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In 2000 Pope John Paul II declared him the patron saint of politicians.","products":[{"product_id":"utopia-paperback","title":"Utopia - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas More\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGilbert Burnet\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnabridged\u003c\/strong\u003e English value reproduction of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eUtopia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e by Thomas More and translated by Gilbert Burnet, in this affordably printed volume, is a book that belongs on everyone's shelf. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished originally in 1516, More made popular the common usage of the term \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eUtopia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, \"as a communal place where everything is perfect.\" A lawyer himself, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eUtopia \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eincludes no lawyers due to the law's simplicity. Reading More's version gives insight into the original thought of what a \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eUtopia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e should be.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis Value Classic Reprint provides a slim volume with full text at an affordable price.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 46\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.11 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101543403743,"sku":"9781945644733","price":7.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/YbL0Y8DS7H9781945644733.webp?v=1782882232"},{"product_id":"saint-thomas-more-selected-writings-paperback","title":"Saint Thomas More: Selected Writings - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawing on a variety of More's late writings, this collectio\u003ci\u003en\u003c\/i\u003e provides even readers lacking a background in Renaissance humanism or history with a rich introduction to a startlingly modern man of spiritual principle. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas More is perhaps most familiar to us from his courageous struggle with Henry VIII, unforgettably portrayed in Robert Bolt's classic, \u003ci\u003eA Man for All Seasons.\u003c\/i\u003e But that final struggle, which ended in his execution for treason, was only the crowning act in a life that he had devoted to God long before. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the first selection in decades made for the general reader from his collected works, this volume traces More's journey of moral conviction in his own words and writings. 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The Vintage Spiritual Classics series offers the greatest of these works in authoritative new editions, with specially commissioned essays by noted contemporary commentators. Filled with eloquence and fresh insight, encouragement and solace, Vintage Spiritual Classics are incomparable resources for all readers who seek a more substantive understanding of mankind's relation to the divine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365887148255,"sku":"9780375725722","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/mkoF4z7Btf9780375725722.webp?v=1789073582"},{"product_id":"defence-of-the-seven-sacraments-paperback","title":"Defence of the Seven Sacraments - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Defence of the Seven Sacraments (in Latin, Assertio Septem Sacramentorum) is a theological treatise from 1521, written by King Henry VIII of England. Henry started to write it in 1519 while he was reading Martin Luther's attack on indulgences. By June of that year, he had shown it to Thomas Wolsey, but it remained private until three years later, when the earlier manuscript became the first two chapters of the Assertio, the rest consisting of new material relating to Luther's De Captivitate Babylonica. It is believed that Thomas More was involved in the composition of the piece. Author J. J. Scarisbrick describes the work as \"one of the most successful pieces of Catholic polemics produced by the first generation of anti-Protestant writers.\" It went through some twenty editions in the sixteenth century and, as early as 1522, had appeared in two different German translations. 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