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2 reviews
John Gardner

ISIS Audio Books, 1998

A spy novel with a magic twist!
Herbie Krueger must find out why Gus Keene was killed. Along the way, he finds out that his friend was a master magician and member of the Magic Circle. Why did he keep this hidden from all, and why did he take on another identity to perform? Herbie finds out that these answers directly tie in to Gus' death. John Gardner is an Associate of the Inner Magic Circle and this book shows it. It ...

Caverns of the Father Confessor

1 review
Z. T. Law

AuthorHouse, 2002

What a book!
I have to admit, I was about to put the book down and just stop reading it... I didn't particularly like the beginning. But it really picked up... I honestly liked this book very much. It's a great read and easy to understand... I LOVE the twist at the end!!! It's definitely worth reading.

Ballad of the Confessor

2 reviews
William Zink

Sugar Loaf Press, 2003

Powerful, poetic new fiction
William Zink's latest novel, Ballad of the Confessor, offers a powerful, sometimes gritty, sometimes poetic view of the often overlooked American working class. Set in the heat of Charleston, SC, among the guarded, trapped, struggling lives of landscape laborers, the book simmers as Zink reveals his (almost) nameless protagonist's life through a series of elliptical encounters, trials, and ...

Maximus Confessor: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality)

6 reviews
Maximus

Paulist Press, 1985

Maximus to the maximum
I am an Orthodox Christian, and I have not only read this book, but as a Maximus scholar, I have lived with it for 15 years, since it first came out in 1985. My original copy is totally dogeared, held together with tape and glue and the grace of a book lovingly valued as precious far beyond its price. Every page is full of notes upon notes in various colors. As it gradually falls apart through ...

Harold: The last of the Saxon kings (Bulwer's novels)

2 reviews
Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

Routledge, 1867

In a word--WONDERFUL!!!
This book is fabulous. It really transports you back to the Anglo-Saxon era. I originally read it because I wanted to read about William the Conqueror, but now I'm a huge Harold I "fan."

A Confessor's Handbook

3 reviews
Kurt Stasiak

Paulist Press, 2000

Help for the Confessing
Although written to help priests be more effective and gentle, helpful confessors by gaining a deeper understanding of what their people are saying (or trying to say or hide )in confession this book can also help laity confused about the sacramment of reconciliation. It can show you clearer and more precise ways to express yourself, or how to ask your confessor for the kind of guidance this St. ...

The Feudal Kingdom of England, 1042-1216 (5th Edition)

1 review
Frank Barlow

Longman, 1999

A Masterly Treatment of the Norman Period
This is one of my very favorite books in the world. Frank Barlow's scholarly account of Edward the Confessor, the Norman Conquest, and the Norman and Angevin kings has never been bettered. I bought this book in the late 1970s and have read it a dozen times since. I cannot sincerely recommend for the casual reader, but for anyone with a real interest in the period, it is a must. Barlow understood ...

Confessor 1ST Edition Signed :Sword of Truth 11

1 review
Terry Goodkind

TOR BOOKS ST MARTINS MASS, 2007

The perfect conclusion
While the biggest complaint about this book has been that it contains (gasp!) philosophy (followed closely by the fact that it contains not just a protagonist, but a hero, though the charge that Richard is "perfect" is blatantly false, as are most of the other criticisms), most of the critics seem to have missed most of it. It is not just "life good, religion bad," as they claim--although that ...

On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ: Selected Writings from St. Maximus the Confessor (St. Vladimir's ...

2 reviews
Paul M. Blowers, Robert Louis Wilken

St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2004

Maximize Your Maximus Studies!
Great translation of the hero and confessor of the faith who defended the natures of Christ, wills of Christ and hypostatic union. Really he helped defend the core of the faith against those who taught that Jesus was not exactly like usand exactly of the nature of the Father. Great material.

King of the Confessors

10 reviews
Thomas Hoving

Ballantine Books, 1982

Read and re-read!
I read this book when it came out many years ago and my copy has been read and re-read many times over the years. It's a great non fiction book about an ivory cross that the former director of the Met found and pursued and finally purchased, after many setbacks and frustrations along the way. It brings you into the world of art, history, museums and museum directors and brings it all to life. ...

Origen of Alexandria And St. Maximus the Confessor

1 review
Edward Moore

Dissertation.com, 2005

A Genuinely Original Appreciation of Early Christianity -Four and a Half Stars
Throw out everything you think you know about early Christianity. For most of us moderns & postmoderns (especially if our understanding of Christianity derives from the Latin West, the Orthodox East is another matter) it is a dour, unimaginative and inhumane thing. In this fascinating work Edward Moore shows us an early Christian thinker -Origen- whose speculations can be said to rank up there ...

