Download or read book Old Gods New Nations written by Eugene Staples and published by . This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Gods, New Nations celebrates a life lived intensely on the far horizons of the world while America built something like an empire on the ruins of World War II and the victory of the Cold War. As a Marine Corps fighter pilot, author Eugene (¿Rocky¿) Staples flew Corsairs in combat against the Japanese in World War II. As a journalist and foreign service officer in the postwar years, he reported on and subsequently fought in the political and propaganda wars of the Cold War in Latin America and the Soviet Union. Staples then devoted his career to institution and nation-building in Asia and the new republics emerging from the wreckage of the Soviet Union. Drawing on those decades of experience, Staples suggests how we might reorder our foreign affairs priorities more effectively. The American response to the challenge of terrorism rests heavily on military and security approaches. It devotes little serious attention to the long-term questions of how best to go about nation-building or how to fight propaganda wars. Staples believes we have little choice but to reform that approach. The new challenges in foreign policy won¿t go away, and only rarely is the military option the right answer. Foresight, patience, pragmatism¿and international cooperation¿are the names of the cards we must play. A veteran globetrotter exhaustively reminisces about the Cold War and its aftermath. A former World War II pilot, journalist, Foreign Service diplomat and foundation executive, Staples has had a front-row seat for many of the major events of the past half-century. He was aboard presumably the first aircraft carrier to enter Japanese waters in the closing months of war, a reckless incursion that ended with the loss of many lives to an enemy attack. He served as mission director for the Agency for International Development bureau in Pakistan in the years of the United States's proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. The views that emerge diverge sharply from what Staples calls the "rigid world-view" of the current Bush administration, "a poor paradigm for running the affairs of America and the world." Incisive and astute -Kirkus Discoveries

Download or read book The Gods of the Nations written by Daniel I. Block and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Daniel I. Block here explores the relationship between ancient Near Eastern nations and their respectve deities. He demonstrates how this relationship was expressed in everyday life, national identity, and history . Israel's theocratic culture is illuminated in comparison to other Near Eastern cultures."

Download or read book Old Gods New Enigmas written by Mike Davis and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene? Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis’s first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. In a series of searching, propulsive essays, Davis, the bestselling author of City of Quartz and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, explores Marx’s inquiries into two key questions of our time: Who can lead a revolutionary transformation of society? And what is the cause—and solution—of the planetary environmental crisis? Davis consults a vast archive of labor history to illuminate new aspects of Marx’s theoretical texts and political journalism. He offers a “lost Marx,” whose analyses of historical agency, nationalism, and the “middle landscape” of class struggle are crucial to the renewal of revolutionary thought in our darkening age. Davis presents a critique of the current fetishism of the “anthropocene,” which suppresses the links between the global employment crisis and capitalism’s failure to ensure human survival in a more extreme climate. In a finale, Old Gods, New Enigmas looks backward to the great forgotten debates on alternative socialist urbanism (1880–1934) to find the conceptual keys to a universal high quality of life in a sustainable environment.

Download or read book Old Gods New Enigmas written by Mike Davis and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene? Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis’s first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. In a series of searching, propulsive essays, Davis, the bestselling author of City of Quartz and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, explores Marx’s inquiries into two key questions of our time: Who can lead a revolutionary transformation of society? And what is the cause—and solution—of the planetary environmental crisis? Davis consults a vast archive of labor history to illuminate new aspects of Marx’s theoretical texts and political journalism. He offers a “lost Marx,” whose analyses of historical agency, nationalism, and the “middle landscape” of class struggle are crucial to the renewal of revolutionary thought in our darkening age. Davis presents a critique of the current fetishism of the “anthropocene,” which suppresses the links between the global employment crisis and capitalism’s failure to ensure human survival in a more extreme climate. In a finale, Old Gods, New Enigmas looks backward to the great forgotten debates on alternative socialist urbanism (1880–1934) to find the conceptual keys to a universal high quality of life in a sustainable environment.

Download or read book New God New Nation written by Kenneth M. Wells and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Gods of the Nations written by Daniel Isaac Block and published by Apollos. This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel I. Block here explores the relationship between ancient Near Eastern nations and their respective deities. He demonstrates how this relationship was expressed in everyday life, national identity, and history. Israel's theocratic culture is illuminated in comparison to other Near Eastern cultures. Book jacket.

