Download or read book Eternal The Struggle Between Good and Evil written by T. R. Quigley and published by Satan's Vampires. This book was released on 2019-03-03 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Church has known the true story behind vampire folk tales and legends for over 2000 years. Vampires are far more frightening, more devastating and more incredible than any movie or novel has ever portrayed. These so-called vampires are among us - hidden to all but a few unfortunates. They revel in making mankind its own worst enemy. Orphans, the homeless, the lonely, the desperate and the innocent are recruited to do their bidding. The Church has a secret office and organization that tracks and tries to limit their destruction. In this story two orphans, two detectives, a hotel clerk and a nun are brought together to thwart one of the most evil of the thirteen master vampires.

Download or read book Christ Versus Satan in Our Daily Lives written by Robert Spitzer and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritual writer, theologian, and philosopher Jesuit Fr. Robert Spitzer tackles the topic of recognizing and overcoming spiritual evil. His focus is the human heart. His goal: our moral and spiritual transformation, which leads to true peace and genuine happiness. The book is divided into two main parts: the realities of God's goodness and of spiritual evil, and recognizing and overcoming diabolical tactics, which range from temptation and deception to the Deadly Sins. Father Spitzer shows readers how to experience God's peace even during times of suffering and persecution. He examines the basics of the spiritual life and Christian mysticism, including the contemplative dimension. He explains the purgative, illuminative, and unitive aspects of spirituality, as well as the Lord's consolation and the passive Dark Night of the Spirit. Father Spitzer provides the biblical and theological background of Jesus' victory over Satan. The author also explores the reality of the Devil, including extraordinary manifestations of diabolic activity such as possession. He recalls the true story of the famous possession case on which the novel and film The Exorcist were based. In the final sections of the book the author explains: how diabolical spiritual forces operate how temptation works, and what to do to defeat it the "deadly sins" and how to overcome them

Download or read book Ethics and the Problem of Evil written by Marilyn McCord Adams and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocative essays that seek “to turn the attention of analytic philosophy of religion on the problem of evil . . . towards advances in ethical theory” (Reading Religion). The contributors to this book—Marilyn McCord Adams, John Hare, Linda Zagzebski, Laura Garcia, Bruce Russell, Stephen Wykstra, and Stephen Maitzen—attended two University of Notre Dame conferences in which they addressed the thesis that there are yet untapped resources in ethical theory for affecting a more adequate solution to the problem of evil. The problem of evil has been an extremely active area of study in the philosophy of religion for many years. Until now, most sources have focused on logical, metaphysical, and epistemological issues, leaving moral questions as open territory. With the resources of ethical theory firmly in hand, this volume provides lively insight into this ageless philosophical issue. “These essays—and others—will be of primary interest to scholars working in analytic philosophy of religion from a self-consciously Christian standpoint, but its audience is not limited to such persons. The book offers illustrative examples of how scholars in philosophy of religion understand their aims and how they go about making their arguments . . . hopefully more work will follow this volume’s lead.”—Reading Religion “Recommended.”—Choice

Download or read book All the Year Round written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guests of the Ayatollah written by Mark Bowden and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author of Black Hawk Down delivers a “suspenseful and inspiring” account of the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 (The Wall Street Journal). On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans captive, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days. In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping story through the eyes of the hostages, the soldiers in a new special forces unit sent to free them, their radical, naïve captors, and the diplomats working to end the crisis. Bowden takes us inside the hostages’ cells and inside the Oval Office for meetings with President Carter and his exhausted team. We travel to international capitals where shadowy figures held clandestine negotiations, and to the deserts of Iran, where a courageous, desperate attempt to rescue the hostages exploded into tragic failure. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides. Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly recreated, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. “The passions of the moment still reverberate . . . you can feel them on every page.” —Time “A complex story full of cruelty, heroism, foolishness and tragic misunderstandings.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Essential reading . . . A.” —Entertainment Weekly

Download or read book If God Is Good written by Randy Alcorn and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suffering is, in the end, God’s invitation to trust him. “As he did in his best-selling book, Heaven, Randy Alcorn delves deep into a profound subject, and through compelling stories, provocative questions and answers, and keen biblical understanding, he brings assurance and hope to all.” –Publishers Weekly Every one of us will experience suffering. You may be in such a time now. We see the presence of evil in the headlines every day. It all raises questions about God—Why would an all-good and all-powerful God create a world full of evil and suffering? How can there be a God if suffering and evil exist? Atheists such as Richard Dawkins and even former believers like Bart Ehrman answer the question simply: The existence of suffering and evil proves there is no God. But in this illuminating book, best-selling author Randy Alcorn challenges the logic of disbelief, and brings a fresh, hopeful, and thoroughly biblical insight to the issues these important questions raise. Alcorn offers insights from his conversations with men and women whose lives have been torn apart by suffering, and yet whose faith in God burns brighter than ever. He reveals the big picture of who God is and what God is doing in the world—now and forever. And he shows the beauty of God’s sovereignty—how it ultimately triumphs over suffering and evil in our lives and the world around us.

Download or read book Carry the One written by Carol Anshaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen's wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect, and reconnect throughout twenty-five subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays, and tragedies.

Download or read book Eternal Battle Against Evil written by Paul R. Chabot and published by Total Publishing & Media. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Paul Chabot - Military Intelligence Officer, White House Drug Czar Advisor, Law Enforcement Veteran - President and CEO of Chabot Strategies LLC (www.chabotstrategies.com) is an Iraq war veteran and began his military intelligence career in 2001, serving first at the Office of Naval Intelligence, later with the Defense Intelligence Agency, in conjunction with an assignment in the Pentagon working for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the National Military Command Center assessing immediate national security threats. In 2008, Paul returned from Iraq where he served as an intelligence officer with Joint Special Operations Forces. Today he serves with the U.S. Navy 3rd Fleet and holds the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Dr. Paul Chabot has spent a lifetime battling evil and devising strategies to tear it apart. He has dissected drug cartels, chased down violent street gang members and fought against terrorism overseas. His extraordinary academic and real-world credentials provided the basis to masterfully craft this one-of-a-kind book.This book takes you to the battlefield where you will learn firsthand the tactics and resilience of evil, and most importantly, how we can fight back and turn the tide for all humanity.

Download or read book Three Cosmic Messages written by Mark Finley and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity Vol 1 A E written by Angelo Di Berardino and published by IVP Academic. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity covers eight centuries of the Christian church and comprises 3,220 entries by a team of 266 scholars from 26 countries representing a variety of Christian traditions. It draws upon such fields as archaeology, art and architecture, biography, cultural studies, ecclesiology, geography, history, philosophy, and theology. This edition updates and expands on previous Italian and English-language editions with the addition of more than 500 new articles (added to the current Italian or English edition). Extensive cross-referencing provides ease in exploring related articles, and helpful bibliographies, including primary sources (texts, critical editions, translations) and key secondary sources (books and journal articles), give access to in-depth scholarship in countless disciplines of study. --From publisher's description.

Download or read book The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass written by Nicholas Buccola and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this title Nicholas Buccola provides an important and original argument about the ideas that animated the reformer-statesman and freed slave, Frederick Douglass.

Download or read book When Bad Things Happen to Good People written by Harold S. Kushner and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an inspirational and compassionate approach to understanding the problems of life, and argues that we should continue to believe in God's fairness.

Download or read book If God Why Evil written by Norman L. Geisler and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trusted apologist provides a fresh, balanced approach to understanding how a loving God can preside over a world filled with evil and suffering.

