The City Of Man

Author : Michael Gerson,Peter Wehner
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1575679280

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City of Man by Michael Gerson,Peter Wehner Pdf

An era has ended. The political expression that most galvanized evangelicals during the past quarter-century, the Religious Right, is fading. What's ahead is unclear. Millions of faith-based voters still exist, and they continue to care deeply about hot-button issues like abortion and gay marriage, but the shape of their future political engagement remains to be formed. Into this uncertainty, former White House insiders Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner seek to call evangelicals toward a new kind of political engagement -- a kind that is better both for the church and the country, a kind that cannot be co-opted by either political party, a kind that avoids the historic mistakes of both the Religious Left and the Religious Right. Incisive, bold, and marked equally by pragmatism and idealism, Gerson and Wehner's new book has the potential to chart a new political future not just for values voters, but for the nation as a whole.

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1978-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226777016

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The City and Man by Leo Strauss Pdf

Originally published in 1964 by The University Press of Virginia.

Author : Peter J. Leithart
Publisher : Canon Press & Book Service
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781885767554

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Heroes of the City of Man by Peter J. Leithart Pdf

"[Analyzes specific ancient epics and Greek dramas in the light of Christian beliefs. Ancient poets and playwrights discussed: Hesiod, Homer, Virgil, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes.]"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Howard Akler
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1552451585

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The City Man by Howard Akler Pdf

"It's 1934, and Toronto is stalled in the Great Depression. Pickpocket Mona Kantor is scraping by on small change, while Eli Morenz, city reporter for the Daily Star, struggles to wring news stories out of the subdued metropolis. When a chance photo drives Eli into the Jewish underworld Mona inhabits, he finds he's stumbled onto the story of his life." - From the publisher.

Author : Pierre Manent
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674727700

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Metamorphoses of the City by Pierre Manent Pdf

What is the best way to govern ourselves? The history of the West has been shaped by the struggle to answer this question, according to Pierre Manent. A major achievement by one of Europe's most influential political philosophers, Metamorphoses of the City is a sweeping interpretation of Europe's ambition since ancient times to generate ever better forms of collective self-government, and a reflection on what it means to be modern. Manent's genealogy of the nation-state begins with the Greek city-state, the polis. With its creation, humans ceased to organize themselves solely by family and kinship systems and instead began to live politically. Eventually, as the polis exhausted its possibilities in warfare and civil strife, cities evolved into empires, epitomized by Rome, and empires in turn gave way to the universal Catholic Church and finally the nation-state. Through readings of Aristotle, Augustine, Montaigne, and others, Manent charts an intellectual history of these political forms, allowing us to see that the dynamic of competition among them is a central force in the evolution of Western civilization. Scarred by the legacy of world wars, submerged in an increasingly technical transnational bureaucracy, indecisive in the face of proliferating crises of representative democracy, the European nation-state, Manent says, is nearing the end of its line. What new metamorphosis of the city will supplant it remains to be seen.

Author : Raghavan Iyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015001680779

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Parapolitics by Raghavan Iyer Pdf

Author : Donald B. Redford
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400834556

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City of the Ram-Man by Donald B. Redford Pdf

A richly illustrated history that sheds light on ancient Egypt across the millennia In this richly illustrated book, renowned archaeologist Donald Redford draws on the latest discoveries—including many of his own—to tell the story of the ancient Egyptian city of Mendes, home of the mysterious cult of the "fornicating ram who mounts the beauties." Excavation by Redford and his colleagues over the past two decades has cast a flood of light on this strange center of worship and political power located in the Nile Delta. A sweeping chronological account filled with photographs, drawings, and informative sidebars, City of the Ram-Man is the first history of Mendes written for general readers. Founded in the remote prehistoric past, inhabited continuously for 5,000 years, and abandoned only in the first-century BC, Mendes is a microcosm of ancient Egyptian history. City of the Ram-Man tells the city's full story—from its founding, through its development of a great society and its brief period as the capital of Egypt, up to its final decline. Central to the story is millennia of worship dedicated to the lascivious ram-god. The book describes the discoveries of the great temple of the ram and the "Mansion of the Rams," where the embalmed bodies of the avatars of the god were buried. It also discusses ancient Greek reports that these ram-gods occasionally ritually fornicated with women. Vividly written and informed throughout by Redford's intimate knowledge of the remains of Mendes, City of the Ram-Man is a unique account of a long-lost monument of Egyptian history, religion, and culture.

Author : Gerald D. Suttles
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0226781933

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The Man-Made City by Gerald D. Suttles Pdf

With its extraordinary uniform street grid, its magnificent lake-side park, and innovative architecture and public sculpture, Chicago is one of the most planned cities of the modern era. Yet over the past few decades Chicago has come to epitomize some of the worst evils of urban decay: widespread graft and corruption, political stalemates, troubled race relations, and economic decline. Broad-shouldered boosterism can no longer disguise the city's failure to keep pace with others, its failure to attract new "sunrise" industries and world-class events. For Chicago, as for other rust-belt cities, new ways of planning and managing the urban environment are now much more than civic beautification; they are the means to survival. Gerald D. Suttles here offers an irreverent, highly critical guide to both the realities and myths of land-use planning and development in Chicago from 1976 through 1987.

