Résultats pour "Bora Bora" dans Études religieuses

Look for the bottom of the world and you will not find it. Every floor you reach turns out to be standing on another. Nothing carries its own weight. Eighteen centuries ago a philosopher in India followed this thought further, and more honestly, than anyone before him or since. His name was...

Erasmus of Rotterdam is usually remembered as a gentle humanist, a champion of learning, moderation, and civilized reform. This book proposes a more unsettling and far more compelling portrait. A Spy of Rotterdam: Erasmus Between Wisdom and Folly presents Erasmus not as a harmless moralist or a failed revolutionary, but as a uniquely positioned observer who survived one of Europe’s most violent intellectual ruptures by mastering the art of influence without allegiance.

Dos hermanas. Una invitada. Una decisión silenciosa que, en silencio, marca el rumbo de toda tu vida. Conocemos la escena sin necesidad de que nos la cuenten. Una hermana se esfuerza al máximo para preparar la cena. La otra simplemente se sienta y escucha. Durante siglos, a la hermana trabajadora se la ha regañado y a la callada se la ha elogiado, y la mayoría hemos asentido con la cabeza, sintiéndonos vagamente culpables, para luego volver a poner la mesa. Este libro afirma que la interpretación tradicional ignora por completo la herida. Martha no es perezosa. No es cruel.

This is a fictionalized biography of the wife of the reformer Dr. Martin Luther. In the author's words, he hopes that "people may learn to know the wife of its greatest man—not by name only, but as her husband's 'helpmeet,' in the truest sense of the word, as a pattern of domestic virtue, and as a pearl among women."

Perché un serpente grande quanto il mondo intero si sta scagliando contro Ra con tutta la sua forza? Perché la dea Sekhmet è scesa sulla Terra e sta sterminando l'umanità? E perché Anubi, il dio dell'aldilà, sta pesando su una bilancia un cuore umano, affiancato dalla creatura più terrificante mai vista nell’antico Egitto? Migliaia di anni fa, in quella terra lontana ed affascinante chiamata Egitto, le persone veneravano strane divinità con il corpo d’uomo e la testa di animale.