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Author : Robert A. Orsi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253212764
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Gods of the City written by Robert A. Orsi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Review
Author : Caroline Arnold
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN 13 : 1623347793
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (233 download)
Download or read book City of the Gods written by Caroline Arnold and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the ruins of the ancient metropolis and ceremonial complex of Teotihuacan (Mexico) and experience what life was like for the people who lived there.
Author : Robert Jackson Bennett
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0804137188
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book City of Stairs written by Robert Jackson Bennett and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An atmospheric and intrigue-filled novel of dead gods, buried histories, and a mysterious, protean city--from one of America's most acclaimed young fantasy writers. The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions—until its divine protectors were killed. Now Bulikov has become just another colonial outpost of the world's new geopolitical power, but the surreal landscape of the city itself—first shaped, now shattered, by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it—stands as a constant, haunting reminder of its former supremacy. Into this broken city steps Shara Thivani. Officially, the unassuming young woman is just another junior diplomat sent by Bulikov's oppressors. Unofficially, she is one of her country's most accomplished spies, dispatched to catch a murderer. But as Shara pursues the killer, she starts to suspect that the beings who ruled this terrible place may not be as dead as they seem—and that Bulikov's cruel reign may not yet be over.
Author : Augustine Of Hippo
Publisher : Limovia.Net
ISBN 13 : 9781783362462
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (624 download)
Download or read book City of God written by Augustine Of Hippo and published by Limovia.Net. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents human history as being a conflict between what Augustine calls the City of Man and the City of God, a conflict that is destined to end in victory of the latter. The City of God is marked by people who forgot earthly pleasure to dedicate themselves to the eternal truths of God, now revealed fully in the Christian faith. The City of Man, on the other hand, consists of people who have immersed themselves in the cares and pleasures of the present, passing world. Though The City of God follows Christian theology, the main idea of a conflict between good and evil follows from Augustine's former beliefs in Manichaeanism. A philosophy based on the idea of primordial conflict between light and darkness or goodness and evil. In the case of City of God, it is the City of God (representing light) and the City of Man (representing darkness). Though his book follows an ideology of Manichaeanism, he still distances himself from them by calling them heretics: ..". I say, so just and fit, which, when piously and carefully weighed, terminates all the controversies of those who inquire into the origin of the world, has not been recognized by some heretics ..." Later, when Augustine converted to Christianity he at one point accepted Neo-Platonism. He ends up adding an idea of Neo-Platonism with a Christian idea in The City of God when he says: "As for those who own, indeed, that it was made by God, and yet ascribe to it not a temporal but only a creational beginning ..."
Author : Paulo Lins
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 155584684X
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)
Download or read book City of God written by Paulo Lins and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The searing novel on which the internationally acclaimed hit film was based. “A Scarface-like urban epic . . . punctuated with lyricism and longing” (Publishers Weekly). City of God is a gritty, gorgeous tour de force from one of Brazil’s most notorious slums. Cidade de Deus: a place where the streets are awash with narcotics, where violence can erupt at any moment over drugs, money, and love—but also a place where the samba beat rocks till dawn, where the women are the most beautiful on earth, and where one young man wants to escape his background and become a photographer. When City of God erupted on screens worldwide, it became one of the most critically and commercially successful foreign films of recent years. But few were aware of the story behind the film. Written by Paulo Lins, who grew up in the favela (shantytown) Cidade de Deus in Rio de Janeiro and who spent years researching its gang history, City of God began life as a coruscating, harrowing novelistic account of twenty years in the illicit pursuits of the youth gangs born from the favela. “With plot devices sometimes as minimal as the dawning of a new day, City of God seems more like a mosaic than a novel, but it’s a mosaic with unforgettably vibrant colors.” —Booklist
Author : Sarwat Chadda
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1368066631
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book City of the Plague God written by Sarwat Chadda and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Sikander Aziz has to team up with the hero Gilgamesh in order to stop Nergal, the ancient god of plagues, from wiping out the population of Manhattan in this adventure based on Mesopotamian mythology.
Author : Kathleen Berrin
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500277676
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (776 download)
Download or read book Teotihuacan written by Kathleen Berrin and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1994 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen hundred years ago, Teotihuacan was one of the world's greatest cities. Some 200,000 people lived in this Mexican metropolis, with its massive public buildings, grid plan of streets and imposing murals and sculpture. Its trading empire dominated much of ancient Mexico. Then, in the 8th century, came a mysterious collapse. Even knowledge of the original name was lost: Teotihuacan, City of the Gods, was a title bestowed by the Aztecs six hundred years later.
