Libro Genesi

El problema de la creación del mundo: San Agustín en el siglo XIII

Autor: Verónica Benavides

Número de Páginas: 292

Con el objetivo de establecer los límites y el alcance de la interpretación que realizaron la Escuela Franciscana del siglo XIII y los fundadores de la noción agustiniana de la Creación, Alejandro de Hales y San Buenaventura, el libro esclarece hasta dónde siguen a San Agustín y hasta dónde se apartan, dando paso a una nueva metafísica creacionista. La obra se centra en el problema del origen radical de los entes y en una de sus posibles soluciones metafísicas, a saber, la creación exnihilo por parte de Dios como Causa Primera del ser total de todo lo que es. La obra investiga el discurso que esta ha tenido en la Edad Media, en especial, su recepción e interpretación por parte de los que podrían llamarse los «discípulos remotos». Vale mencionar que, para ellos, la noción de creación forjada por el obispo de Hipona pervive como enseñanza oficial de la Escuela Franciscana, pero no sin sufrir transformaciones y adiciones ajenas al corpus augustiniano, provenientes principalmente de las nuevas fuentes árabes y judías disponibles en la época. La obra, de este modo, abre este aspecto poco tratado de la tradición agustiniana medieval a fin de ser un aporte a la...

Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, in the Year ...

Autor: Georgia. Supreme Court

Número de Páginas: 790

De genesi ad litteram libri duodecim

Autor: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)

Número de Páginas: 742

Tolkien the Medievalist

Autor: Jane Chance

Número de Páginas: 347

Interdisciplinary in approach, Tolkien the Medievalist provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's Medievalism. In fifteen essays, eminent scholars and new voices explore how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his scholarship on medieval literature to his own personal voice. The four sections reveal the author influenced by his profession, religious faith and important issues of the time; by his relationships with other medievalists; by the medieval sources that he read and taught, and by his own medieval mythologizing.

San Agustín y el progreso de la teología matrimonial

Autor: Pedro Langa

Número de Páginas: 308

Mani in Dublin

Autor: Siegfried G. Richter , Charles Horton , Klaus Ohlhafer

Número de Páginas: 477

In 2009 the Seventh International Conference of Manichaean Studies was held at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. The 22 selected papers of this volume offer a deep insight into the faith of Manichaean communities ranging from the very beginning of the 3rd century up to the last traces of worship today. Among others the authors deal with sources from Augustin, John the Grammarian, Ephrem the Syrian and further sources written in Coptic, Sogdian, Middle Persian, Parthian and Chinese. Several studies about Manichaean art and iconography offer a visual impression, which gives a new opportunity for understanding the religion of Light.

The Blind Watch

Autor: Jack E. Brush

Número de Páginas: 288

The Blind Watch has a twofold purpose. Firstly, it aims to expose some of the salient inadequacies and fallacies of modern atheism. Secondly, and more fundamentally, it is intended to expand our thinking about nature in general and about the meaning of nature for a Christian understanding of human beings. For systematic reasons, the book focuses on Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker, which has become a classic on modern atheism. In contrast to Dawkins' work, the present book describes the watch, i.e. the atheistic scientist, not the watchmaker, as blind, insofar as the scientist calculates everything, but sees very little. By confronting the atheism of Dawkins with the philosophical (Heraclitus and the Stoics) and the theological (the Apostle Paul and Augustine) traditions, the book develops a fundamental understanding of nature as nature that leads to a definition of life quite different from that of the evolutionary biologists.

Genesis B and the Comedic Imperative

Autor: John F. Vickrey

Número de Páginas: 343

Readers of Old English would generally agree that the poem Genesis B, a translation into Old English of an Old Saxon (that is, continental) retelling of the story of the Fall, is a vigorous and moving narrative. They would disagree, however, as to the meaning of the poem. Some hold that it reflects an orthodox Christian viewpoint and others claim that it assumes a distinctly unorthodox position in portraying Adam and Eve as not morally culpable in their disobedience but merely tricked into disobedience through the wiles of the Devil's agent. The study Genesis B and the Comedic Imperative, examining these incompatible readings, infers that the poem is essentially orthodox, that it demonstrates sufficiently the moral culpability of Adam and Eve, and that it departs from orthodoxy only insofar as it conveys a strong impression that Adam and Even will undertake what amounts to Christian penance, leading them eventually to Heaven. The poem thereby attains the happy ending typical of early medieval Christian narrative. Hence the titular "Comedic Imperative." The inference of orthodoxy follows as a nigh-inevitable conclusion of the interpretation of several motifs: the poem's culturally...

The Literal Meaning of Genesis

Autor: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)

Número de Páginas: 364

A thorough and conscientious commentary on the first three chapters from the Book of Genesis, completed in 415. Augustine's purpose is to explain, to the best of his ability, what the author intended to say about what God did when he made heaven and earth. Contains Books 7-12.

