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Author: Maurice Udom Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1418464929 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 94
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The news that the gods of infidelity has struck Mama Titi to death for committing adultery brought the social life of women in Afon community to a halt. The women were aggressive and despondent. “How about the man, her lover? Sharia has come to the South!” Cried the women. Mama Koko, an ambitious good-looking women leader whose gorgeous figure could intimidate the most confident of the men, finds this male chauvinism deeply repugnant. She is poised to liberate the women of Afon from the tutelage of a traditional deity, Ekpo Nkagwo, the god of infidelity, which has been instituted by men to punish adulterous women only. But Ikwo, a sharp-tongued woman who sees men’s dominance as godly and invincible disassociates herself. She sheepishly discloses the plans by women to destroy the Craft Image of the god of infidelity to her husband, Chief Anwana -- a betrayal of the worst kind, which temporarily paralyses the women’s liberation moves. “Our problem is in ourselves”, regretted Inim, the virgin. Chief Anwana is unhappy. He summons the elders in Afon who consider the women’s suggestion to destroy the deity as a threat to their dominance of the women folks. The elders, in a unanimous decision, send the women’s leaders -- Mama Koko and Ntiense-- on exile. Yet Afon community was without excitement as Adiaha denied her husband, Akpan-utere, romance. Akpan-Utere, now drunk is forced to reveal the secrets on how to demystify the power of the god of infidelity. Mama Koko, who is on exile, is unrelenting in her bid to free the women. There is more to learn from the intrigue in the destruction of the blind gods to free Afon women.
Author: Maurice Udom Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1418464929 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 94
Book Description
The news that the gods of infidelity has struck Mama Titi to death for committing adultery brought the social life of women in Afon community to a halt. The women were aggressive and despondent. “How about the man, her lover? Sharia has come to the South!” Cried the women. Mama Koko, an ambitious good-looking women leader whose gorgeous figure could intimidate the most confident of the men, finds this male chauvinism deeply repugnant. She is poised to liberate the women of Afon from the tutelage of a traditional deity, Ekpo Nkagwo, the god of infidelity, which has been instituted by men to punish adulterous women only. But Ikwo, a sharp-tongued woman who sees men’s dominance as godly and invincible disassociates herself. She sheepishly discloses the plans by women to destroy the Craft Image of the god of infidelity to her husband, Chief Anwana -- a betrayal of the worst kind, which temporarily paralyses the women’s liberation moves. “Our problem is in ourselves”, regretted Inim, the virgin. Chief Anwana is unhappy. He summons the elders in Afon who consider the women’s suggestion to destroy the deity as a threat to their dominance of the women folks. The elders, in a unanimous decision, send the women’s leaders -- Mama Koko and Ntiense-- on exile. Yet Afon community was without excitement as Adiaha denied her husband, Akpan-utere, romance. Akpan-Utere, now drunk is forced to reveal the secrets on how to demystify the power of the god of infidelity. Mama Koko, who is on exile, is unrelenting in her bid to free the women. There is more to learn from the intrigue in the destruction of the blind gods to free Afon women.
Author: Christopher J. H. Wright Publisher: Zondervan Academic ISBN: 0310323037 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 306
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Chris Wright’s pioneering 2006 book, The Mission of God, revealed that the typical Christian understanding of “missions” encompasses only a small part of God’s overarching mission for the world. God is relentlessly reclaiming the entire world for himself. In The Mission of God’s People, Wright shows how God’s big-picture plan directs the purpose of God’s people, the church. Wright emphasizes what the Old Testament teaches Christians about being the people of God. He addresses questions of both ecclesiology and missiology with topics like “called to care for creation,” “called to bless the nations,” “sending and being sent,” and “rejecting false gods.” As part of the Biblical Theology for Life Series, this book provides pastors, teachers, and lay learners with first-rate biblical study while at the same time addressing the practical concerns of contemporary ministry. The Mission of God’s People promises to enliven and refocus the study, teaching, and ministry of those truly committed to joining God’s work in the world.
Author: Adrienne Mayor Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691202265 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 294
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Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.
Author: Neil Gaiman Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0380789035 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 628
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Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible. He warns Shadow that a far bigger storm is coming. And from that moment on, nothing will ever he the same...
Author: Thom Satterlee Publisher: Slant ISBN: 1725252007 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 175
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The year is 1665. England is in the midst of the Restoration, and John Milton, a blind, politically and religiously marginalized writer associated with Oliver Cromwell's failed attempt to form a republic, has not yet published Paradise Lost. When one of the worst plagues in history descends upon London, he and his much younger wife are forced to flee to the countryside. There Milton is befriended by the local curate, Rev. Theodore Wesson, who knows nothing about Milton's controversial past or the dangers of associating with him. Soon their fates become intertwined when the curate's hopes for advancement are threatened by his relationship to the notorious traitor and "king-killer," John Milton. The situation tests Wesson's loyalty--to the monarchy, to friendship, to a church career--while complicating his already blurry sense of God's involvement in human affairs. For Milton, the cost is potentially even greater: the target of assassination attempts since the restoration of the monarchy five years earlier, he has real reason to fear for his life. A riveting and briskly paced novel that transports the reader to a very particular place and time even as its themes resonate with our own time, Thom Satterlee's God's Liar will take its place next to works as varied as Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Colm Toibin's The Master.
Author: Various Authors, Publisher: Zondervan ISBN: 0310294142 Category : Bibles Languages : en Pages : 6793
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The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
Author: Moshe Barasch Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136799761 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 213
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This is a remarkable study of how Western culture has represented blindness, especially in that most visual of arts, painting. Moshe Barasch draws upon not only the span of art history from antiquity to the eighteenth century but also the classical and biblical traditions that underpin so much of artistic representation: Blind Homer, the healing of the blind, blind musicians, blindness as punishment, blindness as a special mark. The book discusses blindness in antiquity, in the Early Christian world, in the Middle Ages, and in the Renaissance, with a final consideration of Diderot.
Author: Hannes Kerber Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271096918 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 241
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Leo Strauss famously asserted that the fundamental, defining debate within Western civilization is that between Jerusalem and Athens, piety and philosophy, the Bible and Plato. And yet, surprisingly, Strauss never published any of his thoughts on Plato’s dialogue on piety, the Euthyphro. This volume presents, for the first time, Strauss’s 1948 notebook on the dialogue, written in preparation for a class at the New School for Social Research. Featuring close analysis and line-by-line commentary, the notebook opens a window onto a philosophic mind in action, as Strauss asks questions of the classic text, jots down observations and formulations, and analyzes very specific terms and arguments but also steps back, reviews the overall movement of the dialogue, and reconsiders previous conclusions. Beyond the notebook, the volume also brings together all the known materials that lay out Strauss’s thoughts on the Euthyphro. This includes newly transcribed and edited public lectures, illuminating appendixes, critical essays by volume editors Hannes Kerber and Svetozar Y. Minkov and scholar Wayne Ambler, an account of Strauss’s public lecture, and a new English translation of Plato’s Euthyphro by Seth Benardete, a classicist and one of Strauss’s students. Engaging and inspiring, Leo Strauss on Plato’s “Euthyphro” is a vital resource for scholars and students of political theory, readers interested in the intersection of philosophy and religion, and a must-have for anyone who studies Strauss.
Author: Maurice Udom
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