Author : Zack Eswine
Publisher : Gospel According to the Old Te
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781596384682
Ecclesiastes shows a frank, unafraid familiarity with transparency, beauty, and ugliness. Eswines study helps us address these topics boldly ourselves and grounds them in the person and work of Jesus.
Author : Sarah Winbow
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1326309269
Restoring Eden contains the true story of a group of people in rural England who simply had a heart to seek God, listen to what He said, put His word into practice and then saw what He did. Restoring Eden also contains the reproducible strategy for prayer God gave them. The strategy is simple and it begins with this: if a united group of believers identify the various footholds the enemy has gained in their community, 'stand in the gap' in heartfelt repentance and then seek God's face in worship with humility of heart, we have His promise from scripture that He will hear our prayers and heal (restore) our land (2 Chronicles 7:14).
Author : Carolyn Merchant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1136161244
This revised edition of Carolyn Merchant’s classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword. Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth.
Author : Zachary McLeod Hutchins
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199998140
As Christopher Columbus surveyed lush New World landscapes, he eventually concluded that he had rediscovered the biblical garden from which God expelled Adam and Eve. Reading the paradisiacal rhetoric of Columbus, John Smith, and other explorers, English immigrants sailed for North America full of hope. However, the rocky soil and cold winters of New England quickly persuaded Puritan and Quaker colonists to convert their search for a physical paradise into a quest for Eden's less tangible perfections: temperate physiologies, intellectual enlightenment, linguistic purity, and harmonious social relations. Scholars have long acknowledged explorers' willingness to characterize the North American terrain in edenic terms, but Inventing Eden pushes beyond this geographical optimism to uncover the influence of Genesis on the iconic artifacts, traditions, and social movements that shaped seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American culture. Harvard Yard, the Bay Psalm Book, and the Quaker use of antiquated pronouns like thee and thou: these are products of a seventeenth-century desire for Eden. So, too, are the evangelical emphasis of the Great Awakening, the doctrine of natural law popularized by the Declaration of Independence, and the first United States judicial decision abolishing slavery. From public nudity to Freemasonry, a belief in Eden affected every sphere of public life in colonial New England and, eventually, the new nation. Spanning two centuries and surveying the work of English and colonial thinkers from William Shakespeare and John Milton to Anne Hutchinson and Benjamin Franklin, Inventing Eden is the history of an idea that shaped American literature, identity, and culture.
Author : Barry Bailey
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Sermons
ISBN :
Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
The renewed perception of Judaism's influenceJudaism today is too often thought to represent a religious backwater, a highly particularistic, religion with its own esoteric tales and traditions, practices and norms. First Christians, then Jews themselves, have succumbed to this characterization, resulting in dismissal of Judaism's universal religious significance. Bereft of its religious import, Judaism is increasingly thought merely an ethnic designationand a quickly dissipating one at that. Neusner pleas for vindication of "the universal character and appeal of Judaic monotheism in the mainstream of humanity." Of the three great monotheistic religions, only Judaism has survived without political power, military might, or great numbers of adherents and has done so because its method and message aim to persuade the world of God's dominion and the marks of God's rule.
Author : Heiser, Michael S.