The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature

Autor: Mikael Males

Número de Páginas: 474

This book assesses the importance of poetry for the Old Icelandic literary flowering of c. 1150–1350. It addresses the apparent paradox that an extremely conservative form of literature, namely skaldic poetry, was at the core of the most innovative literary and intellectual experiments in the period. The book argues that this cannot simply be explained as a result of strong local traditions, as in most previous scholarship. Thus, for instance, the author demonstrates that the mix of prose and poetry found in kings’ sagas and sagas of Icelanders is roughly contemporary to the written sagas. Similarly, he argues that treatises on poetics and mythology, including Snorri’s Edda, are new to the period, not only in their textual form, but also in their systematic mode of analysis. The book contends that what is truly new in these texts is the method of the authors, derived from Latin learning, but applied to traditional forms and motifs as encapsulated in the skaldic tradition. In this way, Christian Latin learning allowed for its perceived opposite, vernacular oral literature of pagan extraction, to reach full fruition and to largely replace the very literature which had made...

Genesis 1-11

Autor: Andrew Louth , Thomas C. Oden

Número de Páginas: 283

The creation narrative in the early chapters of Genesis proved irresistible to the church fathers. Following the apostle Paul, they explored the six days of creation and the profound significance of Adam as a type of Christ, the second Adam. With comment from Basil the Great, Ambrose, and Augustine, this ACCS volume on Genesis 1-11 opens up a treasure house of ancient wisdom.

Dissemination of Music

Autor: Hans Lenneberg

Número de Páginas: 162

The contributors are leading scholars from the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Italy. The essays examine the history of music publishing from its inception to the early twentieth century. The Dissemination of Music provides new insight into the social history of music, illustrating how certain types of music were made popular because publishers made them more available, and how the reputations of composers were made or broken by the whims of publishers. This important reference work will interest scholars and students in all areas of music This collection brings the history of music publishing into the realm of social history, looking beyond the printing process to examine why and for whom music publishers produced their work. The book shows how technological limitations and printers' and publishers' preferences significantly influenced musical tastes in Europe from medieval times to the modern age.

How Does God Talk to Us?

Autor: Frank Hofmann

Número de Páginas: 237

How does God talk to us? The image of the speaking God offers a profound insight into the nature of communication. The idea of the God's Word runs like a red thread through the entire Bible. Few theologians, however, have interpreted the concept "Word of God" as a linguistic phenomenon, but Augustine, Luther, and Barth are among those who have. What sets this study apart from others is its emphasis on the aspects of semiotics (Augustine), semantics (Luther), and pragmatics (Barth). Hofmann then places these three theologians in the context of the linguistic analytical philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ian Ramsey, and John L. Austin. This work carries forward the dialogue between theology and modern philosophy of language, while at the same time opening up the Word of God for human reality. It also touches on the fields of the doctrine of God and Christology, attempting nothing less than a comprehensive language theory of the Word of God.

The Days of Creation

Autor: Andrew J. Brown

Número de Páginas: 373

The Days of Creation examines the history of Christian interpretation of the seven-day framework of Genesis 1:1–2:3 in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament from the post-apostolic era to the debates surrounding Essays and Reviews (1860). Included in the survey are patristic, medieval, Renaissance/Reformation, eighteenth-century Enlightenment and finally early to mid-nineteenth-century interpretations of the days of creation. The author shows that readings of Genesis 1:1–2:3 in the modern era have much deeper roots than is sometimes realized. The "day-age' scheme has roots in Augustine's figurative creation days, the world-week historical scheme, Renaissance Platonism and Newtonian science, while the "literal' alternative of the gap theory combines ancient literal interpretation with chaos concepts derived from Greco-Roman myths and interpreted through a geological lens. Early treatments of this text are poorly understood because of their very different philosophical and theological contexts. Hasty appropriation of ancient precedents as support for modern interpretations often overlooks or oversimplifies this difference. Changing ideas and exploration in the early Modern era...

Dreams and Visions in the Early Middle Ages

Autor: Jesse Keskiaho

Número de Páginas: 341

Dreams and visions played important roles in the Christian cultures of the early Middle Ages. But not only did tradition and authoritative texts teach that some dreams were divine: some also pointed out that this was not always the case. Exploring a broad range of narrative sources and manuscripts, Jesse Keskiaho investigates how the teachings of Augustine of Hippo and Pope Gregory the Great on dreams and visions were read and used in different contexts. Keskiaho argues that the early medieval processes of reception in a sense created patristic opinion about dreams and visions, resulting in a set of authoritative ideas that could be used both to defend and to question reports of individual visionary experiences. This book is a major contribution to discussions about the intellectual place of dreams and visions in the early Middle Ages, and underlines the creative nature of early medieval engagement with authoritative texts.

