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Author : Palmer Paxton Stoutt
Publisher : Palmer Paxton Stoutt
ISBN 13 : 0986024066
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book Passage to Paradise: Time is coming to an End written by Palmer Paxton Stoutt and published by Palmer Paxton Stoutt. This book was released on with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Stern
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031306802X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book Can God Intervene? written by Gary Stern and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death and devastation wrought by the tsunami in South Asia, Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf states, the earthquake in Pakistan, the mudslides in the Philippines, the tornadoes in the American Midwest, another earthquake in Indonesia-these are only the most recent acts of God to cause people of faith to question God's role in the physical universe. Volcanic eruptions, wildfires, epidemics, floods, blizzards, droughts, hailstorms, and famines can all raise the same questions: Can God intervene in natural events to prevent death, injury, sickness, and suffering? If so, why does God not act? If not, is God truly the All-Loving, All-Powerful, and All-Present Being that many religions proclaim? Grappling with such questions has always been an essential component of religion, and different faiths have arrived at wildly different answers. To explore various religious explanations of the tragedies inflicted by nature, author Gary Stern has interviewed 43 prominent religious leaders across the religious spectrum, among them Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People; Father Benedict Groeschel, author of Arise from Darkness; The Rev. James Rowe Adams, founder of the Center for Progressive Christianity; Kenneth R. Samples, vice president of Reason to Believe; Dr. James Cone, the legendary African American theologian; Tony Campolo, founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education; Dr. Sayyid Syeed, general secretary of the Islamic Society of North America; Imam Yahya Hendi, the first Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University; Dr. Arvind Sharma, one of the world's leading Hindu scholars; Robert A. F. Thurman, the first American to be ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk; David Silverman, the national spokesman for American Atheists; and others—rabbis, priests, imams, monks, storefront ministers, itinerant holy people, professors, and chaplains—Jews, Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants, evangelical Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Atheists-people of belief, and people of nonbelief, too. Stern asked each of them probing questions about what their religion teaches and what their faith professes regarding the presence of tragedy. Some feel that the forces of nature are simply impersonal, and some believe that God is omniscient but not omnipotent. Some claim that nature is ultimately destructive because of Original Sin, some assert that the victims of natural disasters are sinners who deserve to die, and some explain that natural disasters are the result of individual and collective karma. Still others profess that God causes suffering in order to test and purify the victims. Stern, an award-winning religion journalist, has extensive experience in this type of analytical journalism. The result is a work that probes and challenges real people's beliefs about a subject that, unfortunately, touches everyone's life.
Author : Mira Balberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197501508
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book When Near Becomes Far written by Mira Balberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Near Becomes Far explores the representations and depictions of old age in the rabbinic Jewish literature of late antiquity (150-600 CE). Through close literary readings and cultural analysis, the book reveals the gaps and tensions between idealized images of old age on the one hand, and the psychologically, physiologically, and socially complicated realities of aging on the other hand. The authors argue that while rabbinic literature presents a number of prescriptions related to qualities and activities that make for good old age, the respect and reverence that the elderly should be awarded, and harmonious intergenerational relationship, it also includes multiple anecdotes and narratives that portray aging in much more nuanced and poignant ways. These anecdotes and narratives relate, alongside fantasies about blissful or unnoticeable aging, a host of fears associated with old age: from the loss of physical capability and beauty to the loss of memory and mental acuity, and from marginalization in the community to being experienced as a burden by one's children. Each chapter of the book focuses on a different aspect of aging in the rabbinic world: bodily appearance and sexuality, family relations, intellectual and cognitive prowess, honor and shame, and social roles and identity. As the book shows, in their powerful and sensitive treatments of aging, rabbinic texts offer some of the richest and most audacious observations on aging in ancient world literature, many of which still resonate today.
Author : Fiona Macintosh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198804210
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book Epic Performances from the Middle Ages Into the Twenty-First Century written by Fiona Macintosh and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists with a rich storehouse of themes: this volume is the first systematic attempt to chart its afterlife across a range of diverse performance traditions, with analysis ranging widely across time, place, genre, and academic and creative disciplines.--Publisher description.
Author : Edward J. Young
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802895516
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)
Download or read book Book of Isaiah written by Edward J. Young and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1992-11 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic in conservative Old Testament scholarship, this three-volume commentary concentrates primarily on the meaning of the text of Isaiah rather than on specific textual problems. Volume 1 covers chapters 1-18; Volume 2 looks at chapters 19-39; Volume 3 surveys chapters 40-66.
Author : Joseph Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contemplations Upon the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments written by Joseph Hall and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig A. Evans
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579106072
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book Luke and Scripture written by Craig A. Evans and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2001-05-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating, lucidly presented work offering fresh insights into a number of key passages in the Gospel and showing the fruitfulness of examining Luke's usage in the light of Judaism. Whatever their level of expertise, students of Luke and of the use of Scripture in Scripture will find useful and challenging material in this comprehensive volume. I. Howard Marshall, King's College Luke and Scripture is an important contribution to the study of comparative midrash and the role and function of authoritative, sacred tradition in the life of the early Christian community. This book sharpens the definition of midrash criticism in relation to other methods both in theory and practice and in the process sheds further light on Luke's understanding of Jesus, the origin of early Christianity, and his own experience in terms of Israel's sacred tradition and institutions. Mikeal C. Parsons, Baylor University
Author : Esther Mesterton
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160247561X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hidden Passage written by Esther Mesterton and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until Karen Wright showed up in their secluded valley, the canyon people thought they were trapped. They had almost given up hope of ever seeing their families again because the only known passages out of the canyon were guarded by giant ape-like creatures. But Karen had found her way into the canyon through a hidden passage, a passage not guarded by the intimidating beasts. God had richly provided for the canyon people. No doubt he had something to do with the Benson family's confinement in the canyon, for they were his children; and they had quietly planted seeds of faith among the others. When Karen arrived, she watered the seeds, for she too was a child of God; and faith began to germinate. Read Esther Mesterton's incredibly imaginative story "Hidden Passage" to find out the answer and more. "Hidden Passage" is a story of love and faith, of humanity's need for salvation, and God's marvelous plan of redemption.
Author : Jeremy Corley
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311041693X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book Intertextual Explorations in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature written by Jeremy Corley and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the fundamentals of intertextual methodology and summarizes recent scholarship on studies of intertextuality in the deuterocanonical books. The essays engage in comparison and analysis of text groups and motifs between canonical, deuterocanonical and non-biblical texts. Moreover, the book pays close attention to non-literary relationships between different traditions, a new feature of research in intertextuality.
Author : Patrick Seamus O'Hara
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666730831
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Layman Investigates Universal Salvation written by Patrick Seamus O'Hara and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you know about universal salvation? What is its history? Have mistranslations of the Bible created an eternal hell that does not really exist? What prominent persons in Christian history taught this doctrine and which ones worked to destroy it? Is the teaching of universal salvation truly a heresy, or has it been suppressed by church leaders interested in controlling their people by fear? Patrick Seamus O’Hara needed answers to these questions. This book is the result of research in which he went back into Christian history to examine events leading to the suppression of this once-popular teaching in Christianity. Drawing from ancient writings, he looks at problems with Bible translations, political intrigues within the church, and the personal foibles of church leaders which led to the teaching of universal salvation disappearing from the Christian lexicon. The three main objections to universal salvation are the Fifth Ecumenical Council, the Bible, and the writings of the early church fathers. The author examines each one of these and shares from his research the reasons these are not legitimate objections. The universal salvation of God’s immense love is truly the good news of the gospel!
