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Excerpt from On the Transmission, From Parent to Offspring, of Some Forms of Disease, and of Morbid Taints and TendenciesThe subject, however, was no more than passingly noticed. At page 301 it was stated that, besides women suffering from uterine disease, a great number of infants and children also were made the subjects of inquiry, with a view principally to ascertain the period of the first appearance, as well as the characterizing features...

The story told here concerns the efforts of Catholic authors in the 20th century to describe a world that is both disenchanted and yet teeming with haunting clues about the presence of God and the miracle of grace. These writers turned to metaphors of nature--the charm of a garden and the setting of the sun--to signal both enchantment and a world darkened by its loss. And they turn to the second language of religious images--Ash Wednesday, Hol...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

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A seminal exploration of the psychological and spiritual power of our positive emotions. This new companion volume to the Whitehead's influential book on our negative emotions completes a work of scholarship that will nourish individuals and inform those who counsel them.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Resilience is the immune system of the human spirit, and this book teaches us how to cultivate it in ourselves, our families, and in our faith and civic communities.

Christian adulthood is the focus of this book. In it we attempt to re-envision, to see anew, the patterns of power, confidence, and loss that shape maturity. This effort is guided by two ideas or, better, images that have long been central in Christian spirituality: vocation and virtue. Our goal is to befriend these images, to rescue them from narrow interpretations that have weakened each, to recover their power to illumine our adult journey ...

Through a series of dramatic monologues, the fourteen poems gathered here give life to the Jewish-apocryphal legend of "Jesus, son of Pantera" - the story that Jesus was sired by a Roman soldier. In his introduction to the collection, a Biblical scholar recounts the Scriptural, apocryphal, and archaeological evidence upon which the story is based.

Eros is the passionate energy that makes us one with the beautiful other, with a leper, with the world of nature waiting to be embraced and cared for, with our neighbor, the stranger, with God. The Whiteheads explore this vital energy of love as the gift of a Creator madly in love with his creation a God who would bring us to life in abundance if we only say "Yes." They discuss Eros in the movements of our sexuality, as well as in our arousals...

Excerpt from On the Causes and Treatment of Abortion and Sterility: Being the Result of an Extended Practical Inquiry Into the Physiological and Morbid Conditions of the Uterus, With Reference Especially to Leucorrhoeal, Affections, and the Diseases of Menstruation Conception consists in the fecundation, by the agency of the male, of a germ previously existing in the female, and destined by a series of concurrent operations, to be invested wi...

These popular seminar leaders update and expand upon their groundbreaking and award-winning "A Sense of Sexuality" with new chapters on timely topics such as the relation between men and women and the experiences of gay and lesbian Christians.

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Drawing from a wealth of psychological and spiritual sources, the authors help us gain a new perspective on how we handle the painful emotions of anger, shame, guilt, and depression

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