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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the Revised Second Edition -- Introduction -- Chapter One A Structure for Mutuality -- Chapter Two Rational Freedom and the Will's Moral Affections -- Chapter Three Mutuality and Harmony: Moral Goodness -- Chapter Four Virtue: Integrity of Character -- Chapter Five Moral Reasoning and Discernment: Prudence -- Chapter Six Living in Love: Mutuality with God -- Chapter Seven The Harmony of Goodness -- Bibliography.

Byzantium and Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages. Codex Justinianus: children of the unfree ; Novella 146: On Jews ; Excerpt from the Visigothic Code ; The Farmer's Law, from Byzantium ; The laws of Alfred, Guthrum, and Edward the Elder ; The laws of King Alfred -- The Catholic Church and its vicissitudes. Four documents from the Investiture controversy ; A truce of God, Decree of the Emperor Henry IV ; The Crusaders in Mainz, May 27, 1096 ; Excerpt from "The capture of Jerusalem" ; Excerpt from Historia Constantinopolitana ; Statute in favor of the princes ; Report from China ; Letter to Gregory XI -- England and France. The Assize of Clarendon ; Letter from Peter of Blois to Queen Eleanor of England ; Excerpt from Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer ; On the rules of love and chivalry ; Magna Carta ; Three summonses to the Parliament of 1295 ; Ordinances of the Merchant Gild of Southampton ; The Battle of Poitiers, from The Chronicles of Froissart ; Excerpts from The Book of the City of Ladies ; Excerpt from The Treasure of the City of Ladies ; Letter to the King of England from Joan of Arc ; Excerpt from the trial of Joan of Arc -- The Near East and beyond. The Pact of Umar: Peace Accord to the Christians of Syria ; Ibn Battuta makes the pilgrimage to Mecca and travels to Baghdad ; Ibn Battuta's travels in Cairo, Damascus, and Jerusalem ; Ibn Battuta's travels to Mali -- Philosophy, religion, and science. On fate and providence, from The Consolation of Philosophy ; Excerpt from St. Anslem's Proslogium, or Discourse on the Existence of God ; "In behalf of the fool": a response to St. Anselm ; Prologue to Sic et Non ; "Of the perils of his abbey," from Abelard's Historia Calamitatum ; Testament of St. Francis ; On the principles of nature ; Excerpt from Summa Theologica ; "On experimental science" ; Excerpt from The Love of Books.

Preliminary Material /I. Bejczy -- Introduction /István P. Bejczy -- The Structure Of The Soul, Intellectual Virtues, And The Ethical Ideal Of Masters Of Arts In Early Commentaries On The Nicomachean Ethics /Valeria A. Buffon -- Moral And Intellectual Virtues In The Earliest Latin Commentaries On The Nicomachean Ethics /Irene Zavattero -- Virtus In The Naples Commentary On The Ethica Nova (Ms Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII G 8, Ff. 4ra9vb) /Martin J. Tracey -- In War And Peace: The Virtue Of Courage In The Writings Of Albert The Great And Thomas Aquinas /Jörn Müller -- Albert The Great And Thomas Aquinas On Magnanimity /Tobias Hoffmann -- Aquinas's Interpretation Of The Aristotelian Virtue Of Justice And His Doctrine Of Natural Law /Matthias Perkams -- Heroic Virtue In The Commentary Tradition On The Nicomachean Ethics In The Second Half Of The Thirteenth Century /Iacopo Costa -- Utrum Felix Indigeat Amicis: The Reception Of The Aristotelian Theory Of Friendship At The Arts Faculty In Paris /Marco Toste -- The Cardinal Virtues In Medieval Commentaries On The Nicomachean Ethics, 1250-1350 /István P. Bejczy -- Political Prudence In Some Medieval Commentaries On The Sixth Book Of The Nicomachean Ethics /Roberto Lambertini -- The Virtue Of Virginity: The Aristotelian Challenge /Pavel Blazek -- Teaching Ethics At The University Of Vienna: The Making Of A Commentary At The Faculty Of Arts (A Case Study) /Christoph Flüeler -- Appendix /I. Bejczy -- Bibliography /I. Bejczy -- Index Of Manuscripts /I. Bejczy -- Index Of Names And Anonymous Works /I. Bejczy.

What does the history of Christian views of economic life mean for economic life in the twenty-first century? Here Daniel Finn reviews the insights provided by a large number of texts, from the Bible and the early church, to the Middle Ages and the Protestant Reformation, to treatments of the subject in the last century. Relying on both social science and theology, Finn then turns to the implications of this history for economic life today. Throughout, the book invites the reader to engage the sources and to develop an answer to the volume's basic question.

