Author: L. B. Graham Publisher: P & R Publishing ISBN: 9780875527246 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 479
Book Description
Sulmandir and the dragons have returned and, despite the power of their adversaries, hope for victory is growing but before the binding of the blade can be broken, Benjiah knows he will have to make a sacrifice.
Author: William Dalrymple Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307948927 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 504
Book Description
In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschos’s writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer William Dalrymple retraces the footsteps of these two monks, providing along the way a moving elegy to the slowly dying civilization of Eastern Christianity and to the people who are struggling to keep its flame alive. The result is Dalrymple’s unsurpassed masterpiece: a beautifully written travelogue, at once rich and scholarly, moving and courageous, overflowing with vivid characters and hugely topical insights into the history, spirituality and the fractured politics of the Middle East.
Author: David Dickinson Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 178033415X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 309
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The year is 1905 and Powerscourt is sent to Ireland to investigate a series of art thefts from stately houses. Motive troubles Powerscourt; were these robberies merely for gain? A number of Old Masters had been left untouched and the ones taken were all ancient family portraits of the aristocratic Protestant gentry. Are these thefts political? Then, astonishingly, some of the portraits begin to return - but with altered faces; the aristocrats' being replaced by those from the estates and towns beyond the gates. Truly an elaborate joke, but then real people begin to disappear - and not long after the first body is found in the chapel at the top of Croagh Patrick, Ireland's Holy Mountain on the very day 10,000 people make the great pilgrimage to the summit. More follow, and as Powerscourt makes his way towards the killer his own life comes under threat, while his patriotism, and his devotion to Ireland is called into question on his journey towards the truth.
Author: Mark Stoll Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 019023086X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 441
Book Description
In Inherit the Holy Mountain, historian Mark R. Stoll introduces us to the religious roots of the American environmental movement. Religion, he shows, provided environmentalists both with deeply-embedded moral and cultural ways of viewing the world and with content, direction, and tone for the causes they espoused. Stoll discovers that specific denominational origins corresponded with characteristic sets of ideas about nature and the environment as well as distinctive aesthetic reactions to nature, as revealed by key works of art analyzed throughout the book. As this innovative exploration of environmentalism's history shows, people raised in a handful of denominations made the movement a moral and political force. Stoll also provides insight into the possible future of environmentalism in the United States, concluding with an examination of the current religious scene and what it portends for the future. By debunking the supposed divide between religion and American environmentalism, Inherit the Holy Mountain opens up a fundamentally new narrative in environmental studies. -- from dust jacket.
Author: Christopher Merrill Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1498292526 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 300
Book Description
"If I had learned anything during the war, it was that our walk in the sun is brief, and so I resolved to wander from monastery to monastery, a sojourner in the world of last things." So poet and journalist Christopher Merrill tells us near the beginning of this gripping account of the transforming pilgrimages he made to Mount Athos, in Greece, in the aftermath of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. "It was time for me to come to terms with the way my life had turned out: the love I had squandered, the misgivings I had about my vocation and my faith, the dread I felt at every turn." In despair and longing to end his spiritual desolation, Merrill became one of a handful of visitors permitted entry to Mount Athos--a mysterious land that for more than a thousand years has been the secret heart of the Eastern Orthodox Church. There, amid the beautiful terrain, the ancient rhythms, and the spiritual rigor of this holy place, he found a haven. As Merrill's story unfolds, we, too, hike the rough trails of Athos, exploring a place and a way of life scarcely altered since medieval times. We share encounters with monks and spiritual seekers; visit Athos's twenty monasteries, where exquisite art treasures are sequestered; make our way to lonely hermitages that clutch the cliffs above the sea. Like Merrill, we come to consider existence in a new and different light. Part journal of personal discovery, part meditation upon the history and traditions of the contemplative life, Things of the Hidden God takes us where the temporal and the eternal intersect, where community and solitude coexist, and where centuries-old practices offer insight for how to live today.
Author: Elder Ephraim Publisher: St Anthonys Greek Orth Monastery ISBN: 9780966700039 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 466
Book Description
This treasury of personal counsels and homilies given by Elder Ephraim clearly delineates the Patristic path to sanctification. In "Counsels from the Holy Mountain" he gives advise on every aspect of the spiritual struggle with insight acquired from his experience as a monk for more than fifty years and as the spiritual father of thousands of clergy, monastics, and laymen.
Author: Randy Alcorn Publisher: Influence Resources ISBN: 9781938309168 Category : Languages : es Pages : 0
Book Description
En una interpretaci�n dram�tica de la historia del hombre rico y L�zaro, el autor Randy Alcorn y el artista Javier Saltares llevan a los lectores a un ambiente del primer siglo de Jerusal�n, y de ah� a dos reinos eternos diferentes. Novela gr�fica.
Author: John Piper Publisher: Crossway ISBN: 1433520575 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 428
Book Description
Looks at the Gospels and examines what Christ requires of his followers in a redemptive-historical context. New and seasoned believers will see God's loving plan for their ultimate satisfaction. Now in paperback.
Author: L. B. Graham
Author: William Dalrymple
Author: David Dickinson
Author: Mark Stoll
Author: Christopher Merrill
Author: Hierotheos Vlachos
Author: Elder Ephraim
Author: John McKinney
Author: Randy Alcorn
Author: John Piper