Offense and Offensiveness
Offense and Offensiveness

Author: Andrew Sneddon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-02

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1000218228

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This book offers a comprehensive study of the nature and significance of offense and offensiveness. It incorporates insights from moral philosophy and moral psychology to rationally reconstruct our ordinary ideas and assumptions about these notions. When someone claims that something is offensive, others are supposed to listen. Why? What is it for something to be offensive? Likewise, it’s supposed to matter if someone claims to have been offended. Is this correct? In this book, Andrew Sneddon argues that we should think of offense as a moralized bad feeling. He explains offensiveness in terms of symbolic value. We tend to give claims of both offense and offensiveness more credence than they deserve. While it is in principle possible for there to be genuine moral problems of offense and offensiveness, we should expect such problems to be rare. Offense and Offensiveness: A Philosophical Account will be of interest to scholars and students working in moral philosophy and moral psychology.

Talk Yourself Happy
Talk Yourself Happy

Author: Kristi Watts

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2017-01-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0718083849

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Former cohost of The 700 Club Kristi Watts reveals the pitfalls that keep Christians from true joy and demonstrates the transformational power of speaking the words and promises of God. How does a person bounce back after being beaten down personally, professionally, and emotionally? What impact do words, thoughts, and beliefs have in determining one’s level of happiness? Kristi Watts asked herself these questions after her marriage dissolved and she left a high-profile position as a cohost of The 700 Club. Initially excited to walk into a new season of life that she thought held the key to happiness, she soon stumbled into emotional pitfalls that left her discouraged, disappointed, and distant from God. Known as the upbeat host who was always filled with joy and laughter, she was anything but—yet she was determined to get her happy back! But how? By learning, as Kristi did, that true happiness is not simply acquired but rather cultivated. When one’s words focus on faulty perspectives, faith is quickly derailed, but by remembering God’s blessings and verbally claiming His promises, hearts change. Using biblical principles, Talk Yourself Happy illustrates the importance of relying on God to tame our tongues and train our minds, and it exposes the hidden traps that keep Christians from living lives of happiness, empowering readers with the ultimate transformation of their hearts.

Matthew 1-13
Matthew 1-13

Author: Manlio Simonetti

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2014-02-19

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 0830897410

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The Gospel of Matthew stands out as a favorite biblical text among patristic commentators, including Origen, Hilary of Poitiers, Jerome, Theodore of Heraclea, Cyril of Alexandria, John Chrysostom, Augustine, and more. In this ACCS volume, the rich abundance of patristic comment provides a feast of ancient interpretation of the First Gospel.

The Bait of Satan (Book with DVD)
The Bait of Satan (Book with DVD)

Author: John Bevere

Publisher: Charisma Media

Published: 2010-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781616381967

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How to maintain a positive relationship with God in the face of adversity from others.

Approaching Oblivion
Approaching Oblivion

Author: Harlan Ellison

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1497604923

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“Ellison’s stories punch where it hurts . . .and span from baroque far future speculations to near future warnings” (Science Fiction Ruminations). Over the course of his legendary career, Harlan Ellison has defied—and sometimes defined—modern fantasy literature, all while refusing to allow any genre to claim him. A Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association, as well as winner of countless awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar, and Bram Stoker, Ellison is as unpredictable as he is unique, irrepressible as he is infuriating. Over thirty titles in Ellison’s brilliant catalog are now available in an elegant new package featuring Ellison himself. Genius never felt so combustible. The New York Times called him “relentlessly honest” and then used him as the subject of its famous Sunday Acrostic. People said there was no one like him, then cursed him for preventing easy sleep. But in these stories, Harlan Ellison outdoes himself, rampaging like a mad thing through love (“Cold Friend,” “Kiss of Fire,” “Paulie Charmed the Sleeping Woman”), hate (“Knox,” “Silent in Gehenna”), sex (“Catman,” “Erotophobia”), lost childhood (“One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty”), and into such bizarre subjects as the problems of blue‐skinned, eleven‐armed Yiddish aliens, what it is like to witness the end of the world, and what happens on the day the planet Earth swallows Barbra Streisand. Oh yeah, this one is a doozy!

Escaped the Night
Escaped the Night

Author: Jennifer Blyth

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2016-01-03

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1491786302

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Shanntal is like any other teenager, except for the mysterious nightmares that seem to foretell a shadowy future. One night while playing with an Ouija board during a sleepover, Shanntal and her friend unwittingly summon Daray, a vampire who says they will soon be together. Visibly shaken, Shanntal has no idea that the cryptic message seemingly intended for her is just the beginning. When Shanntal returns home the next day, she discovers her family has been killed by mysterious bites. After moving in with her aunt and uncle, Shanntal eventually meets Jayce, an immoral who unveils a new realm and Shanntal’s destiny. As she falls in love and befriends fairies, shape shifters, and others, she is hunted by an evil being as her past rises up and triggers her memory, reminding her that she is the one who can walk in both worlds. While Shanntal becomes torn between her love for Jayce and her loyalty to Daray, the two worlds hang on the precipice of change. Only one is the key to ensuring peace—if she is strong enough to survive. Escaped the Night is a tale of good versus evil as a teenager comes of age, learns her destiny, and battles to keep harmony in a paranormal world where only true love endures.

The Dark Lady
The Dark Lady

Author: Mike Resnick

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2024-12-24

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1504099370

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An alien art expert is caught in a dangerous hunt for an enigmatic beauty in this science fiction classic by a five-time Hugo Award–winning author. For thousands of years the Dark Lady has appeared in portraits across the galaxy, but very little is known about her. She wears only black. She has been seen by many but known by few. And if you do see her, it will be after you’ve taken your last breath . . . Alien art historian Leonardo has seen paintings of the Dark Lady before and sees her image again when he comes to work at a human art gallery. There he meets a wealthy old collector who hires him to track down portraits of the mysterious woman. However, Leonardo is not alone in his search. There’s an art thief out to make some money, and a man desperate to see the model herself in the flesh. Legend says that the Dark Lady summons men to great deeds or to their demise. As Leonardo’s search begins, his obsession with the woman grows. She will either be the key to his salvation or his destruction . . .