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Book Prophecy and Protest

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  • Author : Gunther H. Wittenberg
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780958314190
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Prophecy and Protest written by Gunther H. Wittenberg and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Walls of Prophecy and Protest

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  • Author : Jeff W. Huebner
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2019-08-15
  • ISBN : 9780810140585
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Walls of Prophecy and Protest written by Jeff W. Huebner and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walls of Prophecy and Protest is an illustrated history of the life, work, and legacy of famed Chicago muralist William Walker by Chicago arts journalist Jeff Huebner.

Book Prophets of Rebellion

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  • Author : Michael Adas
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2012-12-01
  • ISBN : 1469610027
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Prophets of Rebellion written by Michael Adas and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adas explores the relationship between millenarianism and violent protest by focusing on five case studies representing a wide range of social, political, and economic systems. The rebellions examined are: Netherlands East Indies (1825-30), New Zealand (c. 1864-67), Central India (1895-1900), German East Africa (1903-6), and Burma (1930-32). Arranged topically to emphasize comparative patterns, the study analyzes causes, leaders, organization, failure, and the impact on the individual society. Originally published in 1979. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Book Prophetic Lament

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  • Author : Soong-Chan Rah
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2015-09-03
  • ISBN : 0830897615
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Prophetic Lament written by Soong-Chan Rah and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missio Alliance Essential Reading List Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books RELEVANT's Top 10 Books Englewood Review of Books Best Books When Soong-Chan Rah planted an urban church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his first full sermon series was a six-week exposition of the book of Lamentations. Preaching on an obscure, depressing Old Testament book was probably not the most seeker-sensitive way to launch a church. But it shaped their community with a radically countercultural perspective. The American church avoids lament. But lament is a missing, essential component of Christian faith. Lament recognizes struggles and suffering, that the world is not as it ought to be. Lament challenges the status quo and cries out for justice against existing injustices. Soong-Chan Rah's prophetic exposition of the book of Lamentations provides a biblical and theological lens for examining the church's relationship with a suffering world. It critiques our success-centered triumphalism and calls us to repent of our hubris. And it opens up new ways to encounter the other. Hear the prophet's lament as the necessary corrective for Christianity's future. A Resonate exposition of the book of Lamentations.

Book Theology of the Prophetic Books

Download or read book Theology of the Prophetic Books written by Donald E. Gowan and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Gowan offers a unified reading of the prophetic books, showing that each has a distinctive contribution to make to a central theme. These books--Isaiah through Malachi--respond to three key moments in Israel's history: the end of the Northern Kingdom in 722 BCE, the end of the Southern Kingdom in 587 BCE, and the beginning of the restoration from the Babylonian exile in 538 BCE. Gowan traces the theme of death and resurrection throughout these accounts, finding a symbolic message of particular significance to Christian interpreters of the Bible.

Book Prophecy and the Apocalyptic Dream

Download or read book Prophecy and the Apocalyptic Dream written by David Syme Russell and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D. S. Russell looks at biblical and extrabiblical apocalyptic texts and various interpretations and predictions, and presents his criteria of interpretation based on the biblical vision of God s triumph.This is an excellent popular introduction to apocalyptic literature (Daniel, Revelation) by one of the recognized experts in the field. It is readable, timely, and sane. This volume should give a new, but biblically sound, understanding of Daniel and Revelation and should help readers to fit these books into the larger biblical perspective. Gordon D. Fee, Professor of New Testament, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia. . . [Russell] brings his wide knowledge to bear on the nature of apocalyptic thought an its significance for Christians today. In so doing he presents a challenge both to academics who dismiss apocalyptic concepts as irrelevant to the modern Church and to Christians who, unacquainted with the wide spectrum of apocalyptic literature, look for an Armageddon in terms of a nuclear holocaust to precede the kingdom of God. Dr. Russell offers a third way of interpreting apocalyptic hope, notably as presented by Jesus and the apostolic Church in the New Testament. This is a book not to be missed by preachers and laity. George R. Beasley-Murray, Former Principal of Spurgeon's College, London

Book A History of Prophecy in Israel

Download or read book A History of Prophecy in Israel written by Joseph Blenkinsopp and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and enlarged edition of Joseph Blenkinsopp's 1983 book will be a welcome addition to the libraries of serious Biblical scholars. The author critically recounts the history of Israelite prophecy from a social-historical perspective.

Book Political Protest and Prophecy Under Henry VIII

Download or read book Political Protest and Prophecy Under Henry VIII written by Sharon L. Jansen and published by Boydell & Brewer Incorporated. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prophecy and Protest

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  • Author : Samuel D.Elbert Clark
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Prophecy and Protest written by Samuel D.Elbert Clark and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prophecy and Protest

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  • Author : Samuel David Clark
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN : 9780771557163
  • Pages : 437 pages

Download or read book Prophecy and Protest written by Samuel David Clark and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pontmain  Prophecy  and Protest

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  • Author : Cheryl A. Porte
  • Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Pontmain Prophecy and Protest written by Cheryl A. Porte and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pontmain, Prophecy, and Protest considers the appearance of Mary in Pontmain, France, in its concrete historical and cultural dimensions, and demonstrates that an apparition's context dramatically affects how it is both perceived and promoted. Highlighting how a private religious experience became a tool of the Roman Catholic Church - which used it for affirmation and promoted it as a kind of protest against contemporary evils - this book offers a new perspective on the processes at work when people turn to religion to shape their perception of reality.

Book Plowshares

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  • Author : Kristen Tobey
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2016-09-01
  • ISBN : 0271078286
  • Pages : 179 pages

Download or read book Plowshares written by Kristen Tobey and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1980, eight Catholic activists made their way into a Pennsylvania General Electric plant housing parts for nuclear missiles. Evading security guards, these activists pounded on missile nose cones with hammers and then covered the cones in their own blood. This act of nonviolent resistance was their answer to calls for prophetic witness in the Old Testament: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not take up sword against nation; they shall never again know war.” Plowshares explores the closely interwoven religious and social significance of the group’s use of performance to achieve its goals. It looks at the group’s acts of civil disobedience, such as that undertaken at the GE plant in 1980, and the Plowshares’ behavior at the legal trials that result from these protests. Interpreting the Bible as a mandate to enact God’s kingdom through political resistance, the Plowshares work toward “symbolic disarmament,” with the aim of eradicating nuclear weapons. Plowshares activists continue to carry out such “divine obediences” against facilities where equipment used in the production or deployment of nuclear weapons is manufactured or stored. Whether one agrees or disagrees with their actions, this volume helps us better understand their motivations, logic, identity, and ultimate goal.

Book Prophecy  Politics and Place in Medieval England

Download or read book Prophecy Politics and Place in Medieval England written by Victoria Flood and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the prophetic tradition in medieval England brings out its influence on contemporary politics and the contemporary elite.

Book Prophecy without Contempt

Download or read book Prophecy without Contempt written by Cathleen Kaveny and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culture wars have as much to do with rhetorical style as moral substance. Cathleen Kaveny focuses on a powerful stream of religious discourse in American political speech: the Biblical rhetoric of prophetic indictment. It can be strong medicine against threats to the body politic, she shows, but used injudiciously it does more harm than good.

Book Prophecy and People in Renaissance Italy

Download or read book Prophecy and People in Renaissance Italy written by Ottavia Niccoli and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1990-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of the religious ferment, foreign invasions, and internal political strife that beset Italy before the full effects of the Counter-Reformation, the powerful and humble alike turned to popular prophecy for guidance and solace. Ottavia Niccoli examines here the forms of these prophecies--including interpretations of natural disasters, abnormal births, floods, and planetary conjunctions--and gives examples of how they were transmitted from the lower classes to the elite through street singers, apocalyptic preachers, astrologers, and printers. By tracing the ongoing revision of the prophecies, Niccoli reveals them as an indication of how various levels of society viewed events of the time, as a form of propaganda for such causes as anti-Lutheranism, and as a reflection of the interaction between "high" and "low" culture. Based on popular leaflets, diaries, civic chronicles, and iconographic sources, this book explores the expression of a culture in which nature, religion, and politics formed a unified system with a uniform code of interpretation. It connects the decline of prophecy in Italy with the end of the Italian wars and the beginning of the Counter-Reformation, when popular preaching was banned and charismatic religion discouraged.

Book The Armies of the Night

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  • Author : Norman Mailer
  • Publisher : Odyssey Editions
  • Release : 2013-10-15
  • ISBN : 1623730236
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book The Armies of the Night written by Norman Mailer and published by Odyssey Editions. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Armies of the Night chronicles the famed October 1967 March on the Pentagon, in which all of the old and new Left—hippies, yuppies, Weathermen, Quakers, Christians, feminists, and intellectuals—came together to protest the Vietnam War. Alongside his contemporaries, Mailer went, witnessed, participated, suffered, and then wrote one of the most stark and intelligent appraisals of the 1960s: its myths, heroes, and demons. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a cornerstone of New Journalism, The Armies of the Night is not only a fascinating foray into that mysterious terrain between novel and history, fiction and nonfiction, but also a key chapter in the autobiography of Norman Mailer—who, in this nonfiction novel, becomes his own great character, letting history in all its complexity speak through him.

Book Comfort and Protest

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  • Author : Allan Boesak
  • Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Comfort and Protest written by Allan Boesak and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South African author Boesak discusses the implications of the Apocalypse especially in light of South Africa's political situation at the time of writing.