Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages

Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages
Author: Henry Ansgar Kelly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1993-05-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521431840

H.A. Kelly explores meanings given to tragedy, from Aristotle's most basic notion (any serious story, even with a happy ending), via Roman ideas and practices, to the Middle Ages, when Averroes considered tragedy to be the praise of virtue, but Albert the

A Treatise on the Anger of God

A Treatise on the Anger of God
Author: Lactantius
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2006
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1458706281

A thought-provoking work that offers a commentary on the love and kindness of God as well as His fairness and anger. Lactantius dwells on these seemingly conflicting ideas and beautifully expresses that God is compassionate yet impartial in meting out justice. Profound!

Patrology

Patrology
Author: Otto Bardenhewer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 720
Release: 1908
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Otto Bardenhewer's Patrology is certainly not the most recent work in the field. But sound judgment is never obsolete - Bardenhewer's concise, pellucid analysis of the church fathers is still valuable today, over a century after it was published. For generations, his work has been treasured by experts and novices alike for its penetrating insight and easy accessibility. Many fathers are given fuller treatment here than in any modern handbook. And today, every work cited in Bardenhewer's copious bibliographies has entered the public domain - what a boon to researchers of the information age!