On Reading Well

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Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1493415468
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Book Synopsis On Reading Well by : Karen Swallow Prior

Download or read book On Reading Well written by Karen Swallow Prior and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★ Publishers Weekly starred review A Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers Weekly Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue, says acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior. In this book, she takes readers on a guided tour through works of great literature both ancient and modern, exploring twelve virtues that philosophers and theologians throughout history have identified as most essential for good character and the good life. Covering authors from Henry Fielding to Cormac McCarthy, Jane Austen to George Saunders, and Flannery O'Connor to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prior explores some of the most compelling universal themes found in the pages of classic books, helping readers learn to love life, literature, and God through their encounters with great writing. The book includes end-of-chapter reflection questions geared toward book club discussions, original artwork throughout, and a foreword by Leland Ryken. The hardcover edition was named a Best Book of 2018 in Religion by Publishers Weekly. "[A] lively treatise on building character through books.'"--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The Phoenix

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022619549X
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Phoenix written by Joe Nigg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arising triumphantly from the ashes of its predecessor, the phoenix has been an enduring symbol of resilience and renewal for thousands of years. But how did this mythical bird become so famous that it has played a part in cultures around the world and throughout human history? How much of its story do we actually know? Here to offer a comprehensive biography and engaging (un)natural history of the phoenix is Joseph Nigg, esteemed expert on otherworldly creatures from dragons to gryphons to sea monsters. Beginning in ancient Egypt and traveling around the globe and through the centuries, Nigg's vast and sweeping narrative takes readers on a brilliant tour of the cross-cultural lore of this famous, yet little-known, immortal bird. This entertaining and informative look at the life and transformation of the phoenix will be the authoritative source for anyone fascinated by folklore and mythology, re-igniting our curiosity about one of myth's greatest beasts.

Why Religion Matters

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061756245
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Book Synopsis Why Religion Matters by : Huston Smith

Download or read book Why Religion Matters written by Huston Smith and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huston Smith, the author of the classic bestseller The World's Religions, delivers a passionate, timely message: The human spirit is being suffocated by the dominant materialistic worldview of our times. Smith champions a society in which religion is once again treasured and authentically practiced as the vital source of human wisdom.

A Little Exercise for Young Theologians

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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802874150
Total Pages : 80 pages
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Book Synopsis A Little Exercise for Young Theologians by : Thielicke

Download or read book A Little Exercise for Young Theologians written by Thielicke and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zusammenfassung: This classic little book for new and experienced theologians alike offers wise counsel on the difficulties-- and vital importance-- of maintaining one's spiritual health in the course of academic theological study. Since the book's first appearance in English translation in 1962, thousands of beginning theological students have had the opportunity to eavesdrop, as it were, on the opening lecture of a theological seminar by one of the twentieth century's leading Christian thinkers, Helmut Thielicke. More experienced pastors and theologians have also returned to it again and again for the valuable insights that Thielicke brings to bear on their vocation. (Publisher)

Magicians of the Gods

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Publisher : Coronet
ISBN 13 : 1444779699
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Magicians of the Gods written by Graham Hancock and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TV presenter Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with a book filled with completely new, scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only recently come to light... The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilization that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago. Near the end of the last Ice Age 12,800 years ago, a giant comet that had entered the solar system from deep space thousands of years earlier, broke into multiple fragments. Some of these struck the Earth causing a global cataclysm on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. At least eight of the fragments hit the North American ice cap, while further fragments hit the northern European ice cap. The impacts, from comet fragments a mile wide approaching at more than 60,000 miles an hour, generated huge amounts of heat which instantly liquidized millions of square kilometres of ice, destabilizing the Earth's crust and causing the global Deluge that is remembered in myths all around the world. A second series of impacts, equally devastating, causing further cataclysmic flooding, occurred 11,600 years ago, the exact date that Plato gives for the destruction and submergence of Atlantis. But there were survivors - known to later cultures by names such as 'the Sages', 'the Magicians', 'the Shining Ones', and 'the Mystery Teachers of Heaven'. They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark of civilization burning. They settled at key locations - Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, Baalbek in the Lebanon, Giza in Egypt, ancient Sumer, Mexico, Peru and across the Pacific where a huge pyramid has recently been discovered in Indonesia. Everywhere they went these 'Magicians of the Gods' brought with them the memory of a time when mankind had fallen out of harmony with the universe and paid a heavy price. A memory and a warning to the future... For the comet that wrought such destruction between 12,800 and 11,600 years may not be done with us yet. Astronomers believe that a 20-mile wide 'dark' fragment of the original giant comet remains hidden within its debris stream and threatens the Earth. An astronomical message encoded at Gobekli Tepe, and in the Sphinx and the pyramids of Egypt,warns that the 'Great Return' will occur in our time...

Encountering the Book of Psalms

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Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 0801027950
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book Encountering the Book of Psalms written by C. Hassell Bullock and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A user-friendly guide to the study and interpretation of the Psalms.

