The Stage's Glory


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John Rich (1692-1761) was a profoundly influential figure of the eighteenth-century London stage. As producer, manager and performer, he transformed the urban entertainment market, creating genres and promotional methods still with us today. This volume gives the first comprehensive overview of Rich's multifaceted career. Contributions by leading scholars from a range of disciplines-Dtheatre, dance, music, art, and cultural historyDprovide detailed analyses of Rich's productions and representations.




Weight of Glory


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Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses offer guidance and inspiration in a time of great doubt.These are ardent and lucid sermons that provide a compassionate vision of Christianity.




MAMHANA


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The book 'Mamhana: Get your call from your home' Burning Bush Volume- 1, can make a memorable mark on your life by a transforming influence. Can assure you that the book is very gripping and the most profound study. Reading this book, you can be rightly positioned in His grace and be enabled to encounter Jesus Christ. So, get ready to read this book and receive your encounter for a transformation. We all long for a new beginning and wonder how to receive it. A new beginning always starts with a transformation. And every spiritual transformation begins with an encounter. If you are longing for a new beginning, you held the right book! It is going to lead you to a transforming encounter and position you in the right place of His glory. An encounter with the burning bush transformed the shepherd Moses to a savior of the Israelites. An encounter with the fire of the Holy Spirit in the upper room transformed the common men and women to extraordinary saints to carry the gospel to the ends of the earth. The same burning fire is burning in this book to transform the believers to servants of God, to do the greater works with the stronger foundations. This book is a self-discipling guide that helps you to gain the following: * Provides complete knowledge about salvation that transfers any area of your life filled with darkness to the light of Jesus, to make you a new creation * Gives the confidence that Satan cannot destroy your holiness and lifts you up from the deepest parts of sin consciousness to the highest level of holy consciousness. * Gives you a complete understanding of God's glory and makes you glow in the dome of His glory. * Guides you to practice the presence of God daily and helps you to have a deeper level of a personal relationship with Jesus. And it shows you a way for daily encounters, visitations, and the supernatural. * Finally, it helps you to construct your call and leads you to accomplish your call with confidence. If you are the one seeking the deeper truths of the Bible and higher levels of glory, you should know that God's eyes are searching for you, and this book is certainly going to position you to fall under God's sight. Get ready to start a new beginning in your life by understanding your call. Get ready to start a new beginning in the kingdom of God by carrying the call. Finally, get ready for your destiny on this earth and eternity by accomplishing your call. The kingdom is longing for a new beginning. A beginning always begins with the single humble person; then why can't it begin with you? Amen!




Life-Study of 2 Corinthians


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Life-study of Second Corinthians


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In this life-study, Witness Lee opens up Paul’s second Epistle to the Corinthians, a book on the new covenant ministry and its ministers. The first Epistle to the Corinthians was the apostle’s argument, an argument that defeated and subdued the distracted and confused Corinthians. Now, the second Epistle brought them back into the experience of Christ, who was the subject of his argument in the first Epistle. Hence, the second Epistle is more experiential, more subjective, and deeper than the first. In the first, Christ, the Spirit with our spirit, the church, and the gifts are covered as the major subjects. In the second, Christ, the Spirit with our spirit, and the church are developed further, but the gifts are not even mentioned. The gifts are replaced in this book by the ministry, which is constituted with, and produced and formed by, the experiences of the riches of Christ gained through sufferings, consuming pressures, and the killing work of the cross. This Epistle gives us a pattern, an example, of how the killing of the cross works, how Christ is wrought into our being, and how we become the expression of Christ. These processes constitute the ministers of Christ and produce the ministry for God’s new covenant.




Short of the Glory


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Arthur Schlesinger Jr. thought that he might one day become president. He was a protege of Felix Frankfurter and Fred Vinson--a political prodigy who held a series of important posts in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. Whatever became of Edward F. Prichard, Jr., so young and brilliant and seemingly destined for glory? Prichard was a complex man, and his story is tragically ironic. The boy from Bourbon County, Kentucky, graduated at the top of his Princeton class and cut a wide swath at Harvard Law School. He went on to clerk in the U.S. Supreme Court and become an important figure in Roosevelt's Brain Trust. Yet Prichard--known for his dazzling wit and photographic memory--fell victim to the hubris that had helped to make him great. In 1948, he was indicted for stuffing 254 votes in a U.S. Senate race. J. Edgar Hoover, never a fan of the young genius, made sure he was prosecuted, and so many of the members of the Supreme Court were Prichard's friends that not enough justices were left to hear his appeal. So the man Roosevelt's advisors had called the boy wonder of the New Deal went to jail. Prichard's meteoric rise and fall is essentially a Greek tragedy set on the stage of American politics. Pardoned by President Truman, Prichard spent the next twenty-five years working his way out of political exile. Gradually he became a trusted advisor to governors and legislators, though without recognition or compensation. Finally, in the 1970s and 1980s, Prichard emerged as his home state's most persuasive and eloquent voice for education reform, finally regaining the respect he had thrown away in his arrogant youth.




