On Mercy
Title | On Mercy PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Bull |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2021-04-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0691217459 |
Is mercy more important than justice? Since antiquity, mercy has been regarded as a virtue. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, mercy had been exiled from political life. In this book, Malcolm Bull analyses and challenges the Enlightenment’s rejection of mercy. Political realism, Bull argues, demands recognition of the foundational role of mercy in society. If we are vulnerable to harm from others, we are in need of their mercy. By restoring the primacy of mercy over justice, we may constrain the powerful and release the agency of the powerless. An important contribution to political philosophy from an inventive thinker, On Mercy makes a persuasive case for returning this neglected virtue to the heart of political thought.
Mercy
Title | Mercy PDF eBook |
Author | Cardinal Walter Kasper |
Publisher | Paulist Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Christian life |
ISBN | 1587683652 |
"This book has done me so much good." —Pope Francis From one the leading intellects in the church today—one whom Pope Francis has described as a "superb theologian"—comes perhaps his most important book yet. Available for the first time in English, Cardinal Kasper looks to capture the essence of the gospel message. Compassionate, bold, and brilliant, Cardinal Kasper has written a book which will be studied for generations.
A Mercy
Title | A Mercy PDF eBook |
Author | Toni Morrison |
Publisher | Vintage Canada |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2009-08-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 030737307X |
A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is still in its infancy. Reluctantly he takes a small slave girl in part payment from a plantation owner for a bad debt. Feeling rejected by her slave mother, 14-year-old Florens can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives . . . At the novel's heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter – a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.
Write On, Mercy!
Title | Write On, Mercy! PDF eBook |
Author | Gretchen Woelfle |
Publisher | Calkins Creek Books |
Pages | 43 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1590788222 |
Provides a biography of Mercy Otis Warren, an unsung heroine of the American Revolution, who wrote patriotic plays and poems, including a history of the Revolution.
Mercy Matters
Title | Mercy Matters PDF eBook |
Author | Mathew N. Schmalz |
Publisher | Our Sunday Visitor |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2016-04-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1612789986 |
“Wherever there are Christians, everyone should find an oasis of mercy.” —Pope Francis Whether dealing with adoption, sobriety, bullying, the Boston Marathon bombing, or friendship with a Jehovah’s Witness, Mathew Schmalz’s own life serves as the backdrop for his reflections on the complex nature of mercy—how we give it, and how we receive it. From a home for lepers in India to a halfway house in the Bronx, the author probes his experiences to reveal mercy as a virtue that doesn’t necessarily come easily, but is infinitely rewarding. Discussion and reflection questions at the end of each chapter allow you to dig deeper into your own ideas about mercy, what it looks like in your life, and how to move toward a more merciful existence. Perfect for individual or group study.
I Am Mercy
Title | I Am Mercy PDF eBook |
Author | Mandi Lynn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2018-12-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781732555761 |
In 14th century France, Aida is accused of being a witch when the Black Death wipes through her village. Abandoned by her family, she is surrounded by death and disease, but when a woman who may actually be a witch tells her how to cure the plague, it may mean uncovering a dark magic.
The Book of Mercy
Title | The Book of Mercy PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Cambor |
Publisher | Mariner Books |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780156005197 |
Isolated from his children and tormented by memories of his flamboyant wife, a retired fireman becomes so fascinated with the lost art of alchemy and its promise of immortality that he is institutionalized.