Kingdom Disciples: Heaven's Representatives on Earth 9780802491190, 0802491197

Where have all the disciples gone? There is a missing force in Christianity today. It’s a critical one, and its absence

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Kingdom Disciples: Heaven's Representatives on Earth
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This is the first complete translation into a modern language of the first part of the pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius of

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Commenting on the end of Aristotle On the Heavens Book 3, Simplicius examines Aristotle’s criticisms of Plato’s theory o

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Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There are directions in the un

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Aristotle argues in On the Heavens 1.5-7 that there can be no infinitely large body, and in 1.8-9 that there cannot be m

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In the three chapters of On the Heavens dealt with in this volume, Aristotle argues that the universe is ungenerated and

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In chapter 1 of On the Heavens Aristotle defines body, and then notoriously ruptures dynamics by introducing a fifth ele

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The subject of Aristotle’s On the Heavens, Books 3-4, is the four elements of earth, air, fire and water, which exist be

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This is the first English translation of Simplicius “responses to Philoponus” Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the W

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What will the future bring? The ancient astrologer turned the impulse to answer this question into something meaningf

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