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'For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...' Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworldly tales from one of the greatest voices of twentieth-century Europe. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
She's too young to lead, yet the burden of leadership is hers - will courage be enough? Atini is the king's child - anyone can see. Orrld tries to protect her and give her the childhood she deserves - but she is quick to learn and quick to grow and all too soon, Atini is making her own way in the world. All he can do is pray he has taught her enough compassion to become a gentle leader in a violent world. Atini has always known she was different, even when it was supposed to be a secret. Sometimes this makes her proud and defiant. Other times afraid. The more she learns about the enemy, the more she realises how close defeat is. Her true father the king gathers his army in the east and plans an attack against the Sturgar. That is the rumour. Atini knows the Sturgar rarely come to the battlefield unless they are sure of winning. The slaughter of her army is imminent, and all she has to cling to is the hope that the legend of the sleepers is true. The Legend of the Sleepers is the fourth book in DJ Bowman-Smith's Crystal Bound Series. Read on to find out who prevails in the war for supremacy over the Trilands.
Deconstruction: Trendy brand name for falling away from belief in God? Or a process essential to authentic faith? Liberation or trauma? Prison break or exile? It’s complicated. Just like you. Christian history records a Great Reformation and a Great Awakening. But today’s “Great Deconstruction” will surely leave an equally profound impact. In Out of the Embers, Bradley Jersak explores the necessity, perils, and possibilities of the Great Deconstruction—how it has the potential to either sabotage our communion with God or infuse it with the breath of life, the light and life of Christ himself. In this collection of vulnerable memoirs, philosophical memos, and candid provocations, Jersak resists both the hand-wringing urge to corral stray sheep and the exultant desire to play the happy-clappy Ex-vangelical cheerleader. He employs the wisdom and expertise of the great deconstructionists—Christianity’s ancient influences (Moses, Plato, Paul, and the Patristics), “beloved frenemies” (from Voltaire to Nietzsche), and the masters of deconstruction (Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, and Weil)—to double down and deconstruct deconstruction itself. Where is faith after deconstruction? The author’s heart is to engage and empathize with the bereft and disoriented, stoking the brittle ashes for live embers. In this quest for the resilient gospel of the martyrs, the marginal, and those outside the threshold...inexplicably, in this liminal space, life stirs. A Light shines through the ashes. We find, often for the first time, that living connection Jersak calls “presence in communion.” There is a sea change occurring across the Western church and civilization. Whether we’re watching a radical course correction or a complete collapse remains to be seen, and how it pans out will likely depend on how we see what’s happening, who we are becoming, how we live in response—and, most important, where we find Christ situated in this storm.
The Qur’an in Its Historical Context by Gabriel Reynolds Pdf
Providing commentary on the controversial revisionist school of Qur’anic studies, this book explores the origins, scholarship and development of the Qur'an. The collection of articles, each written by a distinguished author, treat very familiar passages of the Qur’an in an original manner, combining thorough philology, historical anthropology, and cultural history. This book addresses in a critical fashion the hottest issues in recent works on the Quran. Among other things, the contributors analyze the controversial theories of Luxenberg regarding Syriac and the Quran, and in particular his argument that the term Hur refers not to virgins but to grapes.
This book covers the teachings of a sixth century religious leader, whose followers constitute the second largest religious group in the world in the present age. The book is set as a first person narrative, where the Prophet quotes his own words, and offers the rationale for many of the guidelines in the times when they were delivered, as also their validity in the present times. Many of those preachings which were very relevant to usher in much needed socio-cultural changes in the desert tribes of those ancient times, may seem to be archaic and out of place today, when the world and society have seen much advancement and achieved scientific and technological progress. And yet, since they are believed to be the words of God, delivered through His chosen messenger, the believers are in a constant intellectual crisis, as they are unable to give them up totally, nor are they able to accept them totally in the present context. It is this dilemma that is the thread running through the book, where many of the guidelines are compared with guidelines on the same subjects contained in ancient scriptures from other world religions, most of which are more ancient than these sixth century teachings. The reader is invited to read, analyse and draw his own conclusions about these myriad topics which continue to interest and stimulate human curiosity and the quest for truth through all ages.
Teutonic Myth And Legend by Donald A. MacKenzie Pdf
This volume deals with the myths and legends of the Teutonic peoples--Norsemen, Goths, Vandals, Burgundians, Franks, Angles, Saxons, and all the other Germanic tribes whose descendants now occupy England, Northern France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. The volume might have been called Northern European Myth and Legend. It is the body of folk tales, epics and religious beliefs which all Anglo-Saxons have inherited directly from their ancestors, and find most deeply embedded in every-day words and thoughts such as names for the days of the week, names recalling the gods and goddesses of our forefathers. Contents: PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I - Story of Creation CHAPTER II - The Nine Worlds CHAPTER III - The Deeds of Odin CHAPTER IV - How Evil entered Asgard CHAPTER V - The Winter War CHAPTER VI - Triumph of Love CHAPTER VII - The Lost Sword of Victory CHAPTER VIII - Fall of Asgard CHAPTER IX - The Gods Reconciled CHAPTER X - Loke's Evil Progeny CHAPTER XI - Thor's Great Fishing CHAPTER XII - The City of Enchantments CHAPTER XIII - Thor in Peril CHAPTER XIV - The Great Stone Giant CHAPTER XV - Balder the Beautiful CHAPTER XVI - The Binding of Loke CHAPTER XVII - The Dusk of the Gods CHAPTER XVIII - The Coming of Beowulf CHAPTER XIX - Conflict with Demons CHAPTER XX - Beowulf and the Dragon CHAPTER XXI - Hother and Balder CHAPTER XXII - The Traditional Hamlet CHAPTER XXIII - Hamlet's Storm-mill CHAPTER XXIV - Land of the Not-dead and many Marvels CHAPTER XXV - The Doom of the Volsungs CHAPTER XXVI - How Sigmund was Avenged CHAPTER XXVII - Helgi Hundingsbane CHAPTER XXVIII - Sigurd the Dragon Slayer CHAPTER XXIX - Brynhild and Gudrun CHAPTER XXX - The Last of the Volsungs CHAPTER XXXI - Gudrun's Vengeance CHAPTER XXXII - Siegfried and the Nibelungs CHAPTER XXXIII - The Promise of Kriemhild CHAPTER XXXIV - How Brunhild and Kriemhild were won CHAPTER XXXV - The Betrayal of Siegfried CHAPTER XXXVI - The Nibelungen Tragedy CHAPTER XXXVII - Dietrich of Bern CHAPTER XXXVIII - The Land of Giants CHAPTER XXXIX - The Wonderful Rose Garden CHAPTER XL - Virginal, Queen of the Mountains CHAPTER XLI - Dietrich in Exile CHAPTER XLII - The King's Homecoming
In Blessing the World, Derek A. Rivard studies liturgical blessing and its role in the religious life of Christians during the central and later Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the blessings of the Franco-Roman liturgical tradition from the tenth to late thirteenth centuries.