The Substance Of Things

Author : Tom Noyes
Publisher : Slant Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781639820955

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The Substance of Things Hoped For by Tom Noyes Pdf

For a brief time in mid-nineteenth century Oneida, New York, two of the most eccentric and fascinating figures in American history crossed paths when troubled soul and soon-to-be presidential assassin Charles Guiteau threw in his lot with John Humphrey Noyes's utopian community of "free love" believers. In The Substance of Things Hoped For, Tom Noyes--a distant relative of John Humphrey Noyes--renders this historical intersection by deftly imagining the dynamics and consequences of an ominous and unusual relationship. As Guiteau stumbles further into madness and eventually achieves infamy for his murder of President Garfield, John Humphrey Noyes is left to face the consequences of his own missteps and misunderstandings as he's forced to make a hasty exit from Oneida. Joining Noyes and Guiteau in their parallel narratives is a chorus of other characters--family members, lovers, rivals, notable historical figures--whose haunting voices complement, undermine, complicate, and enhance Noyes's and Guiteau's versions of events, while also homing in on the novel's most pressing questions, including those related to revelation, delusion, loyalty, and love.

Author : Charles Capps
Publisher : Harrison House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0974751324

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The Substance of Things by Charles Capps Pdf

Measure the amount of the Word of God within you; that is the measure of your faith! When the Word of God gets inside you, it creates an image in its own kind. When that image is perfected inside you, then you have faith. Charles Capps has written this powerful and anointed book to instruct you in how to perfect that image of faith inside you to help you increase your faith.

Author : Sam Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578668785

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The Substance of All Things by Sam Harris Pdf

When Theo Dalton was six years old, his hands were irreparably damaged in a horrific car accident that took his pregnant mother's life. Six years later, during the sweltering summer of 1968 in rural Oklahoma, Theo meets Frank, a Native American outcast, and learns that he has the ability to heal through his disfigured hands.As he explores the extraordinary, Theo desperately attempts to remain an ordinary boy. But when word of his gift spreads, Theo is shunned by the church for doing "the devil's work." He is immediately swept away by his Auntie Li, and into a world which ultimately threatens his life as he saves others'. Told from Theo's perspective some fifty years later, it is through his work as a therapist with a broken woman that he musters the courage to relive the summer that haunts him.The Substance of All Things is the gripping, heart-wrenching, and often humorous tale of mentors and mothers and fathers, love and redemption, prophets and charlatans, miracles and faith.

Author : Bible Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1311 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 0564090034

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The Holy Bible by Bible Society Pdf

Author : Robin M. Jensen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0802827969

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The Substance of Things Seen by Robin M. Jensen Pdf

This series is designed to promote reflection on the history, theology, and practice of Christian worship and to stimulate worship renewal in Christian congregations. Written by pastoral worship leaders from diverse communities and scholars from a range of disciplines, these volumes seek to nurture worship practices that are at once spiritually vital and theologically rooted. Book jacket.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781250886729

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The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin Pdf

Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murders, the Black administration in Atlanta, and Wayne Williams, the Black man tried for the crimes. Because there was only evidence to convict Williams for the murders of two men, the children's cases were closed, offering no justice to the families or the country. Baldwin's incisive analysis implicates the failures of integration as the guilt party, arguing, "There could be no more devastating proof of this assault than the slaughter of the children." As Stacey Abrams writes in her foreword, "The humanity of black children, of black men and women, of black lives, has ever been a conundrum for America. Forty years on, Baldwin's writing reminds us that we have never resolved the core query: Do black lives matter? Unequivocally, the moral answer is yes, but James Baldwin refuses such rhetorical comfort." In this, his last book, by excavating American race relations Baldwin exposes the hard-to-face ingrained issues and demands that we all reckon with them.

Author : Various Authors,
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 6637 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780310294146

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Holy Bible (NIV) by Various Authors, Pdf

The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.

Author : Ellen G. White
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Devotional calendars
ISBN : 9780828023825

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The Upward Look by Ellen G. White Pdf

Author : Sophie Volpp
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231553223

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The Substance of Fiction by Sophie Volpp Pdf

Do the portrayals of objects in literary texts represent historical evidence about the material culture of the past? Or are things in books more than things in the world? Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being read as illustrative of historical things. Instead, she argues, fictional objects are often signs of fictionality themselves, calling attention to the nature of the relationship between literature and materiality. Volpp examines a series of objects—a robe, a box and a shell, a telescope, a plate-glass mirror, and a painting—drawn from the canonical works frequently mined for information about late imperial material culture, including the novels The Plum in the Golden Vase and The Story of the Stone as well as the short fiction of Feng Menglong, Ling Mengchu, and Li Yu. She argues that although fictional objects invite readers to think of them as illustrative, in fact, inconsistent and discontinuous representation disconnects the literary object from potential historical analogues. The historical resonances of literary objects illuminate the rhetorical strategies of individual works of fiction and, more broadly, conceptions of fictionality in the Ming and Qing. Rather than offering a transparent lens on the past, fictional objects train the reader to be aware of the fallibility of perception. A deeply insightful analysis of late Ming and Qing texts and reading practices, The Substance of Fiction has important implications for Chinese literary studies, history, and art history, as well as the material turn in the humanities.

