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Chance or the Dance? A Critique of Modern Secularism.

By: Howard, Thomas.

Price: $9.00

Publisher: San Francisco, California., Ignatius Press.: 2001

Seller ID: 30885

ISBN: 0898702291

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 20.5 x 13.5 cm.; 150 pp. Previously published in 1969 by Harold Shaw of Wheaton, Illinois, then in 1989 by Ignatius Press, this is the second printing. From the back cover: "Contrasting the Christian and secular world-views, Thomas Howard shows how, even though the new secular mythology may have gained some entrance into our minds and our hearts, our lives and all genuinely meaningful activities show that we cannot live as persons unless we are illuminated by the light from the old (read Christian) world view. This is an apology for Christianity and an indictment of secularlism without b...
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God's Spirit in the World: Ecumenical and Cultural Essays. (Christian Philosophical Studies II).

By: Hryniewicz OMI., Waclaw.

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Washington, DC., The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy.: 2012

Seller ID: 32022

ISBN: 1565182731

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; vii - 195 pp. This is volume 43 in "Series IVA: Eastern and Central European Philosophical Studies" and also volume 2 in "Series VIII: Christian Philosophical Studies" from this publisher under the more general series name "Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change" and the general editor being George F. McLean. Fr. Hryniewicz was a professor at the Catholic University of Lublin in Poland and a director of the Ecumenical Institute there. The essays in this collection all deal with the Holy Spirit and charisms. Five page curriculum vitae of Fr. Hryniewicz and a four page gene...
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Thinking About Sex and Love.

By: Hunter, J. F. M.

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Macmillan of Canada.: 1980

Seller ID: 32642

ISBN: 0771595263

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 14 cm.; 172 pp. Dr. Hunter was a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. Here he "addresses the moral considerations attached to sexual behavior in contemporary society. . ." A small amount of marginalia with a few words underlined, otherwise, a clean, tight volume. Dust jacket rubbed with minor edgewear.
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The Fortunes of Inquiry.

By: Jardine, N. (Nicholas).

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oxford, UK., Clarendon Press.: 1986

Seller ID: 26260

ISBN: 0198249292

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; (10) - 144 pp. Dark blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. A volume from the Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy under the general editorship of L. Jonathan Cohen. From the dust jacket: "In this book Dr. Jardine proposes a pragmatic account of truth as the eventually settled verdict of a certain idealized type of inquiry. In the context of this pragmatic account he offers a confirmation of the truth amassing nature of science by appeal to historical prosesses of resolution of questions, avoidance of error, and donmination of divergent lines of...
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Thomism and Modern Thought.

By: Klocker SJ., Harry R.

Price: $13.50

Publisher: New York., Appleton-Century -Crofts / Meredith Publishing.: 1962

Seller ID: 32176

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; xiv - 320 pp. Aqua-blue cloth over boards with silver gilt and black lettering on the spine and the front board. From the author's preface: "This book is a textbook with a twofold purpose. In the first place it aims to give the student, who already possesses some knowledge of the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, a basic understanding of modern, non-Thomistic systems of philosophy which are current . . . The second purpose of this text is to show the origins of the main systems of modern philosophy and to compare them to the philosophy of St. Thomas." Each of the 7 chapters ...
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The Presence of Myth.

By: Kolakowski, Leszek.

Price: $9.60

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois., University of Chicago Press.: 1990

Seller ID: 25461

ISBN: 0226450414

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; xii - 138 pp. Black cloth over boards with light blue lettering on the spine. Kolakowski wrote this book in 1966 though it was first published in France (1972) due to the censorship in Poland, as "Obernosc mitu". Then translated from the original Polish into German in 1973 and now translated into English by Adam Czerniawski. Two page index of names at the back.
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Take, Read: Scripture, Textuality, and Cultural Practice.

By: Kort, Wesley A.

Price: $6.40

Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania., Pennsylvania State University Press.: 1996

Seller ID: 24600

ISBN: 0271015926

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 22.5 x 15 cm.; 156 pp. From the back cover: ". . . Kort shows that the theory and practice of reading as detailed by Calvin are applied to other texts that begin to be read as scripture and eventually, in the modern period, replace the reading of the Bible as scripture". The spine is a tad sunned or faded, otherwise fine.
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I-Man, An Outline of Philosophical Anthropology.

By: Krapiec, Mieczyslaw, O.P.

Price: $27.00

Publisher: New Britain, Connecticut., Mariel Publications.: 1985

Seller ID: 31651

ISBN: 0910919038

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; xxi - 281 pp. Abridged version by Francis Lescoe and Roger Duncan. According to the Foreword, this is a philosophy which "represents a striking amalgam of St. Thomas Aquinas' realist metaphysics, the insights of contemporary existentialism, and the methodology of phenomenology." Footnotes, bibliographies, index. Father Krapiec is a Polish priest and theologian and founder of the Lublin Philosophical School. Turquoise cloth-covered boards with gold gilt spine and front cover lettering. A clean, tight volume.
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Socratic Logic. A Logic Text Using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, & Aristotelian Principles. Edition 3.1.

By: Kreeft, Peter. (edited by Trent Dougherty).

Price: $27.00

Publisher: South Bend, Indiana., St. Augustine's Press.: 2010

Seller ID: 33140

ISBN: 1587318083

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

8vo - 22.5 x 15 cm.; x - 400 pp. Glossy paper over boards with no dust jacket as issued. First published in 2004, this is the second printing of edition 3.1. From the title page: "Modeling Socrates as the ideal teacher for the beginner and Socratic method as the ideal teacher. Introducing philosophical issues along with logic by being philosophical about logic and logical abut philosophy. Presenting a complete system of classical Aristotelian logic, the logic of ordinary language and the four language arts, reading, writing, listening and speaking." One appendix, "Problems with Mat...
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Socratic Logic. A Logic Text Using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, & Aristotelian Principles. Edition 3.1.

