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  | | Justification by Grace Through Faith Finding Freedom from Legalism, Lawlessness, Pride, and Despair (Explorations in Biblical Theology) by Brian Vickers Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2013 by P & R Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-59638-050-9, ISBN: 1-59638-050-0 "Justification is God s declaration that sinners are made right with him through faith in Christ, whose life, death, and resurrection provide forgiveness and the righteousness God desires of his people. This doctrine of justification as an alien, imputed righteousness has been under attack for several years. Brian Vickers biblical theology of justification traces how the doctrine unfolds in Scripture, showing that in Christ, God provides ..." |
 | | Jesus' Blood and Righteousness(1st Edition) Paul's Theology of Imputation by Brian Vickers Paperback, 254 Pages, Published 2006 by Crossway ISBN-13: 978-1-58134-754-8, ISBN: 1-58134-754-5 "The question of whether Paul teaches that Christ's righteousness is imputed to the believer has been debated for roughly four hundred years. Some of the questions that arise are: What is the connection between Adam and the rest of the human race? How did Christ fulfill the role of the second or new Adam? How can the "ungodly" stand before a righteous God? In Jesus' Blood and Righteousness, Brian Vickers investigates the key Pauli ..." |
 | | In Defence of Rhetoric(Updated) by Brian Vickers, 6. Halftones Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 1989 by Clarendon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-811791-9, ISBN: 0-19-811791-4 "A spirited effort to restore the importance of rhetoric, this book examines its early development in the classical era, its triumph during the Renaissance, and its subsequent decline. While acknowledging rhetoric's general loss of prestige, the author asserts its value in modern times as an indispensable vehicle for style and thought in the work of Joyce, Orwell, Jarrell, and others, and concludes by surveying rhetoric's fragmentation ..." |
 | | The Man of Feeling(2nd Edition) (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry Mackenzie, Brian Vickers, Stephen Bending, Stephen Bygrave, Vv.Aa. Paperback, 119 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953862-1, ISBN: 0-19-953862-X "'a book I prize next to the Bible' Robert Burns Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which sentiment and sensibility were allied with true virtue, and sensitivity is the mark of the man of feeling. The hero, Harley, is followed in a series of episodes demonstrating his benevolence in an uncaring world: he assists the down-trodden, loses his love, and fails to achieve worldly su ..." |
 | | Occult & Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance(Updated) by Brian Vickers Paperback, 424 Pages, Published 1986 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-33836-3, ISBN: 0-521-33836-0 "The essays in this volume present a collective study of one of the major problems in the recent history of science: To what extent did the occult 'sciences' (alchemy, astrology, numerology, and natural magic) contribute to the scientific revolution of the late Renaissance? These studies of major scientists (Kepler, Bacon, Mersenne, and Newton) and of occultists (Dee, Fludd, and Cardano), complemented by analyses of contemporary official ..." |
 | | The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose(1st Edition) (Routledge Library Editions--Shakespeare) by Brian Vickers Paperback, 468 Pages, Published 2009 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-48910-2, ISBN: 0-415-48910-5 "First published in 1968. This re-issues the revised edition of 1979. The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose is the first detailed study of the use of prose in the plays. It begins by defining the different dramatic and emotional functions which Shakespeare gave to prose and verse, and proceeds to analyse the recurrent stylistic devices used in his prose. The general and particular application of prose is then studied through all the plays, ..." |
 | | The Man of Feeling(2nd Edition) (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry Mackenzie, Brian Vickers, Stephen Bygrave, Stephen Bending Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2002 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-284032-5, ISBN: 0-19-284032-0 "Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which sentiment and sensibility were allied with true virtue, and sensitivity is the mark of the man of feeling. The hero, Harley, is followed in a series of episodes demonstrating his benevolence in an uncaring world: he assists the down-trodden, loses his love, and fails to achieve worldly success. The novel asks a series of vital questions ..." |
 | | Shakespeare, 'A Lover's Complaint', and John Davies of Hereford(1st Edition) by Brian Vickers Paperback, 342 Pages, Published 2011 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-34961-1, ISBN: 0-521-34961-3 "When Shakespeare's Sonnets were published in 1609 a poem called A Lover's Complaint was included by the publisher, Thomas Thorpe, who was notorious for several irregular publications. Many scholars have doubted its authenticity, but recent editions of the Sonnets have accepted it as Shakespeare's work. Now Vickers, in this 2007 text, first full study of the poem, shows it to be un-Shakespearian both in its language and in its attitude t ..." |
 | | Appropriating Shakespeare(1st Edition) Contemporary Critical Quarrels by Brian Vickers Paperback, 525 Pages, Published 1994 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-06105-5, ISBN: 0-300-06105-6 "During the last two decades, new critical schools of Shakespeare scholarship have emerged, each with its own ideology, each convinced that all other approaches are deficient. This controversial book argues that in attempting to appropriate Shakespeare for their own purposes, these schools omit and misrepresent Shakespeare's text-and thus distort it. Brian Vickers describes the iconoclastic attitudes emerging in French criticism of the 1 ..." |
 | | Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry(1st Edition) by Professor Brian Vickers Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 1989 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-1496-6, ISBN: 0-8093-1496-7 |
 | | Shakespeare, Co-Author A Historical Study of the Five Collaborative Plays by Brian Vickers Hardcover, 580 Pages, Published 2003 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925653-2, ISBN: 0-19-925653-5 "No issue in Shakespeare studies is more important than determining what he wrote. For over two centuries scholars have discussed the evidence that Shakespeare worked with co-authors on several plays, and have used a variety of methods to differentiate their shares from his. In this wide-ranging study, Brian Vickers takes up and extends these discussions, presenting compelling evidence that Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus together wit ..." |
 | | Francis Bacon(1st Edition) The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers Paperback, 864 Pages, Published 2008 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-954079-2, ISBN: 0-19-954079-9 "This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing - the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not otherwise available - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Although he had a distinguished career as a lawyer and statesman, Francis Bacon's lifelong goal was to im ..." |
 | | Shakespeare, Coriolanus by Brian Vickers Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 1976 by Hodder & Stoughton Educational ISBN-13: 978-0-7131-5860-1, ISBN: 0-7131-5860-3 |
 | | Francis Bacon The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers Paperback, 864 Pages, Published 2002 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-284081-3, ISBN: 0-19-284081-9 "This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing - the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not otherwise available - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Although he had a distinguished career as a lawyer and statesman, Francis Bacon's lifelong goal was to i ..." |
 | | English Renaissance Literary Criticism(1st Edition) by Brian Vickers Hardcover, 672 Pages, Published 2000 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-818679-3, ISBN: 0-19-818679-7 "This is the first comprehensive collection of English Renaissance literary criticism to appear for nearly a century. Brian Vickers has brought together a wide-ranging selection of texts, some well-known (such as Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry, the most brilliant critical essay of the whole Renaissance, here given complete), some little-known (Dudley North's account of Metaphysical poetry), and one being printed for the first tim ..." |
 | | The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral(Updated) (Oxford World's Classics) by Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1999 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283802-5, ISBN: 0-19-283802-4 "`their excellence and their value consisted in being the observations of a strong mind operating upon life; and in consequence you find what you seldom find in other books.' Samuel Johnson Celebrated today as a writer and scientist, Francis Bacon was for the most part of his life occupied with the law and public affairs at a high level. Although personally devastating, his fall from public office in 1621 nonetheless served to liberat ..." |
 | | 'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare(1st Edition) Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall Elegye by Brian Vickers Paperback, 600 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-12035-7, ISBN: 0-521-12035-7 "Brian Vickers addresses the fundamental issues of what Shakespeare actually wrote, and how this is determined. In recent years Shakespeare's authorship has been claimed for two poems, the lyric "Shall I die?" and A Funerall Elegye. These attributions have been accepted into certain major editions of Shakespeare's works. Through a new examination of the evidence, Professor Vickers shows that neither poem has the stylistic and imaginativ ..." |
 | | The Future Inheritance of Land in the Pauline Epistles by Brian Vickers Paperback, 226 Pages, Published 2019 by Pickwick Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-5326-3282-2, ISBN: 1-5326-3282-7 "The Apostle Paul’s vision of eternity is centered on the inheritance theme. Although Paul rarely unpacks this concept, he employs the inheritance in a manner that encompasses the hope of a renewed cosmos promised to Abraham and his descendants. Thus, the apostle does not redefine a theme grounded in the Old Testament and Second Temple literature—as if it now referred to heaven or some other spiritualized existence. He expects what every ..." |
 | | The Future Inheritance of Land in the Pauline Epistles by Brian Vickers Hardcover, 226 Pages, Published 2019 by Pickwick Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-5326-3284-6, ISBN: 1-5326-3284-3 "The Apostle Paul's vision of eternity is centered on the inheritance theme. Although Paul rarely unpacks this concept, he employs the inheritance in a manner that encompasses the hope of a renewed cosmos promised to Abraham and his descendants. Thus, the apostle does not redefine a theme grounded in the Old Testament and Second Temple literature--as if it now referred to heaven or some other spiritualized existence. He expects what ever ..." |
 | | The Collected Works of John Ford(1st Edition) Volumes II and III by Brian Vickers, London University Hardcover, 992 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-874887-8, ISBN: 0-19-874887-6 "Volumes II and III of the Collected Works of John Ford contain the six plays that Ford wrote at the beginning of his theatrical career in collaboration with other dramatists: The Laws of Candy (1619-20) with Massinger, The Witch of Edmonton (1621) with Dekker and Rowley, The Welsh Ambassador (1623) with Dekker, The Spanish Gypsy (1623) with Dekker, Rowley, and Middleton, The Sun's Darling (1624) with Dekker, and The Fair Maid of the Inn ..." |
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