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Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac

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New Theology No. 1: Its Vitality and Variety Demonstrated in Fifteen Recent Articles

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The Warden is the first of the six classic Chronicles of Barsetshire.

Trollope conceived the story of the novel in Salisbury, while wandering round the cathedral one midsummer evening in the 1850s. Set in the world of the Victorian professional and landed classes that Trollope portrayed so consummately, the book centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity, whose charitable income far exceeds the purpose for which it was intended. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his reforming zeal to exposing what he regards as an abuse of privilege, despite the fact that he is in love with Mr. Harding’s daughter, Eleanor.

The novel was highly topical, for a case regarding the misapplication of church funds was the scandalous subject of contemporary debate. But in common with many other great Victorian novelists, Trollope uses the specific case to explore and illuminate the universal complexities of human motivation and social morality.

With an Introduction and Notes by David Skilton

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Anthony Trollope

The Warden

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My Ántonia, the novel Willa Cather herself considered her best work, is a masterful story of primitive themes told with elegance and affection. Cather's recounting, based on her own life, unerringly depicts the violent yet inspiring existence of the foreign and native-born settlers to Nebraska in the early years of this century.

In a landscape "outside man's jurisdiction," a profound friendship develops between an immigrant girl, Ántonia, and the narrator, Jim Burden. Jim grows to know Ántonia and her Czech family and through their suffering, and the hardships of an unforgiving environment, he describes the indomitable spirit of these immigrants and the others like them, who tried to build a life in this country. This stirring and often harrowing story is populated by many whose strength and endurance enabled them to forge rich lives, and by some who failed. There is Lena and Anna, strong-willed immigrant girls like Ántonia, who take what pleasure life provides them, and grow to become admirable, independent women. And Otto and Jake, the Burden's hired hands, rough men who kneel to decorate the family Christmas tree with handmade ornaments. And finally Ántonia's father, whose homesickness drives him to a desperate act of violence.

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My Ántonia (Barnes & Noble Classics Edition, First Printing)

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Volume 6 of Martin E. Marty's and Dean G. Peerman's New Theology consists of thought-provoking theological writings that tackle issues on revolution and non-revolution, violence and non-violence, peace and power.

Contents:

Introduction--Martin E. Marty and Dean G. Peerman Theology and Revolution

I. The Groundwork of Theologians--Christiaan Beker Biblical Theology Today; Thomas W. Ogletree From Anxiety to Responsibility: The Shifting Focus of Theological Reflection; Jurgen Moltmann Toward a Political Hermeneutics of the Gospel

II. The Theology of Revolution: Pro and Con--George Celestin A Christian Looks at Revolution; J.M. Lochman Ecumenical Theology of Revolution; Richard Shaull Christian Faith as Scandal in a Technocratic World

III. The Practice of Revolution: Theological Reflection--Vincent Harding The Afro-American Past; Herbert Warren Richardson Martin Luther King--Unsung Theologian; Hans-Warren Bartsch The Foundation and Meaning of Christian Pacifism; R.W. Tucker Revolutionary Faithfulness; Robert McAfee Brown Vietnam: Crisis of Conscience; 16 Bishops of the 3rd World Gospel and Revolution; Desmond Fennell England's Troubles and the Catholic Left; Rosemary Ruether The Free Church Movement in Contemporary Catholicism

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Martin E. Marty (Editor)

New Theology No. 6

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In volume 5 of New Theology editors Martin E. Marty and Dean G. Peerman compile a great introductory selection of scholarly articles by Bloch, Moltmann, Pannenberg, Keen, Lawler and many others on theological issues of hope, the future and eschatology.