By: Kreeft, Peter. (edited by Trent Dougherty).

Price: $27.00

Publisher: South Bend, Indiana., St. Augustine's Press.: 2010

Seller ID: 33141

ISBN: 1587318083

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Einstein and the Image of God: A Response to Contemporary Atheism.

By: Kropf, Richard W.

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Johannesburg, Michigan., Stellamar Publications.: 2016

Seller ID: 30982

ISBN: 1514879328

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 23 x 15 .5 cm.; xvi - 208 pp. First published in 2015, this is the third printng and second revision. Twelve page bibliography and a 13 page index. Other than some very light shelf wear to the bottom fore corner of the book, it is an as-new and unused book.
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Einstein and the Image of God: A Response to Contemporary Atheism.

By: Kropf, Richard W.

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Johannesburg, Michigan., Stellamar Publications.: 2015

Seller ID: 30983

ISBN: 1514879328

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 23 x 15 .5 cm.; xvi - 208 pp. Twelve page bibliography and a 13 page index. Other than some very light shelf wear to the bottom fore corners of the covers, it is an as-new and unused book.
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Evil and Evolution: A Theodicy.

By: Kropf, Richard W.

Price: $11.25

Publisher: Eugene, Oregon., Wipf and Stock Publishers.: 2004

Seller ID: 30984

ISBN: 1592447988

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; iv - 204 pp. First published in 1984, this is a later revised and updated edition. Eight page bibliography and a 10 page index. Other than some very minor wear to the bottom fore edge corners of the covers, this is an as-new and unused book.
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Patterns, Values, and Horizon: an Ethic.

By: Lacroix SJ., W. J.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: New York., Corpus Books: 1970

Seller ID: 7423

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 20.5 x 13 cm.; 248 pp with notes and index. "Drawing heavily upon . . . philosophy . . . . And relevant data provided by psychology . . , (the) author seeks to set forth the basic framework for a viable ethics . . . ." The covers and text block edges have some minor soiling, previous owner's stamp and notation on the title page. The binding is solid and the interior is clean.
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Coeur de cristal.

By: Lenoir, Frederic.

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Paris, France., Editions Robert Laffont.: 2014

Seller ID: 31296

ISBN: 2221145844

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 20.5 x 13 cm.; 205 pp. The text is in French. Illustrated with 16 full page coloured drawings by Alexis Chabert and coloured by Magali Paillat. Very minor wear and light soiling to the covers, otherwise clean with a sound binding.
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Hypermodern Times

By: Lipovetsky, Gilles with Sebastien Charles

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Polity Press.: 2005

Seller ID: 24705

ISBN: 0745634206

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 90 pp. First published in French, this is translated by Andrew Brown. Contents: Paradoxical Individualism: An Introduction to the Thought of Gilles Libovetsky by Sebastien Charles; Time Against Time: Or The Hypermodern Society; Stages in an Intellectual Itinerary: A Conversation between Gilles Lipovetsky and Sebastien Charles; Bibliograph y of Publications by Lipovetsky. Lipovetsky is Professor of Philosophy in France. One dog-eared page otherwise a clean, tight copy.
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Tillichian Theology and Educational Philosophy

By: Lo, Samuel E.

Price: $24.00

Publisher: New York, Philosophical Library.: 1970

Seller ID: 20809

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

8vo - 20.5 x 13 cm.; 126 pp. Book's objective is to "trace . . . Tillich's concepts of theonomy, autonomy, and heteronomy, and to examine their implicit and explicit implications for the pedagogical principles of Christian education." Author was a Presbyterian minister and professor at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. Footnotes, bibliography. Boards lightly soiled with minor edgewear, spine is cocked; binding sturdy, text pages clean. Dust jacket is rubbed, lightly soiled, edgewear.
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Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 3. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding.

By: Lonergan, Bernard. (Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran, editors).

Price: $36.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., University of Toronto.: 2008

Seller ID: 27900

ISBN: 0802034551

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 23 x 15.5 cm.; xxvi - (2) - 875 pp. This is volume 3 only of the Collected Works. From the back cover: "Insight is Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. . . . The editors . . . have established the definitive text for Insight after examining all the variant forms in Lonergan's manuscripts and papers. The volume includes introductory material and annotations to enable the reader to appreciate more fully this challenging work." Four page Lexicon of Latin and Greek words and phrases, 33 pages of editorial notes by Crowe and Doran, 4 page listing of works of Lonergan referred to in the edit...
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A Survey of Christian Ethics.

By: Long, Edward LeRoy.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York., Oxford University Press.: 1967

Seller ID: 26753

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; viii - (2) - 342 pp. Red/brown cloth with white lettering on the spine and the front board. Four main sections as follows: "The Varieties and Functions of Ethical Discourse", "The Formulation of the Ethical Norm", "The Implementation of Ethical Decisions", "Analysis and Evaluation". Twenty one pages of bibliographical references and a 6 page, general and comprehensive index at the back. The interior is clean and the binding is tight. The externals show only mild wear.
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Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins, Hegels falsche und echte Ontologie

By: Lukacs, Georg

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Darmstadt, Germany, Luchterhand.: 1971

Seller ID: 25367

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

12mo - 18 x 11.5 cm.; 129 pp. Text is in German. Sammlung Luchterhand 49. Lukacs (1885-1971) was a distinguished Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary historian. A clean, sturdy copy with only former owner's name on first page.
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Category: Philosophy