Stages on Life's Way


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The International Kierkegaard Commentary-For the first time in English the world community of scholars systematically assembled and presented the results of recent research in the vast literature of Søren Kierkegaard. Based on the definitive English edition of Kierkegaard's works by Princeton University Press, this series of commentaries addresses all the published texts of the influential Danish philosopher and theologian. This is volume 11 in a series of commentaries based upon the definitive translations of Kierkegaard's writings published by Princeton University Press, 1980ff.




A Life in Stages


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“The station where you begin your life, does not need to be your station at the end of your life. The choice is yours.” Growing up poor in wartime England, Frank Farr is an indifferent student, and once he gets into his rebellious teen years, struggles with juvenile delinquency and seems headed for trouble. But when he is presented with the opportunity of a place in a boarding school for “bright delinquents” Frank gets mentored into a passion for learning...and his life takes an entirely different direction. “From shop floor to board room” Beginning as an assistant in a Canadian supermarket, Frank’s willingness to work hard and to continuously learn, starts him on an ascent to the highest levels of the corporate retail world, a happy marriage, fatherhood, and travels around the world. “Good Luck is where preparation meets opportunity” A Life in Stages follows Frank’s rise from unpromising beginnings to eighty-two years of living a good life, learning, working hard and enjoying the love of family and the companionship of friends and colleagues.




Teaching Bodies


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In Teaching Bodies, leading scholar of Christian thought Mark D. Jordan offers an original reading of the Summa of Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Reading backward, Jordan interprets the main parts of the Summa, starting from the conclusion, to reveal how Thomas teaches morals by directing attention to the way God teaches morals, namely through embodied scenes: the incarnation, the gospels, and the sacraments. It is Thomas’s confidence in bodily scenes of instruction that explains the often overlooked structure of the middle part of the Summa, which begins and ends with Christian revisions of classical exhortations of the human body as a pathway to the best human life. Among other things, Jordan argues, this explains Thomas’s interest in the stages of law and the limits of virtue as the engine of human life. Rather than offer a synthesis of Thomistic ethics, Jordan insists that we read Thomas as theology to discover the unification of Christian wisdom in a pattern of ongoing moral formation. Jordan supplements his close readings of the Summa with reflections on Thomas’s place in the history of Christian moral teaching—and thus his relevance for teaching and writing in the present. What remains a puzzle is why Thomas chose to stage this incarnational moral teaching within the then-new genres of university disputation—the genres we think of as “Scholastic.” Yet here again the structure of the Summa provides an answer. In Jordan’s deft analysis, Thomas’s minimalist refusal to tell a new story except by juxtaposing selections from inherited philosophical and theological traditions is his way of opening room for God’s continuing narration in the development of the human soul. The task of writing theology, as Thomas understands it, is to open a path through the inherited languages of classical thought so that divine pedagogy can have its effect on the reader. As such, the task of the Summa, in Mark Jordan’s hands, is a crucial and powerful way to articulate Christian morals today.




Collection of E. H. Plumptre


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This collection contains 11 commentaries from two great commentary series: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges is a biblical commentary set published in parts by Cambridge University Press from 1882 onwards. Anglican bishop John Perowne was the general editor. The first section published was written by theologian Thomas Kelly Cheyne and covered the Book of Micah. Ecclesiastes - E. H. Plumptre - 1888 James - E. H. Plumptre - 1890 1 & 2 Peter, Jude - E. H. Plumptre - 1890 Ellicott, Charles J. - Commentary for English Readers which was originally published: · An Old Testament Commentary for English Readers, 1897 · A New Testament Commentary for English Readers, 1878 Isaiah: Rev. E. H. Plumptre, D.D. Jeremiah: Rev. E. H. Plumptre, D.D. Lamentations: Rev. E. H. Plumptre, D.D. Matthew: Rev. E. H. Plumptre, D.D. Mark: Rev. E. H. Plumptre, D.D. Luke: Rev. E. H. Plumptre, D.D. Acts: Rev. E. H. Plumptre, D.D. 2 Corinthians: Rev. E. H. Plumptre, D.D. This reproduction is from: CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBORURNE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1905