Death On The Holy Mountain

Author : David Dickinson
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780334158

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The year is 1905 and Powerscourt is sent to Ireland to investigate a series of art thefts from stately houses. Motive troubles Powerscourt; were these robberies merely for gain? A number of Old Masters had been left untouched and the ones taken were all ancient family portraits of the aristocratic Protestant gentry. Are these thefts political? Then, astonishingly, some of the portraits begin to return - but with altered faces; the aristocrats' being replaced by those from the estates and towns beyond the gates. Truly an elaborate joke, but then real people begin to disappear - and not long after the first body is found in the chapel at the top of Croagh Patrick, Ireland's Holy Mountain on the very day 10,000 people make the great pilgrimage to the summit. More follow, and as Powerscourt makes his way towards the killer his own life comes under threat, while his patriotism, and his devotion to Ireland is called into question on his journey towards the truth.

Author : Mark Stoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190230869

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Inherit the Holy Mountain by Mark Stoll Pdf

In Inherit the Holy Mountain, historian Mark R. Stoll introduces us to the religious roots of the American environmental movement. Religion, he shows, provided environmentalists both with deeply-embedded moral and cultural ways of viewing the world and with content, direction, and tone for the causes they espoused. Stoll discovers that specific denominational origins corresponded with characteristic sets of ideas about nature and the environment as well as distinctive aesthetic reactions to nature, as revealed by key works of art analyzed throughout the book. As this innovative exploration of environmentalism's history shows, people raised in a handful of denominations made the movement a moral and political force. Stoll also provides insight into the possible future of environmentalism in the United States, concluding with an examination of the current religious scene and what it portends for the future. By debunking the supposed divide between religion and American environmentalism, Inherit the Holy Mountain opens up a fundamentally new narrative in environmental studies. -- from dust jacket.

Author : John McKinney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Hiking
ISBN : 0934161682

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Hiking the Holy Mountain by John McKinney Pdf

Author : Constantine Cavarnos
Publisher : Institute for Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, Incorporated
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X000774061

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The Holy Mountain by Constantine Cavarnos Pdf

Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307948922

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From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple Pdf

In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschos’s writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer William Dalrymple retraces the footsteps of these two monks, providing along the way a moving elegy to the slowly dying civilization of Eastern Christianity and to the people who are struggling to keep its flame alive. The result is Dalrymple’s unsurpassed masterpiece: a beautifully written travelogue, at once rich and scholarly, moving and courageous, overflowing with vivid characters and hugely topical insights into the history, spirituality and the fractured politics of the Middle East.

Author : Dale Albert Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781329631243

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Forty Days on the Holy Mountain by Dale Albert Johnson Pdf

This book is about a Holy Mountain, holy to indigenous Christians of the Middle East and the Orient who still use the language of Jesus. It is about monks who once lived on this mountain and pioneered the Silk Road, it is about a modern mission to counter the crisis in Iraq, Syria and Turkey that is terrorizing this religious minority.

Author : Alessandra Santos
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231851084

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The Holy Mountain by Alessandra Santos Pdf

Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo helped inaugurate the midnight movie phenomenon. Its success spawned The Holy Mountain, through interventions by John Lennon and Allen Klein. After a scandalous release and a 16-month midnight career, The Holy Mountain was relegated to the underground world of fan bootlegs for over thirty years until its limited restored release in 2007. This short study reveals how The Holy Mountain, a poetic, hilarious, and anarchist cult film by an international auteur, anchored in post-1968 critiques, is – at the same time – an archaeological capsule of the counterculture movement, a timely subversion of mystical tenets, and one of the most mysterious films in the history of world cinema.

Author : Zhang Wei
Publisher : Devneybooks
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781304487827

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Mr. Yin and Yang is in another world by Zhang Wei Pdf

Repeating the same work all day, like a machine without thinking, is exactly what I said, the screw of socialism needs to be inserted wherever it needs to be, and it will shine and heat the society.

Author : John N Oswalt
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227902936

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The Holy One of Israel by John N Oswalt Pdf

Inspired by the author's preparation of two major commentaries on Isaiah, these essays range from comprehensive to specific, and from popular to scholarly. They first appeared in biblical dictionaries, scholarly journals, and popular periodicals. Gathered here together for the first time, they display in various ways how the authors sees the various parts of Isaiah functioning together to give a coherent message to the church. The opening chapters lay out Oswalt's understanding of the overall message of the book of Isaiah. Subsequesnt chapters consider such themse as holiness and righteousness as they function in that larger structure.

