This title was first published in 2002. Origen (AD 185-254) is regarded as one of the figures
chiefly responsible for the contamination of biblical theology with pagan philosophy in the …

One of the major ambitions of medieval alchemists was to discover the elixir of life, a
sovereign remedy capable not only of healing the body but of transforming it. Given the …

American theories of reincarnation have a long and complex history, dating from 1680s to
the present. It is the purpose of this paper to highlight the main currents of reincarnation …

This article analyzes new evidence from the marginalia to Ficino's Plotinus manuscripts and
offers a novel reading of Ficino's “De Vita” 3. It settles scholarly disagreements concerning …

While postcolonial studies has contributed much to our understanding of Irish modernism, it
has also encouraged less-than-accurate portrayals of Joyce and Yeats as polar opposites …

Across much of the sixteenth century, the norm in money-raising theatre was for a collection
to be taken from spectators at some juncture during the performance or directly after it, since …

Johann Gerhard is generally regarded as one of the greatest Lutheran theologians of the
first part of the seventeenth century. This chapter examines Gerhard's appropriation of …

The main aim of this book is to reconstruct a philosophical context for the Hieroglyphica of
Horapollo, a late 5th century Greek study of hieroglyphic writing. In addition to reviewing and …

My purpose with this PhD has been to provide a new foundation for systems practice in
order to ground multi-method systemic interventions. The field of Critical System Thinking …

Late antique Platonists described the ascent to 'Heaven'as a progressive purging of
planetary influences acquired during the soul's descent or fall to Earth. This story may be …