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Origen on the Problem of EvilJourney Back to God explores Origen of Alexandria's creative, complex, and        controversial treatment of the problem of evil. It argues that his layered cosmology        functions as a theodicy that explains unjust suffering and shows how that theodicy        hinges on the journey of the soul back to God....

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This book is about the things which could unite, rather than divide, poets during        the English Civil Wars: friendship, patronage relations, literary admiration, and        anti-clericalism. The central figure is Andrew Marvell, renowned for his        'ambivalent' allegiance in the late 1640s. Little is known about...

In this groundbreaking work, Kamal Sadiq reveals that most of the world's illegal immigrants are not migrating directly to the US, but to countries in the vast developing world. And when they arrive in countries like India and Malaysia--which are often governed by weak and erratic bureaucracies--they are able to obtain citizenship papers fairly...

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This study places the last three novels of Victor Hugo's maturity - Les        Travailleurs de la mer (1866), L'Homme qui rit (1869), and Quatrevingt-Treize (1874)        - within the context of his artistic development after the success of Les        Misrables (1862). By situating these historical narratives in relation        to each other, to...