The Spirituality of the Cross
The Spirituality of the Cross

Author: Gene Edward Veith (Jr.)

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780758669599

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"The Spirituality of the Cross presents adults with a true understanding of Christianity-one that is grounded in Christ's death and resurrection. The author presents a true understanding of justification by faith, the Means of Grace, the two kingdoms, worship, and the Church. This third edition will be updated throughout to include modern examples, and new material will discuss such issues as secularism; the use of the term spirituality; the materiality of creation, incarnation, and the Sacraments; an expanded discussion of vocation; New Age references; and popular errors (e.g., prosperity Gospel)"--

Pieces of Grace
Pieces of Grace

Author: Karen Gibson

Publisher:

Published: 2021-03-13

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781736826706

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Grace believed she went from losing it all to having it all. In a desperate attempt to put her life back together, Grace, divorced and jobless, leaves Tucson to return to Chicago-a place she never planned to call home again. She also never planned to fall for Benjamin Hayward. Drawn into the fairytale existence of his power and wealth, Grace is unable to see what her family and friends see, and ignores the warning signs of Dr. Benjamin Hayward's dark side. Benjamin's secrets-the death of his mentally ill wife and the disappearance of his daughter-push Grace into an abyss deeper than the one that brought her home in the first place, and she risks losing even more. Pieces of Grace is a complicated story of relationships confused by undercurrents of mental illness. Readers find themselves hoping family and friends can carry Grace through her most difficult moments.

Towns and Villages of the Lower Ohio
Towns and Villages of the Lower Ohio

Author: Darrel E. Bigham

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780813131146

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No other region in America is so fraught with projected meaning as Appalachia. Many people who have never set foot in Appalachia have very definite ideas about what the region is like. Whether these assumptions originate with movies like Deliverance (1972) and Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), from Robert F. Kennedy's widely publicized Appalachian Tour, or from tales of hiking the Appalachian Trail, chances are these suppositions serve a purpose to the person who holds them. A person's concept of Appalachia may function to reassure them that there remains an "authentic" America untouched by consumerism, to feel a sense of superiority about their lives and regions, or to confirm the notion that cultural differences must be both appreciated and managed. In Selling Appalachia: Popular Fictions, Imagined Geographies, and Imperial Projects, 1878-2003, Emily Satterwhite explores the complex relationships readers have with texts that portray Appalachia and how these varying receptions have created diverse visions of Appalachia in the national imagination. She argues that words themselves not inherently responsible for creating or destroying Appalachian stereotypes, but rather that readers and their interpretations assign those functions to them. Her study traces the changing visions of Appalachia across the decades from the Gilded Age (1865-1895) to the present and includes texts such as John Fox Jr.'s Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Harriet Arnow's Hunter's Horn (1949), and Silas House's Clay's Quilt (2001), charting both the portrayals of Appalachia in fiction and readers' responses to them. Satterwhite's unique approach doesn't just explain how people view Appalachia, it explains why they think that way. This innovative book will be a noteworthy contribution to Appalachian studies, cultural and literary studies, and reception theory.