Specializing in C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Inklings & "The Seven"
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. First Edition. Paperback. Discover a fresh, compelling vision of Christian ethics in Michael Banner’s highly regarded The Ethics of Everyday Life. Moving beyond dry debates over isolated “hard cases,” Banner weaves moral theology with social anthropology to explore what it truly means to live, suffer.....
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Texas: Baylor University Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Discover a clean, collectible First Edition of Joseph R. Wiebe’s acclaimed study The Place of Imagination: Wendell Berry and the Poetics of Community, Affection, and Identity. Handsomely bound in blue cloth with bright silver foil stamping on the spine and protected by.....
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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. 5th Printing. Hardcover. Discover a landmark work in modern moral philosophy with this solid copy of Philippa Foot’s Natural Goodness. In this concise and beautifully argued book, the renowned Oxford philosopher offers a powerful alternative to subjectivist and non-cognitivist ethics, contending that virtue is natural goodness.....
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Paperback. Discover the remarkable later history of one of the ancient world’s greatest cities. Clive Foss’s classic study Ephesus After Antiquity charts Ephesus from its late-antique prosperity through Byzantine transformation and into the Turkish period, vividly reconstructing how this famed center of Artemis, Heraclitus, and.....
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Black and White Illustrations. Paperback. Discover how an empire truly works in Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis by Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre. This essential Cambridge University Press study reveals the hidden story of Persian rule at Sardis—showing how a polyethnic elite forged a dynamic.....
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Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press, 2012-02-20. First Edition. hardcover. A cornerstone of modern Murdoch scholarship, Iris Murdoch, Philosopher gathers original essays that recover and illuminate her bold moral philosophy—arguing for moral realism, the centrality of attention and “seeing,” and a Platonic vision of the Good against the dominant.....
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Cambridge: Polity Press, 2025. First Edition. Paperback. Discover a clear, practical way to rethink cities in an age of climate stress, inequality, and rapid change. Cities Rethought brings together four leading urban scholars from India, the UK, and South Africa to offer a fresh “urban disposition” rather than another rigid.....
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Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. First Edition. Paperback. Rare scholarly insight into the roots of modern politics—now available in excellent used condition. In Reforming the Law of Nature, Simon P. Kennedy traces how Reformed Protestant natural law thinkers moved from viewing political community as part of God’s created order to.....
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Georgia: Mercer Univ Pr, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Discover deeper layers in Flannery O’Connor’s unforgettable stories with Marshall Bruce Gentry’s Better to See You With: Perspectives on Flannery O’Connor, Selected and New. This essential 2022 collection from Mercer University Press presents twenty insightful, sometimes quirky essays that illuminate O’Connor’s children.....
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. A scarce signed first edition of Brent Waters’s important 2007 study The Family in Christian Social and Political Thought (Oxford University Press, Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics). Waters offers a rigorous and timely critique of late liberalism’s fixation on individual autonomy—which has.....
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Hendersonville, North Carolina: Golden Glow Publishing Company, 1977. Adele Kershaw Thornton. First Edition. Hardcover. A scarce signed first edition of Frank L. FitzSimons’s beloved From the Banks of the Oklawaha, Volume II—the essential second installment in the classic three-volume collection of Henderson County and Western North Carolina mountain history, folklore.....
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Not Given: Churchill & Dunn, Ltd., 2015. Paperback. A classic scholarly reference work listing more than 8.000 Scottish family and personal names. Entries include names origin and meaning, spelling variations, historical details, biographical notes, geographical associations and cross-references. It is widely regarded as one of the definitive reference works on.....
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Carlisle, PA: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1978. Reprint. Hardcover. Author's commentary on Leviticus, though based on sound exegesis, is marked by simplicity. He is always careful to make spiritual application, for, as he says, 'The Gospel of the grace of God, with all that follows in its train, may.....
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Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, no date, copyright 2001. Reprint. Hardcover. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), a German theologian, pastor, and ecumenist, studied in Berlin and New York City. He played a central role in the confessing church during the Nazi period and has become one of the most influential theologians of the.....
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Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume 15 documents the training of Confessing church seminarians in Nazi Germany by theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The letters, essays, Bible studies and sermons in this volume reveal Bonhoeffer's deep commitment to the seminarians he had trained for the ministry and.....
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Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Bonhoeffer argues that Christian ethics is not about judging the world through abstract moral rules or trying to figure out "How can I do good?". The true task of ethics, he states, is knowing and responding to God as revealed in Jesus.....
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Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1976. Second Printing. Hardcover. This highly acclaimed and unparalleled synthetic handbook of the Bible is the culmination of more than fifty ears of careful study, a comprehensive sourcebook internationally recognized as a masterpiece of biblical scholarship. Dr. Scroggie traces the theme of redemption through.....
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Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1974. Second Printing. Hardcover. Edmund S. Morgan (1916–2013), a leading historian of colonial and Revolutionary America and Sterling Professor at Yale, uses Stiles’s extensive diaries, notebooks, letters, and other papers to portray both the man and the intellectual culture of 18th-century.....
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Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 2000. Reprint. Hardcover. A reprint of the major 1834 collected edition of Edwards’s writings, revised and edited by Edward Hickman. It includes a memoir by Edwards’s great-grandson, Sereno E. Dwight, and is designed as a more readable and complete presentation of the principal published works available.....
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Rockford, Illinois: Tan Books and Publishers, Inc., 1986. Reprint. Hardcover. A detailed compilation of the mystical visions of the German Augustinian nun and stigmatist Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824). Emmerich, bedridden for much of her later life and bearing the stigmata, reported extensive visions of biblical events. The German poet.....
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Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth Trust, 1994. Reprint. Hardcover. The work is widely regarded as Cunningham’s masterpiece. It is valued for its clarity, precision, breadth of learning, and ability to state the real issues in historic debates. It is a substantial survey of the history of Christian doctrine, drawn from.....
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Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2013. Softcover. A scholarly study of the spiritual life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892), the most famous Baptist preacher of the Victorian era. Peter J. Morden is Vice Principal of Spurgeon’s College (London), Professor of Church History and Spirituality, a Fellow of the Centre for Baptist.....
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Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. A systematic examination of contemporary bioethical issues from the perspective of Scripture and Eastern Orthodox patristic tradition. John Breck, an Orthodox priest, served as Professor of New Testament and Ethics at St. Vladimir’s Seminary (1984–1996) and later as Professor.....
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New York: Random House, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. A provocative sociological and historical argument that attributes the rise of Western scientific, economic, and political success primarily to distinctive features of Christian theology rather than geography, technology alone, secularism, or the Protestant Reformation. Stark contends that Christianity uniquely embraced reason as.....
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Bloomington, Indiana: WestBow Press: A Division of Thomas Nelson & Zondervan, 2014. First Edition. Paperback. A question and answer-style guide published in 2014 that applies biblical principles to contemporary moral questions from an evangelical Christian perspective. The book organizes ethics into personal and social categories, totaling 27 lessons. Key topics.....
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