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Book Synopsis The Priest's Gamble by : Peter Costa
Download or read book The Priest's Gamble written by Peter Costa and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God doesn't play dice with the universe but sometimes a member of the universe tries to play dice with God. That's what the Rev. Constantine Thalassa does with his addiction to gambling. The priest spends all his discretionary money on the lottery. His son, a math prodigy, is aiding and abetting the Greek Orthodox priest's addiction by writing an algorithm that greatly reduces the randomness of selecting winning lottery numbers. And as if the priest doesn't have enough temptations, he is being stalked by a voluptuous young widow who thinks the way to get close to God is to get close to the priest. "The Priest's Gamble" is filed with compromising positions, raucous comedy and imaginative action. The writing is lively and vivid, making "The Priest's Gamble" a fun read.
Download or read book Priests and Prelates written by and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Daily Telegraph has a reputation for outstanding obituaries. This book contains the best and most colourful obituaries of clergyment in recent years, selected and introduced by Trevor Beeson, former Dean of Winchester. Ranging from Monsignor Alfred Gilbey who weekly rode to hounds in frock coat and gaiters to Brian Brindley who died surrounded by his acolytes in the midst of a five course dinner at The Atheneum. This book is highly entertaining but Trevor Beeson's extended introduction also evaluates the clerical tradition and make some fairly piercing comments about the state of the Churches today.
Book Synopsis Woman, Church and State by : Matilda Joslyn Gage
Download or read book Woman, Church and State written by Matilda Joslyn Gage and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her most important work, Matilda Joslyn Gage, founder of the Women's National Liberal Union, attacks the religious ideas and customs which historically have oppressed women.
Book Synopsis Woman VS. Church and State by : Matilda Joslyn Gage
Download or read book Woman VS. Church and State written by Matilda Joslyn Gage and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explains itself and is given to the world because it is needed. Tired of the obtuseness of Church and State; indignant at the injustice of both towards woman; at the wrongs inflicted upon one-half of humanity by the other half in the name of religion; finding appeal and argument alike met by the assertion that God designed the subjection of woman, and yet that her position had been higher under Christianity than ever before: Continually hearing these statements, and knowing them to be false, I refuted them in a slight resume of the subject at the annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association, Washington, D.C., 1878. A wish to see that speech in print, having been expressed, it was allowed to appear in The National Citizen, a woman suffrage paper I then edited, and shortly afterwards in "The History of Woman Suffrage," of which I was also an editor. The kindly reception given both in the United States and Europe to that meager chapter of forty pages confirmed my purpose of a fuller presentation of the subject in book form, and it now appears, the result of twenty years investigation, in a volume of over five hundred and fifty pages. Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) was a 19th-century women's suffragist, a Native American rights activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression."
Book Synopsis Priest-Indian Conflict in Upper Peru by : Nicholas A. Robins
Download or read book Priest-Indian Conflict in Upper Peru written by Nicholas A. Robins and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed volume offers an unprecedented exploration of incendiary conditions that stoked The Great Rebellion of 1780-1782 in Upper Peru (Bolivia). That revolt claimed tens of thousands of lives and traumatized imperial psyches for decades to come. It was, in effect, one of the most de vastating political and human disasters in Latin American colonial history. Using extensive archival research, Nicholas Robins delves into the fractious relations between Indian communities and their clergy and the role that such tensions played as a major causal factor of the rebellion. Among the grievous economic and social issues were the use of forced Indian labor, land encroachment, colonial relations with native leaders, and collection of Indian tithes and first fruits. Powerful case histories offer rare insights into the daily exercise of power in colonial Andean villages. Compelling archival evidence provides a riveting portrait of clerical abuse in rural villages and reveals how Indian peoples challenged and resisted ruling powers with varying degrees of success. Robins’ substantial documentation is enriched by a wealth of often colorful detail, making it an excellent choice for studies in Colonial Latin America n history and indigenous Latin American communities.
