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Book An American Requiem

Download or read book An American Requiem written by James Carroll and published by HMH. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award winner: This story of a family torn apart by the Vietnam era is “a magnificent portrayal of two noble men who broke each other’s hearts” (Booklist). James Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed. His father, who had once dreamed of becoming a priest, instead began a career in J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming one of the most powerful men in the Pentagon, the founder of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Young Jim lived a privileged life, dating the daughter of a vice president and meeting the pope—all in the shadow of nuclear war, waiting for the red telephone to ring in his parents’ house. James fulfilled the goal his father had abandoned, becoming a priest himself. His feelings toward his father leaned toward worship as well—until the tumult of the 1960s came between them. Their disagreements, over Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement; turmoil in the Church; and finally, Vietnam—where the elder Carroll chose targets for US bombs—began to outweigh the bond between them. While one of James’s brothers fled to Canada, another was in law enforcement ferreting out draft dodgers. James, meanwhile, served as a chaplain at Boston University, protesting the war in the streets but ducking news cameras to avoid discovery. Their relationship would never be the same again. Only after Carroll left the priesthood to become a writer, and a husband with children of his own, did he begin to understand fully the struggles his father had faced. In An American Requiem, the New York Times bestselling author of Constantine’s Sword and Christ Actually offers a benediction, in “a moving memoir of the effect of the Vietnam War on his family that is at once personal and the story of a generation . . . at once heartbreaking and heroic, this is autobiography at its best” (Publishers Weekly).

Book Requiem for God

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  • Author : Jesse Reichenbach
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-06-03
  • ISBN : 9781547147892
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Requiem for God written by Jesse Reichenbach and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God is dead and we have killed him. -Nietzsche

Book Requiem for a God

Download or read book Requiem for a God written by White Wolf Games Studio and published by White Wolf Publishing. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasirollespil.

Book Requiem for the Devil

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  • Author : Jeri Smith-Ready
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2001-04-15
  • ISBN : 0759523029
  • Pages : 539 pages

Download or read book Requiem for the Devil written by Jeri Smith-Ready and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-15 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in modern-day Washington, D.C., Requiem for the Devil depicts the end of the Devil's ten-billion-year career. For the first time in his existence, Lucifer falls in love, and this event threatens to transform his identity and perhaps even his destiny. Gianna O'Keefe is the woman who drags him out of his ancient despair and points him toward possible salvation. Yet Lucifer's path from evil is neither straight nor smooth. Pursuing love means betraying his fellow fallen angels, the loyal friends who once followed him to damnation. Divine and infernal forces seem to conspire against his and Gianna's union. Lucifer's empire crumbles around him as he dares to defy the natural order and question his fate.

Book The Broken God

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  • Author : David Zindell
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-09-14
  • ISBN : 9781976395277
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Broken God written by David Zindell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book One of David Zindell's epic trilogy set in Neverness, legendary City of Light, where inner space and outer space meet ... where the god program is up and running.Into its maze of color-coded streets of ice a wild boy stumbles, starving, frostbitten and grieving, a spear in his hand: Danlo the Wild, a messenger from the deep past of man. Brought up from Neverness by the Alaloi people, Neanderthal cave-dwellers, Danlo alone of his tribe has survived a plague -- because he is not, as he thought, a misshaped Neanderthal, but human with immunity engineered into his genes. He learns that the disease was created by the sinister Architects of the Universal Cybernetic Church. The Architects possess a cure which can save other Alaloi tribes. But the Architects have migrated to the region of space known as the Vild, and there they are killing stars.All of civilization has converged on Neverness through the manifold of space travel. Beyond science, beyond decadence, sects and disciplines multiply there. Danlo, his mind shaped by the primitive man, brings to Neverness a single long-lost memory that will change them all.

Book Requiem for a Phantom God

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  • Author : Stephen H. Provost
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-02-26
  • ISBN : 9781732063242
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Requiem for a Phantom God written by Stephen H. Provost and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate between the theist and the atheist dates back millennia. Yet the crucial question involves not the existence of deity, but what kind of deity might exist. Can we eliminate certain options and leave ourselves free to explore others? In "Requiem for a Phantom God," the author argues that we can. Any consideration of the divine should rule out what C.S. Lewis termed "nonsense." Self-contradictory portraits of God are not only meaningless, but they have the potential to do great harm - and they have over the course of human history. "Requiem for a Phantom God" serves as an epitaph for just such a god of nonsense. It identifies the core philosophical problem: the desire of humanity to believe in an all-powerful deity who is at, at the same time, entirely "good." This desire, however, is destined to remain unfulfilled, because these two concepts simply cannot be reconciled. Once humanity realizes this, we can choose the kind of god we wish to believe in: immanent or transcendent ... if, indeed, we wish to put our faith in a god at all. "Requiem" discusses the abuses and pitfalls of faith, and whether it is possible to speak of a faith that is not blind. It addresses modern and historical examples of religious abuse and suggests they tell us about the doctrines that support them. Written in the tradition of Christopher Hitchens.

Book Requiem for a Nun

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  • Author : William Faulkner
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-08-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Requiem for a Nun written by William Faulkner and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Requiem for a Nun" by William Faulkner. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Neverness

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  • Author : David Zindell
  • Publisher : HarperCollins UK
  • Release : 2017-03-23
  • ISBN : 000739795X
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Neverness written by David Zindell and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic masterwork of science fiction, Neverness is a stand-alone novel from one of the most important talents in the genre.

Book Requiem for a Phantom God

Download or read book Requiem for a Phantom God written by Stifyn Emrys and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate between the theist and the atheist dates back millennia. Yet the crucial question involves not the existence of deity, but what kind of deity might exist. Can we eliminate certain options and leave ourselves free to explore others? In "Requiem for a Phantom God," author Stifyn Emrys argues that we can. Any consideration of the divine should rule out what C.S. Lewis termed "nonsense." Self-contradictory portraits of God are not only meaningless, but they have the potential to do great harm - and they have over the course of human history. "Requiem for a Phantom God" serves as an epitaph for just such a god of nonsense. It identifies the core philosophical problem: the desire of humanity to believe in an all-powerful deity who is at, at the same time, entirely "good." This desire, however, is destined to remain unfulfilled, because these two concepts simply cannot be reconciled. Once humanity realizes this, we can choose the kind of god we wish to believe in: immanent or transcendent ... if, indeed, we wish to put our faith in a god at all. "Requiem" discusses the abuses and pitfalls of faith, and whether it is possible to speak of a faith that is not blind. It addresses modern and historical examples of religious abuse and suggests they tell us about the doctrines that support them. Written in the tradition of Christopher Hitchens, "Requiem for a Phantom God" is in the second publication this year from writer, educator and philosopher Stifyn Emrys. His previous book, "The Gospel of the Phoenix: Another Revelation of Jesus," is also available.

Book Requiem

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  • Author : Graham Joyce
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2006-06-27
  • ISBN : 9780765355416
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Requiem written by Graham Joyce and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of secrets and miracles

Book The Battleship Yamato

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  • Author : Yoshida Mitsuru
  • Publisher : Naval Institute Press
  • Release : 1988-12-27
  • ISBN : 1612512089
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book The Battleship Yamato written by Yoshida Mitsuru and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1988-12-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly detailed tribute to the legendary Yamato is now back in print by popular demand. Equipped with the largest guns and heaviest armor and having the greatest displacement of any ship ever built, the Yamato proved to be a formidable opponent to the U.S. Pacific Fleet in World War II. This classic in the Anatomy of the Ship series contains a full description of the design and construction of the battleship including wartime modifications, and a career history. This is followed by a substantial pictorial section with rare onboard views of Yamato and her sister ship, a comprehensive portfolio of more than 600 perspective and three-view drawings, and 30 photographs. Such a handsome and thorough work is guaranteed to impress modelmakers, ship enthusiasts, and naval historians.

Book The Wild

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  • Author : David Zindell
  • Publisher : HarperCollins UK
  • Release : 2017-03-23
  • ISBN : 0008116784
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book The Wild written by David Zindell and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The awe-inspiring sequel to The Broken God

Book A Requiem for Hitler

    Book Details:
  • Author : Klaus Scholder
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2008-10-29
  • ISBN : 1606081691
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book A Requiem for Hitler written by Klaus Scholder and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-10-29 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Scholder's book is a major contribution to our understanding of Christianity under the Nazi regime, in some ways going beyond his definitive history of the German churches under the Third Reich. The volume paints a vivid picture of the problems of living under any kind of totalitarian regime, with a wealth of detailed evidence and insightful judgments. A few illustrations from the book:- After the news of Adolf Hitler's death, Cardinal Bertram of Breslau, the senior German prelate, drafted an order for a requiem mass to be said for Hitler throughout his churches. - Under the Hitler regime any resistance in both Protestant and Catholic churches came largely from individuals; officially the churches were interested above all in maintaining their status quo. - When Germany entered the Spanish Civil War, Hitler offered the churches support if they would join his battle against Bolshevism. Students, historians, and the general reader will be captivated by Scholder's perceptive and challenging interpretations of the churches in Western Europe prior to and during the Second World War, which still have relevance for us today.

Book Requiem for Immortals

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  • Author : Lee Winter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-08-14
  • ISBN : 9783955337100
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Requiem for Immortals written by Lee Winter and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional cellist Natalya Tsvetnenko moves seamlessly among the elite where she fills the souls of symphony patrons with beauty even as she takes the lives of the corrupt of Australia's ruthless underworld. The cold, exacting assassin is hired to kill a woman who seems so innocent that Natalya can't understand why anyone would want her dead. As she gets to know her target, she can't work out why she even cares.

Book Requiem of the Human Soul

Download or read book Requiem of the Human Soul written by Jeremy Lent and published by Libros Libertad. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Requiem

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  • Author : Thomas C. Oden
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Requiem written by Thomas C. Oden and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Requiem: A Lament in Three Movements is a post-liberal critique of the mainline liberal ecclesiastical establishment, especially the theological seminaries and church bureaucracies. Thomas C. Oden identifies the failure of contemporary theological education and its accompanying ideology, maps out the ultra-liberalization of church bureaucracies and special-interest politics, and calls for a return to classical Christian theological roots and categories. Broadly ecumenical in the truest sense of the word, and written from the perspective of a former fellow traveling liberal, Oden's direct, frank, and provocative approach articulates concerns many church people - leaders, pastors, teachers, seminarians, and the faithful in the pews - hold. Requiem promises to be one of the most controversial and important contributions to the debate about the nature and calling of the church in the last half of the last decade of this millennium.

Book An American Requiem

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  • Author : James Carroll
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1942
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book An American Requiem written by James Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: