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Author: Tamara Park
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2008-11-19
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0830836233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTamara Park and a couple of friends flew to Rome and from there followed the footsteps of Helena, mother of the first Christian emperor of ancient Rome, on a meandering path to Jerusalem. Along the way, she sat on all sorts of benches and talked with all sorts of people about how they thought of God. This book is that story.
Author: Octavian D. Baban
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2006-10-18
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1597529990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary reconstructions of Luke's theology of the Way should include in a more conscientious manner the contribution of Luke's post-Easter on the road encounters (the Emmaus, Gaza, and Damascus road narratives). This book argues that Luke follows here the rules of Hellenistic mimesis (imitation), many of which are illustrated in the novels, dramas, and history treatises of his time. Filtering these rules through his own theology and literary taste, he represents, in the end, the history and the proclamation of the early church, in an attractive and challenging manner, inviting his readers to good literature and to captivating spiritual experiences.
Author: Robert Martin Walker
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780687095391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jan Guillou
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-04-10
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 0061869880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFate sets a young Swedish noble on a course for war in the Holy Land in this international bestselling epic trilogy opener. Born in 1150 to a noble Swedish family and coming of age at a monastery under the tutelage of a Cistercian monk and a former Knight Templar, young Arn Magnusson is sent to fulfill his destiny beyond the cloister walls. But the world awaiting him is a place at odds with his monastic ways. And when the murder of a king engulfs Western Götaland into a whirlwind of intrigue and ruthless power plays, headstrong and naïve Arn is forced to leave behind the woman he loves and take up arms to battle infidels in the Holy Land. The first book in the international bestselling Crusades Trilogy, this thrilling epic of betrayal, faith, blood, and love sets “a Shakespearian quest for power” (Corriere della Sera, Italy) against the backdrop of the Holy Wars, witnessed through a vibrant, unorthodox lens. Praise for The Road to Jerusalem “The first volume of Jan Guillou’s new trilogy . . . involves Swedish politics, familial drama, social oppression, ice fishing, wolf-hunting, political assassination, young sex and the Knights Templar. It’s a great book.” —The Washington Post “Already a best-seller in Europe, this volume will appeal to fans of faithful medieval military fiction.” —Booklist
Author: Frederick S. Colby
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2008-08-06
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0791477886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the historical development of the well-loved story of the Prophet Muhammad’s night journey to the divine realm and back again.
Author: Mark S. Kinzer
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2005-11-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1441239103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, a new form of Messianic Judaism has emerged that has the potential to serve as a bridge between Jews and Christians. Giving voice to this movement, Mark Kinzer makes a case for nonsupersessionist Christianity. He argues that the election of Israel is irrevocable, that Messianic Jews should honor the covenantal obligations of Israel, and that rabbinic Judaism should be viewed as a movement employed by God to preserve the distinctive calling of the Jewish people. Though this book will be of interest to Jewish readers, it is written primarily for Christians who recognize the need for a constructive relationship to the Jewish people that neither denies the role of Jesus the Messiah nor diminishes the importance of God's covenant with the Jews.
Author: James M. Morgan
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2013-02-27
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1498274587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLuke-Acts is an impressive two-volume narrative seeking to convince and engage readers regarding the spiritual impact of Jesus of Nazareth on the Jewish people and other nations. To this end, Luke employs an impressive arsenal of literary and narrative techniques. This book focuses on a motif and its performance, the thoroughfare motif, which includes those figurative and concrete expressions involving ways, roads, city streets, and country paths. This study traces this motif's performance within the unfolding plot asking what difference the motif makes--progressively and cumulatively--to the reader's encounter with the story's emphasis on salvation. For example, why does Luke take pleasure in describing transformational events on or in relation to thoroughfares? What are the connections between expressions like "the way of peace," "the way of salvation," and "the way of God/Lord"? Why does Luke use such an unusual expression like "the Way" to describe Jesus' followers? How do such expressions contribute to the spiritual landscape of Luke-Acts, the intermingling of concrete and figurative uses of physical imagery? Like an instrument in an orchestra, the thoroughfare motif works together with other motifs and themes to create a captivating exploration of spiritual transformation, received and opposed.
Author: Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoutros Boutros-Ghali was one of the chief Egyptian negotiators at the breakthrough peace talks with Israel in 1978-79. Taken from his diaries, Egypt's Road to Jerusalem is his first-hand account of those negotiations.
Author: James Silk Buckingham
Publisher:
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 782
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gary M. Burge
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Published: 2010-08-24
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0310410355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristian readers of the New Testament study the great stories about Jesus through the lens of western culture. In this series of books, Gary Burge uses his extensive knowledge of the first century world and the Middle East to offer insights not available to the average person. Each book will develop important cultural themes and wrap them around well-known New Testament passages. And the result will be insights rarely gained elsewhere. See Jesus through the eyes of two men and three women. Each character in the story—a tax collector, a Phoenician woman, a centurion, etc.—brings along elements from their own world now hidden from us because we do not share the culture of Jesus' world. Insights from the first century Middle East abound to unlock profound insights about Jesus and his audience.
