1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996387660503316

Autore

Smyth John <d. 1612.>

Titolo

The character of the beast, or, The false constitution of the church [[electronic resource] ] : discovered in certayne passages betwixt Mr. R. Clifton & Iohn Smyth, concerning true Christian baptisme of new creatures, or new borne babes in Christ, &nd false baptisme of infants borne after the flesh : referred to two propositions, 1. That infants are not to bee baptized, 2. That antichristians converted are to bee admitted into the true church by baptisme

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Middelburg, : R. Schilders], 1609

Descrizione fisica

[8], 71 p

Soggetti

Baptism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Running title: Passages betwixt Mr. Rich. Clifton & Iohn Smyth.

Epistle to the reader signed: Iohn Smyth.

Place of publication and name of publisher suggested by STC (2nd ed.).

Signatures: A-K⁴.

Reproduction of original in the Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0160



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154306803321

Autore

Cacciari Massimo

Titolo

Europe and empire : on the political forms of globalization / / Massimo Cacciari ; edited by Alessandro Carrera ; translated by Massimo Verdicchio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-8232-7484-5

0-8232-6720-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Commonalities

Disciplina

327.4

Soggetti

European federation

Globalization - Europe

European cooperation

Religion and state - Europe

Europe Politics and government

Europe Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Massimo Cacciari's genealogy of Europe / Alessandro Carrera -- PART I. THINKING EUROPE. Thinking Europe -- Europeanism -- Two German speeches : the "second thought", the language of Europe -- Europe or philosophy -- Europe or Christianity -- PART II. THE IDEA OF EMPIRE. What is empire? -- The myth of the growing city -- Digressions on empire and the three Romes -- More on the idea of empire -- Empire and Katechon : a question of political theology (from Paul, 2 Thessalonians 2) -- ADDENDA. The Europe of María Zambrano -- We cannot only call ourselves Judeo-Christians -- A conversation with Jacques Le Goff.

Sommario/riassunto

"The European Union and the single currency have given Europe more stability than it has known in the past thousand years, yet Europe seems to be in perpetual crisis about its global role. The many European empires are now reduced to a multiplicity of ethnicities, traditions, and civilizations. Europe will never be One, but to survive as a union it will have to become a federation of 'islands' both distinct and



connected. Though drawing on philosophers of Europe's past, Cacciari calls not to resist Europe's sunset but to embrace it. Europe will have to open up to the possibility that in few generations new exiles and an unpredictable cultural hybridism will again change all we know about the European legacy. Though scarcely alive in today's politics, the political unity of Europe is still a necessity, however impossible it seems to achieve"--