Author: Garry Wills
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140055634
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Confessions of a Conservative
Author: Garry Wills
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140055634
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140055634
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Republocrat
Author: Carl R. Trueman
Publisher: P & R Publishing
ISBN: 9781596381834
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
"Sound-bite" and "knee-jerk" have replaced reasoned debate and the church appears to wear a one-size-fits-all political jacket. Isn't it time to think a bit deeper? Carl Trueman takes you on a readable, provocative, and lively romp through Christianity and politics. Book jacket.
Publisher: P & R Publishing
ISBN: 9781596381834
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
"Sound-bite" and "knee-jerk" have replaced reasoned debate and the church appears to wear a one-size-fits-all political jacket. Isn't it time to think a bit deeper? Carl Trueman takes you on a readable, provocative, and lively romp through Christianity and politics. Book jacket.
Confessions of a Conservative Evangelical
Author: Jack Rogers
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664502393
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Here is an engaging first-person study of a self-described straight, uptight, conservative Christian and the life situations that led him to a new sense of freedom and openness. Believing that experiences should be shared, Jack Rogers reflects on his childhood, his studies, his marriage and parenthood, the people he's met, and his service to the church, both in Europe and at home.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664502393
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Here is an engaging first-person study of a self-described straight, uptight, conservative Christian and the life situations that led him to a new sense of freedom and openness. Believing that experiences should be shared, Jack Rogers reflects on his childhood, his studies, his marriage and parenthood, the people he's met, and his service to the church, both in Europe and at home.
Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel
Author: Mike S. Adams
Publisher: Harbor House
ISBN: 9781891799174
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Adams lampoons sacred liberal cows such as affirmative action, ethnocentrism, Gay Pride, cultural insensitivity training, multiculturalism and censorship.
Publisher: Harbor House
ISBN: 9781891799174
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Adams lampoons sacred liberal cows such as affirmative action, ethnocentrism, Gay Pride, cultural insensitivity training, multiculturalism and censorship.
Augustine's Confessions
Author: Garry Wills
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400838029
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
From Pulitzer Prize–winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine’s Confessions In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills's biography of Augustine and his translation of the Confessions, this is an unparalleled introduction to one of the most important books in the Christian and Western traditions. Understandably fascinated by the story of Augustine's life, modern readers have largely succumbed to the temptation to read the Confessions as autobiography. But, Wills argues, this is a mistake. The book is not autobiography but rather a long prayer, suffused with the language of Scripture and addressed to God, not man. Augustine tells the story of his life not for its own significance but in order to discern how, as a drama of sin and salvation leading to God, it fits into sacred history. "We have to read Augustine as we do Dante," Wills writes, "alert to rich layer upon layer of Scriptural and theological symbolism." Wills also addresses the long afterlife of the book, from controversy in its own time and relative neglect during the Middle Ages to a renewed prominence beginning in the fourteenth century and persisting to today, when the Confessions has become an object of interest not just for Christians but also historians, philosophers, psychiatrists, and literary critics. With unmatched clarity and skill, Wills strips away the centuries of misunderstanding that have accumulated around Augustine's spiritual classic.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400838029
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
From Pulitzer Prize–winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine’s Confessions In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills's biography of Augustine and his translation of the Confessions, this is an unparalleled introduction to one of the most important books in the Christian and Western traditions. Understandably fascinated by the story of Augustine's life, modern readers have largely succumbed to the temptation to read the Confessions as autobiography. But, Wills argues, this is a mistake. The book is not autobiography but rather a long prayer, suffused with the language of Scripture and addressed to God, not man. Augustine tells the story of his life not for its own significance but in order to discern how, as a drama of sin and salvation leading to God, it fits into sacred history. "We have to read Augustine as we do Dante," Wills writes, "alert to rich layer upon layer of Scriptural and theological symbolism." Wills also addresses the long afterlife of the book, from controversy in its own time and relative neglect during the Middle Ages to a renewed prominence beginning in the fourteenth century and persisting to today, when the Confessions has become an object of interest not just for Christians but also historians, philosophers, psychiatrists, and literary critics. With unmatched clarity and skill, Wills strips away the centuries of misunderstanding that have accumulated around Augustine's spiritual classic.
A Better Ambition
Author: Tim Farron
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780281083589
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tim Farron's account of his involvement in the turbulent politics of recent years offers a wealth of insight into life at the top of a major political party and the prospects for true liberalism in Britain today.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780281083589
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tim Farron's account of his involvement in the turbulent politics of recent years offers a wealth of insight into life at the top of a major political party and the prospects for true liberalism in Britain today.
So Greek
Author: Niki Savva
Publisher: Scribe Publications
ISBN: 1921753560
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
From one of the most senior correspondents in the Canberra Press Gallery comes a rare account of life as a political insider. Born in a small village in Cyprus, Niki Savva spent her childhood in Melbourne’s working-class suburbs — frontiers where locals were suspicious of olive oil, and Greek kids spoke Gringlish to their parents. Only a few decades later, despite all the challenges of being a migrant woman in Australia, Savva had risen through the ranks of political journalism at The Australian, and had gone on to head the Canberra bureaus of both the Melbourne Herald Sun and The Age. Then in 1997, family tragedy struck, and she was forced to reassess her career. In spite of her own Labor convictions, she became Liberal treasurer Peter Costello’s press secretary, a role that she kept for six years before moving on to join John Howard’s staff. This is one of the few books about Australian political life written by an insider with decades of exposure to its major players. Hilarious, moving, and endlessly fascinating, Savva’s is a story that moves between countries, cultures, careers and, ultimately, political convictions.
Publisher: Scribe Publications
ISBN: 1921753560
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
From one of the most senior correspondents in the Canberra Press Gallery comes a rare account of life as a political insider. Born in a small village in Cyprus, Niki Savva spent her childhood in Melbourne’s working-class suburbs — frontiers where locals were suspicious of olive oil, and Greek kids spoke Gringlish to their parents. Only a few decades later, despite all the challenges of being a migrant woman in Australia, Savva had risen through the ranks of political journalism at The Australian, and had gone on to head the Canberra bureaus of both the Melbourne Herald Sun and The Age. Then in 1997, family tragedy struck, and she was forced to reassess her career. In spite of her own Labor convictions, she became Liberal treasurer Peter Costello’s press secretary, a role that she kept for six years before moving on to join John Howard’s staff. This is one of the few books about Australian political life written by an insider with decades of exposure to its major players. Hilarious, moving, and endlessly fascinating, Savva’s is a story that moves between countries, cultures, careers and, ultimately, political convictions.
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
Author: Florence King
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466816260
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady is Florence King's classic memoir of her upbringing in an eccentric Southern family, told with all the uproarious wit and gusto that has made her one of the most admired writers in the country. Florence may have been a disappointment to her Granny, whose dream of rearing a Perfect Southern Lady would never be quite fulfilled. But after all, as Florence reminds us, "no matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street."
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466816260
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady is Florence King's classic memoir of her upbringing in an eccentric Southern family, told with all the uproarious wit and gusto that has made her one of the most admired writers in the country. Florence may have been a disappointment to her Granny, whose dream of rearing a Perfect Southern Lady would never be quite fulfilled. But after all, as Florence reminds us, "no matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street."
Confessions of a Former Dittohead
Author: Jim Derych
Publisher: Ig Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The autobiography of a Rush Limbaugh conservative and Republican activist who becomes a liberal.
Publisher: Ig Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The autobiography of a Rush Limbaugh conservative and Republican activist who becomes a liberal.
Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America
Author: Dave Tell
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271060255
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a text a confession has become one of the most powerful, and most overlooked, forms of intervening in American cultural politics. In the twentieth century alone, the genre of confession has profoundly shaped (and been shaped by) six of America’s most intractable cultural issues: sexuality, class, race, violence, religion, and democracy.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271060255
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a text a confession has become one of the most powerful, and most overlooked, forms of intervening in American cultural politics. In the twentieth century alone, the genre of confession has profoundly shaped (and been shaped by) six of America’s most intractable cultural issues: sexuality, class, race, violence, religion, and democracy.