Author: John Palombi
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445632365
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The fascinating history of Witham, illustrated through old and modern pictures.
Witham Through Time
Author: John Palombi
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445632365
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The fascinating history of Witham, illustrated through old and modern pictures.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445632365
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The fascinating history of Witham, illustrated through old and modern pictures.
By Design
Author: Larry Witham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
At the heart of By Design are two inter-related movements. One is the science and religion dialogue, which stretches from the laboratories of Nobelists to inner sancta of the Vatican. This dialogue attempts to build bridges between two worlds formerly thought to be implacably hostile and incompatible. The other is the intelligent design movement, which by reviving a natural theology of design in nature has challenged the Darwinian strongholds in science and public education. Larry Witham introduces some of the most colorful characters in these movements, and summarizes the scientific developments that have made this dramatic new dialogue possible.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
At the heart of By Design are two inter-related movements. One is the science and religion dialogue, which stretches from the laboratories of Nobelists to inner sancta of the Vatican. This dialogue attempts to build bridges between two worlds formerly thought to be implacably hostile and incompatible. The other is the intelligent design movement, which by reviving a natural theology of design in nature has challenged the Darwinian strongholds in science and public education. Larry Witham introduces some of the most colorful characters in these movements, and summarizes the scientific developments that have made this dramatic new dialogue possible.
Where Darwin Meets the Bible
Author: Larry Witham
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195182811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Where Darwin Meets the Bible provides an account of the lasting conflict between creationists and evolutionists.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195182811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Where Darwin Meets the Bible provides an account of the lasting conflict between creationists and evolutionists.
Art Schooled
Author: Larry Witham
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 161168188X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
One year in the life of the students, teachers, and artists at one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious art colleges
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 161168188X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
One year in the life of the students, teachers, and artists at one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious art colleges
A City Upon a Hill
Author: Larry Witham
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006198311X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
“Witham’s highly readable history of the American sermon strongly bolsters the contention that words change minds and alter the course of events.” —Booklist Pivotal moments in U.S. history are indelibly marked by the sermons of the nation’s greatest orators. From colonial times to the present, the sermon has motivated Americans to fight wars as well as fight for peace. Sermons have provoked the mob mentality of witch hunts and blacklists, but they have also stirred activists in the women’s and civil rights movements. A City Upon a Hill tells the story of these powerful words and how they shaped the destiny of a nation. A City Upon a Hill includes the story of Robert Hunt, the first preacher to brave the dangerous sea voyage to Jamestown; Jonathan Mayhew’s “most seditious sermon ever delivered,” which incited Boston’s Stamp Act riots in 1765; early calls for abolition and “Preacher-Captain” Nat Turner’s bloody slave revolt of 1831; Henry Ward Beecher’s sermon at Fort Sumter on the day of Lincoln’s assassination; tent revivalist/prohibitionist Billy Sunday’s “booze sermon”; the challenging words of Martin Luther King Jr., which inspired the civil rights movement; Billy Graham’s moving speeches as “America’s pastor” and spiritual advisor to multiple U.S. presidents; and Jerry Falwell’s legacy of changing the way America does politics. A City Upon a Hill provides a history of the United States as seen through the lens of the preached words—Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish—that inspired independence, constitutional amendments, and military victories, and also stirred our worst prejudices, selfish materialism, and stubborn divisiveness—all in the name of God.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006198311X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
“Witham’s highly readable history of the American sermon strongly bolsters the contention that words change minds and alter the course of events.” —Booklist Pivotal moments in U.S. history are indelibly marked by the sermons of the nation’s greatest orators. From colonial times to the present, the sermon has motivated Americans to fight wars as well as fight for peace. Sermons have provoked the mob mentality of witch hunts and blacklists, but they have also stirred activists in the women’s and civil rights movements. A City Upon a Hill tells the story of these powerful words and how they shaped the destiny of a nation. A City Upon a Hill includes the story of Robert Hunt, the first preacher to brave the dangerous sea voyage to Jamestown; Jonathan Mayhew’s “most seditious sermon ever delivered,” which incited Boston’s Stamp Act riots in 1765; early calls for abolition and “Preacher-Captain” Nat Turner’s bloody slave revolt of 1831; Henry Ward Beecher’s sermon at Fort Sumter on the day of Lincoln’s assassination; tent revivalist/prohibitionist Billy Sunday’s “booze sermon”; the challenging words of Martin Luther King Jr., which inspired the civil rights movement; Billy Graham’s moving speeches as “America’s pastor” and spiritual advisor to multiple U.S. presidents; and Jerry Falwell’s legacy of changing the way America does politics. A City Upon a Hill provides a history of the United States as seen through the lens of the preached words—Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish—that inspired independence, constitutional amendments, and military victories, and also stirred our worst prejudices, selfish materialism, and stubborn divisiveness—all in the name of God.
Piero's Light
Author: Larry Witham
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639360611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
In the tradition of The Swerve and Galileo's Daughter, Piero's Light reveals how art, religion and science came together at the dawn of the modern world in the paintings of one remarkable artist. An innovative painter in the early generation of Renaissance artists, Piero dell Francesca was also an expert on religious topics and a mathematician who wanted to use perspective and geometry to make painting a “true science.” Although only sixteen of Piero’s works survive, few art historians doubt his importance in the Renaissance. A 1992 conference of international experts meeting at the National Gallery of Art deemed Piero, “One of the most highly regarded painters of the early Renaissance, and one of the most respected artists of all time.” In recent years, the quest for Piero has continued among intrepid scholars, and Piero's Light uncovers the life of this remarkable artistic revolutionary and enduring legacy of the Italian Renaissance.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639360611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
In the tradition of The Swerve and Galileo's Daughter, Piero's Light reveals how art, religion and science came together at the dawn of the modern world in the paintings of one remarkable artist. An innovative painter in the early generation of Renaissance artists, Piero dell Francesca was also an expert on religious topics and a mathematician who wanted to use perspective and geometry to make painting a “true science.” Although only sixteen of Piero’s works survive, few art historians doubt his importance in the Renaissance. A 1992 conference of international experts meeting at the National Gallery of Art deemed Piero, “One of the most highly regarded painters of the early Renaissance, and one of the most respected artists of all time.” In recent years, the quest for Piero has continued among intrepid scholars, and Piero's Light uncovers the life of this remarkable artistic revolutionary and enduring legacy of the Italian Renaissance.
Bishop's Stortford, Braintree, Witham and Maldon Railways Through Time
Author: Andy T. Wallis
Publisher: Through Time
ISBN: 9781445608563
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Bishop's Stortford, Braintree, Witham & Maldon branches have changed and developed over the last century. Covers an important network of branch railways, including from Bishop's Stortford to Braintree through Dunmow and Felsted, Witham to Braintree and the Maldon Branch
Publisher: Through Time
ISBN: 9781445608563
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Bishop's Stortford, Braintree, Witham & Maldon branches have changed and developed over the last century. Covers an important network of branch railways, including from Bishop's Stortford to Braintree through Dunmow and Felsted, Witham to Braintree and the Maldon Branch
History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann
Author: John James Babson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gloucester (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gloucester (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Picasso and the Chess Player
Author: Larry Witham
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611683491
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The dramatic story of art in the twentieth century
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611683491
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The dramatic story of art in the twentieth century
Marketplace of the Gods
Author: Larry Witham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195394755
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Two centuries after Adam Smith illuminated the workings of the marketplace, a new movement among economists and social scientists is expanding his insights into a groundbreaking "economics of religion." Using cutting edge ideas from the behavioral sciences, and a deep knowledge of religious history, this new approach is making sense not only of past beliefs, but of religion today.In Marketplace of the Gods, award-winning journalist Larry Witham tells the inside story of this expanding "economic approach" to religion, the puzzles it tries to solve, the controversies it has stirred, and the people who are making it happen. He shows that the economic approach, while evoking images of stock markets or accounting ledgers, actually begins with a simple idea about human beings as rational actors, judging costs and benefits in life. Every life has limits, so human experience is a series of trade-offs, balancing resources to make choices for the best possible benefits. As the economics of religion shows, this model can be applied to the rich story of the human race and its gods. Beginning with the individual, the choices in religion shape households, groups, movements, and entire "religious economies" of nations. On the one hand, this mixing of the profane and the sacred, the economic and the religious, is an exciting exchange of ideas between economics, sociology, psychology, history, and theology. On the other, it has spurred a lively protest. Indeed, for some, the economic approach seems to transform our good angels into grubby consumers.As Witham shows, however, the economic approach to religion has insights for everyone, believers and skeptics alike. He illuminates this approach in a volume rich with ideas, history, contemporary events, and the insights of some of our sharpest modern-day thinkers.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195394755
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Two centuries after Adam Smith illuminated the workings of the marketplace, a new movement among economists and social scientists is expanding his insights into a groundbreaking "economics of religion." Using cutting edge ideas from the behavioral sciences, and a deep knowledge of religious history, this new approach is making sense not only of past beliefs, but of religion today.In Marketplace of the Gods, award-winning journalist Larry Witham tells the inside story of this expanding "economic approach" to religion, the puzzles it tries to solve, the controversies it has stirred, and the people who are making it happen. He shows that the economic approach, while evoking images of stock markets or accounting ledgers, actually begins with a simple idea about human beings as rational actors, judging costs and benefits in life. Every life has limits, so human experience is a series of trade-offs, balancing resources to make choices for the best possible benefits. As the economics of religion shows, this model can be applied to the rich story of the human race and its gods. Beginning with the individual, the choices in religion shape households, groups, movements, and entire "religious economies" of nations. On the one hand, this mixing of the profane and the sacred, the economic and the religious, is an exciting exchange of ideas between economics, sociology, psychology, history, and theology. On the other, it has spurred a lively protest. Indeed, for some, the economic approach seems to transform our good angels into grubby consumers.As Witham shows, however, the economic approach to religion has insights for everyone, believers and skeptics alike. He illuminates this approach in a volume rich with ideas, history, contemporary events, and the insights of some of our sharpest modern-day thinkers.