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Writing beyond Prophecy

Author : Martin Kevorkian
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807147621
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Writing beyond Prophecy written by Martin Kevorkian and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing beyond Prophecy offers a new interpretation of the American Renaissance by drawing attention to a cluster of later, rarely studied works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. Identifying a line of writing from Emerson's Conduct of Life to Hawthorne's posthumously published Elixir of Life manuscript to Melville's Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, Martin Kevorkian demonstrates how these authors wrestled with their vocational calling. Early in their careers, these three authors positioned their literary pursuits as an alternative to the ministry. By presenting a "new revelation" and a new set of "gospels" for the nineteenth century, they sought to usurp the authority of the pulpit. Later in life, each writer came to recognize the audacity of his earlier work, creating what Kevorkian characterizes as a literary aftermath. Strikingly, each author later wrote about the character of a young divinity student torn by a crisis of faith and vocation. Writing beyond Prophecy gives a distinctive shape to the late careers of Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville and offers a cohesive account of the lingering religious devotion left in the wake of American Romanticism.

Beyond Prophecies and Predictions

Author : Moira Timms
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345410207
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Prophecies and Predictions written by Moira Timms and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and important book synthesizes the major world prophecies--including those of the Hopi, the Mayans, Babylonians the Bible, Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and the Great Pyramid--into a compelling, unified theory with an inescapable message: the choices we collectively make today create our tomorrow. Positive changes in the mass consciousness and constructive actions can modify our planetary karma and avert catastrophe. "From the Paperback edition.

Beyond Prewrath: End-Time Prophecy

Author : Robert Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736858844
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Prewrath: End-Time Prophecy written by Robert Parker and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new theory has the rapture in Rev. 8:5 as the unique phrase of "peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake". Lightning is synonymous with Elijah's chariots of fire.

Revelations

Author : Elaine Pagels
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110157707X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Revelations written by Elaine Pagels and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling exploration of the history of the most controversial book of the Bible, by the bestselling author of Beyond Belief. Through the bestselling books of Elaine Pagels, thousands of readers have come to know and treasure the suppressed biblical texts known as the Gnostic Gospels. As one of the world's foremost religion scholars, she has been a pioneer in interpreting these books and illuminating their place in the early history of Christianity. Her new book, however, tackles a text that is firmly, dramatically within the New Testament canon: The Book of Revelation, the surreal apocalyptic vision of the end of the world . . . or is it? In this startling and timely book, Pagels returns The Book of Revelation to its historical origin, written as its author John of Patmos took aim at the Roman Empire after what is now known as "the Jewish War," in 66 CE. Militant Jews in Jerusalem, fired with religious fervor, waged an all-out war against Rome's occupation of Judea and their defeat resulted in the desecration of Jerusalem and its Great Temple. Pagels persuasively interprets Revelation as a scathing attack on the decadence of Rome. Soon after, however, a new sect known as "Christians" seized on John's text as a weapon against heresy and infidels of all kinds-Jews, even Christians who dissented from their increasingly rigid doctrines and hierarchies. In a time when global religious violence surges, Revelations explores how often those in power throughout history have sought to force "God's enemies" to submit or be killed. It is sure to appeal to Pagels's committed readers and bring her a whole new audience who want to understand the roots of dissent, violence, and division in the world's religions, and to appreciate the lasting appeal of this extraordinary text.

Prophecy

Author : Elizabeth Haydon
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 146682302X
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Prophecy written by Elizabeth Haydon and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2001-08-13 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Elizabeth Haydon's Rhapsody, a fellowship was forged--three companions who, through great adversity, became a force to be reckoned with: Rhapsody the Singer; Achmed the assassin-king; and Grunthor, the giant Sergeant-Major. Driven by a prophetic vision, Rhapsody races to rescue a religious leader while Achmed and Grunthor seek the F'dor--an ancient and powerful demon. These companions may be destined to fulfill The Prophecy of the Three, but their time is running short. They must find their elusive enemy before his darkness consumes them all. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Paladin Prophecy

Author : Mark Frost
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375980016
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book The Paladin Prophecy written by Mark Frost and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the co-creator of the groundbreaking television show Twin Peaks comes an exciting adventure series with a unique combination of mystery, heart-pounding action, and the supernatural. Meet your new action-adventure addiction! Will West is careful to live life under the radar. At his parents' insistence, he's made sure to get mediocre grades and to stay in the middle of the pack on his cross-country team. Then Will slips up, accidentally scoring off the charts on a nationwide exam. Now Will is being courted by an exclusive prep school . . . and followed by men driving black sedans. When Will suddenly loses his parents, he must flee to the school. There he begins to explore all that he's capable of--physical and mental feats that should be impossible--and learns that his abilities are connected to a struggle between titanic forces that has lasted for millennia.

