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Softcover. xxix, 634 pp. Softcover. LCC: 868380 Very good condition; very light color fading along spine.

Softcover. xxix, 634 pp. Softcover. LCC: 868380 Very good condition; on covers: very light color fading along spine, and traces of wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. RATHER THAN FACE THE ISSUE OF DEATH SQUARELY. WE TEND TO MASK ITS REALITY. THE AUTHOR OF THIS WORK TRACES FROM CLASSICAL GREEK AND OLD TESTAMENT TIMES, THROUGH THE REFORMATION, THE DEVFELOPMENT IN THEOLOGY AND POETRY OF CHRISTIAN IDEAS ABOUT DEATH.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England, Professor Gatch deals with two aspects of the writings of Ælfric and Wulfstan that have been hitherto ignored by scholars of the period. First, he investigates the uses for which the two homilists prepared their sermons, analysing the homiliaries of the Carolingian church and its legislation concerning preaching and teaching, and showing that one should look not to the model of patristic preaching but to the development, in the place of exegetical preaching, of a vernacular catechetical office, the Prone. He also considers the evidence from England in the time of Ælfric and Wulfstan, distinguishing a number of uses which Ælfric intended for his homiletic materials, but questioning whether users of Ælfric's work (Wulfstan perhaps among them) understood or accepted the basic homiletic practices that the abbot had in mind. Second, Gatch investigates the eschatological teaching of the homilists as specimen of the over-all content of their sermons and as indicator of their theological method. By throwing their work into relief against the background of the anonymous Old English homilists, he gives a more accurate picture than exists in textbook stereotypes of the beliefs of Ælfric and Wulfstan, and also of the general theological scene in England at the turn of the tenth and eleventh centuries. The first complete edition of Ælfric's Latin epitome of Julian of Toledo's Prognosticon futuri saeculi, one of the most important of Ælfric's theological sources, is appended to the text. This interdisciplinary study is an important addition to our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon culture and medieval church history, and a major contribution to the study of Old English homilies. For the uninitiated, it is an excellent introduction to Old English preaching; for the initiated, it opens a new field for investigation.…

New York, UTS & The Grolier Club, 1996. 4to. 386 pp. with some (1 col.) ills. Wrappers.

Limited edition of 1600 copies, this being one of the 100 numbered copies signed by the editor. Cloth, large 8vo, 356, [3] pp, plates (some colour). Text in German and English. From the foreword: "The library of Leander van Ess arrived in New York in 1838 and has since then reposed within the library of Union Theological Seminary, its incunabula known to students of the earliest printing but the rest of its contents essentially unknown. Few items from the collection have left the Seminary's buildings in the interim, and never has there been an effort to study and exhibit this "precious foundation" of the largest and most comprehensive theological library in the New World. In 1838, the purchase of this library in Germany by a new and impoverished Institution was audacious. As one looks back upon it, it was clearly also an event of importance in nineteenth-century cultural and educational history, it created one of the first research libraries in America - a phenomenon of greater importance than the fact that the library included (at the time) the largest collection of incunabula west of the Atlantic Ocean. The founding of Union's library also significantly fostered the German-American educational exchange that was the most important factor in the development of American universities in the second half of the century. These facts would have warranted an exhibition of books from the Library of Leander van Ess, but the research involved in the preparation of the exhibition has also revealed that the collection contains invaluable evidence for the history of books and libraries in Germany, and it demonstrates that the collector, Leander van Ess, was himself a figure of importance not only for biblical translation (for which he has chiefly been known) but also in the history of collecting and scholarship." Copy No. 65, signed by the editor. Fine in publisher's printed slipcase.…