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Promise of Fidelity

Author : Omero Sabatini
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 0759653429
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Promise of Fidelity written by Omero Sabatini and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story is set in the seventeenth century, in the Duchy of Milan, then a Spanish possession in northern Italy; however, the plot is merely a pretext for the author to weave a timeless and universal tale that touches on every human feeling, passion, and behavior. In compelling fashion, love, hate, prejudice, vengeance, forgiveness, fear, courage, crime, punishment, redemption, treachery, loyalty, religion, superstition, love of country, devotion to duty, generosity, greed, art, science, politics, economics, and emigration come together in this book, making it, unquestionably, one of the giants of foreign literature. The book opens as two of Don Rodrigos toughs order the local parish priest, Father Abbondio, not to marry Lucia to Renzo--she a beautiful, honest and deeply religious country girl, he a sensible, upright and God-fearing craftsman. Don Rodrigo is an arrogant aristocrat able to impose his will on those around him thanks to an overall social structure that favors the powerful and preys on the downtrodden. He has forbidden the marriage because he has bet his cousin that he will seduce Lucia, and has set a deadline for his deed. The fearful priest obeys Don Rodrigos order, but a saintly monk, Brother Christopher, tries to dissuade him from lusting after the girl. Irritated by the friars plea, Don Rodrigo decides to kidnap Lucia, to be certain of possessing her before the expiration of the bet deadline. He fails because Lucia is not at home at the time of the attempted abduction. Trying to take advantage of a loophole in the law which allows two people to declare themselves man and wife (provided a priest is present), she and Renzo have gone to Father Abbondios residence, to force him to witness their exchange of vows. However, Father Abbondio, afraid of Don Rodrigos retribution, foils the two young peoples attempt. His screams cause his sexton to ring out the general alarm from the churchs bell tower. The fiancs, the would-be kidnappers, and the entire village are thrown in total disarray. Brother Christopher helps Lucia find safe haven in a convent, and makes arrangements for Renzo to find work in Milan, away from Don Rodrigos fury. Immediately after arriving in Milan, Renzo is, however, caught up in a bread riot sparked by a government-decreed price increase. He is framed and arrested as one of the riot ringleaders, but is able to escape to a neighboring country, where he is forced to disguise his identity. Since Don Rodrigos is not powerful enough to infiltrate Lucias place of asylum, he seeks the help of another man, "whose long arm often reached farther than his enemies eyes." Lucia is treacherously abducted and taken to this ferocious overlords castle, from where she is to be turned over to Don Rodrigo. However, the overlord has secretly been harboring serious concerns over his past crimes. Lucias plight and pleadings help precipitate his crisis of conscience. He goes to see Cardinal Federigo, who is on a pastoral visit in a nearby village, and, with the Cardinals encouragement, decides to change his way of life. Lucia is freed unharmed, but is still unable to return home because of the ever present threat from Don Rodrigo. So, she goes to live in Milan, under the protection of a powerful, well meaning, but rather eccentric couple. There, she has to wage a constant struggle with herself, because on the night of her abduction she had made a vow that she would remain a virgin if she could safely come out of that predicament. Though still deeply in love with Renzo, she is determined to keep her vow because of her strong religious faith. War, famine and pestilence further complicate the lives of the two young people but, at long last, Renzo is able to go looking for Lucia, and finds her in a hospital, recovering from the plague. Brother Christopher, who had gone to that same place to care for the diseased and the moribund, counsels Lucia on her vow, and releases her from it. Don Rodrigo dies from the plague, and the two fiancs are finally free to marry. They move to Renzos adopted country and from then on lead a comfortable and serene life, made all the more pleasant by their past suffering and their trust in God.

A Promise of Fidelity

Author : G. M. Cummings
Publisher : Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780982429297
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book A Promise of Fidelity written by G. M. Cummings and published by Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Prudhomme, a middle-aged, millionaire playboy, suddenly wakes up in a hospital with a broken leg. He had been vacationing in Mexico until the freak accident occurred. Because he¿s flat on his back for a month in a New Orleans hospital, he has plenty time to think about his life, and how he has squandered it, leaving a trail of broken hearts and enemies in its wake. Is someone out to kill him? Is voodoo involved? In his helpless state, Jonathan is attended by some very unusual and gifted nurses and his life begins to undergo a metamorphosis. But is it enough to ward off the spell of intrigue and witchcraft that has been cast over him and threatens to consume his, body and soul?

Delivering on the Promise of High-Impact Practices

Author : John Zilvinskis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000971872
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Delivering on the Promise of High-Impact Practices written by John Zilvinskis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research shows that enriching learning experiences such as learning communities, service-learning, undergraduate research, internships, and senior culminating experiences – collectively known as High-Impact Practices (HIPs) – are positively associated with student engagement; deep, and integrated learning; and personal and educational gains for all students – particularly for historically underserved students, including first-generation students and racially minoritized populations. While HIPs’ potential benefits for student learning, retention, and graduation are recognized and are being increasingly integrated across higher education programs, much of that potential remains unrealized; and their implementation frequently uneven. Colleges are eager to use the HIP nomenclature for recruitment, promoting equity for traditionally underserved student populations, and preparing lifelong learners and successful professionals. However, HIPs defy easy categorization or standardized implementation. They rely on fidelity, quality, and consistency – being “done well” – to achieve their learning outcomes; and, above all, require attention to access and equity if they are to fulfill their promise of benefitting all student populations equally.The goal of Delivering on the Promise of High-Impact Practices is to provide examples from around the country of the ways educators are advancing equity, promoting fidelity, achieving scale, and strengthening assessment of their own local high-impact practices. Its chapters bring together the best current scholarship, methodologies, and evidence-based practices within the HIPs field, illustrating new approaches to faculty professional development, culture and coalition building, research and assessment, and continuous improvement that help institutions understand and extend practices with a demonstrated high impact. For proponents and practitioners this book offers perspectives, data and critiques to interrogate and improve practice. For administrators it provides an understanding of what’s needed to deliver the necessary support.

Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics

Author : Robert Veatch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199718993
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics written by Robert Veatch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharmacists face ethical choices constantly -- sometimes dramatic life-and-death decisions, but more often subtle, less conspicuous choices that are nonetheless important. Among the topics confronted are assisted suicide, conscientious refusal, pain management, equitable distribution of drug resources within institutions and managed care plans, confidentiality, and alternative and non-traditional therapies. Veatch and Haddad's book, first published in 1999, was the first collection of case studies based on the real experiences of practicing pharmacists, for use as a teaching tool for pharmacy students. The second edition accounts for the many changes in pharmacy since 1999, including assisted suicide in Oregon, the purchasing of less expensive drugs from Canada, and the influence of managed care on prescriptions. The presentation of some cases is shortened, most are revised and updated, and two new chapters have been added. The first new chapter presents a new model for analyzing cases, while the second focuses on the ethics of new drug distribution systems, for example hospitals where pharmacists are forced to choose drugs based on cost-effectiveness, and internet based pharmacies.

A Promise of Fidelity

Author : G. M. Cummings
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781628393156
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book A Promise of Fidelity written by G. M. Cummings and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Prudhomme, a middle-aged, millionaire playboy. Suddenly wakes up in a hospital with a broken leg. He had been vacationing in Mexico until the freak accident occurred. Because he's flat on his back for a month in a New Orleans hospital, he has plenty time to think about his life, and how he has squandered it, leaving a trail of broken hearts and enemies in its wake. Is someone out to kill him? Is voodoo involved? After all this is New Orleans. People say that New Orleans is stock full of voodoo practitioners who can do all kinds of evil tricks and even astral project from their bodies. In his helpless state, some very unusual and gifted nurses attend Jonathan and his life begins to undergo a metamorphosis. But is it enough to ward off the spell of intrigue and witchcraft that has been cast over him and threatens to consume him, body and soul?

Mission Shaped by Promise

Author : Jukka A. Kääriäinen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621896625
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Mission Shaped by Promise written by Jukka A. Kääriäinen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing resources from Martin Luther and the Lutheran tradition, this study offers an understanding of the gospel as promise as key to addressing the challenge of relating the missio Dei to a generous, constructive approach toward the religious other. In its construction of a Lutheran missiology, it retrieves and reappropriates four resources from the Lutheran tradition: the gospel as promise, the law/gospel distinction, a theology of grace as promise of mercy fulfilled, and a theology of the cross utilizing the hiddenness of God. The law of God as accusing yet webbing humanity to its Creator; the gospel as the comforting promise of mercy; and the hiddenness of God as mystifying form the overarching framework within which the Lutheran missiology presented here seeks to engage the religious other by dialectically relating gospel proclamation and dialogue. Such a view of "mission shaped by promise" offers the paradox of God being both revealed and hidden in the cross as a distinctive contribution to an interreligious dialogue centered on the ambiguity and hiddenness of God.

The Irish Ecclesiastical Record

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Irish Ecclesiastical Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brown on Brown

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292796587
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Brown on Brown written by Frederick Luis Aldama and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common conceptions permeating U.S. ethnic queer theory tend to confuse aesthetics with real-world acts and politics. Often Chicano/a representations of gay and lesbian experiences in literature and film are analyzed simply as propaganda. The cognitive, emotional, and narrational ingredients (that is, the subject matter and the formal traits) of those representations are frequently reduced to a priori agendas that emphasize a politics of difference. In this book, Frederick Luis Aldama follows an entirely different approach. He investigates the ways in which race and gay/lesbian sexuality intersect and operate in Chicano/a literature and film while taking into full account their imaginative nature and therefore the specific kind of work invested in them. Also, Aldama frames his analyses within today's larger (globalized) context of postcolonial literary and filmic canons that seek to normalize heterosexual identity and experience. Throughout the book, Aldama applies his innovative approach to throw new light on the work of authors Arturo Islas, Richard Rodriguez, John Rechy, Ana Castillo, and Sheila Ortiz Taylor, as well as that of film director Edward James Olmos. In doing so, Aldama aims to integrate and deepen Chicano literary and filmic studies within a comparative perspective. Aldama's unusual juxtapositions of narrative materials and cultural personae, and his premise that literature and film produce fictional examples of a social and historical reality concerned with ethnic and sexual issues largely unresolved, make this book relevant to a wide range of readers.

