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  • FILM AND REDEMPTION
    DAVID RANKIN
    This book explores the representation of the idea or theme of redemption in contemporary, popular film. The discussion focuses primarily on the work of three directors – Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese and Kore-eda Hirokazu – but also considers a few films from other directorial hands. David Rankin divides the notion of personal redemption into transactional and transformationa...

    $1,160.00

  • FILM AND THE AFTERLIFE
    DAVID RANKIN
    This book explores how post-death existence is represented in popular film, looking at issues such as continuity, personal identity, and the nature of existence beyond the grave. Film often returns to the theme of dying, death and the afterlife, both directly and indirectly, because there are very few subjects as compelling and universal. The book compares the representation of...

    $1,040.00

  • THE EARLY CHURCH AND THE AFTERLIFE
    DAVID RANKIN
    The resurrection of the dead was, as Tertullian says, ‘the chief article of the whole Christian faith’ (De resurrectione 39.3) and one of those beliefs which most distinguished Christian thought from much other contemporary thinking. This book looks at the way in which post-death existence is represented in the work of the early Church Fathers - notably Athenagoras, Tertullian,...

    $1,240.00

  • FROM CLEMENT TO ORIGEN
    DAVID IVAN RANKIN
    From Clement to Origen addresses the engagement of a number of pre-Nicene Church Fathers with the surrounding culture. David Rankin considers the historical and social context of the Fathers, grouped in cities and regions, their writings and theological reflections, and discusses how the particular engagement of each with major aspects of the surrounding culture influences, inf...

    $1,600.00

  • ATHENAGORAS
    DAVID RANKIN
    Athenagoras of Athens was a Christian thinker of the second century who engaged with contemporary philosophical thought in the matters of the divine, and the relationship of that divine to the material world. While clearly a Christian apologist, Athenagoras presents doctrines of God, of the Holy Trinity, and of other theological matters which clearly evidence an engagement with...

    $1,600.00

  • SOPHISTS, SOCRATICS AND CYNICS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    DAVID RANKIN
    The Sophists, the Socratics and the Cynics had one important characteristic in common: they mainly used spoken natural language as their instrument of investigation, and they were more concerned to discover human nature in its various practical manifestations than the facts of the physical world. The Sophists are too often remembered merely as the opponents of Socrates and Plat...

    $1,380.00

  • PLATO AND THE INDIVIDUAL (RLE: PLATO)
    DAVID RANKIN
    This book explores the life-history of the individual within the context of Plato’s social thought. The author examines Plato’s treatment of the principal crises in an individual life - birth, educational selection, sex, the individual’s contract with society, old age, death, and life after death – and provides an unprecedented analysis of Plato’s theory of genetics as it appea...

    $1,320.00

  • CELTS AND THE CLASSICAL WORLD
    DAVID RANKIN
    To observe the Celts through the eyes of the Greeks and Romans is the first aim of this book. ...

    $1,340.00