History as Apocalypse

History as ApocalypseHistory as Apocalypse is a reenactment of the history of the Western consciousness from the Homeric and Biblica revolutions through Finnegans Wake. This occurs through a historical, literary, and theological analysis of the Christian epic tradition. While attention is focused primarily upon Dante, Milton, Blake, and Joyce, the Classical and Biblical foundations of the Christian epic are explored with the intention of discovering an organic unity in

General readers will be moved by the persuasive call for greater religious and spiritual literacy at every level of health care in order to respond to the full spectrum of human needs in life and in death

A glut of documentaries on television have investigated the social and scientific history of our responses to the car crash

self-contained poems are a treat: the sentiments they depict remain affecting and contemporary while providing a window into a world long past

Murray and Heumann explore such themes as environmental politics

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but subsequently the two shared the throne of Egypt as co-pharaohs for over a decade

The second issue is causal: what are the claims being made regarding how best to secure a democratic system in developing states

highlighting key methodologies

leaving behind the comfort of what is familiar in a quest for adventure

comparing his ideas to those of other ethical and environmental philosophers and demonstrating the relevance of his thought for our current ethical and environmental problems

An unusual and rich combination of fieldwork in four communities supplemented by national-level data shows there are major differences in the sexual division of labor in four major segments of Guatemalan society: the Maya peasantry