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American Catholic History - A Documentary Reader (Hardcover): Mark Massa American Catholic History - A Documentary Reader (Hardcover)
Mark Massa; As told to Catherine Osborne
R2,535 Discovery Miles 25 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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"A unique collection of primary sources that everyone interested in the presence and contributions of Catholics in America should read. With its multidisciplinary breadth, this volume truly represents Catholic Studies."
-- Chester Gillis, author of "Roman Catholicism in America"

aThis rich documentary collection thematically engages U.S. Catholicism both in the life of the nation and in the lives of everyday believers. It is a welcome single-volume reference of primary documents on American Catholicism suitable for course adoption.a
--Timothy Matovina, University of Notre Dame

Catholics were among the early Spanish explorers to the aNew World, a and they have a long and rich history in the United States. By taking account of significant letters, diaries, theological reflections, and other primary documents, we can listen to the voices of what real Catholics in this country have thought, believed, feared, and dreamed.

American Catholic History makes available original documents produced in North America from the earliest missionary voyages in the sixteenth century up to the present day. The texts have been selected to illuminate the complex history, beliefs, and practices of what has become North American Roman Catholicism. They are prefaced by brief editorial introductions which provide historical and biographical context for the texts. They illuminate broad themes in the development of the tradition, from its grappling with new frontiers to its long-time status as outside mainstream culture, and from its intellectual life and political engagement to patterns of worship and spirituality.

American Catholic Historyoffers an overview of the American Catholic experience from both the atop downa of institutional and intellectual history as well as from the abottom upa of social, devotional, womenas and ethnic histories.

American Catholic History - A Documentary Reader (Paperback): Mark Massa American Catholic History - A Documentary Reader (Paperback)
Mark Massa; As told to Catherine Osborne
R850 Discovery Miles 8 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

View the Table of Contents
Read the Introduction

"A unique collection of primary sources that everyone interested in the presence and contributions of Catholics in America should read. With its multidisciplinary breadth, this volume truly represents Catholic Studies."
-- Chester Gillis, author of "Roman Catholicism in America"

aThis rich documentary collection thematically engages U.S. Catholicism both in the life of the nation and in the lives of everyday believers. It is a welcome single-volume reference of primary documents on American Catholicism suitable for course adoption.a
--Timothy Matovina, University of Notre Dame

Catholics were among the early Spanish explorers to the aNew World, a and they have a long and rich history in the United States. By taking account of significant letters, diaries, theological reflections, and other primary documents, we can listen to the voices of what real Catholics in this country have thought, believed, feared, and dreamed.

American Catholic History makes available original documents produced in North America from the earliest missionary voyages in the sixteenth century up to the present day. The texts have been selected to illuminate the complex history, beliefs, and practices of what has become North American Roman Catholicism. They are prefaced by brief editorial introductions which provide historical and biographical context for the texts. They illuminate broad themes in the development of the tradition, from its grappling with new frontiers to its long-time status as outside mainstream culture, and from its intellectual life and political engagement to patterns of worship and spirituality.

American Catholic Historyoffers an overview of the American Catholic experience from both the atop downa of institutional and intellectual history as well as from the abottom upa of social, devotional, womenas and ethnic histories.

American Catholic History, Second Edition - A Documentary Reader (Paperback, 2nd edition): Mark Massa, Catherine Osborne American Catholic History, Second Edition - A Documentary Reader (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Mark Massa, Catherine Osborne
R852 R797 Discovery Miles 7 970 Save R55 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An overview in primary documents of almost four hundred years of the American Catholic experience Among the first European explorers of the Americas, Catholics have a long and rich history in the United States. In this collection of significant letters, diaries, theological reflections, and other primary documents, the voices of Catholics in this country reveal what they have thought, believed, feared, and dreamed. American Catholic History spans the earliest missionary voyages in the sixteenth century, to the present day, illuminating the complex history, beliefs, and practices of what has become North American Roman Catholicism. In an engaging and accessible style, the brief introductions to each text provide historical and biographical context and illuminate broad themes in the development of the American Catholic tradition. From Catholicism's encounters with new frontiers to its long-time position outside mainstream culture, and from its intellectual life and political engagement to patterns of worship and spirituality, this book offers a lively first-hand review of Catholicism's multifaceted history in the United States. This expanded edition includes 34 new documents, and offers more robust coverage of the diverse communities of Catholics in this country.

