Author: Jerome M. SegalPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594489396
Category : Spirituality
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Joseph's Bones
Author: Jerome M. SegalPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594489396
Category : Spirituality
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
What is Reformed Theology?
Author: R. C. SproulPublisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1585586528
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
What Do the Five Points of Calvinism Really Mean? Many have heard of Reformed theology, but may not be certain what it is. Some references to it have been positive, some negative. It appears to be important, and they'd like to know more about it. But they want a full, understandable explanation, not a simplistic one. What Is Reformed Theology? is an accessible introduction to beliefs that have been immensely influential in the evangelical church. In this insightful book, R. C. Sproul walks readers through the foundations of the Reformed doctrine and explains how the Reformed belief is centered on God, based on God's Word, and committed to faith in Jesus Christ. Sproul explains the five points of Reformed theology and makes plain the reality of God's amazing grace.
My Bones are Red
Author: Patricia WaakPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865549173
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
"What started out as a quest to find the mother of her beloved grandfather, became for Patricia Waak a revelation about the diversity of her family. It became, in fact, a spiritual journey as she visited cemeteries, courthouses, and archives from Accomack County, Virginia, to Goliad, Texas. Filled with transcriptions of old court cases, accounts from oral history, and the results of countless hours of research, she also invites us to participate in her own discovery through original poetry which introduces each chapter. Included are photographs, genealogical charts, maps, and copies of old documents."--Jacket.
The Bones of Joseph
Author: Gareth Lloyd JonesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780802845962
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
In these twelve reflections on texts from the Bible, Gareth Lloyd Jones touches on some of the great themes of the Bible, offering a unique blend of interpretation and application, of scholarship and spirituality.
Humble Stones
Author: Nicole Parker (Biblical counselor)Publisher:
ISBN: 9781674952086
Category : Bible stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
"FAITH ROOTS, the previous book of the TALES OF THE EXODUS series, focused on how to trust God when things don't make sense. In HUMBLE STONES, I have concentrated on the next part of the process of developing righteous hearts--humility. Moses, the meekest man who ever lived, must have been a wonderful instructor! HUMBLE STONES explains how God's love restrains and guides His use of power. It contrasts the laws of the kingdom of God with the kingdom of Pharaoh--and the kingdom of Satan."--Preface.
Dante’s Bones
Author: Guy P. RaffaPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674980832
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A richly detailed graveyard history of the Florentine poet whose dead body shaped Italy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Risorgimento, World War I, and Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship. Dante, whose Divine Comedy gave the world its most vividly imagined story of the afterlife, endured an extraordinary afterlife of his own. Exiled in death as in life, the Florentine poet has hardly rested in peace over the centuries. Like a saint’s relics, his bones have been stolen, recovered, reburied, exhumed, examined, and, above all, worshiped. Actors in this graveyard history range from Lorenzo de’ Medici, Michelangelo, and Pope Leo X to the Franciscan friar who hid the bones, the stone mason who accidentally discovered them, and the opportunistic sculptor who accomplished what princes, popes, and politicians could not: delivering to Florence a precious relic of the native son it had banished. In Dante’s Bones, Guy Raffa narrates for the first time the complete course of the poet’s hereafter, from his death and burial in Ravenna in 1321 to a computer-generated reconstruction of his face in 2006. Dante’s posthumous adventures are inextricably tied to major historical events in Italy and its relationship to the wider world. Dante grew in stature as the contested portion of his body diminished in size from skeleton to bones, fragments, and finally dust: During the Renaissance, a political and literary hero in Florence; in the nineteenth century, the ancestral father and prophet of Italy; a nationalist symbol under fascism and amid two world wars; and finally the global icon we know today.
The Scattered Nation
Author: Joseph's Bones and the resurrection of the text
Author: Regina M. SchwartzThe Bible As It Was
Author: James L. KugelPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674265238
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
This is a guide to the Hebrew Bible unlike any other. Leading us chapter by chapter through its most important stories--from the Creation and the Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the journey to the Promised Land--James Kugel shows how a group of anonymous, ancient interpreters radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book that has come down to us today. Was the snake in the Garden of Eden the devil, or the Garden itself "paradise"? Did Abraham discover monotheism, and was his son Isaac a willing martyr? Not until the ancient interpreters set to work. Poring over every little detail in the Bible's stories, prophecies, and laws, they let their own theological and imaginative inclinations radically transform the Bible's very nature. Their sometimes surprising interpretations soon became the generally accepted meaning. These interpretations, and not the mere words of the text, became the Bible in the time of Jesus and Paul or the rabbis of the Talmud. Drawing on such sources as the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient Jewish apocrypha, Hellenistic writings, long-lost retellings of Bible stories, and prayers and sermons of the early church and synagogue, Kugel reconstructs the theory and methods of interpretation at the time when the Bible was becoming the bedrock of Judaism and Christianity. Here, for the first time, we can witness all the major transformations of the text and recreate the development of the Bible "As It Was" at the start of the Common era--the Bible as we know it.
Preparing for My Departure
Author: Kenneth CarrPublisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412061741
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Lets go for a ride partner. I will walk you through the arduous process, guide you in the right direction, and at times will even hold your hands. Written by a cop.