Prophetic Lament

Author : Soong-Chan Rah
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830897615
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Prophetic Lament written by Soong-Chan Rah and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American church avoids lament. But lament is a missing, essential component of Christian faith. Soong-Chan Rah's prophetic exposition of the book of Lamentations provides a biblical and theological lens for examining the church's relationship with a suffering world. Hear the prophet's lament as the necessary corrective for Christianity's future.

Themes and Transformations in Old Testament Prophecy

Author : Samuel A. Meier
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083089845X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Themes and Transformations in Old Testament Prophecy written by Samuel A. Meier and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We meet the prophets of Israel in our own time and in one place--Scripture. So it might seem odd to consider that they are not all the same, these voices from "back then." In fact, the prophets inhabited a time span of hundreds of years and faced events that on their own terms were more convulsive than our 9/11. They were not uniform in their language, their concerns, their personalities, their remedies or their visions of the future. In this book, Sam Meier explores some recurring themes and features--such as angels, writing, miracles, the future and kingmaking--all with an eye on their transformation over time. And the defining event in this transformation turns out to be the great convulsive event of the story of Israel, the defeat and exile of the kingdom of Judah. Themes and Transformations in Old Testament Prophecy is a book that goes beyond the standard introductions to the prophets. Yet it does so in a way that will inform and intrigue beginning students and anyone curious about the prophets of Israel.

Writing Beyond Pen and Parchment

Author : Ricarda Wagner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110645440
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Writing Beyond Pen and Parchment written by Ricarda Wagner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can stories of magical engraved rings or prophetic inscriptions on walls tell us about how writing was perceived before print transformed the world? Writing beyond Pen and Parchment introduces readers to a Middle Ages where writing is not confined to manuscripts but is inscribed in the broader material world, in textiles and tombs, on weapons or human skin. Drawing on the work done at the Collaborative Research Centre “Material Text Cultures,” (SFB 933) this volume presents a comparative overview of how and where text-bearing artefacts appear in medieval German, Old Norse, British, French, Italian and Iberian literary traditions, and also traces the paths inscribed objects chart across multiple linguistic and cultural traditions. The volume’s focus on the raw materials and practices that shaped artefacts both mundane or fantastical in medieval narratives offers a fresh perspective on the medieval world that takes seriously the vibrancy of matter as a vital aspect of textual culture often overlooked.

Prophets, Prophecy, and Prophetic Texts in Second Temple Judaism

Author : Michael Floyd
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567027801
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Prophets, Prophecy, and Prophetic Texts in Second Temple Judaism written by Michael Floyd and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays examine the work of prophets in Second Temple Judaism.

Bulletproof

Author : Jennifer Wenzel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226893499
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Bulletproof written by Jennifer Wenzel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1856 and 1857, in response to a prophet’s command, the Xhosa people of southern Africa killed their cattle and ceased planting crops; the resulting famine cost tens of thousands of lives. Much like other millenarian, anticolonial movements—such as the Ghost Dance in North America and the Birsa Munda uprising in India—these actions were meant to transform the world and liberate the Xhosa from oppression. Despite the movement’s momentous failure to achieve that goal, the event has continued to exert a powerful pull on the South African imagination ever since. It is these afterlives of the prophecy that Jennifer Wenzel explores in Bulletproof. Wenzel examines literary and historical texts to show how writers have manipulated images and ideas associated with the cattle killing—harvest, sacrifice, rebirth, devastation—to speak to their contemporary predicaments. Widening her lens, Wenzel also looks at how past failure can both inspire and constrain movements for justice in the present, and her brilliant insights into the cultural implications of prophecy will fascinate readers across a wide variety of disciplines.

Color Monitors

Author : Martin Kevorkian
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501727389
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Color Monitors written by Martin Kevorkian and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Color Monitors looks at a particular subset of imagined computer use, focusing on scenarios that demand from the person at the keyboard an intimate technical knowledge. My research has uncovered a peculiar pattern: race comes into sharp relief when computer use is depicted as difficult labor requiring special expertise. Time and again, in such scenarios, the helpful person of color is there to take the call—to provide technical support, to deal with the machines. In interpreting such images, Color Monitors analyzes the computer-fearing strain in American whiteness, an aspect of white identity that defines itself against information technology and the racial other imagined to love it and excel at it."—Martin KevorkianFollowing up on Ralph Ellison's intimation that blacks serve as "the machines inside the machine," Color Monitors examines the designation of black bodies as natural machines for the information age. Martin Kevorkian shows how African Americans are consistently depicted as highly skilled, intelligent, and technologically savvy as they work to solve complex computer problems in popular movies, corporate advertising, and contemporary fiction. But is this progress? Or do such seemingly positive depictions have more disturbing implications? Kevorkian provocatively asserts that whites' historical "fear of a black planet" has in the age of microprocessing converged with a new fear of computers and the possibility that digital imperatives will engulf human creativity.Analyzing escapist fantasies from Mission: Impossible to Minority Report, Kevorkian argues that the placement of a black man in front of a computer screen doubly reassures audiences: he is nonthreatening, safely occupied—even imprisoned—by the very machine he attempts to control, an occupation that simultaneously frees the action heroes from any electronic headaches. The study concludes with some alternatives to this scheme, looking to a network of recent authors, with shared affinities for Ellison and Pynchon, willing to think inside the black box of technology.Connecting race, technology, and American empire, Color Monitors will attract attention from scholars working in emerging areas of race theory, African American studies, film studies, cultural studies, and technology and communication studies.

Glimpses of Her Father’s Glory

Author : Timothy E. G. Bartel
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532660146
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Glimpses of Her Father’s Glory written by Timothy E. G. Bartel and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline was a bestseller in nineteenth-century America, inspiring generations of readers with a heroine who overcomes colonial violence and exile in her romantic and spiritual quest across America. Long ignored by modernist scholars, Evangeline is finally getting the critical attention it deserves. Drawing on original research in Longfellow's scholarly manuscripts, Bartel explores the theological sources and spiritual world of Evangeline, arguing that Longfellow was inspired by the church fathers to craft Evangeline into a heroine who uniquely exemplifies, in her epic quest, the ancient Christian doctrines of deification and divine light. Bartel's Glimpses of Her Father's Glory returns Evangeline to its rightful place as a major poem of American literature, one that takes as its theme nothing less than the ultimate purpose of human existence.

Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel

Author : Robert R. Wilson
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451417456
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel written by Robert R. Wilson and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using comparative anthropology to get at the social dimensions of prophetic activity, Robert Wilson's study brings the study of Isrealite prophecy to a new level. Looking at both modern societies and Ancient Near Eastern ones, Wilson sketches the nature of prophetic activity, its social location, and its social functions. He then shows how these features appear in Israelite prophecy and sketches a history of prophecy in Israel.

The Gnostic Gospels

Author : Elaine Pagels
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588364178
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The Gnostic Gospels written by Elaine Pagels and published by Random House. This book was released on 2004-06-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminous scholarship and wide popular appeal. First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, winning the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Gnostic Gospels has continued to grow in reputation and influence over the past two decades. It is now widely recognized as one of the most brilliant and accessible histories of early Christian spirituality published in our time. In 1945 an Egyptian peasant unearthed what proved to be the Gnostic Gospels, thirteen papyrus volumes that expounded a radically different view of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ from that of the New Testament. In this spellbinding book, renowned religious scholar Elaine Pagels elucidates the mysteries and meanings of these sacred texts both in the world of the first Christians and in the context of Christianity today. With insight and passion, Pagels explores a remarkable range of recently discovered gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, to show how a variety of “Christianities” emerged at a time of extraordinary spiritual upheaval. Some Christians questioned the need for clergy and church doctrine, and taught that the divine could be discovered through spiritual search. Many others, like Buddhists and Hindus, sought enlightenment—and access to God—within. Such explorations raised questions: Was the resurrection to be understood symbolically and not literally? Was God to be envisioned only in masculine form, or feminine as well? Was martyrdom a necessary—or worthy—expression of faith? These early Christians dared to ask questions that orthodox Christians later suppressed—and their explorations led to profoundly different visions of Jesus and his message. Brilliant, provocative, and stunning in its implications, The Gnostic Gospels is a radical, eloquent reconsideration of the origins of the Christian faith.

Women’s Prophetic Writings in Seventeenth-Century Britain

Author : Carme Font
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317231384
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Women’s Prophetic Writings in Seventeenth-Century Britain written by Carme Font and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines women’s prophetic writings in seventeenth-century Britain as the literary outcome of a discourse of social transformation that integrates religious conscience, political participation, and gender identity. The following pages approach prophecy as a culture, a language, and a catalyst for collective change as the individual prophet conceptualized it. While the corpus of prophetic writing continues to grow as the result of archival research, this monograph complements our particular knowledge of women’s prophecy in the seventeenth century with a global assessment of what makes speech prophetic in the first place, and what are the differences and similarities between texts that fall into the prophetic mode. These disparities and commonalities stand out in the radical language of prophecy as well as in the way it creates an authorial centre. Examining how authorship is represented in several configurations of prophetic delivery, such as essays on prophecy, poetic prophecy, spiritual autobiography, and election narratives, the different chapters consider why prophecy peaked in the years of the civil wars and how it evolved towards the eighteenth century. The analyses extrapolate the peculiarities of each case study as being representative of a form of textually-based activism that enabled women to gain a deeper understanding of themselves as creators of independent meaning that empowered them as individuals, citizens, and believers.

Beyond Vengeance and Protest

Author : Oliver Nwachukwu
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820471310
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Vengeance and Protest written by Oliver Nwachukwu and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's description: Beyond Vengeance and Protest takes a fresh look at the Book of Revelation from the point of view of blessing. If John wrote Revelation to tell the Christian communities that he had seen the Lord and to encourage them to persevere, the macarisms underscore his conviction of God's vindication of the righteous who suffer now. With the sevenfold macarisms expressing hope in God's grace, John lays grounds for action by positing the good for which the contrary must be rejected.