Download or read book Hell written by Eldon Woodcock Ph. D. and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You look like hell," gasped a woman on TV to a disheveled man. What did she mean? What did she think hell looked like? What did the term hell contribute to her portrait? This is an example of the widespread trivializing of a once-powerful term to depict eternal damnation to mere minutia. Why does God damn the wicked to eternal punishment? Or does He? How is His judgment just? Why and how do theologians strive to modify the results of his judgment? How are we to evaluate views of hell that either soften or deny it? The doctrine of punishment of the unredeemed after death originates in the Old Testament, is developed in the intertestamental Jewish literature, and culminates in the divinely authoritative New Testament doctrine of hell. How can people avoid that dreadful fate? If they should escape from it, what should they then do? What is involved in their saving others "by snatching them out of the fire" (Jude 23)? How does the deliverance from eternal punishment enhance our appreciation of what Jesus Christ accomplished on the cross? What effect should it have on our Christian witness? Distinctive contributions include: (1) a careful exegesis of key biblical texts, containing a thorough analysis of the doctrine of hell, (2) a rationale of God's punishment of the unredeemed, (3) examination of the tours of hell genre, (4) biblical and historical theological themes of witness and evangelism, (5) ramifications of eternal damnation of the unsaved in terms of the urgency of witness.

Download or read book Hatlo Inferno written by Jimmy Hatlo and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hatlo's Inferno is a satirical comic strip by cartoonist Jimmy Hatlo. It is based on Dante's Inferno or The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential works of world literature. It is certainly the greatest literaty work ever composed in the Italian Language. The Divine Comedy tells the story of Dante himself as he is led through Hell itself before finally reaching Heaven. Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth. It is based on a paradox in the Christian religion. According to Christian beliefs, in order to get into Heaven one must believe in and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. However, what about those people who were born and who died before Jesus Christ was even born? Why cannot those people ever get into Heaven? Do they Go to Hell? Or do they stay in some in-between place such as Limbo or Purgatory or do their souls even exist? Dante meets the Roman Poet Virgil who was born in 70 BC and died in 19 BC and thus had died just before Jesus Christ had been born. Because Virgil never met Jesus Christ, he cannot get into Heaven. However, Virgil can walk through Hell without being punished as he was a man without fault. Therefore, Virgil appears as Dante's guide through Hell and Purgatory. The two of them begin their journey by going through the Gate to Hell which has the famous words "Abandon All Hope All Ye Who Enter Here." They go through the different levels or Circles of Hell, witnessing each man who sinned and the punishment he is condemned to receive forever. Each sin's punishment in Inferno is a symbolic instance of poetic justice. For example, fortune-tellers are required to walk with their heads on backwards, unable to see what is ahead, because that was what they had tried to do in real life. In Hatlo's Inferno, taking this idea of punishing people in Hell by doing to them what they did to others during their lives, Hatlo points out the punishment for those such as those who mow their lawns early in the morning thereby waking up the neighbors. A nurse who spent her career sticking needles into her patients is forever stuck with needles by the demons in Hell. Hatlo launched The Hatlo Inferno as an accompaniment to They'll Do It Every Time in 1951. The panel, which ran until 1958, took a sadistically humorous look at the comeuppance of various malefactors in a cartoonish depicted hell, with Satan's henchmen standing in for Hatlo's usual Greek chorus of commentators.

Download or read book Cumulative Paperback Index 1939 1959 written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was the first bibliography and guide to the American mass market paperback book, and it remains one of the most definitive. The major index is by author, and lists: author, title, publisher, book number, year of publication, and cover price. The title index lists titles and authors only. The publisher index provides a history of that imprint, with addresses, number ranges, and general physical description of the books issued. This is the place that all study of the American paperback must begin.

Download or read book 100 Places to See After You Die written by Ken Jennings and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author and legendary Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings comes a hilarious travel guide to the afterlife, exploring to die for destinations from literature, mythology, and pop culture. Ever wonder which circles of Dante’s Inferno have the nicest accommodations? Where’s the best place to grab a bite to eat in the ancient Egyptian underworld? How does one dress like a local in the heavenly palace of Hinduism’s Lord Vishnu, or avoid the flesh-eating river serpents in the Klingon afterlife? What hidden treasures can be found off the beaten path in Hades, Valhalla, or TV’s The Good Place? Find answers to all those questions and more about the world(s) to come in this eternally entertaining book from Ken Jennings. Written in the style of iconic bestselling travel guides, Jennings wryly outlines journeys through the afterlife, as dreamed up over 5,000 years of human history by our greatest prophets, poets, mystics, artists, and TV showrunners. This comprehensive index of 100 different afterlife destinations was meticulously researched from sources ranging from the Epic of Gilgamesh to modern-day pop songs, video games, and Simpsons episodes. Get ready for whatever post-mortal destiny awaits you, whether it’s an astral plane, a Hieronymus Bosch hellscape, or the baseball diamond from Field of Dreams. Fascinating, funny, and irreverent, this “gung-ho travel guide to Heaven, Hell, and beyond” (The New Yorker) will help you create your very own bucket list—for after you’ve kicked the bucket.

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 Afterlife written by Henry Epps and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: afterlife asks the question of what is life? What is the purpose of life? What happens after death from a christian, buddist, Jewish point of view.

Download or read book Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things written by Gary Geddes and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From war-torn Afghanistan, through the snow-capped Himalayas and across the burning sands of the Taklamakan desert, to a rapidly modernizing China and on to the Central American jungles: it seems an impossible journey, but one that Gary Geddes eagerly undertook in order to retrace the voyage of the legendary 5th-century Buddhist monk Huishen. Geddes was long fascinated with stories of Huishen’s life and travels: this Afghan holy man fled Kabul for China and may have crossed the Pacific to North America 1,000 years before Columbus. The length and breadth of this expedition, and its difficulty, would have been amazing enough on its own, but Geddes’s trip takes on an added dimension and poignancy due to its timing: he reaches Afghanistan one month before September 11, 2001 and arrives in China as the tragic events unfold. Along the way, Geddes encounters Afghan refugees, Pakistani dissidents, Tibetan monks, Buddhist scholars, a KFC outlet in Luoyang, mysterious cairns in Haida Gwaii, and ghostly remains in Mexico. As the Silk Road morphs into superhighways, ancient sculptures turn into military targets, Geddes glimpses, in the collision of past and present history, important clues for imagining a workable future.

Download or read book Mysterium and Mystery written by William David Spencer and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of the first book on the topic of the cleric as a crime-solver in fiction. Mysterium and Mystery by William David Spencer is a primary reference of meticulous scholarship for anyone interested in mystery literature.

Download or read book The Comics Go to Hell written by Fredrik Strömberg and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of representations of the Devil in various comics, including "Hellblazer," "Dilbert," "Sandman," "Swamp Thing," "Hellboy," "Silver Surfer," and others, covering controversial, humorous, and bizarre incarnations of the icon of evil.

Download or read book In the Shadow of Everest written by Robert S. Ove and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the verge of retirement, Robert Ove was struck by an advertisement in the Lutheran Magazine for a volunteer mission trip to Kathmandu, Nepal-a valley in the shadow of Mt. Everest. His wife, Pat, agreed to join him in this yearlong adventure. Their time in Nepal changed their lives. They came to love the Nepalese and became lovingly known as Abba and Ama (Father and Mother). They now encourage everyone to take at least a short-term mission trip at some point, but not without proper advice on what to expect. Though every country and culture is different, Robert's personal experience in Nepal offers invaluable information for future missionaries on dealing with language barriers, exotic foods, foreign transportation, foreign politics, religious customs, disease and contamination, adverse living conditions, and religious intolerance. Some struggles span continents; others are more localized. Join Robert as he encourages and forewarns you. Discover the miracles that abound In the Shadow of Everest despite, or perhaps in light of, the seeming misfortunes that have befallen the inhabitants. See what God can do if you obey his leading, even when you think your future is on the golf course.

Download or read book 1001 Things to Do While You re Dead written by Lawrence R. Spencer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to all living beings who expect to die sometime and to all of the dead people who ever lived who may still be living somewhere, sometime, somehow. This book is also dedicated to all of the people who are living that may need some ideas about what to do with themselves after they die. And, to all the people who will soon be living by virtue of one or more of the following circumstances: birth, re-birth, resurrection, reincarnation, transconfiguration, cryogenic resuscitation, invasion of alien beings, angels falling out of grace, an act of one or more gods, transformation or transmigration, arrival from a different time / space / universe / plane of existence. If you have a faith, belief system, philosophical paradigm, or superstition to protect or defend regarding the subjects of life, death, afterlife, existence, spirits or god(s) that is your problem and I will leave you to it. Whoever you are, were or will be, I trust that you will enjoy the "Rest of Eternity".

Download or read book Wending Our Way written by David Owen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hidden Life of Humans written by Erika Ritter and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erika Ritter's funny and audacious debut novel examines contemporary human conditions through the eyes of a woman and a dog. Single and on the downhill side of forty, Dana Jaeger has an unswerving allegiance to short-term involvements and perennially arrested adolescence. Lately, though, unexpected developments have begun to test the depth of her devotion to non-commitments. her ex-husband is slowly dying, and an unlikely romance with a private detective is in rapid progress toward something more meaningful than her typical revolving-door relationships with a stable of "Marrieds." Together, the forces of love and loss threaten to unleash within Dana desires as carefully concealed as landmines. Across this treacherous terrain lopes Murphy--a mutt capable of consuming lawn mowers--whom Dana agrees to dogsit (short-term, of course) as a favour to an out of town lover. Garrulously opinionated and no stranger himself to pent-up desires, Murphy offers his own inspired insights into Dana's amatory adventures. Between them, mongrel and mistress present a sometimes wry, sometimes antic, portrait of our innermost selves sprung to life, and our deepest longings--for love, revenge, a clean getaway--gracefully realized. Exuberant and incisive, The Hidden Life of Humans sounds the deepest notes of the comical dissonance between our public and private selves, and the promise that lies between who we are, who we claim to be, and who we might yet become.

Download or read book Catalog of Reprints in Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalog of Reprints in Series written by Robert Merritt Orton and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1956 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (July - December)

Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: