Forged In The Fiery Furnace

Author : Diana L. Hayes
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608331109

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Forged in the Fiery Furnace by Diana L. Hayes Pdf

African American spirituality was forged in the fiery furnace of slavery, segregation, and ongoing racial discrimination in both church and society. But African Americans are a people who are strengthened rather than weakened by their experience. This volume traces how African Americans have articulated their faith and love of God in language, song, and daily living. Beginning with its spiritual roots in Africa, Hayes shows how African American spirituality encompassed and incorporated the experience of slavery and the encounter with Christianity. Remarkably, African American slaves were able to find in the religion of their oppressors a message of hope, affirmation, and resistance. Through stories, song, distinctive forms of prayer, celebration, and prophetic witness, Hayes shows how the spirituality of African Americans has nurtured their survival as well as promoting action on behalf of the community and the greater society.

Author : Lewis V. Baldwin,Victor Anderson
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506424712

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Revives My Soul Again by Lewis V. Baldwin,Victor Anderson Pdf

MLK and the Practice of Spirituality The scholarship on Martin Luther King Jr. is seriously lacking in terms of richly nuanced and revelatory treatments of his spirituality and spiritual life. This book addresses this neglect by focusing on King's life as a paradigm of a deep, vital, engaging, balanced, and contagious spirituality. It shows that the essence of the person King was lies in the quality of his own spiritual journey and how that translated into not only a personal devotional life of prayer, meditation, and fasting but also a public ministry that involved the uplift and empowerment of humanity. Much attention is devoted to King's spiritual leadership, to his sense of the civil rights movement as "a spiritual movement," and to his efforts to rescue humanity from what he termed a perpetual "death of the spirit." Readers encounter a figure who took seriously the personal, interpersonal, and sociopolitical aspects of the Christian faith, thereby figuring prominently in recasting the very definition of spirituality in his time. King's "holistic spirituality" is presented here with a clarity and power fresh for our own generation.

Author : Greg S. Pettys,Roger Alan Dennis
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781607910701

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Pearls from the Prophets by Greg S. Pettys,Roger Alan Dennis Pdf

Pearls from the Prophets calls you to receive greater mantels of authority. Pastor Roger Alan Dennis and Greg S. Pettys pray that as you turn each page the Holy Spirit will quicken and stir you to dive deeper into God's Word. You will be provoked in love to reach depths that will cause your faith to rise with each pearl of the next three hundred and sixty-six days. These Pearls will become the jeweled necklace adorning the Bride of Christ according to Isaiah 61:10. Dive deep, press in and press on! Psalm 42:7, "Deep calleth unto deep..." Roger Alan Dennis and wife Linda are pastors of Christian Assembly Church in Springfield, Illinois. Roger and his wife have been married 41 years and have three children; Roger II, Joy; her husband Justin, Jered; his wife Kelsey, and four grandchildren; Tyler, Levi, Faith and the newest; Porter. Roger and Linda have ministered in the U.S. and the Philippines with signs and wonders following. Now God has given them a heart for India. Roger operates in the gifts of healing, prophecy, spiritual discernment and has an anointing in spiritual numerics of God's timing. Contact Roger at www.alleluiafoundation.org. Greg S. Pettys experienced the saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ in April of 1975 and then received a calling into the prophetic teaching ministry in 1976. His one desire is to see millions come to know Jesus Christ's total relevance. Since 2003 Greg and his family have brought the Good News into India where God has saved many through the Prophetic Word that God confirms with gifts of healings. Greg and his wife of 20 years, Johnita, are blessed with awesomely gifted Daniel, Kara Joy, James, Alicia, Kyle, and Blake. Greg may be contacted at www.gregpettys.com

Author : W.O. Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136275562

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Friedrich Engels by W.O. Henderson Pdf

First Published in 1976. The first volume on this two-part biography traces Engels' carer from his youth in the Wupper valley, through his periods in Bremen and Berlin to the Manchester years and the beginning of his long collaboration with Marx. These early years are described against the background of the prevailing social unrest in Europe, culminating in the 1848 revolutions and portraits are included of many Marx's and Engels' friends and fellow communists.

