Download or read book China s Encounters on the South and Southwest written by James A. Anderson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's Encounters on the South and Southwest. Reforging the Fiery Frontier Over Two Millennia discusses the mountainous territory between lowland China and Southeast Asia, what we term the Dong world, and varied encounters by China with this world's many elements. The essays describe such encounters over the past two millennia and note various asymmetric relations that have resulted therefrom. Local populations, indigenous chiefs, state officials, and rulers have all acted to shape this frontier, especially after the Mongol incursions of the thirteenth century drastically shifted it. This process has moved from the alliances of the Dong world to the indirect rule of the Tusi (native official) age to the Qing and recent Gaitu Guiliu efforts at direct rule by the state, placing regular officials in charge there. The essays detail the complexities of this frontier through time, space, and personality, particularly in those instances, as today on land and sea, when China elects to pursue an aggressive policy in this direction. Contributors include: Brantly Womack, Kenneth MacLean, Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Bradley Davis, Jaymin Kim, Alexander Ong, Joseph Dennis, Sun Laichen, John K. Whitmore, Kathlene Baldanza, Kenneth M. Swope, Michael Brose, James A. Anderson, Liam Kelley, and Catherine Churchman.
Download or read book Your God Is a Devouring Fire written by Michael Simone SJ and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ancient Near East, the distinction between the divine realm and the material world was not always clear. In Mesopotamia, statues, kings, and even cultic utensils could become "gods" in their own right. Certain biblical traditions show this idea as well. Yhwh appears as a human during visitations to Abraham and Jacob (Gen 18:1-2 and 32:25-31). Yhwh also can act through objects (Gen 15:17; 1 Sam 5:1-5). This suggests that, in Israel as in Mesopotamia, a distinction between humans and gods was one of status more than ontology. Throughout the ancient Near East, religious literature included motifs that emphasized divine status, such as power, size, wonder-working ability, and the possession of numinous qualities. In Israel, these divine "status symbols" were frequently storm motifs like cloud, precipitation, and fire. Fire was one of the most common, perhaps because, being vivid and powerful, it shared Yhwh's life-giving, transformative, yet dangerous qualities. In certain narratives, fiery motifs accompany an embodied divine presence. At other times, fiery phenomena are the sole perceptible indications of divine presence. As a motif of divinity, fire can symbolize divine agency even functioning at a distance from Yhwh or shared with a secondary agent like an angel, tool, or weapon. Israel's extensive use of fire in the cult gives witness to similar traditions. Divine fire accompanies each new cultic inauguration in the Hebrew Bible. A tradition in Leviticus suggests that this fire remained continuously burning and served as a "gate" that allowed God to received portions of the cultic offering. In the Hebrew Bible, fire was thus a "status symbol" of divinity, drawn from traditional storm motifs and ancient conventions of divine embodiment. In its vivid ethereal appearance and power to give, transform, and take life, it symbolized the presence and agency of Yhwh, the God of Israel.
Download or read book The Fire of God written by Joy Dawson and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fires produce warmth, comfort, and distinctive beauty. Because our God is a consuming fire, He produces all that and much more. Understanding the fire of God allows you to pass through everyday scorching ordeals into the light of His empowering embrace without being burned. The Fire of God: Frees you from carnal desires. Tests and purifies you. Provides perseverance and strength. Reveals His justice, grace, and mercy. For our God is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29). Filled with powerful biblical teaching and personal illustrations, author Joy Dawson shares how you can quench the inevitable fiery trials of life.
Download or read book Fire Ice written by Phoebe Alexander and published by Mountains Wanted Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iceman cometh...and she's into it. Someone is trying to sabotage Spicetopia’s grand opening. Neve Romano, Director of Security, and Enya Moore, Director of Public Relations, have never gotten along. But they find themselves thrust right into the middle of the melee...and at the mercy of a madman. Can they work together to keep themselves and the park alive? And can they keep their passion from sparking a whole new fire? Fire & Ice is Book 3 in the Spicetopia series. Spicetopia is a lavish adult theme park in the Bahamas. Its motto is, "Where fantasies are fulfilled, and variety is the spice of life!" Come visit today! Though the series can be read in any order, here is the preferred reading order: Book 1: Sugar & Spice (Cy and Jolie's story) Book 2: Virtue & Vice (Moon and Katja's story) Book 3: Fire & Ice (Neve and Enya’s story) Book 4: Naughty & Nice (Micah and Natalie’s story) Book 5: Dares & Dice (Tyler and Makenna's story) Book 6: Loyalty & Lies (Calvin and Paisley's story -- crossover with Eastern Shore Swingers Series) Book 7: Penny & Pryce (novella)
Download or read book Fiery Cinema written by Weihong Bao and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Resonance. Fiery action: toward an aesthetics of new heroism -- A culture of resonance: hypnotism, wireless cinema, and the invention of intermedial spectatorship -- Transparency. Dances of fire: mediating affective immediacy -- Transparent Shanghai: cinema, architecture, and a left-wing culture of glass -- Agitation. "A vibrating art in the air": the infinite cinema and the media ensemble of propaganda -- Baptism by fire: atmospheric war, agitation, and a tale of three cities.
