Battles Of Conscience

Author : Tobias Kelly
Publisher : Random House
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473581838

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Battles of Conscience by Tobias Kelly Pdf

A ground-breaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about ethical commitments Accounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the home front, as the British public stood together against Fascism. However, the war looks very different when seen through the eyes of the 60,000 conscientious objectors who refused to take up arms and whose stories, unlike those of the First World War, have been almost entirely forgotten. Tobias Kelly invites us to spend the war five of these individuals: Roy Ridgway, a factory clerk from Liverpool; Tom Burns, a teacher from east London; Stella St John, who trained as a vet and ended up in jail; Ronald Duncan, who set up a collective farm; and Fred Urquhart, a working-class Scottish socialist and writer. We meet many more objectors along the way -- people both determined and torn -- and travel from Finland to Syria, India to rural England, Edinburgh to Trinidad. Although conscientious objectors were often criticised and scorned, figures such as Winston Churchill and the Archbishop of Canterbury supported their right to object, at least in principle, suggesting that liberty of conscience was one of the freedoms the nation was fighting for. And their rich cultural and moral legacy -- of humanitarianism and human rights, from Amnesty International and Oxfam to the US civil rights movement -- can still be felt all around us. The personal and political struggles carefully and vividly collected in this book tell us a great deal about personal and collective freedom, conviction and faith, war and peace, and pose questions just as relevant today: Does conscience make us free? Where does it take us? And what are the costs of going there? '[An] excellent book' - DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A moving tribute' - SPECTATOR

Author : Erika Blériot,Brent Coutts,Sylvain Leduc,Lucy Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Military deserters
ISBN : 0473316218

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Battle of Conscience by Erika Blériot,Brent Coutts,Sylvain Leduc,Lucy Stone Pdf

Author : Felicity Goodall
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040170097

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A Question of Conscience by Felicity Goodall Pdf

During the First and Second World Wars thousands of men and women refused the call to arms. Reviled, starved, beaten and even killed, theirs was a battle of conscience. This is a collection of their stories from all walks of life.

Author : Edmund Bergler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436713242

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Battle of the Conscience: A Psychiatric Study of the Inner-Working of the Conscience by Edmund Bergler Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Simeon Booker,Carol McCabe Booker
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617037894

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Shocking the Conscience by Simeon Booker,Carol McCabe Booker Pdf

An unforgettable chronicle from a groundbreaking journalist who covered Emmett Till's murder, the Little Rock Nine, and ten US presidents

Author : Barry W. Lynn
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781633880245

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God and Government by Barry W. Lynn Pdf

A central player in every major church-state-separation battle for decades, the Rev. Barry W. Lynn understands the complexities of this divisive issue like few others. As a long-time activist, a civil rights lawyer, and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he offers a perspective and experience on church-state controversies. In this book, he has compiled his writings from various sources to explore the many ways religious extremists have attempted to erode individual liberties. Lynn concludes that the ultimate goal of these extremist forces, consisting mainly of the Protestant Religious Right and the Roman Catholic hierarchy, is the creation of a corporate theocracy, a decidedly undemocratic system of government in which nonconservative Christians, along with humanist, feminists, and the LGBTQ community, are relegated to second-class status in America"

Author : Louisa Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101515303

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Conscience by Louisa Thomas Pdf

Norman Thomas and his brothers' upbringing prepared them for a life of service-but their calls to conscience threatened to tear them apart Conscience is Louisa Thomas's beautifully written account of the remarkable Thomas brothers at the turn of the twentieth century. At a time of trial, each brother struggled to understand his obligation to his country, family, and faith. Centered around the story of the eldest, Norman Thomas (later the six-time Socialist candidate for president), the book explores the difficult decisions the four brothers faced with the advent of World War I. Sons of a Presbyterian minister and grandsons of missionaries, they shared a rigorous moral upbringing, a Princeton education, and a faith in the era's spirit of hope. Two became soldiers. Ralph enlisted right away, heeding President Woodrow Wilson's call to fight for freedom. A captain in the Army Corps of Engineers, he was ultimately wounded in France. Arthur, the youngest, was less certain about the righteousness of the cause but sensitive to his obligation as a citizen-and like so many men eager to have a chance to prove himself. The other two were pacifists. Evan became a conscientious objector, protesting conscription; when the truce was signed on November 11, 1918, he was in solitary confinement. Norman left his ministry in the tenements of East Harlem, New York, and began down the course he would follow for the rest of his life, fighting for civil liberties, social justice, and greater equality, and against violence as a method of change. Conscience reveals the tension among responsibilities, beliefs, and desires, between ideas and actions-and, sometimes, between brothers. Conscience moves from the gothic buildings of Princeton to the tenements of New York City, from the West Wing of the White House to the battlefields of France, tracking how four young men navigated a period of great uncertainty and upheaval. A Thomas family member herself (Norman was Louisa's great grandfather), Thomas proposes that there is something we might recover from the brothers' debates about conscience: a way of talking about personal liberty and social obligation, about being true to oneself and to one another.

