Inventing Hell

Author : Jon M. Sweeney
Publisher : Jericho Books
ISBN 13 : 1455582239
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Hell written by Jon M. Sweeney and published by Jericho Books. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hell: The word means terror, darkness, and eternal separation from God. Some people think the Bible is clear about hell, but what if they're mistaken? With gripping narrative and solid scholarship, Sweeney charts hell's "evolution" from the Old Testament underworld Sheol, through history and literature, to the greatest influencer of all: Dante's Inferno. He reveals how the modern idea of hell is based mostly on Dante's imaginative genius-but in the process, he offers a more constructive understanding of the afterlife than ever before. Disturbing and enthralling, Sweeney will forever alter what we think happens to us after we die-and more importantly, he will make us reconsider how we live.

Author : Jon M. Sweeney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909979789
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Hell written by Jon M. Sweeney and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Far from a dry, academic discourse, Inventing Hell makes for great reading. The book reveals the little-known confluence of theology, culture, and literature that has shaped our notions of the afterlife. Every minister, priest, rabbi, and sheikh needs to read this book, and so do we all.” Rabbi David Zaslow, author, Jesus: First-Century Rabbi “If you let Jon Sweeney be your tour guide to Hell, you’ll love the journey. You’ll learn a lot about what you thought was in the Bible, but isn’t, and about what you thought you knew about Hell, but now need to rethink. Jon’s writing is a delight on every page.” Brian D. McLaren, author, We Make the Road by Walking This story of how Hell got "invented" is engaging, erudite, and illuminating. It could be the most important theology book you ever read. It is also hilarious. Jon Sweeney, convert to Catholicism and married to a rabbi, author of two dozen of his own religious books and editor of hundreds of others, delves into the question of Hell with intellectual curiosity, sincere faith, and good humor. He pretty much proves that it was Dante who gave us the Hell we have, and then he admonishes us to think again about the hell that exists around us every day.

Author : Derek Ryan Kubilus
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467466573
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Hell written by Derek Ryan Kubilus and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if everything we’ve heard about hell is wrong? Eternal torment. A lake of fire. Wailing and gnashing of teeth. Many of us have sat through enough sermons to know what awaits us if we slip up. These dark visions of the afterlife seem a bit sadistic. Is there any hope within the Christian faith if this is the God of Love we serve? In this lively debut, Derek Ryan Kubilus makes the case for universal salvation. Kubilus shows how our ideas about hell have been distorted by mistranslation of the Greek and Hebrew Scriptures. Armed with proof-texts, those in power have used threats of eternal damnation as an instrument of control. Arguing that such torture is contrary to God’s nature, Kubilus offers an alternative understanding of hell—a temporary and holy rehabilitation, reconciling all creation in Christ. Theologically serious and culturally engaged, Holy Hell will shake readers’ assumptions about a seemingly implacable Christian doctrine that chains so many to eternal dread. In its place, Kubilus offers a vision for a church that serves all people with compassion, wherever they are in their journey toward Christ.

Author : Anthony DeStefano
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0718080629
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hell written by Anthony DeStefano and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best book on hell ever written”. - Dr. Eastman, founding member and president, America’s National Prayer Committee Anthony DeStefano, the bestselling author of A Travel Guide to Heaven, takes us on an exploration of hell, the devil, demons, and evil itself. Written with clarity, logic, and vivid storytelling, Hell: A Guide takes up questions such as: Is hell a place or a state of being? What does hell look like? What kind of suffering do people in hell experience? What are the devil and demons really like? Rooted in solid, orthodox Christian scholarship, this one-of-a-kind book investigates everything there is to know about one of the most fascinating, yet often misunderstood, subjects of all time.

Author : Miles Hollingworth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628926643
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Socrates written by Miles Hollingworth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventing Socrates is a book about the consequences of knowledge and the coming of age. It is written in knowledge's Western setting, making allegorical as well as literal use of the event known as the 'birth of philosophy' – an event that began in ancient Greece in the 6th-century B.C., when a handful of thinkers first looked at the natural world through the critical eyes of fledgling science. Very little of concrete fact is known about this first philosophy and its protagonists. Only scant fragments of their writings have survived; and these are nearly always poetical and esoteric, some no more than a single line. They are freighted with meanings that might take one in two different directions at once; and this ambidexterity between ancient and modern has always been their beguiling feature. Altogether these thinkers are known as the Presocratics, because they pioneered the rational methods that Socrates would take to the question of the good life. If Socrates stands today as an icon of Western self-esteem, these pioneers are said to show the emergence of that poise from the fug of myth and religion. Apparently they prove the evolution of Western intelligence and the value of living today – in the secular maturity of its latest, greatest hour. But what if their continuing readability and tactility were actually to become the demonstration against that? This is not just, then, a book about the foundations of Western thought. It is a book about all that we invest in the ideas of ancient and modern. Left to right is the Western way of learning and growing, but, as Miles Hollingworth shows, the truths of the human condition are subterranean corridors running psychologically and eternally.

