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Boethius: The Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy (Clarendon Paperbacks)

1 review
Henry Chadwick

Oxford University Press, USA, 1990

A Well-Rounded Study on the Life,Thought, and Work of Boethius
The accomplished scholar Henry Chadwick, in his work Boethius: The Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy, has produced a well-rounded, critical approach to the life and influence, to the writings and teachings, of the philosopher, statesman, and Catholic saint, Boethius. First off, Chadwick provides a fairly extensive sketch of the religious and political milieu of the declining ...

Interpreting Late Antiquity: Essays on the Postclassical World

Belknap Press, 2001

The era of late antiquity--from the middle of the third century to the end of the eighth--was marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade the map of the known world, and the creation of art of enduring glory. In these eleven in-depth essays, drawn from the award-winning reference work Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, an international cast of experts provides essential information ...

East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church: From Apostolic Times until the Council of Florence (Oxford ...
Henry Chadwick

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

The greatest Christian split of all has been that between east and west, between Roman Catholic and eastern Orthodox, which is still apparent today. Henry Chadwick provides a compelling and balanced account of the emergence of divisions between Rome and Constantinople. Starting with the roots of the divergence in Apostolic times, he takes the story right up to the Council of Florence in the fifteenth century.

Haney's Baseball Book of Reference: The Revised Rules of the Game for 1867

2 reviews
Henry Chadwick

Applewood Books, 2004

Wonderful glimpse into ideology of baseball following the Civil War
This book is perhaps the most useful contemporary example of the concerned effort by sportswriters and organized baseball to establish the sport as the country's 'respectable' and scientific national pastime following the Civil War. Officially endorsed by the National Organization of Base Ball Players (NABBP), Chadwick's usual romantic and eloquent prose is sacrificed for a measured and ...

Augustine: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

4 reviews
Henry Chadwick

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

great for an understanding of St. Augustine
This compact book is perfect. It provides just the right background information, from influences of people who lived before St. Augustine to influences of his modern world, as well as lots of other information about the early Christian era & pagan dissidents, numerous similar & conflicting spiritual beliefs -- without getting boring by losing focus on the topic, Augustine, or by focusing on him ...

The Early Church (The Penguin History of the Church)

24 reviews
Henry Chadwick

Penguin, 1993

Concise, readable overview.
In very few pages, the author manages to give an excellent recap of the key events and forces which shaped church history in the first 6 centuries. He goes into enough detail, howwever, that I'll bet even avid readers of church history will still find here material previously unknown to them. His organizing the material according to topics rather than by a strict chronological order makes it ...

Origen: Contra Celsum

1 review
Origen

Cambridge University Press, 1980

The Culmination of the Great Apologetic Movement of 2nd and 3rd Centuries A.D.
"Celsus, with all his boasts of universal knowledge, has here fallen into the most vulgar of errors, in supposing that in the law and the prophets there is not a meaning deeper than that afforded by a literal rendering of the words ..., "Thou shalt have dominion over many nations, and no one shall rule over thee," Origen, Contra Celsum 7.18 Early Alexandrine Debates: The Gnostic ...

Confessions. Saint Augustine (Oxford World's Classics)
Henry Chadwick

Oxford University Press, 2008

In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art. Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high power at the imperial court of Milan, and his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage as he recovered the faith that his mother had taught ...

The Church in Ancient Society: From Galilee to Gregory the Great (Oxford History of the Christian Church)

1 review
Henry Chadwick

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

On doctrine and church order
This is a excellent work, but it only focuses on the development of doctrine and church official structure (the story of their definition is summarised with concision, interpretation being reduced to a minimum, and with themes often split between different chapters).Because of that, the book is a heavy reading.

St. Augustine Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)

46 reviews
Saint Augustine

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

Tolle, lege
I've long since lost the religious fervor that led me to read Augustine's Confessions for the first time some 40 years ago. But I've never tired of re-reading it, which I do every five years or so. For in addition to being an exquisitely written prayer, it's also a penetrating analysis of the human psyche. In reading the Confessions, one is invited to reflect on what it means to be a human ...

Augustine (Past Masters)

1 review
Henry Chadwick

Oxford University Press, USA, 1986

One of the finest works of this series
This is one of the finest works of this series. It is written by a scholar with a deep understanding of Augustine.

Justification and the Future of the Ecumenical Movement: The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of ...
Walter Cardinal Kasper, Henry Chadwick, ...

Liturgical Press, 2003

Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition

3 reviews
Henry Chadwick

Oxford University Press, USA, 1984

A clear and concise introduction to early Christianity
This little gem by Henry Chadwick is a clear and concise introduction to three early Christian thinkers who addressed the question of how Christianity should interact with philosophy: Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen. All three were optimistic about the project of stating Christian faith in terms of the philosophy dominant in their culture. Chadwick's knowledge of the period ...

Not Angels But Anglicans: A History of Christianity in the British Isles

2 reviews

Canterbury Press Norwich, 2008

See with A TREASURY OF ANGLICAN ART
This book would be ideally purchased with the book A TREASURY OF ANGLICAN ART -- also available from AMAZON. NOT ANGELS BUT ANGLICANS gives the reader of any background (Episcopal, Roman, Protestant or none) the history and flavor of the English Church and British Spirituality -- from early and medieval Roman Catholicism to the present Anglican Communion -- the largest worldwide body of ...

The Treatise on the Apostolic Tradition of St. Hippolytus of Rome, Bishop and Martyr: Apostolike Paradosis

1 review
Antipope Hippolytus, Gregory Dix, ...

Morehouse Pub Co, 1991

In the Spirit of the Pastoral Epistles
"This treatise shows the apostolic fruition of ecclesiastical discipline and order germinating from the otherwise out-moded admonishments of the Apostle Paul's Pastoral Epistles to Timothy."

The Family Book of Best Loved Poems: Love, Faith and Inspiration, America, Home and Fireside, Children, ...
James Russell Lowell, Hildegarde Hawthorne, ...

Hanover House, 1952

The Family Book of Best Loved Poems: Love, Faith and Inspiration, America, Home and Fireside, Children, Nature, Contemplation, Adventure on Land and Sea, Legend and Fantasy, Humor and Satire, Frontier Days, Old Story Poems: 162 Famous Poets (1952 Hardcover Printing). 520 Pages. Limited Collector's Edition. Rare Book.

Lessing's Theological Writings: Selections in Translation (Library of Modern Religious Thought)
Gotthold Lessing

Stanford University Press, 1957

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