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Book Synopsis Sacred Encounters from Rome to Jerusalem by : Tamara Park
Download or read book Sacred Encounters from Rome to Jerusalem written by Tamara Park and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamara Park and a couple of friends flew to Rome and from there followed the footsteps of Helena, mother of the first Christian emperor of ancient Rome, on a meandering path to Jerusalem. Along the way, she sat on all sorts of benches and talked with all sorts of people about how they thought of God. This book is that story.
Book Synopsis On the Road Encounters in Luke-Acts by : Octavian D. Baban
Download or read book On the Road Encounters in Luke-Acts written by Octavian D. Baban and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-10-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary reconstructions of Luke's theology of the Way should include in a more conscientious manner the contribution of Luke's post-Easter on the road encounters (the Emmaus, Gaza, and Damascus road narratives). This book argues that Luke follows here the rules of Hellenistic mimesis (imitation), many of which are illustrated in the novels, dramas, and history treatises of his time. Filtering these rules through his own theology and literary taste, he represents, in the end, the history and the proclamation of the early church, in an attractive and challenging manner, inviting his readers to good literature and to captivating spiritual experiences.
Book Synopsis Narrating Muḥammad's Night Journey by : Frederick S. Colby
Download or read book Narrating Muḥammad's Night Journey written by Frederick S. Colby and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the historical development of the well-loved story of the Prophet Muhammad’s night journey to the divine realm and back again.
Book Synopsis French Encounters with the Ottomans, 1510-1560 by : Pascale Barthe
Download or read book French Encounters with the Ottomans, 1510-1560 written by Pascale Barthe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on early Renaissance Franco-Ottoman relations, this book fills a gap in studies of Ottoman representations by early modern European powers by addressing the Franco-Ottoman bond. In French Encounters with the Ottomans, Pascale Barthe examines the birth of the Franco-Ottoman rapprochement and the enthusiasm with which, before the age of absolutism, French kings and their subjects pursued exchanges-real or imagined-with those they referred to as the 'Turks.' Barthe calls into question the existence of an Orientalist discourse in the Renaissance, and examines early cross-cultural relations through the lenses of sixteenth-century French literary and cultural production. Informed by insights from historians, literary scholars, and art historians from around the world, this study underscores and challenges long-standing dichotomies (Christians vs. Muslims, West vs. East) as well as reductive periodizations (Middle Ages vs. Renaissance) and compartmentalization of disciplines. Grounded in close readings, it includes discussions of cultural production, specifically visual representations of space and customs. Barthe showcases diplomatic envoys, courtly poets, 'bourgeois', prominent fiction writers, and chroniclers, who all engaged eagerly with the 'Turks' and developed a multiplicity of responses to the Ottomans before the latter became both fashionable and neutralized, and their representation fixed.
Book Synopsis Roads of Hurt and Hope by : Andrew D. Mayes
Download or read book Roads of Hurt and Hope written by Andrew D. Mayes and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become an intrepid pilgrim on an adventure of faith as you walk five biblical roads that have played such an influential role in our spiritual history. These ancient paths, their stones full of biblical memories, evoke the travels of our ancestors in the faith and Jesus himself: key Scriptures become a guidebook for an unforgettable journey. But also listen to contemporary voices: a wide range of short interviews immerses the reader in present-day realities. As readers tread these roads through mountain, valley, desert, coastland, and city, they will realize their potential to challenge and transform their perceptions--even the very course of their faith. They may never be the same again as they follow in the footsteps of Abraham, Jesus, and courageous pilgrims and hear the cries of today's residents. Roads are about enabling movement. This odyssey of the soul will help readers along in their faith journey, open up new vistas and perspectives, and stimulate a movement in the soul as insights are gained and challenges embraced.
Book Synopsis Postmissionary Messianic Judaism by : Mark S. Kinzer
Download or read book Postmissionary Messianic Judaism written by Mark S. Kinzer and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, a new form of Messianic Judaism has emerged that has the potential to serve as a bridge between Jews and Christians. Giving voice to this movement, Mark Kinzer makes a case for nonsupersessionist Christianity. He argues that the election of Israel is irrevocable, that Messianic Jews should honor the covenantal obligations of Israel, and that rabbinic Judaism should be viewed as a movement employed by God to preserve the distinctive calling of the Jewish people. Though this book will be of interest to Jewish readers, it is written primarily for Christians who recognize the need for a constructive relationship to the Jewish people that neither denies the role of Jesus the Messiah nor diminishes the importance of God's covenant with the Jews.
