Download or read book Graven Images written by A. David Lewis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic books have increasingly become a vehicle for serious social commentary and, specifically, for innovative religious thought. Practitioners of both traditional religions and new religious movements have begun to employ comics as a missionary tool, while humanists and religious progressives use comics' unique fusion of text and image to criticize traditional theologies and to offer alternatives. Addressing the increasing fervor with which the public has come to view comics as an art form and Americans' fraught but passionate relationship with religion, Graven Images explores with real insight the roles of religion in comic books and graphic novels. In essays by scholars and comics creators, Graven Images observes the frequency with which religious material—in devout, educational, satirical, or critical contexts—occurs in both independent and mainstream comics. Contributors identify the unique advantages of the comics medium for religious messages; analyze how comics communicate such messages; place the religious messages contained in comic books in appropriate cultural, social, and historical frameworks; and articulate the significance of the innovative theologies being developed in comics.
Download or read book Graven written by Cavin Wright and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A far from willing conscript into a war instigated by a foreign empire, Graven, not much more than a boy, is forced to take up the sword - or die. He finds his life spiraling into a web of violence and betrayal. In a world of uncertain alliances and where life is cheap, he must stay alive and prove his worth. His simple, sheltered village upbringing has not prepared him for the carnage and horror he must now face if ever he is to see his homeland again. In a bitter struggle that will rip away the innocent youth and leave a harsh and uncompromising man, his arduous journey begins.
Download or read book Graven Ideologies written by Bruce Ellis Benson and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2002-07-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the thought of key postmodern thinkers like Nietzsche, Derrida and Marion, Bruce Ellis Benson offers profound insight into the nature of conceptual idolatry and our need for the biblical revelation of God in Jesus Christ.
Download or read book Graven Images written by Allan I. Ludwig and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic study of gravestone art
Download or read book Graven Images written by Charles E. Miller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-05-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henrietta, the heroine of this story lives in a state of diligent effort, fantasy ambition and ultimate sacrifice of her private life in order to become a known movie star. That is the delusion, to transfer one's immense talent, which she has, into the hands of another person, in her case those beside whom she would attract useful attention, is basis for the belief that they can augment her recognition on the road of stardom. who your seen with that matters," is her working philosophy.
Download or read book Graven Images written by Michael Cantwell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one is more surprised than Philip Nason when an uprising occurs within the walls of a New York rehabilitation hospital. Moments after Phil, director of recreation, hears that a group of mostly paraplegic patients have staged a rebellion, he learns that the hospitals director is furious and thinks the patients were inspired by Phils current-events reading program. Now with his job in jeopardy, Phil is torn between his desire to empower his patients and pleasing hospital bureaucrats. After the rebel patients beg Phil to create an activity program to help them win the respect of hospital staff and improve their lives, he eventually complies. When Phil acts on a hunch and pops the end of a paint brush into young quadriplegic Clayton Thomass mouth, Clayton begins creating beautiful paintings inspired by the Bible. Phil, spurred by his artistic goals, begins developing a program to showcase the patients artwork. Now all he has to do is convince the hospitals reluctant administrators that unleashing their patients creativity is a good thing. In this inspiring story, hundreds of chronically ill patients realize the power of art while rising up against the stifling restrictions of institutional bureaucracywith help from their determined recreational director.
Download or read book Graven Images written by Mike Sutin and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These introspective poems do not always honor mankind (God-Men) or womankind (Goddess-Women), but recognize men and women as only being human with a propensity to commit a varied assortment of human and inhuman acts.
Download or read book Graven Images written by Paul Fleischman and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Fleischman, in his Newbery Honor winning book, spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist's creations reveal truths - tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers. Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman’s trio of eerie, beguiling short stories. If you whisper a secret into a wooden statue’s ear, will anyone find out? Can a wobbly weathervane bearing the image of Saint Crispin, the patron saint of shoemakers, steer a love-struck apprentice toward the girl of his dreams? And if a ghost hires a sculptor to carve a likeness of him holding a drink to a baby’s lips, what ghastly crime might lie behind his request? And, in a brand-new afterword, the acclaimed storyteller reveals how he found his own author’s voice.
Download or read book Rosa and the Graven Kings written by Dante K Austin and published by Dante K Austin. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s great at spinning yarn. Her parents are Christians. But she’s also unforgiven. Or is she? Rosa doesn’t think God will forgive her, not when she’s done the wickedest thing on the planet. She abandoned what her parents taught her, and now her life is riddled with hopelessness. But a weird prophetess from the land of Pootin’ tells her there is hope in a mysterious box . . . if she’s willing to cross a gulch to find it. Rosa goes on a daring adventure, but a strange man named Emmett claims God will forgive her. Why should she trust him when he admitted to murdering someone? That’s not the only strange thing. Rosa’s food is mysteriously eaten from her backpack, a tumbleweed turns into a black figure, and she's surrounded by horseback ghosts trying to claim her soul. The Graven Kings. The Bible said God would forgive her, but she still has painful feelings in her tummy. And when everything she worked for turns into shams, her only hope is to believe God's mercy or die by the Graven Kings.
