Download or read book Deliver Us From Evil written by William Shawcross and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-01-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reporting from war zones around the globe, acclaimed journalist William Shawcross gives us an unforgettable portrait of a dangerous world and of the brave men and women, ordinary and extraordinary, who risk their lives to make and keep the peace. The end of the Cold War was followed by a decade of regional and ethnic wars, massacres and forced exiles, and by constant calls for America to lead the international community as chief peace-keeper. The efforts of that community -- identified with the United Nations but often dominated by the world's wealthy nations -- have had mixed results. In Africa, the West is accused of indifference or too little, too late. In Cambodia, the UN presides over free elections, but the results are overridden. In Iraq, Saddam Hussein continues to defy the UN, and in Bosnia and Kosovo, the West acts hesitantly after terrible slaughter and ethnic cleansing. Shawcross, a veteran of many war zones, has had broad access to global policymakers, including UN secretary general Kofi Annan, high American diplomats, peacekeepers and humanitarian-aid professionals. He has traveled with them to some of the world's most horrifying killing fields. Deliver Us from Evil is his stark, on-the-ground report on the many crises faced by the international community and its servants as they struggle to respond around the world. He brings home the price many have paid attempting to restore peace and help alleviate terrible suffering. He illuminates the risks we face in a complex and dangerous world. Some critics have concluded that some interventions may prolong conflict and create further casualties. The lesson we learn from ruthless and vengeful warlords the world over is that goodwill without strength can make things worse. Shawcross argues that recent interventions -- in Kosovo and East Timor, for example -- provide reason for concern as well as hope. Still, the unmistakable message of the past decade is that we cannot intervene everywhere, that not every wrong can be righted merely because the international community desires it, or because we wish to remove images of suffering from our television screens. Nor can we necessarily rebuild failed states in our image. When we intervene, we must be certain of our objectives, sure of popular support and willing to expend the necessary resources -- even lives. If our interventions are to be effective and humane, they must last for more than the fifteen minutes of attention that the media accord to each succeeding crisis. That is a tall order. As Shawcross concludes, "In a more religious time it was only God whom we asked to deliver us from evil. Now we call upon our own man-made institutions for such deliverance. That is sometimes to ask for miracles."

Download or read book Savage Energies written by Walter Burkert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face of classical Greece, whose potentially violent and destructive energies, Burkert argues, were harnessed to constructive ends through the interlinked uses of myth and ritual. For example, in a much-cited essay on the Athenian religious festival of the Arrephoria, Burkert uncovers deep connections between this strange nocturnal ritual, in which two virgin girls carried sacred offerings into a cave and later returned with something given to them there, and tribal puberty initiations by linking the festival with the myth of the daughters of Kekrops. Other chapters explore the origins of tragedy in blood sacrifice; the role of myth in the ritual of the new fire on Lemnos; the ties between violence, the Athenian courts, and the annual purification of the divine image; and how failed political propaganda entered the realm of myth at the time of the Persian Wars.

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Download or read book Christ Triumphant written by Thomas Allin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I plead for the acceptance of this central truth as the great hope of the gospel, that the victory of Jesus Christ must be final and complete, i.e., that nothing can impair the power of his cross and passion to save the entire human race."--Thomas Allin In 1885, the Rev. Thomas Allin waded into the debates on final punishment that had plagued the Church of England during the nineteenth century. His contribution was a radical book that sought to demonstrate that reason, tradition, and Scripture all affirm that God will one day redeem his whole creation through Jesus Christ. Universal salvation, he maintained, was the only way to coherently affirm the victory of God over evil. Allin's book is one of the first detailed attempts to show that global salvation was not some modern heresy, but an ancient Christian tradition with a serious claim to catholicity and orthodoxy. Turning the tables on the critics, Allin boldly argued that universalism, far from being dangerous, was actually needed to defend the orthodox faith of the church. This new edition of Allin's classic work includes an introduction that sets it in its historical context, the addition of subtitles to help readers navigate the argument, and numerous explanatory annotations.

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Download or read book The Christian Union written by Henry Ward Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Eternal Mysteries of Christ Revealed in God s Plan for You written by Hank VanZyderveld and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is something profoundly significant concerning our eternal past that not only connects us to this present time, but also connects us to our eternal future. This connection of past, present and future is a vital key to understanding our destiny. One of the most essential aspects of God's eternal purpose for humanity can be found hidden in the precious life given to each of us by Him. The incredible complexity of our earthly existence with all of its joys, trials, tribulations, pain and suffering is actually preparing us individually to become the fullness of God's expression through the redeeming and sanctifying work of Jesus Christ. A glorious time of restoration through reconciliation is forth coming, when all the families of God will finally enjoy living in the fullness of His expression, demonstrating to all of Creation, God's perfect never failing love for all!

Download or read book Theology of Universalism being an exposition of its doctrines and teachings in their logical and moral relations etc written by Thomas Baldwin THAYER and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Theology of Universalism written by Thomas Baldwin Thayer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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Download or read book Universalism against Partialism in a series of lectures delivered at Newburyport Mass Second edition written by Woodbury M. FERNALD and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Twenty one sermons on a variety of interesting subjects sentimental and practical written by Samuel HOPKINS (D.D., Pastor of Newport, U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: