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Book Blackwood s Magazine

Download or read book Blackwood s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nature of Desert Nature

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  • Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2020-11-10
  • ISBN : 0816540284
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book The Nature of Desert Nature written by Gary Paul Nabhan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan’s extended essay also called “The Nature of Desert Nature” reveals the complexity of what a desert is and can be. He passionately writes about what it is like to visit a desert and what living in a desert looks like when viewed through a new frame, turning age-old notions of the desert on their heads. Nabhan invites a prism of voices—friends, colleagues, and advisors from his more than four decades of study of deserts—to bring their own perspectives. Scientists, artists, desert contemplatives, poets, and writers bring the desert into view and investigate why these places compel us to walk through their sands and beneath their cacti and acacia. We observe the spines and spears, stings and songs of the desert anew. Unexpected. Surprising. Enchanting. Like the desert itself, each essay offers renewed vocabulary and thoughtful perceptions. The desert inspires wonder. Attending to history, culture, science, and spirit, The Nature of Desert Nature celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert places. Contributors Thomas M. Antonio Homero Aridjis James Aronson Tessa Bielecki Alberto Búrquez Montijo Francisco Cantú Douglas Christie Paul Dayton Alison Hawthorne Deming Father David Denny Exequiel Ezcurra Thomas Lowe Fleischner Jack Loeffler Ellen McMahon Rubén Martínez Curt Meine Alberto Mellado Moreno Paul Mirocha Gary Paul Nabhan Ray Perotti Larry Stevens Stephen Trimble Octaviana V. Trujillo Benjamin T. Wilder Andy Wilkinson Ofelia Zepeda

Book The Lay Saint

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  • Author : Mary Harvey Doyno
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2019-10-15
  • ISBN : 1501740210
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book The Lay Saint written by Mary Harvey Doyno and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Lay Saint, Mary Harvey Doyno investigates the phenomenon of saintly cults that formed around pious merchants, artisans, midwives, domestic servants, and others in the medieval communes of northern and central Italy. Drawing on a wide array of sources—vitae documenting their saintly lives and legends, miracle books, religious art, and communal records—Doyno uses the rise of and tensions surrounding these civic cults to explore medieval notions of lay religiosity, charismatic power, civic identity, and the church's authority in this period. Although claims about laymen's and laywomen's miraculous abilities challenged the church's expanding political and spiritual dominion, both papal and civic authorities, Doyno finds, vigorously promoted their cults. She shows that this support was neither a simple reflection of the extraordinary lay religious zeal that marked late medieval urban life nor of the Church's recognition of that enthusiasm. Rather, the history of lay saints' cults powerfully illustrates the extent to which lay Christians embraced the vita apostolic—the ideal way of life as modeled by the Apostles—and of the church's efforts to restrain and manage such claims.

Book Blackwood s Edinburgh Magazine

Download or read book Blackwood s Edinburgh Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lay Driven Church

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  • Author : Melvin J. Steinbron
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2004-12-16
  • ISBN : 1725212935
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book The Lay Driven Church written by Melvin J. Steinbron and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-12-16 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -Smash the 80/20 barrier at your church -Unleash your laity to do the work of ministry -Transform your ministry to meet the needs of the 21st-century church -Empower and motivate your people There's no Z in Lay! Laypeople are not lazy, they just need purpose, motivation, and direction. Now the best-selling author of 'Can the Pastor Do It Alone?' tells you how to make your ministry more effective by getting more of the congregation involved in the work of your church. Not just theories from a classroom, Dr. Melvin Steinbron's principles are ministry-tested, biblical ideas that have helped hundreds of churches across the country and around the world. Shift your laity involvement from neutral to overdrive with wisdom from one of the pioneers of lay-driven ministry.

Book Intuitions of Justice and the Utility of Desert

Download or read book Intuitions of Justice and the Utility of Desert written by Paul H. Robinson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research suggests that people of all demographics have nuanced and sophisticated notions of justice. Intuitions of Justice and the Utility of Desert sketches the contours of a wide range of lay judgments of justice, touching many if not most of the issues that penal code drafters or policy makers must face.

