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Book Synopsis Redeeming Pleasure by : Jeremy Jernigan
Download or read book Redeeming Pleasure written by Jeremy Jernigan and published by Worthy Books. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremy Jernigan, pastor of the twelve-thousand member Central Christian Church in Phoenix, Arizona, shows readers how to redeem pleasure from a culture that abuses it in ways God never intended.
Book Synopsis Redeeming Words by : David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
Download or read book Redeeming Words written by David Michael Kleinberg-Levin and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language. In this probing look at Alfred Döblin’s 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and the stories of W. G. Sebald, Redeeming Words offers a philosophical meditation on the power of language in literature. David Kleinberg-Levin draws on the critical theory of Benjamin and Adorno; the idealism and romanticism of Kant, Hegel, Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schelling; and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. He shows how Döblin and Sebald—writers with radically different styles working in different historical moments—have in common a struggle against forces of negativity and an aim to bring about in response a certain redemption of language. Kleinberg-Levin considers the fast-paced, staccato, and hard-cut sentences of Döblin and the ghostly, languorous, and melancholy prose fiction of Sebald to articulate how both writers use language in an attempt to recover and convey this utopian promise of happiness for life in a time of mourning.
Book Synopsis Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness by : David Kleinberg-Levin
Download or read book Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness written by David Kleinberg-Levin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book boldly ventures to cross some traditional academic boundaries, offering an original, philosophically informed argument regarding the nature of language by reading and interpreting the poetry of Wallace Stevens and the novels of Vladimir Nabokov. So it is a work both in literary criticism and in philosophy. The approach is strongly influenced by Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of language and Theodor Adorno’s aesthetic theory, but the philosophical thought of other philosophers—notably Plato, Kant, Hegel, Emerson, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein—figures significantly in the reading and interpretation. The essence of the argument is that, despite its damaged condition (standardization, commodification, staleness), language is, as such, by virtue of its very existence, the bearer of a utopian or messianic promise of happiness. Moreover, it is argued that, by reconciling the two senses of sense (sensuous sense and intelligible sense), showing the sheer power of words to create fictional worlds and destroy what they have just created, and redeeming the revelatory power of words—above all, the power to turn the familiar into something no longer familiar, something astonishing or perplexing—the two writers in this study sustain our hope for a world of reconciled antagonisms and contradictions, evoking in the way they freely play with the sounds and meanings of words, some intimations of a world—our world here, this very world, not some heavenly world—in which the promise of happiness would be fulfilled and redeemed. In the first part of the book, reflecting on the poetry of Stevens, Kleinberg-Levin argues that the poet defies the correspondence theory of truth to enable words to be faithful to truth as transformative and revelatory—what Heidegger calls “unconcealment”, translating the Greek. He also argues that in the pleasure we get from the sensuous play of words, there is an anticipation of the promise of happiness that challenges the theological doctrine of an otherworldly happiness and makes the religious experience seem like a paltry substitute. In the second part of the book, Kleinberg-Levin shows how Nabokov inherits Mallarmé’s conception of literature, causing with his word-plays the sudden reduction of the fictional world he has just so compellingly created to its necessary conditions of materiality: white paper, ink, print on the page. We thus see the novel as a work of fiction, as mere semblance; we see its conditions of possibility, created and destroyed before our very eyes. But the pleasure in seeing words doing this, and the pleasure in their sensuous materiality, are intimations of the promise of happiness that language bears. Using a Kantian definition of modernism, according to which a work is modernist if it reveals and questions the inherited assumptions about its necessary conditions of possibility, these studies show how and why both Stevens and Nabokov are exemplars of literary modernism.
Book Synopsis Eat with Joy by : Rachel Marie Stone
Download or read book Eat with Joy written by Rachel Marie Stone and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking an antidote to widespread anxiety over food ethics, cultural obesity and more, Rachel Stone calls us to reclaim the joy of eating with gratitude. As we learn to see our daily bread as a gift from above, we find our highest religious and cultural ideals (from the sacramental life to sustainable living) taking shape on a common tabletop....
Book Synopsis Redeeming the Time by : Leland Ryken
Download or read book Redeeming the Time written by Leland Ryken and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very few works attempt to analyze and apply the biblical principles that relate to work and leisure. Leland Ryken hopes to change that, reframing labor and leisure around God's purposes for a holistic lifestyle. Ryken finds the answers in Scripture and in the rich heritage of theological thinking, while weaving together insights drawn from a wide array of sources. The result is one of the most informed and practical studies on our day-to-day activities.
Book Synopsis Redeeming Love (Movie Tie-In) by : Francine Rivers
Download or read book Redeeming Love (Movie Tie-In) written by Francine Rivers and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Abigail Cowen, Tom Lewis, Nina Dobrev, with Logan Marshall Green and Eric Dane, special appearance by Famke Janssen. Distributed by Universal Pictures with a screenplay by Francine Rivers and D.J. Caruso. California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside. Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his Father’s heart in everything. Michael obeys God’s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel’s every bitter expectation, until despite her resistance, her frozen heart begins to thaw. But with her unexpected softening comes overwhelming feelings of unworthiness and fear. And so Angel runs. Back to the darkness, away from her husband’s pursuing love, terrified of the truth she no longer can deny: her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael does . . . the One who will never let her go. A powerful retelling of the story of Gomer and Hosea, Redeeming Love is a life-changing story of God’s unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love. Includes a six-part reading group guide!
