Author: Gary Matthews
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781893124004
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
"Having heard all my life that 'Baha'is don't believe in the Devil', and knowing that many Christians do, I assumed this was one topic about which we had nothing to discuss - a kind of 'dead zone' in Baha'i/Christian dialogue. Like many Baha'is, I always prayed, in my conversations with Christians, that no one would bring up this prickly topic. "Of course, it never worked out that way ..." Thus began a journey of personal struggle, through which the author came to re-examine stock answers he once took for granted. Gary Matthews argues that "we have too quickly dismissed traditional Christian ideas about evil and the devil . . . This is not to say Baha'is can believe in a 'personal devil' in the same way we believe in a personal God: Obviously, we do not. Just the same, Baha'is have as much to learn here from traditional Christians as they can learn from us." With honesty and humor, The Metropolis of Satan explores the astonishing landscape of common ground that emerges from a fresh look at Christian and Baha'i sacred teachings. Supplementing the text is a detailed compilation, designed to help every Baha'i teacher address these topics using the terminology, tone and emphasis of the Faith's authoritative scriptures.
The Metropolis of Satan
Author: Gary Matthews
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781893124004
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
"Having heard all my life that 'Baha'is don't believe in the Devil', and knowing that many Christians do, I assumed this was one topic about which we had nothing to discuss - a kind of 'dead zone' in Baha'i/Christian dialogue. Like many Baha'is, I always prayed, in my conversations with Christians, that no one would bring up this prickly topic. "Of course, it never worked out that way ..." Thus began a journey of personal struggle, through which the author came to re-examine stock answers he once took for granted. Gary Matthews argues that "we have too quickly dismissed traditional Christian ideas about evil and the devil . . . This is not to say Baha'is can believe in a 'personal devil' in the same way we believe in a personal God: Obviously, we do not. Just the same, Baha'is have as much to learn here from traditional Christians as they can learn from us." With honesty and humor, The Metropolis of Satan explores the astonishing landscape of common ground that emerges from a fresh look at Christian and Baha'i sacred teachings. Supplementing the text is a detailed compilation, designed to help every Baha'i teacher address these topics using the terminology, tone and emphasis of the Faith's authoritative scriptures.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781893124004
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
"Having heard all my life that 'Baha'is don't believe in the Devil', and knowing that many Christians do, I assumed this was one topic about which we had nothing to discuss - a kind of 'dead zone' in Baha'i/Christian dialogue. Like many Baha'is, I always prayed, in my conversations with Christians, that no one would bring up this prickly topic. "Of course, it never worked out that way ..." Thus began a journey of personal struggle, through which the author came to re-examine stock answers he once took for granted. Gary Matthews argues that "we have too quickly dismissed traditional Christian ideas about evil and the devil . . . This is not to say Baha'is can believe in a 'personal devil' in the same way we believe in a personal God: Obviously, we do not. Just the same, Baha'is have as much to learn here from traditional Christians as they can learn from us." With honesty and humor, The Metropolis of Satan explores the astonishing landscape of common ground that emerges from a fresh look at Christian and Baha'i sacred teachings. Supplementing the text is a detailed compilation, designed to help every Baha'i teacher address these topics using the terminology, tone and emphasis of the Faith's authoritative scriptures.
Satan's Counterfeit Prophecy
Author: Heidi Heiks
Publisher: TEACH Services, Inc.
ISBN: 1479602507
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This study is more about what the fifth and sixth trumpets of Revelation are not, rather than what they are. After all, it is premature to speak of what they are, when the generally-accepted view is built upon a platform of error. It is this fog of error that must first be lifted before we, as a church, can move forward, united in our message to the world as we rightly present the warning messages of the trumpets of Revelation to a dying world. This study comes at a critical time, as the sixth trumpet of Revelation has its application in force in this present period of earth's history, and will continue so until the close of probation, as we will prove. The seventh trumpet of Revelation, as will be shown, is when Jesus receives His kingdom. The administration of the seven last plagues will follow, climaxing with the second coming of Christ in the clouds of heaven.
Publisher: TEACH Services, Inc.
ISBN: 1479602507
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This study is more about what the fifth and sixth trumpets of Revelation are not, rather than what they are. After all, it is premature to speak of what they are, when the generally-accepted view is built upon a platform of error. It is this fog of error that must first be lifted before we, as a church, can move forward, united in our message to the world as we rightly present the warning messages of the trumpets of Revelation to a dying world. This study comes at a critical time, as the sixth trumpet of Revelation has its application in force in this present period of earth's history, and will continue so until the close of probation, as we will prove. The seventh trumpet of Revelation, as will be shown, is when Jesus receives His kingdom. The administration of the seven last plagues will follow, climaxing with the second coming of Christ in the clouds of heaven.
