| Author | : Sten Nadolny |
| Publisher | : Viking Adult |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
A funny look at contemporary life through the eyes of a Greek god. He is Hermes, god of travel, and he has the ability to enter people's minds so he knows what they think. He does not like the way humanity is heading, especially the growing gap between rich and poor. By a German writer, author of The Discovery of Slowness.
| Author | : George Body |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2022-12-26 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 3368143395 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
| Author | : Sten Nadolny |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 1997-06-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101658096 |
In The Discovery of Slowness, German novelist Sten Nadolny recounts the life of the nineteenth-century British explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847). The reader follows Franklin's development from awkward schoolboy and ridiculed teenager to expedition leader, governor of Tasmania, and icon of adventure. Everyone with whom he came into contact sensed that he was a rare man, one who was “out of his time” and who moved to a different, grander beat. That beat eventually led Franklin to sail once more—on his final, fateful voyage—into the Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. The Discovery of Slowness is both a riveting account of a remarkable and varied life, and a profound and thought-provoking meditation on time.
| Author | : Philip Graham Ryken |
| Publisher | : Crossway |
| Total Pages | : 1042 |
| Release | : 2016-02-26 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1433548755 |
In this expository commentary on the book of Exodus, Philip Graham Ryken mines the story of Israel’s escape from Egypt for knowledge of God’s character and instruction for his followers. Theologically instructive and decidedly pastoral, this commentary leads readers to rejoice at God’s work in the life of every person who follows him on the path to spiritual freedom. Ryken skillfully relates how the Israelites’ deliverance from slavery anticipated the salvation accomplished in Jesus Christ, proving that God remembers his covenant and always delivers on his promises. For those who preach, teach, and study God’s Word, this book is more than just a commentary; it is a celebration of God’s faithfulness. The book of Daniel abounds with powerful imagery showcasing God’s unmatched glory and wise plan for the future. In this accessible commentary, pastor Rodney Stortz highlights the coming triumph of God's kingdom, offering pastors and Bible teachers a resource to help them explain and apply Daniel’s message to Christians today. Stortz’s careful exegesis and perceptive applications focus on personal holiness, the wisdom and power of God, and the importance of Daniel’s prophecies concerning the Messiah and the Antichrist. In addition, this commentary looks to the New Testament to shed light on Daniel’s prophecies about the future. Part of the Preaching the Word series.
| Author | : Bo H. Lim |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2010-05-13 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0567027635 |
What is the "way of the LORD" in the book of Isaiah? Many scholars have adopted Walter Zimmerli's proposal that the "way" in Second Isaiah is a literal and physical highway extending from Babylon to Jerusalem only to be reinterpreted as a spiritual, metaphorical, and pious way of living in Third Isaiah. This book will properly define each mention of the "way" in Isaiah as well as provide a coherent interpretation of this theme's theological significance within the book. The way of the LORD is initially conceived of in the 1st half of the book as a highway leading to Zion common to both the dispersed Israelites as well as the nations. In Isaiah, Chs 34-35 provide a paradigm of what this way will entail and its theological significance.
| Author | : Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
| Publisher | : Hendrickson Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 578 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1598560549 |
Considering Christ and the Comforter Since the days he shook the pulpits of Victorian London with Christ-centered passion, each succeeding generation seems to discover Charles Spurgeon anew. And this splendid collection is the ideal place to start. Featuring stirring sermons on the birth of Jesus, on his astounding love, and on his promised second coming--as well as comforting meditations on the work of the Holy Spirit--it offers over 40 homiletic gems from the Prince of Preachers. In sermons as timeless as their topics, Spurgeon combines keen intellect, scriptural truth, and a zeal for making God known to a world in darkness. With insightful truths gleaming from every page, readers will find devotional treasure whenever they sample Spurgeon's gifted exposition--and will be drawn closer to the God who came, who will come again, and who sends his Spirit as a promise of his presence.
| Author | : Curtis Bennett |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 1976-06-30 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0791496295 |
In God as Form, Curtis Bennett discusses the nature of godhead, the function of image for art and religion expressive of its instinctive functioning in dream imagery, the radical distinction between the Greek and Christian views of incarnation, Xenophanes' disclaimer of the Greek human forms for divinity, Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite, The First Olympian, and more. "Seeing the modern predicament not in the revolt of human will against God but in its rebellion against its own givenness, in the reversal not of values but of effect and cause, God as Form pushes hard against the limits of the exploratory essay. What rises in the memory, though, with the force of the 'realized' image as one lays down this book, are the readings of poetic texts from which the thesis springs: dawn breaking for immortals and mortals alike, the hall of the symposium, Sappho and Pindar in consonance across millennia with Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens. Demonstrating the claimed relation between poetry and theology in the critical act itself, these readings may one day do for literary criticism and the theory of poetry what Erich Auerbach's Mimesis has done in its time." — from the Foreword by Gregor Sebba
