Count to Infinity
Count to Infinity

Author: John C. Wright

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 2017-12-26

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1466882816

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Count to Infinity is John C. Wright's spectacular conclusion to the thought-provoking hard science fiction Eschaton Sequence, exploring future history and human evolution. An epic space opera finale worthy of the scope and wonder of The Eschaton Sequence: Menelaus Montrose is locked in a final battle of wits, bullets, and posthuman intelligence with Ximen del Azarchel for the fate of humanity in the far future. The alien monstrosities of Ain at long last are revealed, their hidden past laid bare, along with the reason for their brutal treatment of Man and all the species seeded throughout the galaxy. And they have still one more secret that could upend everything Montrose has fought for and lived so long to achieve. The Eschaton Sequence #1 Count to a Trillion #2 The Hermetic Millennia #3 The Judge of Ages #4 The Architect of Aeons #5 The Vindication of Man At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Interpreting Your World
Interpreting Your World

Author: Justin Ariel Bailey

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2022-09-20

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1493437828

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Whether we interpret Scripture or culture, it matters what we do, not just what we think or feel. How do we live with our interpretation, and how do we live it out? This book helps us understand how culture forms us as political actors, moves us aesthetically, shapes the rhythms of our lives, and connects (or disconnects) us from God and neighbors we are called to love. The goal is to be equipped to engage culture with greater fluency and fidelity in response to the triune God. This short, accessible introduction to the conversation between theology and culture offers a patient, thoughtful, and theologically attuned approach to cultural discernment. It helps us grow our interpretive skill by training our intuition and giving us a slower, more deliberate approach that accounts for as much of the complexity of culture as possible. The book explores 5 dimensions of culture--meaning, power, morality, religion, and aesthetic--and shows how each needs the others and all need theology. Each chapter includes distinctive practices for spiritual formation and practical application. Foreword by Kevin J. Vanhoozer.

Singularity Sky
Singularity Sky

Author: Charles Stross

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-06-29

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780441011797

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In a technologically suppressed future, information demands to be free in the debut novel from Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross. In the twenty-first century, life as we know it changed. Faster-than-light travel was perfected, and the Eschaton, a superhuman artificial intelligence, was born. Four hundred years later, the far-flung colonies that arose as a result of these events—scattered over three thousand years of time and a thousand parsecs of space—are beginning to rediscover their origins. The New Republic is one such colony. It has existed for centuries in self-imposed isolation, rejecting all but the most basic technology. Now, under attack by a devastating information plague, the colony must reach out to Earth for help. A battle fleet is dispatched, streaking across the stars to the rescue. But things are not what they seem—secret agendas and ulterior motives abound, both aboard the ship and on the ground. And watching over it all is the Eschaton, which has its own very definite ideas about the outcome...

Eschaton IV Sequence
Eschaton IV Sequence

Author: Shane Crees

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-03-11

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0244167052

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In this, the culmination of the four volume Eschaton sequences, the author returns to the origins of the original sequence and, shedding some of the earlier work's postmodern reductions, returns to a more structured and Modern layout of his preliminary fusion of ideas. Serving as perhaps a Philosophical Investigations to the first sequence's Tractatus, this installment is clearer in its understanding of the exchange between reader and author, and the magic and spilling of ink that goes into the descent of an act of reflection into a materialistic artefact, stream-of-conscious repository, or book.

Apocalypse of Mark
Apocalypse of Mark

Author: Caleb Deassis

Publisher: Caleb Deassis Teaching Ministry

Published: 2022-07-11

Total Pages: 23

ISBN-13: 1662927916

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The Apocalypse of Mark is a Christian book written in the ancient style of apocalyptic literature designed to read like a short narrative book one would find in the Bible, like Job, Ruth, or Esther. Narrator John Mark presents a linear retelling of the Biblical meta-narrative, heavily quoting from and alluding to the Biblical text. Beginning prior to creation and ending in the "new heavens and earth" incorporating enigmatic Biblical passages, it demonstrates how they are indispensable to the overall redemption story. The text also offers the reader hope by exposing the Gospel of Jesus as the central focus of God's relational plan. The text is packed with theological teachings and shows how they are all interconnected. The author began the project by trying to solve the question, "Where do demons come from?" Bolstered by years of research, he presents his findings in a creative and engaging narrative style.

The Far Shore of Time
The Far Shore of Time

Author: Frederik Pohl

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2000-03-15

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9780812577839

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Federal agent Dan Dannerman is captured by aliens, cloned twice and made to undergo painful experiments. Dannerman--all three of him--escapes to Earth and mounts an attack to avenge his inhuman treatment. A look at relations between clones by the author of The Siege of Eternity.

Allegory and Enchantment
Allegory and Enchantment

Author: Jason Crawford

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0198788045

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Allegory and Enchantment is about the genealogies of modernity, and about the lingering power of some of the cultural forms against which modernity defines itself: religion, magic, the sacramental, the medieval. Jason Crawford explores the emergence of modernity by investigating the early modern poetics of allegorical narrative, a literary form that many modern writers have taken to be paradigmatically medieval. He investigates how allegory is intimatelylinked with a self-conscious modernity, and with what many commentators have, in the last century, called 'the disenchantment of the world', in four of the most substantial allegorical narratives produced inearly modern England: William Langland's Piers Plowman, John Skelton's The Bowge of Courte, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.

Escaped Goat
Escaped Goat

Author: Jonathan Malone

Publisher: Jonathan Malone

Published: 2021-03-17

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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The Scapegoat has baffled scholars for ages. Did the Yom Kippur ritual originate in the worship of demons as modern scholars say? Journey with us through the Torah and the Dead Sea Scrolls as we trace the roots of these ideas. Leaving Qumran, we find our path littered with other extra-biblical documents. We examine the internal claims of pseudepigrapha as well as the commentary of paleographers. Will the vaunted wisdom and holiness of the God of Israel stand the test? Or critical theories crumble like the walls of Jericho?