One of the most violent episodes of China’s Boxer Uprising was the Taiyuan Massacre of 1900, in which rebels killed foreign missionaries and thousands of Chinese Christians. This first sustained scholarly account of the uprising to focus on Shanxi Province illuminates the religious and cultural beliefs on both sides of the conflict and shows how they came to clash. Although Franciscans were the first Catholics to settle in China, their stories have rarely been explored in accounts of Chinese Christianity. Anthony Clark remedies that exclusion and highlights the roles of Franciscan nuns and their counterparts among the Boxers—the Red Lantern girls—to argue that women’s involvement was integral on both sides of the conflict. Drawing on rich archival records and intertwining religious history with political, cultural, and environmental factors, Clark provides a fresh perspective on a pivotal encounter between China and the West.
Could spiritual warfare be an essential part of God's plan for each of us? It's a battle that's been going on since soon after the beginning of time. What began as one archangel's rebellion set the course for all of humanity, unleashing a war of epic proportions. The answers to the basic questions of evil are rooted in this battle, as is the significance of Jesus' stunning victory over Satan on the cross. This heavenly war is all-encompassing, and no part of life remains untouched by it. In this expanded edition of his classic text, bestselling author and Bible teacher Derek Prince explores the inner workings of this intense conflict. His accessible, in-depth exploration will help you identify the devil's unchanging tactics, seize your biblical weapons and learn to wage war against the forces of evil around you. Now includes study questions for even more in-depth study and application. Don't wait. It's time to take your place in the battle--and declare victory.
In War in Heaven Williams gives a contemporary setting to the traditional story of the Search for the Holy Grail. Examining the distinction between magic and religion, this eerily disturbing book graphically portrays a metaphysical journey through the shadowy crevices of the human mind. “Reading Charles Williams is an unforgettable experience.”—SATURDAY REVIEW “...one of the most gifted and influential Christian writers England has produced this century.”—TIME “Charles Williams’s firm conviction that the spiritual world is not simply a reality parallel with that of the material one, but is rather its source and its abiding infrastructure, is explicit in both the manner and matter of all he wrote. Hence the unique contribution offered by his novels to the materialistic age in which these characters live and behave and their plots unfold.”—OWEN BARFIELD “Charles Williams took the form of the thriller and used it to create an extraordinary genre that has sometimes been called ‘spiritual shockers.’ His books are immensely worth reading, even if you consider yourself unspiritual and immune to shock.”—HUMPHREY CARPENTER “...satire, romance, thriller, morality, and glimpses of eternity all rolled into one.”—THE NEW YORK TIMES
When most of us think about the potential of outer space for future generations, we think of world communications, satellite navigation, and scientific exploration. U.S. Space Command, however, thinks about weapons. Believing that conflict in space and wars fought from space are inevitable, the president has called on the agency to weaponize outer space and thus provoke an arms race that could cost the United States trillions of dollars and could lead to the demise of the human race. In War in Heaven, a Nobel Prize-nominated peace activist and a former U.S. foreign service officer (who helped write the Outer Space Treaty of 1967) look at the history of military uses of space and the current plans for "militarizing the heavens," including kinetic, laser, nuclear bombardment, and anti-satellite weapons. Contrary to the claims of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that the United States faces a "space Pearl Harbor," Caldicott and Eisendrath show that the United States itself is today the principal obstruction to passage of an international treaty banning weapons from outer space. At a time when plans to build and deploy space weapons are on the administration's agenda but only just becoming known to the general public, this book will help launch a national discussion of a critical issue.
War exposes the divide between who we think we are and how we behave in extreme situations. Sheri Snively, who served as a Quaker chaplain with the U.S. Navy, has crafted a vivid, unsettling, and ultimately hopeful personal account of the effects of the Iraq war on soldiers and civilians in Heaven in the Midst of Hell. As she served with the Marines working amid the boredom, ten-sion, and seemingly meaningless carnage at a trauma hospital between Ramadi and Fallujah, Commander Snively experienced first-hand the grim reality of combat. As she recounts the way she and the soldiers around her experience war, she negotiates a compassionate path to healing -- marked not by formulaic answers, but by an open and ques-tioning spirit. Illustrated with the author's own evocative photographs, this is a compelling and unforgettable journey into the human soul.
The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Ken Sande, author of the bestselling classic The Peacemaker, has long been a trusted resource on the topic of conflict resolution. In Resolving Everyday Conflict, Sande distills his message to the essentials, quickly equipping readers with the tools they need to bring peace to their relationships. Everyone encounters conflict--whether it be with a coworker, family member, friend, or complete stranger. And yet we all desire harmony in our relationships. Resolving Everyday Conflict is a practical, biblical, concise guide to peacemaking in everyday life that can turn tumultuous relationships into peaceful ones.
This is the sequel to the first volume, "THE WAR FOR HEAVEN." In my many hours of research for the 1st volume, I kept coming across another war for heaven, called, "THE SECOND WAR FOR HEAVEN." So I looked it up, and the 2nd war for heaven is happening now during present day, due to the ongoing conflict between good and evil. I therefore wrote this complete fictional story where God during our time has finally had it with Satan's ongoing deceit and diseased influence over the Holy father's children here on earth, and commands Michael to wipe him out of existence completely this time, to order the Archangel Gabriel to use his celestial horn to signal everything in God's universe that the Apocalypse has now come, which means the final battle between good and evil grows near...The long awaited Battle of Armageddon. However, God informs Michael that prior to the final battle the pure and good mortal souls that still dwell upon the earth must be removed to His kingdom of eternal paradise. God then instructs Michael that God already knew which of the human souls were pure, and God would remove their souls from the earth to heaven. He also informed his commanding general that God already knew which mortal souls were too far corrupted by Satan, and they will remain on the earth and meet their fates after the final battle and will perish in some type of firestorm as foretold by all the ancient texts. However, God's last command to Michael was that their were some human mortal souls that even God Himself was uncertain of, due to their past choices of freewill. He therefore gives Michael His final command to send a certain amount of regular angels disguised as human beings down to earth, and have the angel put their assigned human souls through a life and death test. If the human soul risks his own life to save the angel, have the angel remove their soul and bring them to their eternal reward in God's land of eternal paradise. If the human soul does not risk his own life, and flees away to save themselves and leaves the testing angel behind, to just leave them on the earth to meet their fates of death. That is what this novel mostly consists of, short stories where these disguised angels puts their designed human soul to the test, but you don't know who the angel is or the human being tested until the end of the chapter. While this term of human trails is going on, Michael, along with his Archangel brothers, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel and Azriel plan the final attack against Satan's massed forces in the final battle that takes place upon Israel's Mount Megiddo, which is how the name, "Armageddon," came to be. Also, another unique aspect about these humans being tested are real-life names of my family and close friends, that allowed me the honor of using their real-life names as a fictional character name in these chapters where the angels put these certain set of human souls through a life and death test. The people I know that have read this novel said they had fun trying to determine who was the human being tested, and who was the angel testing them, hopefully as much fun as I did writing it.