Author : Justin Camp
Publisher : David C Cook
ISBN 13 : 1434712656
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invention written by Justin Camp and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universe’s Inventor designed us like he did the world: with passion and precision and purpose. He made us for confidence and significance, joy and relationship. He made us to be part of something massive and majestic—to contribute to his work of remaking this world and to play vital parts in his Kingdom.But we have a vicious enemy, hell-bent on thwarting us. Our enemy spins lies that convince us into distraction and dependence—on alcohol, drugs, pornography, success-at-all-cost. But Jesus said, “I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.” (MSG, John 10:10) He said that about us. Invention is an invitation to join a band of renegades and revolutionaries, change-makers and troublemakers—men who won’t be daunted, because they know there is more. It’s a guide for living, finally, with depth and purpose. It will expose the lies that obscure God’s intent, and will help reveal His design for your life. There is so much more. Come and see.

Author : Kimberly Jannarone
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472121391
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right written by Kimberly Jannarone and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right challenges assumptions regarding “radical” and “experimental” performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The book brings to light vanguard performances rarely discussed: those that support totalitarian regimes, promote conservative values, or have been effectively snapped up by right-wing regimes the performances intended to oppose. In so doing, the volume explores a central paradox: how innovative performances that challenge oppressive power structures can also be deployed in deliberate, passionate support of oppressive power. Essays by leading international scholars pose engaging questions about the historical avant-garde, vanguard acts, and the complex role of artistic innovation and live performance in global politics. Focusing on performances that work against progressive and democratic ideas (including scripted drama, staged suicide, choral dance, terrorism, rallies, and espionage), the book demonstrates how many compelling performance ideals—unification, exaltation, immersion—are, in themselves, neither moral nor immoral; they are only emotional and aesthetic urges that can be powerfully channeled into a variety of social and political outlets.

Author : Richard Hell
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062190857
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp written by Richard Hell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In his poetic memoir, Hell takes us on a tour of a lost world and stakes out his place in cultural history.”—Los Angeles Times “A rueful, battle-scarred, darkly witty observer of his own life and times.”—New York Times The sharp, lyrical, and no-holds- barred autobiography of the iconoclastic writer and musician Richard Hell, charting the childhood, coming of age, and misadventures of an artist in an indelible era of rock and roll. From an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. He arrived penniless in New York City at seventeen; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, cofounding such seminal bands as Television, The Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids—whose song "Blank Generation" remains the defining anthem of the era, an era that would forever alter popular culture in all its forms. How this legendary downtown artist went from a bucolic childhood in the idyllic Kentucky foothills to igniting a movement that would take over New York and London's restless youth culture—cementing CBGB as the ground zero of punk and spawning the careers of not only Hell himself, but a cohort of friends such as Tom Verlaine, Patti Smith, the Ramones, and Debby Harry—is a mesmerizing chronicle of self-invention, and of Hell's yearning for redemption through poetry, music, and art. An acutely rendered, unforgettable coming-of-age story, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp evokes with feeling, lyricism, and piercing intelligence both the world that shaped him and the world he shaped.

Author : Edward Whipple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.HX/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Biography of James M. Peebles ... written by Edward Whipple and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Walker
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663210748
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make It Make Sense written by Michael Walker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make it make sense is a detailed look at the four major religions. This book gives accurate details on the history, teachings, and beliefs of each. It also goes into greater details on who wrote the guides, and why some of them were written. It examines what each religious concept of the afterlife is, and what to expect upon death. It speaks on things that make absolutely no sense when it comes to our beliefs. It also speaks on the contradictions of each guide, problems with prayer, and creation stories that don’t add up. This book is designed to increase your understanding of why you believe what you believe, and also attempts to open your mind so that you may see the major flaws, and positive things in what you believe.