Author: Thomas SmythPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Complete Works ...
Author: Thomas SmythRich Wounds
Author: David MathisPublisher: The Good Book Company
ISBN: 1784986887
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Profound reflections on the cross that help you to meditate on and marvel at the sacrificial love of Jesus. This book can be used as a devotional, especially during Lent and Easter. These profound reflections on the cross from David Mathis, author of The Christmas We Didn’t Expect, will help you to meditate on and marvel at Jesus’ life, sacrificial death, and spectacular resurrection-enabling you to treasure anew who Jesus is and what he has done. Many of us are so familiar with the Easter story that it becomes easy to miss subtle details and difficult to really enjoy its meaning. This book will help you to pause and marvel at Jesus, whose now-glorified wounds are a sign of his unfailing love and the decisive victory that he has won: “He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5) This book can be used as a devotional. The chapters on Holy Week make it especially helpful during the Lent season and at Easter.
Complete Works of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D.
Author: Thomas SmythPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
The Culture of Calamity
Author: Kevin RozarioPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022623021X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Turn on the news and it looks as if we live in a time and place unusually consumed by the specter of disaster. The events of 9/11 and the promise of future attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of New Orleans, and the inevitable consequences of environmental devastation all contribute to an atmosphere of imminent doom. But reading an account of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, with its vivid evocation of buildings “crumbling as one might crush a biscuit,” we see that calamities—whether natural or man-made—have long had an impact on the American consciousness. Uncovering the history of Americans’ responses to disaster from their colonial past up to the present, Kevin Rozario reveals the vital role that calamity—and our abiding fascination with it—has played in the development of this nation. Beginning with the Puritan view of disaster as God’s instrument of correction, Rozario explores how catastrophic events frequently inspired positive reactions. He argues that they have shaped American life by providing an opportunity to take stock of our values and social institutions. Destruction leads naturally to rebuilding, and here we learn that disasters have been a boon to capitalism, and, paradoxically, indispensable to the construction of dominant American ideas of progress. As Rozario turns to the present, he finds that the impulse to respond creatively to disasters is mitigated by a mania for security. Terror alerts and duct tape represent the cynical politician’s attitude about 9/11, but Rozario focuses on how the attacks registered in the popular imagination—how responses to genuine calamity were mediated by the hyperreal thrills of movies; how apocalyptic literature, like the best-selling Left Behind series, recycles Puritan religious outlooks while adopting Hollywood’s style; and how the convergence of these two ways of imagining disaster points to a new postmodern culture of calamity. The Culture of Calamity will stand as the definitive diagnosis of the peculiarly American addiction to the spectacle of destruction.
"One Thing Thou Lackest:" A Sermon to Young Men, on the Death of One of Their Number
Author: Philip Henry CornfordPublisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A Commentary, Critical, Practical and Explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments
Author: Robert JamiesonPublisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
The Homiletic quarterly [afterw.] magazine
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Author: Homiletic magazineThe bad Christian
Author: Franz HunoltPublisher:
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Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
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