early Christianity as James the Just, the brother of Jesus. Professor Eisenman argues that, as the leader of all opposition groups in Jerusalem, James - a figure almost entirely marginalized in the New Testament - was the heir to Jesus and the true successor in Palestine to the movement we now call Christianity. [via]
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The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Churchby Malachi MartinISBN 067165716X (0-671-65716-X)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church'Book summary:In The Jesuits, Malachi Martin reveals for the first time the harrowing behind-the-scenes story of the "new" worldwide Society of Jesus. The leaders and the dupes; the blood and the pathos; the politics, the betrayals and the humiliations; the unheard-of alliances and compromises. The Jesuits tells a true story of today that is already changing the face of all our tomorrows. [via]
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Jesus Freaks: Martyrs Stories of Those Who Stood for Jesus The Ultimate Jesus Freaksby Dc TalkISBN 0764200836 (0-7642-0083-6)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Journey to the Eastby Hermann HesseISBN 0553208551 (0-553-20855-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey to the East'Book summary:In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse's Journey to the East tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an expedition with the League, a secret society whose members include Paul Klee, Mozart, and Albertus Magnus. The participants traverse both space and time, encountering Noahs Ark in Zurich and Don Quixote at Bremgarten. The pilgrims ultimate destination is the East, the Home of the Light, where they expect to find spiritual renewal. Yet the harmony that ruled at the outset of the trip soon degenerates into open conflict. Each traveler finds the rest of the group intolerable and heads off in his own direction, with H.H. bitterly blaming the others for the failure of the journey. It is only long after the trip, while poring over records in the League archives, that H.H. discovers his own role in the dissolution of the group, and the ominous significance of the journey itself.[via]More editions of Journey to the East:
Kaby Tim Parks, Roberto CalassoISBN 0679775471 (0-679-77547-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Ka : Stories of the Mind and Gods of Indiaby Roberto Calasso, Tim ParksISBN 0679451315 (0-679-45131-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Knowledge of Angelsby Jill Paton WalshISBN 0553374753 (0-553-37475-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidalby Gore VidalISBN 0679416110 (0-679-41611-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Monkey: Folk Novel Of Chinaby Cheng'En WuISBN 0613710215 (0-613-71021-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Murder in the Cathedralby Nevill Coghill, T. S. EliotISBN 0571063276 (0-571-06327-6)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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Murder in the Cathedralby T. S. EliotISBN 0606208143 (0-606-20814-3)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Mysteries Of Ancient Egyptby Lorna Oakes, Lucia GahlinISBN 0754811875 (0-7548-1187-5)
Softcover, Lorenz Books
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Not Wanted on the Voyageby Timothy FindleyISBN 0670803057 (0-670-80305-7)
Hardcover, Viking
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Oscar and Lucindaby Peter CareyISBN 0679777504 (0-679-77750-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oscar and Lucinda'Book summary:Oscar Hopkins is a high-strung preacher's kid with hydrophobia and noisy knees. Lucinda Leplastrier is a frizzy-haired heiress who impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. In the early parts of this lushly written book, author Peter Carey renders the seminal turning points in his protagonists' childhoods as exquisite 19th-century set pieces. Young Oscar, denied the heavenly fruit of a Christmas pudding by his cruelly stern father, forever renounces his father's religion in favor of the Anglican Church. "Dear God," Oscar prays, "if it be Thy will that Thy people eat pudding, smite him!" Lucinda's childhood trauma involves a beautiful doll bought by her struggling mother with savings from the jam jar; in a misguided attempt to tame the doll's unruly curls, young Lucinda mutilates her treasure beyond repair. Neither of these coming-of-age stories quite explains how the grownup Oscar and Lucinda each develop a guilty passion for gambling. Oscar plays the horses while at school, and Lucinda, now an orphaned heiress, finds comfort in a game of cards with an odd collection of acquaintances. When the two finally meet, on board a ship bound for New South Wales, they are bound by their affinity for risk, their loneliness, and their awkwardly blossoming (but unexpressed) mutual affection. Their final high-stakes folly--transporting a crystal palace of a church across (literally) godforsaken terrain--strains plausibility, and events turn ghastly as Oscar plays out his bid for Lucinda's heart. Yet even the unconvincing plot turns are made up for by Carey's rich prose and the tale's unpredictable outcome. Although love proves to be the ultimate gamble for Oscar and Lucinda, the story never strays too far from the terrible possibility that even the most thunderstruck lovers can remain isolated in parallel lives. [via]
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Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety : Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantineby Eric R. DoddsISBN 0521385997 (0-521-38599-7)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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A Path With Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Lifeby Jack KornfieldISBN 0553372114 (0-553-37211-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Path With Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life'Book summary:In undertaking a spiritual life, we must make certain that our path is connected with our heart, according to author and Buddhist monk Jack Kornfield. Since 1974 (long before it gained popularity in the 1990s), Kornfield has been teaching westerners how to integrate Eastern teaching into their daily lives. Through generous storytelling and unmitigated warmth, Kornfield offers this excellent guidebook on living with attentiveness, meditation, and full-tilt compassion.
Part of what makes this book so accessible is Kornfield's use of everyday metaphors to describe the elusive lessons of spiritual transformation. For example, he opens with "the one seat" lesson taught to him by his esteemed teacher. Literally it means sitting in the center of a room and not being swayed or moved by all the people and dramas happening around you. On a spiritual level it means sticking "with one practice and teacher among all of the possibilities," writes Kornfield; "inwardly it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding." The same could be said for this "one book." Among all the spiritual self-help books, this is a classic worth sticking with and returning to--a highly approachable teacher that can only lead to greater clarity and understanding. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Praise of Follyby Desiderius ErasmusISBN 069101969X (0-691-01969-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Praise of Folly'Book summary:The Praise of Folly, sometimes translated as In Praise of More, is an essay written in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511.
It starts off with a satirical learned encomium after the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian, whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin, a piece of virtuoso foolery; it then takes a darker tone in a series of orations, as Folly praises self-deception and madness and moves to a satirical examination of pious but superstitious abuses of Catholic doctrine and corrupt practices in parts of the Roman Catholic Churchto which Erasmus was ever faithfuland the folly of pedants (including Erasmus himself). Erasmus had recently returned disappointed from Rome, where he had turned down offers of advancement in the curia, and Folly increasingly takes on Erasmus' own chastising voice. The essay ends with a straightforward statement of Christian ideals.
The essay is filled with classical allusions delivered in a style typical of the learned humanists of the Renaissance. Folly parades as one of the gods, offspring of Plutos and Freshness and nursed by Inebriation and Ignorance, whose faithful companions include Philautia (self-love), Kolakia (flattery), Lethe (oblivion), Misoponia (laziness), Hedone (pleasure), Anoia (madness), Tryphe (wantonness), Komos (intemperance) and Eegretos Hypnos (dead sleep).
THE PRAISE OF FOLLY
An oration, of feigned matter,
spoken by Folly in her own person
At what rate soever the world talks of me (for I am not ignorant what an
ill report Folly has got, even among the most foolish), yet that I am
that she, that only she, whose deity recreates both gods and men, even
this is a sufficient argument, that I no sooner stepped up to speak to
this full assembly than all your faces put on a kind of new and unwonted
pleasantness. So suddenly have you cleared your brows, and with so frolic
and hearty a laughter given me your applause, that in truth as many of
you as I behold on every side of me seem to me no less than Homer's gods
drunk with nectar and nepenthe; whereas before, you sat as lumpish and
pensive as if you had come from consulting an oracle. And as it usually
happens when the sun begins to show his beams, or when after a sharp
winter the spring breathes afresh on the earth, all things immediately
get a new face, new color, and recover as it were a certain kind of youth
again: in like manner, by but beholding me you have in an instant gotten
another kind of countenance; and so what the otherwise great rhetoricians
with their tedious and long-studied orations can hardly effect, to wit,
to remove the trouble of the mind, I have done it at once with my
single look.
