Download or read book A Pilgrim s Digress written by John D. Spalding and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a long, strange journey to paradise, and often hilarious one, if you bravely follow the road less traveled--wherever it leads. John D. Spalding certainly has. In this smart and insightful collection, Spalding, Beliefnet.com's popular offbeat humorist, wanders America as a modern-day "pilgrim" seeking the Celestial City. Loosely organizing his comic misadventures according to John Bunyan's classic The Pilgrim's Progress, Spalding describes how he spent three days as a street preacher in Times Square ("Excuse me, sir, did you know you're going to hell?"); went to the mat (conversationally) with Omega and Apocalypse, two mainstays of the Christian Wrestling Federation; and visited a man who, practicing the art of trepanation, drilled a hole in his head to make himself permanently happy. He also experienced his own funeral, courtesy of the Dying-to-Get-In Company. Like Christian, Bunyan's beleaguered pilgrim, Spalding never knows who is waiting around the next bend. On his journey, he finds himself at the mercy of rebirthing therapists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Mormon missionaries, and in the company of a psychic "ghost counselor," America's luckiest (and perhaps divinely blessed) lottery winner, and a mysterious, barefoot holy man named Whatsyourname. Finally, he makes an ancient, five-hundred-mile pilgrimage across Spain, during which he learns what it truly means to be a pilgrim. Funny, wry, and revealing, the stories in A Pilgrim's Digress describe Spalding's satirical quest for the righteous path and what he discovers about the spiritual zeitgeist along the way.
Download or read book The Pilgrim s Digress written by T. J. Martinell and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chaucer s Pilgrims written by Robert Thomas Lambdin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-04-30 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is one of the oldest and most widely studied works of English literature. The tales provide a glimpse of medieval life, and the professions of the pilgrims figure prominently in the poetry. To have a clear understanding of Chaucer's work, the reader needs to know about the vocations of the pilgrims. For some 600 years, this information has been difficult to locate. This reference work conveniently synthesizes and discusses information about the occupation of each of Chaucer's pilgrims and provides an historical context. The volume contains individual entries for each of Chaucer's pilgrims, and the entries share a similar format to foster comparison. Each entry includes three parts. First, the pilgrim's profession is discussed in terms of the daily routine of the medieval occupation. Second, the vocation is examined in terms of its reflection in the tale told by the pilgrim. Third, the vocation and the tale are discussed, when possible, in relation to the descriptions of the characters provided in the General Prologue. Each entry includes a bibliography, and the volume concludes with a list of works for further reading.
Download or read book History of the Pilgrims and Puritans written by Joseph Dillaway Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pilgrim Fathers written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christianity and the Postmodern Turn written by Myron B. Penner and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our post-Cold War, post-colonial, post-Christian world, Western culture is experiencing a dramatic shift. Correspondingly, says Myron Penner, recent philosophy has taken a postmodern turn in which traditional concepts of reality, truth, language, and knowledge have been radically altered, if not discarded. Here James K.A. Smith, John Franke, Merold Westphal, Kevin Vanhoozer, Douglas Geivett, and R. Scott Smith respond to the question, "What perils and/or promises does the postmodern turn hold for the tasks of Christian thinkers?" Addressing topics such as the nature of rationality and biblical faith, the relationship of language to reality, and the impact of postmodern concerns on ethics, this book presents a variety of positions in vigorous dialogue with each other.
Download or read book Prodigals and Pilgrims written by Jay Fliegelman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces a constellation of intimately related ideas - about the nature of parental authority and filial rights, of moral obligation of Scripture, of the growth of the mind and the nature of historical progress - from their most important English and continental expressions in a variety of literary and theological texts, to their transmission, reception and application in Revolutionary America and in the early national period of American culture.
Download or read book The Innocents Abroad Or the New Pilgrims Progress written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain published in 1869 which humorously chronicles what Twain called his 'Great Pleasure Excursion' on board the chartered vessel Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867"--Amazon.com
Download or read book The Innocents Abroad or the New Pilgrims Progress written by Mark Twain and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book The Innocents Abroad Or The New Pilgrims Progress from the New World to the Old written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Early Discovery of America and Landing of the Pilgrims written by Samuel G. Drake and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota written by H. B. Reese and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota, Or, From the Ox Team to the Aeroplane, jointly authored by H. B. Reese and John B. Reese, is a compelling chronicle of the pioneers who ventured into the vast prairies of Dakota, from the early days of ox-drawn wagons to the advent of modern aviation. Through captivating stories of courage and resilience, the authors paint a vivid portrait of the pioneer spirit that shaped the history of the Dakota region, honoring the indomitable human spirit and its quest for a better life.
Download or read book Transactions written by Epidemiological Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of members.
Download or read book Discourse in Commemoration of the Landing of the Pilgrims of Maryland written by George Henry Miles and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth in New England in 1620 written by George Barrell Cheever and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writings of Mark Twain The innocents abroad The new Pilgrims progress written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writings of Mark Twain The innocents abroad or the new Pilgrims progress written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
