Of The Nature And Use Of Lots A Treatise Historicall And Theologicall

Author : Thomas Gataker
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 184540730X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature and Uses of Lotteries written by Thomas Gataker and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Gataker was a disputatious Puritan divine. His The Nature and Uses of Lotteries (1627) was the first systematic exposition of a modern view of lotteries, not just as a form of gambling, but as a fair method of division. Gataker approved of these uses, but condemned divination and sorcery using random signs or spells. This important treatise is often referred to, but is generally inaccessible due to its rarity and old-style of language. The text of this edition has been fully modernised, with notes on important sources used by Gataker and includes a new introduction.

Author : Benjamin Brook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Puritans written by Benjamin Brook and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Crabb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Universal Historical Dictionary written by George Crabb and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Andrew Chatto
Publisher : London : J.R. Smith
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards written by William Andrew Chatto and published by London : J.R. Smith. This book was released on 1848 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Gilmore
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725233320
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lotto written by John Gilmore and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did biblical characters gamble in casting lots? Did reliance on casting lots encourage gambling? Do all risk-taking decisions have a gambling element? Are Stock Exchange investments a form of gambling? As more and more Christians are buying lottery tickets, Lotto: Is the Lottery Fun or Folly? examines and argues cogently the biblical, theological, historical, and ethical dimensions of lotteries. It provides up-to-date information on many of the increasingly popular forms of gambling, including charity gambling, but with particular emphasis on lotteries. It explores theological issues and examines biblical and historical viewpoints often overlooked by other works. This book is highly readable style and nonjudgmental in its approach. It offers practical and pastorally sensitive advice on the control of gambling, and each chapter concludes with discussion questions to prompt further study.

Author : Liliane Lopez-Rabatel
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 178836029X
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sortition and Democracy written by Liliane Lopez-Rabatel and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two centuries during which it had nearly disappeared in Western countries, sortition is used again as a method of selecting people who could speak for, and in certain cases decide for, all the citizenry. What is the meaning of this comeback? To answer this question, this book offers a historical analysis. It brings together a number of the best specialists on political sortition from antiquity to contemporary experiments, in Europe but also in the Ancient Middle East and in imperial China. With a transdisciplinary perspective, this volume demonstrates that sortition has been a crucial device in political history; that the instruments and places where sortition was practised matter for the understanding of the social and political logics at stake; and that these logics have been quite different, random selection being sometimes an instrument of radical democracy and in other contexts a tool for solving conflicts among elites. Will sortition in politics helps to democratize democracy in the twenty-first century?

Author : Robert Watt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bibliotheca Britannica; Or, A General Index to British and Foreign Literature written by Robert Watt and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190272112
Total Pages : 241 pages
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Download or read book Images at Work written by David Morgan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images can be studied in many ways--as symbols, displays of artistic genius, adjuncts to texts, or naturally occurring phenomena like reflections and dreams. Each of these approaches is justified by the nature of the image in question as well as the way viewers engage with it. But images are often something more when they perform in ways that exhibit a capacity to act independent of human will. Images come alive--they move us to action, calm us, reveal the power of the divine, change the world around us. In these instances, we need an alternative model for exploring what is at work, one that recognizes the presence of images as objects that act on us. Building on his previous innovative work in visual and religious studies, David Morgan creates a new framework for understanding how the human mind can be enchanted by images in Images at Work. In carefully crafted arguments, Morgan proposes that images are special kinds of objects, fashioned and recognized by human beings for their capacity to engage us. From there, he demonstrates that enchantment, as described, is not a violation of cosmic order, but a very natural way that the mind animates the world around it. His groundbreaking study outlines the deeply embodied process by which humans create culture by endowing places, things, and images with power and agency. These various agents--human and non-human, material, geographic, and spiritual--become nodes in the web of relationships, thus giving meaning to images and to human life. Marrying network theory with cutting-edge work in visual studies, and connecting the visual and bodily technologies employed by the ancient Greeks and Romans to secular icons like Che Guevara, Abraham Lincoln, and Mao, Images at Work will be transformative for those curious about why images seem to have a power of us in ways we can't always describe.

Author : John Aikin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Biography; Or Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order written by John Aikin and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 744 pages
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