Failure And Prospect

Author : Reuben Bredenhof
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567681751

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Bredenhof analyses the parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man (Luke 16:19-31) by examining its functions as a narrative, considering its persuasiveness as a rhetorical unit, and situating it within a Graeco-Roman and Jewish intertextual conversation on the themes of wealth and poverty, and authoritative revelation. The parable portrays the consequences of the rich man's failure to respond to the suffering of Lazarus. Bredenhof argues that the parable offers its audience a prospect for alternative outcomes, in response both to poverty and to a person who has risen from the dead. This prospect is particularly evident when the parable is read in anticipation of the ethical and theological concerns of Luke's second volume in Acts. Bredenhof asserts that reading within the context of Luke-Acts contributes to the understanding of Luke's purposes with this narrative. It is in Acts that his audience witnesses the parable's message about mercy being applied through charitable initiatives in the community of believers, while the Acts accounts of preaching and teaching demonstrate that a true reading of “Moses and the prophets” is inseparably joined to the believing acceptance of one risen from the dead. Through a re-reading of Luke 16:19-31 in its Luke-Acts context, its message is amplified and commended to the parable's audience for their response.

Author : Reuben Bredenhof
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567695208

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Bredenhof analyses the parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man (Luke 16:19-31) by examining its functions as a narrative, considering its persuasiveness as a rhetorical unit, and situating it within a Graeco-Roman and Jewish intertextual conversation on the themes of wealth and poverty, and authoritative revelation. The parable portrays the consequences of the rich man's failure to respond to the suffering of Lazarus. Bredenhof argues that the parable offers its audience a prospect for alternative outcomes, in response both to poverty and to a person who has risen from the dead. This prospect is particularly evident when the parable is read in anticipation of the ethical and theological concerns of Luke's second volume in Acts. Bredenhof asserts that reading within the context of Luke-Acts contributes to the understanding of Luke's purposes with this narrative. It is in Acts that his audience witnesses the parable's message about mercy being applied through charitable initiatives in the community of believers, while the Acts accounts of preaching and teaching demonstrate that a true reading of “Moses and the prophets” is inseparably joined to the believing acceptance of one risen from the dead. Through a re-reading of Luke 16:19-31 in its Luke-Acts context, its message is amplified and commended to the parable's audience for their response.

Author : Eric Longenhagen,Kiley McDaniel,Keith Law
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781641253970

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Future Value by Eric Longenhagen,Kiley McDaniel,Keith Law Pdf

An unprecedented look inside the world of baseball scouting and evaluation from two of the industry's top prospect analysts For the modern Major League team, player evaluation is a complex, multi-pronged, high-tech pursuit. But far from becoming obsolete in this environment—as Michael Lewis' Moneyball once forecast—the role of the scout in today's game has evolved and even expanded. Rather than being the antithesis of a data-driven approach, scouting now represents an essential analytical component in a team's arsenal. Future Value is a thorough dive into baseball's changing world of talent acquisition and development, a world with its own language, methods, metrics, and madness. From rural high schools to elite amateur showcases, from the back fields of spring training to major league draft rooms, Eric Longenhagen and Kiley McDaniel break down the key systems and techniques used to assess talent. It's a process that has moved beyond the quintessential stopwatches and radar guns to include statistical models, countless measurable indicators, and a broader international reach. ?Practical and probing, discussing wide-ranging topics from tool grades to front office politics, this is an illuminating exploration of how to watch baseball and see the future.

Author : Ralph Heath
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781601638861

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Celebrating Failure by Ralph Heath Pdf

Celebrating Failure is the definitive how-to manual for leaders seeking to embrace the power of failure as a learning tool to improve their organizations and achieve ever-greater goals. The business world (and, lately, the political arena) is convinced that the number one topic is change. Heath posits that it might well be failure, because if you do it right, failure can become a launching pad for change.Heath contends that "positive failures" are not only necessary steps on the path to success, but encourage greater freedom to take risks in pursuit of one's life goals. This counter-intuitive but powerful title includes:•Engaging stories of real-life business and personal failure experiences.•Practical steps to apply each chapter's "lessons" and change your approach to risk-taking and failure.•Positive, effective ways to eliminate the "fear of failure" that can hold you back in today's competitive, fast-changing world.Heath's insightful stories lay out his own failures and reveal his human side as a son, father, athlete, and business leader.

Author : Mathew Carey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Bank failures
ISBN : IND:30000092215122

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The Prospect Before Us by Mathew Carey Pdf

Author : Shelley Davidow,Paul Williams
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781945547614

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Fail Brilliantly by Shelley Davidow,Paul Williams Pdf

An “immensely intriguing” new approach “that can successfully combat the shame, anxiety, and blame that failing induces too readily in our society” (Laurie Hollman, PhD, author of Unlocking Parental Intelligence). We spend much of our lives trying to cope with failure. For many of us, adults and children alike, the prospect of failure looms as a debilitating concept in our minds. It can not only stop us from succeeding—it can stop us from even trying. Fail Brilliantly proposes a radical shift: erase the word and concept of failure from the realms of education and human endeavors. Replace it with new words and concepts. This shift in position has the potential to transform our lives . . . and ultimately reshape our definition of success.

Author : Jennifer J. Filla,Helen E. Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118421574

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Prospect Research for Fundraisers by Jennifer J. Filla,Helen E. Brown Pdf

Essential tools for implementing right-sized prospect research techniques that help nonprofit organizations reach their fundraising goals Written especially for front-line fundraisers, Prospect Research for Fundraisers presents a practical understanding of prospect research, prospect management, and fundraising analytics, demonstrating how research can be used to raise more money. Filled with examples, case studies, interviews, and stories, this unique book is structured around the fundraising cycle and illustrates the myriad of current and ever-changing prospect research tools and techniques available to boost an organization's fundraising effectiveness. From essential overviews to how-to-search skills, this practical book gives development officers the tools to understand how to use prospect research in ways that best fit their goals for each stage of the fundraising cycle. Provides practical insight to understand the best use of each prospect research tool and technique Features a companion website with a variety of online tools to help readers implement key concepts Part of the AFP Fund Development Series Prospect Research for Fundraisers provides fundraisers with an understanding of what prospect research is and which resources are available to small organizations that have limited internal capacity, medium-sized organizations building capacity, and large organizations wanting to maximize their strengths. It offers a practical understanding of the relevant tools at the disposal of development officers and managers responsible for hiring, outsourcing, purchasing, managing, and implementing prospect research within their organizations.

Author : Charles Will Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Mine valuation
ISBN : UOM:39015077568528

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Essentials in Developing and Financing a Prospect Into a Mine by Charles Will Wright Pdf

Author : Georgia Experiment Station
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
ISBN : UCAL:$B653662

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Circular-5-series by Georgia Experiment Station Pdf

Author : George A. Akerlof,Robert J. Shiller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400834723

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Animal Spirits by George A. Akerlof,Robert J. Shiller Pdf

From acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, the case for why government is needed to restore confidence in the economy The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that got us into this mess, and put forward a bold new vision that will transform economics and restore prosperity. Akerlof and Shiller reassert the necessity of an active government role in economic policymaking by recovering the idea of animal spirits, a term John Maynard Keynes used to describe the gloom and despondence that led to the Great Depression and the changing psychology that accompanied recovery. Like Keynes, Akerlof and Shiller know that managing these animal spirits requires the steady hand of government—simply allowing markets to work won't do it. In rebuilding the case for a more robust, behaviorally informed Keynesianism, they detail the most pervasive effects of animal spirits in contemporary economic life—such as confidence, fear, bad faith, corruption, a concern for fairness, and the stories we tell ourselves about our economic fortunes—and show how Reaganomics, Thatcherism, and the rational expectations revolution failed to account for them. Animal Spirits offers a road map for reversing the financial misfortunes besetting us today. Read it and learn how leaders can channel animal spirits—the powerful forces of human psychology that are afoot in the world economy today. In a new preface, they describe why our economic troubles may linger for some time—unless we are prepared to take further, decisive action.

Author : Paul Volponi
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781512418750

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Top Prospect by Paul Volponi Pdf

Travis Gardner lives to play quarterback. He's a standout QB by the middle school, and he's prepared to put everything he has into the game. Then Gainesville University's head coach makes Travis a promise: Travis will have a place on the team, and a scholarship to go with it. He just has to get through high school first. As Travis starts ninth grade, he'll have to earn his teammates' trust and dodge opponents aiming to sack the star quarterback. But his biggest challenge might be staying focused in the face of sudden fame. Because now the pressure is on, and Travis has to prove himself with every pass.

Author : Douglas J. MacEachin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Intelligence service
ISBN : IND:30000050002520

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CIA Assessments of the Soviet Union by Douglas J. MacEachin Pdf

Author : Willard W. Hartup,Richard A. Weinberg
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135643676

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Child Psychology in Retrospect and Prospect by Willard W. Hartup,Richard A. Weinberg Pdf

This 32nd volume of the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology celebrates the 75th anniversary of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development. All eight essays are devoted to developmental science, its history, and current status. Taken together, the chapters in this book show how the history of science connects past and future, how it gives the individual investigator an identity and sense of purpose, how contemporary studies occur within larger traditions, and how institutions like the Institute of Child Development, constitute cultural traditions of their own. Collectively, these essays show that the past explains a great deal--whether we want to know about the processes through which the child acquires symbolic thought or whether we want to know how and why, during the last century, a few enduring centers were established for the scientific study of children and adolescents. Reading these essays, one obtains a sense of how the past becomes evidence, how it forms models for the way we think, and how intellectual challenges arise.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : NYPL:33433008875571

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Special Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Morwenna Griffiths,Marit Honerød Hoveid,Sharon Todd,Christine Winter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118944738

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Re-Imagining Relationships in Education by Morwenna Griffiths,Marit Honerød Hoveid,Sharon Todd,Christine Winter Pdf

Re-Imagining Relationships in Education re-imagines relationships in contemporary education by bringing state-of-the-art theoretical and philosophical insights to bear on current teaching practices. Introduces theories based on various philosophical approaches into the realm of student teacher relationships Opens up innovative ways to think about teaching and new kinds of questions that can be raised Features a broad range of philosophical approaches that include Arendt, Beckett, Irigaray and Wollstonecraft to name but a few Includes contributors from Norway, England, Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, and the U.S.