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Download or read book The Celestial Battle With Hell brute for the Kingdom written by AQEEL AHMED and published by AQEEL AHMED. This book was released on 2024-04-13 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Celestial Battle With Hell brute for the Kingdom Summary: All of a sudden, darkness fell over a place that was peaceful and doing well. Hell, brute let out a beast that was so strong you couldn't even imagine it. Its goal was to destroy a country that had been at peace for decades. When it came, the people who lived there were no longer happy; instead, they were sad as towns burned down. The country was about to fall apart because it wasn't ready for something so bad. When they were in the most trouble, the people looked to the sky and begged God to save them. In answer to the prayers of their followers, the Gods sent out many of their bravest Angels. These fighting celestials, who were live examples of the Gods' power, swept through the realm and lit up the sky with a heavenly light. Because of this, an epic battle between the evil of Hell and the purity of the sky started and lasted fifty years. During the long battle, neither side gave up. The beast seemed unbeatable because it was driven by a darkness that existed before time. While the brute was very strong, the Angels were very determined, and they fought its strength with unshakable resolve. The country saw their fights firsthand and was always afraid of the celestial forces that passed over it. Over the course of decades, the struggle's direction changed several times. The monster looked like it was always angry, so the Angels came up with ways to protect themselves. There were times when it was too simple to think that evil would win. However, it was during these times that the Angels showed the most bravery. As a sign of their devotion to the kingdom's survival, they all made a sacrifice. After fifty years of fighting, a big blow was finally thrown. Together, their strength and cunning helped the army of angels beat the hell brute beast. When it died, the darkness that was about to swallow the kingdom went out. After the fight, the kingdom slowly got better after being almost destroyed. When the Angels finished their holy task, they left behind a kingdom that would never be the same because of what they did. People remembered the heavenly battle and its heroes, and peace was restored. This was meant to show how powerful hope and strength in the face of suffering can be. Chapter 1: A Peaceful Kingdom In a faraway land, there used to be a country that was different from all the others. Because this country was so peaceful and lovely, the sun seemed to shine a little brighter there. If you lived somewhere where the sound of birds singing would wake you up every morning, it would be like the birds were welcoming you to a new day. Every breath was nice because the air was always clean and smelled good because flowers were in bloom. There were green forests all around this land. The trees were tall and strong, and their leaves could tell anyone secrets. Animals roamed the woods easily and with confidence because they knew the people who lived there loved and cared for them. As the rivers wound through the land, their clear, sparkling water reflected the sun and brought life to everything. The huge towers of the castle in the middle of the country made it look like it could reach up and touch the clouds. Around the castle, the town was a medley of color, with brightly colored homes and flowers that bloomed all year. You could always hear laughing in the streets, especially from kids playing. Their contagious joy reminded everyone every day of the kingdom's energy. People in this kingdom were happy, grateful, and satisfied with their lives. People who lived next door were more than just neighbors; they were friends who were always willing to help. There was a strong sense of community, and everyone talked about being kind. People looked out for each other. People from all walks of life got together for feasts and celebrations to enjoy the kingdom's happiness and plenty. The peaceful and beautiful kingdom was a haven for artists and entertainers who came to paint, play music, and tell stories. The mood was set by music, from the calm plucking of a lute to the beautiful sounds of the flute. This made everyday life sound more upbeat. People of all ages were enchanted by the magical stories that were told, and the essence of the country was captured by artists. People learned and discovered new things in schools and libraries, and they put a lot of value on education and knowledge. Teachers were respected elders who led the kingdom's young people on trips full of knowledge and taught them values like love, respect, and curiosity for all living things. Scholars in the kingdom were highly respected for what they did for society and health. But what really made this kingdom stand out was how well its people got along with nature. Everywhere you looked, there were parks and gardens where you could sit and think about how the natural world works and how it changes. So that no one went hungry, the kingdom's farmers carefully took care of their fields and worked with the seasons to make sure there was plenty of food. The kingdom's way of thinking was based on respecting all living things. Every single thing, no matter how small, was seen as an important part of the whole. In this country, everyone could choose to live in love, respect, and kindness toward others every day. This led to peace that went beyond just not having any fights. Some dreams could come true there, everyone, no matter how small, felt loved and important, and the future was full of opportunities. This is the country where our story began. It was a land full of hope and possibilities, a beautiful example of what can happen when people are kind and willing to learn. It showed how a community can do well when its members get along and understand each other. It also set the stage for the epic play that was about to happen—a story of bravery, sacrifice, and the never-ending battle between good and evil. Chapter 2: When the Brave Comes No one could have thought that one day would come to our beautiful and peaceful kingdom, ending the peace and happiness that had grown there for so long. A horrible, dangerous animal came from the depths of Hell to live on Earth. There was something very different about this monster. It was a brute, a terrible animal with eyes like coals on fire and skin as hard as the deepest black. 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In their hearts, they let out a desperate cry and begged for help from above. They hoped that the Angels would hear them and help them. The beast stayed angry and showed itself through the damage it caused. The quiet prayers sent to the sky didn't bother it. Nature seemed to be behind it, and the kingdom didn't seem to be able to stop it. There was a lot of darkness around, but the people didn't lose faith. They still thought that good was better than evil. This part of our story is a lesson of how quickly happiness can turn into sadness and how chaos can break up peace. But it also shows how strong togetherness, faith, and hope can be. The brute's arrival not only made everyone in the kingdom sad, but it also led to defiance and a desire to get back the lost peace and brightness. Even though it was a terrible time, it was also the start of a journey and a call to arms for anyone who thought good could win against evil. When the brute showed up, it was not only the end, but also the start of a great battle between light and evil. It was also a test of the kingdom's spirit and strength.

Download or read book Sergei Rachmaninoff written by Valeria Z. Nollan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valeria Z. Nollan’s biography of perhaps the finest pianist of the twentieth century plunges readers into Rachmaninoff’s complex inner world. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cross Rhythms of the Soul is the first biography of Rachmaninoff in English that presents him in the fullness of his Russian identity. As someone whose own life in Russian emigration ran in parallel ways to Rachmaninoff’s own—and whose meetings with the composer’s grandson in Switzerland informed her work—Nollan brings important cultural insights into her observations of the activities of this generation of creative artists. She also traces the intricacies of Rachmaninoff’s relations with the women closest to him—whose imprints are palpable in his compositions—and introduces a mystery woman whose existence challenges our established narrative of his life.

Download or read book The Hidden Powers of Ritual written by Bradd Shore and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating overview of the development, benefits, and importance of ritual in everyday life, written by a leading cognitive anthropologist. The Hidden Powers of Ritual is an engaging introduction to ritual studies that presents ritual as an evolved form of human behavior of almost unimaginable significance to our species. Every day across the globe, people gather to share meals, brew caffeinated beverages, or honor their ancestors. In this book, Bradd Shore, a respected anthropologist, reaches beyond familiar “big-R” rituals to present life’s humbler, overshadowed moments, exploring everything from the Balinese pelebon to baseball to family Zoom sessions in the age of Covid to the sobering reenactment rituals surrounding the Moore’s Ford lynchings. In each ritual, Shore shows how our capacity to ritualize behavior is a remarkable part of the human story. Encompassing both the commonly unlabeled “interaction rituals” studied by sociologists and the symbolically elaborated sacred rituals of religious studies, Shore organizes his conception around detailed case studies drawn from international research and personal experience, weaving scholarship with a memoir of a life encompassed by ritual. A probing exploration that matches breadth with accessibility, The Hidden Powers of Ritual is a provocative contribution to ritual theory that will appeal to a wide range of readers curious about why these unique repetitive acts matter in our lives.