God S Ghostwriters

Author : Candida Moss
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780316564694

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God's Ghostwriters by Candida Moss Pdf

From an award-winning biblical scholar, the untold story of how enslaved people created, gave meaning to, and spread the message of the New Testament, shaping the very foundations of Christianity in ways both subtle and profound. For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture have credited the authorship of the New Testament to a select group of men: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul. But hidden behind these named and sainted individuals are a cluster of enslaved coauthors and collaborators. Although they almost all go unnamed and uncredited, these essential workers were responsible for producing the earliest manuscripts of the New Testament: making the parchment and papyri on which Christian texts were written, taking dictation, and polishing and refining the words of the apostles. When the Christian message began to move independently from the first apostles, it was enslaved missionaries who undertook the dangerous and arduous journeys across the Mediterranean and along dusty Roman roads to move Christianity from Jerusalem and the Levant to Rome, Spain, North Africa, and Egypt—and into the pages of history. The influence of these enslaved contributors on the spread of Christianity, the development of foundational Christian concepts, and the making of the Bible was enormous, yet their role has been almost entirely overlooked until now. Filled with profound revelations both for what it means to be a Christian and for how we read individual texts themselves, God’s Ghostwriters is a groundbreaking and rigorously researched book about how enslaved people shaped the Bible, and with it all of Christianity.

Author : Candida Moss
Publisher : William Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2025-03-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0008612218

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God's Ghostwriters by Candida Moss Pdf

Author : David Goldfield
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807129609

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Still Fighting the Civil War by David Goldfield Pdf

Newcomers to the South often remark that southerners, at least white southerners, are still fighting the Civil War -- a strange preoccupation considering that the war formally ended more than one hundred and thirty-five years ago and fewer than a third of southerners today can claim an ancestor who actually fought in the conflict. But even if the war is far removed both in time and genealogy, it survives in the hearts of many of the region's residents and often in national newspaper headlines concerning battle flags, racial justice, and religious conflicts. In this sweeping narrative of the South from the Civil War to the present, noted historian David Goldfield contemplates the roots of southern memory and explains how this memory has shaped the modern South both for good and ill. He candidly discusses how and why white southern men fashioned the myths of the Lost Cause and the Redemption out of the Civil War and Reconstruction and how they shaped a religion to canonize the heroes and reify the events of those fated years. Goldfield also recounts how blacks and white women eventually crafted a different, more inclusive version of southern history and how that new vision has competed with more traditional perspectives. As Goldfield shows, the battle for southern history, and for the South, continues -- in museums, public spaces, books, state legislatures, and the minds of southerners. Given the region's growing economic power and political influence, the outcome of this war is more than a historian's preoccupation; it is of national importance. Integrating history and memory, religion, race, and gender, Still Fighting the Civil War will help newcomers, longtime residents, and curious outsiders alike attain a better understanding of the South and each other.

Author : Henry Stolzman,Daniel Stolzman
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1864700742

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Synagogue Architecture in America by Henry Stolzman,Daniel Stolzman Pdf

This full colour publication explores the rich and diverse response to the quest to sustain the Hebrew heritage that has resulted in prominent designs.

Author : Luz Compasso
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781646109715

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Tree of Life by Luz Compasso Pdf

Tree of Life: An Oracle By: Luz Compasso This is an oracular book, designed to give you the answers to the questions you are asking. Consisting of 2000 paragraphs, numbered 0000 to 1999, Tree of Life was created to allow God (or the supreme forces or energies of the Universe, if you are atheist) to provide you with guidance, answers and support. With a question in mind, simply choose a paragraph at random by opening the book with closed eyes and pointing to one of the paragraphs. The paragraph chosen will provide you with the answer to your question.

Author : Kenneth L. Vaux
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579109417

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Ethics and the War on Terrorism by Kenneth L. Vaux Pdf

Dr. Kenneth Vaux, Professor of Theological Ethics at Garrett Evangelical Seminary, examines the U.S. led war on terrorism from an Abrahamic theological and ethical perspective.Ê Vaux examines just-war theory and applies various traditions to the current war in Afghanistan.ÊÊ His reflections range from holy war in the Hebrew scripture, the Qu'ran and Constantinian Christianity to the Crusades, Christian pacifism, the American War of Independence, and 20th Century Wars (World Wars I and II, Vietnam, Somalia, Bosnia and the Israeli-Arab wars).Ê Vaux ends with the fatal trifurcation: the disjunction among Christianity, Islam and Judaism as the challenge before us.

