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Earnest Christianity illustrated, or, Selections from the journal of the Rev. James Caughey : containing several of Mr. Caughey's sermons ... with a brief sketch of Mr. Caughey's l... by Caughey, James

Jesus and money : a guide for times of financial crisis / by Witherington, Ben, III, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Prequel: Reconsidering the value of money in hard times -- In the beginning God created ... : getting our bearings -- A King's ransom: proverbial wisdom on wealth -- Money in the bartering world of Jesus -- Jesus and the treasure hunt -- James's rich wisdom -- Wealth and poverty in Luke-Acts -- Paul on work, remuneration, and the love of money -- John of Patmos and a news flash for the merchants and Mr. 666 -- Towards a New Testament theology of money, stewardship, and giving -- Deprogramming ourselves from a lifestyle of conspicuous consumption and self-gratification.…”

The rabbi's wife the rebbetzin in American Jewish life / by Schwartz, Shuly Rubin

Table of Contents: “…The pioneers -- The power behind the throne -- "Mr. & Mrs. God" -- Two for the price of one -- "Please [don't] call me rebbetzin!" …”
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Diotima's children German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing / by Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- The poets' war -- Leipzig versus Zurich -- Misreadings of the dispute -- The point in dispute -- Baumgarten's science of aesthetics -- The father of aesthetics -- A philosophical poetics -- A science of beauty -- Theory of sensation -- Analysis of beauty -- Status of aesthetics -- An ambiguous legacy -- Winckelmann and neo-classicism -- Winckelmann as philosopher -- Historical influence -- Imitating the ancients -- A neo-classical aesthetic -- Ancients versus moderns -- Aesthetic theory -- Painting and allegory -- Eros and Dionysus -- Mendelssohn's defense of reason -- The guardian of Enlightenment -- The analysis of sensation -- The grin of Silenus -- Second thoughts -- Taming the sublime -- Reckoning with Burke -- Encounter with Jean-Jacques -- The claims of genius -- First clash with Hamann -- Abelard and Fulbert's brief spat -- The three-faculty theory -- Lessing and the Reformation of aesthetic rationalism -- Lessing and the rationalist tradition -- Genius and rules -- The irrationality of genius -- Rationalism and sentimentalism in Lessing's ethics -- Laokoon : thesis and inductive argument -- Laokoon : the deductive argument -- Laokoon : its hidden agenda.…”
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