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Author | : Bayard Godsave |
Publisher | : Queen's Ferry Press |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2012-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 098390717X |
Like "snow in the tropics," this collection is a revelation. Clustered as shell-shocked survivors, Bayard Godsave's Lesser Apocalypses occupy the edge of ruin. Though bleak, the stories contained here are enlivened, emboldened, by disaster. A man emotionally undone by his time inside a missile silo, by the turn of his key; a gas mask that reflects a marriage's murkiness; a domestic bomber whose conscience ignites every fuse; a post-nuclear war refugee facing concurrent adolescence, motherhood, and middle age; and two former cosmonauts disengaged from everything but each other are all vivid against a tenebrous backdrop. Underpinned by a series of prophetic vignettes, the book's blast zones are aglowilluminating, through stark humanity, the blazing end of devastation.
Author | : Edward White Benson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Todd R. Hanneken |
Publisher | : Society of Biblical Lit |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2012-06-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 158983643X |
In spite of some scholars’ inclination to include the book of Jubilees as another witness to “Enochic Judaism,” the relationship of Jubilees to the apocalyptic writings and events surrounding the Maccabean revolt has never been adequately clarified. This book builds on scholarship on genre to establish a clear pattern among the ways Jubilees resembles and differs from other apocalypses. Jubilees matches the apocalypses of its day in overall structure and literary morphology. Jubilees also uses the literary genre to raise the issues typical of the apocalypses—including revelation, angels and demons, judgment, and eschatology—but rejects what the apocalypses typically say about those issues, subverting reader expectations with a corrected view. In addition to the main argument concerning Jubilees, this volume’s survey of what is fundamentally apocalyptic about apocalyptic literature advances the understanding of early Jewish apocalyptic literature and, in turn, of later apocalypses and comparable perspectives, including those of Paul and the Qumran sectarians.
Author | : Andrew L. Thomas |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2022-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472133209 |
Illuminates the impact of Jews and Turks on the life and work of influential reformer Andreas Osiander
Author | : Srećko Horvat |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2021-02-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1509540091 |
In this post-apocalyptic rollercoaster ride, philosopher Srećko Horvat invites us to explore the Apocalypse in terms of ‘revelation’ (rather than as the ‘end’ itself). He argues that the only way to prevent the end – i.e., extinction – is to engage in a close reading of various interconnected threats, such as climate crisis, the nuclear age and the ongoing pandemic. Drawing on the work of neglected philosopher Günther Anders, this book outlines a philosophical approach to deal with what Horvat, borrowing a term from climate science and giving it a theological twist, calls ‘eschatological tipping points’. These are no longer just the nuclear age or climate crisis, but their collision, conjoined with various other major threats – not only pandemics, but also the viruses of capitalism and fascism. In his investigation of the future of places such as Chernobyl, the Mediterranean and the Marshall Islands, as well as many others affected by COVID-19, Horvat contends that the ‘revelation’ appears simple and unprecedented: the alternatives are no longer socialism or barbarism – our only alternatives today are a radical reinvention of the world, or mass extinction. After the Apocalypse is an urgent call not only to mourn tomorrow’s dead today but to struggle for our future while we can.
Author | : R. Scott Bakker |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2008-09-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590203879 |
As a vast Holy War begins, a powerful new force emerges in the second book of this “violent, passionate, darkly poetic” fantasy series (SFSite.com). The first battle against the heathen has been won, but while the Great Names squabble over the spoils, Kellhus draws more followers to his banner. The sorcerer Achamian and his lover, Esmenet, submit entirely—only to face an unimaginable test of faith. The warrior Cnaiur falls ever deeper into madness. The skin-spies of the Consult watch with growing trepidation. And across the searing wastes of the desert, a name—a title—begins to be whispered among the faithful. Who is the Warrior-Prophet? A dangerous heretic who turns brother against brother? Or the only man who can avert the Second Apocalypse? With the fate of the Holy War hanging in the balance, the great powers will have to choose between their most desperate desires and their most ingrained prejudice. Between hatred and hope. Between the Warrior-Prophet and the end of the world . . .
