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Product Description: Time is central to all that humans do. Time structures days, provides goals, shapes dreams―and limits lives. Time appears to be tangible, real, and progressive, but, in the end, time proves illusory. Though mercurial, time can be deadly for those with disabilities...read more
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9781481304085 | Baylor Univ Pr, October 15, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Time is central to all that humans do.
Product Description: Christians wait for prayers to be answered, for an afterlife in heaven, for the Virgin Mary to appear, and for God to speak. They wait to be liberated from oppression, to be âsavedâ or born again, for Easter morning to dawn, for healing, for conversion, and for baptism...read more
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9780739189399 | Lexington Books, December 17, 2015, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Christians wait for prayers to be answered, for an afterlife in heaven, for the Virgin Mary to appear, and for God to speak.
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9780801003219 | Baker Pub Group, September 8, 2015, cover price $14.99
Product Description: Taubes, Badiou, Agamben, Žižek, Reinhard, and Santner have found in the Apostle Paul's emphasis on neighbor-love a positive paradigm for politics. By thoroughly reexamining Pauline eschatology, L. L. Welborn suggests that neighbor-love depends upon an orientation toward the messianic event, which Paul describes as the "now time" and which he imagines as "awakening...read more
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9780231171304 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 12, 2015, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Taubes, Badiou, Agamben, Žižek, Reinhard, and Santner have found in the Apostle Paul's emphasis on neighbor-love a positive paradigm for politics.
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9780231171311 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 12, 2015, cover price $28.00
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9780830835737 | Ivp Books, June 30, 2013, cover price $16.00
Product Description: This volume takes up the challenge implied in Augustine's paradox of time: How does one account for the continuity of history and the certitude of memory, if time, in the guise of an indivisible "now," cuts off any extension of the present? The thinkers and artists the essays address include Augustine, Abelard, Eriugena and Thoreau, Calvin, Shakespeare, De Rancé, Stravinsky and Messiaen, Rubens and Woolf...read more
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9780823251629 | Fordham Univ Pr, May 1, 2013, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This volume takes up the challenge implied in Augustine's paradox of time: How does one account for the continuity of history and the certitude of memory, if time, in the guise of an indivisible "now," cuts off any extension of the present?
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9780823251636 | Fordham Univ Pr, May 1, 2013, cover price $32.00
Product Description: Once Out of Nature offers an original interpretation of Augustineâs theory of time and embodiment. Andrea Nightingale draws on philosophy, sociology, literary theory, and social history to analyze Augustineâs conception of temporality, eternity, and the human and transhuman condition...read more
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9780226585758 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 30, 2011, cover price $43.00 | About this edition: Once Out of Nature offers an original interpretation of Augustineâs theory of time and embodiment.
Product Description: "God is eternal" is a standard belief of all theistic religions. But what does it mean? If, on the one hand, "eternal" means timeless, how can God hear the prayers of the faithful at some point of time? And how can a timeless God act in order to answer the prayers? If God knows what I will do tomorrow from all eternity, how can I be free to choose what to do? If, on the other hand, "eternal" means everlasting, does that not jeopardize divine majesty? How can everlastingness be reconciled with the traditional doctrines of divine simplicity and perfection? An outstanding group of American, UK, German, Austrian, and Swiss philosophers and theologians discuss the problem of God's relation to time...read more
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9781409423911, titled "God, Eternity, and Time" | Ashgate Pub Co, February 1, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: "God is eternal" is a standard belief of all theistic religions.
Product Description: Nowadays, many take for granted that time is quantifiable and measurable; did the people of medieval Europe feel the same way? How was their perception of time influenced by their religious faith? How did their faith change over time? This book collects various attempts to trace changes to perceptions of time throughout medieval Europe by examining both how time was a spiritual experience for medieval people and how spiritual experiences changed over time in the Middle Ages...read more
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9781443823654 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, October 1, 2010, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: Nowadays, many take for granted that time is quantifiable and measurable; did the people of medieval Europe feel the same way?
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Hardcover:
9780787942878 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, September 1, 1999, cover price $20.00
Paperback:
9780787956479 | 1 edition (Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, February 26, 2001), cover price $14.95
Miscellaneous:
9780787959272 | 1 edition (Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, March 14, 2002), cover price $14.95
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