Faith On The Frontier

Author : Sana Haroon
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849041836

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Frontier of Faith by Sana Haroon Pdf

"Frontier of Faith" examines the history of Islam-especially that of local "mullahs," or Muslim clerics-in the North-West Frontier. A largely autonomous zone straddling the boundary of Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Tribal Areas was established as a strategic buffer zone for British India, and the resulting autonomy allowed local mullahs to assume roles of tremendous power. After Partition in 1947, the Tribal Areas maintained its status as an autonomous region, and for the next fifty years the "mullahs" supported armed mobilizations in exchange for protection of their vested interests in regional freedom. Consequently the Frontier has become the hinterland of successive, contradictory "jihads" in support of Pashtun ethnicism, anti-colonial nationalism, Pakistani territorialism, religious revivalism, Afghan anti-Soviet resistance, and anti-Americanism. Considering this territory is said to be the current hiding place of Osama bin Laden, there couldn't be a better time for a sourcebook detailing the intricacies of the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands today and the function of the "mullahs" and their allies.

Author : Edmund March Vittum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510016357812

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Faith on the Frontier by Edmund March Vittum Pdf

Author : Eli Miller
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781039112957

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Faith and Frontiers by Eli Miller Pdf

Faith and Frontiers is a story about how trusting in God leads a man and his wife into unchartered territories and allows them to soar to new heights. In his inspirational memoirs, Eli Miller shares how even as a young Amish boy in Ohio he knew his path lay outside the community. Leaving his home at the tender age of seventeen, and with very little real-life experience, Eli soon finds his life is off track – so much so that even meeting and marrying the love of his life is not enough to settle him down. But then in a moment of despair, an encounter with the Holy Spirit turns his life around and sets him on a path to share the Word of God with others. As Eli continues his spiritual journey and becomes an ordained minister, he and his wife take a leap of faith and become founding members of a Christian community that embraces a frontier lifestyle in the wilderness of Northern British Columbia. After a multitude of adventures, and several years and children later, Eli then leans into his next calling and moves back to “civilization” where he becomes influential in the development and growth of several congregations and begins to lecture and minister across five continents. Told with humour and sincerity, Eli recounts the trials and tribulations of a lifetime of living on faith and shares the message of hope that he has spent his whole life proclaiming.

Author : John R. Dichtl
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813138817

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Frontiers of Faith by John R. Dichtl Pdf

“[A] vital history . . . it adds immensely to our understanding of the place of religion, especially Catholicism, in the nineteenth-century United States.” —American Historical Review Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic examines how Catholics in the early nineteenth-century Ohio Valley expanded their church and strengthened their connections to Rome alongside the rapid development of the Protestant Second Great Awakening. In competition with clergy of evangelical Protestant denominations, priests and bishops aggressively established congregations, constructed church buildings, ministered to the faithful, and sought converts. Catholic clergy also displayed the distinctive features of Catholicism that would inspire Catholics and, hopefully, impress others. The clerics’ optimism grew from the opportunities presented by the western frontier and the presence of non-Catholic neighbors. The fruit of these efforts was a European church translated to the American West. Using extensive correspondence, reports, diaries, court documents, apologetical works, and other records of the Catholic clergy, John R. Dichtl shows how Catholic leadership successfully pursued strategies of growth in frontier regions while continually weighing major decisions against what it perceived to be Protestant opinion. Frontiers of Faith helps restore Catholicism to the story of religious development in the early republic and emphasizes the importance of clerical and lay efforts to make sacred the landscape of the New West. “Dichtl’s work is thoroughly researched and meticulously documented, but he employs enough anecdotes of fiery priests, recalcitrant laymen, and saintly (and not-so-saintly) bishops to give his narrative a lively pace.” —Ohio Valley History “Dichtl has produced one of the finest studies of Catholicism in the early republic.” —Journal of the Early Republic

Author : Keith W. Clements
Publisher : World Council of Churches
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Christian union
ISBN : UGA:32108030501699

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Faith on the Frontier by Keith W. Clements Pdf

The first biography of J. H. Oldham, one of the greatest pioneers of ecumenism in the twentieth century.Keith Clements draws on important hitherto unexplored archival material. Sections relate to Oldham's time as a missionary in India, his role as Secretary of the World Missionary Conference, usually recognised as the birth of the modern ecumenical movement, his reconciliatory roles in the First and Second World Wars, and his involvement with the 'Life and Work' movement. In a final chapter Dr Clements reflects on Oldham's considerable and continuing relevance today.This book challenges many accepted readings of ecumenical history.

