In The Time That Remains, Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be "the fundamental messianic texts of the West." He argues that Paul's letters are concerned not with the foundation of a new religion but rather with the "messianic" abolition of Jewish law. Situating Paul's texts in the context of e...(展开全部)

In The Time That Remains, Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be "the fundamental messianic texts of the West." He argues that Paul's letters are concerned not with the foundation of a new religion but rather with the "messianic" abolition of Jewish law. Situating Paul's texts in the context of e...(展开全部)

称法国的加尔文约翰（一五〇九--一五六四）为改教时期的最大学者，不为过言，他的注释以及其他著述，曾在世上传读有四百年之久，迄今在近代教会中仍广被使用，帮助主的子民解释神的话语。神曾借着加尔文使祂的教会受到莫大的造就。 加尔文将他的才干与心智上的恩赐，奉献给神的荣耀并献给羔羊耶稣。他超奇的文学天才，就是能够著述神学书籍并与欧洲大陆上的重要人物，就有关教义与实践方面的问题交换意见，使他成为改教时期的明星。他的确是当时代的人物。在当时欧洲中古世纪天主教与击毁罗马教专制的新教运动的宗教复兴之间的战争中，加尔文受到了一切严苛的、无情的约束。事实上是他在异端分子色维图的被焚上被卷入漩涡，自此以后，加尔文以及加尔文主义受到攻击，但由于当日的背景，这类的悲剧是不可避免的。加尔文本是一位爱神爱人的人。 神所给祂仆人加尔文的特殊恩赐，乃是他热诚的传福音的信仰以及他对圣经...(展开全部)

弗兰兹・卡夫卡（Franz Kafka 1883-1924）20世纪奥地利著名小说家，西方公认的现代主义文学鼻祖，也是世界公认的文学大师。代表作有《城堡》《变形记》等。 张荣昌，北京大学西方语言系教授，著各翻译家。主要译著有《没有个性的人》（罗伯特・穆齐尔著）、《诺贝尔奖获得者与儿童对话》（福沃特・冯等编）、《写给大家的简明世界史》（贡布里希著）等。

Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of the most profound interpretations of Shakespeare's final play in the twentieth century. As W. H. Auden told friends, it is 'really about the Christian conception of art' and it is 'my Ars Poetica, in the same way I believe "The Temp...(展开全部)

A masterful and insightful book on Exodus by one of the finest Hebrew commentators. Too bad he did not live long enough to finish the whole Torah. Cassuto helps readers understand the nature of Hebrew narrative, sets the Torah story in its Ancient Near Easter context. His remarks are perceptive and helpful.

Reginald Haynes Barrow(1893-1984), the founding editor of Greece and Rome (1931).

There is a major division in the interpretation of Kant, between traditionalists and revolutionaries. Traditionalists see Kant’s work as enmeshed in the prevailing issues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They tend to assimilate Kant to his predecessors such as Leibniz, Hume, or Berkeley. Revolutionaries take more seriously Kant’s vehement repudiation of all the earl...(展开全部)

“A beautifully written story, a box of delights, a treasure trove: final proof of truth’s superiority over fiction.”—Andrew Roberts A sparkling anecdotal account with the pace of an epic, about the men and women who created turning points in history. Rebecca Fraser's dramatic portrayal of the scientists, statesmen, explorers, soldiers, traders, and artists who forged Britai...(展开全部)