Author : Michael Harrington
Publisher : Rsbs Productions
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Florence (Italy)
ISBN : 0615971490

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The City of Man by Michael Harrington Pdf

The City of Man is a trilogy based on a true story of the Italian Renaissance. The three books are structured on Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Renaissance Florence celebrated its Golden Age during the late 15th century under Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent. This was the age of artists, philosophers and poets like Leonardo, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola, Poliziano, and Machiavelli. But a societal crisis was imminent by the century's last decade. The Italian peninsula was surrounded and threatened by imperialist powers, trade declined and poverty increased in the face of obscene wealth. Avaricious popes made a family business of the Church while floods, droughts, famines, and the plague all combined to create an atmosphere of overwhelming fear and anxiety. As chaos loomed, an obscure Dominican friar arose to restore order. Fra Girolamo Savonarola was a charismatic preacher and prophet who advocated religious and political reform. His mission was to transform his corrupt and decaying society into St. Augustine's mythical City of God. At the height of his short reign he orchestrated the infamous Bonfire of the Vanities, riding a wave of popular discontent to become the most influential religious, political, and cultural figure of the age. The Savonarolan theocratic republic left its indelible mark on the face of Florence, Italy, and Western history. The City of Man is the dramatic story of this preacher's fantastic rise and tragic fall, symbolizing a critical juncture in the conflict between Church and State in the Christian world. More dramatized history than historical fiction, the story integrates the art, religion, and politics of this glorious period. Young Niccolo Machiavelli provides the counterpoint to Savonarola as he develops his new political philosophy. Their momentous clash illuminates the transition from the Age of Faith to the Age of Reason, heralding the birth of the Modern Age.

Author : Louis Markos
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830875290

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From Achilles to Christ by Louis Markos Pdf

"The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact." --C. S. Lewis In From Achilles to Christ, Louis Markos introduces readers to the great narratives of classical mythology from a Christian perspective. From the battles of Achilles and the adventures of Odysseus to the feats of Hercules and the trials of Aeneas, Markos shows how the characters, themes and symbols within these myths both foreshadow and find their fulfillment in the story of Jesus Christ--the "myth made fact." Along the way, he dispels misplaced fears about the dangers of reading classical literature, and offers a Christian approach to the interpretation and appropriation of these great literary works. This engaging and eminently readable book is an excellent resource for Christian students, teachers and readers of classical literature.

Author : Paolo Soleri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1883340012

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Arcology by Paolo Soleri Pdf

Author : Pierre Manent
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0691050252

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The City of Man by Pierre Manent Pdf

The "City of God" or the "City of Man"? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago--and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In this subtle and wide-ranging book on the Western intellectual and political condition, Manent argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human autonomy. But in declaring ourselves free and autonomous, he contends, we have, paradoxically, lost a sense of what it means to be human. In the first part of the book, Manent explores the development of the social sciences since the seventeenth century, portraying their growth as a sign of increasing human "self-consciousness." But as social scientists have sought to free us from the intellectual confines of the ancient world, he writes, they have embraced modes of analysis--economic, sociological, and historical--that treat only narrow aspects of the human condition and portray individuals as helpless victims of impersonal forces. As a result, we have lost all sense of human agency and of the unified human subject at the center of intellectual study. Politics and culture have come to be seen as mere foam on the tides of historical and social necessity. In the second half of the book, titled "Self-Affirmation," Manent examines how the West, having discovered freedom, then discovered arbitrary will and its dangers. With no shared touchstones or conceptions of virtue, for example, we have found it increasingly hard to communicate with each other. This is a striking contrast to the past, he writes, when even traditions as different as the Classical and the Christian held many of these conceptions in common. The result of these discoveries, according to Manent, is the disturbing rootlessness that characterizes our time. By gaining autonomy from external authority, we have lost a sense of what we are. In "giving birth" to ourselves, we have abandoned that which alone can nurture and sustain us. With penetrating insight and remarkable erudition, Manent offers a profound analysis of the confusions and contradictions at the heart of the modern condition.

Author : Scott Hahn,Brandon McGinley
Publisher : Emmaus Road Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645850724

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It Is Right and Just: Why the Future of Civilization Depends on True Religion by Scott Hahn,Brandon McGinley Pdf

Is religion a right given to us by the state? Is it an opium for the masses? Is it private opinion with no role in the public sphere? In It Is Right and Just, bestselling author Scott Hahn and Brandon McGinley challenge our idea of religion and its role in society. Hahn and McGinley argue that to answer questions over religious liberty, justice, and peace, we must first reject the insidious lie perpetuated by secular-liberal culture: that religion is a private matter. Contrary to what political commentators and activists say, religion is not only relevant to justice and law, but is necessary for civilization to thrive. Recover the public nature of true religion, It Is Right and Just argues, and watch as a revolution unfolds. Find eternal answers to today’s political confusion right now—pre-order today and get a free ebook to begin reading immediately!

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547117650

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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Philip Bess
Publisher : Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015067683329

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Till We Have Built Jerusalem by Philip Bess Pdf

Fresh arguments for traditional architecture and urbanism; Bess dissects the questionable intellectual assumptions of contemporary architecture. How modern societies find physical expression in contemporary suburban sprawl by considering the role of both the natural law tradition and communal religion in providing intellectual and spiritual depth to contemporary attempts to build new-and revive existing-traditional towns and cities.