Author: Joseph Loconte
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1595554475
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Never before had they known such hope. In a world drenched in violence and oppression, here was a man armed with a message of peace and freedom. Into lives nearly overwhelmed by grief and sorrow, he brought compassion and healing and the deepest joy. To people who felt like outcasts and aliens, he showed the way home. And then, in one devastating night, all their hopes collapsed. This is where our story begins—in the valley of despair. It is a tale of two friends, a stranger, and a search for truth in a world gone mad with doubt. Historian Joseph Loconte unlocks the meaning of their exchange, set in the chaotic days following the execution of Jesus of Nazareth. Drawing from literature, film, philosophy, history, and politics, Loconte shows how this biblical drama is an integral part of our own story. Sooner or later, we will find ourselves among the searchers.
The Quest for Freedom
Author: Corina Pataki
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wolf dogs, mud pits and capture... oh my! Immerse yourself in "The Quest for Freedom: Revised Edition," a captivating journey recounted by Corina Pataki, a native of Romania, from Romania's era of suffocating communism and stifling government. Amidst seemingly insurmountable odds, Corina unveils her family's unyielding pursuit of freedom while shedding light on the remarkable power of hope. Venture alongside them into a realm where supernatural forces intertwine with the mortal realm, transcending boundaries between space and time, between the supernatural, ethereal and cosmic planes. Within this captivating narrative, we witness this family's unwavering determination and the beacon of a brighter future that steered them through perilous trials, guided by interventions from unexpected sources, both spiritual, celestial, and human. Corina's vivid storytelling reminds readers that even in the bleakest moments a spark of hope, faith, and the unwavering spirit to endure breaks through the shadows of despair. Through this incredible journey, we're reminded that the Divine Creator orchestrates circumstances for our ultimate good, even in the seeming face of death. Each of us at times must embark on a personal quest for freedom, striving to break the chains that confine us and walk out our liberation. Just as supernatural interventions propelled their path to freedom, the same awaits anyone choosing their own liberation. Our inherent connection to the Divine Source will always empower us to overcome any obstacle on our personal quest for freedom. Order your copy today and then order one for your friend or family that maybe needs encouragement to engage in their quest for freedom!
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wolf dogs, mud pits and capture... oh my! Immerse yourself in "The Quest for Freedom: Revised Edition," a captivating journey recounted by Corina Pataki, a native of Romania, from Romania's era of suffocating communism and stifling government. Amidst seemingly insurmountable odds, Corina unveils her family's unyielding pursuit of freedom while shedding light on the remarkable power of hope. Venture alongside them into a realm where supernatural forces intertwine with the mortal realm, transcending boundaries between space and time, between the supernatural, ethereal and cosmic planes. Within this captivating narrative, we witness this family's unwavering determination and the beacon of a brighter future that steered them through perilous trials, guided by interventions from unexpected sources, both spiritual, celestial, and human. Corina's vivid storytelling reminds readers that even in the bleakest moments a spark of hope, faith, and the unwavering spirit to endure breaks through the shadows of despair. Through this incredible journey, we're reminded that the Divine Creator orchestrates circumstances for our ultimate good, even in the seeming face of death. Each of us at times must embark on a personal quest for freedom, striving to break the chains that confine us and walk out our liberation. Just as supernatural interventions propelled their path to freedom, the same awaits anyone choosing their own liberation. Our inherent connection to the Divine Source will always empower us to overcome any obstacle on our personal quest for freedom. Order your copy today and then order one for your friend or family that maybe needs encouragement to engage in their quest for freedom!
The Searchers
Author: Joseph Loconte
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1595554475
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Never before had they known such hope. In a world drenched in violence and oppression, here was a man armed with a message of peace and freedom. Into lives nearly overwhelmed by grief and sorrow, he brought compassion and healing and the deepest joy. To people who felt like outcasts and aliens, he showed the way home. And then, in one devastating night, all their hopes collapsed. This is where our story begins—in the valley of despair. It is a tale of two friends, a stranger, and a search for truth in a world gone mad with doubt. Historian Joseph Loconte unlocks the meaning of their exchange, set in the chaotic days following the execution of Jesus of Nazareth. Drawing from literature, film, philosophy, history, and politics, Loconte shows how this biblical drama is an integral part of our own story. Sooner or later, we will find ourselves among the searchers.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1595554475
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Never before had they known such hope. In a world drenched in violence and oppression, here was a man armed with a message of peace and freedom. Into lives nearly overwhelmed by grief and sorrow, he brought compassion and healing and the deepest joy. To people who felt like outcasts and aliens, he showed the way home. And then, in one devastating night, all their hopes collapsed. This is where our story begins—in the valley of despair. It is a tale of two friends, a stranger, and a search for truth in a world gone mad with doubt. Historian Joseph Loconte unlocks the meaning of their exchange, set in the chaotic days following the execution of Jesus of Nazareth. Drawing from literature, film, philosophy, history, and politics, Loconte shows how this biblical drama is an integral part of our own story. Sooner or later, we will find ourselves among the searchers.
Laylie's Daring Quest
Author: Kersten Hamilton
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781934306130
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
In the 1830s, Laylie Colbert and her brother Luke attempt escape from the Southern Carolina plantation where they are slaves, and their faith helps them along the way.
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781934306130
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
In the 1830s, Laylie Colbert and her brother Luke attempt escape from the Southern Carolina plantation where they are slaves, and their faith helps them along the way.
Finding Faith
Author: Brian D. McLaren
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0310238382
Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Is there a God? - What might God be like? - What is the relationship between faith and certainty? - Can intelligent people believe in spiritual realities? - Why are there so many religions? - Is it possible to experience a relationship with God--and if so, how? If you've asked questions like these, you're in good company. From songwriters such as Bob Dylan and Jewel Kilcher to TV shows such as The X Files and Touched by an Angel, the media and the arts reflect postmodern men and women's search for a living faith and a spiritually oriented life. Real faith isn't blind believism. It is a process that engages your intellect as well as your emotions. If you think faith requires turning your back on truth and intellectual honesty, then Finding Faith is one book you really ought to read. With logic, passion, and even-handedness that the thinking person will appreciate, this book helps you face your obstacles to faith by focusing not on what to believe, but on how to believe. Whether you want to strengthen the faith you have, renew the faith you lost, or discover faith for the first time, Finding Faith can coach, inspire, encourage, and guide you, and help you discover more in life than you'd ever imagined or hoped for.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0310238382
Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Is there a God? - What might God be like? - What is the relationship between faith and certainty? - Can intelligent people believe in spiritual realities? - Why are there so many religions? - Is it possible to experience a relationship with God--and if so, how? If you've asked questions like these, you're in good company. From songwriters such as Bob Dylan and Jewel Kilcher to TV shows such as The X Files and Touched by an Angel, the media and the arts reflect postmodern men and women's search for a living faith and a spiritually oriented life. Real faith isn't blind believism. It is a process that engages your intellect as well as your emotions. If you think faith requires turning your back on truth and intellectual honesty, then Finding Faith is one book you really ought to read. With logic, passion, and even-handedness that the thinking person will appreciate, this book helps you face your obstacles to faith by focusing not on what to believe, but on how to believe. Whether you want to strengthen the faith you have, renew the faith you lost, or discover faith for the first time, Finding Faith can coach, inspire, encourage, and guide you, and help you discover more in life than you'd ever imagined or hoped for.
The Long Walk Back Home a Quest for Freedom
Author: Douglas Davis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781641917056
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Become involved in Hunter's westward quest for freedom during the Civil War, when the forced "Long Walk" and tragic enslavement threatened the destruction of his proud people. This Navajo youth displays three loves of homeland, culture and tribe while struggling with daily survival issues, dangerous wildlife, and the greed of soldiers determined to eliminate this cherished freedom. Religious enlightenment develops for Hunter while "walking in beauty" with nature, and contending with convoluted cross roads of truth and irony. Freedom has never been free!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781641917056
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Become involved in Hunter's westward quest for freedom during the Civil War, when the forced "Long Walk" and tragic enslavement threatened the destruction of his proud people. This Navajo youth displays three loves of homeland, culture and tribe while struggling with daily survival issues, dangerous wildlife, and the greed of soldiers determined to eliminate this cherished freedom. Religious enlightenment develops for Hunter while "walking in beauty" with nature, and contending with convoluted cross roads of truth and irony. Freedom has never been free!
Utopia's Discontents
Author: Faith Hillis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190066334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Utopia's Discontents provides the first synthetic treatment of the Russian revolutionary emigration before the Revolution. It argues that neighborhoods created by Russian exiles became sites of revolutionary experimentation that offered their residents a taste of their anticipated utopian future.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190066334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Utopia's Discontents provides the first synthetic treatment of the Russian revolutionary emigration before the Revolution. It argues that neighborhoods created by Russian exiles became sites of revolutionary experimentation that offered their residents a taste of their anticipated utopian future.
