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  • PHILOSOPHY AND THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
    JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN
    These essays by John Nevin, theologian of Mercersburg Theology, are united by two primary themes: Part 1 documents Nevin's noteworthy and innovative application of idealist philosophy to Reformed theology in antebellum America. American Christians largely rejected any inherited philosophical discipline or categories, claiming the right to invent moral and religious reality with...

    $869.00

  • AGEISM
    TAY MCNAMARA / JOHN WILLIAMSON
    Ageism: Past, Present, and Future presents perspectives for understanding ageism and puts ageism in the context of specific social institutions. McNamara and Williamson uniquely provide a number of complementary ways to understand ageism, including social and psychological theories of ageism, economic development, ageism as frame or lens, and ageism at the intersection of vario...

    $1,099.00

  • A GUIDEBOOK TO FORTRAN ON SUPERCOMPUTERS
    JOHN M. LEVESQUE / JOEL W. WILLIAMSON
    A Guidebook to Fortran on Supercomputers presents in detail both the underlying architecture of supercomputers and the manner by which a compiler maps Fortran code onto that architecture. This book outlines the constructs preventing full optimization and provides specific strategies for restructuring a program. Organized into four chapters, this book begins with an overview of...

    $970.00

  • TEACHER EDUCATION IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
    PAUL MORRIS / JOHN WILLIAMSON
    This book investigates the relationships between education and national development in an area of the world where both have acquired considerable importance. It questions assumptions which view education primarily as a direct investment in human capital and approaches which measure the efficacy of educational provision solely in terms of quantifiable differences between inputs...

    $1,299.00

  • COENA MYSTICA
    JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN / CHARLES HODGE
    Coena Mystica contains the never-before-reprinted text of John Williamson Nevin's response to Charles Hodge's devastating critiques of his 1846 magnum opus, The Mystical Presence. Initially appearing in twelve issues of the little-known Weekly Messenger of the German Reformed Church and almost entirely neglected by historians since, Nevin's response included the full text of Ho...

    $568.00

  • UNEQUAL PROSPECTS
    TAY MCNAMARA / JOHN WILLIAMSON
    In light of the recent financial crisis and changing economic landscape, McNamara and Williamson present and analyze the possibility of working longer. Including a range of potential policies (e.g., further increasing the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits, allocating more government resources to retraining and job search assistance for older workers), this is...

    $939.00

  • THE MYSTICAL PRESENCE
    JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN
    The Mystical Presence (1846), John Williamson Nevin's magnum opus, was an attempt to combat the sectarianism and subjectivism of nineteenth-century American religion by recovering the robust sacramental and incarnational theology of the Protestant Reformation, enriched with the categories of German idealism. In it, he makes the historical case for the spiritual real presence as...

    $834.00

  • GROUP WORK IN THE PRIMARY CLASSROOM
    MAURICE GALTON / JOHN WILLIAMSON
    Drawing on the work of Vygotsky, the authors look at the social and emotional advantages children can gain from working together. They use case studies derived from the ORACLE II group work project at Leicester, and also take into account the advances made in collaborative group work in other countries. The result is a set of guidelines from which teachers can plan policies sui...

    $999.00

  • MEETING THE STANDARDS IN SECONDARY ENGLISH
    MICHAEL FLEMING / FRANK HARDMAN / DAVID STEVENS / JOHN WILLIAMSON
    Meeting the Standards in Secondary English provides detailed subject knowledge, including the detailed pedagogical knowledge needed to teach English in secondary schools, support activities for work in schools and self-study and information on professional development for secondary schools. This practical, comprehensive and accessible book should prove invaluable for students o...

    $699.00

  • INTERNATIONAL MONETARY REFORM
    JOHN WILLIAMSON
    This volume is a contribution to the debates surrounding international monetary reform. The author examines and analyses the workings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and suggests how the international monetary system could, through changes to the IMF, be reshaped and reformed.  Chapters examine the Palais-Royal report, explain how the IMF could be granted unlimited bai...

    $1,259.00

  • ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC, AND APOSTOLIC, TOME 1
    JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN
    The mid-nineteenth century is a gold mine for contemporary scholars interested in American Protestant ecclesiology. There one will find the extensive writings of John Nevin who came to the notice of the theological world with The Anxious Bench, a critique of the "quackery" of Protestant revivalism. Influenced by a critical appropriation of cutting-edge contemporary German theol...

    $621.00

  • ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC, AND APOSTOLIC, TOME 2
    JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN
    John Nevin's vision of the church as "one, holy, catholic, and apostolic" grew out of his critique of the revivalism and sectarianism that prevailed throughout evangelical Christianity in the nineteenth century. He deepens his perception of catholicity as an expression of Christian wholeness, his response to the parochialism that ruled American religion and life. He grounds con...

    $444.00

  • THE INCARNATE WORD
    JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN / PHILIP SCHAFF / DANIEL GANS
    The Incarnate Word contains a selection of the key writings on the doctrines of Christology produced by the theologians of Mercersburg Seminary during the middle of the nineteenth century. Despite the seminary's small stature and marginal position within American religious life, these texts represent some of the most profound wrestlings with the doctrine of the person of Christ...

    $603.00

  • BORN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT
    JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN / PHILIP SCHAFF / EMANUEL V. GERHART
    Born of Water and the Spirit presents essays on the sacraments by the three major representatives of "Mercersburg Theology," John Nevin, Philip Schaff, and Emanuel Gerhart. It focuses on Mercersburg's doctrine of baptism and Christian nurture, attempts to correct putative deficiencies of the major Reformed trajectories (e.g., New England and Princeton), and vigorously critiques...

    $603.00

  • THE EARLY CREEDS
    JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN / PHILIP SCHAFF / JOHN WILLIAMS PROUDFIT
    This volume is a collection of essays on the early creeds by John Nevin and Philip Schaff, the two principal representatives of the Mercersburg Theology that was birthed in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. It also contains a critical response by John Proudfit, a more traditionally scholastic Calvinist. In these essays Nevin and Schaff argued that the early creeds provide an ind...

    $621.00

  • THE HEIDELBERG CATECHISM
    JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN / JOHN WILLIAMS PROUDFIT
    This volume is a collection of essays on the Heidelberg Catechism by John Nevin, a principal representative of the Mercersburg Theology that was birthed in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. It also contains a critical response by John Proudfit, a more traditionally scholastic Calvinist. In these essays Nevin argued that the Heidelberg Catechism is an essential irenic confessiona...

    $692.00