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EDITOR’S PICK: When Is It Right to Die? – Jo...
Posted by Editorial Team | Jul 3, 2018 | Adultos, Autores, Biblion #9 EN, Cultura, Em Papel, Jovens Adultos, Kindle, Lifestyle, Livros, Não-Ficção, Select1, Sociedade | 0 |
Canary Islands: Beyond the Movies
by Editorial Team | Nov 2, 2019 | Cultura, Destinos, Entertenimento, Estúdios, Lifestyle, Séries | 0 |
The diverse landscape of the Canary archipelago has been a favorite destination for the fulfillment of millions of tourists.
Read MoreScholasticism: A Beacon of Light in the Dark Ages
by Editorial Team | Oct 6, 2019 | Cultura, Select1, Sociedade | 0 |
In an era ridden with superstition and hearth wisdom, scholasticism became the driving force in medieval Europe’s intellectual progress.
Read MoreMarcion and the Origins of the New Testament
by Editorial Team | Oct 6, 2019 | Cultura, Personagens, Select1 | 0 |
Marcion left on Christianity an indelible mark, which for better or worse has lasted to this very day – the compilation of a canonical book.
Read MoreThe Great Library of Alexandria
by Editorial Team | Oct 4, 2019 | Cultura, Destinos, Select1 | 0 |
Comprising dozens of thousands of texts and parchments, the Library stood for centuries as the world’s learning hub. It was an unprecedented endeavor that stays alive in the books of history as well as in our imagination, millennia after its destruction.
Read MoreThe Sources of Enchiridion Vol. 1, Ranked by Goodreads: Top #30-21
by Editorial Team | Aug 26, 2019 | Adultos, AudioBooks, Autores, Cultura, Editor's Pick, Entertenimento, Ficção, Jovens Adultos, Kindle, Lifestyle, Livros, Não-Ficção, Select1, Sociedade | 0 |
Our Enchiridion – The Handbook series is built around the words of authors and thinkers who helped shape Western culture. Thus we decided to list all thirty sources from Vol. 1 according to their average ratings on Goodreads in order to find out which work is the best among the best!
Read More11 Quotes from ‘Lives of the Eminent Philosophers’
by Editorial Team | Jul 12, 2019 | Autores, Cultura, Lifestyle, Livros, Não-Ficção, Select1 | 0 |
Diogenes Laërtius’ Lives of the Eminent Philosophers is one of the most comprehensive biographical works on the Greco-Roman thinkers of antiquity. Here are ten of the best quotes found in Lives to make your day more philosophical.
Read MoreSavonarola’s Dream
by Editorial Team | Apr 7, 2019 | Adultos, Biblion #12 EN, Cultura, Destinos, Jovens Adultos, Personagens, Select1 | 0 |
Friar, fanatic, despot, martyr, heretic – many are the titles that throughout history have accompanied the name of Girolamo Savonarola, a figure that still baffles many historians both secular and religious to this very day. A Dominican monk sent to Florence in 1481, Savonarola gradually became the most influential preacher in the city, enthralling his listeners with vociferous disapproval of Florence’s immorality and political corruption.
Read MoreWhat If the Anti-Papal Council Came to Be?
by Editorial Team | Apr 7, 2019 | Adultos, Biblion #12 EN, Cultura, Jovens Adultos, Personagens, Select1 | 0 |
While it is hard to predict how the political landscape of Italy would change, it becomes evident that not even all the kingdoms, duchies, republics, marquisates and bishoprics of Italy could have defended Alexander VI against the anti-Papal forces.
Read MoreChesterton’s Take on Savonarola
by Editorial Team | Apr 7, 2019 | Adultos, Autores, Biblion #12 EN, Cultura, Daniel T. Gomes, Jovens Adultos, Kindle, Lifestyle, Livros, Não-Ficção, Personagens, Select1, Sociedade | 0 |
One of the most acute commentaries on Savonarola is made by none other than G. K. Chesterton in his book, Twelve Types. Here the English author distinguishes the historical Savonarola from the moral Savonarola, ignoring the former and focusing almost exclusively on the latter.
Read MoreFear and Trembling – Soren Kierkegaard
by Editorial Team | Oct 4, 2018 | Adultos, Autores, Biblion #10 EN, Cultura, Daniel T. Gomes, Jovens Adultos, Kindle, Livros, Select1 | 0 |
Abraham is for Christians an example of faith, with an incredible story of hope in the midst of adversity. Kierkegaard, however, goes beyond just that. In what many consider to be his magnum opus, the Danish philosopher expresses his tremendous admiration for the man he calls a “knight of faith.”
Read MorePHILOSOPHY: The Grand Inquisitor – Fyodor Dostoevsky
by Editorial Team | Oct 4, 2018 | Adultos, Autores, Biblion #10 EN, Cultura, Daniel T. Gomes, Em Papel, Ficção, Jovens Adultos, Livros, Personagens, Select1, Sociedade | 0 |
Few novels have chapters so rich and impacting they can stand apart from the rest of the book, yet this is precisely what has happened with the story of “The Grand Inquisitor,” from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.
Read MoreQuo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
by Editorial Team | Oct 3, 2018 | Adultos, AudioBooks, Autores, Biblion #10 EN, Cultura, Daniel T. Gomes, Entertenimento, Ficção, Jovens Adultos, Kindle, Livros, Personagens, Select1 | 0 |
Quo Vadis, one of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s most appraised novels, is a tour de force that will take you back to Nero’s Rome, in a magnificent story where love and faith triumph even over the Emperor’s madness.
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