Book Description
Kent explains how numerous foundations are undermining the United States.
Author : Phil Kent
Publisher : Zoe Publications (SC)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780971985117
Kent explains how numerous foundations are undermining the United States.
Author : Matthew Levering
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Charity
ISBN : 9781602583566
Love was at one time a powerfully unifying force among Christians. In his letters, Paul consistently evokes charity as the avenue to both human and divine communion. If the magnitude of charity was of the upmost importance to early Christians, so were those sins that aimed to distract Christians from acting based on love. Taking seriously the efforts of Paul, and later Thomas Aquinas, to expose and root out the sins against charity, Matthew Levering reclaims the centrality of love for moral, and in fact all, theology. As Levering argues, the practice of charity leads to inner joy and peace as well as outward mercy, good will, and unity with God and neighbor. The sins against charity--hatred, sloth, envy, discord and contention, schism, war and strife, and sedition and scandal--threaten love's concrete effects by rebelling against dependence on God and undermining interdependence on others. The Betrayal of Charity seriously considers the consequences of each of the sins against love, compelling individuals and communities to recognize their own loss of charity. In doing so, Levering fosters a spirit of restoration and reminds readers that love--not the sins against it--will have the last word.
Author : Matthew Levering
Publisher :
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Charity
ISBN : 9781602583542
Author : Madeline Dewhurst
Publisher : Eye Books (US&CA)
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 35,33 MB
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1785632485
A powerful story about race, class, and the clash of generations as two Londoners from utterly different worlds find themselves under the same roof. Flashbacks to the colonial brutality of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. Edith, an elderly widow with a large house in an Islington garden square, needs a carer. Lauren, a nail technician born in the East End, needs somewhere to live. A rent-free room in lieu of pay seems the obvious solution, even though the pair have nothing in common. Or do they? Why is Lauren so fascinated by Edith's childhood in colonial Kenya? Is Paul, the handsome lodger in the basement, the honest broker he appears? And how does Charity, a Kenyan girl brutally tortured during the Mau Mau rebellion, fit into the equation? Capturing the spirited interplay between two women divided by class, generation, and a deeper gulf from the past, and offering vivid flashbacks to 1950s East Africa, Madeline Dewhurst's captivating debut spins a web of secrets and deceit&–where it's not always obvious who is the spider and who is the fly.
Author : Michael Lowenthal
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618546299
During World War I, after an impulsive night with an infected soldier, Frieda Mintz, a seventeen-year-old Jewish girl, is sent to a makeshift detention center for medical treatment with other "charity girls" in similar circumstances.
Author : David Decosimo
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781503600607
Most of us wonder how to make sense of the apparent moral excellences or virtues of those who have different visions of the good life or different religious commitments than our own. Rather than flattening or ignoring the deep difference between various visions of the good life, as is so often done, this book turns to the medieval Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas to find a better way. Thomas, it argues, shows us how to welcome the outsider and her virtue as an expression rather than a betrayal of one's own distinctive vision. It shows how Thomas, driven by a Christian commitment to charity and especially informed by Augustine, synthesized Augustinian and Aristotelian elements to construct an ethics that does justice—in love—to insiders and outsiders alike. Decosimo offers the first analysis of Thomas on pagan virtue and a reinterpretation of Thomas's ethics while providing a model for our own efforts to articulate a truthful hospitality and do ethics in our pluralist, globalized world.
Author : Nathan Gross
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780231054409
Author : Maurice Samuels
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 10,49 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1541645464
Fighting to reclaim the French crown for the Bourbons, the duchesse de Berry faces betrayal at the hands of one of her closest advisors in this dramatic history of power and revolution. The year was 1832, a cholera pandemic raged, and the French royal family was in exile, driven out by yet another revolution. From a drafty Scottish castle, the duchesse de Berry -- the mother of the eleven-year-old heir to the throne -- hatched a plot to restore the Bourbon dynasty. For months, she commanded a guerilla army and evaded capture by disguising herself as a man. But soon she was betrayed by her trusted advisor, Simon Deutz, the son of France's Chief Rabbi. The betrayal became a cause célèbre for Bourbon loyalists and ignited a firestorm of hate against France's Jews. By blaming an entire people for the actions of a single man, the duchess's supporters set the terms for the century of antisemitism that followed. Brimming with intrigue and lush detail, The Betrayal of the Duchess is the riveting story of a high-spirited woman, the charming but volatile young man who double-crossed her, and the birth of one of the modern world's most deadly forms of hatred. !--EndFragment--
Author : Amelia Gentleman
Publisher : Guardian Faber Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783351855
A searing portrait of Britain's hostile environment by the celebrated journalist, longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2019.
Author : Gabriella Parra
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1477141405