A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome
Originally published in 1864 as La Cité Antique, this remarkable work describes society as it existed in Greece during the age of Pericles and in Rome at the time of Cicero. Working with only a fraction of the materials available to todays classical scholar, Fustel de Coulanges fashioned a complete picture of life in the ancient city, resulting ......
A Biblical Study of the Second Advent and the Rapture
Jesus Christ is coming again! That is the Blessed Hope which has since the earliest days of the church energized biblical Christians looking for the full revelation of Gods redemption But even among those who have most devoutly looked forward to the second coming of the Lord there have often been disputes about its nature. At their sharpest, these
Unitarian Universalist minister G. Peter Fleck exploresthe role of reason and science, limits on the concept of progress, the lure of other (Eastern) religious traditions, the influence of the Judeo-Christian heritage, and the ways we can interpret that heritage to build our own spiritual home.
''This is the best treatment scholars have of black life in a southern state at the beginning of the twentieth century.'' -- Howard N. Rabinowitz, Journal of American History ''The author shows clearly and forcefully the ways in which this [white] system abused and controlled the black lower caste in Georgia.'' -- Lester C. Lamon, American ......
In a break from traditional philosophical views of sex and love, this book presents a radical defence of sexual enjoyment without love. It contains analyses of the philosophies of Sartre, Freud, Schopenhauer, Reich, Nagel, deSade, and others.
Of all of his works, The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity is the one that Steiner himself believed would have the longest life and the greatest spiritual and cultural consequences. It was written as a phenomenological account of the "results of observing the human soul according to the methods of natural science.
Uriel Weinreich was of the innovative and creative thinkers in the field of semantics in the twentieth century. This volume contains all of Weinreich's writings on semantics, including a number of papers that were not published in his lifetime. It includes the first paper on the universals of semantic theory, an analysis of the fundamental ......
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship ......
