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* A womanist reading of the Gospel of Mark * Addresses questions of the necessity of suffering
Author : Raquel Annette St. Clair
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451416474
* A womanist reading of the Gospel of Mark * Addresses questions of the necessity of suffering
Author : Susan M. Schneider
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 161614663X
Actions have consequences--and the ability to learn from them revolutionized life on earth. While it's easy enough to see that consequences are important (where would we be without positive reinforcement?), few have heard there's a science of consequences, with principles that affect us every day. Despite their variety, consequences appear to follow a common set of scientific principles and share some similar effects in the brain--such as the "pleasure centers." Nature and nurture always work together, and scientists have demonstrated that learning from consequences predictably activates genes and restructures the brain. Applications are everywhere--at home, at work, and at school, and that's just for starters. Individually and societally, for example, self-control pits short-term against long-term consequences. Ten years in the making, this award-winning book tells a tale ranging from genetics to neurotransmitters, from emotion to language, from parenting to politics, taking an inclusive interdisciplinary approach to show how something so deceptively simple can help make sense of so much.
Author : Christopher J. Lane
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0228009758
The concept of vocation in an early modern setting calls to mind the priesthood or religious life in a monastery or cloister; to be “called” by God meant to leave the concerns of the world behind. Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, French Catholic clergy began to promote the innovative idea that everyone, even an ordinary layperson, was called to a vocation or “state of life” and that discerning this call correctly had implications for one’s happiness and salvation, and for the social good. In Callings and Consequences Christopher Lane analyzes the origins, growth, and influence of a culture of vocation that became a central component of the Catholic Reformation and its legacy in France. The reformers’ new vision of the choice of a state of life was marked by four characteristics: urgency (the realization that one’s soul was at stake), inclusiveness (the belief that everyone, including lay people, was called by God), method (the use of proven discernment practices), and liberty (the belief that this choice must be free from coercion, especially by parents). No mere passing phenomena, these vocational reforms engendered enduring beliefs and practices within the repertoire of global Catholic modernity, even to the present day. An illuminating and sometimes surprising history of pastoral reform, Callings and Consequences helps us to understand the history of Catholic vocational culture and its role in the modernizing process, within Christianity and beyond.
Author : Raquel Annette St. Clair
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Author : Colette Freedman
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0758281021
After discovering her husband Robert's infidelity and confronting his mistress, Stephanie, Kathy Walker hopes to save her marriage and the family and business that her and Robert built together, but then Stephanie discovers that she is pregnant. Original.
Author : Nathaniel R. Jones
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1620970716
“Jones, a trailblazing African American judge, delivers an urgently needed perspective on American history . . . [A] passionate and informative account” (Booklist, starred review). Answering the Call is an extraordinary eyewitness account from an unsung hero of the battle for racial equality in America—a battle that, far from ending with the great victories of the civil rights era, saw some of its signal achievements in the desegregation fights of the 1970s and its most notable setbacks in the affirmative action debates that continue into the present in Ferguson, Baltimore, and beyond. Judge Nathaniel R. Jones’s groundbreaking career was forged in the 1960s: As the first African American assistant US attorney in Ohio; as assistant general counsel of the Kerner Commission; and, beginning in 1969, as general counsel of the NAACP. In that latter role, Jones coordinated attacks against Northern school segregation—a vital, divisive, and poorly understood chapter in the movement for equality—twice arguing in the pivotal US Supreme Court case Bradley v. Milliken, which addressed school desegregation in Detroit. He also led the national response to the attacks against affirmative action, spearheading and arguing many of the signal legal cases of that effort. Answering the Call is “a stunning, inside story of the contemporary struggle for civil rights . . . Essential reading for understanding where we are today—underscoring just how much work is left to be done” (Vernon E. Jordan Jr., civil rights activist). “A forthright testimony by a witness to history.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author : Henry George
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Economics
ISBN :
Author : William R. Corson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,58 MB
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393054927
The author explores the nature and meaning of the United States' military failure in Vietnam and assesses its impact in America.
Author : R. C. Sproul
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781433563775
R. C. Sproul surveys history's greatest philosophers and thinkers, helping readers understand the ideas that have shaped the world--and continue to shape nearly everything we think and do.
Author : Krithika Varagaur
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781733623766
Everyone talks about "Saudi money," but no one really knows what it is. Journalist Krithika Varagur, a longtime chronicler of religion and politics, tells the story of Saudi influence as it has never been told before, in a book reported across the breadth of the Muslim world, from Nigeria to Indonesia to Kosovo. The Call connects the dots on Saudi Arabia's campaign to propagate its brand of ultraconservative Islam worldwide after it became oil-rich in the 20th century. Varagur visits diverse outposts of its influence, from a Saudi university in Jakarta to a beleaguered Shi'a movement in Nigeria. She finds that the campaign has had remarkably broad and sometimes uniform effects, from the intolerance of religious minorities to the rise of powerful Saudi-educated clerics. The kingdom has spent billions of dollars on its da'wa, or call to Islam, at many points with the direct support of the United States. But what have been the lasting effects of Saudi influence today? And what really happened to their campaign in the 21st century, after oil revenues slumped and after their activities became increasingly subject to international scrutiny? Drawing upon dozens of interviews, government records, and historical research, The Call lays out what we really talk about when we talk about Saudi money.