IMAGE AS INSIGHT
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IMAGE AS INSIGHT (ebook)

MARGARET R. MILES

$532.00
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Editorial:
WIPF & STOCK PUBLISHERS
Materia
TEOSOFIA METAFISICA
ISBN:
9781725217539
Formato:
PDF
Idioma:
Inglés
DRM
Si

Miles's pathbreaking work shows how art and architecture have shaped religious understanding throughout the history of Christianity.

Otros libros del autor

  • BEAUTIFUL BODIES
    MARGARET R. MILES
    St. Augustine was known as a theologian of feeling for many centuries. Renaissance painters pictured him holding his passionately blazing heart in his hand. In Augustine's society and education, feeling was considered an intimate and integral aspect of thinking, so intimately interwoven that philosophers struggled to distinguish these activities. Thus, Augustine was also commit...

    $391.00

  • RECOLLECTIONS AND RECONSIDERATIONS
    MARGARET R. MILES
    Several years before his death, Augustine of Hippo reviewed his published works, commenting on his purpose in writing each, and correcting, from his present perspective, the mistakes he noticed. Inspired by Augustine's Retractationes, Miles's Recollections and Reconsiderations undertakes a similar project, a critical review of almost fifty years of her publications. Rereading a...

    $444.00

  • THE LONG GOODBYE
    MARGARET R. MILES
    The Long Goodbye: Dementia Diaries discusses a disease that is both personal and social for more than five million patients and their families and friends in the United States today. Now that there are medical strategies for preventing and/or curing strokes, heart attacks, even cancer, many more people are going to live into the dementia years in the near future. Although many ...

    $284.00

  • BEYOND THE CENTAUR
    MARGARET R. MILES
    Beyond the Centaur questions the accuracy and usefulness of the virtually unquestioned ancient consensus that persons are composed of unequally valued, hierarchically stacked antagonistic components, usually soul or mind and body. Part I explores the gradual historical development of this notion of person. Part II consists of a thought experiment, examining an understanding of ...

    $391.00

  • THE WENDELL COCKTAIL
    MARGARET R. MILES
    The Wendell Cocktail describes a major social problem, exemplified by the journals of a person with coexisting conditions--mental illness and addiction. Although there are resources for people with each of these conditions--psychiatry for mental illness and twelve-step programs for addiction--there are few effective resources for people with both. Since about half of the mental...

    $320.00

  • AUGUSTINE AND THE FUNDAMENTALIST’S DAUGHTER
    MARGARET R. MILES
    In Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter, Margaret Miles weaves her memoirs together with reflections on Augustine's Confessions. Having read and reread Augustine's Confessions, in admiration as well as frustration, over the past thirty-five years, Miles brings her memories of childhood and youth in a fundamentalist home into conversation with Augustine's effort to unders...

    $532.00