For the medieval mystical tradition, the Christian soul meets God in a 'cloud of unknowing', a divine darkness of ignorance. This meeting with God is beyond all knowing and beyond all experiencing. Mysticisms of the modern period, on the contrary, place 'mystical experience' at the centre, and contemporary readers are inclined to misunderstand the medieval tradition in 'experie...(展开全部)

中译本导言前言第一章 来临的上帝：终末论现况一 终末论的时间化二 终末论的永恒化三 来临的上帝的终末论四 犹太教弥赛亚思想的再生第二章 永恒的生命：个人的终末论一 生命和死亡二 灵魂不灭或身体复活? 三 死亡是罪的后果，还是生命自然的终点? 四 死人在哪里? 五 死亡、哀悼和安慰第三章 上帝国：历史的终末论一 历史的恐怖末日论二 弥赛亚式终末论：“千年国度” 三 政治的弥赛亚主义：“神圣国度” 四 政治的千禧年主义：“救赎者国家” 五 教会的千禧年主义：“万民的母亲和教师” 六 划时代的千禧年主义：“近代”的诞生源自弥赛亚盼望的精神七 千禧年式的终末论是必要的吗? 八 人类历史的末时：灭绝主义九 “历史的终结”：后历史的先知十 恐怖末日的终末论是必要的吗? 十一 万有的回归第四章 新天新地：宇宙的终末论一 受造的将来：安息和舍金纳二 世界的毁灭或圆满...(展开全部)

Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller “a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century” in a feature on his first book, The Reason for God . In that book, he offered a rational explanation of why we should believe in God. Now, in The Prodigal God , he uses one of the best-known Christian parables to reveal an unexpected message of hope and salvation. Taking his trade...(展开全部)

How did the New Testament writers and the earliest Christians come to adopt the Jewish scriptures as their first Old Testament? And why are our modern Bibles related more to the rabbinic Hebrew Bible than to the Greek Bible of the early Church? The Septuagint, the name given to the translation of the Hebrew scriptures between the third century BC and the second century AD, play...(展开全部)

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van La...(展开全部)

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van La...(展开全部)

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Suspended between sea and sky, battered by the waves and the wind, lighthouses mark the battlelines between the elements. They guard the boundaries between the solid human world and the primordial chaos of the waters; between stability and instability; between the known and the unknown. As such, they have a strange, universal appeal that few other manmade structures possess. En...(展开全部)

A formidable and influential work, Language and Death sheds a highly original light on issues central to Continental philosophy, literary theory, deconstruction, hermeneutics, and speech-act theory. Focusing especially on the incompatible philosophical systems of Hegel and Heidegger within the space of negativity, Giorgio Agamben offers a rigorous reading of numerous philosophi...(展开全部)

Hegel's doctrines of absolute negativity and 'the Concept' are among his most original contributions to philosophy and they constitute the systematic core of dialectical thought. Brady Bowman explores the interrelations between these doctrines, their implications for Hegel's critical understanding of classical logic and ontology, natural science and mathematics as forms of 'fin...(展开全部)