The Sufferings of the Church in Brittany During the Great Revolution

Author : Edward Healy Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Sufferings of the Church in Brittany During the Great Revolution written by Edward Healy Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of John Owen, D.D.: An exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, with preliminary exercitations

Author : John Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Works of John Owen, D.D.: An exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, with preliminary exercitations written by John Owen and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Athens and Jerusalem

Author : Jack A. Bonsor
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592444067
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Athens and Jerusalem written by Jack A. Bonsor and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Enabling Fidelity to God

Author : Jason A. Whitlark
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606084771
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Enabling Fidelity to God written by Jason A. Whitlark and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary focus of this book is to demonstrate how Hebrews represents, in view of its historical and religious context, human fidelity to God. Thus, the basic thesis is twofold. First, with regard to the divine-human relationship in the ancient Mediterranean world, the belief in the reciprocity rationale was one primary dynamic for establishing fidelity to a relationship and has been applied by some scholars, such as David deSilva, to Hebrews as the way to understand its strategy for creating perseverance. A major problem with the application of this dynamic is that a common optimistic anthropological assumption is associated with the various reciprocity systems in the ancient world, both Jewish and pagan. This assumption is required if reciprocity is to be effective for establishing ongoing fidelity. Second, there was, however, a middle Judaic stream that can be traced from the period of the exile which held to a pessimistic anthropology. This anthropological assumption crippled the perceived success of reciprocity to secure fidelity. Thus, the solution to God's people's inability to remain faithful was an act of God that transformed the human condition and enabled faithfulness to the relationship. The argument of this book is that Hebrews, with its emphasis upon the inauguration of the new covenant by Jesus' high priestly ministry, belongs to this latter stream of thought in understanding how fidelity is secured between God and his people. Hebrews, thus, implicitly rejects the rationale of reciprocity for fidelity. The implications of this offers a fresh perspective on the soteriology of Hebrews.

The Premise of Fidelity

Author : Maki Fukuoka
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804784620
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Premise of Fidelity written by Maki Fukuoka and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of the discourses and practices surrounding the nineteenth century transposition of "the real" in the decades before photography was introduced. This intellectual history is informed by a careful examination of a network of local scholars—from physicians to farmers to bureaucrats—known as Shōhyaku-sha. In their archival materials, these scholars used the term shashin (which would, years later, come to signify "photography" in Japanese) in a wide variety of medical, botanical, and pictorial practices. These scholars pursued questions of the relationship between what they observed and what they believed they knew, in the process investigating scientific ideas and practices by obsessively naming and classifying, and then rendering through highly accurate illustration, the objects of their study. This book is an exploration of the process by which the Shōhyaku-sha shaped the concept of shashin. As such, it disrupts the dominant narratives of photography, art, and science in Japan, providing a prehistory of Japanese photography that requires the accepted history of the discipline to be rewritten.

Toward a Homiletical Theology of Promise

Author : David Schnasa Jacobsen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532613911
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Homiletical Theology of Promise written by David Schnasa Jacobsen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promise has a long pedigree in the history of Christian understandings of the gospel. This volume gathers together leading homileticians to consider the breadth of its understanding today in light of the struggle to reconcile God’s grace with God’s justice. Assuming that promise is a core sense of the gospel, how does this relate to the variety of contexts in which homiletical theology is done? In this final volume in the series, six homileticians from a variety of contexts and perspectives try to move specifically toward a homiletical theology of promise as a way to articulate the central theological gift and task that is preaching the gospel today.

The Promise of Democracy

Author : Fred Dallmayr
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143843040X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Promise of Democracy written by Fred Dallmayr and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presentation of a new, ethical vision of democracy built around self-rule, civic education, and ethical cultivation.

The Works of the Right Reverend John England, First Bishop of Charleston

Author : John England
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Works of the Right Reverend John England, First Bishop of Charleston written by John England and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Strict Fidelity and Holy Fear: a sermon on the much-lamented death of the Rev. Cornelius Winter, etc

Author : William BISHOP (Independent Minister.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Strict Fidelity and Holy Fear: a sermon on the much-lamented death of the Rev. Cornelius Winter, etc written by William BISHOP (Independent Minister.) and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: