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  | | The Force of Tradition Response and Resistance in Literature, Religion, and Cultural Studies by Donald G. Marshall, Contributor-Daniel Mcveigh, Contributor-Susan Felch, Contributor-Alan Jacobs, Contributor-David Landrum, Contributor-Genevieve Later, Contributor-Norman Lillegard, Contributor-Margaret Cullen, Contributor-Michael Schnell, Contributor-William Slaymaker, Contributor-Joel Weinsheimer, Gerald L. Bruns, Michael Vander Weele Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2005 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-4161-0, ISBN: 0-7425-4161-4 "How do we stand in relation to everything that comes down to us from the past? Is the very idea of tradition still useful in the wake of historical ruptures, such as the Holocaust, changes in the canon, and the end of colonialism? The concept of tradition has gained renewed importance in recent cultural studies. Suspicion of tradition as culturally narrow and oppressive is a persistent theme of modernity and has increased lately with th ..." |
 | | Liberal Arts for the Christian Life(1st Edition) by Leland Ryken, Duane Litfin, Alan Jacobs, Wayne Martindale, Henry Allen, Jay Wood, Edith Blumhofer, Sharon Coolidge, Mark Lewis, Lisa Richmond, Tamara Townsend, Peter Walters, Michael Wilder, James Wilhoit, Jeffry C. Davis, Philip Graham Ryken, Read Mercer Schuchardt, Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, Professor Roger Lundin, Marjorie Lamp Mead, John H. Augustine, Dorothy F. Chappell, Kenneth R. Chase, Jeffrey P. Greenman, Stephen B. Ivester, E. John Walford, Roger Lundin, Jeffrey C. Davis Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2012 by Crossway ISBN-13: 978-1-4335-2394-6, ISBN: 1-4335-2394-9 "For over forty years, Leland Ryken has championed and modeled a Christian liberal arts education. His scholarship and commitment to integrating faith with learning in the classroom have influenced thousands of students who have sat under his winsome teaching. Published in honor of Professor Ryken and presented on the occasion of his retirement from Wheaton College, this compilation carries on his legacy of applying a Christian liberal a ..." |
 | | The Book of Common Prayer(Reprint) A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books) by Alan Jacobs, Daren Magee Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2019 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19178-2, ISBN: 0-691-19178-6 "While many of us are familiar with such famous words as “Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here. . .” or “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,” we may not know that they originated in The Book of Common Prayer, which first appeared in 1549. Like the words of the King James Bible and Shakespeare, the language of this prayer book has saturated English culture and letters. Here Alan Jacobs tells its story. He shows how The Book of Common P ..." |
 | | The Year of Our Lord 1943 Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis by Alan Jacobs 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-086467-5, ISBN: 0-19-086467-2 "In this book, Alan Jacobs explores the poems, novels, essays, reviews, and lectures of these five central figures, in which they presented, with great imaginative energy and force, pictures of the very different paths now set before the ..." |
 | | A Theology Of Reading The Hermeneutics Of Love by Alan Jacobs 196 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-429-98222-4, ISBN: 0-429-98222-4 "Dihle affirms repeatedly that the Greeks explained actions as consequences of reason or emotion, period: "the two kinds of motivation, that from reasoning and that from emotion" (26). "The twofold psychology that explains human behavior on the basis of the interaction of rational and irrational forces and has no room for the concept of will prevails throughout the Greek tradition from the time of Homer onwards" (27). Dihle's book d ..." |
 | | How to Think A Survival Guide for a World at Odds by Alan Jacobs Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2017 by Currency ISBN-13: 978-0-451-49960-8, ISBN: 0-451-49960-3 ""Absolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now." —David Brooks, New York TimesHow to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we’re not as good at thinking as we assume—but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper’s, Alan Jac ..." |
 | | The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs 176 Pages, Published 2011 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-983167-8, ISBN: 0-19-983167-X "My favorite translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is that of Simon Armitage (New York: W. W. Norton, 2007); think of it as the ideal bookend to Seamus Heaney's great version of Beowulf (2001), from the same publisher. The quotation ... several editions. Charles Simic's account of his strong opinions on annotation appeared on the blog of the New York Review of Books on December 14, 2009: ..." |
 | | Looking Before and After(1st Edition) Testimony and the Christian Life (Stob Lectures 2006) by Alan Jacobs Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2008 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. ISBN-13: 978-0-8028-4981-6, ISBN: 0-8028-4981-4 "In the work of such major theologians as Lesslie Newbigin and Stanley Hauerwas, the "Christian story" is communal, and the individual Christian achieves meaning only through participation in this communally recounted narrative. While Alan Jacobs acknowledges the importance of the communal story, he suggests that something has been neglected in the development of narrative theology - the narrative dimension of individual Christian lives. ..." |
