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Author: Otto Reimherr
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780941664264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays that portray the role and diverse expressions of religious freedom in Pennsylvania history and point to Pennsylvania's unique contribution to the rise of religious liberty in America. Illustrated.
Author: Joseph Loconte
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2012-06-04
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1595554475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNever before had they known such hope. In a world drenched in violence and oppression, here was a man armed with a message of peace and freedom. Into lives nearly overwhelmed by grief and sorrow, he brought compassion and healing and the deepest joy. To people who felt like outcasts and aliens, he showed the way home. And then, in one devastating night, all their hopes collapsed. This is where our story begins—in the valley of despair. It is a tale of two friends, a stranger, and a search for truth in a world gone mad with doubt. Historian Joseph Loconte unlocks the meaning of their exchange, set in the chaotic days following the execution of Jesus of Nazareth. Drawing from literature, film, philosophy, history, and politics, Loconte shows how this biblical drama is an integral part of our own story. Sooner or later, we will find ourselves among the searchers.
Author: Jack Weatherford
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016-10-25
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0735221162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA landmark biography by the New York Times bestselling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World that reveals how Genghis harnessed the power of religion to rule the largest empire the world has ever known. Throughout history the world's greatest conquerors have made their mark not just on the battlefield, but in the societies they have transformed. Genghis Khan conquered by arms and bravery, but he ruled by commerce and religion. He created the world's greatest trading network and drastically lowered taxes for merchants, but he knew that if his empire was going to last, he would need something stronger and more binding than trade. He needed religion. And so, unlike the Christian, Taoist and Muslim conquerors who came before him, he gave his subjects freedom of religion. Genghis lived in the 13th century, but he struggled with many of the same problems we face today: How should one balance religious freedom with the need to reign in fanatics? Can one compel rival religions - driven by deep seated hatred--to live together in peace? A celebrated anthropologist whose bestselling Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World radically transformed our understanding of the Mongols and their legacy, Jack Weatherford has spent eighteen years exploring areas of Mongolia closed until the fall of the Soviet Union and researching The Secret History of the Mongols, an astonishing document written in code that was only recently discovered. He pored through archives and found groundbreaking evidence of Genghis's influence on the founding fathers and his essential impact on Thomas Jefferson. Genghis Khan and the Quest for God is a masterpiece of erudition and insight, his most personal and resonant work.
Author: Sidney Hook
Publisher:
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays by a contemporary American philosopher on secularism, religion, moral freedom, etc., published in journals covering the years 1934-1960.
Author: Kersten Hamilton
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
Published: 2007-09-18
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781934306130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1830s, Laylie Colbert and her brother Luke attempt escape from the Southern Carolina plantation where they are slaves, and their faith helps them along the way.
Author: Corina Pataki
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2023-09-05
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWolf dogs, mud pits and capture... oh my! Immerse yourself in "The Quest for Freedom: Revised Edition," a captivating journey recounted by Corina Pataki, a native of Romania, from Romania's era of suffocating communism and stifling government. Amidst seemingly insurmountable odds, Corina unveils her family's unyielding pursuit of freedom while shedding light on the remarkable power of hope. Venture alongside them into a realm where supernatural forces intertwine with the mortal realm, transcending boundaries between space and time, between the supernatural, ethereal and cosmic planes. Within this captivating narrative, we witness this family's unwavering determination and the beacon of a brighter future that steered them through perilous trials, guided by interventions from unexpected sources, both spiritual, celestial, and human. Corina's vivid storytelling reminds readers that even in the bleakest moments a spark of hope, faith, and the unwavering spirit to endure breaks through the shadows of despair. Through this incredible journey, we're reminded that the Divine Creator orchestrates circumstances for our ultimate good, even in the seeming face of death. Each of us at times must embark on a personal quest for freedom, striving to break the chains that confine us and walk out our liberation. Just as supernatural interventions propelled their path to freedom, the same awaits anyone choosing their own liberation. Our inherent connection to the Divine Source will always empower us to overcome any obstacle on our personal quest for freedom. Order your copy today and then order one for your friend or family that maybe needs encouragement to engage in their quest for freedom!
Author: Douglas Davis
Publisher:
Published: 2018-05-17
Total Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9781641917056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBecome involved in Hunter's westward quest for freedom during the Civil War, when the forced "Long Walk" and tragic enslavement threatened the destruction of his proud people. This Navajo youth displays three loves of homeland, culture and tribe while struggling with daily survival issues, dangerous wildlife, and the greed of soldiers determined to eliminate this cherished freedom. Religious enlightenment develops for Hunter while "walking in beauty" with nature, and contending with convoluted cross roads of truth and irony. Freedom has never been free!
Author: Eric Foner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1999-09-07
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780393319620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFreedom is the cornerstone of his sweeping narrative that focuses not only congressional debates and political treatises since the Revolution but how the fight for freedom took place on plantation and picket lines and in parlors and bedrooms.
Author: Thomas F. Farr
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-11-07
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 019988451X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVirtually every trouble spot on the planet has some sort of religious component. One need only consider Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran, Israel and Palestine, Turkey, India, Pakistan, Russia, and China, to name but a few. Looming behind national issues, of course, is the problem of regional Islamist extremism and transnational Islamist terrorism. In all of these sectors, religious tensions, ideas and actors are of great geo-political importance to the United States. Yet, argues Thomas Farr, our foreign policy is gravely handicapped by an inability to understand the role of religion either nationally or globally. There is a strong disinclination in American diplomacy to consider religious factors at all, either as part of the problem or part of the solution. In this engaging and well-written insider account, Farr offers a closely reasoned argument that religious freedom, the freedom to practice one's own religion in private and in public, is an essential prerequisite for a stable, durable democratic society. If the U.S. wants to foster democracy that lasts, he says, it must focus on fostering religious liberty, especially in its public manifestations, properly limited in a way that advances the common good. Although we ourselves have developed a remarkably successful model of religious freedom, our foreign policy favors an aggressive secularism that is at odds with the American model. It is essential, says Farr, that we take an approach that recognizes the great importance of religion in people's lives.
Author: Kevin A. McMahon
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2015-07-01
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1498500366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt has always been understood that the central claim of Christianity—that Jesus born of Mary is the Son of God—is as much a declaration of the mystery of the human as it is the mystery of God; just as the claim that in virtue of this identity he is the Christ who restores, and more, transforms, the created order, intensifies the mystery of the human even further. When the age of revolution was followed by the age of science, and the effort to shape the environment by technology was joined by an injunction to shape societies and economies, and class conflicts became part of world conflicts, the question about the human emerged as a crisis in the meaning of being human. Yet the Catholic mind, preoccupied like every other with the crisis, has conducted its reflection within a tradition of Christian humanism, insisting on the mystery and the tragedy, and still the dignity, of the human. This collection of essays by thirteen Catholic scholars of philosophy, theology, and political thought investigates a range of topics from human sexuality and marriage to moral freedom and responsibility in a pluralistic society, while demonstrating that the Gospel, passed on in an ecclesial tradition, entered into through a sacramental tradition, remains the one radical source of confidence in the quest for human truth.
