Blood That Cries Out From The Earth

Author : James Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780195335972

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Blood That Cries Out From the Earth by James Jones Pdf

As both a clinical psychologist and an authority on comparative religion, James W. Jones is uniquely qualified to address the increasingly urgent issue of religious terrorism. Research on the psychology of violence shows that several factors work to make ordinary people turn "evil." Authoritarian religion or "fundamentalism," Jones shows, is a particularly rich source of such ideas and feelings, which he finds throughout the writings of Islamic jihadists. Jones notes that not every adherent of an authoritarian group will turn to violence, and he shows how theories of personality development can explain why certain individuals are easily recruited.

Author : George Faithful
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199363469

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Mothering the Fatherland by George Faithful Pdf

During the Allied bombing of Darmstadt in 1944, some Lutheran young women saw their city's destruction as an expression of God's wrath. In 1947, a small number formed the Ecumenical (now 'Evangelical') Sisterhood of Mary, one of the first post-war Protestant religious orders. They sensed God's call on them to embrace lives of radical repentance for the sins of the German people against God and against the Jews. Under Mother Basilea, born Klara Schlink, the sisters embraced an ideology of collective national guilt for the Holocaust.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780857861016

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Revelation by Anonim Pdf

The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

Author : A. J. Swoboda
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625644626

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Blood Cries Out by A. J. Swoboda Pdf

John McConnell Jr. was the famed founder and visionary of Earth Day. McConnell's vision was one of creating a day of remembrance, solitude, and action to restore the broken human relationship to the land. Little acknowledged are McConnell's religious convictions or background. McConnell grew up in a Pentecostal home. In fact, McConnell's parents were both founding charter members of the Assemblies of God in 1914. His own grandfather had an even greater connection to the origins of Pentecostalism by being a personal participant at the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles in 1906. Earth Day, thus, began with strong religious convictions. McConnell, seeing the ecological demise through his religious background, envisioned a day where Christians could "show the power of prayer, the validity of their charity, and their practical concern for Earth's life and people." In the spirit of McConnell, today's Pentecostal and Charismatic theology has something to say about the earth. Blood Cries Out is a unique contribution by Pentecostal and Charismatic theologians and practitioners to the global conversation concerning ecological degradation, climate change, and ecological justice.

Author : John G. Horgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134701490

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The Psychology of Terrorism by John G. Horgan Pdf

This new edition of John Horgan's critically acclaimed book is fully revised and expanded. The book presents a critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology. Despite the on-going search for a terrorist pathology, the most insightful and evidence-based research to date not only illustrates the lack of any identifiable psychopathology in terrorists, but demonstrates how frighteningly 'normal' and unremarkable in psychological terms are those who engage in terrorist activity. By producing a clearer map of the processes that impinge upon the individual terrorist, a different type of terrorist psychology emerges, one which has clearer implications for efforts at countering and disrupting violent extremism in today's world. In this 2nd edition, Horgan further develops his approach to the arc of terrorism by delving deeper into his IED model of Involvement, Engagement and Disengagement – the three phases of terrorism experienced by every single terrorist. Drawing on new and exciting research from the past decade, with new details from interviews with terrorists ranging from al-Qaeda to left-wing revolutionaries, biographies and autobiographies of former terrorists, and insights from historic and contemporary terrorist attacks since 2005, Horgan presents a fully revised and expanded edition of his signature text. This new edition of The Psychology of Terrorism will be essential reading for students of terrorism and political violence, and counterterrorism studies, and recommended for forensic psychology, criminology, international security and IR in general.

Author : Chad Bird
Publisher : New Reformation Publications
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781948969819

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Your God is Too Glorious by Chad Bird Pdf

Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and places.In our day of celebrity worship and online posturing, this is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding God and our place in his creation. It urges us to treasure a life of simplicity, to love those whom the world passes by, to work for God's glory rather than our own. And it demonstrates that God has always been the Lord of the cross--a Savior who hides his grace in unattractive, inglorious places.Your God Is Too Glorious reminds readers that while a quiet life may look unimpressive to the world, it's the regular, everyday people that God tends to use to do his most important work.

Author : Philip Francis Esler
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532644498

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God’s Court and Courtiers in the Book of the Watchers by Philip Francis Esler Pdf

First Enoch is an ancient Judean work that inaugurated the genre of apocalypse. Chapters 1-36 tell the story of the descent of angels called "Watchers" from heaven to earth to marry human women before the time of the flood, the chaos that ensued, and God's response. They also relate the journeying of the righteous scribe Enoch through the cosmos, guided by angels. Heaven, including the place and those who dwell there (God, the angels, and Enoch), plays a central role in the narrative. But how should heaven be understood? Existing scholarship, which presupposes "Judaism" as the appropriate framework, views the Enochic heaven as reflecting the temple in Jerusalem, with God's house replicating its architecture and the angels and Enoch functioning like priests. Yet recent research shows the Judeans constituted an ethnic group, and this view encourages a fresh examination of 1 Enoch 1-36. The actual model for heaven proves to be a king in his court surrounded by his courtiers. The major textual features are explicable in this perspective, whereas the temple-and-priests model is unconvincing. The author was a member of a nontemple, scribal group in Judea that possessed distinctive astronomical knowledge, promoted Enoch as its exemplar, and was involved in the wider sociopolitical world of their time.

