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The Ten Commandments in History: Mosaic Paradigms for a Well-Ordered Society

Door Paul Grimley Kuntz

Categorie
Algemeen Astrologie & Spiritualiteit
Boeknummer
#278712
Titel
The Ten Commandments in History: Mosaic Paradigms for a Well-Ordered Society
Auteur
Kuntz, Paul Grimley
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Jaar van uitgave
2004
ISBN10
0802826601
ISBN13
9780802826602
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Emory University Studies in Law and Religion.
Samenvatting
Paul Grimley Kuntz was a deeply religious man who not only found religious profundity in the Decalogue but also was convinced that it offers the most reasonable paradigm for a well-ordered society. Decrying the loss of the true meaning of the Decalogue in modern times, Kuntz spent the last decade of his life preparing this book, his magnum opus, on the Decalogue. In his research and writing he left no stone unturned, considering the Decalogue and the history of its use from every conceivable angle. In The Ten Commandments in History Kuntz passionately argues that the Ten Commandments are universal principles of social order that have to be applied in concrete circumstances in order for their meaning to be fully understood. In a nearly seamless discourse about the tradition of the Ten Comma... (Lees verder)ndments, Kuntz engages the thought of more than twenty philosophers from antiquity to modernity, showing how great minds adapted the Decalogue to the needs of their particular age. Among the figures treated in the book are Philo, Aquinas, Wycliffe, Luther, Calvin, Hobbes, Locke, Edwards, Kant, Jefferson, Montaigne, Pascal, Hegel, and Nietzsche. By demonstrating the crucial role of the Decalogue in the history of ideas, Kuntz hoped that readers would find a new reverence for the Ten Commandments and once again value their place in civil society.
Pagina's
226
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 9,50

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