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Book A Damascene Conversion

    Book Details:
  • Author : William S. Flynn OFS
  • Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
  • Release : 2021-03-16
  • ISBN : 1098047060
  • Pages : 91 pages

Download or read book A Damascene Conversion written by William S. Flynn OFS and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this amazing book, William S. Flynn looks back over his life and invites us to marvel with him as he revisits many events and personalities to taste and see anew the mystery of the Lord's goodness and the power of his saving love. In doing so, William invites each of us to do the same. What transpires in our hearts when we ask for an increase of faith to review our own life story? Let us follow William's example and review our lives in that certain hope that we will taste and see the ways of Jesus's Spirit loving us.The landscape of William's life reveals an ongoing testimony to grace that is sure to move your heart to smile and find new hope amid any trial. It is more than worth the read.Foreword by Rev. John Horn, SJSt. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary

Book A Damascene Conversion

    Book Details:
  • Author : OFS William Flynn
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-07-28
  • ISBN : 9781098047054
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book A Damascene Conversion written by OFS William Flynn and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this amazing book, William S. Flynn looks back over his life and invites us to marvel with him as he revisits many events and personalities to taste and see anew the mystery of the Lord's goodness and the power of his saving love. In doing so, William invites each of us to do the same. What transpires in our hearts when we ask for an increase of faith to review our own life story? Let us follow William's example and review our lives in that certain hope that we will taste and see the ways of Jesus's Spirit loving us. The landscape of William's life reveals an ongoing testimony to grace that is sure to move your heart to smile and find new hope amid any trial. It is more than worth the read. Foreword by Rev. John Horn, SJ St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary

Book The Acts of the Apostles

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  • Author : P.D. James
  • Publisher : Canongate Books
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 0857861077
  • Pages : 93 pages

Download or read book The Acts of the Apostles written by P.D. James and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James

Book The Road from Damascus

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  • Author : Richard N. Longenecker
  • Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • Release : 1997-06-25
  • ISBN : 1467428396
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book The Road from Damascus written by Richard N. Longenecker and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1997-06-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversion is intrinsic to the Christian religion. The most remarkable conversion recorded in the New Testament is that of Paul, and most Christians consider Christ's encounter with Paul to be a prototype of Christian conversion generally. This collection of eleven essays gives Paul's conversion a firmer rootage in the biblical materials while also emphasizing personal application. The contributors examine the nature of Paul's Damascus Road experience and the impact of that experience on his thought and ministry, and explore how Paul's experience functions as a paradigm for Christian thought and action today. Contributors: Bruce Corley, Terence L. Donaldson, James D. G. Dunn, Gordon D. Fee, Judith M. Gundry-Volf, G. Walter Hansen, Seyoon Kim, Bruce W. Longenecker, Richard N. Longenecker, I. Howard Marshall, Stephen Westerholm.

Book Paul the Convert

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  • Author : Alan F. Segal
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1990-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300052275
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Paul the Convert written by Alan F. Segal and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revisionist work, Segal maintains that Paul's life can be better understood by taking his Jewishness seriously, and that Jewish history can be greatly illuminated by examining Paul's writings". . . . a blockbuster of a book about Paul that blazes a new trail".--New Theology Review.

Book The New Frontiers of Jihad

Download or read book The New Frontiers of Jihad written by Alison Pargeter and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison Pargeter delves into the causes, motivations, and diverse forms of Islamic extremism in Europe. Drawing on original research and interviews conducted with moderates and radicals from across the continent, she shows how the lexicon of the war on terror has succeeded in distorting the complexities and peculiarities of the movement.

Book Amen to That

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  • Author : Ferdie Addis
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2013-10-17
  • ISBN : 1621451089
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Amen to That written by Ferdie Addis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us have never read or studied the Bible, yet people have been quoting from its pages for centuries, not knowing the origin or significance of these timeless expressions. Let there be light! Amen to That will delightfully shed clarity on how a collection of ancient stories, written in three languages over the course of a thousand years, has had such an impact on the way we speak today. Through intriguing stories and riveting tales of epic battles and acts of betrayal to miracles and beyond, you’ll quickly discover the meanings behind such familiar phrases as: A drop in the bucket All things must pass As old as the hills Bite the dust Eat, drink, and be merry The powers that be Woe is me Amen to That is a wonderful look at the gripping storytelling and cultural wealth to be found in the world's best-selling book, as well as a fascinating insight into our language.

Book The Thinker s Thesaurus  Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words  Expanded Third Edition

Download or read book The Thinker s Thesaurus Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words Expanded Third Edition written by Peter E. Meltzer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over twenty percent more material, a must for any lover of distinctive words. This entertaining and informative reference features sophisticated and surprising alternatives to common words together with no-fail guides to usage. Avoiding traditional thesauruses’ mundane synonym choices, Peter E. Meltzer puts each word—whether it’s protrepic, apostrophize, iracund, or emulous—in context by using examples from a broad range of contemporary books, periodicals, and newspapers. His new introduction makes the case for why we should widen our vocabulary and use the one right word. This groundbreaking thesaurus remains a unique venture, one that enriches your writing while helping you find the perfect word.

Book Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion written by Stephen Wittek and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a close look at Shakespeare’s engagement with the flurry of controversy and activity surrounding the concept of conversion in post-Reformation England. For playhouse audiences during the period, conversional thought encompassed a markedly diverse, fluid amalgamation of ideas, practices, and arguments centered on the means by which an individual could move from one category of identity to another. In an analysis that includes chapter-length readings of The Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV Part I, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and The Tempest, the book argues that Shakespearean drama made a unique and substantive intervention in public discourse surrounding conversion, and continues to speak meaningfully about conversional experience for audiences in the present age. It will be of particular benefit to students and scholars with an interest in theatrical history, performance theory, theology, cultural studies, race studies, and gender studies.