Author : Salim J. Munayer,Lisa Loden
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725246539

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The Land Cries Out by Salim J. Munayer,Lisa Loden Pdf

Our theology does not exist in a vacuum but must relate to the world we inhabit and must influence our moral and ethical actions. This is especially true when discussing theology of "the land" in the context of a violent territorial conflict. The Holy Land has seen so much bloodshed that the earth itself is crying out to God. The chapters presented in this book form a unique collection of voices speaking from different perspectives on the issue of the theology of the land. These voices include Messianic Jewish and Palestinian Christian theologians and scholars who live in the Holy Land, as well as others from around the world. The various chapters reflect a wide spectrum of opinion and reveal how much disagreement still exists among followers of Christ. However, the dialogue generated by having these opposing voices side by side, speaking to each other rather than past each other, is encouraging. This book is both challenging and inspirational, and contributes in an innovative way to this important discussion.

Author : Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Sermons, American
ISBN : OCLC:1403839190

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Spurgeon's Sermons by Charles Haddon Spurgeon Pdf

Author : Bonnie Etherington
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143770664

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The Earth Cries Out by Bonnie Etherington Pdf

Fresh, different and exquisitely written, this is an exciting debut novel. One day we were in a dream world, where Julia was dead and the space where she once was became large and silent, and then we were in another country altogether — where stories and voices made their way into our house any way they could. They heaved under the floorboards, whispered in the windows. Creaked in the attic like a python grown too big on rats. And I collected them all to fill that silence Julia left. After the accidental death of Ruth's five-year-old sister, their father decides that atonement and healing are in order, and that taking on aid work in a mountain village in Irian Jaya is the way to find it. It is the late 1990s, a time of civil unrest and suppression in the Indonesian province now known as West Papua. The family drops into what seems the middle of nowhere, where they experience a vibrant landscape, an ever-changing and disorientating world, and — for Ruth — new voices. While her parents find it a struggle to save themselves, let alone anyone else, Ruth seeks redemption in bearing witness to and passing on the stories of those who have been silenced — even as she is haunted by questions about what it means to witness and who gets to survive.

Author : Ruth Ann Cramer
Publisher : Cramer Institute
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 098397943X

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Blood Cries from Planet Earth by Ruth Ann Cramer Pdf

Spilt blood from murders, wars and other mayhem, cries to God for justice.

Author : Margaret Adams Parker,Katherine Sonderegger
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467457002

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Praying the Stations of the Cross by Margaret Adams Parker,Katherine Sonderegger Pdf

An ancient practice strengthens our awareness of God’s healing presence. “Suffering, sorrow, injustice, confusion, and death can touch any of us, at any time . . . the Stations can offer consolation and comfort when we are grieving; healing and restoration when we are parched; inspiration and guidance when we are searching or lost or simply beset by the turmoil and temptation, isolation and insecurity that unsettle all our lives.” —From the introduction Praying the Stations of the Cross offers a life-transforming spiritual practice. Grounded in Scripture, the Stations remind readers of the overarching power of God’s love for all people and our steadfast hope for redemption, a sure and true comfort in the face of pain and sorrow. Artist Margaret Adams Parker and theologian Katherine Sonderegger make the Stations of the Cross accessible for those new to the practice and offer compelling insight to those with long familiarity. Equally useful for individuals, groups, and congregations, Praying the Stations of the Cross can be used as an ongoing spiritual practice, a service offered in times of sorrow, struggle, or conflict, or a Lenten devotion.

Author : Shane Claiborne
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310363910

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Rethinking Life by Shane Claiborne Pdf

Drawing on Scripture, church history, and his own story, Shane Claiborne explores how a passion for social justice issues surrounding life and death--such as war, gun ownership, the death penalty, racial injustice, abortion, poverty, and the environment--intersects with our faith as we advocate for life in its totality. Many of us wonder how to think about and act on issues of life and death beyond abortion and the death penalty--yet the heated debates in our churches and the confusion of our own hearts sometimes feel overwhelming. What does a balanced, Christian view of what it means to be "pro-life" really look like? Combining stories, theological reflection, and a little wit with a Southern accent, activist Shane Claiborne explores the battle between life and death that goes back to the Garden of Eden. Shane draws on his childhood growing up in the Bible Belt, his own change of perspective on how to advocate for life, and his years of working on behalf of all people to help us: Learn from the Bible and the early church about valuing life Deepen our understanding of what a pro-life stance can look like Discover ways to discuss topics that are dividing our culture and churches Find encouragement when we feel politically homeless Renew our hope that there is a good way forward, even in difficult times We need a new movement that stands up for life--without exceptions. This moving and incredibly timely book creates a larger framework for thinking about God's love and our faith as we embrace a consistent ethic that values human life from womb to tomb.

Author : SSPP Press
Publisher : SSPP Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 101-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Lenten Reading Program by SSPP Press Pdf

Author : Cook & Brothers
Publisher : Author House
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781496961983

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The Greatest Love Poems of All Time by Cook & Brothers Pdf

This book is very humorous, and it gets straight to the point. It could leave you with tears falling from your eyes or make you very angry. My mama was my heart and my soul. She taught me everything I know. I am the man I am because of her. She was my backbone. She was there for me through hard times and good times. What can I say? Words do not explain the things I feel about my mama. She stood by my side when no one else would. She was truly, truly a mother.