Mary Murray Bosrock's heartfelt stories of growing up a baby boomer in Sandusky, Ohio will make you wish you could blink your eyes and join the Murray family at the dinner table of 124 East Madison Street. This Catholic tale recalls an era where innocence reigned and nuns ruled. The cast includes a hard-of-hearing mother, fond-of-shouting father, six rowdy brothers, a drama queen sister, unforgettable aunts and uncles, eccentric neighbors, and utterly naive classmates, all living in perpetual fear of eternal damnation. Mortal Sin on My Soul is a rollicking confession that will stay with you through this life and the next. -- Amazon website.
Toward a Unified Platonic Human Psychology defends a coherent view of "Platonic Psychology," or looking at human psychology as circular motion in the brain. Author John Mark Reynolds, using the psychology of Plato's Timaeus, advances the discussion of Plato's psychology by proposing a new reading of his view of the human soul. The implications of Plato's psychology on his ethics, view of the animal world, and theology are also examined.
“Mortal Soul” Copy: NOTE FOR ALL COPY POINT SIZE (back reviews, back body copy, back title, spine title and author): Make point size the same as on author’s other iUniverse published books: Lords of Paradise, Black Lies, Vanishing Breed, Bone Chiller “Mortal Soul” Back Cover copy: Note: Background is dark blue, Pantone #_______ (Review copy to be placed on top of page--white type reversed out of dark blue background that compliments front cover color): “Mortal Soul grabs your heart and never lets go.” ----Mystery Morgue Magazine “A richly textured and timeless novel.” ----Charlotte Austin Review “A superb story.” ----Patti Nunn, Writers Showcase Review (white type reversed out of the dark blue background for body copy, below): Goblin shadows loom over a six-year-old boy restlessly waiting for parents who have vanished. Whispers of suicide or murder whirl around the abandoned child as he is passed from one relative to another. Obsessed to unravel the mystery behind his parents’ disappearance, Gordon LeBeque escapes into an even darker world of New York’s Hell’s Kitchen and a series of adventures that sculpt him from a frightened boy to a haunted man. Even his worst nightmares can’t prepare him for the truth behind the deadly secret relentlessly digging at his mortal soul. (using front cover title color and typeface placed directly beneath the body copy): Mortal Soul “Mortal Soul” Spine Copy: Note: Background is dark blue complementing dark blue on cover. (book title using same color and typeface as front cover): Mortal Soul (author name in white, using same typeface as author name on cover: Lon LaFlamme
This provocative book explores how ancient notions about the fat body and the glutton in western culture both challenge and confirm ideas about what it means to be overweight and gluttonous today. People in the ancient western world made a distinction between being fat and being a glutton, even when they valued self-control and criticized excessive behavior. Examining many works of early western cultures, this book shows how ancient views both confirm and challenge our contemporary assumptions about fat bodies and gluttons. Eating to Excess: The Meaning of Gluttony and the Fat Body in the Ancient World explores the historical roots of the symbolic relationship between fatness, gluttony, and immorality in western culture. It includes chapters on Greek philosophy, medicine, and physiognomy; Greek and Roman popular culture; early Christianity; and the development of gluttony as one of the seven deadly sins. By examining ancient ideas about gluttony and fat bodies, the author offers new insight into what it means to be human in the western world.
This latest BACAP Proceedings covers three key areas in ancient philosophy, ethics, method and physics. Under ethics, there are three papers on Socratic piety, Aristotelian friendship, and Augustinian-Platonic virtue. Under method, Socratic elenchos, Socratic maieutic, and Aristotelian aporematic inquiry. Under physics, life in Plato and mo
The Golden Leaf - The Awareness of Divine Love Messages; Edges and Smooth Surfaces and Future Memory are now published in a single hardcover volume. These spirit communications begin the hardback series of spirit communication books that extend the vision and experience of humanity, the spirit world and living with Divine Love. The Golden Leaf is the beginning to this wonderful series of collected spirit messages that are progressive in their knowledge and information, a leading edge in the identity and human awareness of the Divine Love and the mortal soul. The Golden Leaf; The Divine Universe; Celestial Soul Condition; Shining toward Spirit; Traveller; Destiny These books are a wonderful edition to the journey of the inquiring soul.
Welcome to the world of Zaguaron, where gods and demons walk among men. Zaguaron is a world where a king has the ear of the goddess of darkness herself and through treachery and deceit, plots against the entire east. A land blanketed by darkness, but was once a place of sunshine and happiness. It is a world where magic has been outlawed by the godhead; however there is a few that possess the ability. Watch as Alandria, the mortal daughter of the gods must choose a path. Does she follow the mother that gave her life, or does she forge her own path and save the world? Does she save a hero that has life in her dreams, or does she condemn him to death? Allies must be chosen and bonds broken. Zaguaron will leave you breathless as you embark on this epic journey!
An ambitious history of how medieval writers came to terms with paganism From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "Problem of Paganism," which this book identifies and examines for the first time. How could the wisdom and virtue of the great thinkers of antiquity be reconciled with the fact that they were pagans and, many thought, damned? Related questions were raised by encounters with contemporary pagans in northern Europe, Mongolia, and, later, America and China. Pagans and Philosophers explores how writers—philosophers and theologians, but also poets such as Dante, Chaucer, and Langland, and travelers such as Las Casas and Ricci—tackled the Problem of Paganism. Augustine and Boethius set its terms, while Peter Abelard and John of Salisbury were important early advocates of pagan wisdom and virtue. University theologians such as Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham, and Bradwardine, and later thinkers such as Ficino, Valla, More, Bayle, and Leibniz, explored the difficulty in depth. Meanwhile, Albert the Great inspired Boethius of Dacia and others to create a relativist conception of scientific knowledge that allowed Christian teachers to remain faithful Aristotelians. At the same time, early anthropologists such as John of Piano Carpini, John Mandeville, and Montaigne developed other sorts of relativism in response to the issue. A sweeping and original account of an important but neglected chapter in Western intellectual history, Pagans and Philosophers provides a new perspective on nothing less than the entire period between the classical and the modern world.
