The Legend of Jonah

The Legend of Jonah PDF Author: R.H. Bowers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401030545
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 91

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The Legend of Jonah

The Legend of Jonah PDF Author: R.H. Bowers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401030545
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 91

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The Legend of Jonah

The Legend of Jonah PDF Author: R.H. Bowers
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789401194976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Catholicism and Fundamentalism

Catholicism and Fundamentalism PDF Author: Karl Keating
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 168149079X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Karl Keating defends Catholicism from fundamentalist attacks and explains why fundamentalism has been so successful in converting "Romanists". After showing the origins of fundamentalism, he examines representative anti-Catholic groups and presents their arguments in their own words. His rebuttals are clear, detailed, and charitable. Special emphasis is given to the scriptural basis for Catholic doctrines and beliefs.

The Jonah Legend

The Jonah Legend PDF Author: William Simpson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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The Jonah Legend

The Jonah Legend PDF Author: William Simpson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530400188
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Among the narratives of the Bible which have stood in the paths of the old mode of literal interpretation the story of Jonah has proved to be one of the worst stumbling blocks. Nowhere have the rationalistic school, the symbolical, the allegorical, the historical-and many others besides-better succeeded in maintaining the impossibility of adhering to the letter of the story; but nowhere also have they made a poorer show of their own respective latch-keys. As Dean Stanley said, at the funeral of Sir Charles Lyell in Westminster: "There were and are two modes of reconciliation which have each totally and deservedly failed: the one attempts to wrest the words of the Bible from their real meaning and force them to speak the language of science; the other attempts to falsify science in order to meet the supposed requirements of the Bible." Bro. Simpson's remarkable essay is not one more attempt to put new wine into old bottles, but simply to seek how the Jonah legend has originated and grown. To that effect, the author resorts to the comparative method, which, he says, throws the older process of investigation into the shade, "as idle or vague speculation." In the very prayer which Jonah utters from the whale's belly, the Prophet represents himself as speaking "from the womb of Sheol" and even adds: "I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me forever." Such language would hardly apply to a fish. In later iconography, Hell is often represented by the head of a sea-monster with the jaws open. The Bible contains more than one story, which according to Bro. Simpson, has its origin in some initiatory legend of the same kind; for instance, the translation of Enoch, whose name means " the Initiate," and whom our author compares to the culture-hero of the Chaldæans, the Fish-God Oannes - also the translation of Elijah, which so closely resembles that of Enoch. Elijah, among other feats, recalls to life a Widow's son, by stretching himself three times on the body and crying to the Lord. Here again Bro. Simpson is inclined to suppose some form of ritual rather than pretended miracles. According to a Mahomedan tradition, referred to in Mirkhond, the Widow's son was Junas or Jonah, "the Companion of the Fish." - Ars Quatuor Coronatorum [1900]

Fool's Talk

Fool's Talk PDF Author: Os Guinness
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830898506
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Our world is changing dramatically, yet many Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and apologetics. In his magnum opus, Os Guinness presents the art and power of creative persuasion—the ability to talk to people who are closed to what we are saying. Discover afresh the persuasive power of Christian witness.

The Jonah Legend

The Jonah Legend PDF Author: William Simpson
Publisher: London : Grant Richards
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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My Dearest Jonah

My Dearest Jonah PDF Author: Matthew Crow
Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
ISBN: 1908775580
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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Nominated for the Dylan Thomas Prize, a novel of long-distance love. “There is an assured precision to Crow’s observations that cannot be learned” (Jonathan Trigell, award-winning author of Boy A). “Like you I’ve been feeling forlorn of late. I don’t know how long you have to be somewhere before it begins to feel normal, before you start to feel as though you belong . . . And so all I have is you. Your letters and the thought that somewhere, something good exists in my life. For now that seems enough to get by on.” Introduced via a pen-pal scheme, Verity and Jonah write their lives, hopes and dreams to one another without ever having met. Verity is a fragile beauty. When a dangerous sequence of events is set in motion, she tries to explain to Jonah what led her to unravel so spectacularly. Jonah has been released after years of imprisonment and embarks upon the quiet life he’s always wanted. But then a dark reminder shatters his world, keen to make history repeat itself. Offering the sole strand of stability in two progressively elaborate lives, they develop a deep and delicate love, a love that becomes clouded and threatened by increasingly dark forces. Praise for Matthew Crow’s In Bloom “The Fault in Our Stars meets Adrian Mole. Moving, funny and brilliantly narrated.”—Metro “Wow. Read In Bloom right now. It will improve your life.”—Matt Haig, international bestselling author “A moving and wonderfully witty tale . . . This excellent book is worth anyone’s time.”—Daily Telegraph

The Story of Jonah

The Story of Jonah PDF Author: Landoll, Inc
Publisher: Landoll
ISBN: 9781569873663
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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The Book of Jonah

The Book of Jonah PDF Author: Peter Spier
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375982388
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Two-time Caldecott illustrator Peter Spier’s visual retelling of a favorite Bible story is back in print! In a tale full of action, adventure, and strife, Jonah is asked by God to tell the people of Nineveh to mend their wicked ways. Fleeing from this enormous task, Jonah sets sail and is thrown overboard and swallowed by a great fish. What follows is Jonah’s journey to acceptance of God’s love and grace. A reference section at the end of the book shares historical and geographical notes about the story, including details about the ship Jonah might have sailed on and a fascinating discussion of the ancient city of Nineveh and the location of its ruins in present-day Iraq.