Author : Substance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024265239

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The Substance of Two Discourses [on Heb. Iii. 12] Upon the Nature of Faith: by a Much Admired Prelate of the Last Century by Substance Pdf

Author : Brian Doyle
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814637395

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A Shimmer of Something by Brian Doyle Pdf

Prose poems, chants, litanies, simple songs, cadenced prayers, brief bursts of rhythmic observation, elegies to little moments that are not little at all in the least whatsoever—welcome to the melodic world of Brian Doyle’s “proems,” swirling with voices unreeling tales, souls telling stories, moments photographed with ink. Accessible, easy to read, blunt, brief, and sometimes unforgettable, “these are not poems,” says the author, “but life set to the music of poetry.” In A Shimmer of Something, Brian Doyle’s characteristic humor and sincerity combine to make this collection a delight to read. From his conviction that miracles breed ripples that do not cease, to his lack of faith about the life of an elderberry bush, to the amusing story of a friend’s experience of driving the Dalai Lama to Seattle, to the humorous experience of his second Confession, to an intimate story of love and loss, Doyle’s lean stories of spiritual substance inspire, entertain, and captivate.

Author : Clare Beams
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525565475

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The Illness Lesson by Clare Beams Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • From the author of the award-winning debut story collection We Show What We Have Learned, an "atoundingly original” (The New York Times Book Review) work of historical fiction with shocking and eerie connections to our own time. At their newly founded school, Samuel Hood and his daughter, Caroline, promise a groundbreaking education for young women. But Caroline has grave misgivings. After all, her own unconventional education has left her unmarriageable and isolated, unsuited to the narrow roles afforded women in nineteenth-century New England. When a mysterious flock of red birds descends on the town, Caroline alone seems to find them unsettling. But it’s not long before the assembled students begin to manifest bizarre symptoms: rashes, seizures, headaches, verbal tics, night wanderings. One by one, they sicken. Fearing ruin for the school, Samuel overrules Caroline’s pleas to inform the girls’ parents and turns instead to a noted physician, a man whose sinister ministrations—based on a shocking historic treatment—horrify Caroline. As the men around her continue to dictate, disastrously, all terms of the girls’ experience, Caroline’s own body begins to betray her. To save herself and her young charges, she will have to defy every rule that has governed her life, her mind, her body, and her world.

Author : Saint Ambrose,Aeterna Press
Publisher : Aeterna Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Exposition of the Christian Faith by Saint Ambrose,Aeterna Press Pdf

The author praises Gratian’s zeal for instruction in the Faith, and speaks lowly of his own merits. Taught of God Himself, the Emperor stands in no need of human instruction; yet this his devoutness prepares the way to victory. The task appointed to the author is difficult: in the accomplishment whereof he will be guided not so much by reason and argument as by authority, especially that of the Nicene Council.

Author : Samuel Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Sermons, American
ISBN : HARVARD:AH5NVU

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Substance of Sermons by Samuel Davies Pdf

Author : Caitlin Horrocks
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316316934

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The Vexations by Caitlin Horrocks Pdf

This "enthralling" debut novel and Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the Year circles the life of eccentric composer Erik Satie in La Belle Époque Paris and examines love, family, genius, and the madness of art (New York Times Book Review). Erik Satie begins life with every possible advantage. But after the dual blows of his mother's early death and his father's breakdown upend his childhood, Erik and his younger siblings -- Louise and Conrad -- are scattered. Later, as an ambitious young composer, Erik flings himself into the Parisian art scene, aiming for greatness but achieving only notoriety. As the years, then decades, pass, he alienates those in his circle as often as he inspires them, lashing out at friends and lovers like Claude Debussy and Suzanne Valadon. Only Louise and Conrad are steadfast allies. Together they strive to maintain their faith in their brother's talent and hold fast the badly frayed threads of family. But in a journey that will take her from Normandy to Paris to Argentina, Louise is rocked by a severe loss that ultimately forces her into a reckoning with how Erik -- obsessed with his art and hungry for fame -- will never be the brother she's wished for. With her buoyant, vivid reimagination of an iconic artist's eventful life, Caitlin Horrocks has written a captivating and ceaselessly entertaining novel about the tenacious bonds of family and the costs of greatness, both to ourselves and to those we love.