Author : Susy Smith
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781583487440

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Ghost Writers in the Sky by Susy Smith Pdf

Susy Smith, the founder of the Survival Research Foundation and of the Susy Smith Project at the University of Arizona, is also the author of 30 books in the psychic field. Beginning 45 years ago as an agnostic newspaper reporter investigating a new and curious field, she has since developed her own psychic abilities to the point that she in now convinced her last two books were channeled through her from wise sources in the spirit world. The popular The Book of James provided inspirational information about survival of the human soul after death that opened new vistas to countless readers. Ghost Writers in the Sky is the answer to their requests for more James. It contains some of the original material plus much that has been newly received on such subjects as atomic dangers, UFOs, drugs, AIDS, and how to avoid evil spirits. Be sure to visit the Afterlife Codes website of the Susy Smith Project at www.afterlifecodes.com.

Author : Phyllis Rowland
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780557033584

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GHOST WRITER: Mary Ludlam Scudder: Silent for 300 Years, She Returns to Tell Her Story by Phyllis Rowland Pdf

Mary Ludlam, a young Puritan woman of the 17th Century, leaves Matlock, England and sails to the New World with her family. Here, under the strict Mosaic Law enforced by the Puritan government, women are subservient to men.Mary's uncle warns her to guard her tongue, lest she face the gallows, accused of being either a heretic or a witch. When Mary is seventeen she marries Thom Scudder who is delighted by Mary's wit and wisdom and is pleased to give her unusual freedom for the time.On her husband's deathbed, she promises to write the story of the struggles and tragedies she has faced, as well as the joy she has found in her husband and family. Thom says,'That is God's purpose for you, Mary, so others may gain courage by your example.' Not until 300 years later does she find a way to complete her task.

Author : Alessandra Torre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Authors
ISBN : 1940941946

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The Ghostwriter by Alessandra Torre Pdf

From a NYT Bestseller - An emotional and gripping story of a famous author who struggles to write her final novel - a true story that confesses her darkest secret. To aid her, she enlists her biggest rival, who has a surprising effect on her life. Readers of GONE GIRL and MY HUSBAND'S SECRET will love this twisted tale of marriage, deceit and fame

Author : Charles Ringma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 1573834238

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Resist the Powers with Jacques Ellul by Charles Ringma Pdf

Through 365 challenging and stirring reflections based on the bold message of French philosopher and theologian Jacques Ellul, Charles Ringma invites you to consider the profound connections between personal faith and social responsibility. Resist the Powers with Jacques Ellul will encourage you to pursue an active faith that resists the powers of our age by embracing a vision of the kingdom of God that brings together head, heart and hands.

Author : James D. Bloom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319599458

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Reading the Male Gaze in Literature and Culture by James D. Bloom Pdf

This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept which has spread beyond academia and become a staple of cultural conversations across disciplinary boundaries. Male gazing has typically been disparaged and even stigmatized as a reflection of misogyny and an instrument of objectification, often justifiably so. But as this book argues and illustrates, male gazing can also be understood as an illuminating, intellectually engaging, aesthetically compelling, and even politically progressive practice. This study recounts how the author’s own coming-of-an-age as a gazer became the basis for his long career teaching and writing about American fiction and poetry and poetry, canonical and contemporary, as well as about film, painting, TV, and rock-and-roll. It includes closely-reasoned analyses of work by James Baldwin, Rembrandt, Willa Cather, Philip Roth, Henry James, Charles Chesnutt, Bob Dylan, Robert Stone,Tim O’Brien, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Frank O’Hara, Italo Calvino, John Schlesinger as well such cultural phenomena as the British Invasion of the 1960s, the Judgment of Paris in Greek mythology, the technology of seeing (kaleidoscopes, microscopes, telescopes) and the concept of 'objectification' itself.