Author : Tom Kizzia
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780307587831

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Pilgrim's Wilderness by Tom Kizzia Pdf

Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness—and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy, their new neighbors saw them as a shining example of the homespun Christian ideal. But behind the family's proud piety and beautiful old-timey music lay Pilgrim's dark past: his strange connection to the Kennedy assassination and a trail of chaos and anguish that followed him from Dallas and New Mexico. Pilgrim soon sparked a tense confrontation with the National Park Service fiercely dividing the community over where a citizen’s rights end and the government’s power begins. As the battle grew more intense, the turmoil in his brood made it increasingly difficult to tell whether his children were messianic followers or hostages in desperate need of rescue. In this powerful piece of Americana, written with uncommon grace and high drama, veteran Alaska journalist, Tom Kizzia uses his unparalleled access to capture an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.

Author : Edmund March Vittum
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 123011047X

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Faith on the Frontier by Edmund March Vittum Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...gentlemen; and she moved fearlessly among them, never bold and unwomanly, yet treating them all with equal kindness. And, though there were undoubtedly dishonest men among them, if any one was disposed to take advantage of Harry's absences to plunder or injure anything about The Warren, he very well knew that his own life would not be worth a penny among those rough men, if they should chance to learn that he had stolen or destroyed anything belonging to Harry Marston. THIS we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.--Sr. PAUL. ONE pleasant day during the third summer of their sojourn on the prairie, Aunt Jennie and Harry were out riding, some miles from The Warren. Harry was looking for antelope, and Aunt Jennie was enjoying the wild, free life of the frontier, by joining him in a long canter across the prairie. They had ridden to the top of a hill, and were carefully looking over the country for game, when Aunt Jennie suddenly broke the silence with the unexpected question, --"How many skulls of dead buffalo do you suppose there are in sight? " _ " Millions, for aught I know," replied Harry. "They are like the stars--innumerable." "But you know," said Aunt J ennie, "that there are, after all, only a few thousand stars visible to the naked eye." "Yes, that is true," said the young man. "And I presume there are not many thousands of those heads within sight; still, they are pretty thick in this region. Do you know, Aunt Jennie, how much one of them is worth? " "Not much, I fancy," she replied with a laugh. " It 's about all your life is worth when your horse steps on one in a dark night. You remember I...

Author : David E. Schroeder
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781524671662

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Frontiers of Faith by David E. Schroeder Pdf

Biblical illiteracy and doctrinal ignorance are like two subtle viruses of twenty-first century America. Always only one generation away from being a pagan nation, as has been said, America needs the Christian Church to rise to the challenge of imparting true and vigorous Christian education to todays generation. Frontiers of Faithseeks to arouse the faith of young believers and to deepen the faith of veteran Christians. Theology, which was once called the Queen of the sciences, today is an unexplored frontier for many Christians. Our hope is that this book will be a trustworthy guide for many into the primary paths of truth that are foundational for a Christians faith.

Author : Julia Perratore
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397409

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Spain, 1000–1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith by Julia Perratore Pdf

Spain, 1000–1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith tells a nuanced story of the dynamic and interconnected medieval Iberian Peninsula while celebrating the artistic exchange among Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the region during the Middle Ages. This Bulletin emphasizes the variety and richness of the Museum’s holdings of medieval Iberian artworks which include mosaics, frescos, architectural decorations, manuscripts, textiles, ivories, and metalwork. Exploring how artists in medieval Spain drew from many sources of inspiration and navigated religious differences in their art, this text underscores the complexity of interfaith interaction during a pivotal era in Spanish history.

Author : Kenneth R. Ross
Publisher : Christian Literature Association in Malawi
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000077060667

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Faith at the Frontiers of Knowledge by Kenneth R. Ross Pdf

Unity of knowledge is not easily achieved in today's Africa where often there is little conscious interaction between traditional beliefs, Christian faith and modern secularity. The challenge is taken up in this book as scholars from a variety of disciplines wrestle with the relation of faith and science at the frontiers of knowledge. The results are important alike for the integrity of faith, for scientific advance and for the attainment of creative cultural unity in society. Readers with such concerns at heart will find much food for thought as they traverse the broad frontiers explored in these wide-ranging essays.

