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Author : Henry Disney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781873468319
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Lapsed Atheist and Other Poems written by Henry Disney and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Disney
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625161735
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Guided by Knowledge, Inspired by Love written by Henry Disney and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entomologist, poet and devout Christian Henry Disney illustrates the harmonious relationship between science, art and religion in his sixth published collection of poetry.The sensitive, observant nature of a scientific and a Christian outlook exemplifies a realistic view of man, nature and God. Disney offers an individual perspective that presents a unified view of the complexities of life.
Author : Henry Disney
Publisher : Pneuma Springs Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782284990
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Swansong written by Henry Disney and published by Pneuma Springs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final collection of poems by a scientist and poet near the end of an extraordinary life. They reflect on unusual incidents in his life and comments on contemporary concerns of life today. Comments cover politics, current conflicts across the world, impacts of climate change and other concerns are treated with clarity and insight. Some may challenge the reader. Others may reflect concerns shared by the reader. The narrative style of the poems makes them accessible to a wide range of people who have not read poetry since their school days. The poems provide comments on life today in the context of someone whose father worked in provincial administration in the Sudan, who has had an extraordinary life in his childhood and youth, including active service during his National Service. With a degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge, he worked in a Field Centre, then as a medical entomologist working in tropical forests in Belize and Cameroon, then in charge of a field centre and nature reserve in Yorkshire and then as a Research Fellow based in the Department of Zoology University of Cambridge, researching the extraordinary habits of scuttle flies across the world. Several poems indicate, his wife, of working-class background, was the gifted support throughout, along with their 3 children. Concern for the environment, the impact of climate change, wars across the world and bureaucratic nonsense gave rise to several poems, whose insights and comments may surprise. The impacts of these on ordinary people links these concerns to our everyday lives. Henry Disney has been writing poems since his youth, with first collection being published in 1963.
Author : Nick Megoran
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498219594
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Warlike Christians in an Age of Violence written by Nick Megoran and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should Christians respond to war? This age-old question has become more pressing given Western governments’ recent overseas military interventions and the rise of extremist Islamist jihadism. Grounded in conservative evangelical theology, this book argues the historic church position that it is inadmissible for Christians to use violence or take part in war. It shows how the church’s propensity to support the “just wars,” crusades, rebellions, or “humanitarian interventions” of its host nations over time has been disastrous for the reputation of the gospel. Instead, the church’s response to war is simply to be the church, by preaching the gospel and making peace in the love and power of God. The book considers challenges to this argument for “gospel peace.” What about warfare in the Old Testament and military metaphors in the New? What of church history? And how do we deal with tyrants like Hitler and terrorists like Islamic State? Charting a path between just war theory and liberal pacifism, numerous inspiring examples from the worldwide church are used to demonstrate effective and authentically Christian responses to violence. The author argues that as Christians increasingly drop their unbiblical addiction to war, we may be entering one of the most exciting periods of church history.
Author : Peter Hitchens
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310320313
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Rage Against God written by Peter Hitchens and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partly autobiographical, partly historical, "The Rage Against God," written by the brother of prominent atheist Christopher Hitchens, assails several of the favorite arguments of the anti-God battalions and makes the case against fashionable atheism.
Author : of Wilmot of Rochester
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019164580X
Total Pages : 1610 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Selected Poems written by of Wilmot of Rochester and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 1610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If I by miracle can be This livelong minute true to thee 'Tis all that heav'n allows.' The Earl of Rochester was England's first celebrity poet, a byword for the theatricality, licentiousness, and scepticism of the Restoration age. But his scandalous reputation belies the variety and sophistication of his work: his love poems set new standards not only of sexual explicitness but also of psychological acuity and lyric grace, while his satires broke new ground as much by the refinement of their ironies as in the brutality of their invective. A fascinatingly contradictory figure, Rochester emerges more clearly than ever from this new edition, the first selection of his work in modern spelling to take account of recent revolutionary advances in textual scholarship. It includes only poems now securely attributed to the poet, in texts based not on the posthumous and unreliable printed editions but on the most authoritative manuscripts which circulated in his lifetime. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : John Carey
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300232225
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A Little History of Poetry written by John Carey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature The Times and Sunday Times, Best Books of 2020 “[A] fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work—over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. But this Little History is about some that have not. John Carey tells the stories behind the world’s greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nearly four thousand years ago to those being written today. Carey looks at poets whose works shape our views of the world, such as Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Yeats. He also looks at more recent poets, like Derek Walcott, Marianne Moore, and Maya Angelou, who have started to question what makes a poem “great” in the first place. For readers both young and old, this little history shines a light for readers on the richness of the world’s poems—and the elusive quality that makes them all the more enticing.
