Download or read book Pursuing the Honorable written by Justin M. Anderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuing the Honorable argues that our modern understanding of honor, as seen through example of today’s military training, is deficient. To remedy this, the book returns to an understanding of the honorable good, especially manifested for philosophers like Aristotle and Cicero in a life of the human virtues. However, because honor as defined by the honorable good needs to be applicable to the 21st Century occidental world of liberal democratic values, the study includes careful attention to those conditions under which honor can once again become a live option. While special attention is given to military training, including concrete proposals for its renewal, what the study discovers extends to many forms of human life

Download or read book Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security written by Paul Midford and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Paul Midford engages claims that since 9/11 Japanese public opinion has turned sharply away from pacifism and toward supporting normalization of Japan's military power, in which Japanese troops would fight alongside their American counterparts in various conflicts worldwide. Midford argues that Japanese public opinion has never embraced pacifism. It has, instead, contained significant elements of realism, in that it has acknowledged the utility of military power for defending national territory and independence, but has seen offensive military power as ineffective for promoting other goals—such as suppressing terrorist networks and WMD proliferation, or promoting democracy overseas. Over several decades, these realist attitudes have become more evident as the Japanese state has gradually convinced its public that Tokyo and its military can be trusted with territorial defense, and even with noncombat humanitarian and reconstruction missions overseas. On this basis, says Midford, we should re-conceptualize Japanese public opinion as attitudinal defensive realism.

Download or read book An Honorable Place written by Henry Taylor Millard and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a black haired, three-year-old girl is found wounded in a dumpster outside the small town of Travis City, Texas, the mystery of who she is and how she got there sets off a thirty-year saga of two diverse families. The little girl, Lourdes, is adopted by Danny and Maria Sanchez, a loving, poor couple, and the child flourishes with her own special talents and assistance by the town patriarch, William Barrett Downs the Third. Over a lifetime in An Honorable Place, we follow Lourdes Sanchez’s victories along with her soul-searching sorrows. It is a story of what it means to be a Texan, in a time when many in the world wonder why this land is so special to its citizens. If you still believe in honor, work ethic, and the power of the individual, you will believe the stories of Travis City, Texas.

Download or read book Honor written by Adam Ramsey and published by The Good Book Company. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to be a church whose members and leaders value and encourage each other in humility and with integrity, reflecting Jesus. A right understanding of honor is vital to healthy churches. It’s a word that’s mentioned hundreds of times throughout the Bible. But what does honor really look like for us in everyday church life? Who should we honor and how? Adam Ramsey brings a fresh understanding of true honor in our churches. He paints a vision of an honoring church that captivates your mind and heart—a church that shines brightly in the community because of the way its members value and respect each other and their leaders and, above all else, bring honor to God.

Download or read book Beyond a Whistle and a Prayer Transforming Lives Pursuing Excellence Honoring Jesus through Coaching written by Christopher M. Schrader, PhD. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beyond a Whistle and a Prayer will forever change the way you look at sports and coaching. Society advocates sports as a means to instill virtue and character in our youth. But we all know that the system is broken to a large extent - from youth sports through college, and beyond. Too many coaches and parents are driven by the scoreboard, the win-at-all costs model. Is it any wonder that 70%%%% of kids drop out of sports by age 12? Many of us remember the words and actions of coaches for a lifetime. What memories are you leaving with your athletes? Chris helps us make sense of why sports are broken and how they can be restored as a tool to positively impact lives. It all centers on coaches being transformed by biblical truths and implementing practical tools so they can field competitive teams while also loving their athletes well. Join the journey and learn to coach with joy." -Gilbert Tuhabonye: Author of This Voice in My Heart; 8-time NCAA All-American; Distance Running Coach

Download or read book Ho Chunk Powwows and the Politics of Tradition written by Grant Arndt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of powwows of the Wisconsin Ho-Chunk tribe, how they have changed over two centuries, and how they create dance culture within and outside the community.

Download or read book Pursuing God in the Quiet Places written by Karol Ladd and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karol Ladd, author of the bestselling The Power of a Positive Mom and A Woman's Passionate Pursuit of God, welcomes women to the presence, character, and love of God in this fresh, gathering of intimate devotions. Short meditations with select Scriptures draw from the wisdom and hope of the Old and New Testaments to help readers discover how God's promises unfold not only in His Word but also in their personal journeys. With encouragement and a dose of pure inspiration, Ladd shares with each woman: God's care for her daily hopes and needs what it looks like to walk in God's will and purpose how the Lord's mercy frees women to live fully why knowing God as friend, redeemer, and father transforms all relationships God's plan for each woman becomes more evident as she grows her relationship with and identity in Christ. Women will savor the moments they set aside to be with these rich, beautiful offerings from Karol's heart and the heart of God's Word.

Download or read book Breaking Open the Lectionary written by Margaret Nutting Ralph and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will help those who Break open the Word in RCIA and those involved in Lectionary-based faith sharing or Bible study groups to hear the Word as a living Word and to know that the Word they are hearing is compatible with what the biblical authors are teaching.

Download or read book For Such A Time As This written by Fuchsia Pickett, ThD., D.D. and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This teaching from the Book of Esther is one of Dr. Pickett's strongest messages; it presents powerful prophetic truths the Body of Christ needs.

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Download or read book In the World but Not of the World written by A. Sue Russell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been much discussion of two dimensions of the kingdom of God in scholarship: the temporal (already/not yet) and the embodied (spirit/flesh). Russell proposes that there is a third parallel dimension, a social dimension. Using Victor Turner’s concepts of structure, antistructure, and liminality, Russell explores how these concepts are consistently expressed in Jesus’ teaching, in Paul’s writing, and through the writers of the second and third centuries. She demonstrates how, from the very beginning of the Jesus movement, Christ followers were unique, not because their members were to live liminal lives apart from structure, but because they lived out new antistructural relationships within existing structures and thus transformed them. They lived liminally within their structure.

Download or read book Benedictions written by John Cumming and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Honor Shame and the Gospel written by Christopher Flanders and published by William Carey Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Honorific Gospel: Biblically Faithful & Culturally Relevant Christians engaged in communicating the gospel navigate a challenging tension: faithfulness to God’s ancient, revealed Word—and relevance to the local, current social context. What if there was a lens or paradigm offering both? Understanding the Bible—particularly the gospel—through the ancient cultural “language” of honor-shame offers believers this double blessing. In Honor, Shame, and the Gospel, over a dozen practitioners and scholars from diverse contexts and fields add to the ongoing conversation around the theological and missiological implications of an honorific gospel. Eight illuminating case studies explore ways to make disciples in a diversity of social contexts—for example, East Asian rural, Middle Eastern refugee, African tribal, and Western secular urban. Honor, Shame, and the Gospel provides valuable resources to impact the ministry efforts of the church, locally and globally. Linked with its ancient honor-shame cultural roots, the gospel, paradoxically, is ever new—offering fresh wisdom to Christian leaders and optimism to the church for our quest to expand Christ’s kingdom and serve the worldwide mission of God.

Download or read book Honor For Us written by William Lad Sessions and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Download or read book Sovereign Virtue written by Stephen Augustus White and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central subject of Aristotle's ethics is happiness or living well. Most people in his day (as in ours), eager to enjoy life, impressed by worldly success, and fearful of serious loss, believed that happiness depends mainly on fortune in achieving prosperity and avoiding adversity. Aristotle, however, argues that virtuous conduct is the governing factor in living well and attaining happiness. While admitting that neither the blessings nor the afflictions of fortune are unimportant, he maintains that the virtuous find life more satisfying than other people do and, with only modest good fortune, they lead happy, enjoyable lives. Combining philological precision with philosophical analysis, the author reconstructs Aristotle's defense of these bold claims. By examining how Aristotle develops his position in response to the prevailing hopes and anxieties of his age, the author shows why Aristotle considers happiness important for ethics and why he thinks it necessary to revise popular and traditional views. Paying close attention throughout to the internalist dimension of Aristotle's approach--his emphasis on how the virtuous view their own lives and actions--the author advances new interpretations of Aristotle's accounts of several major virtues, including temperance, courage, liberality, and "greatness of soul." This work sets Aristotle in the broader cultural context of his time, tracing his attempts to accommodate and amend rival views. The author examines literary and historical sources as well as philosophical texts, showing the inherited values and traditional ideals that inform Aristotle's discussions and provide some of the basis for his conclusions. Presupposing no knowledge of Greek or specialized philosophical terminology, the book is designed to be accessible to all students of philosophy or classical antiquity. All quotations from ancient texts are translated.

Download or read book Seek First the Kingdom written by Cardinal Donald Wuerl and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rallying cry for Catholic laity to live out the faith and challenge the culture from one of the keenest thinkers in the Christian world. Christians of all denominations need this." -- Chuck Colson, Founder, Prison Fellowship and the Colson Center for Christian Worldview "Read this book if you are in need of hope...hope that God will give you what you need to be a faithful witness, and hope that this witness will bear fruit." -- Helen Alvare, Associate Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law "This important and useful book brings together with new insight the biblical theology of God's kingdom and our experience today -- in a society ever more blind to God's purposes and our destiny." -- Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago "Cardinal Wuerl offers sage advice leavened by his decades of pastoral leadership and his acute understanding of current events." -- Gerard V. Bradley, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame "A forceful rebuttal that a Christian can keep his faith in a compartment." -- Mary Ann Glendon, President, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences "As crises of our day grow more acute, there is more need than ever for informed, committed Catholics to carry the message and values of the faith into society." -- Russell Shaw, Author, Personal Vocation: God Calls Everyone by Name In this insightful and highly relevant book, Cardinal Donald Wuerl makes the case that Catholics do not have the option of absenting themselves from the world, taking refuge in a completely private spirituality. As citizens of two worlds, it is precisely within the context of our faith that we can play a decisive role in transforming American society while furthering the goals of the kingdom of God.