Book Desert Dancing

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  • Author : Len Wilcox
  • Publisher : Hunter Publishing, Inc
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 155650876X
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Desert Dancing written by Len Wilcox and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2000 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a combination guidebook/journal to the desert regions of California. Filled with historical notes and details of the culture, it provides practical travel information and insight into the area's past, the legends, and the myths that survive today. The author provides information on sacred places and their mysteries. This work includes directions, places to stay and eat, plus advice on safe passage in this harsh but beautiful terrain.

Book The Desert Fathers

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2003-03-27
  • ISBN : 0141907002
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book The Desert Fathers written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalised and official theology of the "founding fathers" of the church, the Desert Fathers were ordinary Christians who chose to renounce the world and live lives of celibacy, fasting, vigil, prayer and poverty in direct and simple response to the gospel. Their sayings were first recorded in the 4th century and consist of spiritual advice, anecdotes and parables. The Desert Fathers' teachings and lives have inspired poetry, opera and art, as well as providing spiritual nourishment and a template for monastic life.

Book The Desert s Daughters

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  • Author : Edward Groughan
  • Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
  • Release : 2023-04-28
  • ISBN : 1528988795
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book The Desert s Daughters written by Edward Groughan and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of indomitable spirit. A journey of ancestral discovery. Set against the backdrop of the most inhospitable desert on the planet, two young women from different worlds forge a link that transcends time. Mia Chavez, a young Australian archaeologist, arrives in Chile to connect with her familial origins. Startling events unfold as she unearths dramatic links to the flight for the life of an Atacameños girl, Kiki, five centuries previously. Hunted by the malevolent shaman, Mamut, Kiki’s escape within the ancient mountains of the Andes, inexorably lure Mia to uncover a mystery beyond belief.

Book Chamber s Journal of Popular Literature  Science and Arts

Download or read book Chamber s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book    The    Athenaeum

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1830
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 832 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poetics and Politics of the Desert

Download or read book The Poetics and Politics of the Desert written by Catrin Gersdorf and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the ways in which the desert, as topographical space and cultural presence, shaped and reshaped concepts and images of America. Once a territory outside the geopolitical and cultural borders of the United States, the deserts of the West and Southwest have since emerged as canonical American landscapes. Drawing on the critical concepts of American studies and on questions and problems raised in recent debates on ecocriticism, The Poetics and Politics of the Desert investigates the spatial rhetoric of America as it developed in view of arid landscapes since the mid-nineteenth century. Gersdorf argues that the integration of the desert into America catered to the entire spectrum of ideological and political responses to the history and culture of the US, maintaining that the Americanization of this landscape was and continues to be staged within the idiomatic parameters and in reaction to the discursive authority of four spatial metaphors: garden, wilderness, Orient, and heterotopia.

Book Bizarre

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1852
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Bizarre written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How Then Shall We Guide

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  • Author : Jimmy Boon-Chai Tan
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2023-05-25
  • ISBN : 1666792152
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book How Then Shall We Guide written by Jimmy Boon-Chai Tan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a marked increase of interest in the art of spiritual direction in recent decades. Yet in many circles, especially in ecumenical and interfaith contexts, it is unclear what grounds the practice of this ancient art. As a tradition's practice of spiritual direction expresses its particular theology, which, in turn, is shaped by its unique history, this work explains that ecumenical spiritual direction must make and retain the tri-perspective of history, theology, and method that faithfully reflects each tradition's distinctives as requisite for true ecumenical enrichment. The importance of this trinocular vision is brought into sharp focus through a comparative study of Ignatius of Loyola and John Calvin, where points of continuity and discontinuity between the Ignatian and Reformed traditions underscore the importance of this work's thesis.

Book Rambles in the Deserts of Syria and Among the Turkomans and Bedaweens

Download or read book Rambles in the Deserts of Syria and Among the Turkomans and Bedaweens written by James Henry Skene and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: