Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at different visualizations of except...

Philosophical ethics consists in the human endeavour to answer rationally the fundamental question of how we should live. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics explores the history of philosophical ethics in the western tradition from Homer until the present day. It provides a broad overview of the views of m...

Pre-teen/teen girls struggle with being a real friend. They wonder how to choose their friends wisely. They need the courage to lead rather than follow. They face the challenge of making wise choices against the strong waves of peer pressure. They wonder how they can challenge their friends to do the right thing wit...

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The Great Gotama gave to the world a complete Teaching of the perfect construction of life. Each attempt to make a god of the great revolutionist, leads to absurdity. Previous to Gotama there was, of course, a whole succession of those who bore the common welfare, but their teachings crumbled to dust in the course o...

To many, James is a difficult work to swallow. It's the favourite source material of preachers of harsh sermons, who like to rebuke. It seems to fly in the face of everything Paul says about faith and salvation. But if we read it carefully, we find it's not about trying to make our actions match our faith, nor even ...

The Experiment at Philadelphia Did Einstein discover God? If God created all things, then who Created God? What Was and Happened Before the Big-Bang. The Philadelphia Experiment was Einsteins experiment in which he had not only discovered, in 1943, the way to make things invisible and transport them at great speeds ...

This short booklet is humor and fiction based on real conversations with atheists. The texts contain the original logic and arguments of atheists. That's why some texts will look strange and unrealistic. Regardless of the joke, the texts bring knowledge, truth and insights.

Cet ouvrage comporte une série d'études sur la question de la violence dans la pensée du XXe siècle. Chaque étude interroge à sa façon la circularité critique que la question de la violence introduit entre pensée politique et anthropologie. À partir d'Arendt, de Fanon ou d'Althusser, de Deligny ou de Girard, de Dele...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a renowned National Book Award–winning scholar, an extraordinary new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of how a poor young man inspired a religion that reshaped the world. “This is a brilliant and necessary book. Sober, wise, respectful, and fearless." ーJon Me...

What is it going to be? Jacob's ladder or Babel's tower? These are the only two choices for humankind to build their lives on. To go in search of Christ and His kingdom or to go after the views of this world. One choice is the narrow gate with a difficult way that leads to salvation, and the other choice is a wide g...

Gabriel Seailles remarked that Lachelier had the happy for tune "of exercising a profound and decisive influence upon all who heard him, yet without acquiring perhaps a single disciple in the narrow sense of the word. He liberated minds. He rid them of 1 ready-made ideas. " This liberating influence was exercised by...

This volume looks at the forms and functions of counterspeech as well as what determines its effectiveness and success from multidisciplinary perspectives. Counterspeech is in line with international human rights and freedom of speech, and it can be a much more powerful tool against dangerous and toxic speech than b...

My dear friend, are you tolerating any sin in your life? If you are doing so, the Bible says that you will not inherit the Kingdom of God. If any sin is in your life, forsake it at once and return to the Lord Jesus. If you do not forsake all sin that you know of, you shall surely go to the lake of fire. The fact tha...

My son, I want you to know for certain that no-one has ever died in the work I have given you to do for Me because he or she carried more responsibilities than he or she ought to carry. People have died because of sicknesses, diseases and sin, but no-one has ever died because of territorial spirits. This should be s...

Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?' Then I will tell the...