The Disobedient Generation

The Disobedient Generation

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  • Author: Alan Sica
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 0226756254
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 385

The Disobedient Generation collects newly written autobiographies by an international cross-section of well-known sociologists, all of them "children of the '60s". It illuminates the human experience of living through that decade as apprentice scholars and activists, encountering the issues of class, race, the Establishment, the decline of traditional religion, feminism, war, and the sexual revolution. In each case the interlinked crises of young adulthood, rapid change, and nascent professional careers shaped this generation's private and public selves.


Suffering in the Face of Death

Suffering in the Face of Death

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  • Author: Bryan R. Dyer
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 0567672360
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 224

Suffering and death are two topics that are frequently referred to in the Epistle to the Hebrews, but have rarely been examined within scholarship on this important New Testament text. Dyer redresses the balance in this study of these topics, conducting a thorough investigation using semantic domain analysis. He incorporates recent advancements in modern linguistics, in particular the 'context of situation', and then connects these topics to the social situation addressed in Hebrews. In so doing he is able to reveal how the author is responding to the reality of suffering in the lives of his audience. With this awareness, it becomes clear how the author also responds to his audience's pain by creating models of endurance in suffering and death. These serve to motivate his audience toward similar endurance within their own social context. Dyer shows that it is possible to make significant determinations about the social setting of Hebrews based upon an examination and analysis of the language used therein.


Miracles in the Trash

Miracles in the Trash

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  • Author: Barbara Hendrix
  • Publisher: WestBow Press
  • ISBN: 1449742319
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 384

A mother’s womb has become the most dangerous place in the world. Innocent life is not to be relegated to the trash cans of the world. In this musical, God wants to bring humanity back into the embrace of his divine love, a humanity that has boldly stepped onto the pathway of its annihilation, through the catalysts of abortion and homosexuality. Truth has the ability to change hearts and minds, and God is truth. A beautiful, unique life is to be cherished and cared for because it is the most precious of gifts from the creative heart of God. What if Mary had aborted Jesus, the Son of God? In this play, she does and is punished by God with a life that never ends. After Jesus is aborted and has resumed his heavenly state, he is torn between the love that he has for his mother and his Father, who seeks to have his mother tried in a court of law for the murder of his Son, and thus the Church of God. This play sets the stage for the unthinkable and unravels the answers to the controversial questions surrounding a woman’s decision to abort her miracle, a gift from the love and very heart of God. Miracles in the Trash portrays abortion from God’s perspective, and his boundless love for each individual life he has created, revealing that life begins in the heart and mind of God, and that he knows who we are before we are even conceived. Biblical references support that fact. If we believe that God is all-knowing, then it leads to only one conclusion, that he knew who we were before our mother even met our father.


Judges: A Critical & Rhetorical Commentary

Judges: A Critical & Rhetorical Commentary

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  • Author: Richard D. Nelson
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 0567673103
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 336

The book of Judges is part of the world's literary and cultural canon, and as such it provides insights about political leadership, gender relationships, power disparities, personal strengths and weakness, as well as social and political ethics. In addition, for many Jewish and Christian scholars, Judges is a canonical, scriptural text. This new commentary on Judges considers all these issues, adopting two key approaches: rhetorical criticism and historical criticism. As a rhetorical commentary, the volume pays attention to the factors in the text that are being marshalled to influence the reader. Attention is paid to what the text does, and how it works when it is read closely. This element of the commentary encompasses lexical and grammatical issues, organizing arrangements and patterns, the intentions of various literary genres, along with narrative plot and structure. As a critical commentary, the volume deals with the history of the text's formation and transmission. It establishes the earliest recoverable text of Judges as a way of getting as close as possible to the producers of the text and its early audiences. It provides a well-argued description of how Judges was brought together as a coherent document from earlier oral and written sources and how it was later modified and supplemented. Together these aspects enable Nelson to provide a bold new commentary on Judges that is broad in scope and pays close attention to every detail of the text.


The Essence of the Old Testament

The Essence of the Old Testament

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  • Author: Ed Hindson
  • Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
  • ISBN: 1433677504
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 496

The Essence of the Old Testament surveys the books from Genesis to Malachi. Based on thirty years of scholarly research and classroom teaching, a team of biblical scholars from Liberty University provides a practical, readable, and insightful introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures in canonical order. This uniquely illustrated, full-color volume features book introductions, background studies, outlines, surveys, theological concepts, practical applications, study questions, and helpful Hebrew word studies for English readers. Editors Ed Hindson and Gary Yates draw from a lifetime of teaching to provide a well tested and proven Old Testament overview written at the collegiate level, yet appropriate for pastors, scholars, and laymen alike. They represent the finest evangelical scholarship along with a passion to open windows of spiritual and practical insight into the biblical text. This exciting new survey of the Scriptures highlights the key elements of the Hebrew literature of the Law, the Prophets, and the Poets of the Old Testament. The history, archaeology, and wisdom of the biblical world are revealed with an eye on the application of their moral principles, theological insights, and practical application to today’s world.


Is There Salvation After Death?

Is There Salvation After Death?

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  • Author: Edward Dafydd Morris
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Salvation
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 272


Sociology in America

Sociology in America

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  • Author: Craig Calhoun
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 0226090949
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 929

This is an exploration of the growth of American sociology as it addressed changes and challenges throughout the 20th century covering topics ranging from the discipline's intellectual roots to understanding (and misunderstanding) of race and gender to the impact of the Depression and the 1960s.


Legitimation in the Letter to the Hebrews

Legitimation in the Letter to the Hebrews

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  • Author: Iutisone Salevao
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 1841272612
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 457

This book adopts an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of the theology, symbolism and argument of Hebrews. Employing sociological models, the book examines Hebrews in the context of the early Christians' construction and maintenance of a social world. In that respect, the book elaborates the thesis that Hebrews was designed to serve a legitimating function in the realm of social interaction, that its theology, symbolism and argument were designed to construct and maintain the symbolic universe of the community of the readers. It is argued that we cannot properly understand the theology, symbolism and argument of Hebrews apart from its first-century context.


End Time Prophecy Unfold: 2007-2014

End Time Prophecy Unfold: 2007-2014

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  • Author: Prophet Christ Mondzali
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 1300228342
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 146


A Genealogical Memoir of the Backus Family

A Genealogical Memoir of the Backus Family

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  • Author: William W. Backus
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : American poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 446