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A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14:23, “Compel Them to Come In, That My House May Be Full”
9780865974944A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14:23, “Compel Them to Come In, That My House May Be Full”
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Author: Pierre Bayle ISBN: 9780865974944 Introduction, a note on the present translation, abbreviations used in referring to Bayle's works, annotations, appendixes, list of alterations to the 1708 translation, index. Philosophical Commentary deals with church and state, religious toleration, legal enforcement of religious practices, and religi...
Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence, with Selections from Foundations of the Law of Nature and Nations
9780865975194Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence, with Selections from Foundations of the Law of Nature and Nations
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By Christian ThomasiusEdited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Thomas Ahnert ISBN: 9780865975194 Christian Thomasius’s natural jurisprudence is essential to understanding the origins of the Enlightenment in Germany, where his importance was comparable to that of John Locke’s in England. First published in 1688, Thomasius’s Institutiones j...
Natural Theology: A Biblical and Historical Introduction and Defense
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Authors: David Haines ISBN: 9781949716184 Pages 315 Christians affirm that Scripture alone reveals truths about God which cannot be known by mere reason, such as the Trinity or the Gospel itself. But how do we account for Scripture’s apparent talk of a knowledge of God possible solely from creation? Or for our own sense of the divine in nature?...
Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion in Reference to Civil Society
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Author: Samuel Pufendorf ISBN: 9780865973701 Samuel Pufendorf’s Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion(published in Latin in 1687) is a major work on the separation of politics and religion. Written in response to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by the French king Louis XIV, Pufendorf contests the right of the sovereign to control th...
On the Death of Christ: And Other Atonement Writings
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Translated and Edited by: Michael J. Lynch ISBN: 9781949716269 Pages 428 "In 'On the Death of Christ' John Davenant disentangles the doctrines of satisfaction and election, offering a sustained argument for the distinction between the sufficiency and efficiency of Christ's saving work. Alongside a biblical/theological argument is a fascinatin...
Philosophers on War (Revised Edition)
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Authors Eric Patterson & Timothy Demy ISBN 9798985255300 Pages 374 War changes lives forever in ways unthinkable and the scars of war are personal, social, and cultural. Though often attributed to Plato, it was philosopher George Santayana (1863–1952) who astutely declared: “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Some may dispute the orig...
Philosophy 101
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Author Michael J. Vlach ISBN 9781734585933 Pages 241 This easy-to-read guide provides a one-sentence statement of the “Big Idea” of 101 of the most important ideas and people in philosophy and then follows up with a brief overview of that idea. Michael Vlach provides an exceptional guide for students or any person who desires to better underst...
Principles of Equity
Principles of Equity
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Author: Henry Home, Lord Kames ISBN: 9780865976160 Henry Home, Lord Kames, was the complete “Enlightenment man,” concerned with the full spectrum of human knowledge and its social use. However, as a lawyer and, after 1752, as a judge on the Court of Session in Edinburgh, he made many of his most distinctive contributions through his works on th...
Principles of Moral and Christian Philosophy (set)
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Author: George Turnbull Edited and with an Introduction by Alexander Broadie ISBN: 978086597417 The Principles of Moral and Christian Philosophy presents the first masterpiece of Scottish Common Sense philosophy. This two-volume treatise is important for its wide range of insights about the nature of the human mind, the foundations of morals, a...
Responsibility and Restraint
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Authors Eric D. Patterson and Marc LiVecche ISBN 9781734585964 Pages 316 Ideas, like people, have genealogies. And so it is with the just war tradition - a moral and ethical framework that seeks to inform political, military, and other leaders and individuals who are responsible for maintaining a just and peaceful social and political order in ...
Selections from Three Works
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By Francisco SuárezEdited and with an Introduction by Thomas Pink ISBN: 9780865975170 A Treatise on Laws and God the LawgiverA Defence of the Catholic and Apostolic FaithA Work on the Three Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope, and Charity Francisco Suárez (1548–1617) was the greatest metaphysician and moral theorist of sixteenth- and seventeenth-c...
The Divine Feudal Law: Or, Covenants with Mankind, Represented
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Author: Samuel PufendorfTranslated by Theophilus Dorrington (1703)Edited and with an Introduction by Simone Zurbuchen The Divine Feudal Law sets forth Pufendorf’s basis for the reunion of the Lutheran and Calvinist confessions. This attempt to seek a “conciliation” between the confessions complements the concept of toleration discussed in Of...
The Principles of Natural and Politic Law
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Author:Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui Translated by Thomas Nugent (1763) Born in 1694, Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui helped transform the modern tradition of natural law and convey it to new generations. Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui (1694–1748) was a Swiss jurist.