HopeFound in Paradise Lost
Author: Luann Grambow
Publisher: Xulon Press
Published: 2006-11
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 1600348319
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The Highlands of West Papua
Author: Marthen Yadlogon Medlama
Publisher: Nas Media Pustaka
Published: 2022-12-11
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 6233516900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWest Papua hardly ever makes the news in the country where I live, New Zealand. When it does, it is generally for unhappy reasons. As I was putting the finishing touches on my edit of Marthen Medlama’s manuscript, there was a report on our national radio station of seven young West Papuans being arrested on the very serious charge of treason for waving the Morning Star flag and for shouting in favour of West Papuan independence. As I listened, thanks to this book, I felt I understood. We are in a phase of history where much of the world is acknowledging and atoning for the sins of colonialism. Yet parts of the world have not finished with colonising. For better or for worse — so far, for the West Papuans, for the worse — the Dutch territories on New Guinea Island were handed to Indonesia in a backroom deal brokered by the US in the 1960s. It can hardly be a coincidence that even before the ink was dry, American interests were joining with the Indonesian government to exploit the vast mineral resources of West Papua. So, while most former colonial powers are wringing their hands over their self-interested exploitation of their sometime colonies and the terrible harm done, they are turning a blind eye as the same wrong is perpetrated in the present day. It is past time for the world to start paying attention to what is happening in West Papua.
A PREACHER'S PARADISE LOST
Author: JOHN JAMES SEKOH
Publisher: JOHN JAMES SEKOH ABEKAH
Published: 2024-08-28
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the heart of Ghana, Reverend Kojo Mensah is revered as a man of God—a charismatic leader who draws thousands to his church with his fiery sermons and promises of divine blessings. But behind the pulpit, Mensah harbors dark secrets that contradict everything he preaches. His life is a carefully crafted illusion, hiding a web of deceit, corruption, and heinous crimes that reach the highest levels of power. When Detective Kwesi Agyeman, a relentless investigator known for his unyielding pursuit of justice, is assigned to a high-profile case, he uncovers a trail that leads straight to Mensah's door. As the investigation intensifies, the cracks in Mensah's facade begin to show, and the walls of his self-made paradise start closing in. With evidence mounting and judgment day looming, Mensah is faced with a choice that will seal his fate forever. "A Preacher's Paradise Lost" is a gripping crime thriller that delves into the dark side of power, faith, and human nature. As Mensah's world unravels, the story exposes the devastating consequences of living a double life and the ultimate price of deception. This riveting tale will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page, as the truth behind Rev. Mensah's heavenly mirage is finally revealed.
British Writers
Author: Ian Scott-Kilvert
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of critical essays covers writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day.
Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture
Author: John Clubbe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-05
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 131721501X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2005. Since the early nineteenth century, Byron, the man and his image, have captured the hearts and minds of untold legions of people of all political and social stripes in Britain, Europe, America, and around the world. This book focuses on the history and cultural significance for Federal America of the only portrait of Byron known to have been painted by a major artist. In private hands from 1826 until this day, Thomas Sulley’s Byron has never before been the subject of scholarly study. Beginning with the discovery of the portrait in 1999 and a 200-year narrative of the portrait’s provenance and its relation to other well-known Byron portraits, the author discusses the work within the broad context of British and American portraiture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Routledge Library Editions: Lord Byron
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-02-25
Total Pages: 1864
ISBN-13: 131719876X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis set reissues 7 books on the Romantic poet Lord Byron originally published between 1957 and 2005. The volumes examine Byron’s poetry, his poetic development, and his social and private life. Lord Byron’s epic satiric poem Don Juan is examined by some of the leading scholars of Romanticism.
Gluttony and Gratitude
Author: Emily E. Stelzer
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0271089814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite the persistence and popularity of addressing the theme of eating in Paradise Lost, the tradition of Adam and Eve’s sin as one of gluttony—and the evidence for Milton’s adaptation of this tradition—has been either unnoticed or suppressed. Emily Stelzer provides the first book-length work on the philosophical significance of gluttony in this poem, arguing that a complex understanding of gluttony and of ideal, grateful, and gracious eating informs the content of Milton’s writing. Working with contextual material in the fields of physiology, philosophy, theology, and literature and building on recent scholarship on Milton’s experience of and knowledge about matter and the body, Stelzer draws connections between Milton’s work and both underexamined textual influences (including, for example, Gower’s Confessio Amantis) and well-recognized ones (such as Augustine’s City of God and Galen’s On the Natural Faculties).
Contemporary American Theologies II
Author: Deane William Ferm
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 400
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristian Mysticism and Australian Poetry
Author: Toby Davidson
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published:
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1621967948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAustralian poetry is popularly conceived as a tradition founded by the wry, secular and stoic strains of its late-nineteenth-century bush balladeers Adam Lindsay Gordon, Henry Lawson and ‘Banjo’ Paterson, consolidated into a land-based ‘vigour’ in publications such as the Bulletin. Yet this popular conception relies on not actually consulting the poetry itself, which for well over one hundred and fifty years has been cerebral, introspective, feminine and highly — even experimentally — religious. This book casts Australian poetry in a new light by showing how Australian Christian mystical poetics can be found in every era of Australian letters, how literary hostilities towards women poets, eroticism and contemplation served to stifle a critical appreciation of mystical poetics until recent decades, and how in the twentieth century one Australian Christian mystical poet began to influence another and share their appreciations of Dante, Donne, Traherne, Blake, Wordsworth, Brontë, Rossetti, Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot and Lowell.
The Promise of the Future
Author: Cornelis P. Venema
Publisher: Banner of Truth
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780851517933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThough we can never, in our time-bound state, know the future in detail, God in his mercy has not left us in complete ignorance of what is to come. His revelation in Holy Scripture has cast a flood of light on what would otherwise remain an impenetrable mystery. Even among those who accept the Bible's authority, however, there has never been complete agreement on what Scripture teaches in this area. This major new examination of biblical teaching on the future of the individual, of the church and of the universe as a whole will be useful both to theological students and to informed non-specialists. Ranging over the whole field, it interacts extensively with recent literature on disputed issues, such as the nature of the intermediate state, the millennium of Revelation 20 and the doctrine of eternal punishment, always seeking to answer the fundamental question: 'What do the Scriptures teach?' The Christ-centered nature of biblical teaching on the future is emphasized, as is the importance of the church's historic confessions for an understanding of eschatology. The chief note sounded is one of hope: 'God's people eagerly await Christ's return because it promises the completion of God's work of redemption. The future is bright because it is full of promise, the promise of God's Word.' - Jacket flap.
