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Gillespie looks at the role of religion in the shaping of early modern Ireland, taking a new approach which identifies the commonalities of religious thought and the differences between confessional groups.
Author : Raymond Gillespie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719042003
Gillespie looks at the role of religion in the shaping of early modern Ireland, taking a new approach which identifies the commonalities of religious thought and the differences between confessional groups.
Author : Simon Cross
Publisher : Authentic Media Inc
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1850789266
This book brings together stories of new monasticism in the UK. Totally Devoted: the challenge of the New Monasticism by Simon Cross shows us communities and groups which all, in widely different ways, live as new monastics, seeking God and carrying on the traditions of their forebears in a way fitting for twenty-first century living. The book features interviews with members of various communities, including among others: The Northumbria Community; Safespace; TOM; EarthAbbey; The Community of Aidan and Hilda; SPEAK; The Catholic Worker Movement; Betel of Britain; L'Arche; The Ashram Community; and hOme. Author, activist and new monastic, Shane Claiborne had this to say about Totally Devoted : Every few hundred years, it seems that the Church gets infected by the world around us and we forget who we are called to be. And every few hundred years, there are folks on the fringes of the faith who hear a whisper to leave the materialism and militarism and all the clutter of the culture... and to go to the margins, and the desert and the abandoned places to rethink what it means to be Christian. Here is another piece of evidence that there is a movement once again hearing the ancient whisper of God to repair the Church which is in ruins.
Author : American Institute of the City of New York
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Page : 584 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 1840
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Author : Judy Harrow
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780806523927
For the more advanced Pagan worshippers, this book offers an insightful exploration of four significant deities: Aphrodite, the Goddess of love; Gaia, the spirit of Mother Earth; Brigit, the Celtic Goddess of creativity; and Anubis, who guides the way into the deep mysteries of death and transformation. This exemplary guide features information on these deities from a variety of cultures and offers advice on how to apply the insights and power that these bring to daily life.
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Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 1854
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Author : Augusta Hale Gifford
Publisher :
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Germany
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Author : Hernan Penaherrera
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 2014-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1499008805
Jonathan, the middle Terzetto brother, meets Samantha and forms a deep connection with her, something he never had with his former wife. Though his older brother Peter doesn't believe in love and cautions him against it, Jonathan falls madly in love with Samantha. Their love and passion for each other deepen as they cook, bake, and explore New York, until a tragic twist of fate intervenes.
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Page : 752 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 1854
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Author : Dr. Brad E. Kelle
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1426793057
While honoring the historical context and literary diversity of the Old Testament, Telling the Old Testament Story is a thematic reading that construes the OT as a complex but coherent narrative. Unlike standard, introductory textbooks that only cover basic background and interpretive issues for each Old Testament book, this introduction combines a thematic approach with careful exegetical attention to representative biblical texts, ultimately telling the macro-level story, while drawing out the multiple nuances present within different texts and traditions. The book works from the Protestant canonical arrangement of the Old Testament, which understands the story of the Old Testament as the story of God and God’s relationship with all creation in love and redemption—a story that joins the New Testament to the Old. Within this broader story, the Old Testament presents the specific story of God and God’s relationship with Israel as the people called, created, and formed to be God’s covenant partner and instrument within creation. The Old Testament begins by introducing God’s mission in Genesis. The story opens with the portrait of God’s good, intended creation of right-relationships (Gen 1—2) and the subsequent distortion of that good creation as a result of humanity’s rebellion (Gen 3—11). Genesis 12 and following introduce God’s commitment to restore creation back to the right-relationships and divine intentions with which it began. Coming out of God’s new covenant engagement with creation in Gen 9, this divine purpose begins with the calling of a people (who turn out to be the manifold descendants of Abraham and Sarah) to be God’s instrument of blessing for all creation and thus to reverse the curse brought on by sin. The diverse traditions that comprise the remainder of the Pentateuch then combine to portray the creation and formation of Israel as a people prepared to be God’s instrument of restoration and blessing. As the subsequent Old Testament books portray Israel’s life in the land and journey into and out of exile, the reader encounters complex perspectives on Israel’s attempts to understand who God is, who they are as God’s people, and how, therefore, they ought to live out their identity as God’s people within God’s mission in the world. The final prophetic books that conclude the Protestant Old Testament ultimately give the story of God’s mission and people an open-ended quality, suggesting that God’s mission for God’s people continues and leading Christian readers to consider the New Testament’s story of the Church as an extension and expansion of the broader story of God introduced in the Old Testament. The main methodological perspective that informs the book includes work on the phenomenological function of narrative (especially story’s function to shape the identity and practice of the reader), as well as more recent so-called “missional” approaches to reading Christian scripture. Canonical criticism provides the primary means for relating the distinctive voices within the Old Testament texts that still honor the particularity and diversity of the discrete compositions. Accessibly written, this book invites readers to enter imaginatively into the biblical story and find the Old Testament's lively and enduring implications.
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Page : 798 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Agriculture
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