Download or read book Holy Ghost And Fire written by Lucas Sherbert and published by Lucas Sherbert. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years ago, in a dream, Lucas Sherbert had an incredible encounter with Jesus. He met Jesus at the foot of the cross and at His feet were many books Lucas had authored. The Father gave him a prophetic glimpse into a purpose He would one day bring to pass. Lucas Sherbert is excited to bring you Holy Ghost and Fire: A Call to Sonship! This book is an in-depth teaching on the ministry and purpose of the Holy Spirit within the believer’s life. As sons and daughters, the Holy Spirit is essential to the fathering process. He is the Spirit of sonship and He invites us into a place of intimacy beyond our wildest dreams. Holy Ghost and Fire isn't just another book but a heavenly invitation. Get ready to encounter the risen Christ! Some of the teachings in this book can be found below. - The power of Pentecost, tongues of fire. - Cessation versus Continuation, exposing Satan's lies - Dunamis Power - Kenosis of Christ - God's Ekklesia, rediscovering our legislative identity - Seated in heavenly places, the believers authority
Download or read book Exodus written by Victor P. Hamilton and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly regarded Old Testament scholar provides a comprehensive evangelical exegesis of the book of Exodus.
Download or read book Animated Encounters written by Daisy Yan Du and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s role in the history of world animation has been trivialized or largely forgotten. In Animated Encounters Daisy Yan Du addresses this omission in her study of Chinese animation and its engagement with international forces during its formative period, the 1940s–1970s. She introduces readers to transnational movements in early Chinese animation, tracing the involvement of Japanese, Soviet, American, Taiwanese, and China’s ethnic minorities, at socio-historical or representational levels, in animated filmmaking in China. Du argues that Chinese animation was international almost from its inception and that such border-crossing exchanges helped make it “Chinese” and subsequently transform the history of world animation. She highlights animated encounters and entanglements to provide an alternative to current studies of the subject characterized by a preoccupation with essentialist ideas of “Chineseness” and further questions the long-held belief that the forty-year-period in question was a time of cultural isolationism for China due to constant wars and revolutions. China’s socialist era, known for the pervasiveness of its political propaganda and suppression of the arts, unexpectedly witnessed a golden age of animation. Socialist collectivism, reinforced by totalitarian politics and centralized state control, allowed Chinese animation to prosper and flourish artistically. In addition, the double marginality of animation—a minor art form for children—coupled with its disarming qualities and intrinsic malleability and mobility, granted animators and producers the double power to play with politics and transgress ideological and geographical borders while surviving censorship, both at home and abroad. A captivating and enlightening history, Animated Encounters will attract scholars and students of world film and animation studies, children’s culture, and modern Chinese history.
Download or read book Set Me on Fire written by Malcolm Macdonald and published by Monarch Books. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Christians have, deep within them, a hunger for a more authentic and fulfilling experience of God. Set Me on Fire examines what it means to be filled with the fire of God, as the believers were at Pentecost. For over 20 years Malcolm Macdonald has been thinking about, studying, and teaching on this subject. Set Me On Fire is aimed at people who have a sense of spiritual hunger and desire for revival, but are not sure what this means, or how to get there. It uses the theme of the fire of God across scripture to paint a picture of what it looks like to be on fire for God. Author, Malcolm Macdonald covers themes such as holiness, revival, mission, God's presence, prayer, intimacy with God and suffering He helps readers to grasp the challenges of seeking to be a radical disciple, along the way offering personal reflections from his own journey.
Download or read book A Fiery Peace in a Cold War written by Neil Sheehan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US-Soviet arms race, told through the story of a colorful and visionary American Air Force officer—melding biography, history, world affairs, and science to transport the reader back and forth from individual drama to world stage. "Compulsively readable and important.” —The New York Times Book Review In this never-before-told story, Neil Sheehan—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award -- details American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever’s quest to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, and describes American efforts to develop the unstoppable nuclear-weapon delivery system, the intercontinental ballistic missile, the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger. In a sweeping narrative, Sheehan brings to life a huge cast of some of the most intriguing characters of the cold war, including the brilliant physicist John Von Neumann, and the hawkish Air Force general, Curtis LeMay.
Download or read book Fresh Encounters written by Daniel Henderson and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh Encounters presents a new and different model for praying together that has seen results in churches across the United States. Put it into practice at your church, and watch the transforming power of Jesus Christ work through united, worship-based prayer.
Download or read book Jun pero Serra the Man and His Work written by Abigail Hetzel Fitch and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although every work on California since Palou's days necessarily contains references to Fray Junipero Serra, no other biography of him has been written. It was to supply this lack, and also because Palou's biography has to my knowledge never been translated [Since this was written, a translation of Palou's Vida has been published], that I undertook to write the present work, not, however, without many misgivings as to my ability to do justice to the subject. The national, and not merely local, interest of Junipero, as the preserver to Spain (and thereby indirectly to the United States) of the Pacific coast, from San Francisco to San Diego, becomes evident to all who read the history of California. Just in so far as our importance as a nation is affected by our coast line, does the nation owe a debt to Junipero Serra. Even Mr. Hubert Bancroft, who in his invaluable History of California but faintly disguises his dislike of the friar, says: "It did not require Palou's eulogistic pen to prove him a great and remarkable man."--Excerpted from the Preface.
Download or read book Contributions of the Lowell Historical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contributions of the Lowell Historical Society written by Lowell Historical Society, Lowell, Mass and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Jury Trials and Advocates written by Joseph W. Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Jury Trials and Advocates written by Joseph Wesley Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speeches of the Stump the Bar and the Platform written by Charles Sedgwick May and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
