Author: James Burton Coffman
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Category : Churches of Christ
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: Paul Asay
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414374291
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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What do God and the Caped Crusader have in common? While Batman is a secular superhero patrolling the fictional streets of Gotham City, the Caped Crusader is one whose story creates multiple opportunities for believers to talk about the redemptive spiritual truths of Christianity. While the book touches on Batman’s many incarnations over the last 70 years in print, on television, and at the local Cineplex for the enjoyment of Batman fans everywhere, it primarily focuses on Christopher Nolan’s two wildly popular and critically acclaimed movies—movies that not only introduced a new generation to a darker Batman, but are also loaded with spiritual meaning and redemptive metaphors.

Author: Jon Butler
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 0674045688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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A master historian traces the flourishing of organized religion in Manhattan between the 1880s and the 1960s, revealing how faith adapted and thrived in the supposed capital of American secularism. In Gilded Age Manhattan, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant leaders agonized over the fate of traditional religious practice amid chaotic and multiplying pluralism. Massive immigration, the anonymity of urban life, and modernity's rationalism, bureaucratization, and professionalization seemingly eviscerated the sense of religious community. Yet fears of religion's demise were dramatically overblown. Jon Butler finds a spiritual hothouse in the supposed capital of American secularism. By the 1950s Manhattan was full of the sacred. Catholics, Jews, and Protestants peppered the borough with sanctuaries great and small. Manhattan became a center of religious publishing and broadcasting and was home to august spiritual reformers from Reinhold Niebuhr to Abraham Heschel, Dorothy Day, and Norman Vincent Peale. A host of white nontraditional groups met in midtown hotels, while black worshippers gathered in Harlem's storefront churches. Though denied the ministry almost everywhere, women shaped the lived religion of congregations, founded missionary societies, and, in organizations such as the Zionist Hadassah, fused spirituality and political activism. And after 1945, when Manhattan's young families rushed to New Jersey and Long Island's booming suburbs, they recreated the religious institutions that had shaped their youth. God in Gotham portrays a city where people of faith engaged modernity rather than floundered in it. Far from the world of "disenchantment" that sociologist Max Weber bemoaned, modern Manhattan actually birthed an urban spiritual landscape of unparalleled breadth, suggesting that modernity enabled rather than crippled religion in America well into the 1960s.

Author: Lyndsay Faye
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN: 0425261255
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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New York City, 1845. Timothy Wilde, a 27-year-old Irish immigrant, joins the newly formed NYPD and investigates an infanticide and the body of a 12-year-old Irish boy whose spleen has been removed.

Author: Mike Wallace
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195116356
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 1195

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"Between consolidation and the end of World War One, New York was transformed and transforming, mirroring the juggernauting dynamism of the country at large--and largely fueling it. The names of two of its streets encapsulate the degree of the city's preeminence: Wall Street and Broadway. [This book] reveals the workings of the city's consolidation; the emerging hegemony of its financial markets, which effectively reconstructed U.S. capitalism; the influx of migrants from other continents and from the American South; the development of its massive infrastructure--subways and waterways and electrical grid; and New York's growing dominance over the arts, media, and entertainment"--Provided by publisher.

Author: Daniel C. Timmer
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830826270
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume on Jonah, Daniel Timmer seeks to secure the book's ongoing relevance for biblical theology and for the spiritual life. Timmer examines Jonah's historical backgrounds and Christocentric orientation, hoping to bring clarity to problems of mission and religious conversion raised by the text.

Author: Kyle B. Roberts
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022638814X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349

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Kyle Roberts explores the role of evangelical religion in the making of antebellum New York City and its spiritual marketplace. Between the American Revolution and the War of 1812a period of rebuilding after seven years of British occupationevangelicals emphasized individual conversion and rapidly expanded the number of their congregations. Then, up to the Panic of 1837, evangelicals shifted their focus from their own salvation to that of their neighbors, through the use of domestic missions, Seamen s Bethels, tract publishing, free churches, and abolitionism. Finally, in the decades before the Civil War, the city s dramatic expansion overwhelmed evangelicals, whose target audiences shifted, building priorities changed, and approaches to neighborhood and ethnicity evolved. By that time, though, evangelicals and the city had already shaped each other in profound ways, with New York becoming a national center of evangelicalism."

Author: David Annandale
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459702255
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Richard Gray finds out that his ancestral home holds the secret of what lies beyond the grave. All of a sudden everyone wants a piece of Gethsemane Hall, both believers and skeptics, all looking for the truth. But the truth may be coming for them.

Author: Eric Gaizat
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105760898
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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One of the most enduring superheroes ever created, Batman is considered to be one of the greatest because of his humanity and ablility to overcome the evil in his life. This unauthorized comparison of Batman's values with Christianity is an interesting take on the Dark Knight and shows that he has many qualities worthy of imitation in our daily Christian walk. Also included is an in-depth take on Batman's Rogues Gallery that defines the character sins that each chooses to live with that keep them in the villains category. Villains like the Joker, Two-Face, Harley Quinn, Mr. Freeze and many more! So prepare to get suited up and leap head-first into the world of Gotham City. See that your world is not so different than that of the world's greatest detective. By learning the Christian-like virtues of Batman we can see how to change our own world. Are you ready to begin?