Memory and the English Reformation

Memory and the English Reformation
Author: Alexandra Walsham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108829996

Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.

A Concise History of the Common Law

A Concise History of the Common Law
Author: Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Total Pages: 828
Release: 2001
Genre: Common law
ISBN: 1584771372

Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.

Scripture and the Authority of God

Scripture and the Authority of God
Author: N. T. Wright
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0062079069

In Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today, Widely respected Bible and Jesus scholar, N. T. Wright gives new life to the old, tattered doctrine of the authority of scripture, delivering a fresh, helpful, and concise statement on the current “battles for the Bible,” and restoring scripture as the primary place to find God’s voice. In this revised and expanded version of The Last Word, leading biblical scholar N. T. Wright shows how both evangelicals and liberals are guilty of misreading Scripture and reveals a new model for understanding God’s authority and the Bible.

The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined

The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined
Author: David Friedrich Strauss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1860
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

David Friedrich Strauss's Das Leben Jesu kritisch bearbeitet (1835) brought about a new dawn in Biblical criticism by applying the 'myth theory' to the life of Jesus. Strauss treated the Gospel narrative like any other historical work, and denied all supernatural elements in the Gospels. Das Leben Jesu created an overnight sensation and Strauss became embroiled in fierce controversy. This earliest English version of 1846 was translated by the novelist George Eliot, and was her first published book.

The Great Transformation

The Great Transformation
Author: Karl Polanyi
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-06-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780241685556

'One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written. ... A must-read' Thomas Piketty 'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect Karl Polanyi's landmark 1944 work is one of the earliest and most powerful critiques of unregulated markets. Tracing the history of capitalism from the great transformation of the industrial revolution onwards, he shows that there has been nothing 'natural' about the market state. Instead of reducing human relations and our environment to mere commodities, the economy must always be embedded in civil society. Describing the 'avalanche of social dislocation' of his time, Polanyi's hugely influential work is a passionate call to protect our common humanity. 'Polanyi's vision for an alternative economy re-embedded in politics and social relations offers a refreshing alternative' Guardian 'Polanyi exposes the myth of the free market' Joseph Stiglitz With a new introduction by Gareth Dale