Pagan Virtue in a Christian World

Pagan Virtue in a Christian World
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 9780674088542
ISBN-13 : 0674088549
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Pagan Virtue in a Christian World by : Anthony F. D’Elia

In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, publicly damning a living man. The target was Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts with ties to the Florentine Renaissance. Condemned to an afterlife of torment, he was burned in effigy in several places in Rome. What had this cultivated nobleman done to merit such a fate? Pagan Virtue in a Christian World examines anew the contributions and contradictions of the Italian Renaissance, and in particular how the recovery of Greek and Roman literature and art led to a revival of pagan culture and morality in fifteenth-century Italy. The court of Sigismondo Malatesta (1417–1468), Anthony D’Elia shows, provides a case study in the Renaissance clash of pagan and Christian values, for Sigismondo was nothing if not flagrant in his embrace of the classical past. Poets likened him to Odysseus, hailed him as a new Jupiter, and proclaimed his immortal destiny. Sigismondo incorporated into a Christian church an unprecedented number of zodiac symbols and images of the Olympian gods and goddesses and had the body of the Greek pagan theologian Plethon buried there. In the literature and art that Sigismondo commissioned, pagan virtues conflicted directly with Christian doctrine. Ambition was celebrated over humility, sexual pleasure over chastity, muscular athleticism over saintly asceticism, and astrological fortune over providence. In the pagan themes so prominent in Sigismondo’s court, D’Elia reveals new fault lines in the domains of culture, life, and religion in Renaissance Italy.

The Essential Catholic Survival Guide

The Essential Catholic Survival Guide
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Publisher : Catholic Answers Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1888992816
ISBN-13 : 9781888992816
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis The Essential Catholic Survival Guide by : Catholic Answers

Every Catholic will come face-to-face with anti-Catholic attacks that are launched against the Faith. Don't you owe it to yourself to make sure you have the very best in apologetic resources right at your fingertips? There's no better time to arm yourself with what we consider a must for every Catholic's home library. The Essential Catholic Survival Guide. By compiling seventy of our best apologetic tracts into one cohesive, comprehensive book that can be used by anyone, anytime, anywhere to defend the Catholic faith, we've created what many consider the "go-to" resource when it comes to answering questions about the Faith. Topics include: The Church and the papacy-Scripture and Tradition-Mary and the saints-The sacraments-Salvation-Last things-Morality and science-Anti-Catholicism-Non-Catholic churches and movements-Practical apologetics.

The Pagan, Papal, and Christian Churches; Showing by a Parallel Scheme, what a Conformist the Church of Rome is to the Pagan; and what a Non-conformist to the Christian Church, in Its Rites, Services and Ceremonies. [An Abridgement of “A Parallel Scheme, Etc.”, Extracted from “A Plea for the Non-Conformists.”]

The Pagan, Papal, and Christian Churches; Showing by a Parallel Scheme, what a Conformist the Church of Rome is to the Pagan; and what a Non-conformist to the Christian Church, in Its Rites, Services and Ceremonies. [An Abridgement of “A Parallel Scheme, Etc.”, Extracted from “A Plea for the Non-Conformists.”]
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 8
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ISBN-10 : BL:A0024181545
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Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis The Pagan, Papal, and Christian Churches; Showing by a Parallel Scheme, what a Conformist the Church of Rome is to the Pagan; and what a Non-conformist to the Christian Church, in Its Rites, Services and Ceremonies. [An Abridgement of “A Parallel Scheme, Etc.”, Extracted from “A Plea for the Non-Conformists.”] by : Thomas DELAUNE

Winckelmann and the Vatican's First Profane Museum

Winckelmann and the Vatican's First Profane Museum
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 023011069X
ISBN-13 : 9780230110694
Rating : 4/5 (9X Downloads)

Synopsis Winckelmann and the Vatican's First Profane Museum by : L. Ruprecht

Offers the first-ever historical descriptions of the foundation of the "Museo Profano" inside the Vatican in 1761. Using the palace records from the Vatican's Secret Archives, Ruprecht demonstrates that the Vatican museum was the brainchild of J.J. Winckelmann, the so-called father of Art History.

Pagans and Christians in the City

Pagans and Christians in the City
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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages : 405
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ISBN-10 : 9781467451482
ISBN-13 : 1467451487
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Pagans and Christians in the City by : Steven D. Smith

Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges. Picking up poet T. S. Eliot’s World War II–era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and “modern paganism,” Smith argues in this book that today’s culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. Smith’s Pagans and Christians in the City looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing ideas continue to clash today. All of us, Smith shows, have much to learn by observing how patterns from ancient history are reemerging in today’s most controversial issues.

On Heaven and Earth

On Heaven and Earth
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Publisher : Image
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9780804138727
ISBN-13 : 0804138729
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis On Heaven and Earth by : Jorge Mario Bergoglio

New York Times Bestseller! From the man who became Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio shares his thoughts on religion, reason, and the challenges the world faces in the 21st century with Abraham Skorka, a rabbi and biophysicist. For years Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Argentina, and Rabbi Abraham Skorka were tenacious promoters of interreligious dialogues on faith and reason. They both sought to build bridges among Catholicism, Judaism, and the world at large. On Heaven and Earth, originally published in Argentina in 2010, brings together a series of these conversations where both men talked about various theological and worldly issues, including God, fundamentalism, atheism, abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, and globalization. From these personal and accessible talks comes a first-hand view of the man who would become pope to 1.2 billion Catholics around the world in March 2013.

Democracy and Tradition

Democracy and Tradition
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 382
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ISBN-10 : 0691102937
ISBN-13 : 9780691102931
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Democracy and Tradition by : Jeffrey Stout

Asking how the citizens of modern democracy can reason with one another, this book carves out a controversial position between those who view religious voices as an anathema to democracy and those who believe democratic society is a moral wasteland because such voices are not heard.

The Babylon Connection?

The Babylon Connection?
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0916938174
ISBN-13 : 9780916938178
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Babylon Connection? by : Ralph Woodrow

Pagan and Christian Rome

Pagan and Christian Rome
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Total Pages : 480
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015014676590
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Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Pagan and Christian Rome by : Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani