Download or read book Glass Irony and God written by Anne Carson and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Carson's poetry - characterized by various reviewers as "short talks", "essays", or "verse narratives" - combines the confessional and the critical in a voice all her own. Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson in Glass, Irony and God weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style. This collection includes: "The Glass Essay", a powerful poem about the end of a love affair, told in the context of Carson's reading of the Bronte sisters; "Book of Isaiah", a poem evoking the deeply primitive feel of ancient Judaism; and "The Fall of Rome", about her trip to "find" Rome and her struggle to overcome feelings of a terrible alienation there.
Download or read book The Glass God written by Kate Griffin and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharon Li: apprentice shaman and community support officer for the magically inclined. It wasn't the career Sharon had in mind, but she's getting used to running Magicals Anonymous and learning how to Be One With The City. When the Midnight Mayor goes missing, leaving only a suspiciously innocent-looking umbrella behind him, Sharon finds herself promoted. Her first task: find the Midnight Mayor. The only clues she has are a city dryad's cryptic message of doom and several pairs of abandoned shoes . . . Suddenly, Sharon's job feels a whole lot harder. Shaman Sharon Li's adventures continue among the magical beings of modern-day London in this spell-binding sequel to Stray Souls.
Download or read book Contexts for Frank McGuinness s Drama written by Helen Lojek and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contexts for Frank McGuinness's Drama is the most complete consideration of the playwright yet published, including discussion of his original stage work through Gates of Gold (2002) and highlighting the connections between McGuinness's creativity and the biographical, geographical, social, and literary factors that have shaped his world."
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Download or read book The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God written by Justin Brierley and published by Tyndale House Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could We Be Witnessing a Return of Belief in Our Generation? Justin Brierley is convinced that in our time we are witnessing a growing wave of faith. Famously described as the “long, withdrawing roar” of the “Sea of Faith,” the Christian narrative that shaped the West has been replaced by sweeping secularism. But is that the end of the story? It was a conversation with agnostic journalist Douglas Murray that led Brierley to investigate whether a change was on the horizon. Speaking of the “Sea of Faith,” Murray remarked that tides come back in again and that a number of his intelligent friends had converted to Christianity in recent years. Brierley was seeing a similar trend among the secular thinkers he had interviewed. Jordan Peterson, Tom Holland, Dave Rubin, and many others have found themselves surprised by the continuing resonance and relevance of Christianity, and they are joining in on conversations about faith. Readers will encounter Brierley’s discussion of cultural trends and concepts including: The meaning crisis Public intellectuals embracing faith Why the Christianity story is ready to return And much moreIn The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God, Brierley outlines the dramatic fall of New Atheism and the birth of a new conversation on whether God makes sense of science, history, culture, and the search for meaning. People are returning to Christianity—but is the church prepared to welcome a new wave of faith? There’s a new conversation building. The tide is coming.
Download or read book What is God s Revelation written by Ramin Pourfarzib and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is full of people who have claimed they came from God or bore messages from God, such as Confucius, Buddha, Bahaullah, Muhammed, Jesus, and many others. Buddhists believe in the wheel of reincarnation to reach nirvana or nothingness. Hindus believe God reveals Himself through various avatars. Muslims believe Muhammed is the final prophet and Jesus is not the Son of God. Orthodox Jews deny Jesus as the Messiah. Christians believe Jesus fulfilled the Messianic prophecies and is the Son of God. Atheists deny God’s existence altogether! These belief systems cannot all be true, so how can we know who is telling the truth? Promoting religious literacy is crucial to addressing the devastating impact of false religions. Religious literacy enables individuals to critically evaluate different belief systems, recognize the signs of manipulation, and differentiate between genuine spiritual teachings and false ideologies. Find out how to determine whether there is a God and which faith is telling the truth in this book, which applies a litmus test to seek God’s revelation to humanity through His prophets and prophecies.
Download or read book Wonder Reborn written by Thomas Troeger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores an issue at the nerve of the long term health of all churches: how godly wonder can be reborn through renewed attention to the place of beauty in preaching and worship. The book opens with an exploration of the theological and cultural difficulties of defining beauty. It traces the church's historical ambivalence about beauty and art and describes how, in our own day, the concept of beauty has been commercialized and degraded. Troeger develops a theologically informed aesthetic that provides a counter-cultural vision of beauty flowing from the love of God. The book demonstrates how preachers can reclaim the place of beauty in preaching and worship. Chapter two employs the concept of midrash to mine the history of congregational song as a resource for sermons. Chapter three introduces methods from musicology for creating sermons on instrumental and choral works and for integrating word and music more effectively. Chapter four explores how the close relationship between poetry and prayer can stir the homiletical imagination. Each of these chapters includes a selection of the author's sermons illustrating how preachers can use these varied art forms to open a congregation to the beauty of God. A final chapter recounts the responses of congregation members to whom the sermons were delivered. It uses the insights gained from those experiences to affirm how the human heart hungers for a vision of wonder and beauty that empowers people to live more faithfully in the world.
Download or read book God s Existence Religious and Scientific Reflection written by Ravi K. Puri Ph.D. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When war, crimes, and calamities occur, the belief in God is shaken. The idea comes to mind. Does God Exist? If there is a God, then why is he not preventing deadly events comprising genocides, assassinations, crimes, and atrocities? On the contrary, He does not interfere. That means there is no God. Are people worshiping at various religious places Churches, Mosques, and Temples for various reasons wasting their time? If God does not exist, all these religious places should be closed and turned into cinemas, entertainment clubs, and sports stadiums. God is not any object that His existence can be proved. It can be felt by seeing His splendid creation. The act of creation reveals the creator. To know His existence is to know his magnificent creation and redemption. He is the transcendent designer and has not revealed Himself so far to anyone, No God, His prophet, deputy or beloved can interfere with any life on any planet. Each soul has its journey and is responsible for its actions. God is apathetic to the creation of the universe or any happening in the universe. The universe goes on as per its natural laws. So, let us not blame God for any catastrophe occurring in the world.
Download or read book God Our Provider written by Bruce Cardin and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God Our Provider speaks of a few of the many wonderful provisions and blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus. In the book of James, we are told that every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning (James 1:17 KJV). God's blessings for our life are consistent. What God provides is real. If we are not careful, we can settle for substitutes that do not satisfy. God Our Provider is a book that offers encouragement because its focus is the Word of God. From his Word, we will see that life with God is possible and that his life is to be lived out every day in our life. His provisions of strength, peace, hope, and faith are not only sufficient. They are necessary. God Our Provider is a book that shows that our relationship with God is important and that relationship has a positive impact upon our actions with other people.
Download or read book God and Necessity written by Brian Leftow and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Leftow offers a theist theory of necessity and possibility, and a new sort of argument for God's existence. He argues that necessities of logic and mathematics are determined by God's nature, but that it is events in God's mind - His imagination and choice - that account for necessary truths about concrete creatures.
Download or read book Light in Darkness written by Alyssa Lyra Pitstick and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-12 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He descended into hell. Hans Urs von Balthasar, one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century, placed this affirmation of the Nicene Creed at the heart of his reflection on the world-altering events of Holy Week, asserting that this identification of God with the human experience is at the "absolute center" of the Christian faith. Yet is such a descent to suffering really the essence of Catholic belief about the mystery of Holy Saturday? Alyssa Lyra Pitstick's Light in Darkness -- the first comprehensive treatment of Balthasar's theology of Holy Saturday -- draws on the multiple yet unified resources of authoritative Catholic teaching on Christ's descent to challenge Balthasar's conclusions. Pitstick conducts a thorough investigation of Balthasar's position that Christ suffered in his descent into hell and asks whether that is compatible with traditional teaching about Christ. Light in Darkness is a thorough argument for the existence and authority of a traditional Catholic doctrine of Christ's descent as manifested in creeds, statements of popes and councils, Scripture, and art from Eastern and Western traditions. Pitstick's carefully argued, contrarian work is sure to spur debate across the theological spectrum.
Download or read book Kubrick s 2001 written by Leonard F. Wheat and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2000-06-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed in an international critics poll as one of the ten best films ever made, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has nonetheless baffled critics and filmgoers alike. Its reputation rests largely on its awesome special effects, yet the plot has been considered unfathomable. Critical consensus has been that Kubrick himself probably didn't know the answers. Leonard Wheat's Kubrick's 2001: A Triple Allegory reveals that Kubrick did know the answers. Far from being what it seems to be—a chilling story about space travel—2001 is actually an allegory, hidden by symbols. It is, in fact, a triple allegory, something unprecedented in film or literature. Three allegories—an Odysseus (Homer) allegory, a man-machine symbiosis (Arthur Clarke) allegory, and a Zarathustra (Nietzsche) allegory—are simultaneously concealed and revealed by well over 200 highly imaginative and sometimes devilishly clever symbols. Wheat "decodes" each allegory in rich detail, revealing the symbolism in numerous characters, sequences, and scenes. In bringing Kubrick's secrets to light, Wheat builds a powerful case for his assertion that 2001 is the "grandest motion picture ever filmed."
Download or read book The complete works of Richard Sibbes ed with mem by A B Grosart written by Richard Sibbs and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes D D A Christian s portion or the Christian s charter written by Richard Sibbes and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Circumcised Heart written by Marilyn O. Flower and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Circumcised Heart: Ready, Imperfect, Softened, Transparent is based on the authors life and describes how biblical literacy transformed her heart and led to a much stronger and deeper relationship with God. Specific personal memoirs which describe how God worked in her life drawing her closer to him as she became more dependent upon him portray steady character growth. Angry with God because he had not answered her prayers at times as she wished, she was unable to deny him or remain angry, because he was so active in her life, revealing himself miraculously and mysteriously at times. Through his perfect love and the Bible, God showed her how a relationship with him lasts a lifetime and is for eternity. God used the authors heartache to drive her to seek him and through everyday occurrences made himself visible and ever-present, so that now she relies constantly on him, his Word, and the Holy Spirit for comfort, protection, and guidance.
Download or read book God s Question written by Lynne Junkins Cole and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God's Question: What Do You Think God Sees When He Looks At You? Vitally important, possibly the most important question any of us will ever ponder. Why is God asking this question? What is He saying to His believers? Book includes over 1200 answers from around the world. Examples: Thank you for the question, you have challenged [me]. God isn't looking at who and what I am, He sees what and who I can and will be. He's not judging the outward appearance that man sees, God is judging my heart. He sees forgiveness of sins through the blood of Jesus. Chapter subjects: Answers; Fear and how to conquer it; Unforgiveness; God's Covenant; Impacting people now and in the future. John 14:12, 20 NIV 12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father 20 In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. When God asked Lynne Junkins Cole to write this book she accepted the assignment with surprise, feeling inadequate and honor. God let her know emphatically He chose her to write this book.
Download or read book Tender grass for Christ s lambs written by William Weldon Champneys and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
