Merciful

Author : Ian Dowbiggin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0198035152

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A Merciful End by Ian Dowbiggin Pdf

While it may seem that debates over euthanasia began with Jack Kervorkian, the practice of mercy killing extends back to Ancient Greece and beyond. In America, the debate has raged for well over a century. Now, in A Merciful End, Ian Dowbiggin offers the first full-scale historical account of one of the most controversial reform movements in America. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives of the Euthanasia Society of America, interviews with important figures in the movement today, and flashpoint cases such as the tragic fate of Karen Ann Quinlan, Dowbiggin tells the dramatic story of the men and women who struggled throughout the twentieth century to change the nation's attitude--and its laws--regarding mercy killing. In tracing the history of the euthanasia movement, he documents its intersection with other progressive social causes: women's suffrage, birth control, abortion rights, as well as its uneasy pre-WWII alliance with eugenics. Such links brought euthanasia activists into fierce conflict with Judeo-Christian institutions who worried that "the right to die" might become a "duty to die." Indeed, Dowbiggin argues that by joining a sometimes overzealous quest to maximize human freedom with a desire to "improve" society, the euthanasia movement has been dogged by the fear that mercy killing could be extended to persons with disabilities, handicapped newborns, unconscious geriatric patients, lifelong criminals, and even the poor. Justified or not, such fears have stalled the movement, as more and more Americans now prefer better end-of-life care than wholesale changes in euthanasia laws. For anyone trying to decide whether euthanasia offers a humane alternative to prolonged suffering or violates the "sanctity of life," A Merciful End provides fascinating and much-needed historical context.

Author : Tim LaHaye
Publisher : FaithWords
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780446549486

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The Merciful God of Prophecy by Tim LaHaye Pdf

LaHaye explores prophecy from biblical times to the future. Through perceptive study of Scripture and the attentive use of examples from The Book of Daniel to Revelations, the author reveals God's great plan for eternity.

Author : Barry D. Smith
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 076183088X

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The Tension Between God as Righteous Judge and as Merciful in Early Judaism by Barry D. Smith Pdf

In recent years, the scholarly consensus has emerged that early Judaism should no longer be classified as a religion of legalistic works on righteousness, but rather defined primarily by God's covenant with Israel. In this work, it is argued, instead, that there is actually a tension in early Judaism between God as righteous judge and as merciful. As E. Sj berg maintained in his Gott und S nder im pal stinischen Judentum, in the sources used for a reconstruction of early Judaism, there are two mutually exclusive ways in which God is said to relate to human beings. First, God as righteous judge deals with human beings as they deserve. They are assumed to be morally free and responsible, and God judges and recompenses them in history and eschatologically. Not only are the wicked punished for their sins, but the righteous are also rewarded for their obedience. And second, God as merciful does not deal with human beings as they deserve. Rather, he removes the guilt resulting from disobedience to the Law, sometimes on the simple condition of repentance. This means that a person can escape the consequences of disobedience. The understanding of God in the sources vacillates between God as righteous judge and God as merciful, without coming down definitively on one side to the exclusion of the other.

Author : Margaret Owen
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250191939

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The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen Pdf

A Tor.com Best of 2019 Pick A 2020 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Pick Debut author Margaret Owen crafts a powerful saga of vengeance, survival, and sacrifice—perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Kendare Blake—in The Merciful Crow. "Packed to the teeth with fresh worldbuilding and righteous fury...It's a ride that is wildly fun."—Emily A. Duncan, New York Times-bestselling author of Wicked Saints "Rich, harrowing, and unafraid to tackle discrimination—perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Tomi Adeyemi."—Kirkus, Starred Review One way or another, we always feed the crows. A future chieftain Fie abides by one rule: look after your own. Her Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than coin, but when they’re called to collect royal dead, she’s hoping they’ll find the payout of a lifetime. A fugitive prince When Crown Prince Jasimir turns out to have faked his death, Fie’s ready to cut her losses—and perhaps his throat. But he offers a wager that she can’t refuse: protect him from a ruthless queen, and he’ll protect the Crows when he reigns. A too-cunning bodyguard Hawk warrior Tavin has always put Jas’s life before his, magically assuming the prince’s appearance and shadowing his every step. But what happens when Tavin begins to want something to call his own?

