Author: Ernest GellnerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226287025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Elucidates and argues for the author's concept of human history from the past to the present.
Plough, Sword, and Book
Author: Ernest GellnerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226287025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Elucidates and argues for the author's concept of human history from the past to the present.
Plowshares
Author: Kristen TobeyPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271078286
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In September 1980, eight Catholic activists made their way into a Pennsylvania General Electric plant housing parts for nuclear missiles. Evading security guards, these activists pounded on missile nose cones with hammers and then covered the cones in their own blood. This act of nonviolent resistance was their answer to calls for prophetic witness in the Old Testament: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not take up sword against nation; they shall never again know war.” Plowshares explores the closely interwoven religious and social significance of the group’s use of performance to achieve its goals. It looks at the group’s acts of civil disobedience, such as that undertaken at the GE plant in 1980, and the Plowshares’ behavior at the legal trials that result from these protests. Interpreting the Bible as a mandate to enact God’s kingdom through political resistance, the Plowshares work toward “symbolic disarmament,” with the aim of eradicating nuclear weapons. Plowshares activists continue to carry out such “divine obediences” against facilities where equipment used in the production or deployment of nuclear weapons is manufactured or stored. Whether one agrees or disagrees with their actions, this volume helps us better understand their motivations, logic, identity, and ultimate goal.
An Invitation to Prayer
Author: Kathy BranzellPublisher: BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
ISBN: 1424556775
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
What are you chasing in life? If you seek the five core needs (love, peace, wisdom, happiness, and purpose) in people, possessions, positions of power, or posts on social media, you’ll end up bouncing from one empty experience to the next. God is pursuing you, and He offers each of these treasures with an open hand. An Invitation to Prayer invites you to: • begin each week reflecting on God’s unchanging nature. • receive love, peace, wisdom, happiness, and purpose. • speak peace to fear and anxiety and learn to pray from a place of rest. • detox unwanted thoughts and behaviors and replace them with helpful habits. • be still long enough for God to fully embrace you. Devote the next ninety days to prayer and develop a lifestyle of intimacy with God. He offers all the treasures you have been searching for.
Proper lessons to be read at morning and evening prayer
Author: Proper Lessons to be Read at Morning and Evening Prayer on the Sundays and Holy-days Throughout the Year. [With the New Testament Divided Into Morning and Evening Lessons.]
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Author: Poetry and Prophecy
Author: Reuven ShohamPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004501355
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The book discusses the image of the prophet and the role of prophecy in Modern Hebrew Poetry. The first part of the book presents the prophetic archetypal biographies of prophets, heroes and artists in Hebrew and European mythologies. It also examines the historical facts which lead to the departure of the prophet from Hebrew literature following the destruction of the second temple. Finally, it addresses the necessity of reappearance of the prophet in the 18th and 19th centuries in Hebrew thought and literature and provides a short history of that reappearance in Haskala literature. The second part focuses upon three major “prophets poets”: Haim N. Bialik, Avraham Shlonski and Uri Z. Greenberg. The book may be of interest to scholars of Literature, Judaism, Philosophy, Science of Religion, Anthropology, Folklore and Rhetoric.
Farm Machinery and Equipment
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Farm Implement News
Author: The Conservative
Author: Julius Sterling MortonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
What Jesus Demands from the World
Author: John PiperPublisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1581348452
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
for every healthy tree bears good fruit --; Demand #28 : love your enemies--lead them to the truth --; Demand #29 : love your enemies--pray for those who abuse you --; Demand #30 : love your enemies--do good to those who hate you, give to the one who asks --; Demand #31 : love your enemies to show that you are children of God --; Demand #32 : love your neighbor as yourself,