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Garry Wills What the Qurʼan meant and why it matters
Engels | 226 pagina's | Viking, New York, New York | 2017
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Garry Wills Font of life
Ambrose, Augustine, and the mystery of baptism
[Flaptekst] No two men were more influential in the early Church than Ambrose, the powerful Bishop of Milan, and Augustine, the philosopher from provincial Africa who would write The Confessions and The City of God. Different in background, they were also extraordinarily different in personality. In Font of Life, Garry Wills explores the remarkable moment when their lives intersected at one of the most important, yet rarely visited, sites in the Christian world. Hidden under the piazza of the Duomo...
Engels | 194 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford | 2012
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Garry Wills Augustine's Confessions
a biography
[Flaptekst] In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions - what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills's biography of Augustine and his translation of the Confessions, this is an unparalleled introduction to one of the most important books in the Christian and Western traditions. Understandably fascinated...
Engels | 166 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ [etc.] | 2011
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Garry Wills Bomb power
the modern presidency and the national security state
Engels | 278 pagina's | Penguin Press, New York | 2010
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Garry Wills Head and heart
American christianities
Engels | 626 pagina's | Penguin, New York | 2007
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Garry Wills "Negro president"
Jefferson and the slave power
Engels | 274 pagina's | Houghton Mifflin, Boston [etc.] | 2003
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Garry Wills Pauselijke zonde
geconstrueerd bedrog
Kritisch historisch onderzoek naar de wijze waarop pausen in de negentiende en twintigste eeuw invloed hebben uitgeoefend op de besluitvorming omtrent omstreden kwesties als het celibaat, geboortebeperking en de openstelling van het priesterschap voor vrouwen.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 353 pagina's | Averbode, [Averbode] | 2002
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Garry Wills Augustinus
Biografie van de Latijnse kerkvader (354-430).
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 192 pagina's | Balans, Amsterdam | 2001
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Garry Wills John Wayne's America
Engels | 380 pagina's | Touchstone, New York, NY | 1998
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Garry Wills John Wayne's America
the politics of celebrity
Engels | 380 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, New York | 1997
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Gary Wills Certain trumpets
the call of leaders
Engels | 336 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, New York [etc.] | 1994
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Garry Wills Lincoln at Gettysburg
the words that remade America
Engels | 317 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, New York [etc.] | 1992
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Garry Wills Under God
religion and American politics
Engels | 445 pagina's | Simon and Schuster, New York, N.Y. [etc.] | 1990
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Garry Wills Reagan's America
innocents at home
Levensloop van de Amerikaanse president (geb. 1911) waarin een accent wordt gelegd op de wijzen waarop hij, gebruik makend van de aard van zijn landgenoten, hen telkens weer op het spoor zet om met zijn plannen in te stemmen.
Engels | 472 pagina's | Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y. | 1987
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Garry Wills Cincinnatus
George Washington and the Enlightenment
Engels | 272 pagina's | Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y | 1984
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Garry Wills The Kennedy imprisonment
a meditation on power
Engels | 310 pagina's | Little, Brown, Boston, MA [etc.] | 1982
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Garry Wills Explaining America
the Federalist
Engels | 286 pagina's | Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y. | 1981
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