Apocalyptic Kingdom

Apocalyptic Kingdom
Author: Michael Kelley
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Total Pages: 179
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 145664064X

As the Great Tribulation draws near, Zonera reckons with her new-found faith and embarks on a journey of self-discovery, survival, and redemption. Will she muster enough hope to succeed? Zonera, a twenty-one-year-old Pakistani woman, sits in a sterile fertility clinic and dreads the events that will happen next. She's seven months pregnant, wrestling with school, wife duties, and the anxiety of her baby's gender. If it's a boy, not only will her harsh and forbidding husband, Akeem, be pleased, but she might also be able to breathe a little lighter. There is no place for a little girl in the cruel world she lives in. The way she's been treated by Akeem and everyone else around her weighs heavy on her heart. It has to be a boy, she allows herself to hope amid the buzzing in her mind thanks to the mysterious man in the waiting room with her. What she doesn't realize is that this man, with his wrinkled eyes and benevolent reassurances, will signal what's to come... for her and for the rest of mankind. Confused, she tries to make sense of the man's presence with her OBGYN, Dr. Liu -- a kind and gentle Christian woman who, ironically, found safety in a Muslim community. Now curious, Zonera opens up to Dr. Liu about her worries and the latter returns the favor by sharing her faith. For some reason, Zonera gets a strange sense of hope for better things to come. But, her reverie is cut short as a series of bewildering events starts taking place. Now, Zonera is forced to reckon with what's happening in front of her and tries to make sense of it all. Is this the beginning of the end? Find out for yourself in "Apocalyptic Kingdom"! If you're looking for a captivating Christian apocalyptic read with a refreshing twist, then get ready to meet your next favorite book!

Hollow Kingdom

Hollow Kingdom
Author: Kira Jane Buxton
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 153874581X

A finalist for the 2020 Thurber Prize for American Humor! "The Secret Life of Pets meets The Walking Dead" in this big-hearted, boundlessly beautiful romp through the Apocalypse, where a foul-mouthed crow is humanity's only chance to survive Seattle's zombie problem (Karen Joy Fowler, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author). S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (i.e. "those idiots"), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos ®. But when Big Jim's eyeball falls out of his head, S.T. starts to think something's not quite right. His tried-and-true remedies—from beak-delivered beer to the slobbering affection of Big Jim's loyal but dim-witted dog, Dennis—fail to cure Big Jim's debilitating malady. S.T. is left with no choice but to abandon his old life and venture out into a wild and frightening new world with his trusty steed Dennis, where he suddenly discovers that the neighbors are devouring one other. Local wildlife is abuzz with rumors of Seattle's dangerous new predators. Humanity's extinction has seemingly arrived, and the only one determined to save it is a cowardly crow whose only knowledge of the world comes from TV. What could possibly go wrong? Includes a Reading Group Guide.

Apocalypse without God

Apocalypse without God
Author: Ben Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2022-04-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316517055

Explains why apocalyptic thought, despite often being dismissed as bizarre, has persistent appeal in political life.

The Electric Kingdom

The Electric Kingdom
Author: David Arnold
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0593202244

New York Times bestseller David Arnold's most ambitious novel to date; Station Eleven meets The 5th Wave in a genre-smashing story of survival, hope, and love amid a ravaged earth. When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the survivors are eighteen-year-old Nico and her dog, on a voyage devised by Nico's father to find a mythical portal; a young artist named Kit, raised in an old abandoned cinema; and the enigmatic Deliverer, who lives Life after Life in an attempt to put the world back together. As swarms of infected Flies roam the earth, these few survivors navigate the woods of post-apocalyptic New England, meeting others along the way, each on their own quest to find life and love in a world gone dark. The Electric Kingdom is a sweeping exploration of art, storytelling, eternal life, and above all, a testament to the notion that even in an exterminated world, one person might find beauty in another.