From its earliest days, Christianity has viewed Judaism and Jews ambiguously. Given its roots within the Jewish community of first-century Palestine, there was much in Judaism that demanded Church admiration and praise; however, as Jews continued to resist Christian truth, there was also much that had to be condemned. Major Christian thinkers of antiquity - while disparaging their Jewish contemporaries for rejecting Christian truth - depicted the Jewish past and future in balanced terms, identifying both positives and negatives. Beginning at the end of the first millennium, an increasingly large Jewish community started to coalesce across rapidly developing northern Europe, becoming the object of intense popular animosity and radically negative popular imagery. The portrayals of the broad trajectory of Jewish history offered by major medieval European intellectual leaders became increasingly negative as well. The popular animosity and the negative intellectual formulations were bequeathed to the modern West, which had tragic consequences in the twentieth century. In this book, Robert Chazan traces the path that began as anti-Judaism, evolved into heightened medieval hatred and fear of Jews, and culminated in modern anti-Semitism.

My research looks into the institutional, operational and material aspects of medieval towns' military organisation. The research is concentrated on (what is today) the French speaking part of Switzerland – the so-called Romandie. Today, this region is part of the Switzerland. During the Middle Ages, however, it was divided into many entities and subject of different polities. This impacted the institutional, social and, of course, military development of the various towns in the area.

Analyses the Carolingians' efforts to form a Christian Empire with the organizing principle of the sacrament of baptism. Owen M. Phelan argues that baptism provided the foundation for this society, and offered a medium for the communication and the popularization of beliefs and ideas, through which the Carolingian Renewal established the vision of an imperium christianum in Europe. He analyses how baptism unified people theologically, socially, and politically and helped Carolingian leaders order their approaches to public life. It enabled reformers to think in ways which were ideologically consistent, publically available, and socially useful.0Phelan also examines the influential court intellectual, Alcuin of York, who worked to implement a sacramental society through baptism. The book finally looks at the dissolution of Carolingian political aspirations for an imperium christianum and how, by the end of the ninth century, political frustrations concealed the deeper achievement of the Carolingian Renewal

Pt. 1. The antecedents of Jewish service. 1. Augustine and Roman law -- 2. Gregory the Great and canon law -- Pt. 2. The political and socio-economic realities of Jewish service. 3. The Jews of Germany -- 4. The Jews of France -- 5. The Jews of England -- 6. The Jews of the Latin Mediterranean -- Pt. 3. The religious and cultural ambiguities of Jewish service. 7. Jewish experience of the crusades -- 8. Anti-Jewish libels -- 9. Conclusion: Jewish service in encounters between Christians and Jews

Addictive disorders are characterised by a division of the will, in which the addict is attracted both by a desire to continue the addictive behaviour and also by a desire to stop it. Academic perspectives on this predicament usually come from clinical and scientific standpoints, with the 'moral model' rejected as outmoded. But Christian theology has a long history of thinking and writing on such problems and offers insights which are helpful to scientific and ethical reflection upon the nature of addiction. Chris Cook reviews Christian theological and ethical reflection upon the problems of alcohol use and misuse, from biblical times until the present day. Drawing particularly upon the writings of St Paul the Apostle and Augustine of Hippo, a critical theological model of addiction is developed. Alcohol dependence is also viewed in the broader ethical perspective of the use and misuse of alcohol within communities.

Die Christliche Sozialethik in Schweden ist wie die Kirche im Allgemeinen durch die starke Säkularisierung der Gesellschaft geprägt. Sie steht zunächst historisch gewachsen in der Tradition Luthers, darüber hinaus ist der christliche Realismus prägend für das Fach. Daraus resultierend versteht sich die Disziplin als methodisch kritisch arbeitend und im Kontakt zu anderen Disziplinen an den Universitäten. Der Text stellt verschiedene Themenbereiche und Fragenkontexte mit ihrer jeweiligen Verortung an den Instituten dar und skizziert die großen Themenbereiche, die für die Zukunft entscheidend sein können. Dazu zählen u. a. Umweltethik, Menschenrechte, der Dialog zwischen den Religionen, speziell auch in Fragen der Ethik, und die Rolle der Religion im post-säkularen Zeitalter. ; CSE in Sweden is conducted at state universities in a highly secularized society. Formed by history it stays in tradition of Martin Luther, furthermore Christian realism is important for the discipline. Because of this impact CSE understands itself as a critical discipline and connected to political philosophy. The text illustrates the different areas and questions in the different departments that teaches CSE. It depicts also topics that will be important for the future of CSE, e. g. Environmental ethics, research of human rights, dialogue between Christian, muslim and jewish ethics, and the role of religion in post-secular society.