But if you ask me why I appear before you in this strange dress, be
pleased to lend me your ears, and I'll tell you; not those ears, I mean,
you carry to church, but abroad with you, such as you are wont to prick
up to jugglers, fools, and buffoons, and such as our friend Midas once
gave to Pan. For I am disposed awhile to play the sophist with you; not
of their sort who nowadays boozle young men's heads with certain empty
notions and curious trifles, yet teach them nothing but a more than
womanish obstinacy of scolding: but I'll imitate those ancients who, that
they might the better avoid that infamous appellation of _sophi_ or
_wise_, chose rather to be called sophists. Their business was to
celebrate the praises of the gods and valiant men. And the like encomium
shall you hear from me, but neither of Hercules nor Solon, but my own
dear self, that is to say, Folly. Nor do I esteem a rush that call it a
foolish and insolent thing to praise one's self. Be it as foolish as they
would make it, so they confess it proper: and what can be more than that
Folly be her own trumpet? For who can set me out better than myself,
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Praise of Follyby John Wilson, Desiderius Erasmus, Hans HolbeinISBN 0760757607 (0-7607-5760-7)
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Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Questby Daniel QuinnISBN 0553375490 (0-553-37549-0)
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The Pursuit of Godby Acden W. TozerISBN 055100455X (0-551-00455-X)
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The Reformationby Will Durant, Ariel DurantISBN 0671610503 (0-671-61050-3)
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Religion for Dummiesby Marc Gellman, Thomas HartmanISBN 0764552643 (0-7645-5264-3)
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The Religion of Technology : The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Inventionby David F. NobleISBN 0679425640 (0-679-42564-0)
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Religions of the Ancient Greeksby Simon Price, P. A. Cartledge, P. D. A. GarnseyISBN 0521388678 (0-521-38867-8)
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Sacred Sites of Ancient Egypt: An Illustrated Guide to the Temples and Tombs of the Pharoahsby Lorna OakesISBN 0754806715 (0-7548-0671-5)
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Shaking of the Foundationsby Paul TillichISBN 068471910X (0-684-71910-X)
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Source Book in Indian Philosophyby Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Charles A. MooreISBN 0691019584 (0-691-01958-4)
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Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Beltby Christine L. HeyrmanISBN 0679446389 (0-679-44638-9)
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St Joan : A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue: Monarch Notesby Grace H. Schwartz, George Bernard ShawISBN 0671007254 (0-671-00725-4)
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Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in Americaby Mel WhiteISBN 0671884077 (0-671-88407-7)
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Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seductionby David KuoISBN 0743287126 (0-7432-8712-6)
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Yet his experience was deeply troubling. He had been seduced, just as so many evangelical conservatives had been seduced by politics. Tempting Faith is a wrenching personal journey and a heartfelt plea for a Christian reexamination of political and spiritual priorities. [via]
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Tomorrow's God Bk. 1, Vol. 2 & 3 : Our Greatest Spiritual Challengeby Neale Donald WalschISBN 0743456955 (0-7434-5695-5)
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The Transmigration of Timothy Archerby Philip K. DickISBN 0679734449 (0-679-73444-9)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old & New Testament Wordsby W. E. Vine, Frederick Fyvie BruceISBN 0529063743 (0-529-06374-3)
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Way to Be!: Nine Ways to Be Happy and Make Something of Your Lifeby Gordon B. HinckleyISBN 0743238303 (0-7432-3830-3)
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What Paul Meantby Garry WillsISBN 0670037931 (0-670-03793-1)
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When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Cultureby Paul BoyerISBN 0674951298 (0-674-95129-8)
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Who Moved the Stone?by Frank MorisonISBN 0571032591 (0-571-03259-1)
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Works of Loveby Soren KierkegaardISBN 0691059160 (0-691-05916-0)
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This work is marked by Kierkegaard's Socratic awareness of the reader, both as the center of awakened understanding and as the initiator of action. Written to be read aloud, the book conveys a keenness of thought and an insightful, poetic imagination that make such an attentive approach richly rewarding. Works of Love not only serves as an excellent place to begin exploring the writings of Kierkegaard, but also rewards many rereadings.
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World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolutionby Christopher HillISBN 0670003980 (0-670-00398-0)
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The Years of Rice and Saltby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0553580078 (0-553-58007-8)
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At the heart of the story are fundamental questions: what is the purpose of life and death? Are we eternal? Do our choices matter? The particular achievement of this book is that it weaves these threads into a story that is both intellectually and emotionally engaging. This is a highly recommended, challenging, and ambitious work. --Roz Genessee [via]
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Zen and Japanese Cultureby Daisetz T. SuzukiISBN 0691017700 (0-691-01770-0)
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Since its original publication in 1938, this important work has played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen's influence on Japanese traditional arts. Richard Jaffe's introduction acquaints a new generation of readers with Suzuki's life and career in both Japan and America. Jaffe discusses how Zen and Japanese Culture was received upon its first publication and analyzes the book in light of contemporary criticism, especially by scholars of Japanese Buddhism.
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