Author : Robert Raymond
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 027100441X

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Out of the Fiery Furnace by Robert Raymond Pdf

Author : Elaine Eachus
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781665524209

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Better Than Right: by Elaine Eachus Pdf

‘’After a disquieting trip to Palestine in 2014, which was immediately followed by the Second Intifada in Israel, she was blown off her life’s course. In turmoil she read extensively looking for a refuge from the shock of her encounters. Rumi, Wendell Berry, Richard Rohr, Mary Oliver, Thomas Merton, the liberation theologians, and mystics lifted their lights for her. Better Than Right is one woman’s steps toward meaning. Definitely not a superhighway, her story is full of twists and turns, denoting her reflections and journey to make sense of life. She walks gingerly on a path that feels like a bewildered child caught in the crossfire of a bitter divorce. Her literary camera has both wide angle and close-up lenses to catch the sweeps and the detail of her journey on the third planet from the sun. Better Than Right invites you to see if her description resonates with your experience. Better still, does her light offer solace and hope for your next mile?

Author : Peter William Clement
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493123827

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No Need for God by Peter William Clement Pdf

Because Catholic Theologians consciously fail to revise and rebuild the intellectual architecture of their faith -- and because they deliberately refuse to accommodate the discoveries of science over the 3000 years since their God was invented by a tribe of unenlightened shepherds and farmers, they are forced to maintain an inflexible policy of deliberate obscurantism. I use arguments from science (in layman's terms)- evolutionary biology, geology, archaeology, anthropology, particle physics, astronomy, and cosmology- to demonstrate the validity of this proposition. I have been a student (and victim) of Catholic Theology for more than 65 years. Over the last seven years (since my retirement) I have devoted nearly all of my time to learning and understanding the revelations of modem science - and to recognizing how incompatible they are with the infallible dogmas of the Pope and his minions. I have a Ph.D. in English, and I have completed 42 years of teaching on the college level. I am now Professor emeritus of English at Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. My book is devoted to the questions which all peoples have tried to answer since the dawn of civilization: Where do we come from? Where are we going to? What are we here for? What the hell's it all about? The findings of modem neuroscience prove- with carloads of experimental and observational data -- that, without the material substrate of the brain, there can be no consciousness: that is, there can be no soul that survives the death of the body. The correlative point is that we now have empirical proof that God did not magically inject a supernatural soul into a single-celled zygote at the precise moment of its conception- because there is no such entity. Catholic Theologians cannot recognize the truth empirically demonstrated by modem neuroscience -- the fact that there is no such entity as a supernatural soul. Their only recourse is to maintain a policy of inflexible obscurantism - in plainer words, a ''theology of systematic prevarication.

Author : J. David Musgraves,Juejun Hu,Laurent Calvez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1851 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319937281

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Springer Handbook of Glass by J. David Musgraves,Juejun Hu,Laurent Calvez Pdf

This handbook provides comprehensive treatment of the current state of glass science from the leading experts in the field. Opening with an enlightening contribution on the history of glass, the volume is then divided into eight parts. The first part covers fundamental properties, from the current understanding of the thermodynamics of the amorphous state, kinetics, and linear and nonlinear optical properties through colors, photosensitivity, and chemical durability. The second part provides dedicated chapters on each individual glass type, covering traditional systems like silicates and other oxide systems, as well as novel hybrid amorphous materials and spin glasses. The third part features detailed descriptions of modern characterization techniques for understanding this complex state of matter. The fourth part covers modeling, from first-principles calculations through molecular dynamics simulations, and statistical modeling. The fifth part presents a range of laboratory and industrial glass processing methods. The remaining parts cover a wide and representative range of applications areas from optics and photonics through environment, energy, architecture, and sensing. Written by the leading international experts in the field, the Springer Handbook of Glass represents an invaluable resource for graduate students through academic and industry researchers working in photonics, optoelectronics, materials science, energy, architecture, and more.

