Author: Patrick Coleman
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062864114
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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Soon to be a an FX series starring and produced by Matthew McConaughey A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of Summer "The Churchgoer is a wonderful debut novel from a writer with more than a few tricks up his sleeve.”--Los Angeles Times A haunting debut literary noir about a former pastor’s search to find a missing woman in the toxic, contradictory underbelly of southern California. “He was finished with church, with God, with all of it. But to find the girl, he has to go back.” In Mark Haines’s former life, he was an evangelical youth pastor, a role model, and a family man—until he abandoned his wife, his daughter, and his beliefs. Now he’s marking time between sunny days surfing and dark nights working security at an industrial complex. His isolation is broken when Cindy, a charming twenty-two-year old drifter he sees hitchhiking on the Pacific Coast Highway, hustles him for a breakfast and a place to crash—two cynical kindred spirits. Then his co-worker is murdered in a robbery gone wrong and Cindy disappears on the same night. Haines knows he should let it go and return to his safe life of solitude. Instead, he’s driven to find out where Cindy went, under stranger and stranger circumstances. Soon Mark is chasing leads, each one taking him back into a world where his old life came crashing down—into the seedier side of southern California’s drug trade and ultimately into the secrets of an Evangelical megachurch where his past and his future are about to converge. What begins as an investigation becomes a haunting mystery and a psychological journey both for Mark, and for the elusive young stranger he won’t let get away. Set in the early 2000s, The Churchgoer is a gripping noir, a quiet subversion of the genre, and a powerful meditation on belief, morality, and the nature of evil in contemporary life.
Author: Robert Corfe
Publisher: Arena books
ISBN: 9780954316198
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Through surveying the traditions of the major religions in the world, this book shows that those based on revelation too often tend towards a tenacity of belief which leads to irrationalism and then, in turn, to fanaticism. It presents a vision for a regenerated deism for the 21st century in helping resolve the difficult conflicts.
Author: Marianne Gaarden
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725277026
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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How do listeners create meaning when hearing a sermon? In this cutting-edge homiletical study, Marianne Gaarden draws on sociological, psychological, and other empirical research to offer new perspectives and presents the notion of the Third Room of Preaching, the place where the preacher's words and the listener's prior experiences come together and new meaning emerges. The new research insights challenge conventional understandings of preaching and invite homileticians to reflect theologically on the implications for the sermon as an act of communication. In addition, the book includes an appendix that offers new perspectives on how to best educate and train preachers in light of that research.
Author: Bonnie Saunders Andersen
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
ISBN: 1622873610
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Christianeeze for Churchgoers is a compilation of terms that when mentioned in church, are often hard to understand for many in the pews. Bonnie Andersen provides a practical collection of layman's definitions, inspirational thoughts, and probing perspectives meant to stimulate discussion and deepen one's hunger for the riches of God's Word. The book draws from the insights of well-known Bible teachers, as well as Bonnie's personal collection of Bible study and Sunday School notes, devotionals, ministry newsletters, and articles from Christian magazines. Christianeeze for Churchgoers is user-friendly and the contents are presented in a warm and personal style. This is a wonderful gift book for any student of the Bible, and a handy tool to support a classroom setting. This is not meant to be the final source for understanding Bible words, but rather to be a good start for basic understanding and a catalyst to learn more. Author Bio: Bonnie and her husband Roy live in Mechanicsville, Virginia, and will soon be celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary. They are the parents of four married children and the proud grandparents of nine energetic grandchildren, ranging in age from two to 21. Bonnie has been a lifelong student of the Bible. She has also used her talents for the Lord as a Sunday School teacher, VBS worker, church organist and pianist, and a member of church choirs and musical groups. She has been actively involved in each of the six communities in which she has resided with her family. While living in upstate New York, she served as a 4-H leader, piano teacher, founding member of the Newark Valley Historical Society, and docent for the Bement-Billings House museum. While living in Cheshire, Connecticut, she was one of three musicians who held worship services for several local nursing homes and also worked part-time. Bonnie presently serves as chaplain for the Scotchtown Chapter of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution), and is an avid gardener whenever she is not busy with her children and grandchildren. keywords: Bible Reference, Bible Translation Of Terms, Biblical Terms, Bible Terms, Bible Vocabulary, Understand Bible, Christian Vocabulary, Christian Reference, Christian Words, Bible Tool
Author: Michele Turner
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1973686384
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 109
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Michele Turner has walked through the fire of sexual sin and now hears God speak in a real and raw way. Her hunger and thirst for Him grows daily. By the power of God, she exposes the shame of her fornication and adultery and uses the experience to help others take control of their bodies. In Totally Naked and Unashamed, she shares how she and her husband, Tim, overcame years of infidelity in their marriage. In a society that constantly uses exposure to undermine the character of those in power, Michele employs her testimony to expose the sinful powers of Satan. Sharing how her personal encounter with God left an unforgettable impression, her passion and conviction shows her heart for marriages and deliverance. Totally Naked and Unashamed tells how God is the pillar of Michele’s strength. Her testimony developed from years of listening to her body speak to her so loudly she grew sick and tired of herself. She determined she would allow her spirit to speak back to her body in order to represent who she really is. Her flesh had to die along with her selfishness.
