Bad Shepherds
Bad Shepherds

Author: Rod Bennett

Publisher: Sophia Institute Press

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1622827155

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Shocked to find corruption widespread in the ranks of their shepherds today, too many good Catholics are tempted to leave the Church, unaware that ever since the days when Jesus' own treasurer, Judas Iscariot, had his hand in the till, the Good Shepherd and His faithful followers have been regularly betrayed by bad shepherds. In these eye-opening pages, Church historian Rod Bennett introduces a number of those bad shepherds, including Bishop Eusebius of Nicomedia, who regularly sold out the Church to the Roman emperor; Pope Stephen VII, who so hated his late predecessor that he had him dug up, put on trial, and flung into the Tiber; Benedict IX, who bought and sold the papacy (twice!); and Pope John XII, whose debauchery rivaled that of the corrupt emperor Caligula. Those were very bad shepherds indeed, but while they did the Devil’s work, good Catholics not only survived — they thrived. They outlasted their bad shepherds, preserved in their ranks the Faith of our fathers, and served in each instance as the foundation for a cleansing of the House of God and a vigorous renewal of the Faith. These enlightening pages demonstrate that it can happen again!

The Bad Shepherd
The Bad Shepherd

Author: Dale Nelson

Publisher:

Published: 2017-11-10

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 9781521148600

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Los Angeles, 1981, is a city about to tear itself apart. LAPD narcotics detective Bo Fochs has uncovered a drug ring that stretches from the neon nights of the Sunset Strip to the deadly streets of South Central that is fueling both sides of L.A.'s gang war. But to stop this urban drug lord before the violence erupts and takes the city with it, Bo will have to navigate not only the brutal dangers of L.A.'s gangs but also the subtle dangers of the city's corridors of power and he will learn that not all justice is blind.The Bad Shepherd is the first in a new series by Dale M. Nelson that digs into the music, the culture and the crimes of the Decade of Decadence.

Certain Poor Shepherds
Certain Poor Shepherds

Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2015-09-22

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0763680362

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A dog, a goat, and their flock follow the sight and scent of a star in a beautifully illustrated, keenly observed Nativity story. The story begins on a cold upland pasture where coarse grass and scrub cedar grew. The hour was midnight. The day was the first of winter. And the year of our Lord was not 1900 or 1600 or even 100. It was 0. On that night a white goat, Ima, and a huge, gray short-haired sheepdog, Lila, were keeping watch over a small flock of young sheep. Bright and dazzling, a star appears behind the cedars on the eastern skyline. It is big and powerful, and it has a pure, clean scent, like something halfway between honey and water. Lila, the sheepdog, and Ima, the goat, are compelled to follow the star on a journey to a humble manger in Bethlehem, a journey beset with danger, adventure, and love. In a story alive with insight and grace, best-selling author Elizabeth Scott Thomas brings us a striking portrait of the Nativity story from the captivating point of the view of the animal kingdom.

Shepherds After My Own Heart
Shepherds After My Own Heart

Author: Timothy S. Laniak

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2015-02-05

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0830899324

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Old Testament professor Timothy Laniak follows the figure of the shepherd through the pages of Scripture to help today's leaders find their place in the ancient pastoral tradition.

Shepherds
Shepherds

Author: Daniel C. Fredericks

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1532606044

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How does God manage his entire creation? Has he had a plan, a theme, a metanarrative or something else which he follows that gives a unity to all of his efforts? Shepherds describes the relationship between the Creator and his creation, a relationship that is structurally integrated by the very core of who God is. There is a design within creation that radiates from his personal, unique being. What God created and how he manages it is a marvelous extension of who he is and how he acts. This relationship between God and his creation is not patterned only on his essence or being, but on his powerful and loving will and acts. Rather than a literary grid to which "theme" and "metanarrative" attempt to subject God's relationship with humanity, Shepherds recognizes that all of creation bears the eternal design emanating from God's very nature. Scripture is not a "story" about Israel or the church; it is not simply a story of redemption; it is a window into the eternal design by which God created reality and will eternally sustain that creation.

The Gospel of John
The Gospel of John

Author: Rudolf Bultmann

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2014-08-15

Total Pages: 791

ISBN-13: 1498208258

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As the first volume in the Johannine Monograph Series, The Gospel of John: A Commentary by Rudolf Bultmann well deserves this place of pride. Indeed, this provocative commentary is arguably the most important New Testament monograph in the twentieth century, perhaps second only to The Quest of the Historical Jesus by Albert Schweitzer. In contrasting Bultmann's and Schweitzer's paradigms, however, we find that Bultmann's is far more technically argued and original, commanding hegemony among other early-Christianity paradigms. Ernst Haenchen has described Bultmann's commentary as a giant oak tree in whose shade nothing could grow, and indeed, this reference accurately describes its dominance among Continental Protestant scholarship over the course of several decades.

Matthew's Messianic Shepherd-King
Matthew's Messianic Shepherd-King

Author: Joel Willitts

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2008-08-27

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 3110204169

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In two places in the First Gospel (Matt 10:5b-6; 15:24) the Messianic mission of Jesus and his disciples is limited to a group called ‘the lost sheep of the house of Israel’. In light of Matthew’s intense interest in Jesus’ Davidic Messiahship and the Jewish Shepard-King traditions surrounding King David it is argued that the 'lost sheep of the house of Israel' refers to remnants of the former northern kingdom of Israel who continued to reside in the northern region of the ideal Land of Israel.