The Fabric Of Sin
Download The Fabric Of Sin full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free The Fabric Of Sin ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Phil Rickman |
Publisher | : Quercus Books |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781847240842 |
The Master House, close to the Welsh border, is medieval and slowly falling into ruin. Now the house and its surrounding land have been sold to the Duchy of Cornwall, but the Duchy's plans to renovate the house and its outbuildings are frustrated when the specialist builder refuses to work there.
Author | : Phil Rickman |
Publisher | : Quercus |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2013-09-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1623653096 |
December, and the river is rising. The village of Ledwardine has never been flooded in living memory. Within days it will be an island. There's no electricity. The church is serving as a temporary mortuary for two people who drowned. Only one man feels safer. An aggressively atheist author has been moved, for his own safety, Rushdie-style, into a secluded house just outside the village. Fundamentalist Christians have hated him for years. Now he's offended the Muslims. Bad move. Meanwhile, archaeologists, assisted by Merrily's teenage daughter, Jane, are at work in Coleman's Meadow, unearthing an ancient row of standing stones which some people would rather stay buried. The atheist's temporary home is close to the site. And his young wife is becoming conspicuously agitated. Is it the fear of discovery--or the kind of fear that she, of all people, could never disclose? One thing is clear: the last person who's going to be welcome in that house is an exorcist. With the flood water washing up Church Lane towards the vicarage and the shop running out of cigarettes it looks like a cold and complex Christmas for Merrily Watkins in an ancient community forced to untangle its own history against the swirling uncertainty of the future.
Author | : Gary A. Anderson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2009-09-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0300154879 |
What is sin? Is it simply wrongdoing? Why do its effects linger over time? In this sensitive, imaginative, and original work, Gary Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin and forgiveness lay at the very heart of the biblical tradition. Spanning nearly two thousand years, the book brilliantly demonstrates how sin, once conceived of as a physical burden, becomes, over time, eclipsed by economic metaphors. Transformed from a weight that an individual carried, sin becomes a debt that must be repaid in order to be redeemed in God's eyes. Anderson shows how this ancient Jewish revolution in thought shaped the way the Christian church understood the death and resurrection of Jesus and eventually led to the development of various penitential disciplines, deeds of charity, and even papal indulgences. In so doing it reveals how these changing notions of sin provided a spur for the Protestant Reformation. Broad in scope while still exceptionally attentive to detail, this ambitious and profound book unveils one of the most seismic shifts that occurred in religious belief and practice, deepening our understanding of one of the most fundamental aspects of human experience.
Author | : Virginia Postrel |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1541617614 |
From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide. The story of humanity is the story of textiles -- as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world. Textiles funded the Renaissance and the Mughal Empire; they gave us banks and bookkeeping, Michelangelo's David and the Taj Mahal. The cloth business spread the alphabet and arithmetic, propelled chemical research, and taught people to think in binary code. Assiduously researched and deftly narrated, The Fabric of Civilization tells the story of the world's most influential commodity.
Author | : Phil Rickman |
Publisher | : Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0857890220 |
Merrily is called to investigate a possible ghost sighting in her seventh fascinating adventure In the affluent, historic town of Ludlow, a teenage boy dies in a fall from the castle ruins. Accident or suicide? No great mystery—so why does the boy's uncle, retired detective Andy Mumford, turn to diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins? More people will die before Merrily, her own future uncertain, uncovers a dangerous obsession with suicide, death, and the afterlife hidden within these shadowed medieval streets.
Author | : Phil Rickman |
Publisher | : Pan Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2000-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780330374019 |
As an early winter slices through the old city of Hereford, a body is found in the River Wye, an ancient church is descrated, and there are even indications of evil in Hereford Cathedral itself, where the tomb of St. Thomas Cantilupe lies in fragments.
Author | : Phil Rickman |
Publisher | : Atlantic Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0857890166 |
The Merrily Watkins series will have you hooked. Join Merrily in her chilling tales of murder, mystery and intrigue. The new vicar had never wanted a picture-postcard parish - or a huge and haunted vicarage. Nor had she wanted to walk into a dispute over a controversial play about a seventeenth-century clergyman accused of witchcraft... a story that certain long-established families would rather remained obscure. But this is Ledwardine, steeped in cider and secrets... A paradise of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses. And also - as Merrily Watkins and her teenage daughter, Jane, discover - a village where horrific murder is a tradition that spans centuries. Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and criminal better than Rickman. - Guardian
Author | : Lee Hardy |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1990-05-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780802802989 |
This is an historical, philosophical, theological--and practical--exploration of work from an evangelical perspective, highlighting the Christian concept of vocation as articulated by Luther and Calvin, and making relevant applications for today.
Author | : Phil Rickman |
Publisher | : Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 589 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0857890212 |
The sixth Merrily Watkins mystery finds her daughter embarking on a first job, and running into a dark local legend A crumbling hotel on the border of England and Wales, a suggestion of inherited evil, a strange love affair, and the long-disputed origins of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles. Fascinating for young Jane Watkins, flushed by the freedom of her first weekend job. But the sinister side becomes increasingly apparent to her mother, Merrily, diocesan exorcist for Hereford. Then come memories of a child-killer, blood in the fresh snow.
Author | : John Piper |
Publisher | : Crossway |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1433502755 |
John Piper poignantly shares what God wants us to know about his sovereignty and Christ's supremacy when we encounter sin or tragedy.