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Herodotus: Histories Book VIII
The Battle of Salamis was the first great (and unexpected) victory of the Greeks over the Persian forces under Xerxes, whose defeat had important...
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The Immutability of God in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar
This study shows how the trinitarian theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar opens up an aproach to the controverted question of God\'s immutability and...
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Tacitus: Histories Book II
The Histories is the first historical work by Rome’s most accomplished and challenging historian, Tacitus. It narrates the brutal civil wars which...
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Language in the World
What makes the words we speak mean what they do? Possible-worlds semantics articulates the view that the meanings of words contribute to determining,...
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Tacitus: Histories Book II
The Histories is the first historical work by Rome’s most accomplished and challenging historian, Tacitus. It narrates the brutal civil wars which...
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Theology, Hermeneutics, and Imagination
This book explores the contemporary crisis of biblical interpretation by examining modern and postmodern forms of the hermeneutics of suspicion....
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Xenophon on Government
Xenophon of Athens was a pupil of Socrates and a philosopher in his own right. He wrote two of the texts included in this volume, the Hiero (On...
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Causes and Coincidences
In an important departure from theories of causation, David Owens proposes that coincidences have no causes, and that a cause is something which...
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Xenophon on Government
Xenophon of Athens was a pupil of Socrates and a philosopher in his own right. He wrote two of the texts included in this volume, the Hiero (On...
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Sacrifice and Redemption
These essays explore the role sacrificial metaphor has to play in theological interpretation of the death of Christ, and ask whether such a metaphor...
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Anti-Individualism
Sanford Goldberg argues that a proper account of the communication of knowledge through speech has anti-individualistic implications for both...
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Arguments of Augustan Wit
Comic and satiric literature from the 1670s to the 1740s is characterized by the allusive and elusive word play of Augustan wit. The arguments of...
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Music, Philosophy, and Modernity
Modern philosophers generally assume that music is a problem to which philosophy ought to offer an answer. Andrew Bowie’s Music, Philosophy, and...
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Aristotle on Mind and the Senses
The Symposia Aristotelica were inaugurated at Oxford in 1957. They are conferences of select groups of Aristotelian scholars from the UK, USA and...
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The Mundane Matter of the Mental Language
Christopher Maloney offers an explanation of the fundamental nature of thought. He posits the idea that thinking involves the processing of mental...
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Biblical Narrative in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur
Although Paul Ricoeur’s writings are widely and appreciatively read by theologians, this book offers a full, sympathetic yet critical account of...
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Consciousness and the Origins of Thought
This book offers a comprehensive and broadly rationalist theory of the mind which continually tests itself against experimental results and clinical...
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Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise
Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise (1670) is one of the most important philosophical works of the early modern period. In it Spinoza...
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Social Freedom: The Responsibility View
When is it correct to say that a person’s freedom is restricted? Can poverty constrain freedom? Can you constrain your own freedom, for instance...
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Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise
Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise (1670) is one of the most important philosophical works of the early modern period. In it Spinoza...
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