Professor edward alexander (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Beige buckram cloth cover on these hardbacks. Some shelf wear. Books themselves are in excellent condition. On the inside front cover or end paper, exists several stamps and signature of former owners of the books.notably several Dallas attorneys and one judge, Dee Brown Walker, Judge, 162nd District Court, Dallas, Texas. Nice deckled page edges. Great B/W frontispiece of Alexander Hamilton with the original tissue guard on volume 1; John Jay on Volume 2. We need this now more than ever, don't we? (BR) Box 146.…

Good ex-lib. tan cloth. Heavy pencilling as far as p. 150. xiii, [1], 427 p.; 24 cm. `As for the doctrine that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law, it may be asserted unhesitatingly that it has proved to exercise an evil influence upon the morality of conduct. While to an ecstatic convert like Paul faith may seem a sufficient source of good deeds as its fruits, the faith of the ordinary believer may fail entirely to produce similar effects. It was already found in the Apostolic age that the formula about salvation by faith alone was taken advantage of as a cloak of laxity; it was argued that one may have the true faith, although in this case faith remained dead or was combined with immorality. Ordinary men are not mystics; and ecstatic converts are dangerous founders of religious creeds. The demoralising effect of the teaching of justification by faith was again testified by its revival at the Reformation.' (p. 407 f.) -- `My criticism has not been based on any standard of "moral objectivity," because I maintain that there is no such standard, moral judgments being ultimately based upon emotions, which necessarily vary in different individuals. To me it seems that all believers in a righteous God, who has implanted a moral consciousness in the human mind, have to admit that no religious doctrines which conflict with its principles can have a divine revelation as its source.' (p. 411). Binding is Hardcover.…