Author : William E. Barrett
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 1982-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780446310420
A young African-American man driving through the Southwest helps a group of German refugee nuns build a church.
Author : Linda Nash
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 2012-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1449753752
This book describes the beginning of life and its delicate balance, the thoughts and ideals of the flowers in the fields and their use of ancient principles to acquire success. It encourages every child in a fantastical way to think BIG. It begins with an alien invasion of untold beauty and goodness, rather than of fear and darkness. As the lilies grow, the entire landscape changes into an extraordinary garden of delight, concluding with words and music that will encourage even the youngest reader to dream of golden days and victorious outcomes.
Author : Brendan Greally
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 2016-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781534684423
The origin of the custom of wearing a cape in France
Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 2009-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307421333
In the Beauty of the Lilies begins in 1910 and traces God’s relation to four generations of American seekers, beginning with Clarence Wilmot, a clergyman in Paterson, New Jersey. He loses his faith but finds solace at the movies, respite from “the bleak facts of life, his life, gutted by God’s withdrawal.” His son, Teddy, becomes a mailman who retreats from American exceptionalism, religious and otherwise, into a life of studied ordinariness. Teddy has a daughter, Esther, who becomes a movie star, an object of worship, an All-American goddess. Her neglected son, Clark, is possessed of a native Christian fervor that brings the story full circle: in the late 1980s he joins a Colorado sect called the Temple, a handful of “God’s elect” hastening the day of reckoning. In following the Wilmots’ collective search for transcendence, John Updike pulls one wandering thread from the tapestry of the American Century and writes perhaps the greatest of his later novels.
Author : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1400880475
A masterful new translation of one of Kierkegaard's most engaging works In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells his followers to let go of earthly concerns by considering the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. Søren Kierkegaard's short masterpiece on this famous gospel passage draws out its vital lessons for readers in a rapidly modernizing and secularizing world. Trenchant, brilliant, and written in stunningly lucid prose, The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air (1849) is one of Kierkegaard's most important books. Presented here in a fresh new translation with an informative introduction, this profound yet accessible work serves as an ideal entrée to an essential modern thinker. The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air reveals a less familiar but deeply appealing side of the father of existentialism—unshorn of his complexity and subtlety, yet supremely approachable. As Kierkegaard later wrote of the book, "Without fighting with anybody and without speaking about myself, I said much of what needs to be said, but movingly, mildly, upliftingly." This masterful edition introduces one of Kierkegaard's most engaging and inspiring works to a new generation of readers.
Author : Robert Royal
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781587311055
The Catholic "thing" - the concrete historical reality of Catholicism as a presence in human history - is the richest cultural tradition in the world. It values both faith and reason, and therefore has a great deal to say about politics and economics, war and peace, manners and morals, children and families, careers and vocations, and many other perennial and contemporary questions. In addition, it has inspired some of the greatest art, music, and architecture, while offering unparalleled human solidarity to tens of millions through hospitals, soup kitchens, schools, universities, and relief services. This volume brings together some of the very best commentary on a wide range of recent events and controversies by some of the very best Catholic writers in the English language: Ralph McInerny, Michael Novak, Fr. James V. Schall, Hadley Arkes, Robert Royal, Anthony Esolen, Brad Miner, George Marlin, David Warren, Austin Ruse, Francis Beckwith, and many others. Their contributions cover large Catholic subjects such as philosophy and theology, liturgy and Church dogma, postmodern culture, the Church and modern politics, literature, and music. But they also look into specific contemporary problems such as religious liberty, the role of Catholic officials in public life, growing moral hazards in bio-medical advances, and such like. The Catholic Thing is a virtual encyclopedia of Catholic thought about modern life.
Author : John Lawton
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 080219625X
Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard returns in “one of the best thrillers of the year” (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review). Spanning the tumultuous years 1934 to 1948, John Lawton’s A Lily of the Field is a brilliant historical thriller from a master of the form. The book follows two characters—Méret Voytek, a talented young cellist living in Vienna at the novel’s start, and Dr. Karel Szabo, a Hungarian physicist interned in a camp on the Isle of Man. In his seventh Inspector Troy novel, Lawton moves seamlessly from Vienna and Auschwitz to the deserts of New Mexico and the rubble-strewn streets of postwar London, following the fascinating parallels of the physicist Szabo and musician Voytek as fate takes each far from home and across the untraditional battlefields of a destructive war to an unexpected intersection at the novel’s close. The result, A Lily of the Field, is Lawton’s best book yet, a historically accurate and remarkably written novel that explores the diaspora of two Europeans from the rise of Hitler to the post-atomic age. “Lawton’s thrillers provide a vivid, moving and wonderfully absorbing way to experience life in London and on the Continent before, during and after World War II.” —The Washington Post
Author : Linda Nash
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1449753744
This book describes the beginning of life and its delicate balance, the thoughts and ideals of the flowers in the fields and their use of ancient principles to acquire success. It encourages every child in a fantastical way to think BIG. It begins with an alien invasion of untold beauty and goodness, rather than of fear and darkness. As the lilies grow, the entire landscape changes into an extraordinary garden of delight, concluding with words and music that will encourage even the youngest reader to dream of golden days and victorious outcomes.
Author : Kim Phuc Phan Thi
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1496424328
Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames—before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It’s a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror and violence of the Vietnam War. Kim was left for dead in a morgue; no one expected her to survive the attack. Napalm meant fire, and fire meant death. Against all odds, Kim lived—but her journey toward healing was only beginning. When the napalm bombs dropped, everything Kim knew and relied on exploded along with them: her home, her country’s freedom, her childhood innocence and happiness. The coming years would be marked by excruciating treatments for her burns and unrelenting physical pain throughout her body, which were constant reminders of that terrible day. Kim survived the pain of her body ablaze, but how could she possibly survive the pain of her devastated soul? Fire Road is the true story of how she found the answer in a God who suffered Himself; a Savior who truly understood and cared about the depths of her pain. Fire Road is a story of horror and hope, a harrowing tale of a life changed in an instant—and the power and resilience that can only be found in the power of God’s mercy and love.
Author : John Barstow Paterson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Plants in the Bible
ISBN : 9780395888285
Presents botanical illustrations of familiar and exotic flowers, trees, and plants mentioned in the accompanying Bible verses and selections.