Book The Road from Damascus

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  • Author : Richard N. Longenecker
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2002-01-10
  • ISBN : 1579108644
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book The Road from Damascus written by Richard N. Longenecker and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-01-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversion is intrinsic to the Christian Religion. The most remarkable conversion recorded in the New Testament is that of Paul, and most Christians consider Christ's encounter with Paul to be a prototype of Christian conversion generally. This collection of eleven essays give Paul's conversion a firmer rootage in the biblical materials while also emphasizing personal application. The contributors examine the nature of Paul's Damascus Road experience and the impact of that experience on his thought and ministry, and explore how Paul's experience functions as a paradigm for Christian thought and action today.

Book Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age

Download or read book Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age written by Nimrod Hurvitz and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversion to Islam is a phenomenon of immense significance in human history. At the outset of Islamic rule in the seventh century, Muslims constituted a tiny minority in most areas under their control. But by the beginning of the modern period, they formed the majority in most territories from North Africa to Southeast Asia. Across such diverse lands, peoples, and time periods, conversion was a complex, varied phenomenon. Converts lived in a world of overlapping and competing religious, cultural, social, and familial affiliations, and the effects of turning to Islam played out in every aspect of life. Conversion therefore provides a critical lens for world history, magnifying the constantly evolving array of beliefs, practices, and outlooks that constitute Islam around the globe. This groundbreaking collection of texts, translated from sources in a dozen languages from the seventh to the eighteenth centuries, presents the historical process of conversion to Islam in all its variety and unruly detail, through the eyes of both Muslim and non-Muslim observers.

Book The Theology of the First Christians

Download or read book The Theology of the First Christians written by Walter Schmithals and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Theology of the First Christians, Walter Schmithals offers a comprehensive history of the development of religious thought from the preaching of Jesus to the formation of the New Testament canon. This well-researched volume will be of great interest to New Testament scholars and students.

Book Dictionary of Modern English Grammar

Download or read book Dictionary of Modern English Grammar written by and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary aims to help users to find the most appropriate word to use on a wide range of occasions. It is designed in particular for students, those writing reports, letters and speeches, and crossword solvers, but is also useful as a general word reference. Special features include: an alphabetical A-Z listing; numbered senses for words with more than one meaning; British and American variants; and specially marked colloquial uses.

Book Paul and Religion

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  • Author : Paul W. Gooch
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2022-03-17
  • ISBN : 1108477100
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Paul and Religion written by Paul W. Gooch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the continuing and contemporary relevance of the most important, and most controversial, figure of early Christianity.

Book Contemporary Fiction and Christianity

Download or read book Contemporary Fiction and Christianity written by Andrew Tate and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Book Amazing Conversions

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  • Author : Bob Altemeyer
  • Publisher : Prometheus Books
  • Release : 2010-10-04
  • ISBN : 1615926224
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Amazing Conversions written by Bob Altemeyer and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study uncovers fascinating new data on sudden shifts in religious and nonreligious belief. Amazing Conversions explores, for the first time ever, the reasons why converts join, and apostates go. The focus of this absorbing study is on some amazing people, with unique stories to tell those who join a religious group in spite of being raised in nonreligious (or even antireligious) families, and those who, at great personal cost, choose to leave religion in spite of having a deeply religious background. Why would an atheist''s son become a Christian fundamentalist? Why would a "good Catholic girl" decide that she really is an atheist? The authors of Amazing Conversions, both social psychologists, surveyed thousands of young adults to find that small number who were "amazing believers" or "amazing apostates." These rare individuals tell their stories, which are supplemented by their responses to a detailed questionnaire. The resulting picture shows that amazing believers and amazing apostates are dramatically different groups of people, in spite of the fact that their lives now stand in opposition to previous (non)religious training. You, too, can complete the same questionnaire to learn more about yourself and your beliefs. Have you experienced an amazing conversion?

Book The Sleep of Behemoth

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  • Author : Jehangir Yezdi Malegam
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2013-03-12
  • ISBN : 0801467896
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Sleep of Behemoth written by Jehangir Yezdi Malegam and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Sleep of Behemoth, Jehangir Yezdi Malegam explores the emergence of conflicting concepts of peace in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. Ever since the Early Church, Christian thinkers had conceived of their peace separate from the peace of the world, guarded by the sacraments and shared only grudgingly with powers and principalities. To kingdoms and communities they had allowed attenuated versions of this peace, modes of accommodation and domination that had tranquility as the goal. After 1000, reformers in the papal curia and monks and canons in the intellectual circles of northern France began to reimagine the Church as an engine of true peace, whose task it was eventually to absorb all peoples through progressive acts of revolutionary peacemaking. Peace as they envisioned it became a mandate for reform through conflict, coercion, and insurrection. And the pursuit of mere tranquility appeared dangerous, and even diabolical. As Malegam shows, within western Christendom's major centers of intellectual activity and political thought, the clergy competed over the meaning and monopolization of the term "peace." contrasting it with what one canon lawyer called the "sleep of Behemoth," a diabolical "false" peace of lassitude and complacency, one that produced unsuitable forms of community and friendship that must be overturned at all costs. Out of this contest over the meaning and ownership of true peace, Malegam concludes, medieval thinkers developed theologies that shaped secular political theory in the later Middle Ages. The Sleep of Behemoth traces this radical experiment in redefining the meaning of peace from the papal courts of Rome and the schools of Laon, Liege, and Paris to its gradual spread across the continent and its impact on such developments as the rise of papal monarchism; the growth of urban, communal self-government; and the emergence of secular and mystical scholasticism.