In America's much-touted classless society, the middle class--decried by some as a mythical construct and heralded by others as the embodiment of the American dream--has always occupied a central and controversial position. This book explores the origins of the new middle classes that emerged in the 20th century, revealing the relationship of ......
On Christmas day, 1993, a 59-year-old British woman gave birth to healthy twins. In Italy the very same week, a black woman bore a white baby, produced from the semen of her white husband and an egg donated by a white woman. Heated debates ensued across the United States and Europe. Fifteen years ago the very idea of conception outside a woman's ......
Offers an interpretation of the nature and scope of practical reasoning in light of postmodern philosophical criticism. This title charts a via media between the abstract formalism of neo-Kantian morality and relativist interpretations of neo-Aristotelian ethics. It treats the eclipse of the classical Aristotelian conception of practical reason.
Rudolf Steiner said of his mystery dramas--written between 1910 and 1913--that they contain the whole essence of Anthroposophy and that if, through some unlikely chance, only these dramas were to survive, the essential content of Anthroposophy would nevertheless be preserved. Steiner's dramas powerfully portray the complex processes of ......
Explores the moral and religious dimensions of the challenges involved in shaping a just and peaceful post-Cold War world. This title covers such topics as: morality and foreign policy; human rights, self determination, and sustainable development; global institutions; the use of force; and, education and action for peace.
"I'll dress the way I want!", "You wouldn't understand!", "I'm not going to church!","You never trust me!", "You aren't going to tell me what to do!" Comments like these evoke a host of responses from parents of adolescents: anxiety, anger, detachment, despair. But Eugene Peterson believes that these kinds of encounters offer important opportuniti
Not much has survived its condemnation by the imperial Church in 448, but here is a new edition of the fragments of Porphyry of Tyre's (ca. 232 - ca. 305) attack on the beliefs and doctrines of Christianity, the divinity of Christ, the integrity of the apostles, and the reality of the resurrection.
An account of the conflict between Galileo and the Church. It reconstructs the history of the ideas that were the principle factors in defining his struggle with the Church, and provides an objective analysis which presents the issues as seen by both sides involved in the conflict.
"Poststructuralism would be historical criticism's id, the sat of its strongest anti-authoritarian instincts." --from the Conclusion "Stephen D. Moore is the leading practitioner of deconstruction in the field of biblical studies today." --J. Cheryl Exum, University of Sheffield