Eros Unveiled - Plato and the God of Love (Paperback, New edition): Catherine Osborne Eros Unveiled - Plato and the God of Love (Paperback, New edition)
Catherine Osborne
R1,325 Discovery Miles 13 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Few books on love can claim to make significant contributions to our understanding both of ancient views on eros and its place in the Christian tradition. On the basis of a new and sympathetic reading of Plato, Catherine Osborne shows that the long-standing distrust of eros, rather than agape, as a model for the believer's relation to God in Christian thought derives from a misunderstanding of ancient thought on love. Focusing on a number of classic texts, including Plato's Symposium and Lysis, Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics, and famous passages in Gregory of Nyssa, Origen, Dionysius the Areopagite, Plotinus, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas, she shows that love is not motivated by a need that seeks fulfilment. On the contrary, Dr Osborne argues, to seek a motive for love, whether in Plato's account or our own, is to pursue a philosophical confusion. To mention love is to mention the motive that explains our response of affection or devotion or desire; the response cannot be the motive for our love, but is an attitude that belongs in a vision of the beloved transfigured by love. It is for this reason that we have to restore the image of Cupid, whose mischievous darts picture the impossiblity of seeking some further grounds or explanation for love.

Presocratic Philosophy - A Very Short Introduction (Paperback): Catherine Osborne Presocratic Philosophy - A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
Catherine Osborne
R265 R215 Discovery Miles 2 150 Save R50 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Generations of philosophers, both ancient and modern, have traced their inspiration back to the Presocratics. Part of the fascination stems from the fact that little of what they wrote survives. Here Osborne invites her readers to dip their toes into the fragmentary remains of thinkers from Thales to Pythagoras, Heraclitus to Protagoras, and to try to reconstruct the moves that they were making, to support stories that Western philosophers and historians of philosophy like to tell about their past.

This book covers the invention of western philosophy: introducing to us the first thinkers to explore ideas about the nature of reality, time, and the origin of the universe.

Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers - Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature (Paperback): Catherine Osborne Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers - Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature (Paperback)
Catherine Osborne
R1,357 Discovery Miles 13 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Animal rights do not feature explicitly in ancient thought. Indeed the notion of natural rights in general is not obviously present in the classical world. Plato and Aristotle are typically read as racist and elitist thinkers who barely recognize the humanity of their fellow humans. Surely they would be the last to show up as models of the humane view of other kinds?
In this unusual philosophy book, Catherine Osborne asks the reader to think again. She shows that Plato's views on reincarnation and Aristotle's views on the souls of plants and animals reveal a continuous thread of life in which humans are not morally superior to beasts; Greek tragedy turns up thoughts that mirror the claims of rights activists when they speak for the voiceless; the Desert Fathers teach us to admire the natural perceptiveness of animals rather than the corrupt ways of urban man; the long tradition of arguments for vegetarianism in antiquity highlights how mankind's abuse of other animals is the more offensive the more it is for indulgent ends.
What, then, is the humane attitude, and why is it better? How does the humane differ from the sentimental? Is there a truth about how we should treat animals? By reflecting on the work of the ancient poets and philosophers, Osborne argues, we can see when and how we lost touch with the natural intelligence of dumb animals.

Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers - Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature (Hardcover): Catherine Osborne Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers - Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature (Hardcover)
Catherine Osborne
R1,847 Discovery Miles 18 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Animal rights do not feature explicitly in ancient thought. Indeed the notion of natural rights in general is not obviously present in the classical world. Plato and Aristotle are typically read as racist and elitist thinkers who barely recognise the humanity of their fellow humans. Surely they would be the last to show up as models of the humane view of other kinds?
In this unusual philosophy book, Catherine Osborne asks the reader to think again. She shows that Plato's views on reincarnation and Aristotle's views on the souls of plants and animals reveal a continuous thread of life in which humans are not morally superior to beasts; Greek tragedy turns up thoughts that mirror the claims of rights activists when they speak for the voiceless; the Desert Fathers teach us to admire the natural perceptiveness of animals rather than the corrupt ways of urban man; the long tradition of arguments for vegetarianism in antiquity highlights how mankind's abuse of other animals is the more offensive the more it is for indulgent ends.
What, then, is the humane attitude, and why is it better? How does the humane differ from the sentimental? Is there a truth about how we should treat animals? By reflecting on the work of the ancient poets and philosophers, Osborne argues, we can see when and how we lost touch with the natural intelligence of dumb animals.

Call Me 'Your Ladyship' - The Secret History of a Rhondda Girl (Paperback): Catherine Osborn Call Me 'Your Ladyship' - The Secret History of a Rhondda Girl (Paperback)
Catherine Osborn
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R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
American Catholic History, Second Edition - A Documentary Reader (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Mark Massa, Catherine Osborne American Catholic History, Second Edition - A Documentary Reader (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Mark Massa, Catherine Osborne
R2,444 R2,095 Discovery Miles 20 950 Save R349 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An overview in primary documents of almost four hundred years of the American Catholic experience Among the first European explorers of the Americas, Catholics have a long and rich history in the United States. In this collection of significant letters, diaries, theological reflections, and other primary documents, the voices of Catholics in this country reveal what they have thought, believed, feared, and dreamed. American Catholic History spans the earliest missionary voyages in the sixteenth century, to the present day, illuminating the complex history, beliefs, and practices of what has become North American Roman Catholicism. In an engaging and accessible style, the brief introductions to each text provide historical and biographical context and illuminate broad themes in the development of the American Catholic tradition. From Catholicism's encounters with new frontiers to its long-time position outside mainstream culture, and from its intellectual life and political engagement to patterns of worship and spirituality, this book offers a lively first-hand review of Catholicism's multifaceted history in the United States. This expanded edition includes 34 new documents, and offers more robust coverage of the diverse communities of Catholics in this country.

Shadowy Corners - Short Stories of Mystery, Menace and Humour (Paperback): Catherine Osborn Shadowy Corners - Short Stories of Mystery, Menace and Humour (Paperback)
Catherine Osborn
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R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sweet and Sour - Light Verse Edged with Darkness (Paperback): Catherine Osborn Sweet and Sour - Light Verse Edged with Darkness (Paperback)
Catherine Osborn
R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 1.1-3 (Paperback, Nippod): Catherine Osborne Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 1.1-3 (Paperback, Nippod)
Catherine Osborne
R1,492 Discovery Miles 14 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Until the launch of this series over fifteen years ago, the 15,000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written mainly between 200 and 600 AD, constituted the largest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writings not translated into English or other European languages. In this, the first half of Philoponus' analysis of book one of Aristotle's Physics, the principal themes are metaphysical. Aristotle's opening chapter in the Physics is an abstract reflection on methodology for the investigation of nature, or 'physics'. Aristotle suggests that one must proceed from things that are familiar but vague, and derive more precise but less obvious principles to constitute genuine knowledge. His controversial claim that this is to progress from the universal to the more particular occasions extensive apologetic exegesis, typical of Philoponus' meticulous and somewhat pedantic method. Philoponus explains away the apparent conflict between the 'didactic method' (unavoidable in physics) and the strict demonstrative method described in the Analytics. After 20 pages on Chapter 1, Philoponus devotes the remaining 66 pages to Aristotle's objections to two major Presocratic thinkers, Parmenides and Melissus. Aristotle included these thinkers as an aside, because they were not engaged in physics, but in questioning the very basis of physics. Philoponus investigates Aristotle's claims about the relation between a science and its axioms, explores alternative ways of formalising Aristotle's refutation of Eleatic monism and provides a sustained critique of Aristotle's analysis of the Eleatics' purported mistakes about unity and being.

Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 1.4-9 (Paperback, Nippod): Philoponus Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 1.4-9 (Paperback, Nippod)
Philoponus; Translated by Catherine Osborne
R1,500 Discovery Miles 15 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Aristotle's "Physics" 1.4-9 explores a range of questions about the basic structure of reality, the nature of prime matter, the principles of change, the relation between form and matter, and the issue of whether things can come into being out of nothing, and if so, in what sense that is true. Philoponus' commentaries do not merely report and explain Aristotle and the other thinkers whom Aristotle is discussing. They are also the philosophical work of an independent thinker in the Neoplatonic tradition. Philoponus has his own, occasionally idiosyncratic, views on a number of important issues, and he sometimes disagrees with other teachers whose views he has encountered perhaps in written texts and in oral delivery. A number of distinctive passages of philosophical importance occur in this part of Book 1, in which we see Philoponus at work on issues in physics and cosmology, as well as logic and metaphysics. This volume contains an English translation of Philoponus' commentary, as well as a detailed introduction, commentary notes and a bibliography.

Philoponus - On Aristotle Physics 1.4-9 (Hardcover): Catherine Osborne Philoponus - On Aristotle Physics 1.4-9 (Hardcover)
Catherine Osborne
R6,014 Discovery Miles 60 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the chapters discussed in this section of Philoponus' "Physics" commentary, Aristotle explores a range of questions about the basic structure of reality, the nature of prime matter, the principles of change, the relation between form and matter, and the issue of whether things can come into being out of nothing, and if so, in what sense that is true. Philoponus' commentaries do not merely report and explain Aristotle and the other thinkers whom Aristotle is discussing. They are also the philosophical work of an independent thinker in the Neoplatonic tradition. Philoponus has his own, occasionally idiosyncratic, views on a number of important issues, and he sometimes disagrees with other teachers whose views he has encountered perhaps in written texts, and sometimes in oral delivery. A number of distinctive passages of philosophical importance occur in this part of Book 1, in which we see Philoponus at work on issues in physics and cosmology, as well as logic and metaphysics.

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