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The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: with Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Mary Rowlandson
Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997
Good book and clean
Great book, got it just in time for my american heritage class. Will recommend to all my friends.
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Plague of Spells: Abolethic Sovereignty, Book I (Abolethic Sovereignty)
Bruce R. Cordell
Wizards of the Coast, 2008
Lovecraftian Horror in Faerūn! Blue fire sears the face of Faerūn, leaving the twisted and mutilated dead in its wake. But a rare few escape death--and suffer some mystical mutation. Raidon Kane is one of those who survives, the wake of blue fire burning the sigil of the amulet he wears into his chest and binding him with all the power and ...
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Security, Territory, Population (Lectures at the College De France)
Michel Foucault
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Indespensible
These are the complete course lectures in which Foucault developed his theory and history of "governmentality" as a discursive threshold of modern society.
This volume is critical to any student of Foucault or government in general. To the Foucault student, it ...
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Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
Carl Schmitt
University Of Chicago Press, 2006
Taking Exception
This book was becoming too influential to remain out of print for long, and its first sentence alone --"sovereign is he who decides on the exception"-- has likely been cited by more scholars than have ever actually read the second sentence. Still, though influenced by ...
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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Giorgio Agamben
Stanford University Press, 1998
Homo Sacer is a must read.
Agamben's best known work lives up to the hype. One of the most powerful aspects of this book is its shocking predictions about the world to come. Published many years before the initiation of the war on terror, Agamben signals the beginning the of a style of ...
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Predestination and Free Will: Four Views of Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom
InterVarsity Press, 1985
Superb book discussing a key issue in theology
The issue of predestination and free will rests at the base of many theological interpretations of all subjects. To understand God's Word correctly, this is one of the first issues that must be tackled because of other theologies' reliance on this. There is a ...
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Sovereignty of God, The
Arthur W. Pink
Baker Books, 1984
This is the best theological book I've ever read
If you want to read one book on theology this is THE book. This is clearly written so that all may understand it and is presented in a very straight-forward, logical manner. This is the book that helped push me over the edge on particular atonement. Mr. Pink uses a ...
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Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God
J. I. Packer
InterVarsity Press, 1991
Nothing Is Excluded From God's Sovereign Rule
There are those who think that if a person believes in 'The Doctrines Of Grace' that this will either be a hindrance to,or completely erode ones evangelistic zeal. In truth it is a defective understanding of 'The Five Points...'(or the inability to comprehend how God ...
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Suffering and the Sovereignty of God
Crossway Books, 2006
Humbling Essays
This book has some great essays. It provides a great mix of theology, and personal testimony, and narratives of how God uses suffering to progress the gospel. The question of suffering is very complex so having a variety of writers from diverse backgrounds attacking ...
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Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty
Aihwa Ong
Duke University Press, 2006
Neoliberalism is commonly viewed as an economic doctrine that seeks to limit the scope of government. Some consider it a form of predatory capitalism with adverse effects on the Global South. In this groundbreaking work, Aihwa Ong offers an alternative view of neoliberalism as an extraordinarily malleable technology of governing that is taken up ...
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Bodin: On Sovereignty (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
Jean Bodin
Cambridge University Press, 1992
well done!
A well-documented scholarly translation from the original French of Jean Bodin's masterpiece of political theory. Though of immense influence in its day, divine right sovereignty has certainly gone out of fashion (thank goodness!) unless perhaps you are living in Saudi ...
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The Sovereignty of Good (Routledge Classics)
Iris Murdoch
Routledge, 2001
Lucid and brilliant
Murdoch's clarity and keenness as a thinker are everywhere evident in the three essays that comprise this short book. It is at once a kind of paean to common sense and an intricate philosophical working-through of fundamental human dillemmas. In the subject of moral ...
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High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty
Jessica R. Cattelino
Duke University Press, 2008
In 1979, Florida Seminoles opened the first tribally operated high-stakes bingo hall in North America. At the time, their annual budget stood at less than $2 million. By 2006, net income from gaming had surpassed $600 million. This dramatic shift from poverty to relative economic security has created tangible benefits for tribal citizens, ...
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Hidden Language Codes: Discard A Weak Language of Doubt and Excuse and Acquire a Vocabulary o Power and ...
R. Neville Johnston
Red Wheel/Weiser, 2005
Encore! I gave this author 5 stars before and he's outdone himself!
Powerful, empowering and most compassionate is this milestone book. If you have read the original book, "Language Codes" before, this one is is greatly expanded and much more thorough. Nelville takes you aside and shows you the pitfalls of some inconspicuous areas of ...
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Sovereignty
Stephen D. Krasner
Princeton University Press, 1999
Organized hypocrisy ???
Stephen D. Krasner calls into question the nowadays widespread idea that sovereignty is being eroded by different factors (for example, globalization). He points out that, as a matter of fact, the term *sovereignty* has multiple meanings. Ignoring that can be ...
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