Author | : John Able |
Publisher | : John Able Books Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2022-06-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 097028473X |
Apocalypse Secrets: Baha'i Interpretation of the Book of Revelation with 60 illustrations is a fresh provocative Parallel Interpretation of the Apocalypse or Book of Revelation. The author, John Able MD, is a retired intensive-care physician. He uses Baha'i Writings that interpret parts of the Apocalypse to decode it as a global tale of three millennia now passing through four centuries of the events of religious end-times. It is a tale of the struggles of seven Empires and seven Faiths, of their materialism and militarism, and the resulting mess into which the world is now crescendoing furiously and fast. These events center on the apocalyptic war waging between the Revelation beast of Muslim Militarism that drives the Middle East and the Revelation Babylon of Malignant Materialism that drives the Christian West. The fall of both is inevitable, with economic crises spiraling the globe into a paralytic depression, now triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. The good news is that spiritual economics will arise and our painful end times into wonderful beginning times. Apocalypse Secrets is a profound and astonishing work in biblical exegesis-a real tour de force as a strikingly original, scholarly, remarkably holistic, comprehensive, and rationally consistent interpretation of the Book of Revelation. Able intelligently probes and penetrates many of the great religious mysteries, and cogently argues that Revelation extends far beyond its strictly Middle East Christic origin. It transcends religious dogma, bridges religious faiths, and explains nineteen hundred years of troubling events in Christianity and Islam with amazing clarity and prescience. It is amazingly detailed and thorough. The author's stylish rhetoric is colorful and alive and his book beautifully crafted and researched, making for an engaging, enlightening, and thought-provoking read. In the end, a scholarly Translation Section decodes original Greek and Hebrew sources. Its strikingly lively translation sticks to the intention of the Greek original. It provides an authoritative base for his distinctive Parallel Interpretation. For anyone striving to penetrate the hidden secrets of the Apocalypse, Apocalypse Secrets is a must reading. This exceedingly interesting book will influence many future works about the subject and become a template of understanding and peace for all. After they read it, people who are interested in prophecy will never look at the Book of Revelation the same again. Visit www.apocalypse.info for more.
Author | : Emanuel Swedenborg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1836 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Emma Wasserman |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0300204027 |
A reassessment of early Christian apocalypticism arguing that the texts are not so much myths about good versus evil as about divine politics and heroic submission Prevailing theories of apocalypticism assert that in a world that rebels against God, a cataclysmic battle between good and evil is needed to reassert God's dominion. Emma Wasserman, a rising scholar of early Christian history, challenges this interpretation and reframes these apocalyptic texts as myths about divine politics and heroic submission. A major scholarly contribution that ranges across Mediterranean and West Asian religious thought, this volume rethinks Paul's Christ-myth as well as his most distinctive ethical teachings.
Author | : Joseph V. Oehring |
Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2023-06-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
About the Book The Crystalline Apocalypse is a boldly entertaining, highly imaginative science-fiction story about an apocalyptic event that puts the entire world into peril. The colorful characters —both human and alien—capture the reader’s attention as all of humankind finds itself fighting a proxy war against a horrific, godlike alien species. This story will captivate the reader, who’s in for an exciting adventure! About the Author Joseph V. Oehring has served his country for fourteen years as an enlisted soldier in the U.S. Army Infantry, and he continues to serve today. Typing on a typewriter is very therapeutic for him. He wrote this exciting story in hopes of entertaining the world! Joseph has been married to his beautiful wife for twenty years, and they have four wonderful children—one girl and three boys. When he’s not leading soldiers, he enjoys walks with his wife, playing with his kids, working out at the gym, and playing video games. He looks forward to the release of the second book in the Lesser World Series, The Chaos Crystals, in the near future.