Satan's Circus
Author: Mike Dash
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307395227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
They called it Satan’s Circus—a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth century, it was a place where everyone from the chorus girls to the beat cops was on the take and where bad boys became wicked men; a place where an upstanding young policeman such as Charley Becker could become the crookedest cop who ever stood behind a shield. Murder was so common in the vice district that few people were surprised when the loudmouthed owner of a shabby casino was gunned down on the steps of its best hotel. But when, two weeks later, an ambitious district attorney charged Becker with ordering the murder, even the denizens of Satan’s Circus were surprised. The handsome lieutenant was a decorated hero, the renowned leader of New York’s vice-busting Special Squad. Was he a bad cop leading a double life, or a pawn felled by the sinister rogues who ran Manhattan’s underworld? With appearances by the legendary and the notorious—including Big Tim Sullivan, the election-rigging vice lord of Tammany Hall; future president Theodore Roosevelt; beloved gangster Jack Zelig; and the newly famous author Stephen Crane—Satan’s Circus brings to life an almost-forgotten Gotham. Chronicling Charley Becker’s rise and fall, the book tells of the raucous, gaudy, and utterly corrupt city that made him, and recounts not one but two sensational murder trials that landed him in the electric chair.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307395227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
They called it Satan’s Circus—a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth century, it was a place where everyone from the chorus girls to the beat cops was on the take and where bad boys became wicked men; a place where an upstanding young policeman such as Charley Becker could become the crookedest cop who ever stood behind a shield. Murder was so common in the vice district that few people were surprised when the loudmouthed owner of a shabby casino was gunned down on the steps of its best hotel. But when, two weeks later, an ambitious district attorney charged Becker with ordering the murder, even the denizens of Satan’s Circus were surprised. The handsome lieutenant was a decorated hero, the renowned leader of New York’s vice-busting Special Squad. Was he a bad cop leading a double life, or a pawn felled by the sinister rogues who ran Manhattan’s underworld? With appearances by the legendary and the notorious—including Big Tim Sullivan, the election-rigging vice lord of Tammany Hall; future president Theodore Roosevelt; beloved gangster Jack Zelig; and the newly famous author Stephen Crane—Satan’s Circus brings to life an almost-forgotten Gotham. Chronicling Charley Becker’s rise and fall, the book tells of the raucous, gaudy, and utterly corrupt city that made him, and recounts not one but two sensational murder trials that landed him in the electric chair.
The Institute Tie
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ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
The Foot-prints of Satan
Author: Hollis Read
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
The Sorrows of Satan, Or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire
Author: Marie Corelli
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Devil
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
An impoverished novelist suddenly inherits a vast fortune from a distant relation but unwittingly makes a pact with the Devil when he accepts the help of the aristocratic Prince Lucio Rimanez, who graciously offers to show him how to spend his money and fulfill all his earnest desires.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Devil
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
An impoverished novelist suddenly inherits a vast fortune from a distant relation but unwittingly makes a pact with the Devil when he accepts the help of the aristocratic Prince Lucio Rimanez, who graciously offers to show him how to spend his money and fulfill all his earnest desires.
Satan in the Dance Hall
Author: Ralph G. Giordano
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810863634
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Satan in the Dance Hall explores the overwhelming popularity of social dancing and its close relationship to America's rapidly changing society in the 1920s. The book focuses on the fiercely contested debate over the morality of social dancing in New York City, led by moral reformers and religious leaders like Rev. John Roach Straton. Fed by the firm belief that dancing was the leading cause of immorality in New York, Straton and his followers succeeded in enacting municipal regulations on social dancing and moral conduct within the more than 750 public dance halls in New York City. Ralph G. Giordano conveys an easy to read and full picture of life in the Jazz Age, incorporating important events and personalities such as the Flu Epidemic, the Scopes Monkey Trial, Prohibition, Flappers, Gangsters, Texas Guinan, and Charles Lindbergh, while simultaneously describing how social dancing was a hugely prominent cultural phenomenon, one closely intertwined with nearly every aspect of American society fromthe Great War to the Great Depression. With a bibliography, an index, and over 35 photos, Satan in the Dance Hall presents an interdisciplinary study of social dancing in New York City throughout the decade.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810863634
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Satan in the Dance Hall explores the overwhelming popularity of social dancing and its close relationship to America's rapidly changing society in the 1920s. The book focuses on the fiercely contested debate over the morality of social dancing in New York City, led by moral reformers and religious leaders like Rev. John Roach Straton. Fed by the firm belief that dancing was the leading cause of immorality in New York, Straton and his followers succeeded in enacting municipal regulations on social dancing and moral conduct within the more than 750 public dance halls in New York City. Ralph G. Giordano conveys an easy to read and full picture of life in the Jazz Age, incorporating important events and personalities such as the Flu Epidemic, the Scopes Monkey Trial, Prohibition, Flappers, Gangsters, Texas Guinan, and Charles Lindbergh, while simultaneously describing how social dancing was a hugely prominent cultural phenomenon, one closely intertwined with nearly every aspect of American society fromthe Great War to the Great Depression. With a bibliography, an index, and over 35 photos, Satan in the Dance Hall presents an interdisciplinary study of social dancing in New York City throughout the decade.
American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929
Author: John T. Soister
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786487909
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 831
Book Description
During the Silent Era, when most films dealt with dramatic or comedic takes on the "boy meets girl, boy loses girl" theme, other motion pictures dared to tackle such topics as rejuvenation, revivication, mesmerism, the supernatural and the grotesque. A Daughter of the Gods (1916), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Magician (1926) and Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) were among the unusual and startling films containing story elements that went far beyond the realm of "highly unlikely." Using surviving documentation and their combined expertise, the authors catalog and discuss these departures from the norm in this encyclopedic guide to American horror, science fiction and fantasy in the years from 1913 through 1929.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786487909
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 831
Book Description
During the Silent Era, when most films dealt with dramatic or comedic takes on the "boy meets girl, boy loses girl" theme, other motion pictures dared to tackle such topics as rejuvenation, revivication, mesmerism, the supernatural and the grotesque. A Daughter of the Gods (1916), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Magician (1926) and Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) were among the unusual and startling films containing story elements that went far beyond the realm of "highly unlikely." Using surviving documentation and their combined expertise, the authors catalog and discuss these departures from the norm in this encyclopedic guide to American horror, science fiction and fantasy in the years from 1913 through 1929.
Christian Thought
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Satan's Invisible World Displayed
Author: William Thomas Stead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description