Download or read book Return of the Strong Gods written by R. R. Reno and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Return of the Strong Gods,'...is a thoughtful contribution to American political debate. It is incisively written and full of modern observations. Mr. Reno explains, better than any book I can remember, the present-day progressive's paranoid fear of fascism and neurotic determination to ferret out racism where none exists."—The Wall Street Journal After the staggering slaughter of back-to-back world wars, the West embraced the ideal of the “open society.” The promise: By liberating ourselves from the old attachments to nation, clan, and religion that had fueled centuries of violence, we could build a prosperous world without borders, freed from dogmas and managed by experts. But the populism and nationalism that are upending politics in America and Europe are a sign that after three generations, the postwar consensus is breaking down. With compelling insight, R. R. Reno argues that we are witnessing the return of the “strong gods”—the powerful loyalties that bind men to their homeland and to one another. Reacting to the calamitous first half of the twentieth century, our political, cultural, and financial elites promoted open borders, open markets, and open minds. But this never-ending project of openness has hardened into a set of anti-dogmatic dogmas which destroy the social solidarity rooted in family, faith, and nation. While they worry about the return of fascism, our societies are dissolving. But man will not tolerate social dissolution indefinitely. He longs to be part of a “we”—the fruit of shared loves—which gives his life meaning. The strong gods will return, Reno warns, in one form or another. Our task is to attend to those that, appealing to our reason as well as our hearts, inspire the best of our traditions. Otherwise, we shall invite the darker gods whose return our open society was intended to forestall.

Download or read book Let the Nations be Glad written by John Piper and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mission is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exist because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate.' John Piper's contemporary classic draws on key biblical texts to demonstrate that worship is the ultimate goal of the church and that proper worship fuels missionary outreach. Piper offers a biblical defence of God's supremacy in all things, providing a sound theological foundation for missions. He examines whether Jesus is the only way to salvation and issues a passionate plea for God-centredness in the missionary enterprise, seeking to define the scope of the task and the means for reaching 'all nations'. Let the Nations Be Glad! is a trusted resource for missionaries, pastors, church leaders, youth workers, seminary students, and all who want to connect their labours to God's global purposes. This third edition has been revised and expanded throughout and includes new material on the 'prosperity gospel'.

Download or read book God s New Plan for the Holy Nation and the Past written by King David and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to know about the future? About two decades in the making, the mission of this book- GODS NEW PLAN FOR THE HOLY NATION AND THE PAST is to PROVE that KING David is The PAST, the PRESENT & the FUTURE, and that he KNOWS the FUTURE. GODS NEW PLAN PROVES that KING David is KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. This book also PROVES that Time Travel is possible, but NOT in the way people might THINK. GODS NEW PLAN is an entirely NEW government built from scratch with the help of GOD. This book PROVES that several Laws of the Universe are TRUE and this book is part of the apocalypse. GODS NEW PLAN features over 400 pages and over 50 pages of Laws. This book contains the three parts of KING Davids mission. This book gives readers Spiritual Enlightenment and provides the Mission of the Beast and the False Profit and what they will do. GODS NEW PLAN PROVES that Divine Intervention and Spiritual Hearing & Seeing are REAL and NOT a figment of the imagination. This book provides KING Davids fantastic predictions, some of which may have ALREADY come TRUE. GODS NEW PLAN also explains some of mankinds most common questions, such as: the origin of man and the meaning of life. THE PAST features over 25 stories and contains many original characters. This book utilizes humor, action and adventure to make certain points regarding good verses- evil. Lucky and his friends are unique Problem Solvers and succeed with great solutions when problems arise. THE PAST would also make a great movie or a few movies. This Classic Literary Masterpiece combines love, faith and teamwork into a collection of stories, children of all ages may enjoy. Please tell your friends and neighbors.