Contents:

Martin Marty and Dean G. Peerman Introduction: Christian Hope and Human Futures

I. Secular Theology--Cautionary Words: Steve Weissman Ne Left Man Meets the Dead God; Emil L. Fackenheim Man and His World in the Perspective of Judaism: Reflections on Expo '67; R.F. Aldwinckle Did Jesus Believe in God? Reflections on Christian Atheism

II. The Theology of Hope--Enthusiastic Words: Sam Keen Hope in a Posthuman Era; Carl E. Braaten Toward a Theology of Hope; Wolfhart Pannenberg Appearances as the Arrival of the Future

III. The Orientation Toward the Future--Tentative Words: Leslie Dewart God and the Supernatural; Bernard J.F. Lonergan, S.J. The Dehellenization of Dogma; Justus George Lawler The Future of Belief Debate

IV. Alternative Futures: Harvey Cox Ernst Bloch and "The Pull of the Future"; Michael Novak The Absolute Future; Roger Garaudy Communists and Christians in Dialogue; Walter J. Ong, S.J. Evolution, Myth and Poetic Vision

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Martin E. Marty (Editor)

New Theology No. 5

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In our time theologians have sought to be honest to God, to discern the secular meaning of the gospel, to walk with freedom in the secular city. In volume 4 of New Theology twelve scholars here share these concerns but move "beyond the secular" to deal, in chastened ways, with religion.

Contents:

Martin E. Marty and Dean G. Peerman Introduction: Beyond the Secular: Chastened Religion; Mircea Eliade Crisis and Renewal in History of Religions; Avery Dulles, S.J. Symbol, Myth and the Biblical Revelation; Gordon D. Kaufman On the Meaning of "God": Transcendence Without Mythology; Jerry H. Gill Talk about Religious Talk; Heinrich Ott Language and Understanding; Justus George Lawler Theology and the Uses of History; Manfred H. Vogel The Dilemma of Identity for the Emancipated Jew; Gabriel Fackre The Issue of Transcendence in the New Theology, the New Morality, and the New Forms; Albert C. Outler Veni, Creator Spiritus The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit; John Kent Problems of a Protestant Spirituality; Max L. Stackhouse Toward a Theology for the New Social Gospel; Harvey Cox The Death of God and the Future of Theology

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Martin E. Marty (Editor)

New Theology No. 4 (First Printing)

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With a firm grasp on the nettle, volume 3. of New Theology consists of some brilliant commentators on the current theological scene on topics such as contemporary ethics, social action, and personal motivation.

Contents: Ninian Smart, The International Crisis of British Christianity; Daniel Callahan, The Secular City: Toward a Theology of Secularity; John Macquarrie, How Can We Think of God; Kenneth Hamilton, Homo Religiosus and Historical Faith; James M. Gustafson, Context Versus Principles: A Misplaced Debate in Christian Ethics; Paul Peachey, New Ethical Possibility: The Task of "Post-Christendom" Ethics; Tom F. Driver, Sexuality and Jesus; John Killinger, The Uses of Agnosticism: Secularism in Modern Literature; George W. Webber, The Christian Minister and the Social Problems of the Day; Daniel Berrigan, S.J., Fidelity to the Living: Reflections

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New Theology No. 3

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Volume 2 of New Theology consists of lively debate, new research, analytical reportage, and hard thinking on various issues on the academic discipline of the study of the nature of God and religious belief.

Contents:

I: The Problem of God and the Godless -- C.B. Armstrong Christianity Without Religion; William O. Fennell The Theology of True Secularity; Langdon B. Gilkey A New Linguistic Madness; James W. Woelfel "Non-metaphysical" Christian Philosophy and Linguistic Philosophy; David Jenkins Whither the Doctrine of God Now?

II: Nature and Law -- Douglass Sturm Naturalism, Historicism, and Christian Ethics: Toward a Christian Doctrine of Natural Law; Alexander Carlebach Autonomy and Reason in Judaism; Stanley S. Harakas The Natural Law Teaching of the Eastern Orthodox Church; E.R. Baltazar Teilhard de Chardin: A Philosophy of Procession

III: The Churches in Relation -- Krister Stendahl Judaism and Christianity: Then and Now; William Nicholis The Significance of the Ecumenical Councils; George A. Lindbeck Ecclesiology and Roman Catholic Renewal

IV: Biblical Trends -- Harvey K. McArthur A Survey of Recent Gospel Research; P. Joseph Cahill, S.J. Rudolf Bultmann and Post-Bultmann Tendencies

V: Extension of Theology -- John B. Cobb, Jr. A New Trio Arises in Europe; M. Richard Shaull The Form of the Church in the Modern Diaspora; William Stringfellow Through Dooms of Love; Robert Detweiler Christ and the Christ Figure in American Literature

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Martin E. Marty (Editor)

New Theology No. 2 (First Printing)

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The new theologians crowd the barriers where church meets world, and the aim of this collection of fifteen recent articles is to give the curious non-professional a sample of the variety and vitality of current work in theology and allied fields.

History, philosophy, biblical studies, and non-Christian religions figure in the contents. Some pieces demand close attention. Some relate to current events and personalities. Eight countries are represented, as are twelve Protestant denominations, a Jesuit, and a Jewish theologian.

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Martin E. Marty (Editor)

New Theology No. 1: Its Vitality and Variety Demonstrated in Fifteen Recent Articles

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A brilliant and fascinating exploration of the basic weapon by which man has advanced from savagery to civilization. With wit and learning, Mario Pei discusses the formation and development of language from the dawn of history to the mid-twentieth century. — Quick view Add to Cart

Mario Pei

The Story of Language

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When Constance Kopp and her sisters suffer a run-in with a ruthless, powerful crook, Constance leaves her quiet country life to team up with the local sheriff and exact justice. As a war of bricks, bullets, and threats ensues, Constance realizes that this racketeer's history may be more damning than she thought, but now that she's on the case--he won't get away.

Quick-witted and full of madcap escapades, Girl Waits with Gun tells the true story of one woman rallying the courage to stand up for and grow into herself--with a little help from sisters and sheriffs along the way. — Quick view Add to Cart

Amy Stewart

Girl Waits With Gun: A Kopp Sisters Novel

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One of Pushkin’s most thrilling prose works, Dubrovsky follows the adventures of an aristocrat-turned-brigand and his audacious scheme for revenge. Dubrovsky is the son of a landowner whose property has been confiscated by a corrupt and malicious general. After his father dies, and his faithful servants burn his ancestral home to the ground, Dubrovsky turns to crime. But to achieve his ultimate aim of avenging his father, he must resort to subtler means than banditry. Masquerading as a French tutor, he enters the General’s house and sets about beguiling his daughter. Asking hard questions of our faith in social institutions, in particular the law, Dubrovsky displays the considerable storytelling skill of Russia’s greatest poet. Alexander Pushkin wrote lyric and narrative poems, but his masterwork is the verse novel Eugene Onegin.

Translated from the Russian by Tatiana and Ivy Litvinov

Designed by Natalia Nazarova

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Alexander Pushkin

Dubrovsky

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Millions know Thomas Merton as the author of The Seven Storey Mountain, the autobiography that became an international bestseller and a modern spiritual classic. Merton, a prolific spiritual writer and social activist, inspired a generation from the silence and solitude of a Trappist monastery. Decades after his death, he remains a modern spiritual master, a source of wisdom on peace, racial harmony, poverty, alienation, and the engagement of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions.

Now Merton is also revealed as a man whose spirituality is rooted in nature, an environmentalist ahead of his time. His writings on nature serve as a primer on eco-spirituality. He approaches ecology as a spiritual issue, one that exposes the degree of human alienation from the sacredness of the planet.

When the Trees Say Nothing gathers for the first time over 300 of Merton's nature writings, grouping them thematically into sections on the seasons, elements, creatures and other topics. Edited by Merton scholar Kathleen Deignan, the collection is cohesive and accessible, drawing from both Merton's public writings and his recently published private journals. The lyrical writings are enhanced with Deignan's own informative Introduction, along with a Foreword by Thomas Berry, renowned spiritual mentor for the environmental movement.

Unique and powerful on its own, When the Trees Say Nothing is enhanced with the art of John B. Giuliani, known for his stunning iconography. Giuliani's drawings harmonize exquisitely with Merton's meditations on nature, making When the Trees Say Nothing a spiritual and aesthetic prize.

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Thomas Merton

When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature

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