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Author: R. R. Reno
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2002-10-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1441241868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that the postmodern Western church is in ruins and that to be in the church is to embrace a "broken way of life"
Author: Walker Percy
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2011-03-29
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1453216200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVDIV“A great adventure . . . So outrageous and so real, one is left speechless.” —Chicago Sun Times/divDIV/divDIVIn Walker Percy’s future America, the country is on the brink of disaster. With citizens violently polarized along racial, political, and social lines, and a fifteen-year war still raging abroad, America is crumbling quickly into ruin. The country’s one remaining hope is Dr. Thomas More, whose “lapsometer” is capable of diagnosing the spiritual afflictions—anxiety, depression, alienation—driving everyone’s destructive and disastrous behavior./divDIV /divDIVBut such a potent machine has its pitfalls. As Dr. More soon learns, in the wrong hands, the powerful lapsometer could lead to open warfare, pushing America into anarchy at full-speed./div /div
Author: Matt Bays
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780781413831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile many people abandon their faith in times of hopelessness, Matt Bays shows how you can learn how to find God in the ruins.
Author: Mags Duggan
Publisher:
Published: 2018-02-16
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780857465757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhere do we turn when our world is falling apart?It takes courage to hope; to stand in our confusion and grief and still to believe that 'God is not helpless among the ruins'. Guided by Habakkuk and his prophetic landmarks, we are drawn on a reflective journey through the tangled landscape of bewildered faith, through places of wrestling and waiting, and on into the growth space of deepened trust and transformation. As you read, discover for yourself the value and practice of honest prayer, of surrender, of silence and listening, and of irrepressible hoping.
Author: Paul L. Williams
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1633883035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis critical review of the Roman Catholic Church since the pivotal changes initiated in the 1960s by Vatican II paints a disturbing picture of decline and corruption. Dr. Paul L. Williams, a self-professed Tridentine or traditionalist Catholic, traces the various factors that have caused the Church to suffer cataclysmic losses in all aspects of its life and worship in recent decades. Williams illustrates the decline with telling statistics showing the stark difference between the robust number of clergy members, parishes, schools, and active church-going Catholics in 1965 versus the comparatively paltry number today. The author is highly critical of Popes Paul VI, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis for steering the church so far away from its traditional teachings and for a lack of oversight that allowed corruption to fester. Symptomatic of this failure of leadership are the recent pedophilia scandals, the ongoing financial corruption, a gay prostitution ring inside the Vatican, and criminal investigations of connections between the Holy See and organized crime. This unflinching critique from a devoted, lifelong Catholic is a wakeup call to all Catholics to restore their church to its former levels of moral leadership and influence.
Author: Douglas Wilson
Publisher: Canon Press & Book Service
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1885767145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepairing the Ruins is a collection of essays about classical education.
Author: Ralph C. Wood
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2005-05-02
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780802829993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor those looking to deepen their appreciation of Flannery O'Connor, Wood shows how this literary icon's stories, novels, and essays impinge on America's cultural and ecclesial condition.
Author: Ajith Fernando
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2016-07-18
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1433552930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnyone involved in Christian ministry knows how challenging it is to balance ministry and family responsibilities. Many demands pull leaders in different directions—making it easy to neglect one or the other, often without even realizing it. Writing from decades of counseling and personal ministry experience, Ajith Fernando points Christian leaders back to the most important aspect of their lives: their relationship with God. He then offers practical guidance for responding to real-life situations in the home, including disciplining children, dealing with disappointment, loving one's spouse, and pursuing joy. This book presents Christian leaders with a healthy and God-centered understanding of family that leads to a flourishing home.
Author: Heather Wiebe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-10-04
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0521194679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHeather Wiebe's book looks to the music of Benjamin Britten to elucidate a British postwar vision of cultural renewal.
Author: Susan Stewart
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-06-02
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 022679220X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In 'The Ruins Lesson,' the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet-critic Susan Stewart explores the West's fascination with ruins in literature, visual art, and architecture, covering a vast chronological and geographical range from the ancient Egyptians to T. S. Eliot. In the multiplication of images of ruins, artists, and writers she surveys, Stewart shows how these thinkers struggled to recover lessons out of the fragility or our cultural remains. She tries to understand the appeal in the West of ruins and ruination, particularly Roman ruins, in the work and thought of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, whom she returns to throughout the book. Her sweeping, deeply felt study encompasses the founding legends of broken covenants and original sin; Christian transformations of the classical past; the myths and rituals of human fertility; images of ruins in Renaissance allegory, eighteenth-century melancholy, and nineteenth-century cataloguing; and new gardens that eventually emerged from ancient sites of disaster"--
