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In Ancient Christian Ecopoetics, Virginia Burrus facilitates a provocative encounter between ancient Christian theology and contemporary ecological thought.

Virginia Burrus explores one of the strongest and most disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame. While Christianity has frequently been implicated in the conversion of ancient Mediterranean cultures from shame- to guilt-based and, thus, in the emergence of the modern West's emphasis on guilt, Burrus seeks to recuperate the importance of shame for Christian culture. Focusing on late antiquity, she ex...

This book focuses on the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), discrete convolution, and, particularly, the fast algorithms to calculate them. These topics have been at the center of digital signal processing since its beginning, and new results in hardware, theory and applications continue to keep them important and exciting.

Growing up as the sibling of someone with Down syndrome, author Embry Burrus was never really aware of her sister Margaret's disability. While writing down childhood memories to preserve Margaret's story for future generations, Burrus gained some startling insights into her parents' lives, and most unexpectedly into her own life. With humor and candor, Burrus examines how her sister has impacted, and continues to impact, those who have been fo...

Throughout our history, Americans have been a highly religious people. Indeed, many of the original colonists came to the New World specifically to escape religious persecution. And though somewhat less devout than we once were, the United States still leads the developed world in religiosity. Today, however, many feel that religious freedom is under serious--perhaps unprecedented--threat. With everything from health-insurance mandates, to the...

Throughout our history, Americans have been a highly religious people. Indeed, many of the original colonists came to the New World specifically to escape religious persecution. And though somewhat less devout than we once were, the United States still leads the developed world in religiosity. Today, however, many feel that religious freedom is under serious-perhaps unprecedented-threat. With everything from health-insurance mandates, to the c...

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A critical edition of The Life of Saint Helia, a late ancient Latin hagiography of uncertain provenance. This remarkable text records a highly polemical debate between a young girl Helia and her mother regarding the relative merits of virginity and marriage, followed by a dialogue between Helia and a bishop, and a debate between Helia and a judge.

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This is the fascinating life story of Reverend Anthony Burrus who was born in the roaring twenties, to a sharecropper and his wife in the tiny dust bowl town of Castle, Oklahoma, Reverend Burrus was given the unique "gift of languages." A polylinguist, with a God-given ability to converse in more than 30 languages, Pastor Burrus has ministered to people around the world. Once saddled with racial hatred and bitterness, his heart was transformed...

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This book interprets fourth-century theological discourse as an incident in the history of masculine gender, arguing that Nicene trinitarian doctrine is a crucial site not only for theological innovation but also for reimagining and reproducing manhood in the late Roman empire.

Traces the extraordinary life of the artist Frida Kahlo, and features some of her works.

When Women Weep", is a message of inspiration for the wounded at heart. It examines how weeping has helped the author strengthen her relationship with God. You will find this book empowering as you learn how being in touch with your emotions can have profound spiritual results. Come journey with the author as she stresses the importance of self-love and trusting God to overcome afflictions. Discover the power of your tears. Deborah V. Burrus s...