Devotions for Confession

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Religion & Spirituality

Burns and Oates

Conceived originally as a serious presentatin of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's  nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English.Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit of immense erudition who once tangled with A.J. Ayer in a fabled debate about the existence of God and the possibility of metaphysics, knew that seminary students were fed a woefully inadequate diet of theses and proofs, and that their familiarity with most of history's great thinkers  was reduced to simplistic caricatures.  Copleston set out to redress the wrong by writing a complete history of Western Philosophy, one crackling with incident an intellectual excitement - and one that gives full place to each thinker, presenting his thought in a beautifully rounded manner and showing his links to those who went before and to those who came after him.

A HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. VOL.5. HOBBES TO HUME.

Politics & Social Sciences

FREDERICK COPLESTON

Philosophy

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908. Excerpt: ... gree, is nothing. Words cannot express it. Thoughts cannot convey it. Only a dream can call it up again, in all its fury, rage, and passion." One night, during the gale, the sea crushed the lifeboat like a walnutshell, and tore away the planking of the paddleboxes, leaving the wheels exposed and bare; the next morning the funnel was white with crusted salt, and the rigging all knotted, tangled, wet, and drooping. "A gloomier picture it would be hard to look upon." 1 The climatic conditions were undoubtedly of exceptional severity, and the experienced head-engineer acknowledged that he had never seen such stress of weather. At one time Dickens himself apprehended, and with justification, that all was lost--that the Britannia, with its living freight, was doomed to destruction--and he quietly waited for the worst. "I never expected to see the day again," he wrote, "and resigned myself to God as well as I could." At the close of the memorable voyage the ship suddenly struck upon a bank of mud, creating the greatest confusion on board, and after much backing of paddles and heaving of lead, anchor was dropped in a strange-looking nook, surrounded by banks, rocks, and shoals; the next morning found the ship gliding down a smooth, broad stream, the sun shining brightly, and the officers and crew rigged out in their smartest clothes. Presently they came to the wharf at Halifax, "and leaped upon the firm, glad earth again;" after delivering and exchanging mails, the ship stood off for Boston, where it was telegraphed on the eighteenth day out from Liverpool. The interest with which Dickens strained his eyes "as the first patches of American soil peeped like molehills from the green sea, and 1 "American Notes," chap. ii. followed them, as they swelled, by slow and ...

Charles Dickens

Biographies & Memoirs

CHESTERTON, G.K.

Arts & Literature

Authority: A Christian interpretation of the psychological evolution of authority

Dominian, Jack

Meditations on hope and love

RAHNER, KARL

Worship & Devotion

The religious life today

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The Lord's prayer and Jewish liturgy

Jakob Josef

Brocke Michael Petuchowski

Charismatic Theology: Initiation in the Spirit

Heribert Muhlen

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Life and Death of St. Thomas More

E. E. Reynolds

The heart of Rahner

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