The Confessor

101 reviews
Daniel Silva

Signet, 2004

"Bring me the file on The Leopard."
(4.5 stars) The Leopard, an assassin who figures in a number of Silva novels, becomes a major player in this third Gabriel Allon novel, about the passive involvement of the Vatican in the Holocaust and its subsequent denial of all responsibility. Basing the novel on research by scholars like Susan Zuccotti (whom Silva credits in his acknowledgments) into the secret connections between factions ...

Maximus the Confessor

5 reviews

Taylor & Francis, 2007

A "most valuable" introduction to Maximus
I cannot in good conscience bypass one more time that one-starred, rather negative review by the reviewer from Holland of this actually excellent book on St. Maximus the Confessor by Andrew Louth, without attempting to redress what is basically a false impression of a very praise-worthy work. I could not disagree more with his overall opinion of what Louth has done. In fact, Andrew Louth has ...

Microcosm and Mediator: The Theological Anthropology of Maximus the Confessor

3 reviews
Lars Thunberg

Ams Pr Inc, 1987

Maximus studies
It was the late Benedictine scholar Polycarp Sherwood, of St. Meinrad's abbey in rural southern Indiana, who broke wide open the historical and theological study of Maximus the Confessor's writings in the 1950s. But it was the Swedish scholar Lars Thunberg, in the first edition of Microcosm and Mediator (1965), who took Maximian research to a new level of critical analysis. This second edition of ...

The English Nobility under Edward the Confessor (Oxford Historical Monographs)

1 review
Peter A. Clarke

Oxford University Press, USA, 1994

Highly recommended for the early British feudal aristocracy
There's a tendency to look for contrast to the closely-held authority of the Norman rulers of England after 1066 by imagining the late Anglo-Saxon kingdom to have been a semi-democratic one of smallholders. But this is very far from the case. As Clarke shows, all the earls under Edward came from just four families: Godwine and his wife and sons (including Harold, defeated at Hastings), Leofric of ...

Free Choice in Saint Maximus the Confessor

3 reviews
Joseph P. Farrell

Saint Tikhon's Seminary Press, 1989

Correct doctrine of God, correct doctrine of Free-Choice
How do the Saints maintain there personhood and freedom in the Eschaton, yet unable to Sin? Given that it is the Father's will that Christ go to the cross, is the act rendered inevitable? Does Christ have free-choice or is He determined? This book along with Dr. Farrell's Introductions & Translations of Photius' Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit and Maximus' Disputations with Pyrrhus form ...

Cosmic Liturgy: The Universe According to Maximus the Confessor (Communio Books.)

3 reviews
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Ignatius Press, 2003

The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handywork
"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard." Ps 19:1-3 Maximus the Confessor: Born around 580, this Eastern Orthodox Byzantine theologian, and ascetic writer ...

Housecarl

8 reviews
Laurence J. Brown

Paul Mould Publishers, 2002

Housecarl Is A Riveting Tale of 11th Century England!
This is another worthy story about Harold I & William of Normandy which will culminate into the Battle of Hastings, October 14, 1066. The characters are realistically portrayed, even the fictional ones, such as Ranulf Redbeard, personal champion and housecarl of King Harold. Several events led up to the inevitable historical battle of 1066 and the characters endure almost all of them. King ...

Edward the Confessor

2 reviews
Frank Barlow

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970

It's really good!
Though the subject of this book may seem a bit daunting and even boring, I promise you that Frank Barlow has done a fabulous job. He has brought to life the enigmatic and somewhat obscure lives of the most important Englishmen of the late 11th century: Edward the Confessor, Earl Godwin, Edith Godwin's daughter, King Harold II, Swegn Godwinson, and Tostig Godwinson. A must-read.

Confessor Between East and West: A Portrait of Ukrainian Cardinal Josyf Slipyj

1 review
Jaroslav Jan Pelikan

Eerdmans Pub Co, 1990

Readable but scholarly analysis of an heroic figure
H.B. Josyf Slipyj was Head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church for almost the entire period of Soviet rule in Ukraine. The book details both his life in the Soviet Gulag and his exile in Rome. However, it does not move in a typical chronological biographical fashion. Pelikan instead explains the various philosophical and theological influences on the life of a bishop who gave to the Ukrainian ...

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