Author : J. Morgan
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798888320679

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Beyond Blood by J. Morgan Pdf

John Hunter and Tom Byner are two young men from the Saline District of the Cherokee Nation during the fateful period between the United States Civil War and Oklahoma statehood. Theirs is a land and a people caught between the courts of Hanging Judge Parker and local tribal authority. In a time and place where most still carried a gun, events were occurring almost daily that were to bring about change to their people. Intent on survival, nonetheless, the blood that flows in their veins propels them down a path where they find themselves struggling to maintain the convictions and beliefs that had been passed down to them since the Trail of Tears. It is their anonymity that provides the illusion of sanctuary, but even this is shattered with the arrival of Katie Dickinson, an attractive young girl caught up in the designs of those who see the opportunities to be had at the expense of the Cherokee people. It is through her friendship with Mary Baldridge that she connects with the young men and finds in these three friends her only hope for escape. But Katie's presence places the young men on a path that directly collides with the powers that be, unscrupulous powers that see the friends as impediments to plans for control and reward. As events unfold, each must search within themselves and come face-to-face with their own core beliefs and choose whether to strengthen or weaken in the face of adversity. They are aided by the oversight of their enemies that simply do not recognize the abilities of John Hunter. As they are forced to maneuver the changing world of their people, each step must be placed with care on a path where the gate is strait and the way increasingly narrow. 1

Author : Hayes, Diana L.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608336548

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No Crystal Stair by Hayes, Diana L. Pdf

Author : J. Michael Martinez
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631440717

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Political Assassinations and Attempts in US History by J. Michael Martinez Pdf

The long, dark history of political violence in the United States Violence has been employed to achieve political objectives throughout history. Taking the life of a perceived enemy is as old as mankind. Antiquity is filled with examples of political murders, such as when Julius Caesar was felled by assassins in 44 BCE. While assassinations and assassination attempts are not unique to the American way of life, denizens of other nations sometimes look upon the US as populated by reckless cowboys owing to a “Wild West” attitude about violence, especially episodes involving guns. In this book, J. Michael Martinez focuses on assassinations and attempts in the American republic. Nine American presidents—Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan—have been the targets of assassins. President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt was also a target shortly before he was sworn into office in 1933. Moreover, three presidential candidates—Theodore Roosevelt, Robert F. Kennedy, and George Wallace—were shot by assailants. In addition to presidents and candidates for the presidency, eight governors, seven U.S. senators, nine U.S. House members, eleven mayors, seventeen state legislators, and eleven judges have been victims of political violence. Not all political assassinations involve elected officials. Some of those targeted, such as Joseph Smith, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr., were public figures who influenced political issues. But their cases are instructive because of their connection to, and influence on, the political process. No other nation with a population of over 50 million people has witnessed as many political assassinations or attempts. These violent episodes trigger a series of important questions. First, why has the United States—a country constructed on a bedrock of the rule of law and firmly committed to due process—been so susceptible to political violence? Martinez addresses these questions as he examines twenty-five instances of violence against elected officials and public figures in American history.

Author : John Bunyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591087738

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The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come. [With] A true relation of the holy war made by king Shaddai upon Diabolus. With notes by R. Maguire by John Bunyan Pdf

Author : John Bunyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z162005308

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A True Relation of the Holy War Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus by John Bunyan Pdf

Author : Robert Maguire
Publisher : Curiosmith
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780981750576

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Commentary on John Bunyan's The Holy War by Robert Maguire Pdf

The annotations of John Bunyan's, The Holy War, were compiled from the footnotes of an edition published by Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c. 1863. This extensive commentary is over half as large as "The Holy War" itself. After an outline of each chapter, easy to follow sequential notes continue the flow of the story. Explanations of names and events add depth and richness for any reader of John Bunyan's THE HOLY WAR.

Author : John William Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590547573

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Personal reminiscences, anecdoates, and letters of gen. Robert E. Lee by John William Jones Pdf