Author : Meghan R. Henning
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300262667

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Hell Hath No Fury by Meghan R. Henning Pdf

The first major book to examine ancient Christian literature on hell through the lenses of gender and disability studies Throughout the Christian tradition, descriptions of hell’s fiery torments have shaped contemporary notions of the afterlife, divine justice, and physical suffering. But rarely do we consider the roots of such conceptions, which originate in a group of understudied ancient texts: the early Christian apocalypses. In this pioneering study, Meghan Henning illuminates how the bodies that populate hell in early Christian literature—largely those of women, enslaved persons, and individuals with disabilities—are punished after death in spaces that mirror real carceral spaces, effectually criminalizing those bodies on earth. Contextualizing the apocalypses alongside ancient medical texts, inscriptions, philosophy, and patristic writings, this book demonstrates the ways that Christian depictions of hell intensified and preserved ancient notions of gender and bodily normativity that continue to inform Christian identity.

Author : Rene Gutteridge
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598569643

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Ghost Writer by Rene Gutteridge Pdf

Originally published: Minneapolis, Minn.: Bethany House Publishers, 2000.

Author : Angela N. Parker
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467462532

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If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I? by Angela N. Parker Pdf

A challenge to the doctrine of biblical inerrancy that calls into question how Christians are taught more about the way of Whiteness than the way of Jesus Angela Parker wasn’t just trained to be a biblical scholar; she was trained to be a White male biblical scholar. She is neither White nor male. Dr. Parker’s experience of being taught to forsake her embodied identity in order to contort herself into the stifling construct of Whiteness is common among American Christians, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. This book calls the power structure behind this experience what it is: White supremacist authoritarianism. Drawing from her perspective as a Womanist New Testament scholar, Dr. Parker describes how she learned to deconstruct one of White Christianity’s most pernicious lies: the conflation of biblical authority with the doctrines of inerrancy and infallibility. As Dr. Parker shows, these doctrines are less about the text of the Bible itself and more about the arbiters of its interpretation—historically, White males in positions of power who have used Scripture to justify control over marginalized groups. This oppressive use of the Bible has been suffocating. To learn to breathe again, Dr. Parker says, we must “let God breathe in us.” We must read the Bible as authoritative, but not authoritarian. We must become conscious of the particularity of our identities, as we also become conscious of the particular identities of the biblical authors from whom we draw inspiration. And we must trust and remember that as long as God still breathes, we can too.

Author : D. Randall Blythe
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306823152

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Dark Days by D. Randall Blythe Pdf

Lamb of god vocalist D. Randall Blythe finally tells the whole incredible story of his arrest, incarceration, trial, and acquittal for manslaughter in the Czech Republic over the tragic and accidental death of a concertgoer in this riveting, gripping, biting, bold, and brave memoir. On June 27, 2012, the long-running, hard-touring, and world-renowned metal band lamb of god landed in Prague for their first concert there in two years. Vocalist D. Randall "Randy" Blythe was looking forward to a few hours off--a rare break from the touring grind--in which to explore the elegant, old city. However, a surreal scenario worthy of Kafka began to play out at the airport as Blythe was detained, arrested for manslaughter, and taken to PankráPrison--a notorious 123-year-old institution where the Nazis' torture units had set up camp during the German occupation of then-Czechoslovakia, and where today hundreds of prisoners are housed, awaiting trial and serving sentences in claustrophobic, sweltering, nightmare-inducing conditions. Two years prior, a 19-year-old fan died of injuries suffered at a lamb of god show in Prague, allegedly after being pushed off stage by Blythe, who had no vivid recollection of the incident. Stage-crashing and -diving being not uncommon occurrences, as any veteran of hard rock, metal, and punk shows knows, the concert that could have left him imprisoned for years was but a vague blur in Blythe's memory, just one of the hundreds of shows his band had performed over their decades-long career. At the time of his arrest Blythe had been sober for nearly two years, having finally gained the upper hand over the alcoholism that nearly killed him. But here he faced a new kind of challenge: jailed in a foreign land and facing a prison sentence of up to ten years. Worst of all, a young man was dead, and Blythe was devastated for him and his family, even as the reality of his own situation began to close in behind PankráPrison's glowering walls of crumbling concrete and razor wire. What transpired during Blythe's incarceration, trial, and eventual acquittal is a rock 'n' roll road story unlike any other, one that runs the gamut from tragedy to despair to hope and finally to redemption. While never losing sight of the sad gravity of his situation, Blythe relates the tale of his ordeal with one eye fixed firmly on the absurd (and at times bizarrely hilarious) circumstances he encountered along the way. Blythe is a natural storyteller and his voice drips with cutting humor, endearing empathy, and soulful insight. Much more than a tour diary or a prison memoir, Dark Days is D. Randall Blythe's own story about what went down--before, during, and after--told only as he can.