Letters from Lake Como

Author: Romano Guardini
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 1467466786
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 95

Book Description
This book collects a fascinating series of letters written by theologian-philosopher Romano Guardini in the mid-1920s in which he works out for the first time his sense of the challenges of humanity in a culture increasingly dominated by the machine. With prophetic clarity and unsettling farsightedness, Guardini's letters poignantly capture the personal implications and social challenges of living in the technological age — concerns that have now come to fruition seventy years after they were first raised.

Lake Como

Author: Anita Hughes
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250017734
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
"Hallie Elliot is a successful San Franciso interior designer and engaged to Peter, a brilliant young journalist. But when she stumbles upon Peter and her boss in what seems to be a compromising position, her trust in her perfect life is shaken. So Hallie escapes to Lake Como, Italy to spend time with her half-sister, Portia Tesoro, an Italian blueblood dealing with the scandal of a public estrangement from her cheating husband. But just as Hallie is beginning to find her footing on Italian soil, she uncovers a family secret that upends all the truths she believed about herself, and calls into question the new life she's built in Lake Como."--Page 4 of cover.

Essays and Letters

Author: Hiram David Peck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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The Hope and Despair of Human Bioenhancement

Author: Paschal M. Corby
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532653948
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 341

Book Description
The Hope and Despair of Human Bioenhancement is a virtual dialogue between Transhumanists of the “Oxford School” and the thought of Joseph Ratzinger. Set in the key of hope and despair, it considers whether or not the transhumanist interpretation of human limitations is correct, and whether their confidence in the methods of human enhancement, especially through biotechnology, corresponds to genuine hope. To this end, it investigates the philosophical foundations of transhumanism in modernity’s rejection of metaphysics, the triumph of positivism, and the universalism of the theory of evolution, which when applied to anthropology becomes the materialist reduction of the human person. Ratzinger calls into question this absolutization of positive reason and its limitation of hope to what human beings can produce, naming it a pathology of reason, a mutilation of human dignity, and a façade of a world without hope. In its place, he offers a richer concept of hope that acknowledges our contingence and limitations.

Letters from Europe

Author: Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Owen Barfield

Author: Michael V. Di Fuccia
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498238734
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
In this book Michael Di Fuccia examines the theological import of Owen Barfield's poetic philosophy. He argues that philosophies of immanence fail to account for creativity, as is evident in the false shuttling between modernity's active construal and postmodernity's passive construal of subjectivity. In both extremes subjectivity actually dissolves, divesting one of any creative integrity. Di Fuccia shows how in Barfield's scheme the creative subject appears instead to inhabit a middle or medial realm, which upholds one's creative integrity. It is in this way that Barfield's poetic philosophy gestures toward a theological vision of poiēsis proper, wherein creativity is envisaged as neither purely passive nor purely active, but middle. Creativity, thus, is not immanent but mediated, a participation in being's primordial poiēsis.

Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger

Author: Roy K. Gibson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110737703X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363

Book Description
This is the first general introduction to Pliny's Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative approach to reading the letters as an artistically structured collection. Chapter 1 traces Pliny's autobiographical narrative throughout the Letters; Chapter 2 undertakes detailed study of Book 6 as an artistic entity; while Chapter 3 sets Pliny's letters within a Roman epistolographical tradition dominated by Cicero and Seneca. Chapters 4 to 7 study thematic letter cycles within the collection, including those on Pliny's famous country villas and his relationships with Pliny the Elder and Tacitus. The final chapter focuses on the 'grand design' which unifies and structures the collection. Four detailed appendices give invaluable historical and scholarly context, including a helpful timeline for Pliny's life and career, detailed bibliographical help on over 30 popular topics in Pliny's letters and a summary of the main characters mentioned in the Letters.

Letters

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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The Malta Exchange

Author: Steve Berry
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250140269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415

Book Description
A deadly race for the Vatican’s oldest secret fuels New York Times bestseller Steve Berry’s next international Cotton Malone thriller: The Malta Exchange. "Berry is the master scientist with a perfect formula." — Associated Press The pope is dead. A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin. Cardinals are beginning to arrive at the Vatican, but one has fled Rome for Malta in search of a document that dates back to the 4th century and Constantine the Great. Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is at Lake Como, Italy, on the trail of legendary letters between Winston Churchill and Benito Mussolini that disappeared in 1945 and could re-write history. But someone else seems to be after the same letters and, when Malone obtains then loses them, he’s plunged into a hunt that draws the attention of the legendary Knights of Malta. The knights have existed for over nine hundred years, the only warrior-monks to survive into modern times. Now they are a global humanitarian organization, but within their ranks lurks trouble — the Secreti — an ancient sect intent on affecting the coming papal conclave. With the help of Magellan Billet agent Luke Daniels, Malone races the rogue cardinal, the knights, the Secreti, and the clock to find what has been lost for centuries. The final confrontation culminates behind the walls of the Vatican where the election of the next pope hangs in the balance.

Letters and Letter Fragments

Author: Jean de Pins
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600011013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398

Book Description
RÃ©unissant plus de cent trente lettres et fragments de lettres de la correspondance privÃ©e et diplomatique de l'humaniste toulousain Jean de Pins, Jan Pendergrass ouvre une perspective unique sur quelque quarante ans d'histoire franÃ§aise et europÃ©enne. Humaniste, juriste, diplomate et homme d'Eglise sous les rÃ¨gnes de Louis XII et FranÃ§ois Ier, de Pins fit de longues Ã©tudes en France et en Italie du nord avant de devenir, tour Ã tour, sÃ©nateur aux Parlements de Toulouse et Milan, puis ambassadeur franÃ§ais Ã Venise et Ã Rome. ConsacrÃ© Ã©vÃªque de Rieux en 1524, il se dÃ©mit de ses fonctions parlementaires et finit ses jours Ã Toulouse, entourÃ© d'Ã©tudiants et de gens de lettres Ã©pris de littÃ©rature classique. Cette Ã©dition de sa correspondance rÃ©vÃ¨le l'Ã©tendue considÃ©rable de ses rapports, non seulement avec les reprÃ©sentants de l'humanisme europÃ©en, mais aussi avec les chefs de la diplomatie franÃ§aise, avec des parlementaires, des gens de loi et d'Eglise exceptionnels.