Las mujeres en la mirada de los antiguos escritos cristianos

Autor: Kari Elisabeth Børresen , Emanuela Prinzivalli

Número de Páginas: 416

La colección "La Biblia y las mujeres" inaugura la sección dedicada a "Los Padres de la Iglesia". Su estudio se extiende desde los orígenes cristianos hasta comienzos del siglo VII y comprende obras y autores de lengua griega, latina y siríaca. Investiga la mirada de los autores cristianos antiguos hacia las mujeres y lo femenino a través del prisma de la Biblia. La exégesis de las Escrituras se utiliza para crear la plataforma doctrinal de los modelos de género que se hicieron normativos prácticamente hasta el día de hoy. No obstante, el volumen reserva interesantes sorpresas, inesperadas desviaciones y abre pistas de pensamiento que desafían normas y presupuestos.

Summa Theologiae: Volume 10, Cosmogony

Autor: William A. Wallace

Número de Páginas: 284

Paperback reissue of one volume of the English Dominicans' Latin/English edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae.

El mundo como creación

Autor: Alfonso Pérez De Laborda

Número de Páginas: 390

¿Todo lo racional es real? ¿Todo lo real es racional? No, evidentemente, ni una cosa ni la otra. Pero nuestro camino preferente para adentrarnos en lo real es el de la racionalidad. Nótese que decimos lo real en lugar de poner, sin más, la realidad. Esto quiere indicar que hay aspectos abstractos, complejos, dificiles de entender y de asir en eso que decimos lo real, es decir, en la realidad. Pero ésta tiene también, además de esos aspectos de lo real otros muchos más vitales, no reducibles a pura racionalidad. De ningún modo se puede decir que la realidad sea lo producido por la racionalidad. Pero nuestro conocimiento de la realidad se nos da, sin duda, a través de la acción de la racionalidad. En este libro se afronta lo que significa decir que el mundo es creación, cuáles son sus afirmaciones mayores y cuáles son sus implicaciones; en dónde están las articulaciones de una tal afirmación y cuáles son sus retos. La realidad de la compasión, la compasión de la realidad. Quizá, incluso: la realidad de la ternura, la ternura de la realidad. Estas palabras son como el verdadero hilo rojo que cose toda la obra: son un reto, son, más bien, la indicación de por...

CBMH - Tomo 1 - Génesis

Autor: Daniel Carro

Número de Páginas: 280

Old English Literature and the Old Testament

Autor: Michael Fox , Manish Sharma

Número de Páginas: 409

It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Bible in the medieval world. For the Anglo-Saxons, literary culture emerged from sustained and intensive biblical study. Further, at least to judge from the Old English texts which survive, the Old Testament was the primary influence, both in terms of content and modes of interpretation. Though the Old Testament was only partially translated into Old English, recent studies have shown how completely interconnected Anglo-Latin and Old English literary traditions are. Old English Literature and the Old Testament considers the importance of the Old Testament from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from comparative to intertextual and historical. Though the essays focus on individual works, authors, or trends, including the Interrogationes Sigewulfi, Genesis A, and Daniel, each ultimately speaks to the vernacular corpus as a whole, suggesting approaches and methodologies for further study.

Sancti Eusebii Hieronymi stridonensis presbyteri Opera omnia

Autor: Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus

Número de Páginas: 844

Essais sur la doctrine de Saint Augustin

Autor: Charles Boyer

Número de Páginas: 274

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

Mélanges bibliques

Autor: Fulcran Vigouroux

Número de Páginas: 598

De Genesi ad litteram imperfectus liber

Autor: Augustinus

Número de Páginas: 612

Nuevo Comentario Biblico

Autor: Guthrie , Wiseman , J. A. Motyer

Número de Páginas: 1004

Introduction and outline of each book of the Bible.

Bibliothèque des écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus, ou Notices bibliographiques...

Autor: Aloys De Backer

Número de Páginas: 832

Franciscans and the Elixir of Life

Autor: Zachary A. Matus

Número de Páginas: 216

Franciscans and the Elixir of Life makes new connections between alchemy, ritual life, apocalypticism, and the particular commitment of the Franciscan Order to the natural world.

Renaissance Rewritings

Autor: Helmut Pfeiffer , Irene Fantappiè , Tobias Roth

Número de Páginas: 297

‘Rewriting’ is one of the most crucial but at the same time one of the most elusive concepts of literary scholarship. In order to contribute to a further reassessment of such a notion, this volume investigates a wide range of medieval and early modern literary transformations, especially focusing on texts (and contexts) of Italian and French Renaissance literature. The first section of the book, "Rewriting", gathers essays which examine medieval and early modern rewritings while also pointing out the theoretical implications raised by such texts. The second part, "Rewritings in Early Modern Literature", collects contributions which account for different practices of rewriting in the Italian and French Renaissance, for instance by analysing dynamics of repetition and duplication, verbatim reproduction and free reworking, textual production and authorial self-fashioning, alterity and identity, replication and multiplication. The volume strives at shedding light on the complexity of the relationship between early modern and ancient literature, perfectly summed up in the motto written by Pietro Aretino in a letter to his friend the painter Giulio Romano in 1542: "Essere...