Book Synopsis Place, Ecology and the Sacred by : Michael S. Northcott
Download or read book Place, Ecology and the Sacred written by Michael S. Northcott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People are born in one place. Traditionally humans move around more than other animals, but in modernity the global mobility of persons and the factors of production increasingly disrupts the sense of place that is an intrinsic part of the human experience of being on earth. Industrial development and fossil fuelled mobility negatively impact the sense of place and help to foster a culture of placelessness where buildings, fields and houses increasingly display a monotonous aesthetic. At the same time ecological habitats, and diverse communities of species are degraded. Romantic resistance to the industrial evisceration of place and ecological diversity involved the setting aside of scenic or sublime landscapes as wilderness areas or parks. However the implication of this project is that human dwelling and ecological sustainability are intrinsically at odds. In this collection of essays Michael Northcott argues that the sense of the sacred which emanates from local communities of faith sustained a 'parochial ecology' which, over the centuries, shaped communities that were more socially just and ecologically sustainable than the kinds of exchange relationships and settlement patterns fostered by a global and place-blind economy. Hence Christian communities in medieval Europe fostered the distributed use and intergenerational care of common resources, such as alpine meadows, forests or river catchments. But contemporary political economists neglect the role of boundaried places, and spatial limits, in the welfare of human and ecological communities. Northcott argues that place-based forms of community, dwelling and exchange – such as a local food economy – more closely resemble evolved commons governance arrangements, and facilitate the revival of a sense of neighbourhood, and of reconnection between persons and the ecological places in which they dwell.
Book Synopsis The Road to Jerusalem by : Jan Guillou
Download or read book The Road to Jerusalem written by Jan Guillou and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-04-10 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Destined to become a classic, The Road to Jerusalem is a brilliant, dramatic recreation of the medieval world.” —Sharon Kay Penman, New York Times bestselling author of Devil’s Brood Already an international sensation, The Road to Jerusalem by Jan Guillou is the epic story of the Knights Templar. A major bestseller in Europe—with more than two million copies sold in Sweden alone—and the basis for the most lavish and expensive Swedish film ever made, it is a novel Diana Gabaldon calls, “beautifully constructed…skillfully written and translated.” Historical fiction lovers, particularly fans of the sweeping, bestselling adventure novels of Bernard Cornwell, will be captivated by this magnificent tale of romance, faith, and battle set against the backdrop of the Crusades.
Book Synopsis British Travellers and the Encounter with Britain, 1450-1700 by : John Cramsie
Download or read book British Travellers and the Encounter with Britain, 1450-1700 written by John Cramsie and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters with a 'multicultural' Britain in the Tudor and Stuart periods written with an eye to debates about immigration and ethnicity in today's Britain.
Book Synopsis Encountering Images of Spiritual Transformation by : James M. Morgan
Download or read book Encountering Images of Spiritual Transformation written by James M. Morgan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke-Acts is an impressive two-volume narrative seeking to convince and engage readers regarding the spiritual impact of Jesus of Nazareth on the Jewish people and other nations. To this end, Luke employs an impressive arsenal of literary and narrative techniques. This book focuses on a motif and its performance, the thoroughfare motif, which includes those figurative and concrete expressions involving ways, roads, city streets, and country paths. This study traces this motif's performance within the unfolding plot asking what difference the motif makes--progressively and cumulatively--to the reader's encounter with the story's emphasis on salvation. For example, why does Luke take pleasure in describing transformational events on or in relation to thoroughfares? What are the connections between expressions like "the way of peace," "the way of salvation," and "the way of God/Lord"? Why does Luke use such an unusual expression like "the Way" to describe Jesus' followers? How do such expressions contribute to the spiritual landscape of Luke-Acts, the intermingling of concrete and figurative uses of physical imagery? Like an instrument in an orchestra, the thoroughfare motif works together with other motifs and themes to create a captivating exploration of spiritual transformation, received and opposed.
Book Synopsis Encounters on the Road to the Cross by : Robert Martin Walker
Download or read book Encounters on the Road to the Cross written by Robert Martin Walker and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Jewish Origins of Israeli Foreign Policy by : Shmuel Sandler
Download or read book The Jewish Origins of Israeli Foreign Policy written by Shmuel Sandler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conventional understanding of Israeli foreign policy has been that it is a relatively new phenomenon, with some claiming that the ‘Jewish People’ is an invention by mid-19th century Jewish historians, or simply an ‘imagined community’. This book disputes these claims by demonstrating that the Jews have a tradition of foreign relations based on an historical political tradition that goes back thousands of years, and that this tradition has been carried over to the State of Israel. The Jewish political tradition in foreign policy has always been defensive-oriented, whether under sovereignty or in the Diaspora. Power has generally been only a means for achieving survival rather than a goal in itself, whereas Jewish national identity has always been related to historical Zion. In order to explore the question of whether it is possible to identify patterns of international behaviour in the foreign policy of the Jews, the book begins with the Bible and continues through the period of the First and Second Temples, then looks at the long generations when the Jewish people were stateless, and ultimately concludes with an examination of the sovereign Jewish state of Israel. The underlying assumption is that an understanding of these characteristics will allow us to derive a better understanding of the Jewish origins of Israel’s foreign policy, which should in turn help to eliminate many of the harshest criticisms of Israel’s foreign policy. By presenting a nuanced and intricate examination of longstanding Jewish foreign policy principles, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Jewish Studies, Israeli Studies, International Relations and anyone with an interest in the relationship between religion and foreign policy.
