Alfred Thomas: 121 books

Volume 51 contains a total of 60 lectures covering 12 topics: History Poetry Natural Science Philosophy Biography Prose Fiction Criticism and the Essay Education Political Science Drama Voyages and Travels Religion

What does it mean to be an Indigenous man today? Between October 2010 and May 2013, Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the subject of Indigenous manhood. In offices, kitchens, and coffee shops, and once in a car driving down the 401,...

The last and most important of these principles is the tendency of all theological systems to absorb into themselves the deities extraneous to themselves, not as gods, but as inferior, or even evil, spirits. The actual existence of the foreign deity is not for a moment disputed, the presumption in...

Critics since the eighteenth century have puzzled over the form of James Thomson’s composite long poem, The Seasons (1730, 1744, 1746), its generically hybrid make-up, and its relationship to established genres both Classical and modern. The textual condition of the work is complicated by the fact...

This volume shows the common held beliefs about demons during and just after the Reformation period started by Martin Luther. These beliefs are mainly shown through the use of fiction present at the time especially through the plays of the master of theatre himself, William Shakespeare. The author...

It is impossible to understand and appreciate thoroughly the production of any great literary genius who lived and wrote in times far removed from our own, without a certain amount of familiarity, not only with the precise shades of meaning possessed by the vocabulary he made use of, as distinguished...

Schon die 1970 – 1974 erschienene erste Ausgabe der ›Ökumenischen Kirchengeschichte‹ galt allgemein als Standardwerk. Das Grundkonzept wurde für diese völlig neu bearbeitete und aktualisierte Neuauflage beibehalten: Jede kirchengeschichtliche Epoche wird von einem katholischen und einem protestantischen...

Der dritte Band der ›Ökumenischen Kirchengeschichte‹, hrsg. von Hubert Wolf, behandelt die wichtigen Entwicklungen der Kirchengeschichte vor allem im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Kirchenhistoriker beider großer Konfessionen stellen nicht nur die ereignisgeschichtlichen Tatsachen dar, sondern auch...

In dieser neuen Ausgabe des Standardwerks, dessen erste Fassung 1970 erschien, wird die gesamte Kirchengeschichte von Autoren der beiden großen christlichen Konfessionen gemeinschaftlich dargestellt. Die Neuausgabe des bewährten Lehr- und Lesebuchs ist aktualisiert und größtenteils neu geschrieben...