Tag: Heretic

Free Download Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion by Susan Ronald
English | August 13, 2013 | ISBN: 1250031508 | 368 pages | EPUB | 3.45 Mb
Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald delivers a stunning account of Elizabeth I that focuses on her role in the Wars on Religion―the battle between Protestantism and Catholicisim that tore apart Europe in the 16th Century

Free Download The faith of a heretic By Corngold, Stanley; Kaufmann, Walter Arnold
2015 | 419 Pages | ISBN: 0691165483 | EPUB | 3 MB
Originally published in 1959, The Faith of a Heretic is the most personal statement of the beliefs of Nietzsche biographer and translator Walter Kaufmann. A first-rate philosopher in his own right, Kaufmann here provides the fullest account of his views on religion. Although he considered himself a heretic, he was not immune to the wellsprings and impulses from which religion originates, declaring it among the most vital and radical expressions of the human mind. Beginning with an autobiographical prologue that traces his evolution from religious believer to "heretic," the book touches on theology, organized religion, morality, suffering, and death–all examined from the perspective of a "quest for honesty." Kaufmann also subjects philosophy’s faith in truth, reason, and absolute morality to the same heretical treatment. The resulting exploration of the faiths of a nonbeliever in a secular age is as fresh and challenging as when it was first published. In a new foreword, Stanley Corngold vividly describes the intellectual and biographical milieu of Kaufmann’s provocative book.

Free Download Matthew Stewart, Graham Rowat (Narrator), "The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World"
English | ASIN: B0CTJ2M53H | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~13:03:00 | 370 MB
Once upon a time, philosophy was a dangerous business-and for no one more so than for Baruch Spinoza, the seventeenth-century philosopher vilified by theologians and political authorities everywhere as "the atheist Jew." As his inflammatory manuscripts circulated underground, Spinoza lived a humble existence in The Hague, grinding optical lenses to make ends meet. Meanwhile, in the glittering salons of Paris, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was climbing the ladder of courtly success. In between trips to the opera and groundbreaking work in mathematics, philosophy, and jurisprudence, he took every opportunity to denounce Spinoza, relishing his self-appointed role as "God’s attorney."
In this exquisitely written philosophical romance of attraction and repulsion, greed and virtue, religion and heresy, Matthew Stewart gives narrative form to an epic contest of ideas that shook the seventeenth century-and continues today.

Free Download Heretic’s heart a journey through spirit & revolution By Adler, Margot
1997 | 309 Pages | ISBN: 080707098X | EPUB | 3 MB
Starting in 1964, writes Margot Adler in this dazzling memoir, "I found myself mysteriously at the center of extraordinary events." Now a correspondent for National Public Radio, Adler was a young woman determined to be taken seriously and to be an agent of change–on her own terms, free from dogma and authoritarian constraints. From campus activism at the University of California at Berkeley to civil rights work in Mississippi, from antiwar protests to observing the socialist revolution in Cuba, she found those chances in the 1960s. Heretic’s Heart illuminates the events, ideas, passions, and ecstatic commitments of the decade like no other memoir. At the book’s center is the powerful–and unique–correspondence between Adler, then an antiwar activist at Berkeley, and a young American soldier fighting in Vietnam. The correspondence begins when Adler reads a letter the infantryman has written to a Berkeley newspaper. "I’ve heard rumors that there are people…