Book Synopsis History of a Pleasure Seeker by : Richard Mason
Download or read book History of a Pleasure Seeker written by Richard Mason and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Just try to resist.... A Continental Downton Abbey plus sex, with a dash of Dangerous Liaisons tossed in.” —Seattle Times Piet Barol has an instinctive appreciation for pleasure and a gift for finding it. When his mother dies, Piet applies for a job as tutor to the troubled son of Europe's leading hotelier—a child who refuses to leave his family’s mansion on one of Amsterdam’s grandest canals. As Piet enters this glittering world, he learns its secrets and finds his life transformed. A brilliantly written portrait of the senses, History of a Pleasure Seeker is an opulent, romantic coming-of-age drama set at the height of Europe’s Belle Époque, written with a lightness of touch that is wholly modern and original.
Book Synopsis Redeeming Relationship, Relationships that Redeem by : Matthew Ryan Robinson
Download or read book Redeeming Relationship, Relationships that Redeem written by Matthew Ryan Robinson and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renewed focus on the role of interpersonal relationships in the cultivation of religious sensibilities is emerging in the study of religion. Matthew Ryan Robinson addresses this question in his study of Friedrich Schleiermacher's notion of "free sociability". In Schleiermacher's ethics, the human person is formed in and consists of intimate, tightly interconnecting relationships with others. Schleiermacher describes this sociability as a natural tendency prompted by experiences of physical and existential limitation that lead one to look to others to complete one's experience. But this experience of incompleteness and orientation to "the completion of humanity" also constitute the fundamental structure of religion in Schleiermacher's theory of religion as orientation to "the universe and the relationship of humanity to it." Thus, Schleiermacher not only presents sociability as basic to human nature, but also as inherently religious - and, potentially, redemptive.
Book Synopsis North American Indians by : George Catlin
Download or read book North American Indians written by George Catlin and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians by : George Catlin
Download or read book Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians written by George Catlin and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians ... by : George Catlin
Download or read book Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians ... written by George Catlin and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The North American Indians Volume 2 of 2 by : George Catlin
Download or read book The North American Indians Volume 2 of 2 written by George Catlin and published by Digital Scanning Inc. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North American Indians being letters and notes on their manners customs and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, from 1832-1839 The North American Indians features fifty-eight letters and 320 engraved color illustrations from the author’s original portraits, all in a two-volume set. Volume 1 ISBN 978-1582188683 Volume 2 ISBN 978-1582188690. Both Volumes contain 320 color illustrations digitally reproduced from the John Grant 1926 edition.
Book Synopsis The North American Indians by : George Catlin
Download or read book The North American Indians written by George Catlin and published by Digital Scanning Inc. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Catlin was an American painter and writer. In 1823 he gave up his law practice to pursue his self-taught art, painting portraits in Philadelphia, Washington, D. C. and Albany, New York. After meeting a tribal delegation of Native Americans from the Far West he became eager to preserve the vanishing tribes and customs of the Native Americans through his art.
Book Synopsis The Poetry of Raymond Carver by : Sandra Lee Kleppe
Download or read book The Poetry of Raymond Carver written by Sandra Lee Kleppe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known as one of the great short story writers of the twentieth century, Raymond Carver also published several volumes of poetry and considered himself as much a poet as a fiction writer. Sandra Lee Kleppe combines comparative analysis with an in-depth examination of Carver’s poems, making a case for the quality of Carver’s poetic output and showing the central role Carver’s pursuit of poetry played in his career as a writer. Carver constructed his own organic literary system of 'autopoetics,' a concept connected to a paradigm shift in our understanding of the inter-relatedness of biological and cultural systems. This idea is seen as informing Carver’s entire production, and a distinguishing feature of Kleppe’s book is its contextualization of Carver’s poetry within the complex literary and scientific systems that influenced his development as a writer. Kleppe addresses the common themes and intertextual links between Carver’s poetry and short story careers, situates Carver’s poetry within the love poem tradition, explores the connections between neurology and poetic memories, and examines Carver’s use of the elegy genre within the context of his terminal illness. Tellingly, Carver’s poetry, which has aroused slight interest among literary scholars, is frequently taught to medical students. This testimony to the interdisciplinary implications of Carver’s work suggests the appropriateness of Kleppe’s culminating discussion of Carver’s work as a bridge between the fields of literature and medicine.
Book Synopsis The Whole Works of the Late Rev. Mr. Ebenezer Erskine, Minister of the Gospel at Stirling by : Ebenezer Erskine
Download or read book The Whole Works of the Late Rev. Mr. Ebenezer Erskine, Minister of the Gospel at Stirling written by Ebenezer Erskine and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Victory in Marriage by : Sarah Noel Maxwell
Download or read book Victory in Marriage written by Sarah Noel Maxwell and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victory in Marriage will tell you things most married couples wish they knew before marriage began. The wedding, prayer, money, sex, long-distance relationships, dating, and many other topics will be dissected, and hopefully you'll learn something that will equip you to be the kind of spouse you want to be married to! Whether you're single, engaged, or married, you can gain something if you invite God into your reading. You'll be encouraged, laugh a little, and struggle with breaking down difficult notions we've grown up hearing—most probably false—like how marriage is something you do simply "because I love them!" and how you should end your marriage if you aren't happy. Sarah defines her worth in seeking Christ-likeness in all aspects of her life, even when she falls short. She has written many blogs on various topics and hopes to publish a book for women, as well as children's picture books in the near future, but Victory in Marriage is her first published book. "I wasn't married long," Sarah says, "but I entered marriage with God already the Lord of my life, being married committedly, even when it was ending, is what makes me qualified. Betrayal changed my life after this book published, but the meaning and importance of marriage remains." "I hope Victory in Marriage creates teachable moments for you as it did for me when I wrote it," Sarah shares. "As you read, consult scriptures and prayerfully take your time reading, and contact me to discuss any discrepancies, concerns, or inspiring moments further with me." "Victory in Marriage is filled with beautifully written, authentic advice of how to do marriage well. Sarah covers a multitude of topics and consistently points to Jesus through each subject." — Mat and Est - Christian Vloggers
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