Quest for the Living God
Author: Elizabeth A. Johnson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441142665
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
'Since the middle of the twentieth century,' writes Elizabeth Johnson, 'there has been a renaissance of new insights into God in the Christian tradition. On different continents, under pressure from historical events and social conditions, people of faith have glimpsed the living God in fresh ways. It is not that a wholly different God is discovered from the One believed in by previous generations. Christian faith does not believe in a new God but, finding itself in new situations, seeks the presence of God there. Aspects long-forgotten are brought into new relationships with current events, and the depths of divine compassion are appreciated in ways not previously imagined.' This book sets out the fruit of these discoveries. The first chapter describes Johnson's point of departure and the rules of engagement, with each succeeding chapter distilling a discrete idea of God. Featured are transcendental, political, liberation, feminist, black, Hispanic, interreligious, and ecological theologies, ending with the particular Christian idea of the one God as Trinity.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441142665
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
'Since the middle of the twentieth century,' writes Elizabeth Johnson, 'there has been a renaissance of new insights into God in the Christian tradition. On different continents, under pressure from historical events and social conditions, people of faith have glimpsed the living God in fresh ways. It is not that a wholly different God is discovered from the One believed in by previous generations. Christian faith does not believe in a new God but, finding itself in new situations, seeks the presence of God there. Aspects long-forgotten are brought into new relationships with current events, and the depths of divine compassion are appreciated in ways not previously imagined.' This book sets out the fruit of these discoveries. The first chapter describes Johnson's point of departure and the rules of engagement, with each succeeding chapter distilling a discrete idea of God. Featured are transcendental, political, liberation, feminist, black, Hispanic, interreligious, and ecological theologies, ending with the particular Christian idea of the one God as Trinity.
The Quest for Community
Author: Robert Nisbet
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684516366
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
One of the leading thinkers to emerge in the postwar conservative intellectual revival was the sociologist Robert Nisbet. His book The Quest for Community, published in 1953, stands as one of the most persuasive accounts of the dilemmas confronting modern society. Nearly a half century before Robert Putnam documented the atomization of society in Bowling Alone, Nisbet argued that the rise of the powerful modern state had eroded the sources of community—the family, the neighborhood, the church, the guild. Alienation and loneliness inevitably resulted. But as the traditional ties that bind fell away, the human impulse toward community led people to turn even more to the government itself, allowing statism—even totalitarianism—to flourish. This edition of Nisbet’s magnum opus features a brilliant introduction by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and three critical essays. Published at a time when our communal life has only grown weaker and when many Americans display cultish enthusiasm for a charismatic president, this new edition of The Quest for Community shows that Nisbet’s insights are as relevant today as ever.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684516366
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
One of the leading thinkers to emerge in the postwar conservative intellectual revival was the sociologist Robert Nisbet. His book The Quest for Community, published in 1953, stands as one of the most persuasive accounts of the dilemmas confronting modern society. Nearly a half century before Robert Putnam documented the atomization of society in Bowling Alone, Nisbet argued that the rise of the powerful modern state had eroded the sources of community—the family, the neighborhood, the church, the guild. Alienation and loneliness inevitably resulted. But as the traditional ties that bind fell away, the human impulse toward community led people to turn even more to the government itself, allowing statism—even totalitarianism—to flourish. This edition of Nisbet’s magnum opus features a brilliant introduction by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and three critical essays. Published at a time when our communal life has only grown weaker and when many Americans display cultish enthusiasm for a charismatic president, this new edition of The Quest for Community shows that Nisbet’s insights are as relevant today as ever.
The Four Vision Quests of Jesus
Author: Steven Charleston
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0819231746
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A unique look at Christian biblical interpretation and theology from the perspective of Native American tradition. This book focuses on four specific experiences of Jesus as portrayed in the synoptic gospels. It examines each story as a “vision quest,” a universal spiritual phenomenon, but one of particular importance within North American indigenous communities. Jesus’ experience in the wilderness is the first quest. It speaks to a foundational Native American value: the need to enter into the “we” rather than the “I.” The Transfiguration is the second quest, describing the Native theology of transcendent spirituality that impacts reality and shapes mission. Gethsemane is the third quest. It embodies the Native tradition of the holy men or women, who find their freedom through discipline and concerns for justice, compassion, and human dignity. Golgotha is the final quest. It represents the Native sacrament of sacrifice (e.g., the Sun Dance). The chapter on Golgotha is a discussion of kinship, balance, and harmony: all primary to Native tradition and integral to Christian thought.
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0819231746
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A unique look at Christian biblical interpretation and theology from the perspective of Native American tradition. This book focuses on four specific experiences of Jesus as portrayed in the synoptic gospels. It examines each story as a “vision quest,” a universal spiritual phenomenon, but one of particular importance within North American indigenous communities. Jesus’ experience in the wilderness is the first quest. It speaks to a foundational Native American value: the need to enter into the “we” rather than the “I.” The Transfiguration is the second quest, describing the Native theology of transcendent spirituality that impacts reality and shapes mission. Gethsemane is the third quest. It embodies the Native tradition of the holy men or women, who find their freedom through discipline and concerns for justice, compassion, and human dignity. Golgotha is the final quest. It represents the Native sacrament of sacrifice (e.g., the Sun Dance). The chapter on Golgotha is a discussion of kinship, balance, and harmony: all primary to Native tradition and integral to Christian thought.
The Quest for Being, and Other Studies in Naturalism and Humanism
Author: Sidney Hook
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Essays by a contemporary American philosopher on secularism, religion, moral freedom, etc., published in journals covering the years 1934-1960.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Essays by a contemporary American philosopher on secularism, religion, moral freedom, etc., published in journals covering the years 1934-1960.