Author : Paul E. Teed
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780761859635

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A Revolutionary Conscience by Paul E. Teed Pdf

Theodore Parker was one of the most controversial theologians and social activists in pre-Civil War America. This book argues that Parker's radical vision and contemporary appeal stemmed from his abiding faith in the human conscience and in the principles of the American revolutionary tradition.

Author : Dr. D. K. Olukoya
Publisher : The Battle Cry Christian Ministries
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789783691735

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Deliverance of the Conscience by Dr. D. K. Olukoya Pdf

Lots of problems in life are rooted in the conscience. When the conscience is under bondage every area of life will remain under bondage. However, when the conscience is totally delivered; every department of life will be totally set free. With uncommon insight, the author provides deep answers to questions that have bothered the minds of multitudes. Dr Daniel Olukoya has wriiten a book that will transform lives and make every earnest reader experience complete wholesomeness. This book contains arrow-head prayer points that will enable you locate your destiny and experience miraculous transformations in every area of your life. Now you can say bye-bye to every negative problem orchestrated from the kingdom of darkness. With this book in your hands you can be free indeed!

Author : I. Glenn Cohen,Allison Hoffman,William M. Sage
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199366538

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The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law by I. Glenn Cohen,Allison Hoffman,William M. Sage Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law covers the breadth and depth of health law, with contributions from the most eminent scholars in the field. The Handbook paints with broad thematic strokes the major features of American healthcare law and policy, its recent reforms including the Affordable Care Act, its relationship to medical ethics and constitutional principles, and how it compares to the experience of other countries. It explores the legal framework for the patient experience, from access through treatment, to recourse (if treatment fails), and examines emerging issues involving healthcare information, the changing nature of healthcare regulation, immigration, globalization, aging, and the social determinants of health. This Handbook provides valuable content, accessible to readers new to the subject, as well as to those who write, teach, practice, or make policy in health law.

Author : Christopher Coker
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040165469

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War And The Illiberal Conscience by Christopher Coker Pdf

An evocative exposition of the long-standing struggle between liberalism and illiberalism, focusing on the revolt against liberalism from the end of the 19th century to the present day. "The range of (Christopher) Coker's erudition is stunning, and the rapid leaps across intellectual eras, disciplines, and national borders are breathtaking".--Seyom Brown, Brandeis University.

Author : Yasuhiro Takeuchi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429867989

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Mark X by Yasuhiro Takeuchi Pdf

In the summer of 1876, Mark Twain started to write Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a detective novel surrounding the murder of Huck’s father, Pap Finn. The case is unresolved in the novel as it exists today, but Twain had already planted the clue to the identity of the killer. It is not the various objects ostentatiously left around Pap’s naked body; they are not the foreground of the scene, but actually the background, against which a peculiar absence emerges distinctively—Pap’s boots, with a "cross" in one of the heels, are gone with his murderer. The key to the mystery of Twain’s writings, as this book contends from a broader perspective, is also such an absence. Twain’s persistent reticence about the death of his father, especially the autopsy performed on his naked body, is a crucial clue to understanding his works. It reveals not only the reason why he aborted his vision of Huckleberry Finn as a detective novel, but also why, despite numerous undertakings, he failed to become a master of detective fiction.

Author : Robert T. Fertig
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532044939

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Culture Battles by Robert T. Fertig Pdf

Culture BattlesTruth Shall Prevail. After decades of diligent research, including digging into the writings of numerous renowned experts, Robert T. Fertig has produced an intriguing book. Years in the making, this work addresses age-old questions everyone seeks answers to, with a particular emphasis on the differences that exist in thinking on critical life issues. Bottom-line questions include: Why are we here? Why is there evil in this world? Whats our purpose in this life? Romuald Dzemo for Readers Favorite (5-Star Rating) Culture Battles: Right from the very beginning of the book, the reader is presented with a powerful question, or a series of questions: What drives History? Politics? Economics? Might it be Culture what men and women honor, cherish, and worshipisnt that the most dynamic element in human affairs? The author moves on quickly to demonstrate the intersection between faith and reason and how these are at the core of some of the cultural differences and battles history has known. Christian Sia for Readers Favorite (5-Star Rating) This is a powerful work that is well-researched and that enters into dialogue with the best thinkers the world has ever known, experts in religious and cultural phenomena, and writers who have articulated on ideas of life, cultural dialogue, the purpose of human life, the place of culture in the evolution of life, human consciousness, and a lot more.

Author : Juan M. Floyd-Thomas,Anthony B. Pinn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350041059

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Religion in the Age of Obama by Juan M. Floyd-Thomas,Anthony B. Pinn Pdf

This is the first book to focus on the significance of religion during President Obama's years in the White House. Addressing issues ranging from identity politics, immigration, income inequality, Islamophobia and international affairs, Religion in the Age of Obama explores the religious and moral underpinnings of the Obama presidency and subsequent debates regarding his tenure in the White House. It provides an analysis of Obama's beliefs and their relationship to his vision of public life, as well as the way in which the general ethos of religion and non-religion has shifted over the past decade in the United States under his presidency. Topics include how Obama has employed religious rhetoric in response to both international and domestic events, his attempt to inhabit a kind of Blackness that comforts and reassures rather than challenges White America, the limits of Christian hospitality within U.S. immigration policy and the racialization of Islam in the U.S. national imagination. Religion in the Age of Obama shows that the years of the Obama presidency served as a watershed moment of significant reorganization of the role of religion in national public life. It is a timely contribution to debates on religion, race and public life in the United States.

Author : Martin Luther,John Stuart Mill,David Hume,James Allen,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Andrew Murray,Thomas Paine,Ludwig Feuerbach,G. K. Chesterton,Friedrich Nietzsche,Thomas à Kempis,Leo Tolstoy,Charles Spurgeon,Wallace D. Wattles,Prentice Mulford,St. Teresa of Ávila,Saint Augustine,Florence Scovel Shinn,H. Emilie Cady,Gregory of Nyssa,Pope Gregory I,Athanasius of Alexandria,Basil the Great,John of Damascus,Saint Thomas Aquinas,Brother Lawrence,Arthur Pink
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 8048 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:8596547727422

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The Battles of Wisdom and Humility by Martin Luther,John Stuart Mill,David Hume,James Allen,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Andrew Murray,Thomas Paine,Ludwig Feuerbach,G. K. Chesterton,Friedrich Nietzsche,Thomas à Kempis,Leo Tolstoy,Charles Spurgeon,Wallace D. Wattles,Prentice Mulford,St. Teresa of Ávila,Saint Augustine,Florence Scovel Shinn,H. Emilie Cady,Gregory of Nyssa,Pope Gregory I,Athanasius of Alexandria,Basil the Great,John of Damascus,Saint Thomas Aquinas,Brother Lawrence,Arthur Pink Pdf

DigiCat presents to you this unique collection of fundamental religious works presenting the theology, philosophy and spirituality of Christianity: The Philosophy of Religion: The Confessions of St. Augustine (Saint Augustine) On the Incarnation (Athanasius of Alexandria) On the Soul and the Resurrection (Gregory of Nyssa) On the Holy Spirit (Basil the Great) Pastoral Care (Pope Gregory I) An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (John of Damascus) Summa Theologica (Saint Thomas Aquinas) The Imitation of Christ (Thomas à Kempis) A Treatise on Christian Liberty (Martin Luther) The Interior Castle (St. Teresa of Ávila) The Practice of the Presence of God (Brother Lawrence) The Age of Reason (Thomas Paine) The Natural History of Religion (David Hume) Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (David Hume) The Religious Affections (Jonathan Edwards) The Essence of Christianity (Ludwig Feuerbach) Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche) All of Grace (Charles Spurgeon) Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness (Andrew Murray) Orthodoxy (G. K. Chesterton) The Everlasting Man (G. K. Chesterton) The Sovereignty of God (Arthur Pink) The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Leo Tolstoy) Three Essays on Religion (John Stuart Mill) The Spirituality of a Man: The Conduct of Life (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Lessons in Truth (Emilie Cady) As a Man Thinketh (James Allen) Thoughts are Things (Prentice Mulford) The Game of Life and How to Play It (Florence Scovel Shinn) A New Christ (Wallace D. Wattles) The Swamp Angel (Prentice Mulford)