El Libro de Génesis

Autor: Ernesto Trenchard , Ernesto H. Trenchard , Jose Martinez

Número de Páginas: 324

Un titulo mas de la serie "Cursos de estudio biblico" escrito por dos eruditos hispanos. Da una sana exegesis para ayudar al estudio del libro de Genesis. [A complete and ample exposition of this key book of the Bible.]

La estructura de la obligación romana y el problema de su génesis

Autor: Emilio Betti , José Félix Chamie

Número de Páginas: 408

La estructura de la obligación romana y el problema de su génesis es una obra constituida por un objeto consciente que refleja la esencia del maestro italiano Emilio Betti como historiador del derecho, o mejor, como "jurista historiador". Al fijar las características que constituyen la estructura de la obligación romana clásica y, hasta donde resulta posible, de la obligación arcaica, el jurista historiador podrá luego compararla con la estructura de la obligación moderna y así observar las transformaciones, la heterogénesis de significados, la razón de ser histórica de un instituto jurídico de trascendental importancia en el Derecho.

Between System and Poetics

Autor: Dr Thomas Af Kelly

Número de Páginas: 332

This is the first book-length examination of the work of an important contemporary thinker in the continental tradition, William Desmond. His thought is a new, post-modern way of articulating what he calls the ‘between’. Rooted in Plato and Augustine, and advancing through a confrontation with Hegel and Nietzsche, Desmond rejects facile scepticism and wins through to a strikingly original and powerfully searching articulation of the human. The present volume contains essays on Desmond’s work both by emerging scholars and by well-established thinkers. It also contains a specially written essay on the practices of philosophy by Desmond himself.

Cloud Technology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Autor: Management Association, Information Resources

Número de Páginas: 2432

As the Web grows and expands into ever more remote parts of the world, the availability of resources over the Internet increases exponentially. Making use of this widely prevalent tool, organizations and individuals can share and store knowledge like never before. Cloud Technology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications investigates the latest research in the ubiquitous Web, exploring the use of applications and software that make use of the Internet’s anytime, anywhere availability. By bringing together research and ideas from across the globe, this publication will be of use to computer engineers, software developers, and end users in business, education, medicine, and more.

The Genesis of Lachmann's Method

Autor: Sebastiano Timpanaro

Número de Páginas: 261

Until the modern period, the reproduction of written texts required manual transcription from earlier versions. This cumbersome process inevitably created errors and made it increasingly difficult to identify the original readings among multiple copies. Lachmann's method—associated with German classicist Karl Lachmann (1793-1851)—aimed to provide scholars with a scientific, systematic procedure to standardize the transmission of ancient texts. Although these guidelines for analysis were frequently challenged, they retained a paradigmatic value in philology for many years. In 1963, Italian philologist Sebastiano Timpanaro became the first to analyze in depth the history and limits of Lachmann's widely established theory with his publication, La genesi del metodo del Lachmann. This important work, which brought Timpanaro international repute, now appears in its first English translation. The Genesis of Lachmann's Method examines the origin, development, and validity of Lachmann's model as well as its association with Lachmann himself. It remains a fundamental work on the history and methods of philology, and Glenn W. Most's translation makes this seminal study available to an...

Adam, la nature humaine, avant et après

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 290

Que se serait-il passé si Adam n'avait pas péché ? Le récit de la Chute ne raconte pas seulement comment le premier homme et la première femme ont désobéi et ont été chassés du jardin de l'Éden. C'est aussi un instrument formidable pour penser philosophiquement la nature humaine, ses potentialités et ses limites, pour dessiner les différents plans d'une anthropologie complexe et diversifiée. La rupture du péché originel, qui instaure un Avant et un Après de la nature humaine, a représenté un défi intellectuel, une provocation pour la philosophie que la pensée médiévale - et moderne - a voulu recueillir et affronter. Cette nécessité s'est faite d'autant plus pressante que d'autres modèles anthropologiques devenaient disponibles, au premier rang desquels le modèle aristotélicien, où l'idée d'une rupture dans l'histoire humaine ou d'une naturalité scindée n'avait pas sa place. Les réflexions sur la Chute ont donné lieu à des débats importants sur le langage, la liberté et le mal, le bonheur, les passions, le corps, la vie et le pouvoir politique, le droit, le travail, qui sont l'objet des chapitres de ce livre. Prises ainsi dans leur dimension...