Download or read book The History of Antiquity written by Evelyn Abbott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The History of Antiquity by Evelyn Abbott

Download or read book Fichte Addresses to the German Nation written by Gregory Moore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first translation of Fichte's addresses to the German nation for almost 100 years. The series of 14 speeches, delivered whilst Berlin was under French occupation after Prussia's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Jena in 1806, is widely regarded as a founding document of German nationalism, celebrated and reviled in equal measure. Fichte's account of the distinctiveness of the German people and his belief in the native superiority of its culture helped to shape German national identity throughout the nineteenth century and beyond. With an extensive introduction that puts Fichte's argument in its intellectual and historical context, this edition brings an important and seminal work to a modern readership. All of the usual series features are provided, including notes for further reading, chronology, and brief biographies of key individuals.

Download or read book The Opposites of the Universe written by Manie Sands and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book GOD S JUST JUDGMENT OF A NATION Supplement written by James Tarter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-06-14 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of 12 appendices and 4 chapter supplements to GOD'S JUST JUDGMENT OF A NATION. This SUPPLEMENT or topics in it probably are best for those who have read or are reading that core book, although I make each discussion full enough to stand by itself. Here I call attention to Apx. 4, which shows God's justice to all and mercy to many in His way to judge nations generations after some sins. Apx. 5 shows God's government of the earth from Mt. Zion, and shows requirements for believers in Jesus to participate in this government under King Jesus. Apx. 7 offers unusual insights into God's amazing work to develop His fully Christ-like Church. Apx. 12 provides beautiful insights into God's work to bring together the Church and Israel. A reader of GOD'S JUST JUDGMENT OF A NATION can check the free Preview of the SUPPLEMENT, which contains all of it, and see if other appendices and chapter supplements may help him/her. Each has useful content for some believers.

Download or read book God and the Nations written by Henry Madison Morris and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - The word nation occurs 720 times in the bible--why? - Perfect for Christians who focus on apologetics - Focuses on a rare, but important topic: God's plan for individual countries

Download or read book Does God Need the Church written by Gerhard Lohfink and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are not all religions equally close to and equally far from God? Why, then, the Church? Gerhard Lohfink poses these questions with scholarly reliability and on the basis of his own experience of community in Does God Need the Church? In 1982 Father Lohfink wrote Wie hat Jesus Gemeinde gewollt? (translated into English as Jesus and Community) to show, on the basis of the New Testament, that faith is founded in a community that distinguishes itself in clear contours from the rest of society. In that book he also described a sequence of events that moved directly from commonality to a community that was readily accessible to every group of people and was made legitimate by Jesus himself. Only later did Father Lohfink learn, within a new horizon of experience, that such a description is not the way to community. The story of the gathering of the people of God, from Abraham until today, never took place according to such a model. Today Father Lohfink states that he would not write Wie hat Jesus Gemeinde gewollt? the same way. The situation of belief and believers has undergone a shift: the question of the Church has become much more urgent. Church life is declining and the religions are returning, often in new guises. In light of these shifts and the change in his own view of community, Father Lohfink inquires in Does God Need the Church? of Israel's theology, Jesus' praxis, the experiences of the early Christian communities, and of what is appearing in the Church today. These inquiries lead to an amazing history involving God and the world - a history that God presses forward with the aid of a single people and that always turns out differently from what they think and plan.

Download or read book Founding God s Nation written by Leon R Kass and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long-awaited follow-up to his 2003 book on Genesis, humanist scholar Leon Kass explores how Exodus raises and then answers the central political questions of what defines a nation and how a nation should govern itself. Considered by some the most important book in the Hebrew Bible, Exodus tells the story of the Jewish people from their enslavement in Egypt through their liberation under Moses’s leadership to their covenantal founding at Sinai and the building of the Tabernacle. In Kass’s analysis, these events begin the slow process of learning how to stop thinking like slaves and become an independent people. The Israelites ultimately found their nation on three elements: a shared narrative that instills empathy for the poor and the suffering, the uplifting rule of a moral law, and devotion to a higher common purpose. These elements, Kass argues, remain the essential principles for any freedom-loving nation today.

Download or read book What the Twilight Says written by Derek Walcott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of essays by the Nobel Laureate includes Walcott's moving and insightful examinations of the paradoxes of Caribbean culture, including his noted Nobel lecture, and his reckoning of the work and significance of such poets as Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Frost, Seamus Heany, and Ted Hughes.