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Human Spirit:

Beginnings from Genesis to Science
  • ISBN-13: 9780271082042
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
  • Price: AUD $228.00
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  • Local release date: 14/01/2019
  • Format: Hardback 344 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Religion: general [HRA]
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Explores significant interpretations of the human spirit in Western culture, with sources ranging from the Hebrew Bible and the apostle Paul to the theologians Augustine, Aquinas, and Calvin and the natural philosopher and physician William Harvey.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I Ancient Realities

1. Genesis

2. Paul

Part II Medieval Thoughts

3. Augustine

4. Aquinas

Part III Early Modern Discoveries

5. Calvin

6. Science

Notes

Index


“A rich, synthetic, and nuanced investigation. This is a highly original piece of work that draws on an astounding array of primary sources as well as the author’s incredible knowledge of rhetoric and philology, archaeology, ornithology, the science of avian flight, ancient crafts of tent-making, Greek earthenware, and metallurgy. This is an erudite tour de force that requires but will also reward patient reading.”

—Barbara Pitkin, author of What Pure Eyes Could See: Calvin’s Doctrine of Faith in Its Exegetical Context

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