Download or read book Graven With Diamonds written by Nicola Shulman and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thrillingly entertaining book, Nicola Shulman interweaves the bloody events of Henry VIII's reign with the story of English love poetry and the life of its first master, Henry VIII's most glamorous and enigmatic subject: Sir Thomas Wyatt. Poet, statesman, spy, lover of Anne Boleyn and favorite both of Henry VIII and his sinister minister Thomas Cromwell, the brilliant Wyatt was admired and envied in equal measure. His love poetry began as risqué entertainment for ambitious men and women at the slippery top of the court. But when the axe began to fall and Henry VIII's laws made his subjects fall silent in terror, Wyatt's poetic skills became a way to survive. He saw that a love poem was a place where secrets could hide.
Download or read book No Graven Image written by Elisabeth Elliot and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1966, No Graven Image is the only novel of the best-selling author Elisabeth Elliot. Margaret, an intrepid twenty-five-year-old missionary, travels to the Andes Mountains of Ecuador to start her ministry. She sees little progress at first, but eventually gains a following and an enhanced reputation for her part in the safe and seemingly miraculous delivery of a breech baby. Things seem to be going well. She works on her translation of the Bible into the Indian language and befriends a native and his family. Then tragedy strikes, shaking Margaret's entire way of thinking. Full of excitement, human emotion, and exotic South American culture and color, No Graven Image is sure to captivate new readers everywhere.
Download or read book The Graven Image written by Zainab Bahrani and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mesopotamia, the world's earliest literate culture, developed a rich philosophical conception of representation in which the world was saturated with signs. Instead of imitating the natural world, representation—both in writing and in visual images—was thought to participate in the world and to have an effect upon it in natural, magical, and supernatural ways. The Graven Image is the first book to explore this tradition, which developed prior to, and apart from, the Greek understanding of representation. The classical Greek system, based on the notion of mimesis, or copy, is the one with which we are most familiar today. The Assyro-Babylonian ontology presented here by Zainab Bahrani opens up fresh avenues for thinking about the concept of representation in general, and her reading of the ancient Mesopotamian textual and visual record in its own ontological context develops an entirely new approach to understanding Babylonian and Assyrian arts in particular. The Graven Image describes, for the first time, rituals and wars involving images; the relationship of divination, the organic body, and representation; and the use of images as a substitute for the human form, integrating this ancient material into contemporary debates in critical theory. Bahrani challenges current methodologies in the study of Near Eastern archaeology and art history, introducing a new way to appreciate the unique contributions of Assyrian and Babylonian culture and their complex relationships to the past and present.
Download or read book Joe Death and the Graven Image written by Benjamin Schipper and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere between Mike Mignola, A Fistful of Dollars, and Johnny Cash's Ghost Riders in the Sky, this tale is an adventurous take on the existential hitman, set against a dreamy western backdrop populated by witches, spirits, ghouls, and other monsters. Joe Death explores what it means for Death to undo what he does best. More importantly, what is the true cost of salvation? After surviving a brutal massacre, the last surviving heir of the town of Hard Hollow is kidnapped by the bloodthirsty bandit, Scary Harry. The spirit of Hard Hollow enlists Joe Death-a six-shooter-totin' grim reaper-to rescue the child. Joe ventures out into the Valley, a desert world with mountains on all sides whose heights reach into the heavens and fissures dive into the underworld itself. He meets all manner of strange characters, creatures, and monsters; each of them all too familiar with Joe's typical line of work. Emerging writer Benjamin Schipper dives deep into this tale of the reaper with a name, employing a beautiful and quirky style that gives this macabre odyssey all the heart, humor, and tension essential to a modern masterpiece.
Download or read book Beyond The Graven Image written by Lionel Kochan and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the archetypical story of Abraham smashing his father's household idols to God's commandment at Mount Sinai that "You shall have no other gods before Me," the prohibition in Judaism against the worship of idols has been unyielding. Idolatry is conceived as the antithesis to the worship of the invisible, unnamed, and articulate God. The proscription against using images in worship sets Judaism, together with Islam, apart from all other religious systems. In Beyond the Graven Image, Lionel Kochan sets out to explain the reasons for this prohibition and to demonstrate how influential this image-ban has been in determining key aspects of Jewish thinking. The Jewish conceptions of holiness and symbolism, our relationship with God, and the role of memory in religion, he argues, as well as the preference for non- material arts such as music over visual modes of artistic expression within Judaism, have all been profoundly shaped by the prohibition against physical representations of God.
Download or read book Graven in the Rock written by Samuel Kinns and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Graven Image written by Hilda P. Cumings and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Graven Palm A Manual of the Science of Palmistry written by Mrs Robinson and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1914. A detailed study of the science of palmistry. Extensively illustrated with explanatory diagrams, forming a complete how-to guide. Contents Include: The Hand - The Mounts - The Line of Life - The Line of Heart - The Line of Head - The Line of Fate - The Lines of Fortune and of Fame - The Line of Health - Other Lines and Marks - The Mount of Venus - Illustrated Hands
