Author: Valerie Lee
Publisher: TEACH Services, Inc.
ISBN: 1479603732
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Catching a snake in the dorm, being a mother to fifty girls, bartering in the marketplace, handing out food to villagers during the drought, being “bit” by a cheetah, coping with homesickness, and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro were just some of the adventures and challenges Valerie faced as a student missionary at Maxwell Adventist Academy in Kenya. What Valerie didn’t expect during her year abroad was how much she fell in love with her adopted country and how difficult it was to adjust to life once she came back to the States. It’s Worth the Sacrifice chronicles her student missionary (SM) experience and offers advice to those interested in going overseas. Valerie hopes that what she learned will help other SMs while serving and during re-entry.
It's Worth the Sacrifice
Author: Valerie Lee
Publisher: TEACH Services, Inc.
ISBN: 1479603732
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Catching a snake in the dorm, being a mother to fifty girls, bartering in the marketplace, handing out food to villagers during the drought, being “bit” by a cheetah, coping with homesickness, and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro were just some of the adventures and challenges Valerie faced as a student missionary at Maxwell Adventist Academy in Kenya. What Valerie didn’t expect during her year abroad was how much she fell in love with her adopted country and how difficult it was to adjust to life once she came back to the States. It’s Worth the Sacrifice chronicles her student missionary (SM) experience and offers advice to those interested in going overseas. Valerie hopes that what she learned will help other SMs while serving and during re-entry.
Publisher: TEACH Services, Inc.
ISBN: 1479603732
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Catching a snake in the dorm, being a mother to fifty girls, bartering in the marketplace, handing out food to villagers during the drought, being “bit” by a cheetah, coping with homesickness, and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro were just some of the adventures and challenges Valerie faced as a student missionary at Maxwell Adventist Academy in Kenya. What Valerie didn’t expect during her year abroad was how much she fell in love with her adopted country and how difficult it was to adjust to life once she came back to the States. It’s Worth the Sacrifice chronicles her student missionary (SM) experience and offers advice to those interested in going overseas. Valerie hopes that what she learned will help other SMs while serving and during re-entry.
On Sacrifice
Author: Moshe Halbertal
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400842352
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
The idea and practice of sacrifice play a profound role in religion, ethics, and politics. In this brief book, philosopher Moshe Halbertal explores the meaning and implications of sacrifice, developing a theory of sacrifice as an offering and examining the relationship between sacrifice, ritual, violence, and love. On Sacrifice also looks at the place of self-sacrifice within ethical life and at the complex role of sacrifice as both a noble and destructive political ideal. In the religious domain, Halbertal argues, sacrifice is an offering, a gift given in the context of a hierarchical relationship. As such it is vulnerable to rejection, a trauma at the root of both ritual and violence. An offering is also an ambiguous gesture torn between a genuine expression of gratitude and love and an instrument of exchange, a tension that haunts the practice of sacrifice. In the moral and political domains, sacrifice is tied to the idea of self-transcendence, in which an individual sacrifices his or her self-interest for the sake of higher values and commitments. While self-sacrifice has great potential moral value, it can also be used to justify the most brutal acts. Halbertal attempts to unravel the relationship between self-sacrifice and violence, arguing that misguided self-sacrifice is far more problematic than exaggerated self-love. In his exploration of the positive and negative dimensions of self-sacrifice, Halbertal also addresses the role of past sacrifice in obligating future generations and in creating a bond for political associations, and considers the function of the modern state as a sacrificial community.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400842352
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
The idea and practice of sacrifice play a profound role in religion, ethics, and politics. In this brief book, philosopher Moshe Halbertal explores the meaning and implications of sacrifice, developing a theory of sacrifice as an offering and examining the relationship between sacrifice, ritual, violence, and love. On Sacrifice also looks at the place of self-sacrifice within ethical life and at the complex role of sacrifice as both a noble and destructive political ideal. In the religious domain, Halbertal argues, sacrifice is an offering, a gift given in the context of a hierarchical relationship. As such it is vulnerable to rejection, a trauma at the root of both ritual and violence. An offering is also an ambiguous gesture torn between a genuine expression of gratitude and love and an instrument of exchange, a tension that haunts the practice of sacrifice. In the moral and political domains, sacrifice is tied to the idea of self-transcendence, in which an individual sacrifices his or her self-interest for the sake of higher values and commitments. While self-sacrifice has great potential moral value, it can also be used to justify the most brutal acts. Halbertal attempts to unravel the relationship between self-sacrifice and violence, arguing that misguided self-sacrifice is far more problematic than exaggerated self-love. In his exploration of the positive and negative dimensions of self-sacrifice, Halbertal also addresses the role of past sacrifice in obligating future generations and in creating a bond for political associations, and considers the function of the modern state as a sacrificial community.
Sacrifice
Author: Katee Robert
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
ISBN: 9781728268309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
All my life, I've wanted nothing more than to escape my father's compound. Half human, half vampire, I have none of the perks and all of the weaknesses. Well, my father's finally found a use for me. He's sent me to Malachi Zion, the last vampire in his family. My role is to play resident blood bank and, should Malachi knock me up, my father gets access to a whole new bloodline to control. No one asks me what I want. But the longer I spend with Malachi, the more I realize that he's not the monster I first thought, which makes it harder to resist the heat that flares between us. And then his two friends show up and complicate things exponentially. As long as we're stuck in this house together, I'm a trap just waiting to be sprung. But if we break free, there's nothing holding these vampires to me... In gaining the one thing I want more than anything--my freedom--I might just lose everything.
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
ISBN: 9781728268309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
All my life, I've wanted nothing more than to escape my father's compound. Half human, half vampire, I have none of the perks and all of the weaknesses. Well, my father's finally found a use for me. He's sent me to Malachi Zion, the last vampire in his family. My role is to play resident blood bank and, should Malachi knock me up, my father gets access to a whole new bloodline to control. No one asks me what I want. But the longer I spend with Malachi, the more I realize that he's not the monster I first thought, which makes it harder to resist the heat that flares between us. And then his two friends show up and complicate things exponentially. As long as we're stuck in this house together, I'm a trap just waiting to be sprung. But if we break free, there's nothing holding these vampires to me... In gaining the one thing I want more than anything--my freedom--I might just lose everything.
The Expositor
Author: Samuel Cox
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385363810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385363810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Bloody Good
Author: Allen J. Frantzen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226260852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In the popular imagination, World War I stands for the horror of all wars. The unprecedented scale of the war and the mechanized weaponry it introduced to battle brought an abrupt end to the romantic idea that soldiers were somehow knights in shining armor who always vanquished their foes and saved the day. Yet the concept of chivalry still played a crucial role in how soldiers saw themselves in the conflict. Here for the first time, Allen J. Frantzen traces these chivalric ideals from the Great War back to their origins in the Middle Ages and shows how they resulted in highly influential models of behavior for men in combat. Drawing on a wide selection of literature and images from the medieval period, along with photographs, memorials, postcards, war posters, and film from both sides of the front, Frantzen shows how such media shaped a chivalric ideal of male sacrifice based on the Passion of Jesus Christ. He demonstrates, for instance, how the wounded body of Christ became the inspiration for heroic male suffering in battle. For some men, the Crucifixion inspired a culture of revenge, one in which Christ's bleeding wounds were venerated as badges of valor and honor. For others, Christ's sacrifice inspired action more in line with his teachings—a daring stay of hands or reason not to visit death upon one's enemies. Lavishly illustrated and eloquently written, Bloody Good will be must reading for anyone interested in World War I and the influence of Christian ideas on modern life.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226260852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In the popular imagination, World War I stands for the horror of all wars. The unprecedented scale of the war and the mechanized weaponry it introduced to battle brought an abrupt end to the romantic idea that soldiers were somehow knights in shining armor who always vanquished their foes and saved the day. Yet the concept of chivalry still played a crucial role in how soldiers saw themselves in the conflict. Here for the first time, Allen J. Frantzen traces these chivalric ideals from the Great War back to their origins in the Middle Ages and shows how they resulted in highly influential models of behavior for men in combat. Drawing on a wide selection of literature and images from the medieval period, along with photographs, memorials, postcards, war posters, and film from both sides of the front, Frantzen shows how such media shaped a chivalric ideal of male sacrifice based on the Passion of Jesus Christ. He demonstrates, for instance, how the wounded body of Christ became the inspiration for heroic male suffering in battle. For some men, the Crucifixion inspired a culture of revenge, one in which Christ's bleeding wounds were venerated as badges of valor and honor. For others, Christ's sacrifice inspired action more in line with his teachings—a daring stay of hands or reason not to visit death upon one's enemies. Lavishly illustrated and eloquently written, Bloody Good will be must reading for anyone interested in World War I and the influence of Christian ideas on modern life.
The Christian sacrifice in the eucharist; considered as it is the doctrine of holy Scripture
Author: Alexander Jolly (bp. of Moray.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Staying on Top of the Job
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive ability
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive ability
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Freedom's Ransom
Author: Justin Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 130412973X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
This book is meant to bring the joy of possibility to all who read it, to expound upon the principles which make one free, to motivate hope in those that are disheartened, and to build strength in those that are willing to fight for freedom's cause. Freedom, true, personal freedom, is one of the most valuable ideas, rather, one of the most valuable plans in all of existence. Freedom is not given to anyone. It is something for which we must all fight daily. Freedom is its own reward, and deserved only by those willing to pay its price. This book is meant to inspire hope in all who read it, to motivate righteous action, to expand thought, to inspire great minds, and to help personal weaknesses become strengths. (Please keep a pencil with you as you read, jot down your inspiration each time you read it, review your notes periodically, and become the person you wish to be!)
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 130412973X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
This book is meant to bring the joy of possibility to all who read it, to expound upon the principles which make one free, to motivate hope in those that are disheartened, and to build strength in those that are willing to fight for freedom's cause. Freedom, true, personal freedom, is one of the most valuable ideas, rather, one of the most valuable plans in all of existence. Freedom is not given to anyone. It is something for which we must all fight daily. Freedom is its own reward, and deserved only by those willing to pay its price. This book is meant to inspire hope in all who read it, to motivate righteous action, to expand thought, to inspire great minds, and to help personal weaknesses become strengths. (Please keep a pencil with you as you read, jot down your inspiration each time you read it, review your notes periodically, and become the person you wish to be!)
Sculpting in Time
Author: Andrey Tarkovsky
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292776241
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A director reveals the original inspirations for his films, their history, his methods of work, and the problems of visual creativity
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292776241
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A director reveals the original inspirations for his films, their history, his methods of work, and the problems of visual creativity
Sacrifice the One
Author: Monica Carter
Publisher: Rootsky Publishing
ISBN: 9780971843615
Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Rootsky Publishing
ISBN: 9780971843615
Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description