Author : David Martin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0718895789
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Christianity and ‘the World’ written by David Martin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Martin was one of the world’s leading commentators on secularization theory. He was also a committed and lifelong reader of English poetry. Christianity and ‘The World’ develops Martin’s argument against simplistic secularization narratives with reference to the history of poetry, a topic with which few social theorists have been concerned. Martin shows the enduring but ever-changing centrality of Christian thought and practice, in its many different forms, to English poetry. Always mindful that the most important aspects of poetry’s history can be captured only by attending to the minutest particulars of individual poems and poets, Martin’s study sheds unexpected light on a wide range of English poets, from Spenser and Shakespeare to T.S. Eliot and Geoffrey Hill. The result is a study at once informed by an authoritative sociological perspective on secularization and richly coloured by the singular intensity of Martin’s own reading life.
Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cyril Tourneur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Plays and Poems of Cyril Tourneur: Introduction. The atheist's tragedie. A funerall poem. A griefe on the death of Prince Henrie written by Cyril Tourneur and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019958432X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Selected Poems written by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rochester's scandalous reputation belies the variety and sophistication of his love poems and satires. This new, modern-spelling edition is the most textually up to date, based not on the unreliable printed editions but on the most authoritative manuscripts. It includes a valuable introduction, helpful notes, and an index of manuscripts.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Family Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Thielen
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 161164092X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book What's the Least I Can Believe and Still Be a Christian? New Edition with Study Guide written by Martin Thielen and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastor and author Martin Thielen has compiled a list of ten things people need to believe, and ten things they don't, in order to be a Christian. This lively and engaging book will be a help to seekers as well as a comfort to believers who may find themselves questioning some of the assumptions they grew up with. With an accessible, storytelling style that's grounded in solid biblical scholarship, Thielen shows how Christians don't need to believe that sinners will be "left behind" to burn in hell or that it's heresy to believe in evolution. And while we must always take the Bible seriously, we don't always have to take it literally. At the same time, Christians do need to believe in Jesus--his life, his teachings, his death and resurrection, and his vision for the world. A great benefit of those beliefs is that they provide promising answers to life's most profound questions, including: Where is God? What matters most? What brings fulfillment? What about suffering? Is there hope? Thielen articulates centrist, mainline Christianity in a way that's fresh and easy to understand, and offers authentic Christian insights that speak to our deepest needs. This new edition includes a leader's guide, previously only available online, and a new introduction from the author that reflects on the book's reception. The leader's guide features unique and easily implemented aids for carrying out a seven-week, congregation-wide initiative that will help local churches reach out to their communities. More information is available at thielen.wjkbooks.com.
Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421411083
Total Pages : 917 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-01-21 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winners of an Honorable Mention from the Modern Language Association's Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition Writing to his publisher in 1813, Shelley expressed the hope that two of his major works "should form one volume"; nearly two centuries later, the second volume of the Johns Hopkins edition of The Complete Poetry fulfills that wish for the first time. This volume collects two important pieces: Queen Mab and The Esdaile Notebook. Privately issued in 1813, Queen Mab was perhaps Shelley's most intellectually ambitious work, articulating his views of science, politics, history, religion, society, and individual human relations. Subtitled A Philosophical Poem: With Notes, it became his most influential—and pirated—poem during much of the nineteenth century, a favorite among reformers and radicals. The Esdaile Notebook, a cycle of fifty-eight early poems, exhibits an astonishing range of verse forms. Unpublished until 1964, this sequence is vital in understanding how the poet mastered his craft. As in the acclaimed first volume, these works have been critically edited by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat. The poems are presented as Shelley intended, with textual variants included in footnotes. Following the poems are extensive discussions of the circumstances of their composition and the influences they reflect; their publication or circulation by other means; their reception at the time of publication and in the decades since; their re-publication, both authorized and unauthorized; and their place in Shelley's intellectual and aesthetic development.