 | | The Narnian(1st Edition) The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2006 by Harperone ISBN-13: 978-0-06-087269-4, ISBN: 0-06-087269-1 "A journey into the imaginative life of C.S. Lewis exploring the themes and life events that allowed an Oxford don, a scholar of medieval literature who loved to debate philosophy at his local pub, to write one of the most enduring classics of children's literature. C.S. Lewis was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably the most influential Christian writer of his day. Yet among his poetry, literary history a ..." |
 | | The Force of Tradition Response and Resistance in Literature, Religion, and Cultural Studies by Donald G. Marshall, Daniel Mcveigh, Susan Felch, Alan Jacobs, Margaret Cullen, David Landrum, Genevieve Later, Norman Lillegard, Michael Schnell, William Slaymaker, Joel Weinsheimer, Gerald L. Bruns, Michael Vander Weele Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2005 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-4162-7, ISBN: 0-7425-4162-2 "How do we stand in relation to everything that comes down to us from the past? Is the very idea of tradition still useful in the wake of historical ruptures, such as the Holocaust, changes in the canon, and the end of colonialism? The concept of tradition has gained renewed importance in recent cultural studies. Suspicion of tradition as culturally narrow and oppressive is a persistent theme of modernity and has increased lately with th ..." |
 | | Breaking Bread with the Dead Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind (Hardback) by Alan Jacobs 192 Pages, Published 2020 by Profile ISBN-13: 978-1-78816-299-9, ISBN: 1-78816-299-4 "Small wonder that many readers prefer to close the book on the past. Rather than dwell amid the squalor of history, shouldn't we focus our attention on hopes for a better world?The literary scholar Alan Jacobs hears you. He gets it." |
 | | Breaking Bread with the Dead A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind by Alan Jacobs 160 Pages, Published 2020 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-1-984878-41-0, ISBN: 1-984878-41-7 "In Breaking Bread with the Dead, a gifted scholar draws us into close and sympathetic engagement with texts from across the ages, including the work of Anita Desai, Henrik Ibsen, Jean Rhys, Simone Weil, Edith Wharton, Amitav Ghosh, Claude ..." |
 | | Breaking Bread with the Dead A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind by Alan Jacobs Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2020 by Penguin Press ISBN-13: 978-1-984878-40-3, ISBN: 1-984878-40-9 "From the author of HOW TO THINK and THE PLEASURES OF READING IN AN AGE OF DISTRACTION, a literary guide to engaging with the voices of the past to stay sane in the presentW. H. Auden once wrote that "art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise, Breaking Bread with the Dead, Alan Jacobs shows us that engaging with the strange and wonderful writings of the past might hel ..." |
 | | Myrobalan of the Magi by Alan Jacobs Published by Xlibris Corporation ISBN-13: 978-1-4628-4137-0, ISBN: 1-4628-4137-6 "Alan Jacobs. Preface. A pilgrim questioned a Great Magi, “You have stated that SelfKnowledge is very easy, how is that so?” The Magi replied, “The Self is even more directly perceivable than this myrobalan* I hold in my hand. Everyone can say from direct experience that they 'exist', 'are aware', 'are conscious'. So Self Knowledge is very easy and the easiest way is to find the one who is trying so hard to know the Self. And all su ..." |
 | | A Theology Of Reading The Hermeneutics Of Love by Alan Jacobs Hardcover, Published 2019 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-367-31429-3, ISBN: 0-367-31429-0 |
 | | White Man Think Again by Alan Jacobs Paperback, 348 Pages, Published by Imprint Unknown ISBN-13: 978-0-85172-009-8, ISBN: 0-85172-009-9 |
 | | How To Think A Guide for the Perplexed by Alan Jacobs Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2018 by Profile Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78125-957-3, ISBN: 1-78125-957-7 "How To ThinkHow to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume - but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life.Most of us don't want to think, writes the American essayist Alan Jacobs. Thinking is trouble. It can force us out of familiar, comforting habits, and it can complicate our relationships with like-minded friends. Finally, thinking is slow, and that ..." |
 | | The Year of Our Lord 1943 Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis by Alan Jacobs Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2018 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-086465-1, ISBN: 0-19-086465-6 "By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear that the Allies would win the Second World War. Around the same time, it also became increasingly clear to many Christian intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic that the soon-to-be-victorious nations were not culturally or morally prepared for their success. A war won by technological superiority merely laid the groundwork for a post-war society governed by technocrats. These Christia ..." |
 | | A Theology of Reading The Hermeneutics of Love by Alan Jacobs 196 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-429-97114-3, ISBN: 0-429-97114-1 "If the whole of the Christian life is to be governed by the "law of love"—the twofold love of God and one's neighbor—what might it mean to read lovingly? That is the question that drives this unique book." |
 | | Me? I Kill People by Alan Jacobs Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2018 by Troubador Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78901-684-0, ISBN: 1-78901-684-3 "A story of forbidden love and dark crimes as a contract killer is chased by the one woman who cannot bring herself to catch him. Giles Penshurst is rich, picks his clients and always gets the job done. Sounds like the perfect life - except for one detail: he kills people for money. As a contract killer who stumbled into the life, Giles is meticulous about staying one step ahead of the police...even when the police in question is one wom ..." |
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