Author : Federico Andahazi
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802138268

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The Merciful Women by Federico Andahazi Pdf

The second novel from the best-selling Argentine author of The Anatomist, The Merciful Women is a brilliant retelling of the birth of the Gothic novel. In the summer of 1816, Percy and Mary Shelley, Mary's sister, and Lord Byron hid themselves away in a Swiss villa, whiling away rainy afternoons with the Gothic novel contest that would produce Frankenstein. Andahazi's reimagining focuses on the fifth competitor: John Polidori, Byron's manservant, a talentless hack resentful of the ease of his master's life. Through a Faustian pact with an unseen intercessant, Polidori obtains the most compelling vampire story ever written. But The Vampyre has striking similarities to Polidori's benefactor and to what she asks of him in return. Opium, erotica, and decadence meld into a sly and stylish novel about literary ambition, talent, and inspiration. A hoot ... a Voltaire-like skewering of the myth of genius. Andahazi can remind you of vintage Terry Southern. -- Richard Wallace, The Seattle Times Playful, satiric, erotic, sometimes savage, sometimes slapstick ... something completely different, and well worth reading. -- San Francisco Chronicle As a piece of mock-scholarly, wickedly ironic entertainment, it is an utter delight. -- Publishers Weekly This literary tour de force cum vampire tale will leave the reader gasping-from laughter and horror by turns. -- The Baltimore Sun

Author : Kerry Walters
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809141191

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Merciful Meekness by Kerry Walters Pdf

Here is a clear, concise and judicious examination of the bedrock Christian moral principles of mercy and meekness that leads the author, a professor of philosophy, to affirm their essential integration if we are to become complete Christians. Dr. Walters redefines and synthesizes the Christian principles: mercy and meekness together are virtues compatible, complementary, and essential to our pathway to union with Christ, convincingly countering the Nietzschean philosophy that rejects their synthesis (one or the other is possible, but not both), as incompatible, inherently contradictory and "morally repugnant." Intended as a reference work for undergraduate students, this spare book, rooted in Scripture and Christian tradition, the thought of Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Ayn Rand, and Friedrich Nietzsche, including his polemics with the Sermon on the Mount, is also helpful for the general reader in search of spiritual wholeness. It is an effective counterguide to Christianity's naysayers.

Author : Benjamin A Vima
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781490770550

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Blessed the Merciful by Benjamin A Vima Pdf

The books title is taken from Jesus Sermon on the Mount: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Expounding in detail in this book Rev. Vima stresses the Scriptural fact that at the end of disciples life their merciful acts are the ones that would covet the crown of heavenly blessedness as the Judge would pronounces to them, Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food The author also explains very elaborately the Biblical term CHESED as the remarkable backdrop to the Christian merciful deeds. He continues to augment his contention on CHESED by telling the readers about Jesus longing of his disciples to be perfect as their heavenly Father by performing merciful deeds and by performing those acts perfectly by imitating Gods CHESED of mercy, justice and fidelity. Author writes in his Introduction: This book is nothing but an outcome of my strong belief in an eternal fact of living a CHESED-oriented life: Without Gods CHESED we cannot survive but without our reciprocal CHESED we cannot be what we are designed to become. As the Church celebrates the Jubilee Year of Mercy, author encourages the readers to listen and follow Pope Francis who, referring to the beatitudes, is quoted saying: If the church does not assume the sentiments of Jesus, it is disoriented, it loses its sense. Fr. Vima also dreams that those who read this book will be more inspired and sincere in their works of mercy during this year and the years to come.

Author : N. D. A. Kemp
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0719061245

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Merciful Release by N. D. A. Kemp Pdf

The Labour government elected in 1997 pledged to reform the Westminster parliament by modernising the House of Commons and removing the hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Events have consequently demonstrated the deep controversy that accompanies such attempts at institutional reconfiguration, and have highlighted the shifting fault lines in executive-legislative relations in the UK, as well as the deep complexities surrounding British constitutional politics. The story of parliamentary reform is about the nature of the British political system, about how the government seeks to expand its control over parliament, and about how parliament discharges its duty to scrutinise the executive and hold it to account. This book, available in paperback for the first time, charts the course of Westminster reform since 1997, but does so by placing it in the context of parliamentary reform pursued in the past, and thus adopts a historical perspective which lends it considerable analytical value. Significantly, the book examines parliamentary reform through the lens of institutional theory, in order not only to describe reform but also to interpret and explain it. It also draws on extensive interviews conducted with MPs and peers involved in the reform of parliament since 1997, thus offering a unique insight into how these political actors perceived the reform process in which they played a part.Parliamentary reform at Westminster, now available in paperback, provides a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the trajectory and outcome of the reform of parliament, along with an incisive interpretation of the implications for our understanding of British politics.

Author : Orest Stocco
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781926442167

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The Merciful Law of Divine Synchronicity by Orest Stocco Pdf

I was going on twenty-four and living in Annecy, France when it happened: a soul moment so charged with energy that it changed the dynamic of my life...