Book Synopsis The Bishop's Burden by : Celeste McNamara
Download or read book The Bishop's Burden written by Celeste McNamara and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1563, the Council of Trent published its Decrees, calling for significant reforms of the Catholic Church in response to criticism from both Protestants and Catholics alike. Bishops, according to the Decrees, would take the lead in implementing these reforms. They were tasked with creating a Church in which priests and laity were well educated, morally upright, and focused on worshipping God. Unfortunately for these bishops, the Decrees provided few practical suggestions for achieving the wide-ranging changes demanded. Reform was therefore an arduous and complex process, which many bishops struggled to accomplish or even refused to undertake fully. The Bishop’s Burden argues that reforming bishops were forced to be creative and resourceful to accomplish meaningful change, including creating strong diocesan governments, reforming clerical and lay behavior, educating priests and parishioners, and converting non-believers. The book explores this issue through a detailed case study of the episcopacy of Cardinal-Bishop Gregorio Barbarigo of Padua (bp. 1664-1697), asking how a dedicated bishop formulated a reform program that sought to achieve the Church’s goals. Barbarigo, like other reforming bishops, borrowed strategies from a variety of sources in the absence of clear guidance from Rome. He looked to both pre- and post-Tridentine bishops, the Society of Jesus, the Venetian government, and the Propaganda Fide, which he selectively emulated to address the problems he discovered in Padua. The book is based primarily on the detailed records of Barbarigo’s visitations of rural parishes and captures the rarely-heard voices of seventeenth-century Italian peasants. The Bishop's Burden helps us understand not only the changes experienced by early modern Catholics, but also how even the most sophisticated plans of central authorities could be frustrated by practical realities, which in turn complicates our understanding of state-building and social control.
Download or read book The Old Priest written by Anthony Wallace and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Priest is a book of transformations. From the cigar-smoke-and-mirrors world of casino life, to the collection's title character morphing into a goat-man before the narrator's eyes, to a family drama upended by a miniature dinosaur in the backyard, Anthony Wallace writes about life-changing events. The characters seek to escape their earthly boundaries through artifice and fantasy, and those boundaries can be as elegant and fragile as a martini glass or as hardscrabble as an Indian reservation. In these eight vividly detailed short stories we encounter cheating husbands, neurotic housewives, out-of-control teenagers, desperate gamblers, deluded alcoholics, and a host of others who would like a chance at something more. Some face the consequences of their actions, while others simply begin to see what they've been missing all along. Through wry, ironic prose—and what feels like firsthand experience—Wallace describes a comic and often misguided search for self-knowledge in the most unlikely locations—like the Emerald City, a low-rent gambling den where a cocktail waitress dressed as an X-rated Dorothy offers gamblers more than a Scotch on the rocks; or the Bastille Hotel-Casino, where a dealer dressed as an eighteenth century footman deals five-dollar blackjack to a reminiscing Holocaust survivor. Occasionally a real demon appears, but the collection is mostly about personal demons and the possibility of exorcising them. The stories in The Old Priest have to do with time and memory, and they convincingly open out beyond ordinary daily time to reveal something else—the present moment, perhaps, but a larger, more mysterious conception of it.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Santa Fe by : Glenn Danford Bradley
Download or read book The Story of the Santa Fe written by Glenn Danford Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Old Santa Fé Trail by : Henry Inman
Download or read book The Old Santa Fé Trail written by Henry Inman and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic on all the trials and tribulations of the Santa Fé Trail, the Indian deprevations, the Mexican problems,the Fontier Military, the Fur Trappers, Fur Trade, and Mountain Men, Kit Carson, Uncle Dick Wooten, Buffalo Bill Cody, the Bents, Jim Beckwourth.
Book Synopsis Why Priests Should Wed by : Justin Dewey Fulton
Download or read book Why Priests Should Wed written by Justin Dewey Fulton and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Guy Raymond by : Edward Plummer Alsbury
Download or read book Guy Raymond written by Edward Plummer Alsbury and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of the Texas Revolution and tensions leading to the Mexican-American War.
Book Synopsis Arizona's Yesterday, Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer by : John Henry Cady
Download or read book Arizona's Yesterday, Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer written by John Henry Cady and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by : George H. Devol
Download or read book Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi written by George H. Devol and published by Johnson Reprint Corporation. This book was released on 1892 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cabin boy in 1839 could steal cards and cheat the boys at eleven stock a deck at fourteen bested soldiers on the Rio Grande during the Mexican war won hundreds of thousands from paymasters, cotton buyers, defaulters and thieves fought more rough and tum
Download or read book Priests in Love written by Jane Anderson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-02-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the moral, psychological, and social challenges faced by Roman Catholic priests who left the active ministry in the 1960s and 1970s to get married--men who chose responsible sexual relationships over a life of obligatory celibacy.
Book Synopsis The Gambling World by : Rouge et noir
Download or read book The Gambling World written by Rouge et noir and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Missionary Review of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Missionary Review of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
