Raising Holy Hell

Author : Bruce Olds
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1250087368
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raising Holy Hell written by Bruce Olds and published by Picador. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, leaving fifteen people dead. Viewed in the North as a saint of freedom and in the South as the devil incarnate, Brown was a visionary who not only foretold but made inevitable the bloody apocalypse of the Civil War. An intricate mosaic of alternating narrative voices, Raising Holy Hell is an explosive, multitextured evocation of the prophetic madness of the man who saw an America damned by the sin of slavery.

Author : Brian Heffernan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526117983
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom and the Fifth Commandment written by Brian Heffernan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guerilla war waged between the IRA and the crown forces between 1919 and 1921 was a pivotal episode in the modern history of Ireland. This book addresses the War of Independence from a new perspective by focusing on the attitude of a powerful social elite: the Catholic clergy. The close relationship between Irish nationalism and Catholicism was put to the test when a pugnacious new republicanism emerged after the 1916 Easter rising. When the IRA and the crown forces became involved in a guerilla war between 1919 and 1921, priests had to define their position anew. Using a wealth of source material, much of it newly available, this book assesses the clergy’s response to political violence. It describes how the image of shared victimhood at the hands of the British helped to contain tensions between the clergy and the republican movement, and shows how the links between Catholicism and Irish nationalism were sustained.

Author : Russell Banks
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307367533
Total Pages : 837 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cloudsplitter written by Russell Banks and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A triumph of the imagination, rich in incident and beautiful in its detail, Cloudsplitter brings to life one of history's legendary figures--John Brown, whose passion to abolish slavery lit the fires of the American Civil War in a conflagration that changed civilization.

Author : Julie Ferwerda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984357819
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raising Hell written by Julie Ferwerda and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Why does He fail to mention hell in Genesis as the price for sin? - Why doesn't the Old Testament ever speak of hell? - Why does Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, never once mention hell? - Why was hell not part of early Church established doctrine?

Author : Sharon L. Baker
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664236545
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Razing Hell written by Sharon L. Baker and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy percent of Americans believe in hell, as do 92 percent of those who attend church every week. In her candid and inviting style, Baker explores and ultimately refutes many traditional views of hell.

Author : Bruce Olds
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312420246
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bucking the Tiger written by Bruce Olds and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-08-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this genre-blurring collage, Bruce Olds animates Doc Holliday's varied incarnations--frontier dentist, saloon gambler, and occasional shootist--and redeems a full-blooded human being from the distortions of romance and myth.

Author : Ron Chepesiuk
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786403561
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raising Hell written by Ron Chepesiuk and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, a new wave of investigative journalists have become prominent. Some relish being "politically incorrect" (David Brock, author of The Real Anita Hill); others methodically shatter cultural icons (Douglas Frantz's expose of Washington insider Clark Clifford); and still others have revealed such horror as Cold War experimentation on unsuspecting citizens (Eileen Welsome's Pulitzer Prize-winning stories). In their own words, these journalists and nine others (Tim Weiner, John Camp, Marjie Lundstrom, Gerald Posner, Sydney Schanberg, David Burnham, Bryon Acohido, Dan Moldea and Brian Ross) provide insight to their jobs and the role of investigative journalism in American society.

Author : Gerrit Dawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988491656
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raising Adam written by Gerrit Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to affirm that Jesus "descended into hell?" What actually happened to Jesus between Good Friday and Easter? Was this "descent" part of his suffering or part of his triumph? And why does it matter today?With a theologian's research, a pastor's heart and a poet's sensibility, Gerrit Dawson explores the answers given through the centuries to these questions. By using a narrative approach, Dawson achieves a unique synthesis of previously competing views. He shows that the ancient idea of the harrowing of hell, the Reformed view of "hell on the cross" and the 20th century recognition of the darkness of Holy Saturday can all work together. Far from being a discardable doctrine, the descent offers a unique window on the person and work of Christ, one we urgently need to open for the worship and mission of the Church today.

Author : Francis Chan
Publisher : David C Cook
ISBN 13 : 0781407257
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Erasing Hell written by Francis Chan and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing a variety of views on hell, the Bible, and the character of God, offers an eloquent response to the recent media storm surrounding questions of eternal destiny.

Author : Peggy A. Russo
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821416308
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrible Swift Sword written by Peggy A. Russo and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two centuries after his birth and almost a century and a half after his death, the legendary life and legacy of John Brown go marching on. Variously deemed martyr, madman, monster, terrorist, and saint, he remains one of the most controversial figures in America's history. Brown's actions in Kansas and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, provided major catalysts for the American Civil War, actions that continue today to evoke commendation or provoke condemnation. Through the prisms of history, literature, psychology, criminal justice, oral history, African American studies, political science, film studies, and anthropology, Terrible Swift Sword offers insights not only into John Brown's controversial character and motives, but also into the nature of a troubled society before, during, and after the Civil War. The discussions include reasons why Brown's contemporaries supported him, attempts to define Brown using different criteria, analyses of Brown's behavior, his depiction in literature, and examinations of the iconography surrounding him.The interdisciplinary focus marshalled by editor Peggy A. Russo makes Terrible Swift Sword unique, and this, together with the popular mythology surrounding the legend of John Brown, will appeal to a broad audience of readers interested in this turbulent moment in American history.Paul Finkelman is Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa College of Law. He is the author of many articles and books, including His Soul Goes Marching On: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid and the Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference Peggy Russo is an assistant professor of English at the Mont Alto Campus of Pennsylvania State University. She has published in Shakespeare Bulletin, The Southern Literary Journal, Journal of American Culture, Shakespeare and the Classroom, and Civil War Book Review.