Citadel Of God

Author : Louis de Wohl
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781787201163

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Citadel of God by Louis de Wohl Pdf

The streets of Rome are crowded as Theoderich, the “barbarian” Gothic king, makes his triumphal entry into the conquered city. Suddenly a boy rushes into the street and attempts to stab the king with his stylus. Kicked aside by the king’s guard, he is rescued and carried to safety by a young man. The boy is Peter, adopted son of the noble Roman philosopher, Boethius. His rescuer is Benedictus, a student, who becomes Peter’s tutor, and tries to curb the boy’s reckless determination to succeed at all costs. So begins this vivid story which follows Benedictus through a disillusioning experience with a beautiful woman of Rome, his years as a hermit and his work in establishing religious communities that were truly citadels of God in the decadence of sixth-century Rome. Peter, meanwhile, has dedicated himself to overthrowing the Goths—partly to further his own ambition and partly to win the beautiful Rusticiana, who has promised to marry him if he succeeds. Sweeping from Rome to Ravenna, Byzantium and Monte Cassino, the story reaches its climax in a dramatic fulfillment of Benedictus’s long-ago promise to Peter: “We shall meet again when you need me.” Here, as in all his novels about great saints of the Church, Louis de Wohl weaves an intricate colorful tapestry of violence, love and piety to tell with historical accuracy the story of St. Benedict and the tempestuous era in which he lived.

Author : Gene Wolfe
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312890184

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Sword & Citadel by Gene Wolfe Pdf

A Major work of twentieth-century American Literature.

Author : Juanita Coulson
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : 034528089X

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The Death God's Citadel by Juanita Coulson Pdf

Author : Francis Stevens,Gertrude Barrows Bennett
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547765523

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The Citadel of Fear (Sci-Fi Classic) by Francis Stevens,Gertrude Barrows Bennett Pdf

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Citadel of Fear is a lost world story and focuses on a forgotten Aztec city, which is "rediscovered" during World War I.Excerpt:"The sun, he thought, had grown monstrous and swallowed all the sky. No blue was anywhere. Brass above, soft, white-hot iron beneath, and all tinged to redness by the film of blood over sand-tormented eyes. Beyond a radius of thirty yards his vision blurred and ceased, but into that radius something flapped down and came tilting awkwardly across the sand, long wings half-spread, yellow head lowered, bold with an avid and loathsome curiosity. "You!" whispered the man hoarsely, and shook one great, red fist at the thing. "You'll not get your dinner off me nor him while my one foot can follow the other!"

Author : John Ringo
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618247957

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Citadel by John Ringo Pdf

Of all the hosts of Eurotas the Troias were the most fell. For they were born of Winter. Between the Solar Array Pumped Laser and Troy, the two trillion ton nickel-iron battlestation created by eccentric billionaire Tyler Vernon, Earth has managed to recapture the Sol system from their Horvath conquerors and begin entering the galactic millieu. But when the Rangora Empire rapidly crushes humanity's only ally it becomes clear the war is just beginning. At the heart of nickel iron and starlight are the people, Marines, Navy and civilians, who make Troy a living, breathing, engine of war. Survivors of apocalypse, they know the cost of failure. If this Troy falls, no one will be left to write the epic. Citadel continues the saga begun in Live Free or Die, following the paths of several characters during the first years of The Spiral Arm Wars culminating in the First Battle of E Eridani. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Ian Andrews
Publisher : Onwards and Upwards
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Church work with the sick
ISBN : 1907509178

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Equipped to Heal by Ian Andrews Pdf

Author : Michael Livingston
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466873339

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The Realms of God by Michael Livingston Pdf

The Realms of God is the thrilling conclusion to Michael Livingston's historical fantasy trilogy that continues the story begun in The Shards of Heaven and The Gates of Hell. The Ark of the Covenant has been spirited out of Egypt to Petra, along with the last of its guardians. But dark forces are in pursuit. Three demons, inadvertently unleashed by Juba of Numidia and the daughter of Cleopatra, are in league with Tiberius, son and heir of Augustus Caesar. They’ve seized two of the fabled Shards of Heaven, lost treasures said to possess the very power of God, and are desperately hunting the rest. Through war and assassination, from Rome to the fabled Temple Mount of Jerusalem and on to the very gates of Heaven itself, the forces of good and evil will collide in a climactic battle that threatens the very fabric of Creation. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Gene Wolfe
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114180

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The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe Pdf

Severian the Torturer continues his epic journey across the lands of Urth, carrying with him the Claw of the Conciliator and the great sword, Terminus Est. All his travels are leading towards a destiny that he dare not refuse . . . Winner of the John W. Campbell Award for best novel, 1984

Author : T.M. Luhrmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691234441

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How God Becomes Real by T.M. Luhrmann Pdf

The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people—as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere, as the cognitive science of religion has shown. But it isn’t easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion T. M. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effort—by changing the people who do it and giving them the benefits they seek from invisible others—helps to explain the enduring power of faith. Drawing on ethnographic studies of evangelical Christians, pagans, magicians, Zoroastrians, Black Catholics, Santeria initiates, and newly orthodox Jews, Luhrmann notes that none of these people behave as if gods and spirits are simply there. Rather, these worshippers make strenuous efforts to create a world in which invisible others matter and can become intensely present and real. The faithful accomplish this through detailed stories, absorption, the cultivation of inner senses, belief in a porous mind, strong sensory experiences, prayer, and other practices. Along the way, Luhrmann shows why faith is harder than belief, why prayer is a metacognitive activity like therapy, why becoming religious is like getting engrossed in a book, and much more. A fascinating account of why religious practices are more powerful than religious beliefs, How God Becomes Real suggests that faith is resilient not because it provides intuitions about gods and spirits—but because it changes the faithful in profound ways.

Author : Shoghi Effendi
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9355396627

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Citadel of Faith by Shoghi Effendi Pdf

The book "" Citadel of Faith, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

Author : Christopher Catherwood
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806531670

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Making War In The Name Of God by Christopher Catherwood Pdf

From Islam declaring Jihad against the west, to Arab against Jew, to Catholic against Protestant, one question resonates with the global threat we face today: Why does God inspire the killing of Man? Renowned historian Christopher Catherwood vividly recounts a saga of passion and prejudice that laid the foundation for our own troubled age. Beginning with the death in 632 of Muhammad--as much political leader and general as prophet--Islam commenced its breathtaking spread, which, under Muhammad's successors, eventually conquered an empire larger than Rome's. Even as this vast realm broke apart into Sunni and Shiite factions, the Christian retaliation--ruthlessly and unscrupulously unleashed in 1095 with the First Crusade--sparked a clash between East and West that continues to this day. The pattern would repeat itself again and again: with the Ottoman invasion of the Balkans, in which the same Islamic faith that had once been an institution of tolerance in places like Spain became an instrument of expansion; with the wars of the Reformation, when Catholic and Protestant slaughtered each other in the name of the Prince of Peace; and with the endless conflicts of today's Middle East, savagely fought over by three faiths that all worship the same God. Based on exhaustive research and written with an unflinching, unbiased eye toward revealing the often painful truth, Making War in the Name of God unveils humanity's ancient habit of sanctifying bloodshed--and exposes a past that we forget at our peril. Christopher Catherwood teaches history at Cambridge University in England and at the University of Richmond (Virginia). A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is the author of several acclaimed books, including Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq, A God Divided: Understanding the Differences Between Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, and Whose Side Is God On?

Author : Tony Rothman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674251847

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A Little Book about the Big Bang by Tony Rothman Pdf

Tony Rothman offers a primer on the science of the big bang and the questions we still can’t answer about the origins of the universe. Enlisting thoughtful analogies and a step-by-step approach, Rothman guides readers through dark matter, dark energy, quantum gravity, and other topics at—and beyond—the cutting edge of cosmology.

Author : Louis De Wohl
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681492889

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Lay Siege to Heaven by Louis De Wohl Pdf

Continuing his popular series of novels about saints of the Church, de Wohl devotes his considerable talents to an interpretation of one of the most unusual women of all time, Saint Catherine of Siena. The daughter of a prosperous dyer in fourteenth-century Siena, Catherine never forgot the mystical experience of her extreme youth; at that time she devoted herself to Christ. It was, however, a shock to her family when, refusing marriage, she insisted on giving her life totally to God. Her career was extraordinary. In that confused and dangerous era of history, the Pope was living at Avignon: Catherine persuaded him to return to Rome. The City-States of Italy were at war with each other: Catherine subdued them. There was pestilence: Catherine served and saved. She performed miracles, she received the stigmata, she drew about her a crowd of devoted men and women. A saint who would not let the Lord God alone, she really did lay siege to heaven-and changed the face of her world. This novel, which is also a vivid biography, brings Catherine of Siena to life in a remarkable way. She lives on every page.

Author : Edward M. Bounds
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781424508105

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Purpose in Prayer by Edward M. Bounds Pdf

Author : Louis De Wohl
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681494944

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The Golden Thread by Louis De Wohl Pdf

As in his other popular novels, Louis de Wohl, with humility and deep religious conviction, takes us into the mind and heart of a saint, giving at the same time an enthralling picture of the era in which he lived. Here is a skillful weaving of the story of St. Ignatius Loyola's conversion and pilgrimage with the colorful and dangerous history of Spain and Italy in the early sixteenth century. The life of the very human, very great Basque nobleman who founded the Jesuit Order, makes for one of de Wohl's finest novels. Seriously wounded at the siege of Pamplona in 1521, Don Inigo de Loyola learned that to be a Knight of God was an infinitely greater honor (and infinitely more dangerous) than to be a Knight in the forces of the Emperor. Uli von der Flue, humorous, intelligent and courageous Swiss mercenary, was responsible for the canon shot which incapacitated the worldly and ambitious young nobleman, and Uli became deeply involved in Loyola's life. With Juanita, disguised as the boy Juan, Uli followed Loyola on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to protect him, but it was the saint who protected Uli and Juan. Through Uli's eyes we see the surge and violence of the turbulent period in Jerusalem, Spain and Rome. Louis de Wohl has again created an exciting and spiritually inspiring novel for all readers of historical fiction. all... God's own love for us.