Dickie Robert Editor (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good Plus. . 88 pages, spine area a bit faded, previous owner's name to flyleaf, top edges faintly foxed. Completely reset from the incomplete 1713 posthumous publication of sermons "The Power and Prevalency of Faith and Prayer evidenced in a practical discourse upon Matth. 9. 27-31" with updated spelling and sometimes updated sentence construction, and explanation of unfamiliar words in square brackets. A verse-by-verse study of Jesus' miracle of healing of two blind men, the text of the 1713 publication ends during the study of verse 31 soon after the beginning of the result and aftermath of the miracle, with the words "The rest of the Discourse cannot be found, it being above 50 Years since the Author died." Extracts have been included from the lengthy 1713 Epistle to the Reader, written presumably by the anonymous person who arranged the publication. Rutherford's "Testimony . to the Work of Reformation . with some of his last words" (1661), inserted in the 1713 edition after the "Epistle to the Reader", is not included in this edition. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. . 237 pages, covers slightly bent/creased. Alex Maclennan (1889-1972) was an elder and home missionary in the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

viii, 187 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.5cm. Black dust jacket lightly rubbed, strong creasing to front flap's top corner. Black cloth. A still fairly crisp fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket. Papers originally delivered at a colloquium held from February 27-28, 1993 at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. With Preface, Introduction by editor Henry Maguire, and Index. Features the following essays: "The Fathers of the Church and the Evil Eye" by Matthew W. Dickie; "The Archaeological Context of Magic in the Early Byzantine Period" by James Russell; "Magic and the Christian Image" by Henry Maguire; "Holy and Unholy Miracle Workers" by Alexander Kazhdan; "Reactions of Two Byzantine Intellectuals to the Theory and Practice of Magic: Michael Psellos and Michael Italikos" by John Duffy; "Balsamon on Magic: From Roman Secular Law to Byzantine Canon Law" by Marie Theres Fogen; "A Contribution to the Study of Palaeologan Magic" by Richard P.H. Greenfield; and "Magic in Slavia Orthodoxa: The Written Tradition" by Robert Mathiesen. ISBN 0884022307. …