Author: Ronald Dworkin
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1780938330
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 457
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A landmark work of political and legal philosophy, Ronald Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously was acclaimed as a major work on its first publication in 1977 and remains profoundly influential in the 21st century. A forceful statement of liberal principles - championing the legal, moral and political rights of the individual against the state - Dworkin demolishes prevailing utilitarian and legal-positivist approaches to jurisprudence. Developing his own theory of adjudication, he applies this to controversial public issues, from civil disobedience to positive discrimination. Elegantly written and cuttingly insightful, Taking Rights Seriously is one of the most important works of public thought of the last fifty years.
Author: Martyn Percy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317182111
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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To many people, the Church of England and worldwide Anglican Communion has the aura of an institution that is dislocated and adrift. Buffeted by tempestuous and stormy debates on sexuality, gender, authority and power – to say nothing of priorities in mission and ministry, and the leadership and management of the church – a once confident Anglicanism appears to be anxious and vulnerable. The Future Shape of Anglicanism offers a constructive and critical engagement with the currents and contours that have brought the church to this point. It assesses and evaluates the forces now shaping the church and challenges them culturally, critically, and theologically. The Future Shape of Anglicanism engages with the church of the present that is simultaneously dissenting and loyal, as well as critical and constructive. For all who are engaged in ecclesiological investigations, and for those who study the Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion, this book offers new maps and charts for the present and future. It is an essential companion and guide to some of the movements and forces that are currently shaping the church.
Author: Michael Mcbride
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811259569
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Why is religion so widespread? Why do individuals donate large amounts of time, money, and effort to religious groups? What forms does the religious competition take? Why are individuals more religious in some countries than others? What is the future of religion?This book provides a non-technical introduction to how the economic approach answers these and other questions about religion. It defines the economic approach to religion and demonstrates how it is used to study a variety of religious decisions. It explains how religious groups confront credibility, free-rider, and coordination problems that challenge the collective production of religious goods and services. It also examines competition and regulation in religious markets around the world, how religious beliefs and preferences are transmitted and sustained, how religion likely emerged in humankind's distant past, and what the future of religion may hold. The book thus demonstrates how the tools and methods of economics provide fresh insight into a variety of religious behaviors.This book is intended for a wide audience in and out of economics. Though not a textbook per se, its discussion questions and suggested readings at the end of each chapter allow for easy incorporation into the classroom. The mathematics and statistics used by researchers are generally avoided. Both theory and evidence are presented, but the focus is on the ideas that provide a coherent conceptual framework that grounds a deeper exploration of the theoretical and empirical research in the economics of religion.
Author: Martyn Percy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317034740
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Seeking to dynamically alter the way that theologians, ecclesiologists, students of religion and ministers look at the relationship between church and society, this book takes religion, politics and society as basic categories and explores how oft-overlooked issues are in fact highly significant for the shaping of theological and ecclesiological horizons. The Ecclesial Canopy is not, however, simply about reading meanings into religion, politics and society. Rather, it sets out to faithfully interpret much of the material that surrounds us, yet is often taken for granted or unnoticed. Paying close and patient attention to beliefs, language, artefacts, rituals, practices and other material - all of which are constitutive for ecclesial life and theological identity - this book offers an invitation of engagement to the scholar or minister. The Ecclesial Canopy makes a significant and important contribution to the field of pastoral and practical theology. Building on the concepts of implicit and invisible religion, Martyn Percy offers a fresh and original interpretative 'take' on contemporary society, appealing to clergy, laity, scholars and all those working in the field of theory and reflective practice in practical and pastoral theology.
Author: Elizabeth von Arnim
Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN: 1774648326
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
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Since her mother’s death, Jennifer has devoted years of her life to her father, managing the family home and acting as his secretary. After the sudden announcement that her father has married again, Jennifer, at 33, seizes the opportunity to lead an independent life. Quickly she secures the lease of Rose Cottage and turns her attention to her own needs and interests.
