Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton-Cebtury Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Light fading to spine, else a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st Ed., 1st Pr., 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 254 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, tan cover boards quarter bound in tan paper, and interior pages with mustard yellow end pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book examines how Tolkien ennobled the small, the humble, and the marginalized in his Middle-earth writings. He featured leaders who were hesitant to exercise power, who were courteous, and who valued wisdom and learning. Each chapter in this book consists of a wide-ranging discussion of a single virtue, as exemplified by a character in Middle-earth. It explains its philosophical or theological roots, and how the virtue is still relevant in a modern democracy. Clean copy. Record # 34560
Hardcover. NY, Crossroad Publishing Company, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 198 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in very good condition. Interior pages and binding also in very good condition. Vorgrimler traces the course of Rahner's life, setting his major writings in a personal context and against the background of the development of Roman Catholic theology in the twentieth century, before and after the Second Vatican Council. Clean copy. Record # 33611
Softcover. Berkeley, CA, The University of California Press, 2nd, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and literary critic. This book remains among the clearest and most insightful introductions to Benjamin's writings, offering a philosophically rich exposition of his complex relationship to Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism, and Western Marxism. Clean copy. Record # 34191
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 "Understanding Karl Rahner by: Vorgrimler, Herbert Transl. John Bowden")
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