Download or read book The Evil King Who Destroyed Himself written by Kwame Insaidoo and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully illustrated, collectable library of easy-to-read traditional folktale with their moral lessons, test questions, and activities for the young ones, classic African stories are brought magically to reality. The stories in the African Folktale Series (AFS) are filled with moral lessons that have been handed down from many generations to the present in many African countries from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroons, Liberia, the Gambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania to Zimbabwe. The traditional African elders who inhabited an ancient continent brimming with wisdom successfully utilized these folktales to socialize their youngsters to the moral requirements of their society to insure order, security and growth.
Download or read book Moral Lessons in African Folktales written by Kwame A. Insaidoo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges us to take a cursory glance at our contemporary world, where modern mans scientific and technological ingenuity has led him to soar thorough the galaxy and made the heavens part of his domain; and contrast that with his level of morality today. Open any newspaper or listen to the radio and television news and you cant help but lament on the appalling moral depravity and obscene behavior of our contemporary man. With this intractable moral depravity on the ascendancy, the author nostalgically reminiscences the upright morality of yesteryears, and admonishes us to heed Platos philosophical advice: now since men are by nature acquisitive, jealous, combative, and erotic, how shall we persuade them to behave themselves? By the policemans omnipresent club? {now, AK 47}. It is a brutal method, costly and irritating. There is a better way, and this is by lending to the moral requirements of the community. Throughout this book the author emphasizes the significance of proper moral education in shaping the character of children, youngsters and even adults, and reminds us: morals are the rules by which society exhorts its members and associations to behavior consistent with its 'order, security and growth {Will & Ariel Durant}. The author noted that in traditional African societies, the wise elders, like the ancient Greek philosophers, strongly emphasized the teachability of moral values and deliberately inculcated them into their youngsters. The stories in this book are folktales filled with moral lessons that have been handed down from many generations to the present in many African countries from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroons, Liberia, the Gambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania to Zimbabwe. The traditional African elders successfully utilized these folktales to socialize their youngsters to the moral requirements of their society to insure stability, harmonious relations, order, security and growth.
Download or read book The Beginning of Wisdom written by Leon Kass and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-05-20 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine that you could really understand the Bible...that you could read, analyze, and discuss the book of Genesis not as a compositional mystery, a cultural relic, or a linguistic puzzle palace, or even as religious doctrine, but as a philosophical classic, precisely in the same way that a truth-seeking reader would study Plato or Nietzsche. Imagine that you could be led in your study by one of America's preeminent intellectuals and that he would help you to an understanding of the book that is deeper than you'd ever dreamed possible, that he would reveal line by line, verse by verse the incredible riches of this illuminating text -- one of the very few that actually deserve to be called seminal. Imagine that you could get, from Genesis, the beginning of wisdom. The Beginning of Wisdom is a hugely learned book that, like Genesis itself, falls naturally into two sections. The first shows how the universal history described in the first eleven chapters of Genesis, from creation to the tower of Babel, conveys, in the words of Leon Kass, "a coherent anthropology" -- a general teaching about human nature -- that "rivals anything produced by the great philosophers." Serving also as a mirror for the reader's self-discovery, these stories offer profound insights into the problematic character of human reason, speech, freedom, sexual desire, the love of the beautiful, pride, shame, anger, guilt, and death. Something as seemingly innocuous as the monotonous recounting of the ten generations from Adam to Noah yields a powerful lesson in the way in which humanity encounters its own mortality. In the story of the tower of Babel are deep understandings of the ambiguous power of speech, reason, and the arts; the hazards of unity and aloneness; the meaning of the city and its quest for self-sufficiency; and man's desire for fame, immortality, and apotheosis -- and the disasters these necessarily cause. Against this background of human failure, Part Two of The Beginning of Wisdom explores the struggles to launch a new human way, informed by the special Abrahamic covenant with the divine, that might address the problems and avoid the disasters of humankind's natural propensities. Close, eloquent, and brilliant readings of the lives and educations of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob's sons reveal eternal wisdom about marriage, parenting, brotherhood, education, justice, political and moral leadership, and of course the ultimate question: How to live a good life? Connecting the two "parts" is the book's overarching philosophical and pedagogical structure: how understanding the dangers and accepting the limits of human powers can open the door to a superior way of life, not only for a solitary man of virtue but for an entire community -- a life devoted to righteousness and holiness. This extraordinary book finally shows Genesis as a coherent whole, beginning with the creation of the natural world and ending with the creation of a nation that hearkens to the awe-inspiring summons to godliness. A unique and ambitious commentary, a remarkably readable literary exegesis and philosophical companion, The Beginning of Wisdom is one of the most important books in decades on perhaps the most important -- and surely the most frequently read -- book of all time.
Download or read book Self Interest Is Destroying the Gospel and the Church Today written by Josiah (1 kings 13:2) and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, Now, I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant (Jer 1:9-10). If so, do you know that what occurred in the kingdoms of the Old Testament church (The Israelites) has for so long been happening in many of todays churches too!Whatever some of the Old Testament kings did in the sight of the Lord during their reigns be it good or evil many (false shepherds, prophets, priests, teachers and believers) are doing likewise in the Lords churches today too. In some the of the Lords churches today, not only have many come in the spirit and power of Elijah (Luke 1:17). Many have actually come in the spirit and power of the Pharisees, the teachers of the law and Judas, Pharaoh, Aaron, Saul, Hophni and Phineas, Absalom, Rehoboam, Jeroboam, Ahab and, Balak and Balaam. What the Holy Spirit led me to do was to write this book to expose how the craftiness of Satan and the selfish agenda in the hearts of many (Satans apostles) is destroying the gospel and the church of Christ, and also, to open the eyes of those who are being deceived in these last days. As result of selfish gain in the hearts of a very few, many of the Lords churches today are no longer seen as Pentecostal, but as Plenty-cost-all churches and ministries. Many of the Lords churches have been turned into cash-dispensing machines, pension funds and schemes for too many deceivers and impostors and many of their eloquent-preaching friends, while they s
Download or read book Masters of time The Armageddon paradox written by Juan Carlos Arjona Ollero and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''Blessed are those who believe and put their faiths on me, cause only them will see the dawn of the new day'' The existence and the infinite universes that compose it are filled with mysteries, legends, myths and incredible stories. Some of them hide in the impenetrable darkness of chaos, others lie motionless between the nothingness and the time, while the rest are found on plain sight scattered across the infinite. This is just one of the lost page of the Enoch, and the multiple tales that are being written simultaneously, as the sands of time keep their course... The story of the biggest heroes in this world... The story of the masters of time.
Download or read book Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages written by Albrecht Classen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining literary narratives from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries, this book explores how writers used their craft to voice harsh criticism of the ruling class and unearths a deep distrust of kings and other authority figures during the Middle Ages.
Download or read book Twilight written by Jean Andre Chery and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A royal king reigns in his kingdom and there was a battle with the witch that caused the deaths of two princes who were fighting with the evil spirits in the field. Then, after that the kingdom reign in mourning because of the deaths of their loves one. They went after the devil to destroy them with their powers, but that caused him destroyed all the reign that was under his command on earth. He patrolled the earth to find more people that shunned him, but he could not and the wizard found a way to help them in the last battle. At the end, they united together from the valley of the dead after conquering the devil with his armies in their terrestrial bodies. The kingdom found peace with the witches and restored life under the power of the king.
Download or read book A History of the English Church first Period from the Planting of the Church in Britain to the Accesssion of Henry VIII written by G. G. Perry and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-25 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book SEVA to Realize the SELF written by Mahesh C. Mangalick and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In villages around India, many people have no facilities that provide adequate health care and education, despite the Indian government allocating an enormous amount of funding. In order to offset this lack of health care and educational facilities in Indian villages, many private individuals and organizations provide medical services and educational opportunities to the poor. This book details two major SEVA projects founded by Mr. and Mrs. P.C. Mangalick in Agra, India. SEVA is selfless service that an individual or group provides to underprivileged people. These acts of selfless service are prompted by an awareness of the presence of God in all beings. This book describes how SEVA leads to a purified mind and, therefore, an understanding of the self, the part of "one source" (God) within an individual’s personality.
Download or read book The Self interpreting Bible written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daniel the Prophet Nine lectures delivered in the Divinity School of the University of Oxford with copious notes etc written by Edward Bouverie Pusey and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daniel the Prophet written by Edward Bouverie Pusey and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daniel the Prophet Nine Lectures written by Edward Bouverie Pusey and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daniel the Prophet written by E. B. Pusey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. Nine lectures delivered in the Divinity School of the University of Oxford. With copious notes.
Download or read book The Congregationalist and Christian World written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Daniel the prophet 9 lectures with notes written by Edward Bouverie Pusey and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
