Three Treatises

Three Treatises
Author: Martin Luther
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1970-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451414295

Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg in 1517. In the three years that followed, Luther clarified and defended his position in numerous writings. Chief among these are the three treatises written in 1520. In these writings Luther tried to frame his ideas in terms that would be comprehensible not only to the clergy but to people from a wide range of backgrounds. To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation is an attack on the corruption of the church and the abuses of its authority, bringing to light many of the underlying reasons for the Reformation. The second treatise, The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, contains Luther's sharp criticism of the sacramental system of the Catholic church. The Freedom of a Christian gives a concise presentation of Luther's position on the doctrine of justification by faith. The translations of these treatises are all taken from the American edition of Luther's Works. This new edition of Three Treatises will continue to be a popular resource for individual study, church school classes, and college and seminary courses.

Humanist Educational Treatises

Humanist Educational Treatises
Author:
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780674030879

This volume provides new translations, commissioned for the I Tatti Renaissance Library, of four of the most important theoretical statements that emerged from the early humanists efforts to reform medieval education."

A Treatise on Stars

A Treatise on Stars
Author: Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2020-02-25
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0811229394

An ethereal new collection that is “visceral with intellection” (David Lau) Winner of the Bollingen Prize Finalist for the National Book Award Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Finalist for the PEN Open Book Award Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Prize A Treatise on Stars extends Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s intensely phenomenological poetics to the fiery bodies in a “field of heaven…outside spacetime.” Long, lyrical lines map a geography of interconnected, interdimensional intelligence that exists in all places and sentient beings. These are poems of deep listening and patient waiting, open to the cosmic loom, the channeling of daily experience and conversation, gestalt and angels, dolphins and a star-visitor beneath a tree. Family, too, becomes a type of constellation, a thought “a form of organized light.” All of our sense are activated by Berssenbrugge’s radiant lines, giving us a poetry of keen perception grounded in the physical world, where “days fill with splendor, and earth offers its pristine beauty to an expanding present.”

The Arras Witch Treatises

The Arras Witch Treatises
Author: Andrew Colin Gow
Publisher: Magic in History Sourcebooks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Demonology
ISBN: 9780271071282

English translations of two major treatises, Tinctor's Invectives and the anonymous Recollectio, that arose from the famous Arras witch hunts and trial in the mid-fifteenth century in France.

Second Treatise of Government

Second Treatise of Government
Author: John Locke
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 151
Release: 1980-06-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1603844570

The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence. In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional government, private property, and right of revolution and suggests reasons for the appeal of these arguments in Locke's time and since.

Three Treatises on the I'Jaz of the Qur'An

Three Treatises on the I'Jaz of the Qur'An
Author: Muhammad Khalaf Allah Ahmad
Publisher: Great Books of Islamic Civiliz
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781859643891

This book contains three important Arabic treatises from the fourth and fifth centuries of Islamic history, published here in English translation for the first time. They deal with the Islamic concept of i'jāz, that is, the inimitability of the Qur'ān because of its sublime style and divine content. While analyzing i'jāz, they also partake in the development of the science of rhetoric in Arabic and the evolution of Arabic literary criticism. The inimitability of the Qur'ān is considered a miracle authenticating the holy scripture of Islam and proving the veracity of Muḥammad's prophethood. Yet despite its importance in Islamic thought and Qur'ānic studies, few of the Arabic works on i'jāz have been translated into Western languages. The three Arabic treatises in this book are relatively short ones: they afford different points of view and offer a variety of literary and theological approaches that give the reader a virtually comprehensive understanding of i'jāz and the issues related to it, meanwhile contributing to the knowledge of Arabic rhetoric and literary criticism--back cover.