Publisher : Lexham Press
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1577995570
In The Unseen Realm, Dr. Michael Heiser examines the ancient context of Scripture, explaining how its supernatural worldview can help us grow in our understanding of God. He illuminates intriguing and amazing passages of the Bible that have been hiding in plain sight. You'll find yourself engaged in an enthusiastic pursuit of the truth, resulting in a new appreciation for God's Word. Why wasn't Eve surprised when the serpent spoke to her? How did descendants of the Nephilim survive the flood? Why did Jacob fuse Yahweh and his Angel together in his prayer? Who are the assembly of divine beings that God presides over? In what way do those beings participate in God's decisions? Why do Peter and Jude promote belief in imprisoned spirits? Why does Paul describe evil spirits in terms of geographical rulership? Who are the "glorious ones" that even angels dare not rebuke? After reading this book, you may never read your Bible the same way again. Endorsements "There is a world referred to in the Scripture that is quite unseen, but also quite present and active. Michael Heiser's The Unseen Realm seeks to unmask this world. Heiser shows how important it is to understand this world and appreciate how its contribution helps to make sense of Scripture. The book is clear and well done, treating many ideas and themes that often go unseen themselves. With this book, such themes will no longer be neglected, so read it and discover a new realm for reflection about what Scripture teaches." --Darrell L. Bock, Executive Director for Cultural Engagement, Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies, Howard G. Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership and Cultural Engagement "'How was it possible that I had never seen that before?' Dr. Heiser's survey of the complex reality of the supernatural world as the Scriptures portray it covers a subject that is strangely sidestepped. No one is going to agree with everything in his book, but the subject deserves careful study, and so does this book." --John Goldingay, David Allan Hubbard Professor of Old Testament, School of Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary "This is a 'big' book in the best sense of the term. It is big in its scope and in its depth of analysis. Michael Heiser is a scholar who knows Scripture intimately in its ancient cultural context. All--scholars, clergy, and laypeople--who read this profound and accessible book will grow in their understanding of both the Old and New Testaments, particularly as their eyes are opened to the Bible's 'unseen world.'" --Tremper Longman III, Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies, Westmont College
Author : Chuck Raup
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2010-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1615797718
Dr. Chuck Raup received his Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary and his Psy.D. from Rosemead Graduate School of Professional Psychology, LaMirada, California. His teaching experience includes graduate studies in the Counseling Department at Denver Seminary, Denver Colorado; graduate studies at The University of Houston in Victoria Texas; and both undergraduate and graduate studies at Rocky Mountain Bible College & Seminary in Englewood, Colorado. Chuck served as senior pastor at Westminster Bible Church and Grace Bible Church-in Victoria, Texas. He also served as Associate Pastor of Counseling Ministries at Parkway Church in Victoria. During his graduate studies in California, he was an Evangelical Free Church interim pastor in Glendora. His experience in psychology includes part-time private practice in both California and Colorado. Chuck and Jan have three grown children-Dr. Glenn Raup and his wife, Anissa, live in Fort Worth, Texas; Kim and her husband Matt Amen along with their children, Colby, Taylor, and Camryn live in Highlands Ranch Colorado; Gregg Raup, their youngest son, lives in Denver, Colorado. Chuck and his wife Jan live in Highlands Ranch, Colorado where Chuck maintains an independent ministry, Living Image Inc. For additional information Chuck can be reached at: [email protected].
Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004494146
During the formative age of Judaism, the first seven centuries CE, the great rabbis thought deeply about beginnings in light of endings. They imposed upon their sequential reading of each passage the accumulated results of their reflection about all passages. Thus, they encompassed Scripture, so as to describe the world as God had intended it to be. This act of intellect resulted in two distinct, ahistorical media of thought and expression, the Halakhah, law, and Aggadah, lore. The author provides three systematic accounts of the Halakhic reading, and two Aggadic accounts. The Halakhic accounts cover [1] Work and Rest, [2] Ownership and Possession, Eden and the Land, and [3] Ownership and Possession in the Household. The Aggadic accounts pertain to [1] the Six Days of Creation, and [2] Adam and Eve.
Author : Michael Householder
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 19,97 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1409428877
Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery analyzes the linguistic, rhetorical, and literary innovations that emerged out of the first encounters between Europeans and indigenous peoples of the Americas. Through analysis of six texts, Michael Householder demonstrates the role of language in forming the identities or characters that permitted Europeans (English speakers, primarily) to adapt to the unusual circumstances of encounter. Arranged chronologically, the texts examined include John Mandeville's Travels, Richard Eden's English-language translations of the accounts of Spanish and Portuguese discovery and conquest, George Best's account of Martin Frobisher's voyages to northern Canada, Ralph Lane's account of the abandonment of Roanoke, John Smith's writings about Virginia, and John Underhill's account of the Pequot War. Through his analysis, Householder reveals that English colonists did not share a universal, homogenous view of indigenous Americans as savages, but that the writers, confronted by unfamiliar peoples and situations, resorted to a mixed array of cultural beliefs, myths, and theories, to put together workable explanations of their experiences, which then became the basis for how Europeans in the colonies began transforming themselves into Americans. .