Book Synopsis My Jerusalem Encounter by : Geoffrey Cohen
Download or read book My Jerusalem Encounter written by Geoffrey Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Jerusalem Encounter is the remarkable story of one man's quest for God, and God?s quest for one man. In this very personal account, Geoffrey Cohen shares his journey of faith, which spans three continents and more than two decades. He describes with vivid clarity the turmoil he experienced in his native South Africa, the elements of war he witnessed in his backyard, and his incomprehensible persecution?oftentimes at the hand of so-called ?Christians??because of his Jewish birthright. This story demonstrates how God?s undying love for His covenant people pursued one man whose life was plagued with hate and distrust of every person claiming Christianity. Until, that is, he had a personal encounter with Yeshua in the very heart of Jerusalem. The great lengths to which Yeshua pursued Geoffrey is a clear demonstration that He has not forgotten His covenant people, and illustrates the unfathomable and endless love He has for each one of us. His footprint can be seen throughout every page and detailed account of Geoffrey's story. You will be compelled to see through the eyes of one man how passionately God cares for every person, and how He will not relent until we each have a personal encounter with Him.
Book Synopsis Ethnographic Encounters in Israel by : Fran Markowitz
Download or read book Ethnographic Encounters in Israel written by Fran Markowitz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the challenges of anthropological work in a complicated country: “A compelling anthology.” —Ruth Behar Israel is a place of paradoxes, a small country with a diverse population and complicated social terrain. Studying its culture and social life means confronting a multitude of ethical dilemmas and methodological challenges. These first-person accounts by anthropologists engage contradictions of religion, politics, identity, kinship, racialization, and globalization to reveal fascinating and often vexing dimensions of the Israeli experience. Caught up in pressing existential questions of war and peace, social justice, and national boundaries, the contributors explore the contours of Israeli society as insiders and outsiders, natives and strangers, as well as critics and friends.
Book Synopsis Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities by : Daniel Monterescu
Download or read book Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities written by Daniel Monterescu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern urban spaces are, by definition, mixed socio-spatial configurations. In many ways, their enduring success and vitality lie in the richness of their ethnic texture and ongoing exchange of economic goods, cultural practices, political ideas and social movements. This mixture, however, is rarely harmonious and has often led to violent conflict over land and identity. Focusing on mixed towns in Israel/Palestine, this insightful volume theorizes the relationship between modernity and nationalism and the social dynamics which engender and characterize the growth of urban spaces and the emergence therein of inter-communal relations. For more than a century, Arabs and Jews have been interacting in the workplaces, residential areas, commercial enterprises, cultural arenas and political theatres of mixed towns. Defying prevailing Manichean oppositions, these towns both exemplify and resist the forces of nationalist segregation. In this interdisciplinary volume, a new generation of Israeli and Palestinian scholars come together to explore ways in which these towns have been perceived as utopian or dystopian and whether they are best conceptualized as divided, dual or colonial. Identifying ethnically mixed towns as a historically specific analytic category, this volume calls for further research, comparison and debate.
Book Synopsis NIV, Once-A-Day: Men and Women of the Bible Devotional by : Zondervan,
Download or read book NIV, Once-A-Day: Men and Women of the Bible Devotional written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Once-A-Day Men & Women of the Bible Devotional ebook has 365 daily readings unpacking the most memorable people of the Bible. From Adam & Eve to David & Goliath to Mary & Joseph, and many more, each day's reading explores the key lessons from their lives. This devotional book will open your eyes to the joys, struggles, and life lessons you can learn from them today. Each daily reading includes: • Scripture text from the most popular modern-English Bible translation, the NIV • A devotion from the trusted team that brought you the Life Application Study Bible notes, focused on one person of the Bible and how their life relates to yours • A thought to ponder, with room to jot down your reflections
Book Synopsis The Illustrated Bible Story by Story by : DK
Download or read book The Illustrated Bible Story by Story written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest story ever told is explored and explained in unprecedented detail inside this spectacular illustrated family Bible. This indispensable best-selling Bible incorporates the history of the book, the Old Testament, the New Testament, and a special section on Biblical people and places. The stories are retold by experts from all denominations, resulting in an absorbing volume designed to educate and entertain readers, young and old. Key figures are also introduced, from Adam and Abraham to Peter and Paul, while important sites, such as Jericho, Jerusalem, and Mount Sinai, are depicted alongside photographs and specially commissioned maps to truly set the scene. All the most important episodes are brought to life with beautiful illustrations, works of art, historical artifacts, and pull-out quotations. The Illustrated Bible takes an innovative and inspiring visual approach to this classic book, resulting in the only reference you’ll ever need for the whole family.