Author : Jason David BeDuhn,Paul Allan Mirecki
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004161801

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Frontiers of Faith by Jason David BeDuhn,Paul Allan Mirecki Pdf

Through a systematic analysis of the sources, compositional structure, and apologetic and polemical strategies of the early fourth century Acts of Archelaus ("Acta Archelai"), this volume explores inter-religious contact, conflict, and comprehension in the encounter between Christianity and Manichaeism.

Author : AndrŽs PŽrez de Ribas
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0816517207

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History of the Triumphs of Our Holy Faith Amongst the Most Barbarous and Fierce Peoples of the New World by AndrŽs PŽrez de Ribas Pdf

Considered by historian Herbert E. Bolton to be one of the greatest books ever written in the West, AndrŽs PŽrez de Ribas's history of the Jesuit missions provides unusual insight into Spanish and Indian relations during the colonial period in Northern New Spain. First published in Madrid in 1645, it traces the history of the missions from 1591 to 1643 and includes letters from Jesuit annual reports and other correspondence, much of which has never been found or cataloged in historical archives. Daniel T. Reff, Maureen Ahern, and Richard K. Danford have now prepared the first complete, scholarly, and fully annotated edition of this important work in English. PŽrez de Ribas was the first permanent missionary to the Ahome, Zuaque, and Yaqui Indians. After fifteen years on the mission frontier he was recalled to Mexico City, where he held various posts, including Jesuit Provincial. Addressed to novitiates ignorant of the challenges they would face in the field, his Historia was a virtual textbook on missionary work in the New World. Also written to encourage ongoing support of the Jesuit missions, it reflected the author's deep grasp of what rhetorically soothed and moved Church and Crown officials. Perhaps of greatest interest to the modern reader are PŽrez de Ribas's often detailed comments on indigenous beliefs and practices. These firsthand observations provide a rich resource of ethnographic and historical data concerning everything from native subsistence, settlement patterns, and myths to the dynamics of Jesuit-Indian relations. The many cases of conversion that PŽrez de Ribas describes are especially rich in ethnographic data, clarifying the values and beliefs from which the Indians were "rescued." History of the Triumphs is a primary document of great importance, made more valuable here by an exceptionally fluid translation and painstaking annotations. It will be a standard reference for all engaged in research on New Spain and a captivating read for anyone interested in this chapter of American history.

Author : James Sheldon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0982761333

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America's Faith Frontier by James Sheldon Pdf

AMERICA'S FAITH FRONTIER is a 27 page booklet. It is a faith-based summary of what I learned traveling America the old way by horse, foot, and canoe for 5,000 miles.

Author : Norbert Kersken,Paul Srodecki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503588808

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The Expansion of the Faith by Norbert Kersken,Paul Srodecki Pdf

This volume offers a comparative approach to the crusade movement on the frontiers of Latin Christendom in the High Middle Ages, bringing a regional focus to research on these peripheral phenomena. It features several key questions: Which military campaigns were propagated as crusades on the peripheries of the Christian West? What efforts were made to gain recognition for them as crusades and what effects did these have? What value did the crusade movement have for societies at the fines christianitatis? What role did the cruciatae have in strengthening pan-Western sense of togetherness and solidarity, and what role did they have for creation of a crusader and frontier identity? The nineteen papers, ranging in scope from the southern and eastern Baltic regions to Iberia, Egypt and the Balkans, provide new insights into the ways in which crusade rhetoric was reflected in the culture and literature of countries involved in crusading beyond the Holy Land.

Author : Valerie Hansen
Publisher : Steeple Hill
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426814433

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Frontier Courtship by Valerie Hansen Pdf

A Journey of Hope… She had made a solemn promise to see her younger sister to safety in California. But the endless journey across the frontier was proving to be a heartbreaking test of courage and endurance for Faith Beal. All she had to sustain her was her steadfast belief in a loving God—and the guiding hand of a stranger who truly seemed heaven-sent. …and Love Connell McClain was her selfless guardian as their wagon train slowly made its way West. And as they shared the dangers of the trail—and the closeness of a covered wagon—Faith felt the first tender stirrings of love for this rough-hewn yet caring man. But would the secrets that seemed to haunt him threaten their growing feelings for one another?