Author :
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0857861018
The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Author : John J. Delaney
Publisher : Christian Large Print
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802726995
A historical study considers the most significant apparitions of Mary, from the Miraculous Medal at Paris to the sixteenth-century appearance at Guadalupe, in a volume that is complemented by inspirational quotes. (Religion)
Author : Anna Bonus Kingsford
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 37,4 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465578463
Author : Pope Benedict XVI
Publisher : Image
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 038552434X
“This book is . . . my personal search ‘for the face of the Lord.’” –Benedict XVI In this bold, momentous work, the Pope––in his first book written as Benedict XVI––seeks to salvage the person of Jesus from recent “popular” depictions and to restore Jesus’ true identity as discovered in the Gospels. Through his brilliance as a theologian and his personal conviction as a believer, the Pope shares a rich, compelling, flesh-and-blood portrait of Jesus and incites us to encounter, face-to-face, the central figure of the Christian faith. From Jesus of Nazareth: “. . . the great question that will be with us throughout this entire book: But what has Jesus really brought, then, if he has not brought world peace, universal prosperity, and a better world? What has he brought? The answer is very simple: God. He has brought God! He has brought the God who once gradually unveiled his countenance first to Abraham, then to Moses and the prophets, and then in the wisdom literature–the God who showed his face only in Israel, even though he was also honored among the pagans in various shadowy guises. It is this God, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, the true God, whom he has brought to the peoples of the earth. He has brought God, and now we know his face, now we can call upon him. Now we know the path that we human beings have to take in this world. Jesus has brought God and with God the truth about where we are going and where we come from: faith, hope, and love.”
Author : Richard Francis
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Women evangelists
ISBN : 9781559705622
When she died in America at age forty-eight, having brought her faithful to a new land on the eve of the Revolution, she left behind a religious movement that was to have thousands of followers and become our most important and successful utopian community."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Joyce Hollyday
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664255381
A contributing editor for Sojourners magazine introduces readers to women in the Bible--many of them unfamiliar--in 50 meditations that are grounded in the lives of biblical women. The meditations are designed to be used throughout the year, and questions for group discussion are included.
Author : Joel Richardson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Antichrist
ISBN : 9781936488537
Whereas most students of the Bible have long held that some form of humanism or universalist religion would catapult the Antichrist to world power, this book systematically proves the biblical case for an Islamic Antichrist.
Author : Steven J. Friesen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0195131533
After more than a century of debate about the significance of imperial cults for the interpretation of Revelation, this is the first study to examine both the archaeological evidence and the Biblical text in depth. Friesen argues that a detailed analysis of imperial cults as they were practiced in the first century CE in the region where John was active allows us to understand John's criticism of his society's dominant values. He demonstrates the importance of imperial cults for society at the time when Revelation was written, and shows the ways in which John refuted imperial cosmology through his use of vision, myth, and eschatological expectation.
Author : Margaret Barker
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 20,93 MB
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0281067260
In Christmas the Original Story Margaret Barker explores the nature of the Christmas stories and the nature and use of Old Testament prophecy. Beginning with John's account, it then goes on to include Luke and Matthew, the apocryphal gospels, and the traditions of the Coptic Church, to throw light upon wise men and their gifts, the character of Herod, Matthew's use of prophecy, the holy family in Egypt. This book also discusses the stories we get from the Infancy Gospel of Jesus and the development of the Orthodox Christmas icon, as well as the Christmas story and the Mary material in the Koran.
Author : Margaret Barker
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0281067023
According to Margaret Barker's groundbreaking theory, temple mysticism underpins much of the Bible. Rooted in the cult of the first temple in ancient Judaism, it helps us to understand the origins of Christianity. Temple mysticism was received and taught as oral tradition, and many texts were changed or suppressed or kept from public access. Barker first examines biblical texts: Isaiah, the prophet whom Jesus quoted more than any other in Scripture, and John. Then she proposes a more detailed picture, drawing on a wide variety of non-biblical texts. The resulting book presents some remarkable results.
