Doubting Thomas

Author : Matthew Clark Davison
Publisher : Bywater Books
ISBN 13 : 1612942008
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doubting Thomas: A Novel written by Matthew Clark Davison and published by Bywater Books. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas McGurrin is a fourth-grade teacher and openly gay man at a private primary school serving Portland, Oregon's wealthy progressive elite when he is falsely accused of inappropriately touching a male student. The accusation comes just as Thomas is thrust back into the center of his unusual family by his younger brother's battle with cancer. Although cleared of the accusation, Thomas is forced to resign from a job he loves during a potentially life-changing family drama. Davison's novel explores the discrepancy between the progressive ideals and persistent negative stereotypes among the privileged regarding social status, race, and sexual orientation and the impact of that discrepancy on friendships and family relations.

Author : Morris Gleitzman
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742280919
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doubting Thomas written by Morris Gleitzman and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2006-09-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth is . . . Thomas has an embarrassing secret. Is it a rare and special gift or the worst thing that could happen to a boy? A story about best friends, surprising adventures and itchy nipples.

Author : Sean McDowell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131703189X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fate of the Apostles written by Sean McDowell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe written in the 16th century has long been the go-to source for studying the lives and martyrdom of the apostles. Whilst other scholars have written individual treatments on the more prominent apostles such as Peter, Paul, John, and James, there is little published information on the other apostles. In The Fate of the Apostles, Sean McDowell offers a comprehensive, reasoned, historical analysis of the fate of the twelve disciples of Jesus along with the apostles Paul, and James. McDowell assesses the evidence for each apostle’s martyrdom as well as determining its significance to the reliability of their testimony. The question of the fate of the apostles also gets to the heart of the reliability of the kerygma: did the apostles really believe Jesus appeared to them after his death, or did they fabricate the entire story? How reliable are the resurrection accounts? The willingness of the apostles to die for their faith is a popular argument in resurrection studies and McDowell offers insightful scholarly analysis of this argument to break new ground within the spheres of New Testament studies, Church History, and apologetics.

Author : Glenn W. Most
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674041259
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doubting Thomas written by Glenn W. Most and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the disciple known as Doubting Thomas, everyone knows at least this much: he stuck his finger into the risen Jesus’ wounds. Or did he? A fresh look at the Gospel of John reveals how little we may really understand about this most perplexing of biblical figures, and how much we might learn from the strange twists and turns Thomas’s story has taken over time. From the New Testament, Glenn W. Most traces Thomas’s permutations through the centuries: as Gnostic saint, missionary to India, paragon of Christian orthodoxy, hero of skepticism, and negative example of doubt, blasphemy, stupidity, and violence. Rife with paradoxes and tensions, these creative transformations at the hands of storytellers, theologians, and artists tell us a great deal about the complex relations between texts and their interpretations—and about faith, love, personal identity, the body, and twins, among other matters. Doubting Thomas begins with a close reading of chapter 20 of the Gospel of John, set against the conclusions of the other Gospels, and ends with a detailed analysis of the painting of this subject by Caravaggio, setting it within the pictorial traditions of late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Along the way, Most considers narrative reactions to John’s account by storytellers of various religious persuasions, and Christian theologians’ interpretations of John 20 from the second century ad until the Counter-Reformation. His work shows how Thomas’s story, in its many guises, touches upon central questions of religion, philosophy, hermeneutics, and, not least, life.

Author : Yvonne Patterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780570061441
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doubting Thomas written by Yvonne Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1981-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells in verse the story of "doubting" Thomas.

Author : John B. Cobb
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780824510336
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doubting Thomas written by John B. Cobb and published by Crossroad Publishing Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. Stephen Layman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019530814X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters to Doubting Thomas written by C. Stephen Layman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Arguments for or against God's existence can be intense, complex, and disconcerting; in fact, they often raise more questions than they answer. In [this book], C. Stephen Layman offers an innovative approach to the debate--a way to organize a seeming multitude of related claims and ideas--bringing clarity to a discussion that is often mired in confusion."--Publisher description, from p. [4] of cover.

Author : Katherine Bogner
Publisher : Emmaus Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645851788
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through the Year with Mary: Ponder and Pray Together with Children written by Katherine Bogner and published by Emmaus Road Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two-thousand years, Christians around the world have sought the Blessed Virgin Mary as a guide to growing closer to her Son, Jesus. Through Scripture, Catholic teaching, devotions, and countless works of art, we come to see Mary as our Mother, too. Through the Year with Mary by Katherine Bogner brings together the Church’s traditions in one place and provides a year-long plan for coming to know and love the Mother of God through Weekly passages from Scripture, saints, and scholars Reflections to nurture your understanding of Marian teaching and devotion Sacred art from around the world Marian prayers to teach you to grow closer to Jesus through Mary This comprehensive resource will help adults and children alike to entrust themselves to the most loving Mother of Jesus. Through the Year with Mary has received the nihil obstat and imprimatur. Nihil obstat: Msgr. Philip D. Halfacre, V.G. Censor Librorum Imprimatur: Most Rev. Daniel R. Jenky, C.S.C. Bishop of Peoria September 15, 2021

Author : Atle Naess
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 072061533X
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doubting Thomas written by Atle Naess and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming somewhere between Peter Ackroyd and Perfume, Doubting Thomas is an innovative and fascinating novel about the renowned Italian painter Caravaggio. The plot centers around the events of a May evening in Rome in 1606, when Caravaggio was challenged to a duel and killed a man. Who was this man Caravaggio? What happened on that fateful night? What was the cause of the fight that forced him to flee Rome? Different narrators, including a drunken architect, the painter's own brother, some ladies of the night, a town clerk, and a close friend of Caravaggio all present their versions of the events that took place that night, shedding light on what happened and, as a result, on the painter's revolutionary art. Doubting Thomas is a book about ideas and about a period in time that witnessed the coming of enlightenment and dramatic changes in thinking. It is first and foremost a novel about human destiny, sensuality, and purpose of mind; brutality and love, exploration, and devotion. How far can a painter go? Where is the line between what is sacred and what is profane? How can a drunkard and a womaniser such as Caravaggio create art that speaks of fervent aesthetics and even religious devotion?

Author : Heather Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908251879
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doubting Thomas written by Heather Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of sex, drugs and blasphemy in late seventeenth-century Edinburgh experienced through four viewpoints over fifteen years: Dr Robert Carruth, his wife Isobel, and university students Mungo Craig and Thomas Aikenhead. After participating in the particularly gruesome autopsy of a pregnant prisoner, Robert is unable to consummate his marriage to Isobel. He buries himself in work, and his overzealousness contributes to the demise of a down-at-heel apothecary named James Aikenhead. Fifteen years pass and the apothecary's son, Thomas, appears at the Carruths' door seeking recompense for his father's death. At his side is Mungo Craig, a cunning poet with dubious loyalties. The two insinuate their way into Robert and Isobel's life, freshly exposing old fault lines in the Carruths' marriage and subjecting them to dangerous new pressure.