The Gentle, Jealous God

The Gentle, Jealous God
Author: Simon Perris
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2016-10-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1472513010

Euripides' Bacchae is the magnum opus of the ancient world's most popular dramatist and the most modern, perhaps postmodern, of Greek tragedies. Twentieth-century poets and playwrights have often turned their hand to Bacchae, leaving the play with an especially rich and varied translation history. It has also been subjected to several fashions of criticism and interpretation over the years, all reflected in, influencing, and influenced by translation. The Gentle, Jealous God introduces the play and surveys its wider reception; examines a selection of English translations from the early 20th century to the early 21st, setting them in their social, intellectual, and cultural context; and argues, finally, that Dionysus and Bacchae remain potent cultural symbols even now. Simon Perris presents a fascinating cultural history of one of world theatre's landmark classics. He explores the reception of Dionysus, Bacchae, and the classical ideal in a violent and turmoil-ridden era. And he demonstrates by example that translation matters, or should matter, to readers, writers, actors, directors, students, and scholars of ancient drama.

This Hyena Is Going to Heaven

This Hyena Is Going to Heaven
Author: Grace King’ara
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2011-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1450287115

Samburu. The promised land for a jungle kingdom within a land of sunshine called Kenya. Nearly all the animals are God-fearing Christians. Every Sunday, the pets of God worship him under a sacred tree and Socialize with their neighbors. Sadly, no one ever invites Hyena, a lonely atheist, agonist, or something who desperately wants to be someones friend. The dragon god has chosen a holy slumber rather than annihilate them all for serving an imaginary unseen God. Meanwhile, the animals decide to realign their allegiance and feed the god in his sleep hoping when he wakes up, he will make everyone as wise and powerful as gods. A stone altar is built for food offerings. Soon the animals are bowing and tithing the best of their meager food to the dragon. But the dragon god is livid, and chaos is about to erupt on the top of Devils Mountain. In this Christian fairy tale, the Dragon Slayer slowly unsheathes his sword. But it is up to the Pets of God to let him save their future. They must call him by The Name . The author calls her original style Holycraft, an onslaught on witchcraft in the book shelves. This is the first of The Pets of God series.

Life on the Level

Life on the Level
Author: Jon Lands
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 098546335X

Life on the Level is a practical commentary on the book of James. James warns us of the problem of double mindedness that results in an imbalance in our walk with Christ.

A Study of: The Book of Matthew

A Study of: The Book of Matthew
Author: Frank Abrahamsen
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2019-02-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0359403956

This study will not concentrate on disputable theories, rather it will present the history of the author, and a commentary on the Book of Matthew. God's Word is alive and it is all we need to understand His Word for the Word explains itself. There is no great mystery to the scriptures, they are for all to acknowledge and understand by the Holy Spirit.

Titans

Titans
Author: Charles Guernon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1922
Genre:
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Godly Jealousy

Godly Jealousy
Author: Erik Thoennes
Publisher: Mentor
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781845500276

Divine jealousy plays a central role in God's activities throughout human history yet you never see "jealous" as one of the desired qualities of leaders within the church. Thoennes shows that jealousy is a primary attribute of great leaders in the Bible.

Bernanos

Bernanos
Author: Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2011-10-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1681490552

This book is a double-treat: it combines the genius of the towering theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar and his ability to make his subject come alive before the reader, along with the focus of that genius on someone with the spiritual depth and creative stature of Georges Bernanos, considered by many to be the greatest Catholic creative writer of the twentieth century. The goal of this book is to simply convey what Bernanos wanted to say as the devout Christian that he was. Bernanos was a deeply prayerful, practicing sacramental Catholic whose profound love for the Church made everything he created or wrote an "ecclesial existence that has been given form: existence derived not merely from an abstract, individual faith but from the faith of the Church." With judicious quoting of the primary source and careful juxtaposing of texts and commentary, Balthasar provides a unique forum from which Bernanos can speak to the reader in a way that he can be clearly heard and genuinely understood.