An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
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Book Synopsis An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament by : Samuel Rolles Driver

Download or read book An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament written by Samuel Rolles Driver and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Booksellers, Stationers and Fancy Goods Journal of Australia and New Zealand

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Two Masters and Two Gospels, Volume 1

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ISBN 13 : 9781952249037
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis Two Masters and Two Gospels, Volume 1 by : J. Michael Bennett

Download or read book Two Masters and Two Gospels, Volume 1 written by J. Michael Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contrasts the timeless Kingdom of Heaven teaching of Jesus of Nazareth and "another gospel" proclaimed by talk radio and cable news, the latter influencing American Christians from hours of weekly exposure, and explores the disturbing and little-known American history of powerful interests who stole the hearts and minds of its clergy.

Making Sense of the Divine Name in the Book of Exodus

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575064847
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Book Synopsis Making Sense of the Divine Name in the Book of Exodus by : Austin Surls

Download or read book Making Sense of the Divine Name in the Book of Exodus written by Austin Surls and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The obvious riddles and difficulties in Exod 3:13–15 and Exod 6:2–8 have attracted an overwhelming amount of attention and comment. These texts make important theological statements about the divine name YHWH and the contours of the divine character. From the enigmatic statements in Exod 3:13–15, most scholars reconstruct the original form of the name as “Yahweh,” which is thought to describe YHWH’s creative power or self-existence. Similarly, Exod 6:3 has become a classic proof-text for the Documentary Hypothesis and an indication of different aspects of God’s character as shown in history. Despite their seeming importance for “defining” the divine name, these texts are ancillary to and preparatory for the true revelation of the divine name in the book of Exodus. This book attempts to move beyond atomistic readings of individual texts and etymological studies of the divine name toward a holistic reading of the book of Exodus. Surls centers his argument around in-depth analyses of Exod 3:13–15, 6:2–8 and Exod 33:12–23 and 34:5–8. Consequently, the definitive proclamation of YHWH’s character is not given at the burning bush but in response to Moses’ later intercession (Exod 33:12–23). YHWH proclaimed his name in a formulaic manner that Israel could appropriate (Exod 34:6–7), and the Hebrew Bible quotes or alludes to this text in many genres. This demonstrates the centrality of Exod 34:6–7 to Old Testament Theology. The character of God cannot be discerned from an etymological analysis of the word yhwh but from a close study of YHWH’s deliberate ascriptions made progressively in the book of Exodus.

Opening Israel's Scriptures

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ISBN 13 : 0190260548
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Opening Israel's Scriptures written by Ellen F. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Chronicles, which gives powerful insight into the complexity and inexhaustibility of the Hebrew Scriptures as a theological resource. Based on more than two decades of lectures on Old Testament interpretation, Ellen F. Davis offers a selective yet comprehensive guide to the core concepts, literary patterns, storylines, and theological perspectives that are central to Israel's Scriptures. Underlying the whole study is the primary assumption that each book of the canon has literary and theological coherence, though not uniformity. In both her close readings of individual texts and in her broad demonstrations of the coherence of whole books, Davis models the best practices of contemporary exegesis, integrating the insights of contemporary scholars with those of classical theological resources in Jewish and Christian traditions. Throughout, she keeps an eye to the experiences and concerns of contemporary readers, showing through multiple examples that the critical interpretation of texts is provisional, open-ended work--a collaboration across generations and cultures. Ultimately what she offers is an invitation into the more spacious world that the Bible discloses, which challenges ordinary conceptions of how things "really" are.

A supplement to Allibone's Critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors

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Total Pages : 758 pages
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Book Synopsis A supplement to Allibone's Critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors by : John Foster Kirk

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The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences

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Total Pages : 844 pages
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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors

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Total Pages : 754 pages
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Book Synopsis A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors by : Samuel Austin Allibone

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Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle

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Total Pages : 954 pages
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The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039360831X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature by : Adam Kirsch

Download or read book The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature written by Adam Kirsch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to the classics of Jewish literature, from the Bible to modern times, by "one of America’s finest literary critics" (Wall Street Journal). Jews have long embraced their identity as “the people of the book.” But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary tradition remains little known to nonspecialist readers. The People and the Books shows how central questions and themes of our history and culture are reflected in the Jewish literary canon: the nature of God, the right way to understand the Bible, the relationship of the Jews to their Promised Land, and the challenges of living as a minority in Diaspora. Adam Kirsch explores eighteen classic texts, including the biblical books of Deuteronomy and Esther, the philosophy of Maimonides, the autobiography of the medieval businesswoman Glückel of Hameln, and the Zionist manifestoes of Theodor Herzl. From the Jews of Roman Egypt to the mystical devotees of Hasidism in Eastern Europe, The People and the Books brings the treasures of Jewish literature to life and offers new ways to think about their enduring power and influence.

The Literary chronicle and weekly review

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Total Pages : 840 pages
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Download or read book The Literary chronicle and weekly review written by and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: