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God’s Statesman

Author : Peter Toon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781725239593

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That the man who has been called "the greatest British theologian of all time" should have no adequately researched biography of his life and times would be incredible if it were not a fact. But as Dr. Toon, an able historian who specializes in the Puritan era, shows in this book, John Owen was even more than just a great theologian. He exercised a profound influence on youth as Dean of Christ Church, and Vice Chancellor in the University of Oxford; he was also a statesman of no mean order, whose wisdom often prevented excesses into which his contemporaries would have fallen in their untampered zeal; but above all, he was a spiritual shepherd with a true pastor's heart who delighted in nothing so much as to feed the flock of God. Dr. Toon, who has been engaged for over four years on almost continuous research, has produced a volume full of new information as well as an assessment of the tremendous influence of this outstanding leader. The current worldwide interest in the Puritan period underlines the timeliness and importance of this new work. John Owen achieved national recognition when at the comparatively early age of thirty he preached before the House of Commons at St. Margaret's, Westminster. Yet his achievements would eventually be recorded in higher archives than any mere earthly ones, for he was to become a revered and redoubtable servant of the King of kings. Like many other renowned servants of God, John Owen cared little for personal aggrandizement and by his own command not one of his diaries has been preserved; and since the extant letters in which he lays bare his soul are very few, his biographer is hard put to find those personal touches which have helped to establish biography as an important part of English literature. Nevertheless this carefully researched study has been produced to help meet the need for a fuller life of this remarkable man.

God's Statesman

Author : Peter Toon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781532643873

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God's Statesman by Peter Toon Pdf

That the man who has been called “the greatest British theologian of all time” should have no adequately researched biography of his life and times would be incredible if it were not a fact. But as Dr. Toon, an able historian who specializes in the Puritan era, shows in this book, John Owen was even more than just a great theologian. He exercised a profound influence on youth as Dean of Christ Church, and Vice Chancellor in the University of Oxford; he was also a statesman of no mean order, whose wisdom often prevented excesses into which his contemporaries would have fallen in their untampered zeal; but above all, he was a spiritual shepherd with a true pastor’s heart who delighted in nothing so much as to feed the flock of God. Dr. Toon, who has been engaged for over four years on almost continuous research, has produced a volume full of new information as well as an assessment of the tremendous influence of this outstanding leader. The current worldwide interest in the Puritan period underlines the timeliness and importance of this new work. John Owen achieved national recognition when at the comparatively early age of thirty he preached before the House of Commons at St. Margaret’s, Westminster. Yet his achievements would eventually be recorded in higher archives than any mere earthly ones, for he was to become a revered and redoubtable servant of the King of kings. Like many other renowned servants of God, John Owen cared little for personal aggrandizement and by his own command not one of his diaries has been preserved; and since the extant letters in which he lays bare his soul are very few, his biographer is hard put to find those personal touches which have helped to establish biography as an important part of English literature. Nevertheless this carefully researched study has been produced to help meet the need for a fuller life of this remarkable man.

Daniel: statesman and prophet

Author : Daniel (the Prophet.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600096449

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Memory and Political Art in Plato’s Statesman

Author : Catherine Craig
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666919677

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Memory and Political Art in Plato’s Statesman by Catherine Craig Pdf

In Memory and the Political Art in Plato’s Statesman, Catherine Craig provides an original reading of Plato’s Statesman by bringing memory to the foreground. The dialogue itself explores various components of political memory, such as common speech, myths, and laws, and argues that these create a framework in which we live our political lives. Each of these aspects of political memory serves as an image to move the individual to rational inquiry. In this way, the dialogue suggests that political memory can serve as a starting point for philosophic recollection, allowing for a move from knowledge of the rational soul to first principles. Craig shows how Plato weaves together the personal, political, and philosophic dimensions of memory, providing a richer understanding of the significance of memory for political life. Beyond providing an analysis of the Statesman, this book helps readers consider the challenges of political memory in contemporary political life, while also arguing that memory mediates between universal, rational principles and the particular ends and circumstances of human life.

The Philosopher in Plato’s Statesman

Author : Mitchell H. Miller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400987906

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others in his discipline tend not to bring their studies to bear on the substance of the dialogues. Conversely, philosophical interpreters have generally felt free to approach the extensive logical and ontological, cosmological, and political doctrines of the later dialogues without concern for questions of literary style s and form. Given, moreover, the equally sharp distinction between the diSCiplines of philosophy and cultural history, it has been too easy to treat this bulk of doctrine without a pointed sense of the specific historical audience to which it is addressed. As a result, the pervasive tendency has been the reverse of that which has dominated the reading of the early dialogues: here we tend to neglect drama and pedagogy and to focus exclusively on philosophical substance. Both in general and particularly in regard to the later dialogues, the difficulty is that our predispositions have the force of self-fulfilling prophecy. Are we sure that the later Plato's apparent loss of interest in the dramatic is not, on the contrary, a reflection of our limited sense of the integrity of drama and sub stance, form and content? What we lack eyes for, of course, we will not see. The basic purpose of this essay is to develop eyes, as it were, for that integrity. The best way to do this, I think, is to take a later dialogue and to try to read it as a whole of form, content, and communicative function.

Philosopher in Plato's Statesman

Author : Mitchell Miller
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781930972438

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Philosopher in Plato's Statesman by Mitchell Miller Pdf

In the Statesman, Plato brings together--only to challenge and displace--his own crowning contributions to philosophical method, political theory, and drama. In his 1980 study, reprinted here, Mitchell Miller employs literary theory and conceptual analysis to expose the philosophical, political, and pedagogical conflict that is the underlying context of the dialogue, revealing that its chaotic variety of movements is actually a carefully harmonized act of realizing the mean. The original study left one question outstanding: what specifically, in the metaphysical order of things, motivated the nameless Visitor from Elea to abandon bifurcation for his consummating non-bifurcatory division of fifteen kinds at the end of the dialogue? Miller addressed in a separate essay, first published in 1999 and reprinted here. In it, he opens the horizon of interpretation to include the new metaphysics of the Parmenides, the Philebus, and the "e;unwritten teachings."e;

The God-Centered Statesman

Author : Martin L. Hawley
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Political participation
ISBN : 1502747170

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The God-Centered Statesman by Martin L. Hawley Pdf

The God-centered Statesman is a unique effort to bring together biblical scholarship and useful political application for people of faith wrestling with getting into the political arena. The current 21st century climate in the United States is increasingly hostile to persons of the Christian faith engaging in political campaigns, running for elected office, or hiring on to civil service careers. This is to say nothing of the hostility of the political machinery and even of typical U.S. citizens toward Christians conforming their approach to governing and public policy to the presuppositions of their faith. In calling for Christians to actively reenter the political arena, Martin Hawley looks to the life and the political circumstances faced by Daniel, a God-centered statesman who maintained the principles and practices of his faith in spite of broad opposition while serving in the Neo-Babylonian and later Persian administrations. As he governed according to his faith, Daniel also governed so exceptionally in the eyes of his cultural and philosophical advisories as to achieve the highest levels of power and all the while bringing progress and blessings not only to his own exilic people, but to the conquerors' states as well. All of this was achieved, not through Daniel's own talents and inner strength, but because he served the Most High God, who is sovereign in the affairs of men and of nations. As the United States stands at a modern crossroads, moving further and further away from its original faith-based moorings, now is the time for people of faith to reassert the sovereignty and kingship of God Most High and to serve as his instruments in building his kingdom while bringing benefits to the kingdoms and governments of this present century. The God-centered Statesman is also dedicated to the memory of Georgia State Representative Bobby Franklin and includes an account of his Daniel-like, God-centered service as a faithful statesman.

Plato's Statesman

Author : Plato
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226773544

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Plato's Statesman by Plato Pdf

Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman are a trilogy of Platonic dialogues that show Socrates formulating his conception of philosophy as he prepares the defense for his trial. Originally published together as The Being of the Beautiful, these translations can be read separately or as a trilogy. Each includes an introduction, extensive notes, and comprehensive commentary that examines the trilogy's motifs and relationships. "Seth Benardete is one of the very few contemporary classicists who combine the highest philological competence with a subtlety and taste that approximate that of the ancients. At the same time, he as set himself the entirely modern hermeneutical task of uncovering what the ancients preferred to keep veiled, of making explicit what they indicated, and hence...of showing the naked ugliness of artificial beauty."—Stanley Rose, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal Seth Benardete (1930-2001) was professor of classics at New York University. He was the author or translator of many books, most recently The Argument of the Action, Plato's "Laws," and Plato's "Symposium," all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Paradigm, Logos, and Myth in Plato's Sophist and Statesman

Author : Conor Barry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793649041

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Paradigm, Logos, and Myth in Plato's Sophist and Statesman by Conor Barry Pdf

In a sustained study of the Sophist and Statesman, this book explores the use of paradigm, logos, and myth. Plato introduces in these dialogues the term “paradigm” to signify an image or model that can be used to yield insight into higher, ethical realities that are themselves beyond direct visual portrayal. He employs the term to signify an inductive example that can be defined. Finally, Plato shows how to rework existing narrative and myth to an ethically appropriate end. Since this exercise in the Statesman is described as training in dialectic, in Paradigm, Logos, and Myth in Plato's Sophist and Statesman Conor Barry demonstrates how these later works expand the compass of dialectic beyond narrow conceptions that restrict the scope of dialectic to the use of logical techniques. Rather, dialectic is the practice of dialogue as portrayed in the Platonic dialogues, which can involve appeal to analogies and figurative expressions in the search for an understanding of the ethical good. Plato’s dialogues, as works of literary art, aim to lead people to seek such understanding. Nevertheless, insofar as the dialogues are themselves artistic productions, they must also be objects of critical scrutiny and questioning.

Sophist and Statesman

Author : Plato
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486828220

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Sophist and Statesman by Plato Pdf

Two dialogues explore a vital concern of a democratic society: how to define the qualities of a genuine statesman as well as the distinction between an authentic statesman and a sophist.

Plato's Statesman

Author : John Sallis
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438464091

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Explores the interplay between the dramatic form of the dialogue and the basic themes it addresses. The Statesman is among the most widely ranging of Plato’s dialogues, bringing together in a single discourse disparate subjects such as politics, mathematics, ontology, dialectic, and myth. The essays in this collection consider these subjects and others, focusing in particular on the dramatic form of the dialogue. They take into account not only what is said but also how it is said, by whom and to whom it is said, and when and where it is said. In this way, the contributors approach the text in a manner that responds to the dialogue itself rather than bringing preconceived questions and scholarly debates to bear on it. The essays are especially attuned to the comedic elements that run through much of the dialogue and that are played out in a way that reveals the subject of the comedy. In the Statesman, these comedies reach their climax when the statesman becomes a participant in a comedy of animals and thereby is revealed in his true nature. .