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“A penetrating and luminous study, this work retrieves the moral and metaphysical foundations of political life, guiding readers toward a renewed understanding of freedom, law, and the common good in an age of fragmentation.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, Provost of Pontifex University, Atlanta, GA
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Students of political science properly hunger for comprehensive approaches to political theory that situate the major ideas that govern the world today within a theoretical framework. This book, originally published in 1978 by The Society for the Study of Traditional Culture, was written in response to what is in effect an intellectual vacuum. It attempts to provide the essential background necessary for an intelligent view of contemporary intellectual culture, supplementing the undergraduate student’s readings in the works of primary authors and providing graduate students with a primer on beginnings or elements of political theory.
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“A masterful and penetrating account of political philosophy, this work retrieves the enduring questions of order, virtue, and truth, inviting readers into a deeper encounter with the intellectual and spiritual foundations of the political community.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, author of The Narrative Spirituality of Dante’s Divine Comedy and Provost at Pontifex University, Atlanta, GA
Richard J. Bishirjian was Founding President and Professor of Government at Yorktown University from 2000-2016. He earned a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in Government and International Studies from the University of Notre Dame.
Dr. Bishirjian was Gerhart Niemeyer’s teaching assistant at Notre Dame. He was an assistant professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Dallas in Texas, chairman of the Political Science Department at the College of New Rochelle in New York and founder of Yorktown University where he served as President and Professor of government from 2000-2016.
He served as a political appointee in the Reagan Administration and in the Administration of George H. W. Bush.
He is the editor of A Public Philosophy Reader and author of three books, The Development of Political Theory, The Conservative Rebellion and The Coming Death and Future Resurrection of American Higher Education. His most recent work, “Coda,” is a novel published by En Route Books. His most recent three scholarly studies are Ennobling Encounters, Rise and Fall of the American Empire, and Conscience and Power.
Dr. Bishirjian’s essays have been published in Forbes, The Political Science Reviewer, Modern Age, Review of Politics, Chronicles, the American Spectator and The Imaginative Conservative.
For the full story, see Dick’s website.
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What if the deepest truth of the universe is not concept, not structure, not sequence— but fire?
What if the Trinity is not a doctrine to be explained but a flame to be received?
What if the Church is not two traditions but one fire burning in many forms?
What if creation itself is a procession of flame returning to its source?
In this groundbreaking metaphysical work, Basil, Oblate of the Order of St. Benedict, unveils the ancient truth that has burned beneath the Church from the beginning: that God is uncreated fire, and that the destiny of all things is return.
Drawing from Augustine, Dionysius, Bonaventure, the Eastern Fathers, and the silent witnesses of wounded holiness, this book reveals the unity of East and West, the architecture of the Trinity, and the eschatological fire that awaits the cosmos.
This is not a book. It is a school. A school whose only teacher is God. A school whose curriculum is flame. A school whose end is communion.
Enter the fire.
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This is not a book. It is a breath.
A theological meditation on time, erosion, and divine endurance, The Breath That Never Ages is the final offering of Basil, Oblate Order of St. Benedict (Obl.O.S.B.). It does not continue his earlier work—That the Figure May Remain Whole—it transfigures it. Not in defiance, but in reverence.
Here, symbols fade. Prayer trembles. Form cracks. But the breath survives. Theology does not ascend. It does not collapse. It abides.
This manuscript is for those who no longer seek to preserve the figure. For those who no longer defend the scaffold. For those whose breath falters, yet remains.
It is not a map. It is not a scaffold. It is not a conclusion.
It is the breath that never ages. Let it be received.
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