Sentences with phrase «early twentieth century books»

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God or Nothing, by Cardinal Robert Sarah (Ignatius Press): It was the book being discussed at Synod - 2015 and with good reason, for this interview - style autobiography of a life of faith is moving, insightful, and a wonderful testament to the fruits of the European mission to Africa in the early twentieth century.

It is suggested that to get an idea of the liberal temper that pervaded the early twentieth century, one need only to read A. Hamack's book, What is Christianity?

To this day I find it ironic but also revealing that scholars regularly reference his early (1947) book «The Uneasy Conscience of Fundamentalists» but seldom make reference to a work that represents the accumulated wisdom of an additional quarter century of thinking on the part of one of the most recognized and celebrated systematic theologians of the twentieth century.

The books concerned were Augustine's on The Trinity, on God as threefold, and on The City of God, written in the early years of the fifth century when the city of man, notably Rome, was looking to be shaky, texts still of great interest to historians and theologians in the twentieth century.

In the second part of the book, Macmillan provides an overview of the cultural and ideological context of the early twentieth century — in particular, those ideas that made war appear to many a feasible, if not desirable, option.

The book is ordered in three parts; the first explaining the diplomatic alignment of Europe during the years preceding the outbreak of war; the second focusing the prevailing cultural and ideological milieu in the early years of the twentieth century; and the third detailing the successive crises in the years immediately preceding the outbreak of war.

EDIT: Yuval Levin has just written a book which argues that the positive rights vision of liberalism originated not with Dewey in the early twentieth century as I suggested, but rather in the late 1700's with Thomas Paine, one of America's founding fathers.

Author JK Rowling has penned her first original screenplay, derived from a passing reference in the Potter books to Newt Scamander, an expert in magical creatures who roamed the globe back in the early twentieth century.

If this second book works out, I'd like to conclude with a third, taking the story up to the early years of the twentieth century and the final demise of the Duport dynasty and the breaking - up of its physical symbol — Evenwood.

What with the centenary of World War I, the time is right for reading books set in the early twentieth century.

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licenseThis book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site.

Comic books are an original American art form, created in the early days of the twentieth century.

The museum's holdings from Eastern Asia include Chinese tomb figures, Japanese prints and illustrated books from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

Her books include The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907 - 1914 (1988), Modern Life and Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century (2000), and Hornsey 1968: The Art School Revolution (2008).