Author : Padraic Fallon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Poet's Journal & Other Writings, 1934-1974 written by Padraic Fallon and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet and playwright Padraic Fallon (1905-74) was an active and prolific reviewer-critic in the leading Irish periodicals of his day. He wrote principally for Dublin Magazine, The Bell and The Irish Times where he was befriended by its famous editor R.M. Smyllie. He came to know the leading Irish literary figures of his time - Yeats, George Russell (AE) and most especially Austin Clarke, with whom he shared a serious engagement with the Gaelic literary tradition. The essay-reviews here include his influential 'Poets' Journal' from The Bell, with connective pieces on Synge, Yeats, AE, O'Casey, F.R. Higgins, James Stephens, Graves, Pound, MacNeice, Kinsella, Hughes and Larkin, salted by others on the Elizabethan playwright Cyril Tourneur and Ibsen. In this interpretive work he proves himself a lucid, eloquent modernist of the first order. This volume, marks the centenary of Fallon's birth in Athenry, Co. Galway. It is introduced and edited by his son, The Irish Times critic and writer Brian Fallon, who has also edited his father's Poems and Versions (1983), Collected Poems (1990) and Collected Plays (2005).
Author : Barak Lurie
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9780999513903
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Atheism Kills written by Barak Lurie and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Atheism Kills, Barak Lurie exposes the horrors of a world without God. Contrary to the mantra we've heard time and time again that religion is responsible for more deaths than anything else, it is in fact the absence of God which has killed--in obscene numbers. Ever since atheism first assumed government control in the French Revolution, it has done nothing but kill. Atheism has killed through its many deputies: progressivism, eugenics, fascism, and communism. Lurie shows that it was the godlessness in each of these ideologies that killed hundreds of millions. But atheism doesn't just kill lives. It kills purpose, free will, beauty, compassion, a sense of the past and future, creativity, and freedom itself. Atheism offers only the horrors of chaos and totalitarianism. The world misplaces its focus on Radical Islam as the greatest threat to civilization. As horrible as it is, it is doing nothing and having no sense of self which are the true enemies. It was our will to fight and sense of mission that overcame fascism and communism. We must have these to keep Radical Islam at bay, too. This is why we must resist the growth of atheism. It was God that gave us our freedom. It was God who gave our sense of purpose that created civilization. Take those away, and there is nothing to fight for. In this way, Lurie shows that the lack of belief in God is our greatest danger. How does he know? Because like a hurricane, godlessness has only known how to destroy everything in its path. It has never created. Like there will always be fires, there will always be enemies that seek to destroy our civilization. But if we don't have fire stations with crew, and protocol in each city to deal with fires, those fires will consume us. Likewise, how we prepare ourselves to deal with horrific ideologies will be what saves us. That preparation can only come with our embrace of the centrality of God.
Author : R.T. Raichev
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750958715
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Killing of Olga Klimt written by R.T. Raichev and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do plots involving exchanged murders still work and who exactly is the victim? Antonia Darcy never imagined that taking her young grandson to his first day at nursery school would embroil her in a most baffling case of mistaken identity and murder. Major Payne, on the other hand, believed that it was their destiny. Olga Klimt played a dangerous game with the affections of the men in love with her, though she knew perfectly well there might be a high price to pay ... Among the unlikely murder suspects is a rich young heir to a biscuit fortune, his Aconite-addicted mother, his manservant and the headmistress of a prestigious nursery school. In this, their ninth investigation, husband and wife sleuths, Antonia Darcy and Major Payne, search desperately for answers before the killer strikes again.