Author : Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190669249

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The Oxford Handbook of Isaiah by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Isaiah constitutes a collection of essays on one of the longest books in the Bible. They cover different aspects regarding the formation, interpretations, and reception of the book of Isaiah, as well as offers up-to-date information in an attractive and easily accessible format, accompanied by comprehensive recommendations for further reading.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026576454

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An Exposition of the Old Testament ... By John Gill. [Edited by David Alfred Doudney. With the Text.] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jason Moralee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190492281

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Rome's Holy Mountain by Jason Moralee Pdf

Rome's Capitoline Hill was the smallest of the Seven Hills of Rome. Yet in the long history of the Roman state it was the empire's holy mountain. The hill was the setting of many of Rome's most beloved stories, involving Aeneas, Romulus, Tarpeia, and Manlius. It also held significant monuments, including the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, a location that marked the spot where Jupiter made the hill his earthly home in the age before humanity. This is the first book that follows the history of the Capitoline Hill into late antiquity and the early middle ages, asking what happened to a holy mountain as the empire that deemed it thus became a Christian republic. This is not a history of the hill's tonnage of marble and gold bedecked monuments, but rather an investigation into how the hill was used, imagined, and known from the third to the seventh centuries CE. During this time, the imperial triumph and other processions to the top of the hill were no longer enacted. But the hill persisted as a densely populated urban zone and continued to supply a bridge to fragmented memories of an increasingly remote past through its toponyms. This book is also about a series of Christian engagements with the Capitoline Hill's different registers of memory, the transmission and dissection of anecdotes, and the invention of alternate understandings of the hill's role in Roman history. What lingered long after the state's disintegration in the fifth century were the hill's associations with the raw power of Rome's empire.

Author : Mckay Jenkins
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781400033102

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The White Death by Mckay Jenkins Pdf

In 1969, five young men from Montana set out to accomplish what no one had before: to scale the sheer north face of Mt. Cleveland, Glacier National Park's tallest mountain, in winter. Two days later tragedy struck: they were buried in an avalanche so deep that their bodies would not be discovered until the following June. The White Death is the riveting account of that fated climb and of the breathtakingly heroic rescue attempt that ensued. In the spirit of Peter Matthiessen and John McPhee, McKay Jenkins interweaves a harrowing narrative with an astonishing expanse of relevant knowledge ranging from the history of mountain climbing to the science of snow. Evocative and moving, this fascinating book is a humbling account of man at his most intrepid and nature at its most indomitable.

Author : St. Cyril of Alexandria
Publisher : Dalcassian Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781960069450

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Vision of Theophilus: the Holy Family's flight into Egypt by St. Cyril of Alexandria Pdf

The Vision of Theophilus is an apocryphal work that enjoyed great popularity in Late Antiquity and in the Middle Ages [wrongly attributed to the Patriarch Theophilus (385-412 CE)]. The original text, now lost, was composed in Coptic, but versions have survived in Syriac, Arabic and Ethiopic. It details the legendary journey of the Holy family's famous flight into Egypt, where they pass through various sites in the Egyptian landscape.

Author : David G. Dalin,Matthew Levering
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0742559998

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John Paul II and the Jewish People by David G. Dalin,Matthew Levering Pdf

The twentieth century will forever be marked by the horrific event of the Shoah. As a young man, the future John Paul II witnessed this horror during the Nazi occupation of Poland. His pontificate achieved a number of groundbreaking steps in the Catholic Church's relationship with the Jewish people. This book both reflects upon John Paul II's achievements, and seeks to continue the theological and philosophical dialogue that he cherished. By examining together the words and deeds of John Paul II, eminent Jewish and Catholic scholars exemplify in this volume the dialogue that John Paul fostered. Together, Jews and Catholics can encourage each other in the tasks of knowing the Creator, living a life worthy of the created dignity that human beings possess, and defending the vulnerable among us. As Dostoevsky warned before the horrors of the twentieth century, without God, anything is permitted. Following in the footsteps of John Paul II, we discover that our search for meaning and truth is one that needs to be undertaken arm-in-arm. Contributors include Hadley Arkes, David G. Dalin, Robert P. George, Matthew Levering, Bruce Marshall, David Novak, Michael Novak, Gregory Vall, and George Weigel.