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139504836

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Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society by Austin Sarat Pdf

Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society: Legal Problems, Legal Possibilities explores the tension between law's need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions that regularly accompany them. Rather than focusing primarily on definitional questions or the longstanding debate about the moral worth and importance of mercy, this book focuses on mercy as a part of, and problem for, law. This book is a product of the University of Alabama School of Law symposia series on 'Law, Knowledge and Imagination'. It explores the ways law is known and imagined in a diverse array of disciplines, including political science, history, cultural studies, philosophy and science. In addition, books produced through the Alabama symposia explore various conjunctions of law, knowledge and imagination as they play out in debates about theory and policy and speak to venerable questions as well as contemporary issues.

Author : Ilo, Stan Chu
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9781608337316

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A Poor and Merciful Church by Ilo, Stan Chu Pdf

This important text addresses three key questions which face modern Catholicism, especially in Africa: What is the ecclesiology of Pope Francis? How does this ecclesiology meet the challenges facing the universal church in today's complex world? And how can one translate the practices of this new approach into a theological aesthetics to meet the challenges and opportunities of the African social context?

Author : Dennis Stackhouse
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781098048082

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God, Be Merciful to Me by Dennis Stackhouse Pdf

If you had, at this very moment, the choice between receiving justice or mercy in your life, which one would you choose? Your initial reaction, without thinking too deeply, may be that of choosing justice, and that makes perfect sense. After all, we live in a country that prides itself on dispensing justice to its citizens. And those efforts should be applauded because they benefit all of us. Justice for all is one of the basic fundamentals America was founded upon.Certainly, in order to accurately answer the initial question, you would want to know the circumstances. For instance, are we speaking about justice in a legal sense, justice among coworkers, justice between friends or family, or something more profound? It might help if we kept a simple definition in mind of justice and mercy. Think about the fact that justice would be receiving only what you do deserve; whereas, mercy is receiving what you do not deserve. Does that help?If we were viewing nothing but the physical world, justice is a good thing, but mercy could be better. To illustrate that, let's say you are shopping for a gift and you pick up an item that you accidentally drop. The item breaks, and you realize that you need to take it to the checkout counter to pay for it. In that situation, would you want the clerk to charge you for the item, or would you rather hear the clerk say, "Don't worry about it. You don't have to pay anything?" In short, would you prefer justice, which means you pay for the item, or mercy, which means you pay nothing for the broken item? Do you want what you deserve or what you don't deserve?Of course, the real question is: When you stand before God in judgment, do you want to receive only what you deserve, which would be justice, or do you want God to extend what you don't deserve, which would be mercy? That's what we want to explore throughout this study together.I pray that by the time we conclude our thoughts, we will all come to the point of saying: "God, be merciful to me."

Author : Camille Rankine
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781556594908

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Incorrect Merciful Impulses by Camille Rankine Pdf

This debut collection from a young, African American poet, is a series of provocations and explorations. Rankine's short, lyric poems are sharp, agonized, and exquisite, exploring themes of race, doubt, and identity in the fractious, modern world. The collection's sense of continuity and coherence comes through recurring poem types, including still lifes,” instructions,” and symptoms.”

Author : Deborah A. Bouley
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982205492

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Merciful, I Am by Deborah A. Bouley Pdf

Merciful, I AM is a first novel written by the author. Written from a perspective of an adult recalling a childhood, it is a heart wrenching and brutal account. I cried for the small child with no voice and no support and applauded the woman warrior that has emerged! Voice is a powerful weapon! The book is a metamorphosis of love and forgiveness of self and of others. I recommend that you read this book and keep a box of tissues nearby! Lorraine Uhlmann Deborah Bouley, has taken her powerful story to allow others to see there is a choice that we can make to free ourselves from pain, fear, and old patterns of behavior. In her story, Deborah takes us to a place of reparenting,renewing, and relearning our worth so that we can stand in our power to manifest our hearts desires. This is the power of knowing, not only who we are, but whose we are. Rev. Carmen Pilar Gonzalez Open your heart to a moving story that brings you through depths of shame and guilt and moves you to the discovery of enlightenment, truth, and love. Patricia S. Lane Ms. Bouley candidly speaks about her wholeness and wellness journey of over forty years. She attests to the power of her faith in God and her never-ending belief that she could ultimately help others. Merciful, I Am shows how to forgive those who hurt us and transform pain and suffering into personal resurrection.

Author : Susy,F. M. S.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000680961

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Susy's Flowers; Or, "Blessed are the Merciful, for They Shall Obtain Mercy" by Susy,F. M. S. Pdf