Jesus

Jesus
Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1999-09-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199839433

In this highly accessible discussion, Bart Ehrman examines the most recent textual and archaeological sources for the life of Jesus, along with the history of first-century Palestine, drawing a fascinating portrait of the man and his teachings. Ehrman shows us what historians have long known about the Gospels and the man who stands behind them. Through a careful evaluation of the New Testament (and other surviving sources, including the more recently discovered Gospels of Thomas and Peter), Ehrman proposes that Jesus can be best understood as an apocalyptic prophet--a man convinced that the world would end dramatically within the lifetime of his apostles and that a new kingdom would be created on earth. According to Ehrman, Jesus' belief in a coming apocalypse and his expectation of an utter reversal in the world's social organization not only underscores the radicalism of his teachings but also sheds light on both the appeal of his message to society's outcasts and the threat he posed to Jerusalem's established leadership.

Revelation

Revelation
Author:
Publisher: Canongate Books
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0857861018

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.

Apocalyptic Kingdom

Apocalyptic Kingdom
Author: M. J. Kelley
Publisher: Ebookit.com
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-06-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781456640699

As the Great Tribulation draws near, Zonera reckons with her new-found faith and embarks on a journey of self-discovery, survival, and redemption. Will she muster enough hope to succeed? Zonera, a twenty-one-year-old Pakistani woman, sits in a sterile fertility clinic and dreads the events that will happen next. She's seven months pregnant, wrestling with school, wife duties, and the anxiety of her baby's gender. If it's a boy, not only will her harsh and forbidding husband, Akeem, be pleased, but she might also be able to breathe a little lighter. There is no place for a little girl in the cruel world she lives in. The way she's been treated by Akeem and everyone else around her weighs heavy on her heart. It has to be a boy, she allows herself to hope amid the buzzing in her mind thanks to the mysterious man in the waiting room with her. What she doesn't realize is that this man, with his wrinkled eyes and benevolent reassurances, will signal what's to come... for her and for the rest of mankind. Confused, she tries to make sense of the man's presence with her OBGYN, Dr. Liu - a kind and gentle Christian woman who, ironically, found safety in a Muslim community. Now curious, Zonera opens up to Dr. Liu about her worries and the latter returns the favor by sharing her faith. For some reason, Zonera gets a strange sense of hope for better things to come. But, her reverie is cut short as a series of bewildering events starts taking place. Now, Zonera is forced to reckon with what's happening in front of her and tries to make sense of it all. Is this the beginning of the end? Find out for yourself in "Apocalyptic Kingdom"! If you're looking for a captivating Christian apocalyptic read with a refreshing twist, then get ready to meet your next favorite book!

Apocalyptic Good News

Apocalyptic Good News
Author: R. Dean Drayton
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2019-07-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532690266

Remarkable studies in the New Testament have recovered the fact that the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ, was apocalyptic good news—God’s redemptive action within history. Today, for more and more people, the sheer scope of an evolutionary universe renders life on Earth as utterly insignificant, religion as nothing more than superstition. And now, in the Anthropocene, we on the pale blue dot live in an apocalyptic age in which cataclysmic issue after cataclysmic issue threaten the future of the planet. The faith of the early church was in an apocalyptic cosmic Christ unleashing within history God’s good news of a new creation. Set within the world as we now know it, this gives meaning to the cosmos and life wherever it is found around any star. Screened from view for over a millennium during mission to non-apocalyptic cultures, now is the time for a new paradigm for church, the “apocalyptic church” for an apocalyptic age to replace the denominational church. What a difference this makes to faith, worship, and the role of the church in an apocalyptic future.

The Apocalyptic Trinity

The Apocalyptic Trinity
Author: T. Altizer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2012-12-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1137276223

This book is a major step forward in radical theology via a sustained and creative challenge to conventional and orthodox thinking on the Trinity. Altizer presents a radical rethinking of the apocalyptic trinity and recovers the apocalyptic Jesus of Hegel, Blake, and Nietzsche.

Apocalyptic AI

Apocalyptic AI
Author: Robert M. Geraci
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2012-11-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0199964009

Apocalyptic AI, the hope that we might one day upload our minds into machines and live forever in cyberspace, is a surprisingly wide-spread and influential idea. Robert Geraci points out that the rhetoric of 'Apocalyptic AI' is strikingly similar to that of the apocalyptic traditions of Judaism and Christianity.