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Descent into Hell

Author : Charles Williams
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504006631
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Descent into Hell written by Charles Williams and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative, classic metaphysical thriller, a group of suburban amateur actors plagued by personal demons and terrors explore the pathways to heaven and hell Certain inhabitants of Battle Hill, a small community on the outskirts of London, are preparing to mount a new play by the neighborhood’s most illustrious resident, the writer Peter Stanhope. Each actor struggles with self-absorption, doubt, fear, and sin. But “the Hill” is not like other places. Here the past and present intermingle, ghosts walk among the living, and reality is often clouded by dreams and the dark fantastic. For young Pauline Anstruther, who is caring for an aging grandmother and frightened by the specter of a doppelgänger who gets closer with each visitation, the prospect of heaven exists in the renowned playwright’s willingness to bear the burden of her terror. For eminent historian Lawrence Wentworth, the rejection of his desire pulls him deeper inside himself, leaving him vulnerable to the lure of the succubus and opening wide the entrance to hell. A brilliant theological thriller, Descent into Hell is an extraordinary fictional meditation on sin and personal salvation by one of the twentieth century’s most original and provocative literary artists. Charles Williams, a member of the Inklings alongside fellow Oxfordians C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Owen Barfield, has written a powerful work at once profoundly disturbing and gloriously uplifting, an ingenious amalgam of metaphysics, religious thought, and darkest fantasy.

Into the Silence

Author : Wade Davis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307700569
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Into the Silence written by Wade Davis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a twenty-two-year-old Oxford scholar with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. Drawing on more than a decade of prodigious research, bestselling author and explorer Wade Davis vividly re-creates the heroic efforts of Mallory and his fellow climbers, setting their significant achievements in sweeping historical context: from Britain’s nineteen-century imperial ambitions to the war that shaped Mallory’s generation. Theirs was a country broken, and the Everest expeditions emerged as a powerful symbol of national redemption and hope. In Davis’s rich exploration, he creates a timeless portrait of these remarkable men and their extraordinary times.

Silence and the Word

Author : Oliver Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139434837
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Silence and the Word written by Oliver Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negative theology or apophasis - the idea that God is best identified in terms of 'absence', 'otherness', 'difference' - has been influential in modern Christian thought, resonating as it does with secular notions of negation developed in continental philosophy. Apophasis also has a strong intellectual history dating back to the early Church Fathers. Silence and the Word both studies the history of apophasis and examines its relationship with contemporary secular philosophy. Leading Christian thinkers explore in their own way the extent to which the concept of the apophatic illumines some of the deepest doctrinal structures of Christian faith, and of Christian self-understanding both in terms of its historical and contemporary situatedness, showing how a dimension of negativity has characterised not only traditional mysticism but most forms of Christian thought over the years.

Silence on the Mountain

Author : Daniel Wilkinson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822333685
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Silence on the Mountain written by Daniel Wilkinson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a young human rights worker, "Silence on the Mountain" is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's 36-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.

Shifting the Silence

Author : Etel Adnan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781643620305
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Shifting the Silence written by Etel Adnan and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heart-rending meditation on aging, grief, and the universal experience of facing deathShifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan enumerates her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life at 95, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own inevitable death. The personal is continuously projected outwards and mirrored back through ruminations on climate catastrophe, California wildfires, the on-going war in Syria, planned missions to Mars, and the view of the sea from Adnan's window in Brittany in a poignant often painful interplay between the interior and the cosmic.

Christ's Descent into Hell

Author : Lyra Pitstick
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467445398
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Christ's Descent into Hell written by Lyra Pitstick and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pope John Paul II and Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) both held Hans Urs von Balthasar in high regard. Many assume that their praise of Balthasar indicates approval of his controversial theology of Holy Saturday, but this book by Lyra Pitstick shows that conclusion to be far from accurate. Pitstick looks at what John Paul II, Ratzinger, and Balthasar have in fact said regarding the creedal affirmation that Christ “descended into hell,” and she shows that there are radical differences in their views. She then addresses a number of important questions that follow from these differences. This careful, concise exploration of what three of the twentieth century’s most famous Catholic theologians had to say about Christ’s descent into hell provides an accessible take on a difficult point of theological debate.

Descent Into Temptation

Author : Rachel Funk
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557024552
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Descent Into Temptation written by Rachel Funk and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Preston is a middle-aged lawyer, if not content, then accepting of the status quo. He has reached the height of his career, is married to a devoted woman, and he has close friends. Although he appears to have it all, a deep depression grips him. He spends time staring aimlessly out his office window at the cold, unwelcoming city passing beyond his office every day, lost in the monotony and cold anonymity. That is until one morning with his eyes fixed on the street below he sees a woman who, in a momentary glimpse, changes his life and how he views the world forever. We follow David on an erotic spiral of obsession and zealous devotion as he envisions a new life, a happier one, with this woman. What begins as simple attraction soon grows into something more, something relentless that drives him beyond the edge of madness.

Progress Into Silence

Author : Alan Lebowitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Progress Into Silence written by Alan Lebowitz and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melville's story is that of the young neophyte's quest for a distinctive hero in his own image and of that hero's pursuit of ultimate knowledge and authority. The controlling theme, basic to American literature, is that of the necessary fall, the innocent's emergence into manhood by means of a literal ordeal that offers, in all its pain and difficulty, important perceptions into the nature of the world. The first, and decisive, discovery is mortality. Only by confronting the fact that he will die, recognizing, as Melville often put it, the universal sentence of annihilation, does a boy become a man. Testing that perception, probing ever deeper into the mystery of things, asking questions of the meaning of annihilation as well as of its agent, man becomes a potential hero. The fullest understanding causes, inevitably, the greatest pain. Few penetrate the deepest mystery of things, and those who do are Melville's heroes.

Writing Deafness

Author : Christopher Krentz
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469606682
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Writing Deafness written by Christopher Krentz and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking an original approach to American literature, Christopher Krentz examines nineteenth-century writing from a new angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. The rise of deaf education during this period made deaf people much more visible in American society. Krentz demonstrates that deaf and hearing authors used writing to explore their similarities and differences, trying to work out the invisible boundary, analogous to Du Bois's color line, that Krentz calls the "hearing line." Writing Deafness examines previously overlooked literature by deaf authors, who turned to writing to find a voice in public discourse and to demonstrate their intelligence and humanity to the majority. Hearing authors such as James Fenimore Cooper, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain often subtly took on deaf-related issues, using deafness to define not just deaf others, but also themselves (as competent and rational), helping form a self-consciously hearing identity. Offering insights for theories of identity, physical difference, minority writing, race, and postcolonialism, this compelling book makes essential reading for students of American literature and culture, deaf studies, and disability studies.

The Journal of Sacred Literature

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Sacred Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

La Belle assemblée

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book La Belle assemblée written by and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Insight Dialogue

Author : Gregory Kramer
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834824442
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Insight Dialogue written by Gregory Kramer and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2007-09-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight Dialogue is a way of bringing the tranquility and insight attained in meditation directly into your interactions with other people. It’s a practice that involves interacting with a partner in a retreat setting or on your own, as a way of accessing a profound kind of insight. Then, you take that insight on into the grind of everyday human interactions. Gregory Kramer has been teaching the practice (which he originated) for more than a decade in retreats around the world. It’s something strikingly new in the world of Buddhist practice—yet it’s completely grounded in traditional Buddhist teaching. Kramer begins with a detailed presentation of the central Buddhist teaching of the Four Noble Truths seen through an interpersonal lens. Because dukkha (suffering or unsatisfactoriness) is often most forcefully felt in our relations with others, interpersonal relationships are a wonderfully useful place to practice. He breaks the Noble Truths down into component parts to observe how they manifest particularly in relationship to others, using examples from his own life and practice, as well as from his students’. He then goes on to present the practice as it’s taught in his workshops and retreats. There are a few basic steps to the practice, deceptively simple to describe: (1) pause, (2) relax, (3) open, (4) trust emergence, (5) listen deeply, and (6) speak the truth. The sequence begins following a period of meditation, and includes periods of speaking, listening, and mutual silence. Kramer includes numerous examples of people’s experience with the practice from his retreats, and shows how the insight gained from the techniques can be brought into real life. More than just testimonials for how well the practice "works," the personal stories demonstrate the problems that arise, the different routes the practice can follow, and the sometimes surprising insights that are gained.

A Critical Dissertation on the Athanasian Creed

Author : George Druce Wynne Ommanney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Dissertation on the Athanasian Creed written by George Druce Wynne Ommanney and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Foundation

Author : David G. Leahy
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791420218
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Foundation written by David G. Leahy and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the ontological and logical foundation of a new form of thinking, the beginning of an "absolute phenomenology." It does so in the context of the history of thought in Europe and America. It explores the ramifications of a categorically new logic. Thinkers dealt with include Plato, Galileo, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Peirce, James, Dewey, Derrida, McDermott, and Altizer.

Fundamental Speeches from Five Decades

Author : Joseph Ratzinger
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681491974
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Fundamental Speeches from Five Decades written by Joseph Ratzinger and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a professor of theology and throughout his rise in the Roman Catholic hierarchy, Joseph Ratzinger again and again delivered important speeches over the course of five decades at the Catholic Academy of Bavaria (1963-2004). The broad spectrum of topics-from the primacy of the papacy to the moral foundations of western society-demonstrated not only his breadth of knowledge but also his prescience, for these issues remain important for both the Church and modern man. The fundamental speeches in this volume are arranged thematically. And before each one is a brief introduction written by Dr. Florian Schuller, the director of the Catholic Academy of Bavaria in Munich, who also contributed the foreword.

The Spectator

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seeds of Silence

Author : R. Melvin Keiser
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789045509
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Seeds of Silence written by R. Melvin Keiser and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. Melvin Keiser delves into the depths of Quaker spirituality and their philosophy, showing us that we require silence to unlock our relationship with God. Seeds of Silence: Essays in Quaker Spirituality and Philosophical Theology questions the modern world's addiction to distractions and instant gratification, and leads us toward a semi-forgotten Christian tradition of contemplative thinking.