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Two memoirs written in the late 1950s by Robert Brennan, a
republican activist in the early years of the twentieth century,
journalist and close associate of Eamon de Valera. "Ireland
Standing Firm" is a frank and pungent account of Robert Brennan's
time as Irish Minister (in effect Irish Ambassador) in Washington
immediately before and during the World War II. Brennan provides an
account of his efforts in defending Irish neutrality and his
meetings with leading American officials and politicians, including
Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the second memoir, Brennan describes his
close association with Eamon de Valera from their first meeting in
prison in 1917 until de Valera's retirement as Taoiseach in 1959.
The question of divine agency in the world remains one important
unresolved underlying obstacle in the dialogue between theology and
science. Modern notions of divine agency are shown to have
developed out of the interaction of three factors in early
modernity. Two are well known: late medieval perfect-being theology
and the early modern application of the notion of the two books of
God's revelation to the understanding of the natural order. It is
argued the third is the early modern appropriation of the
Augustinian doctrine of inspiration. This assumes the soul's
existence and a particular description of divine agency in humans,
which became more generally applied to divine agency in nature.
Whereas Newton explicitly draws the parallel between divine agency
in humans and that in nature, Darwin rejects its supposed
perfection and Huxley raises serious questions regarding the
traditional understanding of the soul. This book offers an
alternative incarnational description of divine agency, freeing
consideration of divine agency from being dependent on resolving
the complex issues of perfect-being theology and the existence of
the soul. In conversation with Barth's pneumatology, this proposal
is shown to remain theologically coherent and plausible while
resolving or avoiding a range of known difficulties in the
science-theology dialogue.
This book addresses a phenomenon that pervades the field of art
history: the fact that English has become a widely adopted
language. Art history employs language in a very particular way,
one of its most basic aims being the verbal reconstruction of the
visual past. The book seeks to shed light on the particular issues
that English's rise to prominence poses for art history by
investigating the history of the discipline itself: specifically,
the extent to which the European tradition of art historical
writing has always been shaped by the presence of dominant
languages on the continent. What artistic, intellectual, and
historical dynamics drove the pattern of linguistic ascendance and
diffusion in the art historical writing of past centuries? How have
the immediate, practical ends of writing in a common language had
unintended, long-term consequences for the discipline? Were art
historical concepts transformed or left behind with the onset of a
new lingua franca, or did they often remain intact beneath a
shifting veneer of new words? Includes 10 essays in English, four
in Italian, and one in German. Text in English, German and Italian.
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Sackets Harbor (Hardcover)
Robert Brennan, Jeannie I Brennan, Jean Brennan
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