Author : Robert Anthony Orsi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Gods of the City written by Robert Anthony Orsi and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The City of God written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert A. Orsi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253113313
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Gods of the City written by Robert A. Orsi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fascinating insights into modern urban religious practice make Orsi's collection a must-read." -- Publishers Weekly "The essays provide insight into the cultural creativity, reinterpretation of worship and religious ingenuity of city people over the last 50 years." -- Library Journal "At last, a major dissection of the great mystery in modern Americanlife -- how religion and spirituality prospered amidst industrialization,urbanization, and rampant technological change after 1880!" -- Jon Butler, Yale University "Urban religion" strikes many as an oxymoron. How can religion thrive in the alienated, secular, fast-paced, and materialistic world of the modern, Western city? The authors in this collection believe that cities not only can provide the settings for religious expression, but also are material to the experiences which give rise to those religious expressions. In this book, they explore the distinctly urban forms of religious experience and practice that have developed in relation to the spaces, social conditions, and history of American cities.
Author : Aurelius Augustinus (santo)
Publisher : New City Press
ISBN 13 : 1565484541
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (654 download)
Download or read book The City of God written by Aurelius Augustinus (santo) and published by New City Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with his Confessions, The City of God is undoubtedly St. Augustine's most influential work. In the context of what begins as a lengthy critique of classic Roman religion and a defense of Christianity, Augustine touches upon numerous topics, including the role of grace, the original state of humanity, the possibility of waging a just war, the ideal form of government, and the nature of heaven and hell. But his major concern is the difference between the City of God and the City of Man - one built on love of God, the other on love of self. One cannot but be moved and impressed by the author's breadth of interest and penetrating intelligence. For all those who are interested in the greatest classics of Christian antiquity, The City of God is indispensible. This long-awaited translation by William Babcock is published in two volumes, with an introduction and annotation that make Augustine's monumental work approachable. Books 11-22 offer Augustine's Christian view of history, including the Christian view of human destiny.
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The City of God written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230299211
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The City of God Volume 2 written by Saint Augustine Of Hippo and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... THE EIGHTH BOOK i i ... CHAPTER I The scope of the afore-passed disputation, and what is remaining to treat of. In these controversies of the gods, some have held How can deities of both natures, good and evil: others (of better minds) did the gods that honour to hold them all good. But those that held the first, held the airy spirits to be gods also, and called them gods, as they called the gods, spirits, but not so ordinarily. Indeed they confess that Jove, the prince of all the rest, was by Homer called a damon. But such as affirmed all the gods were good ones, and far better than the best men, are justly moved by the arts of the airy spirits, to hold firmly that the gods could do no such matters, and therefore of force there must be a difference between them and these spirits: and that what ever displeasant affect, or bad act they see caused, wherein these spirits do show their secret power, that they hold is the devil's work, and not the gods'. But yet because they place these spirits as mediators between their gods and men (as if God and man had no other means of commerce), to carry and recarry prayers and benefits from the one to the other, this being the opinion of the most excellent philosophers the Platonists, with whom I choose to discuss this question, whether the adoration of many gods be helpful to eternal felicity? In the last book we disputed VOL. II 8i F Of these how the devils (delighting in that which all wise and air-spirits honest men abhor, as in the foul, enormous, irreligious fictions of tne gods' crimes (not men's), and in the damnable practice of magic), can be so much nearer to the gods; that men must make them the means to attain their favours: and we found it utterly impossible. So now this...
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813215549
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (155 download)
Download or read book The City of God: Books 1-7 written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521468435
Total Pages : 1284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-24 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first new rendition for a generation of one of the classic texts of Western civilisation.
Author : John S. Dunne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (256 download)
Download or read book The City of the Gods written by John S. Dunne and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Scott Verne
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781456547103
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (471 download)
Download or read book City of the Gods written by M. Scott Verne and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-01-24 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where did the Gods go after they left Earth? Some jobs feel like they last for eternity, but in D'Molay's case they actually do. Granted longevity and trapped in a timeless city governed by all the old gods of Earth, D'Molay makes a fateful choice to assist a hapless girl. He slowly discovers she is far more than she even knows and starts to suspect she has some kind of connection to a huge beast ravaging the Olympian realm. D'Molay is torn between his duty to the eternal world and the leading of his heart. His compulsion to protect her pits the wits of a man against the guile of the gods, rekindling a faith he had long ago forgotten. In theory any of the gods of old could appear in the City of the gods. In this novel some of the deities that appear include Zeus, Eros, Zepherus, Ares, Hermes & Glaucus. Egyptian gods Set & Sekumet. Babylonian gods include Lamasthu & Namtar. And you also meet various Chinese, Norse, Indian, Mayan and African gods as the story unfolds. They are portrayed very much as they appeared in classical mythology, but given each of them their own personalities and motivations. The book has over 100 illustrations in is 428 pages, including works by Dore, Ingres, Leighton and many other classic painters from the 1600's to the late 1800's. Many of the pieces have been digitally altered to fit the story. There is also a map of the Godly Realms that is actually part of the story as the main character uses it to plot their course throughout their journey, allowing the reader to follow along. Get your copy today and visit the wonderous City of the Gods...
