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Author : Kevin Myers
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1785372637

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In this remarkable sequel to his critically acclaimed memoir Watching the Door, Irish journalist Kevin Myers reflects on his roller-coaster career over three decades in the Irish media, from the European conflicts he reported from to the personal conflicts he fought. Fresh from the horrors of 1970s Belfast, Myers took a job in 1979 with The Irish Times, and brilliantly evokes the comical chaos of life in the smoky newsroom of Ireland’s paper-of-record. Having taken over An Irishman’s Diary, Myers single-handedly pioneered the campaign to rehabilitate the memory of the forgotten Irish soldiers of the Great War, and in the process fell foul of the paper’s editor, the legendary Douglas Gageby. His reward were plane tickets to more perilous assignments as Myers was back in the frontline of European warzones, as communism collapsed and civil wars emerged. While Myers is at his brilliant best dodging bullets on the battlefields of Tel Aviv, Beirut and Sarajevo, he also keenly and unapologetically participates in the many cultural conflicts erupting within a rapidly changing Ireland, as he opines on a broad spectrum of Irish life, covering history, politics, religion, economics, culture and society; all explored in his inimitable prose and sardonic wit. This courageously trenchant account of journalistic conflict and hubris also forensically examines his very public fall from grace in 2017, and his legal battle with RTÉ for a public apology. Burning Heresies is a candid and eye-opening must-read for anyone with even a passing interest in Irish life and current affairs.

Author : Michael D. Barbezat
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501716816

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Burning Bodies interrogates the ideas that the authors of historical and theological texts in the medieval West associated with the burning alive of Christian heretics. Michael Barbezat traces these instances from the eleventh century until the advent of the internal crusades of the thirteenth century, depicting the exclusionary fires of hell and judicial execution, the purifying fire of post-mortem purgation, and the unifying fire of God's love that medieval authors used to describe processes of social inclusion and exclusion. Burning Bodies analyses how the accounts of burning heretics alive referenced, affirmed, and elaborated upon wider discourses of community and eschatology. Descriptions of burning supposed heretics alive were profoundly related to ideas of a redemptive Christian community based upon a divine, unifying love, and medieval understandings of what these burnings could have meant to contemporaries cannot be fully appreciated outside of this discourse of communal love. For them, human communities were bodies on fire. Medieval theologians and academics often described the corporate identity of the Christian world as a body joined together by the love of God. This love was like a fire, melting individuals together into one whole. Those who did not spiritually burn with God's love were destined to burn literally in the fires of Hell or Purgatory, and the fires of execution were often described as an earthly extension of these fires. Through this analysis, Barbezat demonstrates how presentations of heresy, and to some extent actual responses to perceived heretics, were shaped by long-standing images of biblical commentary and exegesis. He finds that this imagery is more than a literary curiosity; it is, in fact, a formative historical agent.

Author : Christine Caldwell Ames
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 110702336X

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A comparative history of heresy in Latin and Greek Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, spanning the fourth to the sixteenth century.

Author : Timothy M. Mosteller
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1725255758

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"The heresy of heresies was common sense." --George Orwell, 1984. This book is a defense of common-sense realism, which is the greatest heresy of our time. Following common-sense philosophers like Thomas Aquinas, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Dallas Willard, and J. P. Moreland, this book defends a common-sense vision of reality within the Christian tradition. Mosteller shows how common-sense realism is more reasonable than the materialist, idealist, pragmatist, existentialist, and relativist spirits of our age. It maintains that we can know the nature of reality through common-sense experience and that this knowledge has profound implication for living the good life and being a good person.

Author : Alfonso de Castro, O. F. M
Publisher : Paul Kimball
Page : 1130 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 2021-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1732717583

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Against All Heresies was written at the request of Spanish merchants of Flanders to combat heretics and was first published in Paris in 1534. It is a description and criticism of more than 400 heresies, which had arisen in the Church since the time of the Apostles, presented in alphabetical order. It was the author's most popular work for which he received the nickname, "the scourge of heretics." King Philip II of Spain, whom the author served as chaplain, wrote in the preface of this work that this book is "such a useful and beneficial book for the Christian state."

Author : Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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It's an intriguing book that describes the pitfalls of a religious-dictated country. Robert Ingersoll was not a biblical scholar or theologian. He was interested in liberty and freedom of thought. In other words, he was a political advocate for civil rights who spoke about religion.

Author : Ryan Lamothe
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780809146147

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In this first decade of the new millennium, anxiety, unease, and a deep fear of vulnerability lie silently beneath the rancorous divisions within the Church, between denominations and religions, and between those who hold differing political beliefs and values. Today, religious and political discourse and behavior are increasingly marred by the destructive use of emotions that drive self-righteous certainty, prideful rigidity, and violent conformity, all of which lead to estrangement, alienation, and closed communities. In the midst of this tragic reality, there is also the possibility of constructive use of emotions seen in acts of compassion, empathy, and intimacy among adversaries. This book sets out to understand these human struggles utilizing the idea of heresies of the heart and its relation to types of emotional intelligence and faith. By addressing heresies of the heart, it depicts healthy relationships and faith characterized by the constructive use of emotions. Book jacket.

Author : Irenaeus
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 2015-04-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781511854931

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"Against Heresies - Book IV" from Irenaeus. Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul (-202A.D.).

Author : Alberto A. Martinez
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780239408

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In 1600, the Catholic Inquisition condemned the philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno for heresy, and he was then burned alive in the Campo de’ Fiori in Rome. Historians, scientists, and philosophical scholars have traditionally held that Bruno’s theological beliefs led to his execution, denying any link between his study of the nature of the universe and his trial. But in Burned Alive, Alberto A. Martínez draws on new evidence to claim that Bruno’s cosmological beliefs—that the stars are suns surrounded by planetary worlds like our own, and that the Earth moves because it has a soul—were indeed the primary factor in his condemnation. Linking Bruno’s trial to later confrontations between the Inquisition and Galileo in 1616 and 1633, Martínez shows how some of the same Inquisitors who judged Bruno challenged Galileo. In particular, one clergyman who authored the most critical reports used by the Inquisition to condemn Galileo in 1633 immediately thereafter wrote an unpublished manuscript in which he denounced Galileo and other followers of Copernicus for their beliefs about the universe: that many worlds exist and that the Earth moves because it has a soul. Challenging the accepted history of astronomy to reveal Bruno as a true innovator whose contributions to the science predate those of Galileo, this book shows that is was cosmology, not theology, that led Bruno to his death.