Author: Kevin Timothy O'Kane
Publisher: Kevin Timothy O'Kane
ISBN: 9780990893639
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The Instigators of the Apocalypse is a winner of the silver medal in the 2015 Illumination Book Awards in the category of Best Non-Fiction EBook and has placed as a finalist in the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the category of Best Christian Non-Fiction Book. The Instigators of the Apocalypse takes the reader on a journey through the history of Christian eschatology and prophecy's influence on western civilization. It explains how the book of Revelation was misinterpreted by the fourth and fifth century church leaders and used to start wars and revolutions, including the Crusades, the conquest of Mexico by Spain, the English Revolution, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War. The book also demonstrates how false notions of the Apostle John's Revelation and false medieval Christian prophecy helped give birth to today's Islamic terrorism, including Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State's desire to conquer Palestine and Jerusalem as well as inspiring Iran's quest for weapons of mass destruction. The Instigators of the Apocalypse provides a warning to mankind that its age old quest to build a utopian world by its own efforts, whether religious or secular, is leading to the actual Apocalypse envisioned of John.
Author: Eve Bennett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501331094
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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In the years following 9/11, American TV developed a preoccupation with apocalypse. Science fiction and fantasy shows ranging from Firefly to Heroes, from the rebooted Battlestar Galactica to Lost, envisaged scenarios in which world-changing disasters were either threatened or actually took place. During the same period numerous commentators observed that the American media's representation of gender had undergone a marked regression, possibly, it was suggested, as a consequence of the 9/11 attacks and the feelings of weakness and insecurity they engendered in the nation's men. Eve Bennett investigates whether the same impulse to return to traditional images of masculinity and femininity can be found in the contemporary cycle of apocalyptic series, programmes which, like 9/11 itself, present plenty of opportunity for narratives of damsels-in-distress and heroic male rescuers. However, as this book shows, whether such narratives play out in the expected manner is another matter.
Author: Raymond Burt
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1452530122
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 413
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The Apocalypse: Day of the Dogs gives voice to a seers vision of a phantasmagoria of events that span millennia, tracing the destinies of the personalities, the agencies, and the institutions that hold sway in todays world. By blending the cadences and phrasing of ancient apocalyptic texts with the details of contemporary events, The Apocalypse creates a disorienting and disquieting picture of the path that this world will take in the coming centuries. The scope is cosmic and the sweep is wide, so if one begins to wonder how the visions will shape any one persons life, the speaker of the visions advises, I darent say whats going to happen to you; I believe the life-form of the ancients and the rest are there, and I suggest that you love one another. If you wonder what may be the outcome of history, if the path of the worlds future either troubles or beckons to you, and if you have the fortitude to consider the unimaginable, then The Apocalypse: Day of the Dogs will speak the words you desire to hear.
Author: Peter Admirand
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1978716362
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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With a catastrophic fungal pandemic, the post-apocalypse, a moral quest despite societal breakdowns, humans hunting humans or morphed into grotesque infected, The Last of Us video games and HBO series have exhilarated, frightened, and broken the hearts of millions of gamers and viewers. The Last of Us and Theology: Violence, Ethics, Redemption? is a richly diverse and probing edited volume featuring essays from academics across the world to examine theological and ethical themes from The Last of Us universe. Divided into three groupings—Violence, Ethics, and Redemption?—these chapters will especially appeal to The Last of Us fans and those interested in Theology and Pop Culture more broadly. Chapters not only grapple with theologians, ethicists, and novelists like Cormac McCarthy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Buber, and Paul Tillich; and theological issues from forgiveness and theodicy to soteriology and eschatology; but will help readers become experts on all things fireflies, clickers, Cordyceps, and Seraphites. “Save who you can save” and “Look for the Light.”
Author: Kameron Hurley
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
ISBN: 161696295X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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"You're going to love Nyx . . . she makes Han Solo look like a Boy Scout.”—io9 Ex-government assassin turned bounty-hunter, Nyx, is good at solving other people’s problems. Her favorite problem-solving solution is punching people in the face. Then maybe chopping off some heads. Hey—it’s a living. Nyx's disreputable reputation has been well earned. After all, she’s trying to navigate an apocalyptic world full of giant bugs, contaminated deserts, scheming magicians, and a centuries-long war that’s consuming her future. Managing her ragtag squad of misfits has required a lot of morally-gray choices. Every new job is another day alive. Every new mission is another step toward changing a hellish future—but only if she can survive.
Author: Nathan Schneider
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520957032
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Thank You, Anarchy is an up-close, inside account of Occupy Wall Street’s first year in New York City, written by one of the first reporters to cover the phenomenon. Nathan Schneider chronicles the origins and explosive development of the Occupy movement through the eyes of the organizers who tried to give shape to an uprising always just beyond their control. Capturing the voices, encounters, and beliefs that powered the movement, Schneider brings to life the General Assembly meetings, the chaotic marches, the split-second decisions, and the moments of doubt as Occupy swelled from a hashtag online into a global phenomenon. A compelling study of the spirit that drove this watershed movement, Thank You, Anarchy vividly documents how the Occupy experience opened new social and political possibilities and registered a chilling indictment of the status quo. It was the movement’s most radical impulses, this account shows, that shook millions out of a failed tedium and into imagining, and fighting for, a better kind of future.
Author: Hekataios Amerikos
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483433323
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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In recent years several books about the beginnings of Christianity and/or of Jesus and the disciples have been written. They range from books based mainly upon faith and the gospels to the outlandishly sensational, which barely even suggest that they are based upon actual, documented history. Yet, in one way or another, they all purport to provide the reader with the historical truth. Still, when reading these other works, one finds that they are at best only loosely based upon real history of the time period and they provide little in the way of historical documentation, let alone critical analysis. This book is an exception because it sticks to the cold, hard historical evidence and proceeds where that evidence leads. This important work of historical non-fiction will serve to enhance public understanding of the true origins of Christianity. This book is designed to serve that purpose. It is not meant to offend, but is meant to provoke critical thought and debate.
Author: Thomas Whittemore
Publisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Author: Robert Cady Saler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567704440
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 153
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Robert Saler examines the small but influential Death to the World movement in US Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Presenting a case study in theological aesthetics, Saler demonstrates how a relatively small consumer phenomenon within US Eastern Orthodoxy sits at the centre of a variety of larger questions, including: - The relationship between formal ecclesial and para-church structures - The role of the Internet in modern religiosity - Consumer structures and patterns as constitutive of piety - How theology can help us understand art and vice versa Understanding "Death to the World" as an instance of lived religion tied to questions of identity, politics of religious purity, relationships to capitalism, and concerns over conspiracy theory helps us to see how studies of uniquely American Eastern Orthodox identity must address these broader cultural strands.
Author: James H. Braund
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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